Kanzenshuu

For fans of DBZ media, probably. For fighting game aficionados? no. Precisely. Because for fighting game aficionados, Budokai 3 isn't a thing at all. To the hardcore, it's just another "2000s anime fighting game" that they might chuckle at and remember nostalgically before going back to exploiting ...

Low standards have been reinforced since the start. Dragon Ball as a story is a fairly wacky parody of 70s and 80s kung fu movies, using Journey to the West (a Chinese fairy tale not unlike the kind Disney would exploit, one usually told to little kids). Early DB in particular was so ridiculous with...

I personally prefer SS2 just because it's the perfect evolution of Super Saiyan; before there were numbers denoting how strong the form was, one could argue this was a perfected Super Saiyan. You know— cultivating the form to unlock its peak potential, as if Super Saiyan was a new base form and Supe...

We'd probably also get some corny PSA's at the end of every episode, with Goku telling people to look both ways before crossing the street Believe it or not, that actually exists . Wow I had no idea i'd be correct! :lol: Still I can see Goku saying things like "remember kids, always eat your vegeta...

Thats how it is with a lot of the fanbase. "Weak" = bad character. "Strong" = amazing character. Look at how they treat SS2 Cell Games Gohan compared to Buu Saga Gohan (pre Ultimate). Look at how the fanbase treats Dragon Ball itself to literally any other action story! I can't tell you the number ...

I also feel Xenoverse 2 has worn out its welcome for me many times over. I suppose Xenoverse 1 is a worse offender since it didn't even get several years' worth of DLC; they were trying to do the yearly release thing again and it suffered for it right as the devs realized DLC was a better means of f...

Thinking about it a bit more, while the original Budokai series wasn't shovelware, I'd be willing to include the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai HD Collection as absolute shovelware. Mainly because it reminds me so much of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD collection in many ways as well as because it did virtuall...

Really, there are so many ways a reboot could go horribly wrong, with the worst being to make Dragon Ball a squeaky clean, all-righteous kung fu- themed shonen that takes up more influence from One Piece than Drunken Master. One Piece IS FILLED to the brim with not only grisly violence and gore but...

Because of bullshit. Just have fun with it!

The Muten Roushi's shtick is just so played out , too. It'd be far more refreshing to change it so that he has a partner and the comedy is seeing the ridiculous lengths he goes to to make them happy. The issue there is more that this wouldn't be Muten Roshi in that case since that is an unfortunate...

The Zamasu arc didn't need fleshing out. It's a plot heavy complicated arc as is. It lasted as long as it needed. The problem wasn't the episode count. The problem absolutely WAS the episode count, but in the other direction. Any competent writer could've told the same story in seven or eight episo...

Super Dragon Ball Heroes' promotional anime doesn't bother me too much because it's just fanservice and fanfiction. What bothers me is that it's an official product. And even in that case, it's somehow less well produced than actual fanfiction. I clocked out around the time we got Golden Cooler beca...

Dragon Ball FighterZ is interesting in that it's the only game I'd say that I'd say is explicitly a "Super" game. Which is kind of ironic given the title, which led to people early on insisting that it wouldn't have DeeBeeZeee characters in it. Sure Xenoverse 2 has covered it plenty, but mainly thr...

Kakarot is, in fact, the first "pure" retelling since around 2015 or so. Though I wasn't a fan of that decision, I do think this sort of game gets away with it because we've never gotten a true 3D open world action RPG in the series. The last time they attempted it, oof . Likewise, it's comparable t...

One of my favorite parts of SDBH on switch is that the arcade mode has campaigns for each arc of Dragon Ball Super. So many games seem to focus on the Z sagas or what if stories that usually focus on excuses to fight the DBZ characters and villains. It is refreshing to have a game that includes suc...

I just wrote about relatability, so see if he fits the mold: https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/hvq9ge/a_meditation_on_relatability_and_what_that_really/ Here's a prime thought. Relatability is not really defined by how common and average a character is but more by a central axiom: relatabili...

I feel you two took my Mickey Mouse and Superman quote a bit too seriously. What I was responding to was: Animes always had a limited audience in the Anglosphere, before and after DBZ. And my point was that, technically, EVERYTHING has a limited audience. If I were to scoop up all 330 million Americ...

Whole lot of citation needed there. YOU'RE the one who needs citations when you argue "anime wasn't mainstream until Toonami," an objectively false statement that MULTIPLE people have told you is false. Show me where in the thread I said Toonami made anime mainstream. Sorry, I must've been thinking...

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Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:31 pm

Whole lot of citation needed there.

YOU'RE the one who needs citations when you argue "anime wasn't mainstream until Toonami," an objectively false statement that MULTIPLE people have told you is false.

Animes always had a limited audience in the Anglosphere, before and after DBZ. I mean by that metric, even Game of Thrones was a niche show. It's true that there are many more cultural niches nowadays, but something being in the mainstream doesn't mean literally every person in the USA was aware of...