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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: If Zamasu came back
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4153
Re: If Zamasu came back
Him being pushed to finally explore that sort of training after hearing about how much farther Goku pushed ahead is pretty natural and organic storytelling, considering he already had a warrior's pride on Namek (as called out by Goku for not simply firing at Namek a second time after merely destroy...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Frieza's role more obvious than it seems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1470
Re: Frieze's role more obvious than it seems
Neko Majin deserves better than to ever be intentionally tied to Super. This, and we already have an existing template for that to boot. Just make it like the Doctor Slump episode- An unapologetically zany love letter. I would have absolutely loved this. I always felt Toriyama had a bit of resentme...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball Theme Park
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2893
Re: Dragon Ball Theme Park
They couldn't even wait a month before Toriyama passed before selling the rights to a Dragon Ball theme park, to Saudi Arabia of all places? Disgusting.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 12:42 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 103 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 110
- Views: 12083
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 103 - Official Discussion Thread
trying to be "The Good Guys" finds limited and piecemeal success Great point. The sentai-inspired antics of Gohan, Goten and Trucks (and the Gammas!) are funny because of how artificial and childish - not naive, childish - they are and, as you said, this has never been why Goku has been s...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Is Super on its way out?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4379
Re: Is Super on its way out?
Not to dump on anyone who enjoys the manga, but to be honest it feels like the manga has outlived its purpose. The manga seems more like it's a curiosity to most people that I've interacted with online and people I know personally haven't even read more than a couple chapters if at all. That's actu...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
- Replies: 349
- Views: 23471
Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Legend, he'll never be forgotten.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Favorite Super characters
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1228
Re: Favorite Super characters (new)
Obviously Beerus, Whis and Jaco are the top 3, but if we're ignoring them: - Zeno: Incredibly strange fellow. - Grand Priest & his retainers: Those stringbean looking psychos have such a strange and cool design, I have to assume we'll be seeing more of them someday. - Berryblue & Sorbet (Fre...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:21 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: If Zamasu came back
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4153
Re: If Toriyama decided to bring Zamasu back
There is no point in bringing back a villain just to humiliate him and for comic relief. For what its worth, this was Pilaf's fate, and that has worked really well for Super so far. I wouldn't want to see as much of Zamasu as much as we saw of Pilaf, but they're similar archetypes (entitled, arroga...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 102 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 162
- Views: 23720
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 102 - Official Discussion Thread
You can't just place a 10 year time where apparently nothing happens, it doesn't work like that, not in a series like Dragon Ball where bad guys regularly threaten the Earth and entire arcs can be crammed in a few days (as in the case with Buu arc). Did all bad guys go on vacation for 10 years or w...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: If Zamasu came back
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4153
Re: If Toriyama decided to bring Zamasu back
An interesting way they could bring him back is introducing a new concept to the lore. Perhaps everything that gets erased by the Gods and Zeno don't actually get erased? Just get sent to it's own dimension. Zamasu would be the leader of that dimension and the whole Future Trunks timeline that was ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: If Zamasu came back
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4153
Re: If Toriyama decided to bring Zamasu back
Given how hierarchical the system of deities is, and how far outside his station he was conducting himself, maybe he'll have to start over from the bottom rung of the ladder. Years from now we'll find that Zamasu has been working contritely on some far flung planet, filing paperwork and making tea ...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: If Zamasu came back
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4153
Re: If Toriyama decided to bring Zamasu back
tl;dr: I appreciate Zamasu's character coming full circle in its own irreverent capacity as another silly god who happened to be in way over his head. Perhaps you should as well. Some things are better left concluded. Given how hierarchical the system of deities is, and how far outside his station ...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 102 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 162
- Views: 23720
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 102 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 162
- Views: 23720
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 102 - Official Discussion Thread
Also, while I admit I've never heard of this guy, it's hard to imagine a writer for DC working on a Dragon Ball project being good news in any way
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: If Zamasu came back
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4153
Re: If Toriyama decided to bring Zamasu back
I wouldn't want this to happen and I find it very hard to imagine it happening, but... if it did happen... I think I'd want them to add some depth or nuance to his "anti-mortal ideology". Zamasu is defined by his disgust and fear of mortals, but his reasoning is thin, arbitrary and self-de...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:43 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Do you like fusions?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1426
Re: Do you like fusions?
Great for comic relief! Sorta predictable or boring for "serious high stakes" drama, I guess.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Beerus sparing the earth in BoG makes no sense now
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1982
Re: Beerus sparing the earth in BoG makes no sense now
The instant you stop thinking of DBS as something that's actually happening in a real alternate dimension, and start thinking of it as the creative hobby of an old Japanese guy who's just having fun, questions like these become a lot easier to answer for yourself. Best post I've seen in years, this...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Could this be the reason they don't continue DB Super series yet?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 6819
Re: Could this be the reason they don't continue DB Super series yet?
Working off of 'outlines' is really no different from working off of a comic. Like, writers are writers. It's true that "writers are writers" (how could that NOT be true?) but I disagree that there's no difference in working from an outline vs a completed manga. An outline doesn't include...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Could this be the reason they don't continue DB Super series yet?
- Replies: 163
- Views: 6819
Re: Could this be the reason they don't continue DB Super series yet?
It's well known that the production of Super was deeply troubled, with multiple, egregious examples of new low points for the entire franchise in terms of art, animation and storytelling. It's likely that a large part of the cause of this was from having to work off "outlines" (or films) i...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 101 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 136
- Views: 16207
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 101 - Official Discussion Thread
Great chapter. Beerus forgetting Gohan cracked me up, and Toyo's art was on point. Bringing up Frieza just for Beerus to dismiss his significance was interesting, I think that points to his return, if he does return, being misdirection or setup for something else, similar to his return to earth at t...