Kanzenshuu

I've never heard about those debug modes before! Could you tell me how to access them in the games? Also, as cool as it would be to play as Mr. Satan, I'm not sure if his alternate colour scheme definitively proves he was supposed to be playable. The game simply loads the same sprites with a differ...

Yeah, you may be able to check it on Youtube with those links above. As a French who had the game and still has it, I can tell you that the story starts at the Cell Game, but it will take different non-canon turns depending on how you win/lose battles. A special cutscene involving the final Kame Ham...

I think lots of people just love when a villain character seems to be "the ultimate, seemingly unstoppable power, far beyond usual limits", it's that simple. That's why there's a huge fandom for Broly in Dragon Ball Z , Wesker in Resident Evil , the Doppelganger in Tomb Raider , Sephiroth ...

Yeah, as said above, it's likely because Ginyu released him that Goku considers he's basically not a coward but a worthy warrior. FRENCH TANKOBON 24 : GOKU?! OR GINYU?! CHAPTER 285 : THE MAIN CHIEFTAIN IN DANGER GOKU: "Sorry, but there's no way you can beat me. I'd like to avoid any useless fig...

I've always found his art to be beautiful (the Daizenshuu with all his illustrations is gorgeous, I still watch it from time to time)! However, if I had to choose the best, I find the Kanzenban arts absolutely dazzling, I wish he did even more new illustrations of Dragon Ball with his new style! Som...

I'm not sure it's quite the same type of joke, but I can think of another joke in the manga that's omitted from the anime because it relies on a written pun. At the 21st Budoukai, after Jackie Chun uses Suiken (Drunken Fist), Gokuu counters by using Kyouken in the manga. The Kyouken he claimed to u...

Immortality is not interchangeable with invulnerability. That's right. Someone immortal can still be wounded, on the contrary of someone invulnerable. However, from the definition, it seems they can't die no matter what happens. True immortality is not logical, it's magic. Immortality as in the Hig...

I don't know about the rest, but they left Kuririn's comment about Toriyama's laziness out of the anime. Probably because reused drawings is about 50% of the anime. :V Yeah, I guess they weren't going to critisize their own job through one of the characters' reply, I can't imagine Krilin saying &qu...

I could never watch too much of the series before the Cell era (and then it was not re-airing since it was officially forbidden to show Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z in France afterwards - at least on regular, free channels), and even for those I've seen, it's been a REALLY long time since I've seen...

Using an insert song more than once can be justified for some of them. For example, I'm not shocked that Only A Chilling Elegy is used more than once, since it could partially sound like a regular BGM (they didn't use the actual singer the first time, so it's not really a song, more like a music wit...

A quote you may reflect on, it might help with the different hypothesis: TANKOBON 38: SHOWDOWN OF FATE, SON GOKU VERSUS VEGETA CHAPTER 459: COUNTDOWN GOHAN: "I'm angry! I'm burning with rage, but somehow I can't manage to retrieve... the state I was in at the time..." [seems to turn into a...

I don't know if it comes from an official source, but yeah, as mentionned above, I remember the explanation given is that Toriyama was asked to find a name. He added "Z" as it was the last letter of the alphabet, meaning it was the end and that there could not be anything following due to ...

Except when he went right back up to SSj 2 in the manga against Cell, right? Goku also goes right back up to SS1 when he's fighting Freeza. I agree with that. In those moments, Goku and Gohan are still in "battle mode", and still angry at the same enemy attacking again. There must be no t...

Pretty sure I wouldn't be able to respond to them if I didn't read them... You didn't contribute anything to the topic, once again. Among two distinctly reasonable possiblities, it makes the most sense go with the one that's more likely. Not to project your own tendencies onto the character. There ...

So I think that the evidence points toward him actually having trouble to transform. He did transform, but I think that his power was just about at the lower limit to be able to transform. Yeah, I agree with that. That's what I tried to say with my last paragraph, but I didn't express it as well as...

I don't think he has any trouble turning into a Super Saiyan 2, but I always naturally interpreted that he doesn't like to do so if it's not absolutely necessary. Therefore, against Dabra, he'd rather fight just a Super Saiyan, even when having trouble, and if the battle had gone on, MAYBE he would ...

If a movie's characters and events had to be canon, it would be movie 9 (my personnal favorite), which can already fit perfectly in the continuity and makes sense from the beginning to the end. It's a nice bonus adventure which contradicts nothing and is well thought, including in re-creating the &q...

I think Boo was the ultimate villain, being kind of an "upgraded" version of Cell. Cell could regenerate his oart of his body was still intact (from where the missing parts could re-grow) or - in the case his whole body was gone - if he still had his main brain cell intact. Boo can regener...

It's a shame that high school Gohan didn't have that cool look that appears on the conception sketches (check the main website to see it). Guess he thought his shy/wise temper was not appropriate enough for that cool look!

Scenario-wise, he didn't know who it would be, and Trunks ended up being the victim. Practical-wise, Toriyama probably chose Trunks cause he had never died so far and therefore could be brought back with the Dragon Balls at the end, on the contrary of other warriors in the Dragon Team, which is conv...