Kanzenshuu

Hopefully wherever you are you are being celebrated - Akira Toriyama. The afterlife shall remain the greatest mystery for most of us (especially on the fence agnostics like me) all until our time comes but I'd love to think if there is one Toriyama is being treated well there and is reunited with an...

For those unaware a conflation is when two or more pieces of information are combined to make one, and is an easy way for rumours to form and spread because the sources alone are accurate without the context of the other piece(s) of information. I've considered the possibility this has been the caus...

Looking forward to the interview, Karl seems like a very down to Earth, fan-focused guy (based on what he's said about disputes with engineers and producers). Aside from the cast it would be great to know who any of the writers for the Ocean dub of Kai were, if Karl can dig that up. If any of the sa...

Although it's not specified I am going to guess this question is referring to Toonami US, as we need to keep in mind there was the Toonami UK channel that aired original Dragon Ball exclusively with the dub OP between 2003 and 2005. It was the Blue Water OPs (both UK and Canadian variants) this chan...

The War of the Worlds example reminded me but in the movie Boyhood when Mason was a little boy he was shown to have a blanket with Dragon Ball characters printed on it, a bedroom set of the Freeza arc, a poster of Super Saiyan 3 Goku and an episode of The Majin Boo arc was shown on TV in the backgro...

I remember the Dragon Ball Z cards they used to sell during the shows peak in English-speaking countries. I had a bunch, not sure if they were sold in Ireland, I just got mine off a friend who found them on holidays but didn't want them. They're all still in a box in my attic but I've never played a...

There's an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy called Chicken Ball Z where Mandy enters a tournament to win $50,000 cash prize, eats chicken ball, which gives her super strength and allowing her to beat all her opponents, then Billy gains the same skills and the have a big fight caus...

That's fair enough, I forgot about Dr Slump, although I never really gave that a try. It's definitely on my list of things to check out, I probably owe it to myself as Slump was the series that made Toriyama his millions. Plenty of Dr Slump characte4s also exist in the Dragon Ball world too, like Se...

If the OST is phenomenal, as in the case with DB and LOTR, I consider the composer on the same level as the creator/writer/director/etc. Most definitely, Shunsuke Kikuchi brought Akira Toriyama's manga to life, its just the perfect score whether it's the adventure, comedy, action or tranquill momen...

Spirit Bomb is the correct translation. What do you want? A Yatsu Kisama Tachi translation? Spirit Bomb is Funimation's rendition of Genki-Dama. "Genki" can mean "health", "energy" or "vitality", all of which are spiritual attributes, and "Dama" has...

He was in New York City once though (2002), wasn't he? And Germany of all places in 2004, so he did make very seldom public appearances. Only 200 were allowed in and reportedly the event would have been cancelled if anyone took out a camera. I also recall Toriyama saying in one of the manga volumes...

More love from Latin America , specifically Peru: Rohan Jagganaut wrote: Dragon Ball creator, Akira Toriyama had a profound impact on millions of people who grew up watching and reading the animanga series. This title defined an entire era of anime and also played an important role in redefining th...

Random Westwood dub thought of the day : in episode 112 (or 127 uncut) A Handy Trick during the first encounter with Dr Gero (pronounced Jar-Oh here) when Tenshinhan says "How did you know his name was Goku?" emphasis is placed on the "Ooh" at the end, and again later in the epi...

Why just do Raditz-Boo? That's only the second half of the story. I like Kai but felt everything that came before Raditz deserved more than the brief recap it got. Anyways I've been a proponent of a Dragon Ball remake for a while, but I think a series would be better than movies. People have also be...

Not usually a petition guy, but it's easy to see how much Dragon Ball has positively impacted the lives of millions, as we've seen with the honours even world governments like the French, Chinese and Brazillians have shown, and of course, as always the love from Latin America has been outstanding. S...

Yeah, there's plenty of variety with Kikuchi, original Dragon Ball has a lot more adventurous music and Z has more battle-focused pieces. When people say the Faulconer score was perfect for the increased scale and intensity of the fights in Z I respectfully disagree, as I think Shunsuke Kikuchi is t...

the fact that Saudi Arabia is into this project just shows how huge and influential the franchise has been and still is globally. I'd be interested to know how well Dragon Ball did in the Arab world overall. There were several attempts between the original series, Z and Kai to dub it but none of th...

Ironically, I think the Kai and Super dubs MIGHT have lightened up with some of these restrictions. I am not sure, but I think they might have. That's interesting, I wonder why Venus Centre toned it down for Kai and Super? Maybe there was complaints about Darwin's theory being undermined too much, ...

Will we get a new remasterization of DBKAI on these phisical release? I hope they tone down the green color of TFC I think if Funimation didn't fix the green tint on Kai The Final Chapters, Selecta Vision aren't going to do it. Ironic, that is the one time them messing with the colours would have b...

Yeah, but it's not very safe for people who are LGBTQ+, women, and other religions as SA can hostile towards them. Exactly, while I'd love to go to a Dragon Ball theme park and I welcome any efforts to embrace nerd culture Saudi Arabia has far bigger problems than a lack of either that should proba...