Old characters you want to see in Dragon Ball Super?

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Re: Old characters you want to see in Dragon Ball Super?

Post by Lord Beerus » Sat May 02, 2015 7:10 pm

Dyno wrote:Surely he can, the real question is: Will he write them into Super?
I think the real question is: Does he have any freakin idea who Towa and Miira even are?

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Post by SingleFringe&Sparks » Sat May 02, 2015 7:33 pm

I'm not really interested in Towa & Mirra to be honest, though. Their plothline from Online isnt anything different from Cell's storyline.
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Re: Old characters you want to see in Dragon Ball Super?

Post by Marlowe89 » Sat May 02, 2015 7:41 pm

Towa and Miira would make for an interesting sort of tie-in to DBO/Xenoverse. At the very least, it would demonstrate that Toriyama didn't completely forget about that massive timeline he was supposedly involved in.

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Re: Old characters you want to see in Dragon Ball Super?

Post by Dyno » Sat May 02, 2015 7:47 pm

Lord Beerus wrote:I think the real question is: Does he have any freakin idea who Towa and Miira even are?
Yes. :eh:

The real question is: Does he remember them? Well, I think he remembers them since they appear everywhere through Dragon Ball Xenoverse merch.

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Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Sat May 02, 2015 8:00 pm

Lord Beerus wrote:
Dyno wrote:Surely he can, the real question is: Will he write them into Super?
I think the real question is: Does he have any freakin idea who Towa and Miira even are?
He did the character designs for them in DBO & DBXV, and supervised the stories of both DBO & DBXV. So, if he doesn't remember them, he has a very serious memory problem.
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Re: Old characters you want to see in Dragon Ball Super?

Post by Lord Beerus » Sat May 02, 2015 8:14 pm

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Dyno wrote:Surely he can, the real question is: Will he write them into Super?
I think the real question is: Does he have any freakin idea who Towa and Miira even are?
He did the character designs for them in DBO & DBXV, and supervised the stories of both DBO & DBXV. So, if he doesn't remember them, he has a very serious memory problem.
He did? :eh:

I'd love to see a source that confirms this.

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Post by Dyno » Sat May 02, 2015 8:51 pm

Think only DevilsCorpse can confirm for Dragon Ball Online, but there was a live interview which someone from the staff of Xenoverse said Toriyama was fully aware of its plot and even colaborated to it.

And we can't desconsider Dragon Ball Heroes merchandise, since that game is highly popular... Maybe Toriyama sees something from it once in a while out of curiosity. Mira will be marketed again in GDM2.

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Post by Hellspawn28 » Sat May 02, 2015 9:21 pm

If they do something with a evil demon from Hell or the Demon World or some time god then maybe Towa and Mira can be added.
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Post by UpFromTheSkies » Sat May 02, 2015 9:30 pm

I'd love to see Arale appear again.

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Post by TheDevilsCorpse » Sat May 02, 2015 9:34 pm

He did designs for Dragon Ball Online for 5+ years. We don't know exactly who he designed though. Mrs. Buu and Fu from the Taiwanese guidebook look unmistakably like Toriyama's art (maybe because no one redrew them since their portraits weren't in the game yet), but everyone else is questionable. Though I would think that if you're doing designs for 5 years, the main characters are probably on your to-do list as well.

For Xenoverse, there was a French interview that discusses the topic. I don't know what's actually said, as I don't speak French, but Google translate says he supervised the game's designs and story, giving them an okay.
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Post by Dyno » Sat May 02, 2015 9:35 pm

UpFromTheSkies wrote:I'd love to see Arale appear again.
I would say Neko Majin as well. Would love to see this franchise expanding even more.

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Post by Man-Child » Sun May 03, 2015 9:53 am

I do wonder what ever happened to Tao after his appearances in the filler eps. of Z.

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Post by Hellspawn28 » Mon May 04, 2015 12:49 am

Man-Child wrote:I do wonder what ever happened to Tao after his appearances in the filler eps. of Z.
We haven't seen him since the 23rd Tenkachi Budokai if we go by the manga. I would imagine he was likely killed off by Buu and was probably wasn't wished back.
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Re: Old characters you want to see in Dragon Ball Super?

