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I don't think it's about the actual arcade machines, I think "the arcade version is better" is what needs to be true in order to keep saying Heroes has the "real" meat of modern DB "story"telling over anything Toriyama writes, after the Heroes anime proved to be shallow as all hell. That almost nobo...

The show had 64 episodes, the same amount as Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

Obviously not wholly comparable, but any show can create significant character growth in huge casts with a length like that, it's just about who you hire, how you work, and what you want.

Nah it still looks pretty smeary. The shot of Krillin at about 1:30 is particularly bad.

Pan sucks because she's constantly damsel'd and complains all the time, but unlike someone like Bulma, none of the cast play off her particularly well. And in a fighting show, she gets a ton of screentime for how weak she is. On top of that, she's just wasted potential. Trunks and Goten (even Gohan,...

I don't understand how people have such trouble finding the second result on google.

Yeah, no, Bardock's entire strength in writing is just how expendable and average a saiyan he is (that is to say, by the usual standards of the series). It humbles his whole bloodline to have him be less-special, since it means that Goku's strength is more in his character than his blood (a factor t...

I mean...is it good?

There's no window of opportunity for Dragon Ball being good that's closed forever. Anything that's bad about the series is only bad because someone made it that way. Having a canon permanent ending is values-neutral, it's good if they make it good, and it's bad if they don't.

I mean, technically there's no rule saying every picture in this thread has to be Dragon Ball-related, but I think the Vic stuff got rid of most of our reactionary conservative users anyway, so most of that stuff will be the same things we've seen dozens of times over the past couple days.

If anything, I felt like Kai didn't go far enough. A general problem with basically all shonen battle series ever made is that they never know where to place or straight-up remove the mountains of redundant dialogue that helps explain what's happening on a still page, but is usually unnecessary in a...

There's nothing dated about Goku being dumb. The series has gotten worse at the way it portrays his dumbness, but that's a character writing problem, not the age of the trope. I'd wager a massive portion of all media still relies on the idiot hero trope. I mean, you brought up One Piece . Luffy in m...

Well, not in Japan, it's got all the talent it can get there.

In America, I wouldn't say it needs actors with more notoriety, so much as it needs better direction and to leave behind the cartoonish performances and a lot of the weaker talents behind.

Uh. Well, yes, actually. I think there may have been a misunderstanding. I thought you were sarcastically praising me for "ranting", like you were laughing at some version of me that's just angry all the time (some of the spats I got in with supersaiyanzero were kind of silly). Do I have egg on my f...

Shaddy, not just Son Goku, but every single other member of the main cast and even a large number of the other characters from Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z had been heavily altered from their original respective looks and personalities when they had appeared in some shape or form in Dragon Ball Z:...

"It really enhanced Goku's character arc in BoG for him to step aside and let my original character Sepiroth the hedgehog take care of Beerus"

A boring version of Goku who works for an agency that just sends him out to whichever villain is being marketed at the viewers is much easier to work with than a version of Goku who's part of a real story.

But in Dragon Ball, where you claim "everything is canon", then the idea of canon is literally meaningless. Just because you can technically make an in-universe justification for something being a part of the universe doesn't mean it makes a meaningful contribution to the story or characters. What h...

I suppose the faneditors could splice those together to give us a 4:3 release with the middle 75% of the show looking good.

I feel like you think I post here more than I actually do.

...Are you okay?

The absolute majesty of this, his greatest and most nuanced take yet...

"orange better than yellow"