![]() ![]() The series is about a young fighter with a heap of hidden potential because of his unknown heritage, who learns martial arts and energy blasts while he battles against ever increasing powerful enemies, including a short spiky black haired one who eventually becomes a ally/rival, at Tournaments and other exotic locations of which involve many transformations and earth shaking battles all while being told how powerful these enemies are via a power level given on a technological device. It's not like it just had the tournaments or just had the energy blasts, it took a lot from it. It didn't but it was the first major manga of its kind that had that kind of style and popularity and Yu Yu Hakusho was right on its tail doing something very similar. By the logic you're using, every piece of work within genres are ripoffs of each other. Blue energy blasts, monsters with transformations, tournaments and those type of things weren't invented by Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball is but another piece in a long history of fantasy kung-fu media. ![]() Jjgp1112 wrote:Well, perhaps you should read through all of that to freshen up your perspective on this. Yeah I sure he was inspired, probably had something to do with how many millions of copies Dragon Ball was selling. ![]() The energy attacks, Martial Arts Tournaments, Hiei the villain turned anti-hero, the demons, transformations, the main character having hidden power due to his unknown heritage, Toguro getting stronger by using a certain percentage of his power just like Frieza, the style of fights that they had, the Earth shaking as they powered up, all the talk of power levels and being shocked over hearing them. It began as a comedy ghost story at a time when Dragon Ball Z was at its peak from all these flashy battles and transformations in the Namek saga and then suddenly Yu Yu Hakusho became a completely different series altogether. There's other series like Dragon Ball, Naruto or Bleach for example but Yu Yu Hakusho was at the same time. Well there you go, that's what I was getting at. VegettoEX wrote:Togashi certainly took inspiration from Toriyama and Dragon Ball, but it's not what you're trying to say it is. They're different stories told in very different ways, especially once Yu Yu Hakusho gets past the spirit detective stuff and becomes a lot more psychologically-driven. I'm sure Dragon Ball's style influenced the direction Togashi decided to take the series in, but just comparing the shows themselves, outside of the most base, surface-level elements that you mentioned, they're not really that similar. Well, perhaps you should read through all of that to freshen up your perspective on this. It was always a cash in of Dragon Ball even down to them making the Yu Yu Hakusho Dark Tournament game on the PS2, many years after the series had ended to try and cash in on the success that the Dragon Ball Z Budokai games were having at the same time. They then continued with ever increasing powerful enemies, with multiple transformations,hidden power within due to some unique ancestry and with power levels being given as high numbers. One of these enemies being the spiky black haired midget Hiei who became a moody ally, a clear Vegeta wannabe. It began as a completely different kind of series that ended up randomly changing into a story about a young guy who could fire blue energy blasts from his hands fighting against powerful enemies, demons, in a martial arts Tournament. Bullza wrote:Well not that I'm going to read through all that but Yu Yu Hakusho was a series that ran at around the same time that Dragon Ball Z began to blow up. ![]()
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