I'd argue it's a pretty tired genre at this point and they just failed to read the room and realize not only has the pie been eaten, but others already beat them to the crumbs.... but those were some ROUGH character designs.
Main thing I remember from Dragon Ball (before Z) was that it had a baffling running joke where people shoot kid Goku. Like.. a lot. CONSTANTLY. At first it was obviously to show off how unkillable he was, but after a while it starts to look like the things are fucking worthless. Like, no one was BS strong yet, yet all the main cast were for some reason utterly bullet proof.
Oh and it took every opportunity it could to sexualize Bulma. The 16 year old. FFS she flashes beaver in like the second episode.
I've known about him for a while but never felt a desire to look too into it. From how it appears, he's basically if Vinesauce did his V-Dub bit all the time. Which just sounds fucking exhausting and would be boring real fast.