Listen, obviously, we’ve seen every episode of Dragon Ball Z. This is Hard Drive, after all, and that show is basically Anime 101. That’s why we were so surprised that all of our favorite episodes happened to be from one specific arc of the sprawling nine-season series. Believe us, we could just as easily have picked some episodes from the Frieza Saga, or some that have that purple guy with the lens in front of his eye. We swear to God we could have. Anyway, here are our top five:
5.) Episode 168: Meet Me in the Ring
Seeing Goku and Gohan emerge from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber in anticipation of their fight with Cell sent chills down our spines, and Gohan even got his hair dyed blonde while he was in there! It looks great. Also, did he get blue contact lenses? Where would he have gotten those in the Chamber?
4.) Episode 176: “Losers Fight First”
It’s the first day of the Cell Games, which, as we’ve established, is just one of many sagas that we’re clearly very familiar with. We see how powerful Cell is when he punches Mr. Satan into the…wait, his name is Mr. Satan? We mean, we obviously knew that, but what the fuck?
3.) Episode 180: “The Fight Is Over”
We just love how shocking the revelation of Cell’s regeneration is after he’s severely maimed by Goku’s Kamehameha attack, which he acquired from that large green guy. We mean, we knew that was coming because we had been watching this show for over five seasons at this point. We just think it was a really cool scene and a stellar episode overall.
2.) Episode 185: “The Awakening”
It was a toss-up between this episode and that episode from the other season where they get the Dragon Balls and fight the robots. You know the one? That episode’s great. But we just liked learning how powerful Gohan became after his makeover in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
1.) Episode 191: “Save the World”
We love this episode because it’s when Gohan finally destroys Cell once and for all with a little help from the guy with spiky black hair who wears blue. We’re huge fans of his, and we love his work in all of the other seasons that we’ve seen multiple times. It’s just so cool seeing Gohan and his friends prevail even though Goku died, but didn’t actually die? Anyway, this is easily our favorite episode of all the many, many episodes we’ve definitely seen.
