Kanzenshuu

Each new significant release brings the potential of someone involved in production going "hey, maybe if all this crap made sense moving forward, that would be better for the brand." Other big unwieldy franchises attempt it, such as American comic books, and people generally enjoy being able to ...

Vegeta th3 4th wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:35 am

NeverRamza wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:19 amI could see Hatchihyack being dug up again at some point.

He's just a less popular version of Baby (even though he was written first), so I don't see the logic of picking him over Baby. With Ssj4 now a thing, more GT concepts seem to be on the table.

Fair point, you're probably right.

I'm extremely critical of women in male-centric works. Vice was not being critical and it's also very clear that he did not read any of the posts or think about why women might call out a pretty blatant disregard for the importance—and mistreatment—of female characters in these types of series. If ...

I could see Hatchihyack being dug up again at some point.

No, but it is clear that you don't make friends with women and learn about their interests, struggles and how they see themselves in the arts. No guy who is friends with women—let alone women who are also into talking online about their favorite works of art—would think so say what you said.

Like ...

Episode 1 or chapter 1. That's what I've always done in the past.

There's a temptation to get self-conscious regarding some of the material in the beginning but that's never been an issue to anyone I've known offline, male or female.

A lot of the distaste for the simple transformations probably is based on the number of Saiayjin transformations getting excessive at this point and that power multiplier transformations that come at no cost are getting out of hand. It feels like a cheap way to get buzz and only adds to these issues ...

I was around 12 years old when Dragon Ball first started reaching the U.S. and I remember when I finally started finding chat rooms that there were a whole host of people who had been there quite a while. Dragon Ball had hardly been released in an official capacity and yet there were tons of ...

I saw it!

I remember that the first episode I randomly turned into was the "Boss Rabbit" episode. The name Dragon Ball Z was vaguely familiar to me because the video game magazine GameFan did several articles on the SNES Super Butoden games, eventually lamenting that they had been cancelled for a ...

I feel the video game cutscene aesthetic, especially this blatant, never looks good. I hope they don't keep doing this in the future.

There's a certain perceived standard that exists that has been fleshed out over the last 10 years in regards to what generally is allowed on websites (including video streaming) and what isn't. The current standard, when no one is abusing it (which I realize is subjective and susceptible to debate ...

I don't care how much of their heart and soul they put in if I don't like what they create. It's irrelevant to whether I enjoy it.

Gotcha, so you do not care. Before you were disregarding the idea that YouTube content creators may put their heart and soul into their work so I'm glad you walked ...

It was meant to insult them. I don't find much value in what they do, certainly not enough that they should be able to sustain a living based on how little value they actually create. Most of the stuff ever made is garbage, why should this be any different.

Instead of doing all that for stories ...

we're talking about Toei, the same company that has been pushing shows like GeGeGe no Kitaro, Galaxy Express 999, and Dr. Slump here in the U.S. to no fanfare. Toei (or someone) is fronting the money on these shows with no audience here so they're gong to need all the help they can get. A ...

Here is my take on the value of YouTube content.

A few people seem astonished that someone would want to make a living by putting opinionated videos on YouTube. While I'm not the one to speak on how smart that is or is not, it's definitely nothing new. A well put together YouTube show/series is not ...

I do boycott Viz with only a few exceptions. This is the company that advertised a specific release of the Dragon Ball manga as uncensored and yet they still censored it. Early on they apologized in one instance, calling it an accident, and then on a later print only partially uncensored the volume ...

I can appreciate the man's distaste for how many people's hands have been in the pot for presenting Dragon Ball to English speaking audiences. He's trying to retro-fit the presentation of the product into being as non-mangled and natural as possible which I respect.

A long time ago, at least as early as 1996 (per a reference I found on Wuken's Homepage), there was an IRC chatroom that became the primary meeting place of Dragon Ball fans and website owners. Compared to the size of the chatroom, it had a tremendous downstream impact on English Dragon Ball fandom ...

An odd metric to gauge popularity, but at the anime cons I've been to, the draw of a TFS panel that is typically at least 90% Dragon Ball related completely blows away the audience that shows up for a more straight Dragon Ball panel. You end up hearing of a lot of people who've maintained their ...

Enjoyed the heck out of this episode. I remember being incredibly confused when I first saw Dragon Ball Z on TV. I was young and I was used to watching the first 13 episodes air on TV week after week. Every time they got to episode 13 and teased the next episode and spoke of a martial arts ...