Anime What are your thoughts on Dragon Ball GT?

Great OP song, great ED songs... everything else is bad (especially the ending) there's a reason why it has very low ratings and even the proyect to make a manga was cancelled.
You say there is a reason... but sometimes people are just wrong. The majority can be wrong as well.
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I'd already watched all the Dragonball Z movies by that point so GT wasn't really that weird and off by comparison.
I've always been a fan of the weird (and obscure), so for GT to be "different" than DBZ, somehow made it more interesting and exotic to me. Don't quite know how to explain it.
 
@MegaHiro91
Imagine saying that DB's target audience (Japanese people who generated economic revenue for the franchise) is wrong to consider GT a spin-off failure.

It's true that just because the majority believes something doesn't mean that something is good, but in this case, from a business point of view, GT didn't appeal to the target audience, ergo it was a failure.
 
Imagine saying that DB's target audience (Japanese people who generated economic revenue for the franchise) is wrong to consider GT a spin-off failure.
Being the target audience doesn't mean that they have more authority about something.

GT didn't appeal to the target audience, ergo it was a failure.
And if something has success not from said target audience shouldn't that count?
 
@Ikagura
Yes, they do. The anime recoups its investment and generates profits from the sale of Blu-rays/DVDs of the series and from the sale of official merchandise related to the franchise. At that time, all of that material was only sold in Japan, and only Japanese fans paid for it.

Yes, that target audience did have the authority to define whether GT was successful or not because they are the ones who generate profits.
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@Ikagura
From a business point of view, it's useless. For example, anime studios know that in Mexico a lot of anime is consumed, perhaps even a little more than in the US, but that's irrelevant to them if that consumption isn't matched by revenue.

You want to pretend that GT is one of those works that was misunderstood in its day and years later people are starting to really appreciate it.
That's not the case with GT yet. It's still a spin-off that failed among its target audience, and if people are still talking about it, it's because of that and the SSJ4 design.

If its few fans started to reappear, it's only because Super altered the lore, making it impossible for GT to be introduced into the canon, which is irrelevant since DB ended the moment Toriyama died.
 
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GT is interesting and sometimes fun but I don't think about it often, but I also kinda view Super the same way if I'm being honest.
 
GT had some neat ideas that where wasted in every possible way

The universe tour was the main thing, Goku needed to visit other planets that from the Z saga many time pointed out how earth wasnt worth it compared to the rest of the planets out there (at least in the Saiyans and Freezer point of value)

But then, Goku was turned into a kid when there was no need at all. They said it was to nerf him, but everyone that knows Goku will point up that he NEVER fights at full power and instead goes up slow as he like to battle at the same level until stuff gets out of hand

Another problem with the kid stuff, the moment they enter the machine planet the whole power level bs returned since the general there was strong (or stronger) than Majin Buu as Goku stated (again, i call bs). Not to mention that the enemies he faced had a gimmick that made the battles harder

There was no need for him to be turned into a kid. Also they ruined Pan and put everyone else into the bus of "help when needed" or almost never since they get their ass beated until Goku gets back

The grant tour was the intro for the Baby saga and the Super 17 part was the intro for the Shadow Dragon saga

Oh, and i like to question the part of Super 17

And i ask: Who decided to make Goku a beam spam loser in the battle with the Android that absorbs energy?

Seriously, a seasoned martial artist like Goku forgot how to give punches and just spend the whole fight using ki attacks (and to "test" if his strongest Kamehameha could work). Did he also forgot his fight with the ugly ass android that give him the same trouble in Z?

The Shadow Dragon was a cool idea that got wasted because they rushed the whole thing to end it as fast as possible. Reason for why we got so many bad fights with the dragons (can i point up how bad was "Tornado Goku"?)

4 Star was cool, 1 Star was a smug ass that learned fast to not let Goku do stuff

And finally, the ending with parts of all sagas (well... almost. Only Baby shows up in it from the GT saga) was the best part of the whole thing. It was really "the end" of Goku story

As a side note, here in Venezuela GT is just as popular as the original DB and Z. We got reruns from all of them in local channels

They sometimes rerun super, but skip Kai for some reason
 
But then, Goku was turned into a kid when there was no need at all.
I really, really hated that.

Felt like nostalgia bait to try and lure back OG fans who weren't pleased with Z or had long stopped watching -- so soulless.
 

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