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by Zestanor
Sun Jul 26, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: DB honorifics compilation?
Replies: 5
Views: 670

Re: DB honorifics compilation?

Did I hear that Freeza and Trunks use Keigo? Trunks is at least a desu/masu guy iirc. Right?
by Zestanor
Sun Jul 26, 2020 2:27 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Download the unreleased Kikuchi tracks here
Replies: 37
Views: 10555

Re: Download the unreleased Kikuchi tracks here

You mean one of these A B

Can be done more cleanly?
by Zestanor
Sun Jul 26, 2020 8:17 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Download the unreleased Kikuchi tracks here
Replies: 37
Views: 10555

Re: Download the unreleased Kikuchi tracks here

Yep, I’m pretty sure you’re exactly right. I never changed it because meh, lol.

It’s great that this is being documented on the wiki.
by Zestanor
Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:36 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Download the unreleased Kikuchi tracks here
Replies: 37
Views: 10555

Re: Download the unreleased Kikuchi tracks here

The sax melody seems to be Kikuchi, since there are two variants of it, and the main variant clocks in at one minute, like most of his DB tracks. The possibly irrelevant music on episode 2: to be honest I totally skipped over it from the start (December 2013) and since that would have been in the ve...
by Zestanor
Thu Jun 25, 2020 6:23 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: DB and Nostalgia
Replies: 32
Views: 4351

Re: DB and Nostalgia

I have nostalgia for the OG dub actually, even though I can’t really enjoy watching it because the performances are usually mediocre.

I’m defining nostalgia, I suppose, as the experience of having vivid memories triggered by something, and remembering associated things from the same time.
by Zestanor
Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:20 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular
Replies: 1874
Views: 391688

Re: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular

jaisonas wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2020 9:54 am [
Keep in mind that the first 3 shots come from 35mm film shots of the cels and not a direct cell scan.
Why is the first one 35mm instead of 16?
by Zestanor
Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:15 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: The hills we choose to die on and the fights we battle for when it comes to Dragon Ball
Replies: 230
Views: 19302

Re: The hills we choose to die on and the fights we battle for when it comes to Dragon Ball

My hill to die on: “Piracy” is the inevitable result of crappy and overpriced home releases and increased internet download speeds. It is a spontaneous thing, not a malicious one. Big corporations need to factor it into their business model instead of pretending there’s a way to make it go away. Als...
by Zestanor
Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:53 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular
Replies: 1874
Views: 391688

Re: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular

Ah, very nice. Though, that last one is a reminder that the cel colors were never intended to be the colors. They often used red lines which appear brown or black on film.
by Zestanor
Sun Jun 21, 2020 7:09 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Is it fair to say that Dragon Ball is no longer marketed to kids in North America?
Replies: 95
Views: 10431

Re: Is it fair to say that Dragon Ball is no longer marketed to kids in North America?

It's plenty easy to make psychological judgments based off of the discussions we have on forums. It's why it's so frustrating for me, a queer gal, to post on a forum where people think the Ess-Jay-Dubyas are coming to ruin their shitty Japanese children's cartoon, where people think real experience...
by Zestanor
Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:46 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Is it fair to say that Dragon Ball is no longer marketed to kids in North America?
Replies: 95
Views: 10431

Re: Is it fair to say that Dragon Ball is no longer marketed to kids in North America?

Yeah so at @Kunzait I disagree with your point of view almost down to the letter, and I’m not even that in to TV/media. I’m not much of a reader either, though I wish I were, so I’m not holding myself up on a pedestal or anything. Here’s what you are doing, from my perspective. Because of your appar...
by Zestanor
Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:27 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular
Replies: 1874
Views: 391688

Re: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular

No worries; I do it all the time and people usually don’t call me out for it!
by Zestanor
Sun Jun 21, 2020 1:50 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular
Replies: 1874
Views: 391688

Re: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular

Not sure about any digital cleanup. I don't think they'd bother with the effort it would take to do for hundreds or thousands of cels. I think that they just did a quick and clean high-res scan before returning them to whatever vault these cels are archived. Perhaps the cels are just in immaculate ...
by Zestanor
Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:22 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Is it fair to say that Dragon Ball is no longer marketed to kids in North America?
Replies: 95
Views: 10431

Re: Is it fair to say that Dragon Ball is no longer marketed to kids in North America?

Once again, and I know I'm a broken record about this, but I think its long been beyond clear and fair to say that most of this forum as a broader collective has mostly ZERO clue how to engage with or judge a work that ISN'T made for children in any way, and most of this community simply doesn't fu...
by Zestanor
Sun Jun 21, 2020 11:08 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular
Replies: 1874
Views: 391688

Re: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular

Dang. The process of photography somehow adds a lot of depth to those otherwise flat looking cels. I got that seem feeling too. Maybe it's the background? The colors? Or maybe just that we aren't used to seeing these particular frames of animation in such clarity and quality that's throwing us off?...
by Zestanor
Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:52 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular
Replies: 1874
Views: 391688

Re: Color Correcting the Dragon Box - 3 Part Spectacular

Dang. The process of photography somehow adds a lot of depth to those otherwise flat looking cels.
by Zestanor
Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:40 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: How would you have handled GT?
Replies: 52
Views: 3554

Re: How would you have handled GT?

I have no competence in this but I would have had Tokunaga write more music.
by Zestanor
Tue Jun 16, 2020 6:28 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: "You're a Weeb"
Replies: 78
Views: 6724

Re: "You're a Weeb"

Otaku Read the wikipedia article on otaku. With all due respect I think you are projecting yourself and your experiences and interactions onto the concept instead of considering it academically. It’s basically equivalent to geek, which originally was neutral, then gained a stigma, then lost the sti...
by Zestanor
Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:39 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: "You're a Weeb"
Replies: 78
Views: 6724

Re: "You're a Weeb"

Otaku Read the wikipedia article on otaku. With all due respect I think you are projecting yourself and your experiences and interactions onto the concept instead of considering it academically. It’s basically equivalent to geek, which originally was neutral, then gained a stigma, then lost the sti...
by Zestanor
Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:39 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: "You're a Weeb"
Replies: 78
Views: 6724

Re: "You're a Weeb"

Otaku as we use it in the west really ignores the content of its coinage so I always shirk when I see it used in the western fandom. The fundamental attribute of an Otaku--going by Saitou Tamaki's analysis--is the ability to orgasm to an anime character. To experience romantic attraction to them. I...