Just Anime

no it isn't, because some of your "anime" take alot of aspects from dbz like one piece, yu yu hakusho, bleach, and naruto. despite wat most ppl say, that anime is a classic, weather u accept it or not. enjoy this awesome amv. 
  

  

One scene always stuck out with me for Dragonball which I don't think I can show off here: NO BALLS, NO BALLS! XD

@Dream: haha i remember that one

    Not this again... 
 
This will be my only piece on this, so I hope I make myself clear enough. 
 
Dragonball Z was one of the first anime to reach the West on TV. People will point to stuff like Akira (1988), Fist of the North Star (1986) and Guyver (1989 to 1992), or earlier (Robotech, Thundersub, Speed Racer, Voltron): The former were never really meant for on-going TV broadcast, being movies and OVAs, the latter just a bit out of the age range for people growing up in the 90s. For 291 weeks, you had an easy influx of anime, every week, on TV. Of course, TV stations would repeat the hell out of them: it had a huge audience, ranging from young boys to college students recovering from a hangover (guilty as charged). 
Of course, the "first" anything - first love, first car, first video game, first time living on your own - will leave a huge impression: my first experience was with dodgy VHS tapes with Cantonese dubbed anime, which kept me entertained as a kid. For some it will be coming home from school and seeing the adventures of Goku and the gang on TV. For some it will Voltron that filled that slot. That's fine. That youthful sense of wonderment is something to be cherished and no one should take that away from you. 
 
But this is what irritates me immensely about some people. Instead of taking that first experience as it is - a fond memory - and taking it as a stepping stone to discover more about this wonderful world, they use it as a measuring rod to measure everything by. People who endlessly fawn over their first love, first car, first video game are insufferable!  

• "Oh hi, I know we're supposed to be on a date, so could you stop talking about your ex-boyfriend for just a second here?"
• "This car runs cheaper, faster, safer, quieter than that death trap you call your car, can you at least admit that?"
• "This runs at 60 frames per second, beautiful graphics, full orchestral sound design, split second control... Will you let go of that paddle already?!"

Maybe if you watched something other than shonen you'd get more varied criteria for your opinions. 

dbz is overrated ever sense people seen cities moons and pplanets being destroyed dbztards been saying goku can beat anyone las time i checked vegeta got knocked out by being thrown to trunks plus goku's strength cannot take out a planet but his ki can ki isn't isn;t the same strength and speed

DBZ is accurately rated imo. It's a classic show that attracts people of all ages and continues to do so going on 20 years post release. It's not some critical darling, but it knows who it's for and it is able to hit that age group hard no matter when it's shown, whether it's early 90s, late 90s, or today. It's a timeless show and is constantly creating new fans. Any praise it gets is well deserved. How many shows from 20 years ago do what DBZ is still doing on the same level?

@Asune said:

Sincerely I think that the fanbase has ruined what DBZ was.

This is always a nonsense argument to me. The fans didn't get episodes re-edit or scripts changed. It's the same exact series. I've never gotten, "the fans have ruined it," whether it be DBZ, Naruto, Bleach etc.

I hate the terms under/overrated because the majority of the time when someone says that a about a show it is just a superficial way to insult or praise a show.

DBZ is overrated. End of story. I actually had to login to comment on this. As for DBZ influencing Yu Yu Hakusho, their original mangas were released quite close to each other, but it's just the DBZ anime got over here first. Another thing is whereas the fighting for Yu Yu and everything was planned from the beginning, DBZ was not, so yeah while you can say it influenced Naruto, One Piece, Fairy Tail, and etc.., I don't believe it influenced Yu Yu.