There's something about this pic:
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That reminds me a scene in DBZ, I don't know... Majin Vegeta powering up, maybe?
Power levels are not just big numbers:
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Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Since the series is ending, do you guys think that all (or some) of the reused animation in the tournament will be replaced with new animation for the blu-rays?
Cursemark505 wrote:Since the series is ending, do you guys think that all (or some) of the reused animation in the tournament will be replaced with new animation for the blu-rays?
That's not the case on the latest bluray box which cover episode 97 to 108.
Nothing really caught my eye as impressive with Episode 126. The art was acceptable in the first half and the second half saw a noticeable increase in quality of the animation, but nothing really grabbed my attention.
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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.
Episode was decent. Quality increased a bit in the 2nd half (Yamamuro's storyboard was good) and there were a few nice shots of Vegeta I liked (looked like it was either Yamamuro or touched up by him but I need to rewatch it. Didn't get a good look). Animation itself was decent but nothing to go home about. Still, it wasn't bad and I enjoyed it.
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Animation Supervisors:
Tsutomo Ono
Yasuhiro Namatame
Key Animators
Jin Inaba
Yasuhiko Ooyama
Nobuhiro Masuda
Satoru Motoyoshi
Kenta Yokoya
Tu Yong-ce
Yoshitaka Kato
Tomokazu Gunji
Mika Hironaka
Kenji Miuma
Reiko Saito
Miyuki Yokoyama
Second Key Animation
Toei Phils.
Asashi Productions
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That was interesting. For once, I feel like I need to rewatch the episode a few times to really settle on an opinion. I will say one thing, Yamamuro's storyboard in that second half was fantastic. Seriously surprised and impressed.
Oh yeah, and Kenta Yokoya's back, which is freaking awesome.
Animation Supervisors:
Tsutomo Ono
Yasuhiro Namatame
Key Animators
Jin Inaba
Yasuhiko Ooyama
Nobuhiro Masuda
Satoru Motoyoshi
Kenta Yokoya
Tu Yong-ce
Yoshitaka Kato
Tomokazu Gunji
Mika Hironaka
Kenji Miuma
Reiko Saito
Miyuki Yokoyama
Second Key Animation
Toei Phils.
Asashi Productions
-
That was interesting. For once, I feel like I need to rewatch the episode a few times to really settle on an opinion. I will say one thing, Yamamuro's storyboard in that second half was fantastic. Seriously surprised and impressed.
Oh yeah, and Kenta Yokoya's back, which is freaking awesome.
I definitely agree. The 2nd half definitely had an increase in quality, not just artwise but i liked Yamamuro's storyboard. There were also a few shots i coulda swore he either did or polished, some i really liked.
I feel as if i need to rewatch it again though as well. It's just one of those episodes where you end up not knowing exactly how you feel til you see it again.
Why are people surprised with Yamamuro's storyboarding that much? We all knew he has knowledge in martial arts and hand to hand combat like this, right?
Am I missing something?
Amir wrote:Why are people surprised with Yamamuro's storyboarding that much? We all knew he has knowledge in martial arts and hand to hand combat like this, right?
Am I missing something?
Resurrection F's storyboard was horrible, and while the Future Trunks special's boards were solid, a lot if was heavily referenced from the manga. It's nice to see a vast improvement from him with what appears to be no references this time around.
Amir wrote:Why are people surprised with Yamamuro's storyboarding that much? We all knew he has knowledge in martial arts and hand to hand combat like this, right?
Am I missing something?
Resurrection F's storyboard was horrible, and while the Future Trunks special's boards were solid, a lot if was heavily referenced from the manga. It's nice to see a vast improvement from him with what appears to be no references this time around.
Oh yeah I just remembered how awful those flat angles were in ROF, especially the Piccolo stuff against the army.
Amir wrote:Why are people surprised with Yamamuro's storyboarding that much? We all knew he has knowledge in martial arts and hand to hand combat like this, right?
Am I missing something?
Resurrection F's storyboard was horrible, and while the Future Trunks special's boards were solid, a lot if was heavily referenced from the manga. It's nice to see a vast improvement from him with what appears to be no references this time around.
I'm extremely impressed by Yamamuro's work this episode.
Majinwarman So I'm 'evil', huh? Interesting."
A world without Dragon Ball is just meh.
Animation Supervisors:
Tsutomo Ono
Yasuhiro Namatame
Key Animators
Jin Inaba
Yasuhiko Ooyama
Nobuhiro Masuda
Satoru Motoyoshi
Kenta Yokoya
Tu Yong-ce
Yoshitaka Kato
Tomokazu Gunji
Mika Hironaka
Kenji Miuma
Reiko Saito
Miyuki Yokoyama
Second Key Animation
Toei Phils.
Asashi Productions
-
That was interesting. For once, I feel like I need to rewatch the episode a few times to really settle on an opinion. I will say one thing, Yamamuro's storyboard in that second half was fantastic. Seriously surprised and impressed.
Oh yeah, and Kenta Yokoya's back, which is freaking awesome.
This episode was written okay and story boarded better than expected especially the second half. I really underestimated this episode.
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Majinwarman So I'm 'evil', huh? Interesting."
A world without Dragon Ball is just meh.