Just no on the above. I doubt Toei gained any influence from an English abride series that have been trying to stomp out for years. You give TFS too much credit.Scsigs wrote: I kind of get it, & I won't say every joke they make makes sense, or is top quality, but I really don't think they dumbed down anyone, they just turned up the heat on aspects of their characters, or introduced new ones, like Goku's more selfish traits & stupidity (which I think is where the Toei staff got it from with Super), though I think they've started to add some hidden traits to his character, Vegeta's arrogance & self importance, Gohan hating Goku, Piccolo being more protective of Gohan, Cell's extra creepy persona, as you said, etc. I'd get more it if they weren't putting genuine effort into the series, which they are, but I seriously disagree with you there. In fact, I'd say their Trunks is, basically, canon Trunks, just thrown into the Abridged version of the series. I also LOVE their version of the Broly movie for actually giving Broly a personality prior to his power up, because that one was extremely one-note originally. They've also started to show Goku's battle prowess & skill more like his canon self as well, it's just that that's added on to what was already there.
I think the thing I like most about their humor as well is that they have really good meta & 4th wall jokes thrown in & pretty good situational humor as well, but that's just me. Agree, disagree, whatever. This isn't the thread for them, so I don't think the admins would appreciate going off point any longer.
And you mean forcibly insert new ones even if it makes little sense or even butchered the character, looking at you. TFS Gura. And even in Super Goku isn’t stupid so much as care free and dense. TFS Goku most likely have a mental disorder and the ‘Goku is a bad father’ and Piccolo is Gohan ‘real’ dad is just annoying at this point. In fact, Gohan hating his dad is the thing I despise most about Abridge since the bond Goku and Gohan shares is one of my favorite things in Dragon Ball.
I can understand why Abride has its fans, but find a lot of stuff not funny and make me hate characters I like more often than not.