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Or instead of a whole "saga" just do a bunch of standalone episodes. This sounds good to me, as much as I loved the relatively self-contained episodes leading up to the 23rd Budokai and the fight against Nappa and Vegeta. The 22nd Budokai training episodes are nice too, though I don't enjoy them qu...

I've always had a slightly different take. I think that scouters and Power Levels in general are, when attributed to the overwhelming majority of people throughout the universe, accurate and helpful. Their accuracy just falls apart when it comes to ascertaining the strength of anyone that has an adv...

Interesting thread. Is it a form of politeness or correctness, more specifically if we don't agree or want to express our opinions without being overly attacking? Yes, I think this is the correct answer. It's normally used when saying something that could be seen as offensive or hurtful, so that the...

3. The dub vs sub debate is extremely stupid. The only things that matter is rather or not the acting is good and whether or not the script is faithful to the source material. And btw, way too many people overexaggerate about the changes Funimation made in the 90s. The FUNi dubs (at least the origi...

Toriyama was never forced to continue the series past Freeza (or Cell), so it’s not like he had zero passion for the stuff that came after that point. The impression I've always gotten is that fatigue was only an issue during the Buu arc, and even then only some of Buu (I sense a lot of enthusiasm ...

Yeah, I agree. I think the Cell and Buu arcs added a lot and Dragon Ball would be a lesser story without them. In-universe, the two arcs add an additional 21 years to the story. A lot happens in that time.

I don't think Dragon Ball and Inuyasha really have much of anything in common at all, beyond the fact that they both have a lot of fight scenes.

There's a number of reasons for the time phenomenon that's being talked about. One of the simplest reasons is a physical one: I read a long time ago that the area of the brain that controls how long or short time 'feels' changes a bit during adolescence (I think it's said to weaken a bit somehow, bu...

I don't care who you are or were, screaming at the top of your lungs is physically demanding for an elderly person. The woman is almost 90 years old. I don't know a lot about being 83 given that I don't reach that age until 2070, but if she says that the role isn't that much of a strain on her, I'l...

It could be hard to time such a thing. One could say something like "When Nozawa is 85, she should be given a goodbye movie because she probably won't be around or in good health for much longer," only for her to live to 103 and be in good enough health to voice Goku until she's 99 or 100. I say jus...

What even constitutes an adult anime/manga series in Japan, outside of hentai? To my understanding, Japanese demographics simply mean that x group will likely be the group to enjoy the series the most. The Shonen demographic is, according to Wikipedia, 12-18, so that fits okay for Death Note, I gue...

People feel guilty when they invest in a kids show like Dragon Ball in their adulthood. So they make these excuses that there are some deep meaning to every arc or any meaningful character development. Piccolo, Tenshinhan, Vegeta, Krillin, Bulma, and a handful of others don't change or develop? I g...

Saying there's no substance at all, the end, seems like a bit of an overstatement to me. I'll copy and paste something that I once wrote elsewhere. But sometimes these terms just come across as a bit... reductive. They don't feel to me like a good representation of the anime/videogame/whatever, and ...

And the catch? You could not give up at any point, or you would be permanently barred from ever getting your Black Belt. :? To me, that sounds like it's crossing the line from 'strict' to just being kind of shitty. Seems kind of counterproductive, for a field that's all about self-improvement, to p...

I've always thought that Goten was the cutest character in Dragon Ball.

I think he overcame his fear long, long before what Bulma says about him cheating. He was 16 at the series' beginning and 27 or 28 by the Saiyan arc. Actually, I think the end of Pilaf where Yamcha and Bulma are blushing and giggling might have obliquely implied that his phobia was gone. (Haven't ac...

If there can be something as out there as Trunks and Mai becoming an item, something which genuinely feels like it could have come from a weird dream, I don't think of anything as impossible anymore.

In terms of personality, I would just humbly ask for the characters to act accordingly to their age. No completely childish nonsense once you are over twelve years old. Give teenagers a teenager personality. Make them be more mature than a kid and, maybe, more childish than an adult. Also, make an ...

Comparing each of Dragon Ball's six main arcs to Z... The Pilaf arc is completely unlike anything that's found in Z. The 21st Budokai is, on the whole, unlike anything that's found in Z. Yeah, there's a couple of genuinely cool fights here (Goku vs. Namu and Goku vs. Roshi), but the spirit of the Pi...

What about the story structure? Can anyone tell me where One Piece is at in its story? Is the climax in sight at all? Do we have any idea what the climax might look like? People joke about Berserk being on permanent hiatus and all that, but it's got a pretty clear climax that it's heading towards, ...