The anime starts with the meeting of Goku and Bulma, how Goku accompanies her to the collection of Dragon Balls, and how on the way they meet various characters that we will continue to see in the future, their struggle battles and pervy jokes and action.

The story in itself is good, but the thing that most would find difficult is the pacing of the whole anime, it's really slow, especially if you are used to modern Shounen anime. The story follows a linear format but time and again some shots are dragged out, and it doesn't; add much to the flow of the anime rather than adding to the length, these small 1 to 2-second stretches add up to a lot because they happen 1 or two times every minute or so.
Sometimes the pacing was so bad that I had to read the relevant manga chapters to keep the train moving, on that note the fight sequences really dragged out too, but bear in mind that these cases have occurred also partly due to my attention span too, because I remember times where I would watch drawn out fights but still this feels a little too much drawn out, enough of the lagging issue let's move on to other things.

Talking about the animation it's good for its time, it feels fluid, and is watchable in a good bitrate video format.

The characters are memorable and in part that is also why this is considered a classic, this anime doesn't; suffer from the problem of characters' names being similar or pronounced similar in effect making it harder to remember, all the character's names are distinguishable with syllables that pack a punch. The voice acting and character designs are also superb.

A thing you will notice is Goku and Krillin's character designs and voice acting are really cute and they make it more enjoyable to watch it in the not-so-action-intensive moments.

Other things I noticed were there were no emotional moments in the anime also no super hype moments also, but It's also better than some modern shonen action anime so considering the era it was aired it is pretty good, as for emotional high's it's a no. The world-building is a mesh of fantasy and science fictional elements with Stone Age monsters also to boot.

Overall a good anime, I would give it a 7/10