Kanzenshuu

I'm still not seeing it. A kiss on the cheek is an innocuous greeting in most of the western world. Could it leave someone uncomfortable? Sure, I don't doubt it, and I'm not discrediting anyone's account; if they felt uncomfortable, then so be it. But I'm also not willing to claim it analogous to se...

I didn't make any assumptions about your personality; I'm talking about your position. As far as I know, you're just ignorant about how McNugget's general creepiness perpetuates an especially uncomfortable environment for young women and girls, and why allowing that to have the faintest possibility...

We have no way of correlating Saiyan society with Paragus' unique tendency for revenge. Would many, or even most, other Saiyans have reacted in the same way were they in Paragus' shoes? Given how they were portrayed, no, probably not. He can certainly be a model citizen and still have personal trai...

That's not what the movie was contrasting or conveying to the audience. What the movie was trying to convey doesn't matter, if it ignores or doesn't address everything else that doesn't play in to the themes it's trying to develop. That's why I say the movie is thematically incoherent. I can apprec...

You're flip-flopping at this point. No, I'm not. My point was that the movie is thematically incoherent because it attempts to portray both the Saiyans and Broly sympathetically, and that the two are mutually-exclusive ideas because the culprit behind Broly's tragic upbringing is Saiyan society, pe...

This is wokespeak for "I don't want to debate your position because it makes me feel uncomfortable so I'm just gonna passive-aggressively show how I'm morally superior to you." Stop, be an adult, you're better than this. Either muster up a real response or leave your grandstanding at the ...

So Bardock, who was explicitly acknowledged as being different from the rest of the warmonger Saiyans,(and even this being a recent change of heart) somehow gives the entire Saiyan race a different connotation Yes, when his goodbye to Goku is juxtaposed with the destruction of the planet and there'...

diogoarez wrote:Oh boy there's a civil war between Loy and the fans going on...

What's going on this time?

Saiyan nature is absolutely fighting. Their culture has a marauder-like disposition, but that's only because it's the most useful role you could bestow on a race that takes pleasure in battle. According to Toriyama , Saiyans are often born with an innate talent/tendency for it, are individualists a...

Still think that Freeza using the dragon balls to be a bit taller is completely out of character. And his justification for not wishing for immorality makes no sense either. He will die eventually so wouldn't he want to avoid going back to hell by wishing for immorality? It's disappointing and stil...

The movie does a lot of foil work, but not once does it attempt to contrast Broly with Saiyan nature. His friendship with Bah boiled down to fighting, which he enjoyed. His new friendship with Goku boils down to fighting and training, which he's thoroughly satisfied with. Saiyan nature isn't fighti...

The core of the problem here is not his age. Whether you're in your twenties or fifties you are still expected to be decent. As you can see in the thread, it's not just young women that have issues with this sort of behavior. The core problem is that he's being accused of sexual assault, a very ser...

Paragus makes it distinctly clear that he divorced himself from Saiyan society and only cares about revenge now. He's hardly analogous to the Saiyans at all. The point about Broly not fighting because he wants to simply means that he was fighting against his will -- nothing more, nothing less. Noth...

Reading the article, I don't see how anything he did constitutes sexual assault, as some people are saying in this very thread. Creepy behavior and an indifference or ignorance toward personal boundaries, at the most; worthy of a slap on the wrist, but not the kind of ostracization he's being subje...

Kamiccolo9 wrote:I'm reading a really good book. Might see it when I'm done. But by then I'll have another book that's supposed to be really good.

Decisions, decisions.

Stick to the books.

Reading the article, I don't see how anything he did constitutes sexual assault, as some people are saying in this very thread. Creepy behavior and an indifference or ignorance toward personal boundaries, at the most; worthy of a slap on the wrist, but not the kind of ostracization he's being subjec...

I don’t think that was the intent. They were making Broly seem sympathetic through his experience with his father. He’s a victim of abuse. He hates fighting because of his upbringing. He couldn’t even befriend an animal because his father wanted him to focus on fighting. Planet Vegeta’s destruction...

Visuals are a major component to how much people love a story. Toriyamas modern art looks terrible so it's hard for me to get invested in the story, Shintani's designs look great and pared with Sumitomo's music and Nagamine's direction, I'm able to get immersed in the story. Also, it isn't exactly ...

Yet another thematic problem with the movie that just came to me: the movie tries its hardest to make you feel bad for Broly by claiming he's just an innocent boy, who's different from all the other brutal, warmongering Saiyans. Yet the movie also tries to have its cake and eat it too by trying to m...

Nope, it shows amazing character designs, great direction, and phenomenal music can make a mundane story feel interesting. I don't see how pretty colors and intentionally emotionally-manipulative music can make a bad story any better. It distracts you from it and makes it less easy to notice, which...