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[RandomGuy96]

What if the various tournaments in the series took a page out of real life and instituted weight classes? Or rather, power level classes? Like how in boxing, guys who weigh between 130 and 135 (lightweight) wouldn't fight guys who weigh between 160 and 168 (super middleweight) because everyone knows that a nearly thirty five pound muscle difference would just result in a quick and one sided beating.

I like the idea and it would definitely make sense in story but I don't think it fits on a genre level. As "scientific" as scouters made concepts like ki, ki is still firmly rooted in Eastern Mysticism and romanticized views of martial arts. Ki-classes would be too huge a departure from that. Plus, with the Tournament of Power, it looks like the gods of the universe aren't all that interested in skill if it doesn't also come with lots of power.

Asian martial arts tournaments have weight classes too, even if some Japanese promotions like to occasionally forsake them for freakshow match ups.

The ToP is actually what got me thinking about it. Obviously in universe it's because Zeno is a little kid doing this for his own amusement, not really thinking logically, but if Jiren had just chosen to flex and instantly KO everyone else (which could have been exactly what happened) I doubt it'd be very amusing. No more than if Anthony Joshua just turned Saul Alvarez into paste in five seconds. I do wonder how tournaments in the series would have gone if they split them up like this. The strangest part is, the Tenkaichi Budokai DOES have a youth division, so they recognize mismatches can happen and are bad... but they'll still never implement either "ki classes", weight classes, or even species classes.

What if the various tournaments in the series took a page out of real life and instituted weight classes? Or rather, power level classes? Like how in boxing, guys who weigh between 130 and 135 (lightweight) wouldn't fight guys who weigh between 160 and 168 (super middleweight) because everyone knows that a nearly thirty five pound muscle difference would just result in a quick and one sided beating.

Introducing weight classes ruins Toriyama’s favorite gag of the smaller guy being stronger than the big guy.

Considering characters can lower and raise their ki/power level having that as a class seems futile.

Practically you can just make them show their full power and disqualify them later if they're shown to be hiding it.

Though I do admit, Goku and co basically being the guys who cut 20 pounds of water at the weigh in is an amusing parallel.

[Noah]

So when Battle of Gods came out, the one thing that was consistently praised was Beerus and Whis. Everyone loved them, thought they were great additions to the Dragon Ball World. But now that we've more time for the past 5 years or so, in Resurrection F, the Universe 6 Arc, the Future Trunks Arc, the Universe Survival Arc, and Dragon Ball Super Broly, I wanna ask you guys something: What are your thoughts on Beerus and Whis as of right now, at this current point in the story? Are they still as refreshing as they were when they were first introduced, or are they just not the same anymore?

I don't know... I feel like Beerus and Whis presence dismiss a lot the stakes in Super arcs, even though they do not participate, fans would still think that anything could be solved if these two acted in some way.

Goku and Vegeta might be close to surpassing Beerus, but I don't see that any sooner, I wish we could have a threat big enough for him to use his full power and Whis to get involved in fighting, that would make them more appealing to me than how is currently been

The more I think about it the more I wish they had kept the RooF outfits for DBS, along with SSB it really helped to set Goku and Vegeta apart from Z

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I believe that's a consensus in this forum, but it's like Super could not move on doing Z homages (both anime and manga), so they had to keep these characters with their same old outfits

[Robo4900]

Interesting, I'll have to run it through my pro logic ll decoder/avr once I get it and give it a listen myself. i didnt know about path to power, lddb lists it as only stereo

It's posslbe the LD was only stereo. Or was too poor quality to unfold. I'm given to understand the Dragon Box DVDs have higher quality audio than the LDs for those last two movies, since the LDs for those last two put the main audio on an analogue track, with the digital track instead being the music-only track.

On the earlier movies, which are in mono, both the main audio and the music-only track are on the digital track; main audio is in left, music is in right. (I think; may be the other way around)

[10gigtriforce]

Interesting, I'll have to run it through my pro logic ll decoder/avr once I get it and give it a listen myself. i didnt know about path to power, lddb lists it as only stereo

It's posslbe the LD was only stereo. Or was too poor quality to unfold. I'm given to understand the Dragon Box DVDs have higher quality audio than the LDs for those last two movies, since the LDs for those last two put the main audio on an analogue track, with the digital track instead being the music-only track.

On the earlier movies, which are in mono, both the main audio and the music-only track are on the digital track; main audio is in left, music is in right. (I think; may be the other way around)

quite possible for path to power, but lddb already has confirmed that movie 13 is dolby surround, granted these are the first two i plan to buy in the next month or so so I'll be able to know for sure soon.

[Dragon Ball Gus]

So when Battle of Gods came out, the one thing that was consistently praised was Beerus and Whis. Everyone loved them, thought they were great additions to the Dragon Ball World. But now that we've spend more time with them for the past 5 years or so, in Resurrection F, the Universe 6 Arc, the Future Trunks Arc, the Universe Survival Arc, and Dragon Ball Super Broly, I wanna ask you guys something: What are your thoughts on Beerus and Whis as of right now, at this current point in the story? Are they still as refreshing as they were when they were first introduced, or are they just not the same anymore?

I don't know... I feel like Beerus and Whis presence dismiss a lot the stakes in Super arcs, even though they do not participate, fans would still think that anything could be solved if these two acted in some way.

