Why do you think Cell was written as an exception to this general trend? It's something I wondered about a bit myself.
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- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 103 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 110
- Views: 14075
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 103 - Official Discussion Thread
LoganForkHands73 and TKA just to say you've written some very good posts over the course of this thread. I've really enjoyed them. A small question:
- Tue Sep 06, 2022 11:21 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: UK Screenings for Dragon Ball Super : Super Hero
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1382
Re: UK Screenings for Dragon Ball Super : Super Hero
Yes I did! I saw the Sub on my own and the Dub with my children. In both cases the theater was pretty empty. How was it in Sligo or Mayo?
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 5:59 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Why does Vegeta still insist on using Goku's original Saiyan name?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 6109
Re: Why does Vegeta still insist on using Goku's original Saiyan name?
No worries, I know what you mean. We had a somewhat similar thing in Ireland where people had to switch to Anglophone names from Gaelic originals to survive economically. It's a complicated issue.
- Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:05 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Why does Vegeta still insist on using Goku's original Saiyan name?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 6109
Re: Why does Vegeta still insist on using Goku's original Saiyan name?
You'll see this in Western fiction as well, say novels set in the 19th Century where a character might have been born in Cherokee culture but now goes by "John" until somebody from his tribe shows up and calls him by his Cherokee name. Like Kryptonians often call Superman Kal-El. It's just...
- Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:13 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: How would the Dragon Ball fandom react if Jiren were made into a gay man?
- Replies: 368
- Views: 17857
Re: How would the Dragon Ball fandom react if Jiren were made into a gay man?
If "X anime character were gay", in a manner that was non-stereotyping, you might see it expressed in quite a different way from Western media. For example one of the major problems Japanese conservatives in Shinto organisations have with homosexuality is that they fear the resulting "...
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:23 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: UK Screenings for Dragon Ball Super : Super Hero
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1382
Re: UK Screenings for Dragon Ball Super : Super Hero
People I've talked to at a few cinemas have said it's doing reasonably well. It was booked out a few nights in cinemas in the Dublin commuter belt.
That's Dub though. Sub is doing badly as it always does for anime here.
That's Dub though. Sub is doing badly as it always does for anime here.
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:30 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 87 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 314
- Views: 27714
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 87 - Official Discussion Thread
Did Toriyama ever explain in an interview or essay why he altered the final chapter for the Kanzenban like that?
- Mon Aug 08, 2022 12:47 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Beerus and Whis are the worst characters in the history of Dragon Ball
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3001
Re: Beerus and Whis are the worst characters in the history of Dragon Ball
Whis at the very least is very far off Dragonball's worst character. Ignoring minor characters, even Buu and Cell are far more one-dimensional than Whis. Some of Whis's dialogue with Merus is actually contemplative, which is very rare in Dragonball, and his attempts to aid the Goku without transgres...
- Sat Jul 30, 2022 2:22 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 86 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 144
- Views: 21742
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 86 - Official Discussion Thread
Although I think the fight was too long overall, the last two chapters have had some nice little details. Like Goku kicking Gas upward and then releasing a follow up blast from his foot. There have been plenty of things like that during this fight, like the train exchange. I hope next month gives a ...
- Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:12 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: UK Screenings for Dragon Ball Super : Super Hero
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1382
Re: UK Screenings for Dragon Ball Super : Super Hero
I'm surprised actually at some of the places that got it. I'd have expected more places in the Dublin commuter belt. Seems whether it's sub or dub depends on the cinema company.
- Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:53 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Why haven't we seen female Namekians?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7328
Re: Why haven't we seen female Namekians?
As a side comment I think one thing to keep in mind is that Kami is really intended to be a Shinto kami, not a European style god. I've seen David Chart, a leading expert on Shinto who worked for Jinja Honcho, say that translationing "god" for "kami" isn't really accurate at all....
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:35 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Absurdities of claiming that canon does not exist
- Replies: 100
- Views: 10793
Re: Absurdities of claiming that canon does not exist
In my opinion Dragonball is simply a typical type of setting with a rough common core of accepted events and concepts, but no hard "canon". Some settings have a near totally consistent canon worked out, some go even further than this in that setting consistency is actually used to generate...
- Wed Jun 22, 2022 6:09 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 85 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 225
- Views: 29666
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 85 - Official Discussion Thread
The fight choreography was pretty good. I still think Gas isn't interesting enough to sustain a fight this long, but the drag might be a result of reading it month to month. It has made me curious what was the contemporary opinion in Japan about various parts of the Buu arc. The page count of this a...
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 2:14 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Any influence of Fist of the North Star on Dragon Ball's original production?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3238
Re: Any influence of Fist of the North Star on Dragon Ball's original production?
sorry, maybe i got it wrong and worded it incorrectly, i'm at the doctors, but i thought the like, setting of it being salary men with ties and ran like a modern (well, 1988/1991) office was a dragon ball original thing ? If you're interested it would be taken pretty heavily from Chinese folk belie...
- Fri May 27, 2022 10:20 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragonball Super doesn't feel like Dragonball
- Replies: 86
- Views: 15124
Re: Dragonball Super doesn't feel like Dragonball
The anime doesn't feel the same, but that's more to do with changes in how anime is produced and the current popular styles in Japan. Similarly late Z is quite different from early Dragonball. The manga feels the same throughout to me though, witht the biggest shift being around the appearance of Te...
- Fri May 27, 2022 5:39 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 84 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 288
- Views: 27848
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 84 - Official Discussion Thread
I think back to Goku's training with Popo where he is taught to avoid wasted movements. Since that philosophy jives with Migatte no Gokui , I wouldn't necessarily expect environmental destruction from simple movement. Yes actually I understand what you mean, as well as the rest of what you wrote. F...
- Thu May 26, 2022 7:40 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 84 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 288
- Views: 27848
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 84 - Official Discussion Thread
1. Not sure what you mean by sub-Garlic Junior. Less interesting than Garlic Jr.? Relative to other DBZ movie villains, I think Garlic Jr. is one of the most interesting... 2. In what ways are Heata similar to Toei villains? They seem to be one of the most significant Toriyama contributions to the ...
- Wed May 25, 2022 5:33 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 84 - Official Discussion Thread
- Replies: 288
- Views: 27848
Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 84 - Official Discussion Thread
I liked the panel with Gine holding Raditz's hand, it's the first proper image of him as a member of the family. The rest of the chapter was a bit of a standard fight I wasn't too interested in. For the arc in general: Regarding Bardock, it's a bit hard to know what to say. I do prefer the original ...
- Fri May 20, 2022 8:50 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: "Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread
- Replies: 76013
- Views: 8828220
Re: "Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread
I think a sample of what they're talking about is here:
https://youtu.be/JzIsnRt4e60
I assumed it was Super related myself since it has Whis.
https://youtu.be/JzIsnRt4e60
I assumed it was Super related myself since it has Whis.
- Thu Apr 07, 2022 5:02 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Dragon Ball and the UK.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8968
Re: Dragon Ball and the UK.
but they are the only place I know of outside Dublin that has Dragon Ball stuff rather consistently. Yeah outside of Dublin I only really see it in terms of toys at the bigger toy stores or very occasionally I've seen the manga in the bigger bookstores in county towns. That's really cool, I wasn't ...