Post by Man-Child » Mon May 04, 2015 8:15 pm

Hellspawn28 wrote:
Man-Child wrote:I do wonder what ever happened to Tao after his appearances in the filler eps. of Z.
We haven't seen him since the 23rd Tenkachi Budokai if we go by the manga. I would imagine he was likely killed off by Buu and was probably wasn't wished back.
Makes sense. Thanks.

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Post by Scott » Tue May 05, 2015 7:02 pm

Hellspawn28 wrote:
Man-Child wrote:I do wonder what ever happened to Tao after his appearances in the filler eps. of Z.
We haven't seen him since the 23rd Tenkachi Budokai if we go by the manga. I would imagine he was likely killed off by Buu and was probably wasn't wished back.
Now that you mention Tao not getting revived, why was Pilaf revived ? Pilaf was evil, comically evil, but still evil. I don't think he should have been revived with the wish to bring all of Buu's victims back to life except for the evil ones.

I suppose we could just assume that Pilaf knew the Earth was in big trouble and he made some sort of space ship and escaped for a while.

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Post by TheDevilsCorpse » Tue May 05, 2015 7:05 pm

The wish was to revive everyone except those who are "very bad". If Vegeta, a space-faring mass murder can be revived by Porunga despite not reeeeally doing anything to truly redeem his past actions (minus the very small handful in the Buu Arc), I imagine Pilaf can be revived despite trying to be evil, but not reeeeally accomplishing anything.
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Post by Mystic Tien » Tue May 05, 2015 7:21 pm

TheDevilsCorpse wrote:The wish was to revive everyone except those who are "very bad". If Vegeta, a space-faring mass murder can be revived by Porunga despite not reeeeally doing anything to truly redeem his past actions (minus the very small handful in the Buu Arc), I imagine Pilaf can be revived despite trying to be evil, but not reeeeally accomplishing anything.
Exactly this. Vegeta was much more evil than Pilaf, and he was revived.
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Post by Scott » Tue May 05, 2015 7:31 pm

TheDevilsCorpse wrote:The wish was to revive everyone except those who are "very bad". If Vegeta, a space-faring mass murder can be revived by Porunga despite not reeeeally doing anything to truly redeem his past actions (minus the very small handful in the Buu Arc), I imagine Pilaf can be revived despite trying to be evil, but not reeeeally accomplishing anything.
But the Dragon obviously thought that Vegeta changed as a person and would never do anything evil again.

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Post by Scott » Tue May 05, 2015 7:49 pm

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Man-Child wrote:I do wonder what ever happened to Tao after his appearances in the filler eps. of Z.
We haven't seen him since the 23rd Tenkachi Budokai if we go by the manga. I would imagine he was likely killed off by Buu and was probably wasn't wished back.
Now that you mention Tao not getting revived, why was Pilaf revived ? Pilaf was evil, comically evil, but still evil. I don't think he should have been revived with the wish to bring all of Buu's victims back to life except for the evil ones.

I suppose we could just assume that Pilaf knew the Earth was in big trouble and he made some sort of space ship and escaped for a while.
Ha, i just realised that there is a thread about this very subject going on right now. I'll move over to that thread to continue with this debate :D

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Post by Akyon » Wed May 06, 2015 2:21 am

Hellspawn28 wrote:
Man-Child wrote:I do wonder what ever happened to Tao after his appearances in the filler eps. of Z.
We haven't seen him since the 23rd Tenkachi Budokai if we go by the manga. I would imagine he was likely killed off by Buu and was probably wasn't wished back.
I was coming in specifically to mention Tao and Shen, having totally forgotten about that wish. Well reminded. A pity, I quite liked Tao.

Namu, Giran, Launch and Android 8 Cameos would be enjoyable. I'd actually like to see 8 meet 17 and 18 since personality wise he's fairly gentle and resembles a certain other android.

Also like many others I'd like to see what 17's up to once in a while...and I guess if they count as old characters; Chiaoutzu and Yaijirobe.
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