Kanzenshuu

For Kurilin I'd say his fights with Piccolo and Goku in the 23rd and 22nd tournaments were both great. Always awesome to see him put up an excellent fight when he's completely outclassed. Yajirobe slashing Vegeta almost to death after he's lost his tail. The bit where he actually cuts off Vegeta's t...

I guess my concept of racism is not as broad as some of yours is. I consider it only when there's intent to harm or discriminate. Otherwise I just call it stereotypical thinking, which we all do. Who hasn't jokingly portrayed an asian by pulling your eyelids? The problem here is stereotypical think...

We can't just stop talking about bigotry because it still currently impacts people in very real ways. And as Rocketman pointed out, we aren't that far removed from a time when barefaced bigotry was acceptable. That stuff has an impact of a society's values, and it won't go away completely without a ...

I think it might depends on how closer the Saiyan in question is getting to becoming a Super Saiyan. Like a "dormant power meter" that they're gradually using up, and with each Zenkai, they gain more power to get to Super Saiyan faster. I agree with this. I think Vegeta said something alo...

I remember being teary-eyed and shouting back "you'd be shouting too if everyone you loved was in danger!" and storming off upstairs. This is the most adorable thing I've read all day... I am definitely going to use those. I have previously used a "Freeza minute" as a unit of ti...

If the Saiyans stick to their "no Super Saiyan" rule, then Piccolo wins the tournament. He either gives the prize money to Gohan's family or donates it to charity like in Shin Budokai 2 . I can see that deal maybe being broken during Goku and Vegeta's match. If Goku won he'd stick to the ...

I'm confused. Is this thread about finding English equivalents of the various Japanese accents that appear in the story, or is it about what kind of accents you'd like to see certain characters have, regardless of how they speak in Japanese?

I'm not sure how it isn't a case of discrimination though, so long as we're counting unconscious biases. That the majority of characters who stayed most prominent throughout the series are male does show an unconscious bias on Toriyama's part. Most often when introducing a new character Toriyama wil...

I'd probably do something like what Dragon Ball GT promised at the beginning. A classic Dragon Ball adventure across space with the new generation. Just replace Goku with Gotenks, string the one-off adventures together into a more cohesive whole, and tighten up the writing to cut down on plot holes,...

Shorter Carnifex: Girls has cooties. I would definitely give the Namekians a more androgynous appearance in my version of this. Though making their appearance more feminised for consistency with Toriyama's masculine looking Namekians would also be interesting. Nice way to underline that this version...

I saw it at my sister's place, with her boyfriend and another mutual friend. Much better atmosphere than a cinema. You don't get kicked out for MSTing the film, so we got exactly what we wanted out of it. =D

Scenario 5: Ginyu dies after the Fusion times out! Gotenks soul was created by to other souls, and can still split back in too again. But Ginyu's soul isn't like that. The result? Ginyu's soul violently splits in to, which kills him! :o That's what I imagine would happen. Though I wonder what would...

Chuquita wrote:I'm still kind of disappointed (and a little shocked) that they didn't shoehorn Vegeta in there; so morbidly curious about what they'd do to him.

Hugo Weaving.

^ Would have been nice if Kaioken was added to the non-Saiyan characters' arsenal.

My favourites are the same as PiccoloDaimao's, for the same reason.

How about control over bees? And he could keep a special breed of bee in his mouth and when he barks he shoots bees at you.

Ah. How long had the series been running at that point?

I suppose those issues are easier to get over when you're already hooked on a series by the time they become a problem. (That is, assuming Naruto had more tension when it began -- I know absolutely nothing about the series.) Dragon Ball was introduced to most anglophone audiences at the start of the...

No problem. Thanks for bringing the post to my attention. It was worth the time I took to find it.

For some reason I was thinking that Toriyama's writing suggested a distinction between having their memories and knowing their techniques, but after a quick skim of the first scene with Cell I see that his recognition of Kurilin was implied to come as a result of his lineage. (Or if you don't interp...

Yes, because Piccolo (who, at the time, wasn't referring to himself as Piccolo anymore) told him so and Cell had no reason to believe otherwise He had the face of Piccolo and he clearly was a Namekian. Cell had his cells, and he couldn't recognize his face & race? Why should sharing his cells a...