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- Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
- Topic: Funi's Kai dub and accuracy
- Replies: 99
- Views: 38354
Re: Funi's Kai dub and accuracy
I'm mainly referencing the site's old review of Z Kai vol. 1 where Mike posed the question: (paraphrasing) 'why are some attack names proper Japanese nouns while's other's are changed to English translated equivalents?' I'm just wondering where we should draw the line as to what should be translate...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:23 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
- Topic: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4035
Re: unpopular opinion: kenji yammoto should have never got fired
So Kenji Yamamoto got blacklisted for copying other people’s music, but people like Nobuhiro Watsuki were allowed to resume business as usual?
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball influences in Western products
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2941
Re: Dragon Ball influences in Western products
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood shows DBZ playing on TV (the scene was filmed in 2002), and there’s other pieces of DBZ memorabilia in the protagonist’s room.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
- Replies: 278
- Views: 21068
Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
On the subject of Broly, he became popular because of his design, his perceived badassery, his status as an evil Super Saiyan, and the fact that he’s one of the few movie villains to have a fairly fleshed out backstory. There’s even an element of tragedy to said backstory, which is the kind of thing...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Petition to mark March 8th as "International Dragon Ball Day"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1946
Re: Petition to mark March 8th as "International Dragon Ball Day"
There’s already an international holiday in March 8th, and Dragon Ball already has its own international holiday.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: "Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement & Pre-Release Discussion Thread
- Replies: 916
- Views: 97934
Re: "Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement & Pre-Release Discussion Thread
Has it been said how long this game has been in development? If we assume it began development in late 2022, and is releasing in late 2024, that means it had two years of development time. Is that enough for a game like this in the current generation? The devs said they've been working on the game ...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Video Games
- Topic: "Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement & Pre-Release Discussion Thread
- Replies: 916
- Views: 97934
Re: "Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement & Pre-Release Discussion Thread
Has it been said how long this game has been in development? If we assume it began development in late 2022, and is releasing in late 2024, that means it had two years of development time. Is that enough for a game like this in the current generation?
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Theme Park
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3968
Re: Dragon Ball Theme Park
Dragon Ball does evoke Middle Eastern imagery from time to time. I do remember reading that the Arabic dub of DBZ was heavily censored and tried to downplay the references to Eastern religion and mythology, but I don’t typically hear about Muslim countries having some taboo against fantasy elements ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Theme Park
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3968
Re: Dragon Ball Theme Park
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Theme Park
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3968
Re: Dragon Ball Theme Park
Why Saudi Arabia?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Is Super on its way out?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5899
Re: Is Super on its way out?
Bulma was the one who mentioned that she hadn’t seen Goku in five years. Speaking of which, another contradiction between DBS and EoZ is that the Broly movie and SH establish that Bulma has been using the Dragon Balls to keep herself young, and yet EoZ makes a point of showing that she’s visibly aged.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
- Replies: 278
- Views: 21068
Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
Weirdly enough, The thing about the half breed saiyans not having the will to improve and push themselves like their full blooded fathers always kind of rubbed me the wrong way, at least when you incorporate the context of the original DB. When Goku went through his adventures as a kid, he contende...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Non-thread-worthy discussions
- Replies: 4650
- Views: 610336
Re: Non-thread-worthy discussions
It’s not like Piccolo has any reason to dislike Yamcha, especially after he and Kami became one again.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
- Replies: 278
- Views: 21068
Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
Wouldn’t mind seeing DB end but whether its disrespectful will depend on what Toriyamas wishes were. Which I'm guessing he relayed privately to the staff? AFAIK, he wasn’t against GT being made was he? He came up with the title and did the initial character designs, so it’s fair to assume that he w...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
- Replies: 278
- Views: 21068
Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
Long dead and dormant classic manga/anime franchises have had revival runs before. Fist of the North Star, very famously, had a pretty huge revival run (comparable in terms of content scale to what Dragon Ball is currently undergoing) back in the mid-2000s (flush in the middle of Dragon Ball's dead...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution
- Replies: 55
- Views: 5384
Re: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution
Guillermo Del Toro expressed support for Roman Polanski in the past. Just thought I’d put that out there.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
- Replies: 278
- Views: 21068
Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
Do people who say "no not another tournament please" even know what Dragon Ball is about Tournaments are one thing, but I can’t comprehend what the appeal would be in seeing them recycle the Tournament of Power concept again. People really want to keep seeing the same thing over and over ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution
- Replies: 55
- Views: 5384
Re: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution
He has nothing to apologize for. He was just an actor who needed a paycheck. It’s still nice that he paid his condolences though.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
- Replies: 278
- Views: 21068
Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
I can’t think of anything more tedious than another Tournament of Power. That sounds like a nightmare. Are people actually clamoring for that? What would even be the point? Just so we could see some fighters from the other four universes that we have no reason to care about? What would be the stakes...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
- Replies: 278
- Views: 21068
Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
But these aren’t used to tell a fun DB story, there is no adventure where Goku explores the DB multiverse, God ki is never expanded upon, and the story feels incredibly stagnant from one arc to the next. Its stuck in a cycle where essentially a bad guy shows up then Goku and Vegeta fight him then t...