Kanzenshuu

I always figured he simply makes them look like how he wants them to look. He's a demon king so naturally he's gonna make his minion offspring look demonic. Ma Junior is his successor so he made Ma Junior look like himself.

But back to topic: Piccolo and by extension his children were all clearly meant to be of an entirely different race than "Slug people from outer space." None of his children look remotely Namekian and Toriyama flat-out admitted in interview he didn't mean neither Goku nor Piccolo to be al...

AliTheZombie13 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 11, 2023 11:35 am I consider them Demon-People-Except-Your-Father-Was-Retconned-Into-An-Alien-So-You-Kinda-Don't-Exist-Anymore.

Piccolo being an alien doesn't cancel out him being a demon. He's both.

Sure, but the premise of the thread is PRECISELY doing away with this popularity and reach Dragon Ball had. The very premise of the thread is to wonder if these NEVER got into Dragon Ball.It's not "Would a faithful dub be as popular." but rather doing away with the popularity. I didn't sa...

What about the people it made happy? What about the people it inspired? What about the people who suffered and pulled through because of it? They are cheap collateral damage done by Funimation that should be done away with? They dont matter? Like Shaddy said: If it wasn't Dragon Ball, some other ma...

TheRed259 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:58 pm It's going to look really strange if Vegeta decides to give speeches about pride in this small body.

That's probably what they're going for, specifically for comedic effect.

Taking Vegeta down a peg for comedic effect is standard operating procedure at this point.

In exchange for the following: -Proper official restorations of the series with original quality audio -Accurate translations being the standard proliferated throughout -Actually good & reasonable BGM releases -Massively reduced streams of misinformation -Competent handling across the board (in...

I randomly decided to watch all three of these films (and Path to Power) for the first time yesterday to finally cross them off of my watch list (With this I finally have all of theatrical Dragon Ball under my belt). Curse of the Blood Rubies: As a condensed retelling of Dragon Ball's first arc it's...

If, in some other thread, someone had said "the funimation dub is bad", in those exact words, you just assume it's an opinion and roll on. You don't get onto anyone else's case for statements like that. For me, a statement like "I don't like Japanese Dragon Ball" that has nothin...

But reading subs with anime, if you've been doing it for a while, creates an effect where you start to merge the on-screen dialogue with the spoken dialogue in your mind as you're watching. At least for me. And that's where the awkwardness comes from; I'm not just reading them, I'm immersed enough ...

It means subtitles are a literal translation and don't take into account the way someone would normally talk in English. For me, that's not the point of subtitles. What subtitles need to do is make sense to an English reader because you're reading them. Tailoring subs to how English people talk is ...

Part of the problem with listening to original voice tracks for anime is if you're not a weeb and don't know Japanese, the characters' personalities are really hard to read. I think you're overstating how much of an issue this is and underselling how much of the characters' personalities is communi...

i mean is it crazy for wanting a series known mostly for its infamous high octane bombastic fights to continue in that vein? The series has had good storytelling in the past (Both in the Pre-Z and Z eras) in spite of its reputation and the simple nature of its storytelling. Acting like story is sup...

i feel the only ones excited for this new series is just the oldhead fans & the only reason is because they can spite the "DEEBEEZEE" fans that they aren't getting what they wanted. Which i find funny cause i guarantee after some time has passed those same old fans acting like they lo...

For example, Toriyama's script is hardly the shining element of Dragon Ball Super: Broli. It's the contributions of others that really elevate that material (and even then I think Nagamime should have pushed harder to influence the story and find the time to focus more on Broli and Cheelai). Shimad...

Cure Dragon 255 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:11 am No one said you should, but that doesnt they should capitulate to what you want either.

There's also nothing that says they have to do it the way you say they should.

Toei could probably benefit from experimenting with different release styles.

Skar wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 6:29 am I don't think that opinion is too unpopular. At least based on the reception to fan recuts that remove even more filler than Kai.

"Filler can be good actually" is the actual unpopular opinion.

Those people are crazy because we would still have some important unresolved plot threads like Vegeta and Gohan's potential. My point is, not seeing Goku master Super Saiyan, and not getting follow up for any of those other plot threads, clearly isn't a deal breaker for those fans. Also at play is ...

No it didn't. Goku still hasn't mastered UI If Dragon Ball had ended after Freeza then it would have ended without Goku mastering Super Saiyan. Yet many fans think it should have ended after Freeza. I don't, I'm glad it continued after Freeza because I like what we got (Both Buu and Cell arcs despi...

When used in this context, "gymbro" just means "people who like Dragon Ball for what made Z so popular in the first place." To steelman that perspective for a moment, I think it's more like "people who like Dragon Ball for what made Z so popular in the first place and activ...