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by DefinitiveDubs
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:09 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution
Replies: 55
Views: 4181

Re: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution

I'll give you the benefit of a doubt and ask you to elaborate because otherwise fucking yikes What the fuck was I supposed to say? Majority white then. Western. Whatever. You know what I meant. Don't pretend I somehow implied the USA belongs to white people or some shit. I don't have to pretend any...
by DefinitiveDubs
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution
Replies: 55
Views: 4181

Re: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution

. You simply can't take another non-white nation's character, or even parts of their culture, and repurpose it for your own white nation's culture , even though the opposite is true I'll give you the benefit of a doubt and ask you to elaborate because otherwise fucking yikes What the fuck was I sup...
by DefinitiveDubs
Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:28 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution
Replies: 55
Views: 4181

Re: Justin Chatwin apologizes for Dragonball Evolution

Goku has to be Asian/Chinese, it's practically in his DNA as a character. But even if he wasn't explicitly Asian, people would still complain about whitewashing in the film. Practically any Hollywood adaptation of an anime, even if they completely change the setting and even if the character isn't e...
by DefinitiveDubs
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:36 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
Replies: 267
Views: 15192

Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"

Gohan would not have worked because he simply isn't as entertaining a character as Goku. Goku is a hopelessly innocent child trapped in a man's body, inspired by ancient Chinese folklore, who knows more about fighting techniques than he does counting to ten. He's endearing, he's iconic, but most imp...
by DefinitiveDubs
Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:10 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
Replies: 267
Views: 15192

Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"

There's a very good reason for that: Japanese Manga has always (for the most part) been much more creator-oriented rather than company oriented relative to the U.S./West. Western comics tend to be noted by what company produces them (Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, etc), whereas Japanese comics tend...
by DefinitiveDubs
Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:13 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 349
Views: 22032

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

Amazing how everything you said, except that Marvel cartoons are worse than DC cartoons (which is subjective) and your own personal experience, is just blatantly and hilarious wrong. Let me clarify: I think for the age group most familiar with Dragon Ball, or fans of Dragon Ball on the internet (IE...
by DefinitiveDubs
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:04 am
Forum: Fan-Created Works
Topic: Dragon Ball Recut [COMPLETE], Dragon Ball Kai Recut [COMPLETE]
Replies: 690
Views: 438154

Re: Dragon Ball Recut [COMPLETE], Dragon Ball Kai Recut [COMPLETE]

I would much rather see a total redub effort of the OG for this edit, on Kai's level, since Funimation doesn't seem to care enough to do it themselves. I would be much more willing to watch Kai's dub if its quality wasn't limited to the second half of the story, because OG's dub is mediocre at best....
by DefinitiveDubs
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:51 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"
Replies: 267
Views: 15192

Re: The end of "Akira Toriyama canon"

Dragon Ball has no canon and never did. It's more of a western concept. Just enjoy what you enjoy regardless of what anyone thinks. I agree with this. Too many people get caught up on "what's canon" rather than "what's good". If you don't like Super, then just don't watch it. An...
by DefinitiveDubs
Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:45 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 349
Views: 22032

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

Also, here's the Toonami bumper tribute: https://youtu.be/EgUDezBUq88?si=gEl7NYhV_Vf2J1R9 I was kinda hoping they'd do more, like have TOM say a few words, but I guess it was so short notice they couldn't do much else in time. Is it just me or did Stan Lee not even get this big of a reaction after ...
by DefinitiveDubs
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:51 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 349
Views: 22032

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

I wonder if Toonami is planning on paying tribute tomorrow night. DBZ practically put them on the map after all.
by DefinitiveDubs
Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:17 am
Forum: Fan-Created Works
Topic: Dragon Ball Recut [COMPLETE], Dragon Ball Kai Recut [COMPLETE]
Replies: 690
Views: 438154

Re: Dragon Ball Recut [COMPLETE], Dragon Ball Kai Recut [COMPLETE]

We then go to a shot of Goku reacting to this in a way that suggests he realizes that Boo's right. They can't beat him in their current state. While I can see Goku coming to that conclusion, I can't see Vegeta doing so, at least not immediately. He's clearly raring up to fight Buu regardless of the...
by DefinitiveDubs
Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:42 pm
Forum: Fan-Created Works
Topic: Dragon Ball Recut [COMPLETE], Dragon Ball Kai Recut [COMPLETE]
Replies: 690
Views: 438154

Re: Dragon Ball Recut [COMPLETE], Dragon Ball Kai Recut [COMPLETE]

Just finished Buu recut last night. Was pretty fantastic. There were a handful of moments were cuts were noticeable, as opposed to how seamless the previous sagas were, but I think a big part of that is the Buu saga's source footage's fault. There's so many things that get unbelievably extended in ...
by DefinitiveDubs
Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:56 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 11321

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

*bullshit* I'm not sure where you got the idea that I was calling huge Hollywood bigwigs "average everyday people". I genuinely don't know where you got that. I brought up Tarantino in the context that he wasn't some corporate shill pumping out mass-produced crap like Marvel or Star Wars;...
by DefinitiveDubs
Thu Jan 11, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 11321

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

Yes, you and your publisher have responsibilities. Furthermore, Tarantino also has responsibilities. He's a big name, wealthy and powerful director. He has a responsibility to the other artists he works with, the publishers of his work, and to the audiences influenced by his work. This whole time, ...
by DefinitiveDubs
Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:21 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 11321

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

Corporations are not people. Literally the very center-most core of a VAST chunk of our political problems is the societal and legalized perception of corporations as people. And yeah: they're not people. At all. And yeah, there is a VAST gulf of a difference between an individual, independent arti...
by DefinitiveDubs
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:10 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 11321

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

And, for the ten billionth time, I really don't understand where people are getting this persecution complex from over not including diverse characters. Who (?) is coming for you (any creator?) because you (any creator?) didn't include a trans woman in your (any creator's?) story? Because when film...
by DefinitiveDubs
Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:34 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 11321

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

In what universe are the Japanese teens delinquents and Japanese yokais consider white male protagonists lol, why did you post YYH. Yusuke is aggressively Japanese! I was just making a joke about the gay part. But I was also talking about a story inspired by YYH, not describing YYH itself. . When h...
by DefinitiveDubs
Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:21 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 11321

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

A note on the idea of "forced diversity": Nowadays I think a lot of people tend to think of art in terms of it being a product to be bought and sold. When you look at it in that way, you think of it less individually, and moreso how it contributes to the collective consciousness of the pub...
by DefinitiveDubs
Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:52 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 11053

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

How do we know this is a complete redo of the manga to last another 30 years? Maybe it's more like Path to Power where it just retells a specific section.