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Re: Things that grind your gears

Post by Nightmare Wheel » Mon Feb 13, 2017 4:59 pm

Anyone who makes a "just Saiyan" joke. It stopped being funny years ago, now it's just annoying.

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Post by Gog » Mon Feb 13, 2017 11:36 pm

Nightmare Wheel wrote:Anyone who makes a "just Saiyan" joke. It stopped being funny years ago, now it's just annoying.
Yeah the joke is aggravating. However I'm just Saiyan that. However at the end of the day your just Saiyan what grinds your gears and even though I don't like the TeamFourStar joke and think it's been done to literal death. I can appreciate the influence that it has had on the fandom, I'm just Saiyan that's all.

Okay another thing which grinds my gears is constant, popular misinformation in the franchise. It's lead to some pretty annoying lies popping up, probably the most popular of them is that Kold is stronger than Freeza in his second form.

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Re: Things that grind your gears

Post by Anime Kitten » Tue Feb 14, 2017 1:02 am

"Black arc". It's about Zamasu in general, not specifically Black. I can tolerate "Future Trunks arc" because that's the official name (also with quotation marks around "Future"), but if you're going to use a fan name, might as well use an accurate one!
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Post by TheGodfather93 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:18 am

Nightmare Wheel wrote:Anyone who makes a "just Saiyan" joke. It stopped being funny years ago, now it's just annoying.
Not as annoying as the 'Broly's power is maximum' phrase, that's still commonly used in discussion threads about Broly. I rarely see 'just saiyan' used these days.
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Re: Things that grind your gears

Post by Cure Dragon 255 » Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:20 am

TheGodfather93 wrote:
Nightmare Wheel wrote:Anyone who makes a "just Saiyan" joke. It stopped being funny years ago, now it's just annoying.
Not as annoying as the 'Broly's power is maximum' phrase, that's still commonly used in discussion threads about Broly. I rarely see 'just saiyan' used these days.
HIS POWER LEVEL IS MAXIMUM.

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Re: Things that grind your gears

Post by Gog » Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:38 pm

Anime Kitten wrote:"Black arc". It's about Zamasu in general, not specifically Black. I can tolerate "Future Trunks arc" because that's the official name (also with quotation marks around "Future"), but if you're going to use a fan name, might as well use an accurate one!
Let's be honest here Black Goku was the one who held that arc and nobody cares about Zamasu, who literally managed to tick all the cliche dragon ball villain boxes. And to be fair Zamasu is Black, but Black is literally a better Zamasu.

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Post by snaku » Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:11 pm

Anime Kitten wrote:"Black arc". It's about Zamasu in general, not specifically Black. I can tolerate "Future Trunks arc" because that's the official name (also with quotation marks around "Future"), but if you're going to use a fan name, might as well use an accurate one!
To be fair, calling it the Zamasu arc spoils the mystery behind Black's identity that the show does try to play up for the first half of the story. I'm perfectly fine with calling it the Black arc, simply because he's there from the very first episode, and he is the driving force behind everything that happens in the story.

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Post by Anime Kitten » Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:49 pm

Gog wrote:Let's be honest here Black Goku was the one who held that arc and nobody cares about Zamasu, who literally managed to tick all the cliche dragon ball villain boxes. And to be fair Zamasu is Black, but Black is literally a better Zamasu.
Yeah, well, that's just your OPINION! :P In all seriousness, though, and curiously, why "Black Gokū"?
snaku wrote:To be fair, calling it the Zamasu arc spoils the mystery behind Black's identity that the show does try to play up for the first half of the story. I'm perfectly fine with calling it the Black arc, simply because he's there from the very first episode, and he is the driving force behind everything that happens in the story.
I can agree with most of that, but I feel like by the time Future Zamasu comes, it's more about the two Zamasu in general than just Black. As for the surprise being spoiled, that's what "Future Trunks arc" is for, right?
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Re: Things that grind your gears

Post by Gog » Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:46 pm

Anime Kitten wrote:
Gog wrote:Let's be honest here Black Goku was the one who held that arc and nobody cares about Zamasu, who literally managed to tick all the cliche dragon ball villain boxes. And to be fair Zamasu is Black, but Black is literally a better Zamasu.
Yeah, well, that's just your OPINION! :P In all seriousness, though, and curiously, why "Black Gokū"?
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I love opinions. But being serious now Goku Black held up the arc, Goku Black was the main spectacle, he was the most enjoyable part of the arc. Not Zamasu, who while entertaining was just a cliched Dragon Ball Villain, not Trunks and his asspulls. But Goku Black.

