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but wouldn't have the japanese dragon ball fans who watched it in the 80s-90s have complained? It seems like db has such a smooth transition with this stuff unlike Naruto which got backlash even though narratively speaking it was still more grounded and well paced compared to DBZ.dragonball has never had that kind of an audience, this is in most part because Dragonball started out as a gag manga, theres also the fact that the Z section of the story was the introduction for many people in the west to the franchise, so there was never this shift in focus that was felt in the fandom at large, then there's most manga or anime watchers today who were prob born long after DB finished serialization so to them dragonball has always been like this.
In contrast a large portion of the Naruto fanbase have selective memory and think the series was a grounded ninja show with stealth elements.