Originally posted by: motti_soL
Dragonball owns in its Manga format. In its Anime format, it completely sucks.

Just made a small correction there since there is no Dragon Ball Z manga. The whole series is simply Dragon Ball. The Z is an anime distinction (carried over to Viz's translation of the manga), and since you think the anime sucks, I doubt it's something you want to reference, motti. ^_~ I somewhat agree with you. I don't hate the anime. I enjoy the voices and music (and, of course, I must specify I'm talking about the original version). It's just a lot of the filler and padding that completely destroy the pacing and cause much derision from fans and non-fans alike. So, yeah, that's irritating. But there are some moments in the manga, in my opinion, where it seems like Toriyama would leave things purposely vague or sparse for the sole purpose of having filler added in later (Saiya-jin Saga, I'm looking at you).