Kanzenshuu

Alright, look, perhaps “strategy” wasn’t the best word to use. My initial point was only ever that being a “good fighter” doesn’t really matter in Dragon Ball, because more often than not, having a high power level trumps actual fighting skill. Freeza or Raditz not being “skilled fighters,” makes ve...

I mean yeah except for literally the entire series. Fights in the later parts of Dragon Ball are flashy light shows where the winner is the one with the higher power level. I wouldn’t really call that “martial arts.” The fighting is too simplistic. There’s not really any sense that skill or strateg...

I mean yeah except for literally the entire series. Fights in the later parts of Dragon Ball are flashy light shows where the winner is the one with the higher power level. I wouldn’t really call that “martial arts.” The fighting is too simplistic. There’s not really any sense that skill or strateg...

. For all the talk about how Dragon Ball is a martial arts series, there’s very little actual martial arts. I mean yeah except for literally the entire series. Fights in the later parts of Dragon Ball are flashy light shows where the winner is the one with the higher power level. I wouldn’t really ...

I would imagine that Dragon Ball would’ve most likely received a heavily edited and Americanized dub regardless of who got the license back in the 90s. That was the norm for anime geared towards a younger audience at the time.

As for martial arts in DB, ki blasts and flight and things of that nature are martial arts. Sure, but as the series goes on, they start to feel less like martial arts and more like superpowers. I mean, even low level grunts in Freeza’s forces seem to at least be capable of flight, and Freeza himsel...

It’s somewhat debatable how skilled of a fighter Raditz actually is. He was completely helpless when Goku grabbed his tail, even though Goku himself overcame that weakness when he was a kid, and and Vegeta and Nappa didn’t have that weakness either. Let’s be honest though, when it comes to the latte...

I wouldn't mind if Freeza transformed from his first form right into his fourth. The second and third form were pretty useless. If Freeza just shed his armor and shell to go into his fourth form, I think that would be cool. I think doing that would completely ruin the impact of the fourth form. It ...

I like the simplicity of Freeza’s “final form.” I actually think it takes the unassuming nature even further than his initial form. I’d argue that his initial form still looks somewhat devious to a degree with the horns and the reptilian looking skin. His true form makes him look more humanoid and a...

From my experience, Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh tend to be viewed more as cheap merchandising vehicles than something that most self-respecting anime fans enjoy on their own terms. Same reason you don’t exactly see anime fans talk about the various Japanese Transformers cartoons.

VegettoEX wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:46 pm

WittyUsername wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:16 pm but I miss the days when you didn’t have to pay to unlock unconventional characters like Arale and Selypa.

You actually did. See: the annualized sequels. $50 DLC packs creating yearly coasters.

Ok. I miss the days when you didn’t have to pay extra beyond what you purchased at the store.

I’m no game programmer, but if the PS2 era games were able to include a split screen with seemingly little issue, I would’ve thought the ninth generation consoles would be able to do it too. Also, I probably said this back when the game was initially revealed, but I still think the idea of having DL...

I’m a bit late to the discussion, but on the subject of filler in Dragon Ball, I’d say most of the Freeza arc filler is pretty bad and only serves to make a long drawn out story feel even more tedious, but I do have a soft spot for that whole thing with the alien orphans. That was a nice way of sett...

Well, this definitely looks like the Muppet Babies version of Dragon Ball. I’m not making any judgements either way, except that I still say I prefer this over adapting Moro and Granolah.

I have to agree with the theory that the anime hasn’t been brought back because they don’t think it’s necessary. Toei already has plenty of other things to focus their resources on. They don’t need a weekly anime continuation of a manga that ended nearly 30 years ago on top of it. The Dragon Ball br...

So strange, indeed, that it's actually just kind of a racist lie. No it's actually well known. They are terrible actors in general. Not all obviously but largely yes. It's all over Google about it too. Something maybe to do with their style perhaps but they always come across as over exaggerated an...

It might be worth noting that DBE was a slapdash production that Fox put together specifically because the rights were set to expire if they didn’t get a movie into production. Plus, I’d argue the 2000s wasn’t really an ideal time to adapt something as out there as Dragon Ball anyway. Even superhero...

I’m late to the discussion, but I will echo the sentiment that doing a remake of a series that’s currently still ongoing makes no sense. The One Piece manga isn’t even over yet. There’s no need for this. As for Dragon Ball, I wouldn’t be opposed to an updated remake, but I don’t know if it would be ...

I'll admit, It's a combination of nostalgia and potential. There is definitely some faults to BT2's story, but if they veer it more towards Budokai 3 as well as fleshing out the story in a non-repetitive way, I think it could be pretty fun. Hell, maybe they could even bring back the chase sections ...

I still don’t really get why people prefer the story of BT2 over BT3. Sure, it’s long, but it’s also really repetitive. You fight the same enemies over and over. Even the free roaming map is just a shallow copy of the one from Budokai 3 , and most of the “cutscenes” are just characters standing arou...