"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

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Post by FortuneSSJ » Sat May 13, 2017 12:04 pm

Legion wrote: Lol yeah, but that pic is not mine, anyway :lol: I found it.
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Post by Legion » Sat May 13, 2017 12:05 pm

Ki Breaker wrote:
Legion wrote:
Lord Beerus wrote: Don't worry. We've all been caught with our pants down on at least one ocaasion. :wink:
Lol yeah, but that pic is not mine, anyway :lol: I found it.
Yeah man , we believe you :wink:
Is true lol, I'll give you a link if you want :D
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Post by kinisking » Sat May 13, 2017 12:05 pm

Wait, didn't boo have a purple background ? Clever bastards.
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Post by HeroR » Sat May 13, 2017 12:07 pm

Ki Breaker wrote:
Legion wrote:Image


Bye Buu.
Should have closed the other tab mate..
Is this official or fan made?
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precita wrote:Goku will still be around but take a Buu saga approach backseat.
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Post by RedHeat » Sat May 13, 2017 12:07 pm

Legion wrote:Image


Bye Buu.
It's a shop.
Feels over Reals.

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Post by Ki Breaker » Sat May 13, 2017 12:12 pm

HeroR wrote:
Ki Breaker wrote:
Legion wrote:[spoiler]Image[/spoiler]


Bye Buu.
Should have closed the other tab mate..
Is this official or fan made?
Fan made, the link dosen't give me the same image
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Post by Lord Frieza » Sat May 13, 2017 12:24 pm

Legion wrote:Image


Bye Buu.
At least we now know why Krillin looks so pissed of in his shot.

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Post by Basako » Sat May 13, 2017 12:25 pm

I didn't want Freezer, I still had hopes for Yamcha and I prefered Boo too. But this is it, so I'm not gonna complain more about it, I think it can be interesting too. Everybody hates him and he hates everybody, what could go wrong? I'm thinking specially about Krilin and Vegeta, both killed by him. But we have also Gohan and Piccolo and in a lower level Ten and Roshi, they fought in the RoF arc. Out of the team, Dende should hate him too. Beerus knows him personally too. Well, there is definitely a lot to see about this recruitment. He is very strong, able to fight in god level.

My questions, what is on this for him? Why would he accept if they don't offer him another resurrection? Or he may try something to screw them. We'll see.

Edit: Last image is Photoshop? Well, Freezer's image is official, so there it is.
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Post by batistabus » Sat May 13, 2017 12:49 pm

I was really looking forward to seeing Boo in action at the ToP, but there's a lot of potential with Freeza.

My biggest issue is that they're using the "Boo fell asleep and can't be awoken" thing again. In the manga, Toyotaro handled Boo not competing in the Universe 6 tournament in a much more creative way, so hopefully he does something like that again. If not, the storytellers on Super really need to do a better job of explaining his hibernation. There is a pretty good in-universe explanation for this, and it's that Bobbidi woke Boo from his natural slumber cycle early. If they just keep saying "Boo fell asleep again, oh well!" without explicitly addressing this, people are obviously going to feel ripped off.

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Post by olympia » Sat May 13, 2017 12:52 pm

Chuquita wrote:I'm not that knowledgeable on the subject, but I think renaissance painters (or maybe the middle ages?) came up with the idea of painting halos around otherworldly saintly subjects. I think the original reference was a generic glowing of light (like a ki aura) as opposed to a fixed ring shape. :?:

Either way, I think Freeza's (and all the dead bad guys with halos) a case of the "equating nuns to miko" trope. Someone either didn't care to research or just thought it looked cool.

It doesn't bother me because I'm so used to seeing it from Z and GT anime filler.
Halos were first widely seen in Byzantine art, notably to portray the Christian piety of its subjects and their connection to God, rather than to portray some otherworldly property. A famous and ubiquitous example of this can be seen in portraits of Justinian I, which mostly served to convey how he's so fucking Christian, way more Christian than you or I could ever hope to be. Stare in awe at his Christianity.

I think it's fair to say that any historical subtext behind the halos in Dragon Ball is eschewed for the visual gag.
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Post by Chuquita » Sat May 13, 2017 12:54 pm

Understood. I've had only very few art history classes so I was just going off what little I recalled.


