Kanzenshuu

gotenks is one of my favorite characters, so definitely. i already like z movie 11!

japanese manga fans aren't ready for gender non conforming or non hetro normative characters ? that must be why every 70s shoujo manga failed! i kid, obviously just because you like utena doesn't mean you automatically aren't homophobic, but japanese manga series have had those type of characters an...

Would you be happy with a scenario where say Toei announced that Dragon Ball was going to be having its first major gay character (Jiren) and for all media outlets to pick up on it only for then the episode to come out and Jiren is shown in his house and in the background there's a photo on the wal...

Those are the comments I've seen, many times at that. How many times are such things announced that there's going to be a gay character in something rather than it just happen naturally? That they have to make some big announcement over it which then all media outlets pick up on? Just done for medi...

I've seen many a comment from minorities complaining about such a thing, believing that it degrades them down to a level where they're used so that a business can tick some box for some brief media exposure or sales gimmick. They don't want to be pandered too. They aren't stupid you know, they know...

Dragon Ball Super began in 2015—seven years ago! Even an eight year old in 2015 would not be fifteen and looking back fondly on those early memories! honestly, i disagree, but more up the age range. if i've learned anything from scouring discussion on here and other places in around 2009, there's n...

But would that be good or bad representation? i can't even comment on Jiren as a character, but honestly if he was just the same but he was like kind of no doubt about it gay, i'm not gonna say it would be good or bad but i have always liked that type of representation especially by non-queer autho...

i mean, the former is bit more of a joke then the latter, and if it's the scene i'm thinking of (chapter 3), i don't think there's anything wrong with finding it funny. the joke isn't just LOL PERV, in a arc where all the characters besides goku are kind of awful people, everyone kind of gets retrib...

i think Mao Mao is just literally a reference to his original Mao Zedong outfit, though they could've done Mao Mao for oolong and Meow Meow for Puar, and i think that would've been cute...

does every response need to be a line by line breakdown, when the original post is not even coming from like a misplaced authority ?

I've only ever read it on my phone and tablet's, I've just always used the Kindle app on them. I tried writing the VizBigs when I was younger, but I really hate reading paper books...so, it's always just been the Viz tankobon's, as I think that's the only release digitally, besides maybe the full co...

It’s been a long time since I heard Dameon Clarke’s Gohan, so I took a quick stop to BTVA, and man, I can tell this is the same guy who voices Cell and Paragus. To answer the question, I don’t feel a particular need to hear more of Dameon Clarke’s Gohan. He’s serviceable, but that’s about it. I’m n...

his face did get a pretty significant change in the eye department, both in the shift from the open eyes to closed eyes, and in glasses. both of which, are awful changes, and well the art in general by the end of the boo arc is really bad but gohan in specific i think gets the worst of it, from the ...

depends on the kid of course, but probably around 8-11 or so, that's around when i got into it.

The afterlife and god hierarchy being bureaucratic is not original to Dragon Ball: that’s embedded in Buddhist/Hindu beliefs. Yama (or "Enma" in this case) as the god of the afterlife is taken wholesale from there, for example. sorry, maybe i got it wrong and worded it incorrectly, i'm at...

honestly, the only thing YYH takes that's strictly dragon ball as influence, is it's other world in terms of it being ran and having some aesthetic of a bureaucracy and all that. and even then, YYH did way more with that concept then DB ever did. besides that, there isn't that many similarities that...

as far as Dr. slump goes with regards to female characters, i think akane is probably a bigger boon in toriyama's favor than arale, to be honest.

(Sidebar: I always find it weird that Linkin Park got lumped in with the rest of the nu-metal phase. They only fit in the shallowest of ways. Stylistically and especially aesthetically they were way different from the "bastardized Rage Against the Machine" ways of the remaining bunch) hon...

MCDaveG wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:22 am
Then let's call him Nutchestin.

i can't tell if this is a serious, or a gotcha at my expense, because that's not what i was saying.

i've always wondered why funi went with Shenron as opposed to Shen-Long. from what i understand, Funi actually seemed to have a decent grasp on the Chinese names and translated them mostly properly, and better then Viz and Simmons in the case of Chiaotzu (even if, as a kid i definitely thought that ...