Core Anime: Dragonball Z (“KAAAAAA! MEEEEEE! HAAAAA! MEEEEE–!”)

A core series, is a series that influenced the very core of who I am as an anime.  It doesn’t have to be a favorite series of mine (though that does help).  It doesn’t have to be a great series, either.  So what does it need?  It needs to be a series that has influenced how I think and feel about any and all anime that is to follow it.  It must set some sort of precedent.  And when it comes to influence and precedence, there’s nothing that comes close to Dragonball Z to me.  Welcome to ground zero of me as an anime fan.  As Toonami once said, “the greatest action cartoon ever made!”