Kanzenshuu

I've not seen the Artificial Human arc in Japanese yet, so just to check... are #17, #18 etc's names said in English or Japanese? If it's the latter, does anyone say them in Japanese out loud?

I don't think any character's hair style manages to ascend to the next level during the time skip. Goten goes from "whatever, it's just Goku's hair" to "awesome shaggy spectacularness, and by the way, I also wear my name on my shirt". Is it a Japanese thing, or just a DB/Toriyam...

Is there any indication that Goku is fighting at full power? Maybe he can sense Oob's potential, which is why he is excited, rather than seeing how strong Oob is at that exact moment? ... you should probably make it obvious what you're looking for -- I'm happy to discuss the improvement in hair styl...

I think the only thing that's been established so far is that no-one is 100% consistent with their own rules. Which I suppose is going to happen when you've got Japanese to English, where some of the Japanese is based on English words, some is based on Chinese words, some have different translations...

Do you dislike the Kai dub cast changes, or is it just attachment to the originals? Hell, since the video has been unaltered on the movies since the beginning, there's no reason why they can't include both the original dub and an improved dub if they wanted. I'm not too bothered about most of the mo...

Well, with a person's name, the correct pronunciation is how the owner of that name pronounces it. I suppose so, but that's still generally based on where it's from, right? Especially when it comes to surnames. My point is that a name might not be pronounced as you'd expect, but that's to be expect...

What about if you contributed to the Wiki? Presumably you'd have to follow the style guide there? I've just noticed that G*O*K*O*U also gets translated. That's the spelling I was going for in point 3 and 4. At the moment I don't translate the fancy attack names, mostly because I don't want to transl...

I think he's just a normal, bog standard three-eyed human.

One thing I've noticed in lots of places, including here, other forums and sites, and even Viz, is that no-one seems to have any consistent rules as to what spelling they are going to use for DragonBall characters. There are several I can think of, and everyone ignores at least one of them. Note, I'...

I'm not sure how much credit can be given to the Ocean Group for the original dubs of the first three movies. I thought that it was Pioneer who got the rights, and made the decision to use a more accurate script and keep the original score. The Ocean Group were used because they were already familia...

It is a TV trope in general. Bajorans, the residents of Sunnydale, DBZ-Earth humans... all amazing at pretending what they just saw didn't happen.

Maybe it's a survival instinct that kicks in when you're under threat of being killed by an alien invader every few years.

With Goku's clothing, it's an extremely small thing, but his collar gets much, much lower from the point where he stops sporting a symbol on his outfit. A similar thing happens to Piccolo at the same time. Also, does the colour switch on the Kame uniform that happens between DB and DBZ also happen i...

The UK anime community is... pretty wank, actually. Maybe it's got something to do with the price of living here, or the price of anime (or DVD & media in general) in the UK compared to that of the US. It is poor compared to the US, but I wonder if that is due to a lack of TV time for anime. Ap...