Discussion specifically regarding the "refreshed" TV version of DBZ created in Japan for its 20th anniversary, including individual threads for each episode.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating
11:00 Dragon Ball Super 893 0.50
11:30 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 730 0.31
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 577 0.30
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 564 0.29
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 531 0.27
1:30a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 482 0.20
2:00a Naruto: Shippuden 459 0.20
2:30a Outlaw Star 427 0.21
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 358 0.16
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) N/A N/A
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.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating
11:00 Dragon Ball Super 818 0.39
11:30 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 747 0.34
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 643 0.30
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 584 0.28
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 580 0.28
1:30a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 492 0.25
2:00a Naruto: Shippuden 475 0.25
2:30a Outlaw Star 408 0.22
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 422 0.24
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 368 0.21
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.
TIME PROGRAM Viewers (000) A1849 rating A1849 (000)
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 680 0.32 413
11:30 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 639 0.31 402
12:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 632 0.31 394
12:30a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 683 0.32 413
1:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 646 0.29 377
1:30a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 607 0.28 359
2:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 607 0.29 379
2:30a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 561 0.27 346
3:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 513 0.24 307
3:30a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 511 0.24 308
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.
Lord Beerus wrote:TIME PROGRAM Viewers (000) A1849 rating A1849 (000)
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 680 0.32 413
11:30 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 639 0.31 402
12:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 632 0.31 394
12:30a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 683 0.32 413
1:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 646 0.29 377
1:30a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 607 0.28 359
2:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 607 0.29 379
2:30a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 561 0.27 346
3:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 513 0.24 307
3:30a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (r) 511 0.24 308
It looks like this marathon night beat all the other previous nights... that’s crazy
Towards the end? Yes. The beginning? Absolutely not
Spoiler:
Lord Beerus wrote:
Gog wrote:The cell saga/android saga is the worst thing Akira Toriyama ever made. And nothing has ever actually managed to come close to it, after it. Even the terrible asspulls in the FT saga, weren't as bad as that. But of course this is all my opinion.
You've just made a new best friend.
Marz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:27 pm
"Well, the chapter was good, the story was good and so were the fights. But a new transformation, in Dragon Ball? And one that's ugly? This is where we draw the line!!! Jump the Shark moment!!"
This forum is so over-dramatic that it's not even funny.
90sDBZ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:44 pm19 years ago I was rushing home from school to watch DBZ on Cartoon Network, and today I've rushed home from work to watch DBS on Pop. I guess it's true the more things change the more they stay the same.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 1029 0.47
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 799 0.35
11:30 Black Clover 690 0.30
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 621 0.28
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 553 0.25
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 526 0.24
1:30a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 533 0.27
2:00a Naruto: Shippuden 506 0.25
2:30a Outlaw Star 396 0.18
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 404 0.17
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 384 0.16
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.
These ratings...I dont know how to feel about them. It was good but that drop from Super...ouch.
Spoiler:
Lord Beerus wrote:
Gog wrote:The cell saga/android saga is the worst thing Akira Toriyama ever made. And nothing has ever actually managed to come close to it, after it. Even the terrible asspulls in the FT saga, weren't as bad as that. But of course this is all my opinion.
You've just made a new best friend.
Marz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:27 pm
"Well, the chapter was good, the story was good and so were the fights. But a new transformation, in Dragon Ball? And one that's ugly? This is where we draw the line!!! Jump the Shark moment!!"
This forum is so over-dramatic that it's not even funny.
90sDBZ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:44 pm19 years ago I was rushing home from school to watch DBZ on Cartoon Network, and today I've rushed home from work to watch DBS on Pop. I guess it's true the more things change the more they stay the same.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating 18-49 Views (000)
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 1111 0.48 622
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 888 0.38 486
11:30 Black Clover 733 0.31 396
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 628 0.26 336
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 542 0.23 292
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 521 0.23 292
1:30a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 459 0.21 265
2:00a Naruto: Shippuden 452 0.20 257
2:30a Outlaw Star 390 0.18 230
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 383 0.17 222
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 342 0.15 195
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.
TIME SHOW Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 1236 0.54
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 1103 0.48
11:30 Black Clover 836 0.37
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 617 0.30
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 501 0.23
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 468 0.21
1:30a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 422 0.19
2:00a Naruto: Shippuden 437 0.21
2:30a Outlaw Star 384 0.19
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 340 0.17
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 303 0.17
Fun fact: This is the first time that two shows have reached 1 million since June 24th.
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.
Never understimate the power of Brian Drummond. Robo must be really happy.
