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by Vegard Aune
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: "Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread
Replies: 76013
Views: 8611239

Re: "Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

So quick question. I see that Walmart sells DB Super Blu-rays. They look like bundle sets. My question is are these bundle sets the same as the individual "Part" (1-10) sets that were released a while back? The same as in these sets contain the same Uncut Funi Super Dub and JPN Dub as the...
by Vegard Aune
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:18 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Fuji TV apparantly Fuji TV has Dragon Ball TV anime masters still. Could a remaster be on the way in a few years?
Replies: 27
Views: 1022

Re: Fuji TV apparantly Fuji TV has Dragon Ball TV anime masters still. Could a remaster be on the way in a few years?

I am confused at that person saying it's all AI upscaling though, because... Wasn't the FUNi remaster done from full HD scans done all the way back in 2007? I feel like calling it "AI upscaling " is not applicable there? Was AI used in the "cleaning" process? Well certainly, I th...
by Vegard Aune
Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball Without Its Creator
Replies: 150
Views: 13355

Re: Dragon Ball Without Its Creator

Dark stories were never Toriyama's thing anyway, even way back when he praised the Bardock special he said he loved it but it wasn't what he would write and if he did he would have made it a less serious story, which is of course what he ended up doing with Dragon Ball Minus. Yeah, I think the only...
by Vegard Aune
Wed Feb 21, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 102 - Official Discussion Thread
Replies: 161
Views: 20743

Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 102 - Official Discussion Thread

If what we're seeing now is the result of T&T not having fully drafted the next story yet, I'd rather the manga go on hiatus than suffer as a longform series. Or maybe just end, lol. If it is that then... that would be kinda strange, being that the series spent the past year adapting content th...
by Vegard Aune
Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:29 pm
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 101 - Official Discussion Thread
Replies: 136
Views: 14170

Re: Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 101 - Official Discussion Thread

Freeza brought Broly to the scene, so it'd be fitting if Broly takes care of him. Yup could see that happening. Speaking of - they're obviously hinting that Broly will get some new form/powerup/transformation to utilize his full strenght so whaddya all think it's gonna be? New design, canon repurpo...
by Vegard Aune
Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:28 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: A rebuttal to the defense of the Zamasu arc ending
Replies: 19
Views: 1785

Re: A rebuttal to the defense of the Zamasu arc ending

The arc was never going to have a classic ending where the protagonist just fires a giant ki ball and obliterates the antagonist. Zamasu got immortality. Reminder that literally the entire first half of DBZ was about preventing two Alien villains from using the Dragon Balls to get Immortality, beca...
by Vegard Aune
Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:59 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: A rebuttal to the defense of the Zamasu arc ending
Replies: 19
Views: 1785

Re: A rebuttal to the defense of the Zamasu arc ending

Having Goku press a magic button to let another guy just zap the main villain away is by far the worst ending in all of Dragon Ball. No final battle, no excitement. No, just press the button on the magic remote. I will defend the Omni-King Button ever-so-slightly in that it is at least a thing the ...
by Vegard Aune
Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:46 am
Forum: Dragon Ball Super
Topic: "Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread
Replies: 76013
Views: 8611239

Re: "Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

Toei as a whole seems to have learned from early DBS. Like, say what you will about the storytelling in the Universe Survival arc, but I think one thing that can't really be denied is that the production did indeed manage to hold together throughout. And, yeah, they are clearly taking their time wi...
by Vegard Aune
Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:26 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 10177

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

I dunno I think even Toriyama's more sociopathic Goku loves Goten. How did he react in the manga version of Zamasu killing Goten and Chichi? The manga didn't have that bit. All that was there in the manga was Goku asking where the version of him that Zamasu hijacked was, to which Zamasu/Black says ...
by Vegard Aune
Sat Jan 06, 2024 3:39 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 10177

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

I hope Toriayma got his "Goku's is a literal idiot" out of his system already, got his troll fun and will do something decent with his character again in the future. Or retire him completly 'cause what's the point anymore. I kinda get the feeling that Toriyama saw how utterly wrong Goku's...
by Vegard Aune
Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:56 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 10177

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

Sheesh, I'm glad that I gave up on Crystal after the first cour—which was enough of a terrible experience with the non-existent production schedule, animation, and directing. It's such a shame that Takanashi Yasuharu's music is the one great thing to come of it. I think that it's a terrible shame t...
by Vegard Aune
Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:36 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 10177

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

Tbf my biggest problem with Crystal is what they did change from the manga, at least in the first season In the manga the Inners killed the Shitennou and Venus even killed Beryl with the Moon sword. It made them seem a lot more useful than in the anime when they rarely got to kill a monster of the ...
by Vegard Aune
Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:39 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball Daima (2024)
Replies: 996
Views: 69096

Re: Dragon Ball Daima (2024)

It amazes me we haven't had a Super tv series since 2018 we have a brand new Dragon Ball series coming this year and people are still like "Dragon Ball Super season 2 is totally still happening y'all 😃" Thing is, between the manga and the movies, Super has never really gone away. And at t...
by Vegard Aune
Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:53 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 10177

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

Sailor Moon fans thoght they were lucky back in 2012 too with Crystal announcement... we'll see how it goes. "Oh my god, I'm finally going to see the anime as it was intended by the original author and... Wait... This is... Bad... This is terrible, actually... There is no damn way this was in ...
by Vegard Aune
Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:08 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The History of Dragon Ball in Every Country
Replies: 179
Views: 60877

Re: The History of Dragon Ball in Every Country

Thanks, Vegard. Sorry to hear about the low-quality releases in Norway. It must be frustrating that they change the names, but at least the overall trend is improving. That last bit about the F-bombs made me laugh. Reminds me of the American fan-subs from the late '90s where they added a lot of cur...
by Vegard Aune
Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:47 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 10177

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

On Twitter the official account shared the song the opening, or some promotional music for this new series. And it’s AI. Not a good look. This isn't actually related to the anime at all. It's something Oda generated using AI and sent in. People have conflated the anime's statement about "new t...
by Vegard Aune
Tue Dec 26, 2023 7:17 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The History of Dragon Ball in Every Country
Replies: 179
Views: 60877

Re: The History of Dragon Ball in Every Country

So I just looked at what you have for Norway and it does seem to be rather out of date. The manga got a second release in Norwegian starting in 2016, done in a 3-in-1 format with a brand new translation. There was a fair bit of weirdness with the names but aside from that it was a much better transl...
by Vegard Aune
Tue Dec 26, 2023 1:23 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 10177

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

Just say you love MAPPA and have an agenda against Wit Studio instead of blaming Wit Studio for something they don't do and doing this fake narrative. I literally gave you a direct quote from a director at Studio Wit outright bragging about how hard working there was for the animators. Now to be fa...
by Vegard Aune
Mon Dec 25, 2023 7:49 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 10177

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

"Mappa somehow managed to make that disaster look comfortable by comparison" lol wut. MAPPA did an awful job of adapting AoT. They even got more time than Wit Studio and every episode from MAPPA was ugly disaster CGI junkfest. Wit Studio's Season 3 quality is all-time high. The only reaso...
by Vegard Aune
Mon Dec 25, 2023 6:45 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...
Replies: 226
Views: 10177

Re: One Piece Remake, fans are so lucky...

The Wit Studio slander here is surprising. I've never heard of any examples where Wit Studio has overworked its employees or that the working conditions there is bad. I guess since MAPPA took over AoT the fans got brainrot and started confusing MAPPA with Wit Studio. I even read a few comments that...