Steven Bloodriver wrote:
Who knows? This might be yet another sister of Bulma’s we hardly know anything about.
Bulma's parents have done some crazy shit apparently..
Cure Dragon 255 wrote:I CAN JUST HEAR A GONG IN TORIYAMA'S HEAD...Bulma...is an alien.
The last relevancy an Earthling has stripped away. Toriyama cant wait!
Toriyama -
That's why we love 'em.
I'm basically that nerd, too. Call it "Dragon Ball Hoshi" or "Dragon Ball NG" and all of a sudden Dragon Ball Super becomes my 13-year-old self's wait what why am I reminding people I wrote a fanfic with a female Broly, evil Goku, and Super Saiyan Red & Blue in 2005 I really need to shut my black mouth.
"I will concede that your feelings are worthy of the mightiest of Saiyans. However, there is more to my power than just this. Before you die, I will show it to you. This is the difference in power, between the primitive Saiyans and the evolved Tsufruians." ~Baby Vegeta
jeffbr92 wrote:^ I remember as a kid watching this episode I thought his leg was impaled lol
I'm pretty sure it was.
It wasn't. There was no sight of blood afterwards.
Power levels are not just big numbers:
Spoiler:
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Gog wrote:The cell saga/android saga is the worst thing Akira Toriyama ever made. And nothing has ever actually managed to come close to it, after it. Even the terrible asspulls in the FT saga, weren't as bad as that. But of course this is all my opinion.
You've just made a new best friend.
Marz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:27 pm
"Well, the chapter was good, the story was good and so were the fights. But a new transformation, in Dragon Ball? And one that's ugly? This is where we draw the line!!! Jump the Shark moment!!"
This forum is so over-dramatic that it's not even funny.
90sDBZ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:44 pm19 years ago I was rushing home from school to watch DBZ on Cartoon Network, and today I've rushed home from work to watch DBS on Pop. I guess it's true the more things change the more they stay the same.
How? I've been following the Super Episode Discussions since the very start of it's run; and I can safely tell you that folks hated Toriyama's stuff just as much as they hated the fan stuff. The hate was such that I didn't even think a lot of it was deserved ...
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".
Tai Lung wrote:something old but in the majority it remains
I don't think Beerus would beat Omega that easily. I am not even sure if he would beat him at all.
Rest are accurate.
"I will concede that your feelings are worthy of the mightiest of Saiyans. However, there is more to my power than just this. Before you die, I will show it to you. This is the difference in power, between the primitive Saiyans and the evolved Tsufruians." ~Baby Vegeta
Fionordequester wrote:How? I've been following the Super Episode Discussions since the very start of it's run; and I can safely tell you that folks hated Toriyama's stuff just as much as they hated the fan stuff. The hate was such that I didn't even think a lot of it was deserved ...
It's the basic response a lot of fans that hate Super use in reference to people that like Super, the classic 'Oh, you only like this because you'd like ANYTHING Toriyama shat out!', basically.
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