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[Noah]

What silly Dragon Ball reference do you incorporate into your daily/weekly routine? I'll start: I always buy 7 apples at the supermarket.

Anytime I have to figure out when there's an absurdly large number for something I drop an "Over 9,000" (if it is that) to see if anyone gets it. Sadly people seldom do and to them it's like I'm just making a random guesstimate

lol

I remembered another one; I got used to carrying bags like this.

[Koitsukai]

Not sure where to put this, but there's a fucking Sun Wukong game coming out this month! and it looks beautiful.

[Ssj3Engels]

Not sure where to put this, but there's a fucking Sun Wukong game coming out this month! and it looks beautiful.

Cool!

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

So I know this rumour was making the rounds some time ago and was stated on the Norway wiki:

Rumors says that Swedish version of Dragon Ball Z (which was distributed on DVD in Sweden) was shown in Norway by Cartoon Network around 2001 and it was a censored version. Unfortunately, apart from texts from that period, no visual confirmation of this case has yet been found.

Just wanted to confirm I was speaking with someone with a line of contact to the people behind the Swedish dub, and from what he/she was told this was untrue.

The Scandinavian branch of Cartoon Network was airing Swedish content as early as 2000 and started showing Norwegian dubs in 2001. For Sweden the Dragon Ball Z movies airing on Cartoon Network doesn't seem likely, another source I spoke to on Reddit said anime wasn't the kind of content they aired at the time. Norway also got very little anime other than Pokemon, Bakugan and Digimon, and I suspect sangofe would have heard something if anything Dragon Ball aired there.

Denmark and Finland appeared to be the lucky Nordic territories in the early to mid-2000s, the former also got Naruto and the latter had Neon Genesis Evangelion. Not to mention the Danish dub of the Dragon Ball Z anime and English dubs respectively.

[Cure Dragon 255]

La Tele is airing OG Dragon Ball AND Dragon Ball GT in one same day.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

La Tele is airing OG Dragon Ball AND Dragon Ball GT in one same day.

Thanks for the update on La Tele pal.

For anyone interested I wrote an article about it and other upcoming Paraguayan airings on my new site which I intend to use for reporting on current broadcasts, so anyone interested please read. I'm sure once Daima begins being licensed internationally I'll have lots to give updates on.

[timjulius1122]

La Tele is airing OG Dragon Ball AND Dragon Ball GT in one same day.

Thanks for the update on La Tele pal.

For anyone interested I wrote an article about it and other upcoming Paraguayan airings on my new site which I intend to use for reporting on current broadcasts, so anyone interested please read. I'm sure once Daima begins being licensed internationally I'll have lots to give updates on.

I recently read the article on your website, and I must say it was truly amazing. The content was well-written, informative, and kept me engaged throughout. I really appreciated the insights it offered and found it very helpful.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

La Tele is airing OG Dragon Ball AND Dragon Ball GT in one same day.

Thanks for the update on La Tele pal.

For anyone interested I wrote an article about it and other upcoming Paraguayan airings on my new site which I intend to use for reporting on current broadcasts, so anyone interested please read. I'm sure once Daima begins being licensed internationally I'll have lots to give updates on.

I recently read the article on your website, and I must say it was truly amazing. The content was well-written, informative, and kept me engaged throughout. I really appreciated the insights it offered and found it very helpful.

Thank you very much, I appreciate the support.

I thought a website like this was long overdue as there doesn't seem to be one place to go to read all the newest information about any broadcasts, streams or home releases of Dragon Ball in the English language, so hoping I can grow it within the next few months.

[timjulius1122]

Thanks for the update on La Tele pal.

For anyone interested I wrote an article about it and other upcoming Paraguayan airings on my new site which I intend to use for reporting on current broadcasts, so anyone interested please read. I'm sure once Daima begins being licensed internationally I'll have lots to give updates on.

I recently read the article on your website, and I must say it was truly amazing. The content was well-written, informative, and kept me engaged throughout. I really appreciated the insights it offered and found it very helpful.

Thank you very much, I appreciate the support.

I thought a website like this was long overdue as there doesn't seem to be one place to go to read all the newest information about any broadcasts, streams or home releases of Dragon Ball in the English language, so hoping I can grow it within the next few months.