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Post by TekTheNinja » Wed Feb 15, 2017 12:03 pm

That leads into a thing that grinds my gears. People saying Black was better than Zamasu. I MEAN HOW? And Zamasu was WAY better voice acted than Black. Sure, Nozawa nailed the evil Goku voice, but Zamasu's voice was truly chilling at times. The death scream and "Son Goku!" Shout really stand out.

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Post by Jinzoningen MULE » Wed Feb 15, 2017 12:07 pm

TekTheNinja wrote:That leads into a thing that grinds my gears. People saying Black was better than Zamasu. I MEAN HOW? And Zamasu was WAY better voice acted than Black. Sure, Nozawa nailed the evil Goku voice, but Zamasu's voice was truly chilling at times. The death scream and "Son Goku!" Shout really stand out.
For me, both villains were good on their own, but it was their dynamic that made for such a wonderfully memorable villain. As for their voices, I definitely lean towards Zamasu, he out-ranges Nozawa so drastically that it's not even close. Nozawa was good for what she was doing, but so locked on the sinister side. I didn't buy that she was Zamasu.
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Post by Saikyo no Senshi » Wed Feb 15, 2017 12:53 pm

TekTheNinja wrote: And Zamasu was WAY better voice acted than Black. Sure, Nozawa nailed the evil Goku voice, but Zamasu's voice was truly chilling at times. The death scream and "Son Goku!" Shout really stand out.
Subjective. I love Miki, but Black's charisma as Nozawa captured was just the best thing about the arc. Black was just the best part so I can see why people like him more.

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Post by DBZ Macky » Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:50 pm

I think Miki's performance as Zamasu is equally as good as Nozawa's Black. The major thing that makes Black so appealing is how his personality is portrayed in the Anime IMO. I also think Black's somewhat bland personality in the Manga really makes the arc lose a part of its appeal.
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Post by mfwlegend3 » Wed Feb 15, 2017 2:50 pm

Saikyo no Senshi wrote:Black's charisma as Nozawa captured was just the best thing about the arc.
This. https://youtu.be/1hKHqd2qYf8?t=41s

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People who claim Vegetto definitely won't appear in the Super manga simply because of how his appearance in the anime was mainly a result of nostalgia. Completely disregarding how Future Trunks alone was brought back for the sake of nostalgia, with Toriyama even mentioning how he'd hope the kids would be happy with his return. Vegetto, being a potara fusion, was a perfect clash against Merged Zamasu, a potara fusion. Toyotaro could use Vegetto to render Merged Zamasu useless whether by wasting most of his power or inflicting some kind of damage on his body which allows Future Trunks to deliver the finishing blow.

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Re: Things that grind your gears

Post by Gog » Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:10 pm

TekTheNinja wrote:That leads into a thing that grinds my gears. People saying Black was better than Zamasu. I MEAN HOW? And Zamasu was WAY better voice acted than Black. Sure, Nozawa nailed the evil Goku voice, but Zamasu's voice was truly chilling at times. The death scream and "Son Goku!" Shout really stand out.
The reason why the general opinion of Black Goku being light years of Zamasu. Is his personality, while Zamasu literally managed to tick all the boxes of what makes generic Dragon Ball Villain, Black Goku managed to avoid all of them. In the end the voice's only served to enhance the character and unfortunately for Zamasu, Black was light years ahead of him.

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Re: Things that grind your gears

Post by TekTheNinja » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:03 am

Saikyo no Senshi wrote: Subjective.
Well duh. This thread is pretty much ALL ABOUT subjectivity.

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Re: Things that grind your gears

Post by Robo4900 » Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:52 am

People calling Beerus "Bills". Just... No, okay? No.
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Post by Alruneia » Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:56 am

Robo4900 wrote:People calling Beerus "Bills". Just... No, okay? No.
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I hear that it's the correct translation in some dubs. Exactly which, I'm not sure, but allegedly the Italian one at least. I support naming consistency, so if all used names are from the same dub, then it's fine by me even if some translations seem odd.
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Post by Jinzoningen MULE » Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:33 pm

Robo4900 wrote:People calling Beerus "Bills". Just... No, okay? No.
I mean... it's not correct, but it's not incorrect enough for me to care.
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Re: Things that grind your gears

Post by MathSSJ » Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:43 pm

Alruneia wrote:
Robo4900 wrote:People calling Beerus "Bills". Just... No, okay? No.
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I hear that it's the correct translation in some dubs. Exactly which, I'm not sure, but allegedly the Italian one at least. I support naming consistency, so if all used names are from the same dub, then it's fine by me even if some translations seem odd.
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