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- Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:23 pm
- Forum: Dragon Ball Super
- Topic: "Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread
- Replies: 76013
- Views: 8765090
Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion
They seriously need to call this show Super Dragon Ball (Z or no Z at the end) instead of Dragon Ball Super, if only because the bad grammar makes me want to punch something.
- Mon Sep 08, 2014 1:52 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Anime Recession?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4270
Re: Anime Recession?
For comparison, here's the current wages as dictated by the IATSE's (that's the US animation guild) collective bargaining agreement with the Hollywood studios: http://animationguild.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/TAG-CBA-minimums-2012-2015.pdf The caveat, obviously, is that since Filmation was shut ...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 1:21 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
- Topic: Missed chance - no Dragon Ball
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5851
Re: Missed chance - no Dragon Ball
Then they'd lose their timeslot and the show would have no set airing-time anymore. That's not necessarily the case. Unless the networks tinker with the schedule between seasons, hit shows stay in the same time slot when the summer (which is loading up with trashy reality junk instead of reruns the...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 1:13 am
- Forum: Dragon Ball Kai
- Topic: Missed chance - no Dragon Ball
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5851
Re: Missed chance - no Dragon Ball
I got a solution: maybe stop being a whore money and actually make the show in seasons like... you know... the rest of the world? Pretty much my thoughts all the way. Excluding the big syndicated shows (which went into decline pretty much as Dragon Ball started airing in Japan), the standard Americ...
- Mon Jun 30, 2014 12:52 am
- Forum: Episode Discussion Archive
- Topic: Kai Episode 111 (29 June 2014)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 37910
Re: Kai Episode 111 (29 June 2014)
This is the condensed version of Kai? Seriously, I'm done with Kai. This is just painful.
- Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:37 am
- Forum: Episode Discussion Archive
- Topic: Kai Episode 110 (22 June 2014)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5363
Re: Kai Episode 110 (22 June 2014)
This episode was intensely bland and lifeless. It would probably be more worth to watch the component episodes of DBZ if the editing is going to be this listless.
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:21 am
- Forum: Episode Discussion Archive
- Topic: Kai Episode 109 (15 June 2014)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9220
Re: Kai Episode 109 (15 June 2014)
I love that episode of DS9 :p Actually I sort of agree with you, but I also disagree. The music for later seasons of DS9 does start to become a bit bland in some episodes, but a lot of other episodes have awesome scores, for example "Call to Arms" or "Time's Orphan" or "Our...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:09 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Herms watches the show (update: DB 29)
- Replies: 224
- Views: 37342
Re: Herms watches the show (update: DB 5-6)
Someone's getting classy like Michael Feinstein with the Gamera song.Herms wrote:--Gamera is really neat. Gamera is filled with meat. We all love you, Gamera.
.....Kill him, Frank.
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:05 am
- Forum: Episode Discussion Archive
- Topic: Kai Episode 109 (15 June 2014)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 9220
Re: Kai Episode 109 (15 June 2014)
Anyone ever watch the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations"? It's the episode crosses over with "The Trouble With Tribbles" from the original series. The story, acting, etc. is great, but there's a glaring issue: the music (as was the case with all 24th C...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 10:38 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Herms watches the show (update: DB 29)
- Replies: 224
- Views: 37342
Re: Herms watches the show (update: DB 4)
If the subtitles are the same ones in the singles, I noticed a number of inconsistencies in the subtitles, myself (which is astonishing given my limited knowledge of Japanese)-lots of pafu pafu references left unaddressed even though the first one is fully explained (and despite the Z subtitles dil...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 12:08 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Lunch and Yajirobe - Pointless?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3093
Re: Lunch and Yajirobe - Pointless?
It didn't take long during my first-ever watching of Dragon Ball to realize that Yajirobe is just as hatable as he is in Z. Lunch, however, is definitely a victim of all of Toriyama's worst faults as a writer-bad at romance, forgets old characters, and struggles with what to do with the women.
- Wed Jun 11, 2014 11:55 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Herms watches the show (update: DB 29)
- Replies: 224
- Views: 37342
Re: Herms watches the show
The first episode to have a recap at all is 11, and, even then, it's not really a consistent thing until around the start of the Budoukai. I guess at that point Toei realized they could easily pad out the episode by showing stuff they'd already animated. Of course, we know that Toei would frequentl...
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:32 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Will FUNimation ever release Dragon Ball on Blu-ray?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16450
Re: Will FUNimation ever release Dragon Ball on Blu-ray?
HD is great for stuff that is HD. Old movies and series that get "HD" remastered more often than not look terrible. 16 mm and 35 mm film has a higher resolution than HD, so if anything looks bad on Blu-ray, it's usually the result of a bad restoration, or of upscaling (the Firefly Blu-ray...
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:01 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Prices in Japan
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3587
Re: Prices in Japan
Anime used to be expensive in the US when it first started coming over here. I remember seeing VHS tapes with about 3 episodes on them selling for $25-$30 Home videos in general used to be expensive in the US. I'm a wee bit of a whipper-snapper, but back in the day $100 MSRP for Terminator 2: Judgm...
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:51 pm
- Forum: Episode Discussion Archive
- Topic: Kai Episode 107 (01 June 2014)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7848
Re: Kai Episode 107 (01 June 2014)
Basically, the entire episode was just exposition.
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:59 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Prices in Japan
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3587
Re: Prices in Japan
The length and complexity of today's games have probably murdered the rental market in Japan just like it has in America.Fizzer wrote:Hmmm... I've just been looking at Japanese Wii U games and they seem to be as reasonably-priced as anywhere else - is that because there's a larger market for video games?
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:11 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Will FUNimation ever release Dragon Ball on Blu-ray?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16450
Re: Will FUNimation ever release Dragon Ball on Blu-ray?
Seven episodes per disc is the sweet spot for half-hour shows on DVD for the major studios. However, Funimation's Dragon Ball encodes are so subpar on even the sets with 5 episodes per disc that it's hard to compare them to anything but the awful (and I do mean awful) Speed Racer DVDs that cram 10 p...
- Wed May 28, 2014 4:36 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Will FUNimation ever release Dragon Ball on Blu-ray?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16450
Re: Will FUNimation ever release Dragon Ball on Blu-ray?
I wouldn't want FUNimation's Dragon Ball footage on Blu-ray because what they've got is the only the minimum (1x OP, 153x Eps, 4x Eyecatches, 1xED) so I'd rather have that they release their own Dragon Box of Dragon Ball to have all the original content. I kinda miss the NEPs as I saw them on the o...
- Wed May 28, 2014 4:01 pm
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: DBZ Movie?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4342
Re: DBZ Movie?
Dragon Ball Evolution is still pretty recent, so I doubt we will see another live action from Hollywood anytime soon. Fox may still have the rights to Dragon Ball, but I doubt they will waste their time with another movie. They will likely let their rights expire since they don't seem to care about...
- Mon May 26, 2014 2:36 am
- Forum: General Franchise Discussion
- Topic: Yajirobe the Cannibal?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2829
Re: Yajirobe the Cannibal?
......And then there's the bit where Yajirobe literally bites a dude right along his crack in Dragon Ball episode 135.