Because nothing pulls in the young people like Paris Hilton. 

“Key feature”?

Anyone who doesn’t believe Dragonball is silly hasn’t watched ... 70-80% of it.

To be fair, a lot of the serious tone of DBZ came from the US translation with the absolute seriousness that was the Faulkner mix. If you watch it without the Faulkner music in it’s original form, it’s so much less serious. Still more so than Dragonball, but not nearly as serious as the US release

Dragon Ball IS one of Toriyama’s silly works. It never stops being that.

imagine thinking becoming popular in the US is “going mainstream”

It’s honestly pretty inoffensive the way it’s done, but given the usual connotations when “panties” and “anime” appear close together, I don’t blame you for your reaction.

also when Oolong grabbed Bulma’s “Dragon Balls”. The pervert. 

Tell me you didn't see og dragonball without telling me you didn't see dragonball

They were absolutley kids show, not a late teen show. People in America often found it as teenagers but its a kids show. 

Correction, it got popular in the West around Z. It’s been popular in Japan from the get-go, as have his more gag-oriented works like Dr. Slump and Neko Majin, and I’m sure Toriyama cares much more about domestic opinions than those of a bunch of American weebs.

Ehhhh. I think Toriyama is honestly pretty great at writing whimisical, adventure-type stories (which this seems to be). The original Dragonball and Sand Land were both pretty great.

Except Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were series targeted to a young demographic. But go ahead and delude yourself in your beliefs 

Broly is from Z, not GT.

Dragon Ball was always a comedy. You just didn’t realise it because you were a kid.

Gag manga is king of Shonen Jump, always has been. It’s just harder to translate that stuff to other languages. Toriyama used to only do gag manga until Dragonball, and even that started as more gag-focused than battle-focused.

I mean, Kid Goku in GT was pretty popular, so were Trunks and Goten when they were introduced in the Buu Saga as kids. Toriyama has already integrated quite a bit from GT and the non-cannon Dragonball stuff into Dragonball Super, Broly immediately comes to mind. 

You sound like a Dragon Ball Z fan and not a Dragon Ball fan. Dragon Ball was slapstick and gag humor. For crying out loud, Oolong saved the day in Dragon Ball when he wishes for a young girl’s panties.

Dragon Ball started out as a whimsical action/adventure manga with tons of gag elements to it. That’s where its roots are.

I’ve streamed some PS3 games on PS Plus Premium and the image quality was pretty abysmal. Part of that was likely due to the fact that PS3 image quality was generally bad but a lot of it was due to compression artifacts caused by streaming. Hopefully the streaming of PS5 games fares better.