Dragon Ball
On October 1, 1999, the great Polish TV premiere of the Dragon Ball anime took place . A characteristic feature of this series was French dubbing, which was related to the Belgian roots of the RTL concern, as well as the fact that in the 1990s Dragon Ball in Europe was distributed only by the French branch of AB Productions and Polish voiceover Zbigniew Dobrzański. Initially, this series was broadcast from Monday to Friday at 15:00, but as RTL air time was enriched, 7 hours changed. Due to the huge interest in anime, the station decided to buy the first series, “Z” and “GT”. The number of daily episodes that were broadcast also doubled. The popularity of Dragon Ballin Poland, it also resulted in the development of the entire range of animations broadcast in the series Awesome Cartoons . It should be added that the “Dragon Balls” came to Poland quite late. The Japanese premiere of this anime took place on February 26, 1986. An interesting fact is that about a year before “Siódemka”, the efforts to acquire the series were abandoned by the “Polsat” station, which, as it turned out, was a “marketing shot in the foot” shortly thereafter.
For the youth of the 90s, including me, the appearance of Dragon Ball on television is an important and breakthrough moment in getting to know what a different kind of animation can be. This made us different from our parents brought up on polite cartoons, such as Bolek and Lolek or Reksio . There were already series about heroes, such as He-Man and the rulers of the universe or Captain Planet and planetarians, but they were not sprinkled with brutality, especially Dragon Ball Z. Someone might say that it was not for children because it was pouring blood in streams and the great master Goku that is, Roshi was an erotomaniac. These are the arguments, in my opinion, of people who watched Dragon Ball in snippets. StudioToei Animation translated the great mangaka work of Akira Toriyama to the TV screen in an interesting and extremely precise way. The viewer matures with the episodes of “Dragon Balls”. The action from the initially gag game, turns into an adventure to finally reveal its dark arcana, including life and death fights. Years later, someone could translate the names of the main characters, ie “Songo”, “Brilliant Turtle” or “Satan Heart” but at the turn of the old and new millennium we absolutely did not mind. Dragon Ball will forever remain one of the most important symbols of the 90s and the flagship of the RTL 7 series.
Source: cbr.com
