Kanzenshuu

It seems like back in the day that Toei went out of their way at times to interpret and write Goku in the anime as effectively a superhero, even to the point of such things as healing a bird with his own power in one scene during one of the movies. I heard that it was apparently due to them not exac...

I'd have to imagine Toonami choosing to air Kai over Z in recent years has to do with efficiency. Their 1st run of Kai was only 1 episode per week. If they'd chosen to rerun all of Z like that in 2015, the filler would've killed the ratings. Kai got to the big moments much faster. It's cool that To...

More likely it is the fact that Naoko Takeuchi DESPISES THAT DUB. She is extremely hands on with the franchise and wouldnt ever allow it to air again. I believe i've seen it mentioned before about how much Takeuchi hated the old DiC/Cloverway Sailor Moon dubs and the fact she apparently had a direc...

I think we can agree that Goku staying dead at the end of the Cell arc added complexity to his character via his multiple reasons for doing so. It began his desire to build the next generation, and his fear of attracting more enemies to earth as well as emphasizing his desire to fight strong oppone...

For me it's a toss up between Minoru Maeda and Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, but the former in particular because he seems to be the animator from the original era who best captured the essence of Toriyama's distinctive art style in animated format. He also was quite a seasoned artist in his run on the seri...

Back to Evolution , but I'm aware of Kappei Yamaguchi, mainly for being a follower and proponent of the Ocean Kai dub and hearing KaiserNeko's hint before the reveal of Richard Ian Cox it was ironic Yamaguchi dubbed Goku, which was taken to mean Ocean cast an actor who was also the voice of another...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 #...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...