If you were a billionaire (DB related)

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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Vice » Sun Dec 22, 2013 11:09 pm

JulieYBM wrote: I would do three, too. That probably wouldn't be as much of a pain in the ass to get the gears going as setting up a new animated series with top-notch animators, either.
It probably wouldn't be too much of a problem if you threw enough money at it.

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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by RandomGuy96 » Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:34 am

You think Toriyama would take one hour out of his day to answer some questions for me if I gave him a million dollars?
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Storm » Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:06 am

Probably, but be prepared to be disappointed by the answers.

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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Codarik » Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:56 am

Use the money to give to a film studio to hire a highly experienced director, a writer who can faithfully capture the spirit of Dragon Ball in script form, actors who have great acting skills and have the look for the characters they're portraying. All to make a movie and its sequels the best/perfect Dragon Ball live action film series.

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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Kendamu » Mon Dec 23, 2013 4:48 am

I would make a Dragonball-inspired video series where I would travel around, see sights that inspired Dragonball locations, study from martial arts teachers, and compete against other martial artists. I would use a lot of the money for the actual traveling, the crew to film and edit the videos, and to make Dragonball-inspired music similar to the Blue Bricks trailers and DBox trailers.

Not exactly a "I'd buy my own film masters and a team of dudes to make the perfect remaster for my personal use" type of thing, but I'd enjoy it and hope that other people would enjoy watching my Dragonball-inspired adventures.
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Tzigi » Mon Dec 23, 2013 6:34 am

I'd pay Toriyama to write a DB sequel and provide character designs and then get Toyotaro to draw that. Or at least get Toyotaro to draw a manga version of Kaboom's GTR.
I'd create a streamlined anime version of the whole of DB.
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Hellspawn28 » Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:01 am

I would make a new TV show that is not a remake since we already have Kai. I would hire a good writer and good producers to help make a new series. I would ignore GT and give us a real DBZ sequel that people want.
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Insertclevername » Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:40 am

Put the Dragon Boxes back into print. Release the DB, DBGT and Movie Dragon Boxes. Donate the rest to charity.
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by samuraix123 » Tue Dec 24, 2013 2:27 am

Buy all the rest of the Dragon-boxes and whatever else Dragonball related I wanted and hire the most attractive woman around the world to take the discs in and out of the tray for me. :lol: ''Listen here Woman! One scratch on that Dragonbox DVD and I'll have your ass thrown out faster than you can say ''cha la head cha la'' LOL :lol: :lol: Ahhh a man can only dream :D
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by UpFromTheSkies » Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:43 am

I would have the entire manga reanimated as one series, with the best animators I could find, and at the end, if he was willing to do it, I would have Toriyama work with his original editors and a team of talented writers to continue the series following the events of BoG, in which GT would be explained away as a dream Beerus had after his fight with Goku. I would also have the entire manga retranslated in English, and a new English dub created with a cast of my choosing.

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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Eddie » Tue Dec 24, 2013 2:18 pm

I'd buy pretty much all of the licensing rights available (music, anime, games, movie, merch, etc.). Uncut manga, Dragon Box quality new releases, and the Dragon Ball Z kart racer that the world simply must have would go into production immediately. After a proper plan was in place, I'd also bring Dragon Ball back to the big screen in live action. The proper plan would not involve Goku in school. It may, however, involve Robin Shou as Taopaipai & Cary-Hiroyuki Togawa as Tsurusennin.

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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by penguintruth » Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:35 pm

If I were a rich geek,
Yubby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dum.
All day long I'd Kamehamaha,
If I were a wealthy geek.
I wouldn't have to hear bad dubs,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
Idle-diddle-daidle-daidle geek.
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Zantetsuken » Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:41 pm

I'd also buy the rights to Narato and cancel it. Tired of the DBZ comparisons and I hate the show - WAY too much filler.

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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by DarkPrince_92 » Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:46 pm

Zantetsuken wrote:I'd also buy the rights to Narato and cancel it. Tired of the DBZ comparisons and I hate the show - WAY too much filler.
Not DB related. Just.... Saiyan.
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Blade » Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:51 pm

penguintruth wrote:I wouldn't have to hear bad dubs.
You don't have to!
Zantetsuken wrote:I'd also buy the rights to Narato and cancel it. Tired of the DBZ comparisons and I hate the show - WAY too much filler.
That seems a little bit of a wasteful use of money! Besides - I'd rather have the filler with decent Manga-story pacing than otherwise. I can skip the filler, but in something like One Piece, for example, where they've stopped filler in favour of snail-pacing, I have to watch every episode - which can be really soul crushing and doesn't do the original work its proper justice.

One Piece fans are crying out for filler to return - so I just suggest to Naruto fans to be careful what they wish for! Of course, there's the other side of the coin in the case of something like Bleach, where the poor quality of the filler largely attributed to the downfall of the anime. But heck, why does filler have to be bad? Why not just commission only decent stories or hire competent writing staff?
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:51 pm

Zantetsuken wrote:I'd also buy the rights to Narato and cancel it. Tired of the DBZ comparisons and I hate the show - WAY too much filler.
Yes, I too hate that Narato. I especially hate when he never shuts up about being a Hakagi, and tries to be a Nainja despite being in bright neon green.

...Wait, what're we talking about again?

My joking aside - I can see how the comparisons would get annoying, cuz they do, but...you'd use your money just to cancel a show you don't like that others enjoy? Selfish, much?
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Re: If you were a billionaire (DB related)

Post by Zantetsuken » Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:29 pm

Blade wrote:
penguintruth wrote:I wouldn't have to hear bad dubs.
You don't have to!
Zantetsuken wrote:I'd also buy the rights to Narato and cancel it. Tired of the DBZ comparisons and I hate the show - WAY too much filler.
That seems a little bit of a wasteful use of money! Besides - I'd rather have the filler with decent Manga-story pacing than otherwise. I can skip the filler, but in something like One Piece, for example, where they've stopped filler in favour of snail-pacing, I have to watch every episode - which can be really soul crushing and doesn't do the original work its proper justice.

One Piece fans are crying out for filler to return - so I just suggest to Naruto fans to be careful what they wish for! Of course, there's the other side of the coin in the case of something like Bleach, where the poor quality of the filler largely attributed to the downfall of the anime. But heck, why does filler have to be bad? Why not just commission only decent stories or hire competent writing staff?
I'm not a fan of eith show. I'd cancel them both and reboot DB/DBZ if I could.

And I would pay everyone to forget about GT. Such terrible. So bad. Wow.

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