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I don't know enough about Cardcaptors to make any sort of statement but I can assure you Power Rangers fans who don't also like Super Sentai don't call themselves Sentai fans and will proudly tell you they're not. It's not some sort of elitism bullying thing, they would agree they're not Super Sent...

Toriyama famously didn't even realize mangaka commonly had assistants, so he produced the first few months of Dr. Slump all by himself until it was pointed out he should probably get some help.

In any case I would strongly advise against telling anyone they are "not a Dragon Ball fan", its petty, juvenile, schoolyard bullying tactics that I think this forum should rise above. Are fans of Power Ranger "Super Sentai fans"? Are fans of Cardcaptors "Card Captor Sakura...

In any case I would strongly advise against telling anyone they are "not a Dragon Ball fan", its petty, juvenile, schoolyard bullying tactics that I think this forum should rise above. Are fans of Power Ranger "Super Sentai fans"? Are fans of Cardcaptors "Card Captor Sakura...

The bigger question being asked, which is obviously more debatable is - can a Dragon Ball fan be a hardcore fan if their preference and default version of the show is their dub? To that end I would still say yes. Thought experiment, though: If Funimation or whoever had renamed the dub something els...

MasenkoHA wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:52 am
Tbf the 2nd ending in the first season kind of sucked imo. No big loss

Those are fighting words. It's way better than the first one.

So female characters breaking other people's arms is a concept unique to Dragon Ball. That's literally the exact same scene just with different characters, dude. It's a clear reference. Oh ok, I would have loved a visual refence to the Dragon Ball scene to know that. The post does NOT make this ver...

I think a pic got lost here or we are now considering punching and kicking as concepts unique to Dragon Ball now. It's probably the "18 breaks Vegeta's arm with a kick" moment that's being referred to. So female characters breaking other people's arms is a concept unique to Dragon Ball. T...

Kikuchi was 100% definitely chosen to do the music for Dragonball because he did the music for Dr. Slump. So that's probably what your actual question should be.

...not only does it feel rather morbid to mark a day we learned of the death of an author by commemmorating it as a day in honor of ONE of the franchises he created (screw the other stuff he made, and the guy himself, apparently), but... there already IS an "international Dragonball Day", ...

I've read it a bit off and on, and... it's really just Dragon Ball with different art and the occasional minor change. Extremely uninteresting and pointless in general. It's not funny either? It's a retelling, not a parody, so it doesn't attempt to be any funnier than the original material it's ret...

I've read it a bit off and on, and... it's really just Dragon Ball with different art and the occasional minor change. Extremely uninteresting and pointless in general.

I remember we had one member named Gokurulez that try to agrue that Dragon Ball is more popular than Christianity It probably is in certain Asian countries where Christianity is a relatively minor religion. Yeah, I don't think that's all that incorrect a take, really. China is a VERY big place and ...

Jord wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:30 pm Surprisingly, Roshi's wacky antics are a big hit with them.

Yeah, it sure is surprising that the target audience finds a character the target audience is meant to find funny to be funny.

Weirdly, while dubbing in the US seems to have much better luck with celebrity voice actors, regular non-dubbing voice acting has a much bigger problem with hiring celebrities who clearly have no business voice acting. To be fair, American anime dubs tend to exclusively hire non- celebrities that c...

Not sure if it mattered though, I always felt Funimation (and the fandom) way overexaggerated how bad those Toei Engrish scripts were. There were plenty of times in those first 3 seasons where the English dialog is pretty close (the Raditz episodes really weren't that far off for example) and even ...

This thread sure went places. But um, whether you want to call it "forced diversity" or something else, there's absolutely something to be said about how "diversity" way too often just gets interpreted as "more black people", which is extremely noticable here in Europe ...

Monthly manga vs weekly anime is an imprtant thing here and I wonder if it wasn't a case of Takeuchi simply relying herself on the anime portrayals of the girls and and affinity for the cast the audience developed because of it. Kind of, I guess. The big difference is that with most manga the autho...

Not only do editors have veto powers, it was also less "sell better" and more "not get canceled". Readers weren't responding that well to the series and Torishima was coming up with a way to steer in into a better received direction.

Monthly manga vs weekly anime is an imprtant thing here and I wonder if it wasn't a case of Takeuchi simply relying herself on the anime portrayals of the girls and and affinity for the cast the audience developed because of it. Kind of, I guess. The big difference is that with most manga the autho...