Kanzenshuu

I'm surprised anyone didn't like it. It's an incredible performance.

I was born in 1985. My dad was a Naval Aviator so we lived in Japan from 91-93 where we got mostly American channels but some Japanese channels. I heard of Dragon Ball and saw a few things here and there, mostly Super Famicom games and a few trading cards, but I didn't actively watch the show when ...

Gohan shouldn't have been so on the periphery but I like him being the hero. I get that Trunks being the hero has a logic to it, but that's more plot stuff and not story. It's more important that he's the hero of his timeline. Going back to the past gives him the tools to bring peace to his time and ...

I don't skip anything during rewatches. I'm someone who has grown to enjoy filler. l even like GT. That said, I enjoy the idea of it more than the actual show. I like the throwback to early DB adventures (I do consider the greedy planet creative and disagree with anyone who says it isn't). I like ...

I can see similarities but ultimately I feel the shows are quite different. I prefer the fight scenes in DB, but feel YYH's characters were more redefined.
I'm not saying they were the same. Obviously they're quite different but the emphasis on action while having lots of silly humor makes them ...

Really? I love the Three Kings arc.

Yu Yu Hakusho is one of my favorites and I got into it because of Dragon Ball. I usually end up going straight from one into the other upon rewatches.

I'm not saying it's super deep but I do wonder how many people understand that it's very intentional on Toriyama's part that in the first fight between Goku and Vegeta, Vegeta picks the higher mountain to stand on at the start of the battle.

More like there was such a long hiatus after Piccolo blew up the island that when it came back, it came back to a whole new audience.
Muten Roshi last won the tournament DECADES before the 21st TB. Few in that audience saw it, but they still knew of the reputation of him being the master of ...

The crowds at the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai were martial arts fans. They knew who Muten Roshi was. I think that's neat. After that, those crowds were frauds. They didn't care about any of the fighters except him.


Who is him? Mr. Satan?
Sorry, my bad. yes, it's Mr. Satan. I wrote ...

The crowds at the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai were martial arts fans. They knew who Muten Roshi was. I think that's neat. After that, those crowds were frauds. They didn't care about any of the fighters except him (edit: by him I mean Mr. Satan).

Dead Zone is the only one with that menu. It's also the only disc that had scenes deleted from the dub. The scenes were of Gohan and the robot and him falling into the river and almost dying but ending up miraculously on that brach.

In all my time as a Dragon Ball fan, I've never seen this opinion, but I can't stop thinking about it - In talking about how satisfying it was to see a Saiyan be the one to destroy Freeza, someone replied that people need to stop romanticizing the Saiyans. If the Saiyans were as powerful and not ...

cool find with those clippings. While it's a much smaller example, kids love ongoing stories. Even in the original run of Power Rangers, kid my age (8 at the time) couldn't wait for the next episode of the Green Ranger 5 parter.

Ironically, I crave stand alone elements and filler now, but back then ...

It was different. Fun quirky characters, colorful, great action that's simple to follow, and simple stories. Serialization is absolutely one of the appeals. it wasn't the first to do it, but it was the maybe to that point the most serialized show kids had seen. Even something like X-Men had a stand ...

About Goku and Vegeta, people always omit that Goku never got to experience the actual gravity his body was meant to live under, not until he was in his mid 20s, and for 6 months only.
He was raised on very easy mode and then encountered a dude that lived most of his life on very hard mode ...

I'm not an avid reader but for the past 6 months I've gotten back into reading as a routine. It doesn't have to be a lot. 1 chapter a day is enough. It's been working. I've decided to reread the Dragon Ball manga which I haven't read in quite some time.

Having some semblance of what you're going to do is important. I'm not even saying that the granular details need to be followed, but if you're just stumbling around in the dark you're not going to be making anything coherent or meaningful, especially when you're locking yourself into a ...

I mean, the magical power up nonsense is in fact boring and kind of shows that when you restrict what you allow yourself to be as a writer and then also just don't plan out the story, you wind up needing to pull "Uh, they get stronger after a near death beating! Until they just stop doing that ...

I mean, the magical power up nonsense is in fact boring and kind of shows that when you restrict what you allow yourself to be as a writer and then also just don't plan out the story, you wind up needing to pull "Uh, they get stronger after a near death beating! Until they just stop doing that For ...

Why is taking a near death beating not earning a power up?

"Even if someone manages to defeat the hero, they'll magically return 50x stronger" is simply not a satisfactory journey.
You can justify it using all the semantics you want about the Special Saiyan Biology, at the end of the day, there ...