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[JohnnyCashKami]

There's no such thing as "equally offensive".

Making fun of multiple countries, languages, races.. that's what it is.

Also, a person doesn't have to be offended to find something offensive.

People nowadays get offended over nothing.

I don't really think having an accent is offensive at all.

I agree with you but some do think it's offensive and even "racist".

God forbid comedians make black humor jokes. lol

I don't really think having an accent is offensive at all.

Besides it's the FUNI dub, I doubt Russian, German and Japanese people would watch it.[/quote]
Normally, no. But there are instances when people from other countries check out foreign dubs.

I remember seeing a vid of a Japanese guy sat down in a hotel and watching FUNi's Z dub, he was left speechless (iirc) but I can't find a source to this now. There's this though @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQnVPOPYSY

[SaiyanGod117]

It would have been cool if each member of the Ginyu Force had a unique ability, instead of just Guldo and Ginyu.

[Shaddy]

It would be cool if every villain in the series had a unique fighting style or powerset instead of just being a vague approximation of "harder to beat" than the last guy.

EDIT: wow, this combined with my signature really makes me look super belligerent and aggressive about Dragon Ball's power system.

[Kataphrut]

It would be cool if every villain in the series had a unique fighting style or powerset instead of just being a vague approximation of "harder to beat" than the last guy.

EDIT: wow, this combined with my signature really makes me look super belligerent and aggressive about Dragon Ball's power system.

I know, right? I got so sick of regeneration in the Cell and Buu arcs, it was just an excuse to keep padding things out. A bunch of the movie and GT villains could do it as well.

This is actually something Super did well, the villains were a little more unique and weren't just a more durable version of the last one. The only place it faltered was having Broly come right after Jiren, meaning we got two ultra-powerful beef mutants with tragic pasts in a row.

[SaiyanGod117]

DBS was so inconsistent in regards to portrayal and continuity, that it should have been a prerequisite for each existing writers working on the show inasmuch as any future writers which would work on the show to read all 42 volumes of the original manga at least twice.

[MasenkoHA]

So Facebook was advertising the Dragon Ball Kai Blue Ray and DVD sets and of course someone makes the comment about “Blue Popo ruining Kai for them” thought we were past that misconception guess not

[goku the krump dancer]

DBS was so inconsistent in regards to portrayal and continuity, that it should have been a prerequisite for each existing writers working on the show inasmuch as any future writers which would work on the show to read all 42 volumes of the original manga at least twice.

Its weird because none of the stories post Battle of Gods connect to one another, Revival of F, Universe 6, Zamasu and even the Top all feel like they could be direct sequels to BoG and dont have to happen in the order that they did or amongst one another.

With a few tweaks it could easily go Post Beerus fight -> ToP, Revival of Freeza, Goku Black, U6 tournament, Broly! I'm not saying I prefer it that way but just illustrating how the lack of consequence hurts the overall stories being told because they can viewed as their own closed off story.



In Other news though, I know its common for a lot people to give Zamasu credit for having a real "motive" and Goal to explain his actions as a villain and Even this new take on Broly for seemingly being sympathetic and mildly relatable compared to his original incarnation. HOWEVER I'd argue that a completely emotionless or motiveless killing machine can be done well if executed properly. Just look at Michael Myers and the Original Halloween movie or even the recent Re-sequel-boot. The series only went down hill once other writers and directors tried to give Mike some silly or generic motive for killing in the way that he does, which killed the original goal for the first movie which was to describe the terror of how some random shmuck could throw on a mask, pick up a knife and literally seek to end your life just because you walked past him one sunday on your way to starbucks.

[ZeroNeonix]

DBS was so inconsistent in regards to portrayal and continuity, that it should have been a prerequisite for each existing writers working on the show inasmuch as any future writers which would work on the show to read all 42 volumes of the original manga at least twice.

The problem isn't that they don't know the original Dragon Ball (Z) stories. They've demonstrated quite often how familiar they were with the original material. It's the internal consistency that's the problem. Different writers working on different episodes independently. The retcons were Toriyama's doing, BTW.

[dbgtFO]

I never liked the original hair colour for Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan/Blue, because it wasn't blue enough!
My favorite colour is blue, more specifically the lighter shade of royal blue, so it really annoyed me that the hair colour for SSB was teal, which I find to be ugly.
The fact that they have changed it to this darker blue for the new designs is pretty damn awesome, if I must say so, so I'm grateful for that!
It's also the same with Bulma's hair colour. If it can't be purple, I'm at least glad they made it blue instead of teal ever since RoF.

[Noah]

It would have been cool if each member of the Ginyu Force had a unique ability, instead of just Guldo and Ginyu.

I agree, the Ginyu Force are iconic villains, but some of them are really bland, I would prefer if they took some time to develop them better.

[ABED]

I see your point, but I think they served their purpose. Considering where the story was, the manga and anime spent as much time on the team as it should've. I wouldn't call any of them bland. They're all memorable

[Soppa Saia People]

There's no such thing as "equally offensive".

