RealtreeByGod wrote:Good god, these specials drag on.
Could you say they... Drag-on Ball?
*winks at the audience*
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Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
Me personally i hope that Babidi part in main plot will end fast, i really dislike that character
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I don't know how swear words work in the French language, but does the French version of Dragon Ball Multiverse read like old AnimeLabs subs like the English one does?
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Augenis wrote:The power level view into the series has trained a significant portion of the fan base into real life stereotypical members of the Freeza empire, where each and every individual is reduced to a floating number above their heads and any sudden changes to said number are met with shock and confusion.
Actually, yes, French version uses putain (f.ck) and merde (sh.t) from time to time
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But do these words have the same intensity in French as they do in English? I'm just scratching my head trying to understand how Saligir could think these words fit Dragon Ball? Bastard, crap, damn, and hell are on thing - but these other ones are awkwardly out-of-place.
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Augenis wrote:The power level view into the series has trained a significant portion of the fan base into real life stereotypical members of the Freeza empire, where each and every individual is reduced to a floating number above their heads and any sudden changes to said number are met with shock and confusion.
RealtreeByGod wrote:Good god, these specials drag on.
I think it's that they never seem to really tell a story. They blurt out some information in a little blurb at the beginning and then the whole rest of the special is fighting. Now, Dragonball is about fighting, but your mileage may vary on what sort of context it needs to be encapsulated in to matter. We care about Goku saving the world from Piccolo and Vegeta in the original story, because we've seen him grow and develop and we also care about the characters he journeyed with. It's hard to transfer that investment even in such a straightforwards universe as Dragonball, but that's just my opinion.
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To be fair, the Specials only have a chapter's worth of pages to work with (usually), so the flaws mainly result from that limitation.
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Augenis wrote:The power level view into the series has trained a significant portion of the fan base into real life stereotypical members of the Freeza empire, where each and every individual is reduced to a floating number above their heads and any sudden changes to said number are met with shock and confusion.
ParkerAL wrote:To be fair, the Specials only have a chapter's worth of pages to work with (usually), so the flaws mainly result from that limitation.
Yeah, I don't really blame them for that. I honestly can't remember most of them by this point. I'm going to go have a read back into the specials and see which ones stand out, because there were a few I quite liked for whatever reason. There must be some special something that differentiates them.
ParkerAL wrote:But do these words have the same intensity in French as they do in English? I'm just scratching my head trying to understand how Saligir could think these words fit Dragon Ball? Bastard, crap, damn, and hell are on thing - but these other ones are awkwardly out-of-place.
Yes, they are as out of place in French as in English. These words were never used in the French dub or the French manga.
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I like the subtle worldbuilding. People on Helior are so accustomed to their machines and high technologies that they even describe people as "out of commission" as if those people were machines themselves.
Well what do you know - another punch through the chest/stomach death in Dragon Ball Multiverse. Someone ought to make a drinking game out of this.
Teasing aside, this is a really nicely done page.
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Augenis wrote:The power level view into the series has trained a significant portion of the fan base into real life stereotypical members of the Freeza empire, where each and every individual is reduced to a floating number above their heads and any sudden changes to said number are met with shock and confusion.
ParkerAL wrote:Well what do you know - another punch through the chest/stomach death in Dragon Ball Multiverse. Someone ought to make a drinking game out of this.
I guess you could say he really knows his way to a woman's heart.
Kataphrut wrote:It's a bit of a Boy Who Cried Wolf situation to me...Basically, the boy shouldn't have cried wolf when the wolves just wanted to Go See Yamcha. If not, they might have gotten some help when the wolves came back to Make the Donuts.
Chuquita wrote:I liken Gokû Black to "guy can't stand his job, so instead of quitting and finding a job he likes, he instead sets fire not only to his workplace so he doesn't have to work there, but tries setting fire to every store in the franchise of that company".
ParkerAL wrote:Well what do you know - another punch through the chest/stomach death in Dragon Ball Multiverse. Someone ought to make a drinking game out of this.
I guess you could say he really knows his way to a woman's heart.
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ParkerAL wrote:Well what do you know - another punch through the chest/stomach death in Dragon Ball Multiverse. Someone ought to make a drinking game out of this.
I guess you could say he really knows his way to a woman's heart.
Oh, man... that's almost as bad as a James Bond one-liner (or Chuck Greene's in Dead Rising 2).
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