I invoke the Animator Draft.
DB super gets Deguchi, and Kitano gets shipped off to One Piece where he'll have a bit more time and staff to do the episodes. I also vote that DB super shows up on Yoshikazu Tomita's schedule
Deguchi used to be a lot worse than Kitano, he pretty much couldn't do a single half-decent shot.
But...i'm not sure if Deguchi improved or it's due to being paired with better staff, but his Dressrosa episodes have been pretty satisfying. His last one this week was great. It's probably a little bit of both.
That Said i have no idea why Toei wouldnt just put it in the basic anime as a filler arc. It would advertise the movie, it would put the show back a little bit, and it wouldnt leech animators from other projects.
I'm just guessing here but, that way, the movie promotion would just reach the regular audience, fans who watch the anime every week and most likely would go to the theaters regardless. A Saturday night movie always gets higher ratings and has the potential to reach a different viewership, so it should work much better for them.
A Man named RJ wrote:
And is it just me, or does the NEP look like something on episode 24 levels of garbage? How on EARTH do you get such a spectacular quality downgrade, the entire episode felt like it was Uchiyama on Steroids, hell, even that planet rotating cut looked like that Cut during the Uchiyama episode where goku fights 19, and next episode only looks worse.
This Episode was just horrid, with only one decent shot in there of Kaio's rotating Planet... that's it
The NEP for 46 looks a hell of a lot better than this episode or 24 to me.
A Man named RJ wrote:
And is it just me, or does the NEP look like something on episode 24 levels of garbage? How on EARTH do you get such a spectacular quality downgrade, the entire episode felt like it was Uchiyama on Steroids, hell, even that planet rotating cut looked like that Cut during the Uchiyama episode where goku fights 19, and next episode only looks worse.
This Episode was just horrid, with only one decent shot in there of Kaio's rotating Planet... that's it
The NEP for 46 looks a hell of a lot better than this episode or 24 to me.
Imo NEP looks way better than 24 but only slightly better than this ep. I really don't think this ep was that ugly. Outside of the ss3 gotenks part it was a decent-good ep animation wise. I still really like the constant waves of energy thing that they did (when gotenks attacked Vegeta, goku and Vegeta's kick, when copy vegeta and gryll stopped flying), vegeta's attempt at a galick gun, copy vegeta's actual galick gun, goku's kamehameha scene, and gotenks fusion scene.
Jinzoningen MULE wrote: Maybe I should start making it a point not to comment when I'm not sure of something. Too many people know what they're talking about around here.
Disclaimer: I might get into a disagreement with you. Sometimes I might even get feisty about it. I'll never harbor negative feelings because of it though. I hope you feel the same way!
I made a bet with Alee9977 that Vegeta won't be beaten quickly by an opponent. If I lose, I switch my avatar to Vegeta getting beat by hit. If I win, he switches it to Vegeta holding Black by his hair. This will last a month.
Should probably post that on the reddit so that it'll get more attention. This needs to be made known. Too many people are way too ignorant. I'm not even close to an expert but you, this thread, and Jacob have taught me a lot.
Jinzoningen MULE wrote: Maybe I should start making it a point not to comment when I'm not sure of something. Too many people know what they're talking about around here.
Disclaimer: I might get into a disagreement with you. Sometimes I might even get feisty about it. I'll never harbor negative feelings because of it though. I hope you feel the same way!
I made a bet with Alee9977 that Vegeta won't be beaten quickly by an opponent. If I lose, I switch my avatar to Vegeta getting beat by hit. If I win, he switches it to Vegeta holding Black by his hair. This will last a month.
Really well done and extremely informative video, Ajay. I hope a lot people watch this and take into perspective the situation regarding Dragon Ball Super's production and the production of anime as a whole because there a lot of misinformed people on the internet and YouTube is one the main breeding ground for misinformation.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
kinisking wrote:Imo NEP looks way better than 24 but only slightly better than this ep. I really don't think this ep was that ugly. Outside of the ss3 gotenks part it was a decent-good ep animation wise.
Yeah, after reading the comments here i was expecting a lot worse. It was just a mediocre, run-of-the-mill episode in a long running show.
Maybe the fact it came after some well done episodes made it more disappointing, which i agree. But oh well, that's how it works.
-Ajay's video-
A small really well done and informative video, that blows out any DB reviewer video out there. It's always good to hear someone that knows what he's talking about.
Good job Ajay! Extra points for the sexy voice.
A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.
Favourite old DB Animators: Masaki Sato and Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Favourite new DB Animators: Yuya Takahashi and Chikashi Kubota
Wouldn't another possible fix based on Ken Otsuka's comments about how they basically had 3 weeks to animate episode 39 be to get a bunch of script writers and storyboarders together and pump out a bunch of stuff in a short period of time so that when animators finish an episode they can actually go right onto the next one?
Yamamuro's shining effects returned in the new promotional picture, and it REALLY bugged me
So i felt like editing them out, (i actually even redrew Trunks' weird looking ear lol)
Which one looks better?:
Wow. What an improvement. The smaller details really do make a world of difference.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
I like Mai as she appears in the official promo. Trunks indeed looks better on the modified ones.
And btw, whose idea was it to make the shadows of the face that way? The way it was shaped in the original series was perfect and it gave a nice looking shape to the characters. Goku gives a total different vibe with the correct shadow and without those hideous highlights.
If this is Yamamuro, isn't anybody on Toei that has the authority to step up and fix things?
Why would anyone in toei step up and fix up things just because its yamamuro, sounds really unnecessary. Even if someones does step up what are they going to do?, show yamamuro how he should do his work?
Sodhi wrote:Why would anyone in toei step up and fix up things just because its yamamuro, sounds really unnecessary. Even if someones does step up what are they going to do?, show yamamuro how he should do his work?
Sodhi wrote:Why would anyone in toei step up and fix up things just because its yamamuro, sounds really unnecessary. Even if someones does step up what are they going to do?, show yamamuro how he should do his work?
Exactly.
Thats not going to achieve anything though and thats the point i am trying to make. He is the character designer and has his own style whether people like it or not.
