Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

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Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by precita » Tue Jan 10, 2017 4:43 pm

Why would an entirely different planet in most likely an entire different galaxy in space look exactly the same as another one? Same green sky, same green ground/trees/water, etc.

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by Gog » Tue Jan 10, 2017 4:58 pm

Actually from what I remember in the original manga.

new Namek actually looked really different from namek, it was more swamp-y

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by Kendamu » Tue Jan 10, 2017 6:07 pm

It doesn't look exactly the same in the manga, but I would imagine the color scheme used in the anime would be the same.

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by precita » Tue Jan 10, 2017 6:21 pm

Oh, so Toei made the Nameks look identical? I never knew that.

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by Marugoto » Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:02 pm

In movie 6 it had much larger chunks of land.

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by Nejishiki » Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:14 pm

As mentioned & shown, New Namek is not exactly the same as the destroyed Namek. The environment is similar but it features various swamps & the ability to grow Ajissa plants quickly. In fact, the original planet Namek was devastated by a weather anomaly. Its original beauty was lost & that planet was rebuilt through Grand Elder's efforts. As far as current events are concerned, we never experienced Namek's old glory.

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by Gog » Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:25 pm

Nejishiki wrote:As mentioned & shown, New Namek is not exactly the same as the destroyed Namek. The environment is similar but it features various swamps & the ability to grow Ajissa plants quickly. In fact, the original planet Namek was devastated by a weather anomaly. Its original beauty was lost & that planet was rebuilt through Grand Elder's efforts. As far as current events are concerned, we never experienced Namek's old glory.
Oh never knew that, that's really interesting, do you think that namek had more exciting and different flora, and fauna, then before the great cataclysm?

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by floofychan333 » Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:46 pm

It's intended to be a carbon copy of the original Namek.
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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by Gog » Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:49 pm

floofychan333 wrote:It's intended to be a carbon copy of the original Namek.
But it's not from what we've seen from it, especially in the manga, where it looks nothing like Namek

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by Kendamu » Sat Jan 14, 2017 4:47 am

Speaking of, I just got MsDBZBabe on Twitter to give me a pic of the Full Color manga version of the panel.

While the sky looks the same color, there seems to be no grass, the plants are a different color, and it looks like those would be other planets in the distance instead of a couple of suns. A huge difference from the anime interpretation (both TV and movie) of New Namek.

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sat Jan 14, 2017 1:50 pm

Man now I really wish Toei went full in for Kai and gave us an actual legit Manga version of DB.

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by TheZFighter » Sat Jan 14, 2017 2:50 pm

Goku's clothes are horrible. I'm glad he sticks to the gi's most of the time.
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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by Dbzfan94 » Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:18 pm

TheZFighter wrote:Goku's clothes are horrible. I'm glad he sticks to the gi's most of the time.
I love his clothes here. The pants are a bit too green in the full color manga but the anime coloring is great

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Re: Why does New Namek look identical to the original Namek?

Post by TheZFighter » Sat Jan 14, 2017 5:38 pm

Dbzfan94 wrote:
TheZFighter wrote:Goku's clothes are horrible. I'm glad he sticks to the gi's most of the time.
I love his clothes here. The pants are a bit too green in the full color manga but the anime coloring is great
Disagree unfortunately.
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