Kanzenshuu

Super Saiyan 2 was so subtle of a change for everyone but Kid Gohan it might as well just be Toriyama drawing SS1 differently. 1 and 2 are so similar that Toriyama effectively folded them together in his mind, drawing Super Saiyan 1 with sparks , and thinking that "Super Saiyan 2" was the...

The argument that these new transformations that feature color changes are too much like "deviant art fan-made transformations" has taken quite a funny turn, because lately fan-made transformations seem to go out of their way to have a ton of small and detailed changes . There's just no wi...

I don't really care one way or the other if they add more transformations, if those transformations are Super Saiyan forms, and if those Super Saiyan forms involve some change of color. But if they did, I guess I'd like green, since it's my favorite color. I know Broli already has green, but that's ...

goku1234 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 9:10 pm

Whoa, is that the master of Lion Fang School making a cameo on the bottom left?

The Future Trunks saga was the saga about the consequences of abusing time travel... as Zamasu clearly explains supported by flashbacks from DBZ, if Trunks never altered the past, Goku Black wouldn't exist, because Goku would be dead and wouldn't be able to challenge Zamasu. As Zamasu puts it, it w...

If you went by Natural Order or whatever you'd have an incredibly boring and insipid series. And if Natural Order or whatever was a thing There would not even be a way to bring people back from the dead in the fucking first place. The first sentence quoted here is something that would make sense fo...

Goku and Bulma, for pretty obvious reasons. Their meeting, and their first adventure together, sets everything else off. The story follows Goku's actions. Goku is the one who gets in Pilaf's way to the point that the latter unseals Piccolo Daimao. Goku is the one who twists the Muten Roshi's arm int...

Why should the entire UNIVERSE, ALL OF CREATION (Because in GT there is ONLY ONE Universe) literally be destroyed by darkness simply because some dumb random person wished for a pair of underwear 30 years ago? Because the incongruity is funny, as is typically the case for Dragon Ball. There's "...

Not doing something different in relation to what we've seen in the first arc of Dragonball. Doing something different in relation to what was seen in the previous series of Z, and shonen in general. That's what I was making a point of. So, less "doing something different" in general and ...

Cure Dragon 255 wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 2:16 pm Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh... that's just utter fanfiction on your part. I dont see GT doing anything with any old elements of Dragon Ball other than the Road Trip feel of the first arc.

What about the Tsufruians?

The 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai and Saiyan arc represent my favorite section of the story, in terms of which martial artists were the big players, what rivalries and grudges were on display, how the characters looked, and so on. So the main fighters from both arcs would be the core of my roster: 1. Son G...

Originality is a separate and frankly fruitless question to ask about. I agree. Setting aside the general fact that all art is ultimately derivative of something else, Dragon Ball in particular lives and breathes remixing itself. I just think that if one is trying to have a 'war' over which series ...

Hunt for the Dragonballs Arc: Consider the alternative on this one: Super. Once again a powerful villain is threatening the Earth, galaxy, universe, or what have you, and so Goku and maybe Vegeta are going to train, unlock a new transformation, get a new move, and then the villain is defeated...And...

Dragon Ball started as a "road trip" adventure story about gathering the titular "Dragon Balls", before the literal second story arc pivoted to being about martial artists engaging in martial drama with one another. Having the orbs which were the original objects of adventure man...

We'll just have to agree to disagree here too. I was never invested in them as characters with a story arc so I didn't mind how they ended up. To me, they were just serving the same red-herring functions the likes of Piccolo and Vegeta have in past arcs. Would proper closure be better? Again, sure;...

But as I major dub fan I've never felt anything other than totally welcome. For real. As someone who joined the site as a dub fan, I remember arguing with Mike back in 2010, and he gave me strong yet perfectly civil arguments for his preference of the original version of the show, and I'd be lying ...

Dende asks Porunga to revive everybody "except for the very evil ones", because Vegeta didn't want Bobbidi and Dabura to be brought back to life. Are Pilaf, Mai, and Shu "very evil", bad to the same degree as Bobbidi and Dabura? Vegeta himself even got revived, and he was murderi...

I wouldn't have minded if Tenshinhan and Piccolo did a little bit more before they were decisively left in the dust by Goku. Neither of them got a rematch with Goku after the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai. I like to imagine Piccolo might have gotten one while they trained for the Androids, but if so it's n...

It would have been awesome if Satoshi Kon had done some animation for Dragon Ball. It would be awesome if Masaaki Yuasa ever does some animation for Dragon Ball.

I like how Cell's perfect form first appears literally the next page after Gohan first becomes a Super Saiyan. On re-reads, this moment stands out quite a bit as all but spelling out that they're going to be fighting each other by the time the arc is over. Except for chapter 382 where Gohan and Cel...