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>favorite show/manga
It's wrong to think of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z as different shows, since they just adapted the same manga but changed the title partway through. I generally like the anime more than the manga because I like a lot of the filler, like Gohan training with Piccolo. Obviously the original manga and its accompanying anime is better than GT and Super. I'm tempted to count GT as part of the original anime as well, since the creators of the anime clearly intended it to be, it continued in Z's timeslot the next week, like nothing happened, but I suppose the lack of manga to adapt does make it different enough for me to count it as a different series.
>favorite character(s)
True patricians understand the role each character plays is important. Goku is sometimes plain, but sometimes they do something interesting with his purity and how he influences others. His effect on Piccolo is probably the most interesting example. I guess that means Piccolo is a more interesting character, though. Also, Mr. Satan is the real best character and the real best hero. Also the most powerful, since he's the only named character who doesn't die in the entire manga.
>best girl
I was gonna say Videl until someone here pointed out that she wasn't sure if the baby was Gohan's. Bulma has some good looks, admittedly, but is also a slut, and Homey don't play that. Chi Chi and 18 both have loyalty. Which is hotter? Depends. Chi Chi got old and less hot. Can we blame her? 18 stays hot longer, even if she is less hot in GT. But if we get to freeze into a specific era, then the hottest is Chi Chi
in the Pilaf arc.
>favorite track
Cliche answer, I know, but I gotta go with Cha La Head Cha La.
>favorite dub (including the Jap versions)
Then the original Jap dub.
>favorite villain(s)
To eliminate the worst and leave just the best, I'd say the top tier are General Blue, Tenshinhan, Piccolo, Vegeta, and Frieza. Now, I know the last three are a million times more popular, but Blue did a good job being funny when he needed to be and threatening when he needed to be. Tenshinhan facilitated an effective character arc that ends up feeling more deliberate than the very similar arc that Piccolo and Vegeta later go through. Then again, Piccolo and Vegeta obviously get to do much more overall, and thus get more fleshed out. I even like how Vegeta continues his arc in Super, where he has, very slowly, become the most heroic character of all, even more than Goku. Sometimes this takes the form of taking his family to an amusement park, other times it takes the form of expressing sincere regret for his former atrocities, years later, and working hard to try to make up for them, just a little bit.
On the other hand, I think Piccolo has the most thematic value. When Piccolo first appears, he takes over the world and makes crime legal, and through threats and fostering an environment of fear and violence, he encourages people to give in to their base desires of evil, and in doing so, they become his Mazoku, his Demon Tribesmen. Piccolo encourages people to be evil, and when they give in entirely to evil, they become literal demons. Notably, Mazoku do have magic abilities, as someone killed by a Mazoku does not go to the afterlife. However, Goku is the opposite of Piccolo (or since Piccolo is introduced later, it should be said Piccolo is the opposite of Goku). Goku encourages people to be good, through his sheer example of purity. Practically every character in the series begins as an antagonist, from Bulma shooting Goku in the face when she first sees him, to Yamcha being a bandit, to Krillin being underhanded and Tenshinhan being the villain of a whole arc. And then to Piccolo, literally being The Devil. But Goku brings out the goodness in all of them, including Piccolo, to the degree that Piccolo loses his status as a Mazoku, since he now has good in him. And with that spark of good in him, Gohan, Goku's son, raised to be good like him, helps that spark grow until Piccolo eventually becomes pure good. Piccolo is an excellent foil of a villain because with what he symbolizes, pure evil, bringing out the evil in others, he shows what Goku actually represents, that being pure good, or perhaps the goodness of purity, and how that is able to bring out the good in others. It almost feels like Toriyama actually thought about actual themes and shit during the Piccolo arc. But of course, he was never too on the nose with it. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he forgot the actual themes he was originally intending before he even finished the character arc that displayed them (that being Piccolo's arc). But I do think it's the best example of actual themes shining through in the story.
>favorite arc
I like how the Red Ribbon arc is effectively split into fun little mini arcs that are all pretty cool in their own right. But really, the thing I really like about the series is that it covers the protagonist's entire life. Discounting Super, since that goes back in time and kind of screws it up, even up to the end of GT, it all does a good job at feeling like one long arc, and when Goku goes off with Shenron, it feels like a successful culmination to that arc, even if it is vague and weird and unclear. And frankly, I'd even include Super in with all that, once it's actually done. It all adds more detail and richness to the story. I like that.
But the Tournament of Power sucks and is the worst arc. By a very wide margin.