Kanzenshuu

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 ...

Kenji wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2026 5:18 pm

ABED wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2026 4:35 pm

Kenji wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2026 1:20 pm Goku got a random power-up by sitting in a tube for hours, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, yeah, special Saiyan biology, doesn't make it any less unearned.

He took a near death beating and nearly lost his own body. He earned it.

YMMV on that.

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

Kenji wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2026 1:20 pm Goku got a random power-up by sitting in a tube for hours, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, yeah, special Saiyan biology, doesn't make it any less unearned.

He took a near death beating and nearly lost his own body. He earned it.

I think the issue comes from thinking stories are math equations, if X doesn't serve a purpose then it is useless. It is not, some things are there to make us laugh, to relax for a bit, to be breathers.

The tokusentai are there to break the tension for a moment, like a pit stop (granted, it ...

It’s hard to shake the impression that the Ginyu Force largely exists to prolong the Freeza arc (and I guess because Toriyama felt like poking fun at tokusatsu tropes). Sure, them showing up is what leads to Vegeta allying himself with the heroes, but that easily could’ve been done in response to ...

I'm fine with the trope. It works very well from the Piccolo Daimao arc through the Freeza arc, but that's it. Toriyama does it TWICE in the same arc and somehow it works both times. It's not nearly as effective in the Cell arc nor the Buu arc. In the Buu arc, when Goku returns to the battlefield ...

Vegeeta's no.1 speech came out of nowhere. Upon seeing Gokuu again after returning to Earth, he was pissed off because Gokuu withheld SS3 from him. He refuses to fuse with him and crushes the Potala after they split inside of Boohan. Then, during SS3 Gokuu's fight with Pure Boo, he's suddenly in ...

I'd argue Vegeta's arc was already complete with his sacrifice and willingly dooming himself to Hell to fix his own screw up. I wish it stuck.


Or do what the Fusion movie did and have come back to help stop Boo and then return to the next world.

I do think it was necessary for Vegeta to help ...

Every so often I like to ask the question if someone already hasn't, what is your viewing order for the series? it's gotten even more interesting as the shows have expanded.

Right now, I like the idea of the branching paths:
Dragon Ball > DBZ > DBGT
Kai > Super

I'm not sure where to put Daima. I ...

I find the dub GT score to unmemorable for the most part, whereas GT's score is one of the biggest positives of the series.

What tracks would you say convey action or tension the best?

I have a theory that most people with a positive view of the original GT score are only remembering the ...

Double posting bc the two unpopular takes are so unrelated.

GT is better dubbed with the Menza score, and I say this as someone who prefers the Japanese version for everything else.

The corny dated approach actually improves GT and sometimes the dub makes legitimate corrections to the plot ...