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This survey is being conducted as part of a doctoral thesis examining the global reception and cultural significance of Dragon Ball. The study explores how audiences from different cultural backgrounds engage with the franchise, identify with its characters, interpret its themes, and ...

Holy shit! This Bojack's special nobody cares about is still on going? No wonder people are losing interest in this comic.


I can count on one hand (without the need of all 5 fingers) the number of specials people actually care about, so I don't understand why they keep spending so much time ...

If I was building the series from the ground up, I would not have included Vegeta. I'd spend the time developing the Demon World characters more.

That being said, including Vegeta should not have been difficult. Write a character arc! It doesn't even need to be all that big of one. Establish in ...

I think Daima has too many issues. Removing SS4 or reworking it would be a good start, though.

Personally I thought SS3 served the same role as 4 just fine. Or something new like a new fusion, maybe Glorio/Shin, Shin/Goku, Glorio/Goku, or all 3 together. Vegeta served almost no purpose in this ...

I think Daima has too many issues. Removing SS4 or reworking it would be a good start, though.

Personally I thought SS3 served the same role as 4 just fine. Or something new like a new fusion, maybe Glorio/Shin, Shin/Goku, Glorio/Goku, or all 3 together. Vegeta served almost no purpose in this ...

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 ...

"When DB ended, the manga industry crashed down. According to him, GT was made because otherwise half the industry would lose their jobs."

I wonder how true this is.

Anyway, I like his comment that manga is made by manga fans rather than actual artists. I also agree that a lot of manga are too ...

I don't think anyone mentioned the Granolah arc but I'd like to mention it since I like the payoff of Goku and Vegeta working together to allow Granolah to get the victory.

They're using the same voice lines as the OG Super, right? From the trailer, it seems the exact same takes as the ones in the original episodes

So how strong is anime version future Gohan?

He does pretty well against both androids at the same time, unlike the manga version who loses to 17 at 50%, so even though the androids are weaker than the present versions, that's still an impressive feat.

Is he stronger than the Super Saiyans before ...

The number of times Toriyama/big Dragon Ball(tm) has written over something else is so large that it shouldn't be surprising if this version of AGE 1000 conflicts with DBO or XV2.

We have how many versions of Super? How many post Boo continuations that conflict in some fashion (GT, Super, Neko ...

I hope they start with Raditz again... and he turns Super Saiyan turn 1.

The story of these arcs was always fine. When you go back to the old threads, you'll see that the major complaints were always about the "ugly artstyle". This remaster fixes that. The scenes in this trailer look absolutely stunning.

The second major complaint was the filler/padding scenes, which ...

I'm also becoming disappointed since it seems they're not touching on the story at all or even the minor aspects. The God absorption was something I thought they ought to cut completely. Goku's character arc from the film still seems to be completely absent. Freeza still regenerates with his armor ...

I’m quite pleased to see that this appears to be more of a spiritual successor to prior Xenoverse than anything else. I see nothing of Conton City, the Time Patrol, Trunks, etc. That’s a relief, because if it were essentially just “Xenoverse 2 but with more stuff” and the same history correcting ...

Is that Bulma? Kinda creepy they immortalized her rather than going with a descendant like GT did.

All of the characters in XV from the series exist in this nebulous frozen in time zone of their lives. It shouldn't be any surprise that it's her.


Right, but it's an entirely different thing ...

Is that Bulma? Kinda creepy they immortalized her rather than going with a descendant like GT did.

Dragon Ball pretty much dropped the cartoony style when it did become more serious and martial arts focused though

Look at the Z era and compare it to like early Dragon Ball up through at least Red Ribbon


I don't think the art style as a whole was dropped just because the facial features ...

My understanding is that Dragon Ball sort of pioneered a return to cartooney, Tezuka-style character designs in serious action series (well, about as "serious" as Dragon Ball got), whereas its predecessors and contemporaries mostly adhered to a gekiga style, or at least something much more detailed ...