The thing I hated most about Dragonball
Don't mistake this for trolling, it's just some something I want to get off my chest.
I don't have a beef with Dragonball, it is one of my favorite shows of all time, however, like I said, it has one of the worst possible flaws I can imagine.
I'm OK with the fact that Akira Toryama kept changing the tone of the series, it went from a goofy slapstick kung fu comedy where nobody actually got hurt or died and even the mystical Dragonballs were used to comedic effect.
However, with the change of the tone of the series from going to mature, dark and graphic violence and the introduction of people actually dying, comes one of the things most despise about this show. It's a glaring flaw, perhaps I'm nitpicking here, but I simply hate the way this comic book and TV shows portray death.
In the world of Dragonball, death is treated, not as something tragic, but as just an inconvinience.
Sure, when someone dies in the show, it's meant to be tragic, but at one point, one character turns around and says: "Hey, we can bring him back using the Dragon Balls." and everyone magically stops grieving.
This goes from brining back Goku's best friend, Kuririn, to, in later iterations such as Dragon Ball Z and GT, bringing back entire civilizations!
First off, if you have lost anyone recentely, this aspect is both ridiculous and offensive.
And second, it pretty much makes the whole point of changing the tone of the serie completely redundant.
In the early days of the show, people never actually died.
Later one, people die, but they can still be brought back.
Why change the tone if you were never going to get out of your safe zone?
This later becomes painfully obvious that the scriptwritters didn't give a damn, because in DBZ, Goku is always one step ahead of everyone else, with when fighting a major villain, ussually results in everyone but Goku(or Gohan) getting killed off, but of course, the Dragon Balls make the whole tragedy seem absolutely pointless and unnecessary.