Kanzenshuu

Serious question: when was the last time America deposing a foreign dictator actually worked out for the better? It sure as hell didn’t work when George W. Bush tried it.


I know that I'm preaching to the choir, but: America only does this shit to line the pockets of wealthy businessmen and/or ...

Engaging with users who do not have anything serious to say about serious feeds back into that conservative psy op to make the world insane by making online discourse as toxic as possible. I think that's important to keep in mind and why I also think certain users should just be banned instead of ...

The Saiyan arc is 51 chapters in the manga, so that would be 5 chapters per episode; it would be way too fast. I don't know why people are in such a hurry to rush through everything, as it seems like anything that takes its time to flesh out its world and characters is automatically viewed ...

This video was made by and for...well...let's just say a certain word Gohan used in the Boo arc. Now, I rather not say this word in mixed company but it should be noted that curse words in Japanese don't necessarily have the same connotations. The word could be bluntly translated but it could also ...

Toriyama has always written "political" stories. It's hard not to. Just read Pink, for example.


Big disagree. His "political themes" are never explored, if they are, it's super shallow and superficial, and merely set dressing for the actual things he wanted to write (gags, or sexual themed ...

Lighten up. Not everything is political. The old He-man and She-Ra cartoons weren't. They had social commentary and PSAs in them, but no politics. Same with Transformers, and all the older cartoons before them, including '90s cartoons. Thinking about literally everything through a ...

On a side-note, this is the direct consequence of taking Dragon Ball as an apolitical, unserious work of art with terrible amoral protagonists and nothing to teach to its audience: Using its imagery as a display of dumb brute strength.



"Don't make your work political" is an argument I often ...

No one thought Ash would beat the Pokémon Leagues and no one thought Ash would get replaced as the main character, yet those things has recently happened.
The main character is Liko.
That's true but Pokémon is a different kind of franchise than DB. It started out as a video game that explores a ...

Open memetic warfare continues. This behavior from a administration known for being backed by billionaires seeking to irony poison young people into becoming Nazis through the internet is not unexpected, but still upsetting. I kind of doubt that they'll stop this shit, though, given that it's the ...

I still wonder how much general audience demand there would be for a DB remake or series focusing on characters not Goku. A DB remake would just be the same story with a newer animation style and more censorship. Kai was just remastering and recutting Z and apparently didn't perform that well ...

I don't really like assigning rankings to stuff because of stuff being in flux a lot of the time, but also because I don't want to turn my fandom into a competition like that. I'll try to just talk about my feelings on each arc:

The Hunt for the Dragon Balls: It's kind of a nothing burger of a ...

The Dark Knight wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:16 am

Kenji wrote: Thu Mar 05, 2026 10:13 amIn fact, they can enjoy Toyotaro's or Aya Matsui's approach better than Toriyama's.

This is the kind of thing you say when you want to get hit by lightening.

Funnily enough, this attitude is why fans of Japanese animated projects based on Japanese comics deserve no respect

If Kai had been written and animated from scratch then ten episodes would have been a far better fit for the Saiyan arc.

The Saiyan arc is 51 chapters in the manga, so that would be 5 chapters per episode; it would be way too fast. I don't know why people are in such a hurry to rush through ...

Kai was poorly edited. If Kai had been written and animated from scratch then ten episodes would have been a far better fit for the Saiyan arc.

I'm pretty sure that Kuririn dressing up as Piccolo was Koyama or Yamauchi making fun of the trope of Piccolo showing up to save Gohan.

I've heard on here a few times that Toyotaro and Toriyama's working relationship with the manga-only arcs was that Toyotaro did almost all the designs/writing/drawing, pretty much all of it, but he ran his ideas through Toriyama to make sure he was still maintaining the spirit of Dragon Ball ...

Toriyama wrote the story outlines and designed Daima and Super just the same, he was simply more involved in the execution of Daima by way of overseeing the scripts themselves (despite his lack of experience with writing for anime).

I feel like what I'm seeing from fandom discourse here is a ...

The manga will return when everyone involved decides that they want it to return. It's really no more complicated than that.
Well that kinda goes without saying about any product. The discussion is about if the dispute was the only reason for the delay and thinking about it as a fan and not an ...

The manga will return when everyone involved decides that they want it to return. It's really no more complicated than that.

Dragon Ball is a commercial product created for a commercial audience of mostly kids and their parents who have to watch that shit with them. Dragon Ball's audience is not us—weird adult nerds who talk about art on the internet. This is to say, you’re going to get Gokuu going through old storylines ...