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- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: New movie art removing characters
- Replies: 9
- Views: 924
Re: New movie art removing characters
Yeesh, comparing the two is total night and day. You can tell the new versions of the original Z films' poster art are far inferior to the originals in composition and every other regard. It's like they more or less took the old school artwork and badly vector traced over it (to look more modern in ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
- Replies: 349
- Views: 18622
Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
I...i have no words, this is sure a complete shocker to read. Well, what more can be said other than those 68 years of life were fruitful and his career as a mangaka will be enshrined forever in both the manga and anime community. Of all his works, Dr. Slump and especially Dragon Ball will continue ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: How would you introduce Dragon Ball to Gen Alpha?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 2277
Re: How would you introduce Dragon Ball to Gen Alpha?
Dont you worry. Latin America got you covered. I think Cartoon Network Latin America removed that scene after complaints about it. But then Cartoon Network Latin America stopped airing Super and Warner Channel just aired it uncut. Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Yeah, I heard. The worst part is that in...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Freeza shouldn’t have been a transforming villain
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2054
Re: Freeza shouldn’t have been a transforming villain
I like the simplicity of Freeza’s “final form.” I actually think it takes the unassuming nature even further than his initial form. I’d argue that his initial form still looks somewhat devious to a degree with the horns and the reptilian looking skin. His true form makes him look more humanoid and ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Do you think Dragon Ball would have worked better if Goku died on Namek?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1597
Re: Do you think Dragon Ball would have worked better if Goku died on Namek?
I mean, Toriyama did try to essentially retire Goku as the main character of the story after the Cell arc when he made the command decision to remain in the Next World after Cell's defeat but then at some point soon after he realized that Gohan just didn't work in the protagonist role partway into t...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Official "Show off your Dragonball Crap" Thread
- Replies: 3948
- Views: 842632
Re: Official "Show off your Dragonball Crap" Thread
It's been quite a good while since i last posted my Dragon Ball collection in this thread (the last time was almost two years ago, back in about mid 2022) so i decided to put up some updated pics showing what's changed within the last year or so. Anime https://i.imgur.com/BHBl4Bu.jpg OG DB/Z manga #...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:39 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
- Replies: 226
- Views: 10172
Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Aye very true. Although I have a hard time believing that years later when working in Crystal with Toei, she still didn't see the issue of minimal developement for many of the characters in the manga. It may have went unnoticed when it was a essentially a dualcast, for both her and the audience but...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
- Replies: 271
- Views: 10343
Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
The original run occasionally introduces female fighters- Only to have virtually all of them become housewives and moms in the end. And this is why I'm happy Toriyama forgot (?) Lunch, she disappeared, but she at least disappeared with her status intact. I think he wrote her out because she was too...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
- Replies: 226
- Views: 10172
Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Right. I'm fine with change but when the change denies the non-Usagi girls their individual badass moments just for a fanfic tier ship that goes nowhere.. I think that's really the main issue: They could have feasibly used it as a way to develop the characters more... But nope, instead all we get i...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:16 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?
- Replies: 10387
- Views: 1451364
Re: What's your most recent Dragonball purchase?
And I agree it's definitely time Crunchyroll put OG DB on blu-ray. Maybe they can work out a deal with AB to use their remaster. Sadly, you just know they're gonna just repackage the Blue Bricks at like double their previous retail price. Speaking of which, I expect we should be hearing something l...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 12:47 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Daima (2024)
- Replies: 996
- Views: 68967
Re: Dragon Ball Daima (2024)
Yeah I know I just don't care about dubs, I hope that the official sub will be accurate to the japanese dialogue, keeping the original names and terms, I really don't like how in the games in you can change the audio to japanese but the translated text remains the same, with all those awful (imo) F...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 12:53 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Daima (2024)
- Replies: 996
- Views: 68967
Re: Dragon Ball Daima (2024)
I already had a gut feeling that this wasn't going to be a long series the way the OG anime run, or Super was. Daima is apparently being done as a short run novelty kind of thing in order to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the franchise's beginning with that being the manga's debut in Weekly Sho...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:59 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Unique dragon ball openings
- Replies: 11
- Views: 597
Re: Unique dragon ball openings
Apparently, the dubbing studio in Portugal couldn't get the original instrumental of Arianne's opening (the French dub one), so they composed a new one which sounded like something coming from a lottery show: https://youtu.be/FystCy_7aHU?si=L7fWN2sDcRm3Uoea I dont wanna be mean but god is the Portu...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Daima (2024)
- Replies: 996
- Views: 68967
Re: Dragon Ball Daima (2024)
Well, this is certainly...different. Of course it's going to be like a full year before the thing even releases so i'm reserving judgment until then. Who knows if this is going to be something that fails in execution or proves to be a legit good or even great thing in terms of the greater franchise ...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:45 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The Dragon Boxes and Their Faults
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2749
Re: The Dragon Boxes and Their Faults
Not an authentic sound for the time, but it still has a certain vintage sound to it. It's the same sort of feeling as watching an old VHS recording with poor sound quality. Ironically, even some of the VHS recordings have better quality audio than what's on the Dragon Boxes. Yes, and it's certainly...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 9:17 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The Dragon Boxes and Their Faults
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2749
Re: The Dragon Boxes and Their Faults
I have them all, and i cherish them as prized parts of my Dragon Ball home video collection because i got all 7 via some lucky deals over the four years i was going about collecting them. Hell, my copy of DBox 1 came from a movie store used for $25 and if that's not a hell of a deal i don't know wh...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: The Dragon Boxes and Their Faults
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2749
Re: The Dragon Boxes and Their Faults
I have them all, and i cherish them as prized parts of my Dragon Ball home video collection because i got all 7 via some lucky deals over the four years i was going about collecting them. Hell, my copy of DBox 1 came from a movie store used for $25 and if that's not a hell of a deal i don't know wha...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Another live action thread (yes, I know)
- Replies: 144
- Views: 10184
Re: Another live action thread (yes, I know)
It's not necessarily that there's absolutely no way a live action adaptation could work and never will. It's just that there hasn't been the immense amount of time and effort sunken into it by a studio in order to to do so. It seems that DB Evolution's abysmal performance and failure back in 2009 ha...
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:58 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: People who genuinely argue the humor added in dubs "Improves the show"
- Replies: 77
- Views: 10665
Re: People who genuinely argue the humor added in dubs "Improves the show"
I mean, even the Big Green and Speedy dubs (of the movies in particular), for all their script problems and wonky deliveries to the point of parody vibes, were actually not all that far away from what the dialogue in the original JP version was, and especially with the latter of these, it was mostl...
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 11:31 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: People who genuinely argue the humor added in dubs "Improves the show"
- Replies: 77
- Views: 10665
Re: People who genuinely argue the humor added in dubs "Improves the show"
but if they were unable to afford experienced people back in 1999, maybe they shouldn't have gotten the rights to it in the first place. The gag is they were able to afford experience people. Contrary to whatever baseless statement gets thrown around Funimation outsourced to Canada and went to the ...