@Toa Inika Matoro
Funny that I used to really dislike DBGT as a kid too, it'd even seem depressing to see clips of GT on YouTube, but now I really appreciate GT, more like some moments from it that were very remarkable --- Piccolo dying with the Earth's explosion and talking to Gohan the last time, Goku's farewell (I think this goes for everyone hehe), Goku turning into a SSJ4... When I watched again Goku giving Kuririn and Roshi farewell in the last GT episode, a couple of years ago I think, I remember my throat even got sore a little bit, I felt like crying a little bit... Which shows how deep the story stuck to me.
I remember the first episode I watched (maybe I had watched another one before that, unknowingly, but I can't never know) was Vegeta fighting Dodoria... It didn't make me watch DB fully after that, despite that episode seeming really cool, because at the time it was airing on the TV and it was tough to find it on the internet to download, I think it wasn't even available to watch fully on the internet yet, only through DVDs. Later on my uncle bought me two DVDs for the Boo saga, that me and my little brother binge watched as kids haha. I remember in the Goku vs Vegeta fight I was rooting for Vegeta and him, for Goku, and we didn't know how it'd unfold, so it was so nice, that feeling of high adrenaline adventure. My brother also had a sticker album, I remember he got all excited when he got the Vegeta sticker haha. Tbh as kids he was way more into DB than me, but eventually I became a little of a hardcore fan and he never cared much besides having that, which most casual fans have (not saying casual in a bad sense at all) childhood memories.
When I watched later, as a ~ 12 years old when I could pick it up in online sites in the internet, it was just too fun... The Namek saga felt like a paradise to dive in after coming back from school haha. I watched Z first and then, some time later, I went back and watched the DB with Goku as a kid until its end and I found it just as amazing...
Then I got interested enough to read the manga (I didn't even, know when I was watching, that there was a manga version, that is, that it was based off a manga, I didn't know any of that).
I then read the manga in Spanish firstly (I could only find online in Spanish and in a rather good quality... In English it'd be way easier to find all the story to read, I really needed to search a lot and got luck when I bumped into that Spanish site, but I knew nothing about English back then lol tho I speak Spanish fluently). Honestly I felt a little disappointed since I found the pacing too quick in the manga at first, I enjoyed the drawn out tense moments with the original Toei soundtrack and the drawn out power ups, as well as some filler scenes, back then it gave the story more of a charm. But I eventually got used to the manga and I think I reread it many times tbh lol. I bought all the 42 volumes (here in Brazil), tho it was pretty tough to buy all since most libraries would have lots of volumes missing. The last volume I bought was funnily enough the first volume haha.
1 year ago I had posted my collection to be sold in the internet, since I needed money to buy a tablet and I had stopped working to focus fully on college, but then AT sadly passed away, and I gave up on selling my collection 100%.