Spoiler:
Lord Beerus wrote:
Gog wrote:The cell saga/android saga is the worst thing Akira Toriyama ever made. And nothing has ever actually managed to come close to it, after it. Even the terrible asspulls in the FT saga, weren't as bad as that. But of course this is all my opinion.
You've just made a new best friend.
Marz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:27 pm
"Well, the chapter was good, the story was good and so were the fights. But a new transformation, in Dragon Ball? And one that's ugly? This is where we draw the line!!! Jump the Shark moment!!"
This forum is so over-dramatic that it's not even funny.
90sDBZ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:44 pm19 years ago I was rushing home from school to watch DBZ on Cartoon Network, and today I've rushed home from work to watch DBS on Pop. I guess it's true the more things change the more they stay the same.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 971 0.46
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 869 0.40
11:30 Black Clover 642 0.31
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 530 0.27
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 462 0.23
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 454 0.21
1:30a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 427 0.20
2:00a Naruto: Shippuden 384 0.18
2:30a Outlaw Star 386 0.17
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 407 0.19
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 401 0.19
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.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 904 0.37
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 761 0.34
11:30 Black Clover 609 0.29
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 508 0.21
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 455 0.19
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 460 0.22
1:30a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 428 0.21
2:00a Naruto: Shippuden 430 0.21
2:30a Outlaw Star 421 0.20
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 412 0.21
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 370 0.19
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.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating 18-49 Views (000)
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 1068 0.51 658
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 844 0.39 507
11:30 Black Clover 626 0.29 374
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 540 0.26 338
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 502 0.25 319
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 487 0.24 315
1:30a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 419 0.22 285
2:00a Naruto: Shippuden 427 0.22 287
2:30a Outlaw Star 396 0.20 261
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 434 0.21 274
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 383 0.19 250
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.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating 18-49 Views (000)
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 999 0.42 538
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 782 0.33 427
11:30 Black Clover 562 0.24 309
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 484 0.20 259
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 398 0.18 228
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 386 0.18 226
1:30a Naruto: Shippuden 423 0.20 264
2:00a Outlaw Star 343 0.16 201
2:30a Space Dandy (r) 319 0.15 196
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 389 0.20 251
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 375 0.18 228
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.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating 18-49 Views (000)
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 1032 0.49 631
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 819 0.39 503
11:30 Black Clover 650 0.30 388
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 515 0.25 320
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 492 0.24 308
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 470 0.24 305
1:30a Naruto: Shippuden 469 0.23 293
2:00a Outlaw Star 420 0.20 264
2:30a Space Dandy (r) 383 0.19 248
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 360 0.18 230
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 307 0.15 191
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.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating 18-49 Views (000)
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 990 0.47 611
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 809 0.38 484
11:30 Black Clover 647 0.30 391
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 529 0.26 333
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 487 0.24 305
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 452 0.22 280
1:30a Naruto: Shippuden 423 0.21 273
2:00a Outlaw Star 343 0.17 221
2:30a Space Dandy (r) 342 0.17 215
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 362 0.18 237
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 293 0.16 202
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.
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 1003 0.46
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 779 0.33
11:30 Black Clover 628 0.28
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 518 0.24
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 447 0.21
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 440 0.20
1:30a Naruto: Shippuden 457 0.20
2:00a Outlaw Star 351 0.16
2:30a Space Dandy (r) 305 0.12
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 304 0.12
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 293 0.12
Spoiler:
Lord Beerus wrote:
Gog wrote:The cell saga/android saga is the worst thing Akira Toriyama ever made. And nothing has ever actually managed to come close to it, after it. Even the terrible asspulls in the FT saga, weren't as bad as that. But of course this is all my opinion.
You've just made a new best friend.
Marz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:27 pm
"Well, the chapter was good, the story was good and so were the fights. But a new transformation, in Dragon Ball? And one that's ugly? This is where we draw the line!!! Jump the Shark moment!!"
This forum is so over-dramatic that it's not even funny.
90sDBZ wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:44 pm19 years ago I was rushing home from school to watch DBZ on Cartoon Network, and today I've rushed home from work to watch DBS on Pop. I guess it's true the more things change the more they stay the same.
Time Show Viewers (000) 18-49 Rating 18-49 Views (000)
10:30 Dragon Ball Super 1039 0.51 662
11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 927 0.44 563
11:30 Black Clover 730 0.34 442
12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 618 0.27 348
12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 525 0.26 341
1:00a Hunter X Hunter 501 0.27 345
1:30a Naruto: Shippuden 543 0.27 350
2:00a Outlaw Star 420 0.21 270
2:30a Space Dandy (r) 371 0.18 235
3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 395 0.19 248
3:30a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG (r) 360 0.18 227
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.