Goku and Vegeta might be close to surpassing Beerus, but I don't see that any sooner, I wish we could have a threat big enough for him to use his full power and Whis to get involved in fighting, that would make them more appealing to me than how is currently been

I meant your thoughts on them as actual characters, silly. You know, whether or not you still like them now as much as you liked them when they were first introduced in BoG.

[Robo4900]

Interesting, I'll have to run it through my pro logic ll decoder/avr once I get it and give it a listen myself. i didnt know about path to power, lddb lists it as only stereo

It's posslbe the LD was only stereo. Or was too poor quality to unfold. I'm given to understand the Dragon Box DVDs have higher quality audio than the LDs for those last two movies, since the LDs for those last two put the main audio on an analogue track, with the digital track instead being the music-only track.

On the earlier movies, which are in mono, both the main audio and the music-only track are on the digital track; main audio is in left, music is in right. (I think; may be the other way around)

quite possible for path to power, but lddb already has confirmed that movie 13 is dolby surround, granted these are the first two i plan to buy in the next month or so so I'll be able to know for sure soon.

Well, either way, the Dragon Box audio would be better quality, thus would give better results if you have a way to unfold the surround.

[10gigtriforce]

It's posslbe the LD was only stereo. Or was too poor quality to unfold. I'm given to understand the Dragon Box DVDs have higher quality audio than the LDs for those last two movies, since the LDs for those last two put the main audio on an analogue track, with the digital track instead being the music-only track.

On the earlier movies, which are in mono, both the main audio and the music-only track are on the digital track; main audio is in left, music is in right. (I think; may be the other way around)

quite possible for path to power, but lddb already has confirmed that movie 13 is dolby surround, granted these are the first two i plan to buy in the next month or so so I'll be able to know for sure soon.

Well, either way, the Dragon Box audio would be better quality, thus would give better results if you have a way to unfold the surround.

If the surround is only on the analog dbox may be better, if its on the pcm track the laserdisc will likely be better. which is how the databast lists it so ima hope its right https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/12777/LS ... the-Dragon

[Robo4900]

quite possible for path to power, but lddb already has confirmed that movie 13 is dolby surround, granted these are the first two i plan to buy in the next month or so so I'll be able to know for sure soon.

Well, either way, the Dragon Box audio would be better quality, thus would give better results if you have a way to unfold the surround.

If the surround is only on the analog dbox may be better, if its on the pcm track the laserdisc will likely be better. which is how the databast lists it so ima hope its right https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/12777/LS ... the-Dragon

The PCM track is the music-only track.

[Draconic]

Amidst the Covid-19 outbreak remember that even Goku got taken down by a virus once. It's no shame to stay in isolation for your own safety. At least you don't have killer robots after you too!

[10gigtriforce]

Does anyone know where this English gt opening comes from?




https://youtu.be/aWYLoDvrZSE


It says its from a vhs but I have most of the non 'lost episode ' vhs singles and it's not on them. Is it on the lost episodes singles? I know I known its gt but I'm genuinely curious.

[10gigtriforce]

How did yajirobe get as strong as he is in dragon ball? The first time we see him he rofl stomps one of piccolos kids, presumably someone who could take most of the tenkaichi fighters. And then climbs korins tower with ease. He could well be stronger than tao but not sure how he got that way.

[dbs fanboy]

I really love how for as much damage as they might have done, the Yamcha memes ended up going full circle, now treating Yamcha as a god instead of a failure of a man

[Witty User Name]

The Super manga chapters are also serialized in some magazine like the original series was in Shonen Jump? If yes, then what's that magazine's name?

[VegettoEX]

V-Jump. It’s a monthly magazine from Shueisha, primarily focused on video games, released on the 21st of each month (barring a Sunday or holiday, in which case it gets moved up to the next appropriate day).

Everything you could want to know about the magazines-

https://www.kanzenshuu.com/2017/03/16/s ... -buy-them/

[Witty User Name]

V-Jump. It’s a monthly magazine from Shueisha, primarily focused on video games, released on the 21st of each month (barring a Sunday or holiday, in which case it gets moved up to the next appropriate day).

Everything you could want to know about the magazines-

https://www.kanzenshuu.com/2017/03/16/s ... -buy-them/

Thanks for the link!

[KBABZ]

I spent two hours making these dumb rice cooker jokes: https://twitter.com/KBABZonTV/status/12 ... 4690722816

[Cure Dragon 255]

OMG THAT AWESOME AND FUNNY!!!

lol.

[simtek34]

Does anyone know where this English gt opening comes from?




https://youtu.be/aWYLoDvrZSE


It says its from a vhs but I have most of the non 'lost episode ' vhs singles and it's not on them. Is it on the lost episodes singles? I know I known its gt but I'm genuinely curious.

It came from the Dragon Ball GT TV Special Four Star Dragon Ball is the Proof of Courage, known here in America as A Hero's Legacy. For some reason, only that TV Special used the extended version of the English Dub Theme for GT.

[10gigtriforce]

How can piccolo regenerate basically from the neck down, but king piccolo couldn't regenerate from a hole in the chest? Cause he was tapped out?

[ABED]

How can piccolo regenerate basically from the neck down, but king piccolo couldn't regenerate from a hole in the chest? Cause he was tapped out?

That was always my assumption.