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Calling out the entirety of my argument in strawman terms to call me white supremacist for disagreeing with you is exactly what I mean by the oversimplification - and ad hominem as well - from the left. Projection is another thing the right loves to do. In this case- Claiming that I oversimplified ...

She got cast because she had the best singing voice of the actress who auditioned. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-little-mermaid-halle-bailey-director-sing_n_64492f86e4b039ec4e824a0d ....to play a mythical half human half fish lady, something that doesn't actually exist and isn't race specific....

So that got me wondering are there any elements of Dragon Ball that could be considered inclusive towards female audiences? Be it characters, actors, story elements, anything? Toriyama as a gag writer who's fond of poop and pervert jokes probably wasn't thinking about inclusivity when writing his c...

The gaslighting is strong with this one.

"I'm not being racist, you're just easily offended."

"What I'm saying is common knowledge, you're just too easily offended to accept it."

I myself am one of the older fans in his 30s, but I'm not blind to the fact that not only OG DB and kid Goku were never ever remotely close in popularity akin to DBZ/Kai/Super You say this as if "less popular" is the same thing as "unpopular". Yes, there's parts of the fanbase t...

I remember the former member " Doctor ." here in these threads saying that Nº17 from the Universe Survival arc was out of character compared to how he was in the Cell arc, does anyone agree with that? I feel that he's a bit different for sure, but not that quite. I noticed that change in ...

That wouldn't really fit into the way we know he likes to portray himself as publicly so I guess the actual/better question is whether we believe Toriyama trully never ever does think about issues of success, popularity "what will be the readers' reaction be and what could hurt the franchise&q...

Sure but that's one way to phrase the whole thing around. Another could be the realization that a fighting series inherently demands a more mature character design than with one where the MC looks like a baby. This is a stretch. I think if Toriyama had had anything like that on his mind dictating h...

For a brief moment as even Toriyama quickly realized back then he needs to age him or people will check out According to the 30th anniversary "Super History Book" interview, Toriyama says he aged up Goku to make him easier to draw for fight scenes since he decided to do what Torishima tol...

...or lord, sitting through Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and wondering why Toriyama doesn't just make an official 18+ Dragon Ball project so we can get his ass-expansion kink in a decidedly more appropriate place for that sort of thing. If the sexual stuff in early Dragon Ball or Lady Red further ...

since people who make these critical analysis have been members of the fandom for 26 years (hi) and members of this forum for 18 years (hi). Indeed. I think people with these sentiments simply never came across any serious critiques of this stuff until recently, so they assume these critiques are n...

I'm probably among that nebulous group of "Dragon Ball is against your values!!!1!" posters that dude was getting bootyblasted about earlier, but I'm not hearing about how I'm too ideologically-motivated for not liking the Imperfect->Perfect Cell section of the Android arc. There's nothin...

(I don't really care either way so long as the series is good). This is where I'm at. Daima's continuity and timeline placement is the least of my concerns right now, especially considering Dragon Ball continuity is such an enormous clusterfuck to begin with that even if we do get an answer, it lik...

Anyway, I hope Daima is heavier on the character drama to really advance a character arc or two. I'm a little surprised you have these expectations considering Toriyama's heavier than usual involvement and how vocal you are about your dislike of him as a writer (if this stuff is true, he's the fina...

Just like Dragon Ball itself a lot of the time: The thread started in one place and wound up in a very different place as it went on. Anyway, wanted to respond to this: A lot of the Boo arc is definitely informed by Gohan being the intended hero. In a lot of ways it basically mirrors the Daimao arc ...

So even though the text doesn't explicitly say this, you can infer that Goku has learned from that ordeal that some enemies are beyond mercy and will take the nuclear option when backed into a corner. What I bolded is something about Dragon Ball that I think needs to be stated: To get the most out ...

With Vegeta and other villains introduced after, the stakes change. Vegeta, Freeza, etc, have no affiliation with the Earth. They could blow it up and go back to wherever they came from and nothing would change in their daily lives. No villain introduced before Vegeta had stakes as high as "If...

Yeah, it's weird that this is being announced while the original anime is still ongoing. I know One Piece is currently in its final arc, but knowing this series, it could be another couple years before the arc is actually finished- Unless they were told by Oda that the ending isn't too far away and ...

This is the non-thread worthy discussion thread, and we're having a discussion about something trivial, I don't know why you and Masenko are having a problem with something that can be considered an inconsistency being discussed in a fitting thread. Because this in particular comes off like someone...

That'd have to be a demon exclusive power, either that or Namekians can do that but prefer to all look the same lol. Piccolo Daimao wasn't a normal Namekian though, so it's a fallacy to act as if everything about normal Namekians applies to him- Unless all Namekians just happen to be the cast off e...