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It might be defunct, but I saw on The Dao of Dragon Ball that Derek Padula has managed to successfully reach out to him for his article on the name of Toriyama's robot avatar. So who knows?

If memory serves—and this is me digging back to 1998 here—I believe the first place it was stated was in the old Curtis Hoffman summaries. I'm not sure where Hoffman was getting that info from, though. I wonder if they're still around to be asked? I actually uncovered it the other day, due to my wo...

Grandpa Goku No More - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Baby Arc Part 1 The 10th annual Dragon Ball Dissection is here! Dragon Ball GT is here! I'm hoping at least one of those things excites you. It's a deep dive into the first episode. Goku is a kid, Pan is bitter, a print job loser is a loser, and th...

Ultimately I don't think so. I've only seen each episode once, and that has now been several years ago. But given how little an impression it left on me, when it wasn't leaving a negative one, I think my faded memories are accurate. For me, it lacked precisely what got me into Dragon Ball in the fir...

My preference for one or the other almost feels inversely proportional. The better each one is at any given time, the worse the other seems to be. From the beginning of Dragon Ball through most of Freeza, I would argue Last House is substantially superior in pretty much every conceivable way. I happ...

Sigh. This makes me so happy and frustrated at the same time. This looks gorgeous, and it has more or less everything I've always wanted. Content-wise, it is more or less complete. From what I understand, it has NEPs, proper openings and endings, and Japanese credits and title cards. It is the show,...

And now enough of me talking, for after all the person who dissects here is not me but you, and I certainly have no intention of taking your place! :lol: Hey, I certainly don't mind my series being dissected. I try to take feedback to heart. And I really appreciate all the nice things you said. It ...

Can't wait for the GT review. I saw the thread on twitter where you briefly gave your thoughts on some episodes, and I really need to hear the full version. Plus, you always give such interesting hindsights into the making and structure of each arc. In that case I hope you're happy because the wait...

The Lesser Ending - DBD TV: The Majin Boo Arc Part 5 I know it's been a record-breaking five parts, but I still can't believe I'm done with the animated Boo Arc already. So I hope you enjoy this last collection of filler. The next stop is GT! Let me know what you think, and thanks for watching! EDI...

I watched the anime Buu Arc years before I read the manga, and haven't watched it since, so I had never thought about the pacing of that particular event. After seeing what you had to say, though, I'd have to agree with you. The anime gets plenty of, in my opinion well deserved, criticism for dragg...

Filler's Double-Edged Sword - DBD TV: The Majin Boo Arc Part 4 There sure is a lot of filler to talk about in this arc. In this installment, I refer to one of my favorite changes and one of my least-favorite changes. The former involves expanding Boo's killing of everyone at God's Temple, something...

I'm totally with you on this. It drives me absolutely crazy that FUNimation has jettisoned the original credits. I'm not watching their dub. I don't want any of their product in it. I just want the show as it is. It's the reason I have not purchased any of their releases since the DBoxes. It's somet...

7 More Weird Changes to Animated Dragon Ball - DBD TV: The Majin Boo Arc Part 3 I continue to look at the changes made to the animated Boo Arc. And it's a very long arc, so I decided to have fun with the format this time by structuring it as a numbered list! So here's 7 more things that the animate...

Filler Connecting Characters - DBD TV: The Majin Boo Arc Part 2 Continuing the animated Boo Arc into the animated Boo Arc and beyond, I look at how filler adds connections between characters that were either different in the manga or didn't exist at all. Videl and Chichi and Goku and Goten have the...

Dragon Ball Z's Greatest Rewrite - DBD TV: The Majin Boo Arc Part 1 I've been waiting decades for this. The animated Boo Arc is such a fascinating rewrite at the beginning. Great Saiyaman is such a different beast. And even the new opening theme is a ridiculously inappropriate representation of the...

The DBZ Movie With a Plot! - DBD: Dragon Fist Explosion!! If Goku Won't Do It, Who Will? I really have loved covering DBZ movies, and we're now at the final one of the original 13. Trunks gets a big brother figure. Videl becomes a superhero! It's a bit more ambitious and story-focused than most of ...

A Boo-tiful Mess - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Majin Boo Arc Part 29! Wowee, wow wow. Here we are. Ten years and three months in the making, I have reached the end of the Dragon Ball manga. Thanks, everyone, for watching. It's been stressing me out all year, but now that I'm finally here, I do feel...

Dragon Ball's Two Endings - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Majin Boo Arc Part 28! We finally, finally, finally reach the final chapters of the original series. There's a time skip, wherein all the characters are re-introduced and have no role in the story. Goku runs off with a random kid, but then he ...

Yeah, the addition of Super Saiyan 3 definitely makes Goku culpable in the revival of Majin Boo. It's a very awkward addition because it contradicts Goku's own stated desire to finish the fight as quickly as possible. But there we are. It does exist. He does (most likely retroactively) have it in hi...

About Goku Vs. Vegeta. Just gonna copy and paste this post that sums up my thoughts. I definitely understand a lot of that. Cipher is one of my favorite people to debate this stuff with, and he presents his thoughts very, very well. Believe me. I totally get where Vegeta is coming from. I understan...