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Dr Slump and early Dragon Ball are both literary reminders that Toriyama’s work really, really isn’t meant to be taken that seriously. I like it here in Kanzenshuu, but doesn’t the absurdity of it all sometimes give you, I guess, cognitive dissonance? The idea that merchandise brands, entire wikis ...

I like how you’ve categorised all these continuities and I find myself referring back to your post often for this personal DB themed project I’m working on — in the immortal words of Kaio-sama, very very nice.

I think there’s an argument to be made that the Super era movies should also be included ...

Really interesting that Torishima acknowledges he was catastrophically wrong about One Piece. While he undeniably has refined instincts from his years as an editor, I think his one weakness is his underestimation of the shonen audience's intelligence. This goes back to his comments about Dragon Ball ...

Thank you for your input. I think I generally agree, but I'd push back on just a few placements.

Jiren: the reason I made up the scenario was to remove mindset from the equation, since obviously that's what holds people like Gohan back. Jiren is portrayed as a weakling who got strong due to ...

How do you guys rank these characters based on their natural potential? As in, strip them down to a PL of 5, have them train non-stop in a ROSAT for a year, what's the order of strength?

Majin Boo
Freeza
Cell
Broly
Gohan
Goten
Trunks
Goku
Vegeta
Tenshinhan
Kuririn
Piccolo
Jiren
Zamasu
Goku Black ...

We talked about this recently as we fleshed out video game character names on the wiki . The long and short of it is:

(1) Things get really wonky when you start going back and forth between FRENCH specifically with Japanese and then to "English" (see also: " demi-glace " with "Demigra" and ドミグラ ...

I’m working on a little project, not gonna divulge the details here, and I was curious about the correct spelling of the Saiyan in Red’s real name. All sources spell it as Giblet, which appears to be a meat-based pun at first glance, but the true origin is ‘ciboulette’, which maintains the vegetable ...

The worst thing that happened to modern DBZ is the characters getting flanderized along with some characters being forbidden from training, fighting and competing. Retconning a character to needing to sleep for many months out of the blue, when in DB there was no indication of said character ...

I like how all the animation smears emphasise that this Goku’s arms are chunkier than Steve’s from Minecraft.

Also, they fucking better include the Super Saiyan 3 shirt rip as part of the intro animation.

Indeed, but they're still actively publishing new stuff, the MCU is a multibillion dollar franchise by this point, and DC just rebooted their universe thanks to James Gunn, it's not like they're letting people forget that they exist, we know that Benjamin Parker is going to die. By comparison ...

I think Dragon Ball has made a large enough cultural impact that it will at least be remembered, but whether it has a relevant, active fandom is a very different proposition. I personally doubt it will still have the latter. Most big IPs come back in waves to both recapture a nostalgic audience and ...

Most unrealistic part of this scene is the idea of #18 washing Krillin's underwear.

Broly was a visual spectacle, no one will argue against that, but what did it bring to the table in terms of the story ?

Broly is a movie about generational influence and the importance of having independence from that influence. This theme has been pointed out and discussed ad infinitum over ...

Tangential point but is there a reason why the latest announcements have not been covered on the main Kanzenshuu site yet? It’s been a few days now.

Ajay says that there are more substantial changes as the series goes on, so if someone who actually knows how to direct and has good animators on hand can oversee the Golden Freeza arc's enhanced version, we might just be in store for a version of that story that doesn't suck lol.

We don't know ...

I wonder how far they're going to take this. If the rumours about each remastered arc only being six episodes are true, that won't be so bad, but I think fans will quickly lose patience with another Golden Freeza arc. The original Beerus arc still has some goodwill, since it's based on a solid ...

This is going the be the Snyder Cut of Dragon Ball Super, basically, lol, or better Toriyama's Cut. Finally get to see the man's true vision of the respective arcs.

Yeah, I think the comparisons are inevitable. It's rare for studios to show weakness by essentially throwing their hands up and ...

Torishima is so fucking based.

Man, this artwork jumped back into my head to live rent free so I had to come back and find it.

Unrelated to the point of the OP (I’m still firmly on the “fuck the Gendarmerie Force” train, no change to report there), this brought me back to the age old thought experiment of ‘what if Dragon Ball Z ...

I don’t mind that it’s purely focused on the original manga, it’s actually cool that the website is very aesthetically focused on it. But yeah, with the proliferation of spear-carriers and other meme picks (Farmer with Shotgun is not in that category however, he is 100% valid), the results seem ...