So I don't follow My Hero Academia, but I saw the graphic novel cover for volume 8 on ANN and wow did Shueisha maybe ripoff the character design from someone called Momo Yaoyorozu for Kale's initial design.

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Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/ ... -8/.116020

She's a dead ringer with the exception of the bang being on the other side of her hair. No wonder they changed Kale's design in-episode even more by changing her face and skintone. Without those changes these two look like twins!
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Post by batistabus » Sat May 13, 2017 1:00 pm

Chuquita wrote:-snip-
Nothing has been stated about who designed Kale, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was Toyotaro rather than Toriyama. Toyo has stated that he's a big fan of My Hero Academia, so I wouldn't be surprised if he took inspiration from that character. Either way, Kale's design still looks quite a bit like Broli, and Yaoyorozu's personality is the total opposite of her's.

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Post by Lapislettuce » Sat May 13, 2017 1:00 pm

How much you wanna bet that Fireza is going to be used and get trashed to hype up some other fighter ?

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Post by MagmonKai » Sat May 13, 2017 1:00 pm

Lord Frieza wrote:
Legion wrote:Image


Bye Buu.
At least we now know why Krillin looks so pissed of in his shot.
This is fake!

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Post by HeroR » Sat May 13, 2017 1:10 pm

Lapislettuce wrote:How much you wanna bet that Fireza is going to be used and get trashed to hype up some other fighter ?
No. That's Vegeta's job.
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precita wrote:Goku will still be around but take a Buu saga approach backseat.
Goku barely took a backseat in the Buu saga, at best he took a leisurely stroll round back while everyone else cried for him to come back.

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Post by Analytical Delusion » Sat May 13, 2017 1:10 pm

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Freeza thing is legit...

https://twitter.com/Terez27/status/863346787096121344

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So hyped!

There's going to be so much tension, between interactions of the cast with Freeza and the beans being spilled on the true consequences of losing the tournament.

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Post by emperior » Sat May 13, 2017 1:18 pm

batistabus wrote:
Chuquita wrote:-snip-
Nothing has been stated about who designed Kale, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was Toyotaro rather than Toriyama. Toyo has stated that he's a big fan of My Hero Academia, so I wouldn't be surprised if he took inspiration from that character. Either way, Kale's design still looks quite a bit like Broli, and Yaoyorozu's personality is the total opposite of her's.

I just started watching MHA, and I'm really enjoying it! It's not revolutionary in any sense so far, but I'd recommend it.
It's very probable Kale is a Toyotaro invention (he said we will see his idea added to the story). In his AF manga Toyotaro brought Broly back so it seems he likes the character a lot.
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Post by SansrivaaL » Sat May 13, 2017 1:22 pm

Freeza bout to lose his mind when he finds out Goku has SSJBKK, I can imagine him making a gag about what Goku did.
Goku: We need your help, I started a multiversal tournament and the losing universe gets theirs destroyed.
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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sat May 13, 2017 1:23 pm

Quite interesting to see the shift of opinions turn from chaos to people now excited! Even I don't have the rage inside me from last week. I still don't like it, but if they somehow pull it off fantastic, if they don't it's not like I was expecting them too. I just hope Freeza remains Freeza and he is looking at this as another opportunity for revenge.

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Post by Chuquita » Sat May 13, 2017 1:24 pm

emperior wrote:
batistabus wrote:
Chuquita wrote:-snip-
Nothing has been stated about who designed Kale, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was Toyotaro rather than Toriyama. Toyo has stated that he's a big fan of My Hero Academia, so I wouldn't be surprised if he took inspiration from that character. Either way, Kale's design still looks quite a bit like Broli, and Yaoyorozu's personality is the total opposite of her's.

I just started watching MHA, and I'm really enjoying it! It's not revolutionary in any sense so far, but I'd recommend it.
It's very probable Kale is a Toyotaro invention (he said we will see his idea added to the story). In his AF manga Toyotaro brought Broly back so it seems he likes the character a lot.
So maybe it's like how they divided up character creation earlier. Kale is Toyo's and Caulifla is Toriyama's.
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