The second season of Dragonball begins around episode 29 or 30. I did not watch the show when it was originally released. I don't know the historical circumstances surrounding the production of the show.
On watching the show now, I see a change in the focus of the show. The first season felt like a pre planned show. The entire arc of stories was planned out. Particular goals were set for the characters and particular stories were told.
The second season so far feels to me like it is a commercial venture. I wonder if the first season was so hugely popular that a corporation offered the creator money to continue the cartoon. The creator did not have a goal or a story. He is creating stories as he goes along to satisfy the needs of a second season.
The new episodes contain a lot of mechanistic gadgets. There are tanks and planes and guns and spaceships. These all seem out of place on a cartoon about a young boy who won a kung fu tournament.
The mechanistic view of things is very popular in Japanese cartoons. Spaceships, changing robots, futuristic inventions populate most popular shows. I wonder if the creators of the second season threw these known popular items into the story because they felt that would insure the second seasons success.
The reason for this analysis is that the kung fu lessons have been very sparse in the beginning episodes of the second season. Out of 4 episodes I have watched so far, there is maybe one kung fu lesson. Quite a change from the first season where every episode was chock full of kung fu insight.
That is the reason for the time lag in posting new entries. Lack of material. New material will be posted if I come across any. I know that there is more material once Dragonball finishes up and the series changes to Dragonball Z.
On watching the show now, I see a change in the focus of the show. The first season felt like a pre planned show. The entire arc of stories was planned out. Particular goals were set for the characters and particular stories were told.
The second season so far feels to me like it is a commercial venture. I wonder if the first season was so hugely popular that a corporation offered the creator money to continue the cartoon. The creator did not have a goal or a story. He is creating stories as he goes along to satisfy the needs of a second season.
The new episodes contain a lot of mechanistic gadgets. There are tanks and planes and guns and spaceships. These all seem out of place on a cartoon about a young boy who won a kung fu tournament.
The mechanistic view of things is very popular in Japanese cartoons. Spaceships, changing robots, futuristic inventions populate most popular shows. I wonder if the creators of the second season threw these known popular items into the story because they felt that would insure the second seasons success.
The reason for this analysis is that the kung fu lessons have been very sparse in the beginning episodes of the second season. Out of 4 episodes I have watched so far, there is maybe one kung fu lesson. Quite a change from the first season where every episode was chock full of kung fu insight.
That is the reason for the time lag in posting new entries. Lack of material. New material will be posted if I come across any. I know that there is more material once Dragonball finishes up and the series changes to Dragonball Z.
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