Making fun of multiple countries, languages, races.. that's what it is.

please learn what punching down is.

I don't really think having an accent is offensive at all.

I agree with you but some do think it's offensive and even "racist".

it depends on the context. white person doing a irish accent ? maybe a bit Problematic, but idk i dont think its offensive. a person with no Jamaican background using a Jamaican patois ? yea thats sorta racist.

Also, a person doesn't have to be offended to find something offensive.

People nowadays get offended over nothing.

i don't really think it's up to you to decide what is and what isn't offensive tbh.

Edit : to make this about dragon ball, i think the funi accents for the RRA is more so odd than anything. like i'm not sure how it is in the Jpn version, but i don't know most of them kinda come off as weird to me.

[ABED]

i don't really think it's up to you to decide what is and what isn't offensive tbh.

If not each of us, then who?

[Soppa Saia People]

i don't really think it's up to you to decide what is and what isn't offensive tbh.

If not each of us, then who?

well, let's say a black person finds commanders black design offensive, do you think it's ok for a white person, to say that they shouldn't be offended by it ? or as a gay person who finds general blue kinda offensive (mainly just the pedo stuff, but also the fact that he's a example of how most gay portrayals, along with highly feminine men, in media were normally villains till recently), do you think it's ok for straight people to tell me that i shouldn't be offended by it ?

edit : and i'm not saying you need to be offended by something to think it's offensive or whatever, i'm just saying it's kinda dumb for people to say what people should and shouldn't find offensive.

[Kataphrut]

I just watched Moviebob's latest Big Picture video 'Endless Universe' (https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/201 ... -universe/) about Star Wars, the changing landscape of corporate-owned franchise media and how fandom/geek culture discourse needs to evolve around that. A lot of what he said about Disney-owned Star Wars feels like it could apply to Dragon Ball now as well, ie the shift from a story as told by a single authour to a sprawling, omnipresent source of franchise iconography told across multiple mediums. I don't think Dragon Ball is quite as far down the road as Star Wars is since Akira Toriyama is still involved with it, but I reckon it's definitely happening. Dragon Ball is not going to go away, it will exist in some form or another long after he's stopped working on it or passed away.

[ABED]

i don't really think it's up to you to decide what is and what isn't offensive tbh.

If not each of us, then who?

well, let's say a black person finds commanders black design offensive, do you think it's ok for a white person, to say that they shouldn't be offended by it ? or as a gay person who finds general blue kinda offensive (mainly just the pedo stuff, but also the fact that he's a example of how most gay portrayals, along with highly feminine men, in media were normally villains till recently), do you think it's ok for straight people to tell me that i shouldn't be offended by it ?

edit : and i'm not saying you need to be offended by something to think it's offensive or whatever, i'm just saying it's kinda dumb for people to say what people should and shouldn't find offensive.

Would it be that much better if another gay person told someone General Blue shouldn't offend them? I don't agree with that idea at all. Certainly, coming from another gay person there's first hand knowledge, but they don't all think the same. I think as long as you can provide a cogent and polite argument regardless of your race, religion, sexual orientation, etc., your opinion is as valid as anyone else's.

[Soppa Saia People]

Would it be that much better if another gay person told someone General Blue shouldn't offend them?

yeah, i love talking with other members in the LGBTQ+ community about what they think what is and what isn't problematic, just as long as their not doing it in bad faith. the thing that annoys the piss out of me is when straight people say, Oh you shouldn't be offended by that. like, it's not up to you dude, lol.

[ABED]

This could actually be its own thread, so I'll just leave it this, there are parts of that statement I agree with and part that I don't. It's less about whose saying it than it is HOW you say it.

[Soppa Saia People]

understandable have a fantastic Wednesday morning.

[Lukmendes]

Its weird because none of the stories post Battle of Gods connect to one another, Revival of F, Universe 6, Zamasu and even the Top all feel like they could be direct sequels to BoG and dont have to happen in the order that they did or amongst one another.

Without RoF there's no Freeza in ToP, without Champa there's no Black (Zamasu learns about the super dragon balls and Goku having god ki because of it, and Goku's friendship with Zeno), or ToP (Zeno only became friends with Goku because of the Champa arc), so those events are pretty important to each other, with Black being arguably the only one that is skippable, and thematicaly Black has some importance since ToP ultimately proves him wrong.

With a few tweaks it could easily go Post Beerus fight -> ToP, Revival of Freeza, Goku Black, U6 tournament, Broly! I'm not saying I prefer it that way but just illustrating how the lack of consequence hurts the overall stories being told because they can viewed as their own closed off story.

That makes no sense, Zeno only learned about Goku and the idea of making a tournament because of Champa arc and Freeza was only in ToP because of his own arc, and while Black could happen after ToP, it'd be redundant since ToP's ending shows that mortals can be selfless and eventualy change, so having Black after ToP would be odd, so yeah, just changing the order of those events would be a headache since little details is what build up for each other, it'd be kinda like trying to make Cell saga happen before Namek.