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Just wanted to add my bit of genki to this outpouring of love for Toriyama. I first caught Dragon Ball watching it on YTV in Canada, and immediately loved his brilliant balance of satire and drama. I work with youth and I think Dragon Ball's multi generational appeal is frankly amazing, and shows it...

If you think about it, Toriyama has each of the main protagonists struggle to come to terms with their limitations in the face of an overbearing evil. So, each of the main characters deals with the uncomfortable truth that they need to change in order to combat this threat (first, the Androids, then...

Most of Toei's DB humor tends to fall into typical anime gag humor, while Toriyama's own style has a bit of a cynical bend. It's also why I never got upset about some of the most ridiculous escalations, like Goten and Trunks going Super Saiyan, because that's a classic Toriyama gag - this thing tha...

I really think that TOEI animation has never really understood Akira Toriyama's humour, and this usually explains why Dragon Ball feels so different when he has little involvement in the storytelling. The first obvious examples are the Dragon Ball films. This also extends to Dragon Ball GT, and most...

After recently finishing the latest chapter of the Moro arc, I have to agree that Toyotaro is nowhere near what Toriyama was at his peak :thumbdown: . Toyotaro's biggest failing, in my opinion, is that he treats the story too seriously. Except for a few rare instances (Gohan vs. Cell for example) To...

No spoilers of course. I was wondering what people thought of "Galactic Patrol Prisoner Saga". For a long time, I had little interest in reading it. But, recently, I gave it a shot out of curiosity. Early on, I felt it had potential and seemed to be taking the franchise in a new direction...

Is this supposed to be a gag by Toriyama?
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This always bugged me. Why didn’t Vegeta get a power up after training a 2nd year in the Room of Time and Spirit? He was basically a new character after having spent his first year with Trunks. Then, he clearly states the benefits of Goku living 24/7 as a Super Saiyan. And yet, he doesn’t seem to ad...

I don't know if this has been touched on. But I would argue that the impact Team Four Star had on Dragon Ball's revival should be seen as being on the level of what the Orange Bricks achieved. To me, their work is more than just a well made abridged series. Deeper inside, you can see the series beco...

When I do a run of “Z”, I usually do an episode a day (so, 5-6 episodes a week). The pacing of the original Z series to me is fine up until the fight vs. Freeza begins. At that point, it gets very tedious with the conflict constantly being interrupted by meaningless filler. I’m honestly surprised th...

This is a major bump (2 years inactive). I realized today that the entire Z color manga has already been published in Spanish (the entire Cell and Buu arcs). This got me asking: why hasn't this been translated into English yet? Is there some legal reason. Is Viz waiting for better timing (a future f...

I remember loving Dragon Ball as a teenager. It actually helped me tremendously through a period where I was suffering through a pretty deep depression. In my early 20s, I I got a chance to watch the series in Japanese and I was actually impressed with how much it spoke to me as an adult. I felt, at...

Last night in the Brazilian soccer league, a pair of forwards for the club Flamengo (Gabriel from Brazil and De Arrascaeta from Uruguay) did the fusion pose after winning the biggest match of the year.

To be honest, I was shocked that Sean Schemmel's career survived a racist outburst he had a few years ago at a convention. I think I can find the clip again, but I've been struggling. It was a panel for Resurrection F, if I'm not mistaken. I remember showing at least 3-4 others this and they were sh...

What other series are the Dragon Ball voice actors generally excellent in? Recently, I've been watching a lot of older animes and I was surprised by how familiar a lot of the voice actors were. In my view, these were some standout performances: Note: Can be from any dub: Japanese, English, Spanish.....

Honestly I think the cynicism is one of the key reasons why DB appeals to adults so much.

I watched DBS: Broly in Japanese, Spanish and some scenes on English. The English dub is the worst version, and I haven't even watched it completely on that version, it changes stuff, like so many times in the past. I mean, from what I hear (I've only seen the dub so far) it's largely faithful asid...

Oh so it is him voicing Freeza in Broli? Excellent news. Glad he seems to be on the mend. COPD can be a horrible disease and from what we know he's lucky to be alive. From what I've heard of his understudy Daman Mills he sounds fine but it's clearly someone doing an impression of Ayres. Seeing the ...

I'm not sure if this counts relevant to this subforum, but I wanted to see if anyone had any updates on Chris Ayres' (modern voice of Frieza) condition. The most recent update I've found is on this reddit post from 1 year ago. I think this guy is incredible talented, and I was kind of blown away tha...

Like I said, as a result of Paragus's way of rasing him, he tends to snap really quickly regardless of anything. That had nothing to do with him wanting to kill Vegeta. He doesn't even like fighting much less pick one. He attacked Vegeta first because Paragus told him to, obviously he didn't give a...