No Worries! Yes I also hope within next few months you will grown up.
If you don't mind can you please tell me more about this.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

I recently read the article on your website, and I must say it was truly amazing. The content was well-written, informative, and kept me engaged throughout. I really appreciated the insights it offered and found it very helpful.

Thank you very much, I appreciate the support.

I thought a website like this was long overdue as there doesn't seem to be one place to go to read all the newest information about any broadcasts, streams or home releases of Dragon Ball in the English language, so hoping I can grow it within the next few months.

No Worries! Yes I also hope within next few months you will grown up.
If you don't mind can you please tell me more about this.

Sure, I'm basically just planning to report on any upcoming dubs, broadcasts, streams or physical releases of any of the various Dragon Ball series, movies or specials so if anyone has any news please pass it on to me and I'll write an article.

I've just been informed original Dragon Ball will be returning to Poland on the GameToon channel, so I wrote about it and I will write more articles whenever there's new episodes, a change of timeslot or any other series coming to the channel.

Of course once we start getting news about Daima being licensed in international territories and dubbed I'll be reporting on that too. I'll be keeping an eye on where it's being distributed. Hopefully I'll hear about some territories when they are announced and can strike while the iron is hot as there are countries we don't know when exactly Super wad released in like Cambodia and no one noticed when it aired in Russia where it nearly passed us by. Hopefully countries like that I'll be able to report on time and any other countries as they are announced.

This is linked to the research I'm doing to help Derek Padula with the book he wants to write about the history of Dragon Ball in every country as he will be talking about the various releases of Dragon Ball globally up to this point.

My website will deal with the present and future of Dragon Ball licensing and distribution as I am naturally learning about the current stuff as I go too.

[Koitsukai]

As a kid, Dr. Briefs taking so long to get the spaceship ready for Goku to go to Namek, just because of the boombox, seemed so stupid and irritating. But now, how the hell did Goku manage to go an entire week without some tunes? specially if he was working out.

I would've loved it if Goku, mid-journey, complained about it too.

[ABED]

Can Goku and the Z Team get drunk? Their metabolism would suggest that unless the alcohol is magical or REALLY powerful, their metabolism would preclude that.

The real answer is that it's fiction and the writer doesn't have to give the logical that kind of thought, but still an interesting question.

[MasenkoHA]

Can Goku and the Z Team get drunk? Their metabolism would suggest that unless the alcohol is magical or REALLY powerful, their metabolism would preclude that.

The real answer is that it's fiction and the writer doesn't have to give the logical that kind of thought, but still an interesting question.

Kame Sennin and Grandpa Gohan seemed to have experienced being drunk since Kame Sennin said Goku couldn't copy the Drunken Fist because he's never been drunk before

It's anime only but Kuririn got wasted pretty easily in the volcano two-parter.

And Gohan got drunk in Battle of Gods

[Deadpoolio]

Not sure where to put this, but there's a fucking Sun Wukong game coming out this month! and it looks beautiful.

Has anyone played this and knows if it's any good?

[GhostEmperorX]

A lot of times the criticisms that are made of the numerous localization errors that were made by Funimation when they were delivered the DB license tend to be seen as over-reactions or splitting hairs, but honestly I wonder if that precedent didn't start a larger trend for professional EN localizations even past the adaptation era (and in what would otherwise be acceptable, faithful dubs) to miss the point in one way or another when coming across certain terms, with reasons such as deadlines being a likely culprit for the mistakes.
Especially because they still happen to this day.

Some of the causes can include wanting to match the sound of a JP term but not the meaning, which would probably take an entirely different word that functions as a translation, but with or without that, even one letter in a word being changed (like if the wrong homonym is used) can throw things off big time.

[ZeroNeonix]

A lot of times the criticisms that are made of the numerous localization errors that were made by Funimation when they were delivered the DB license tend to be seen as over-reactions or splitting hairs, but honestly I wonder if that precedent didn't start a larger trend for professional EN localizations even past the adaptation era (and in what would otherwise be acceptable, faithful dubs) to miss the point in one way or another when coming across certain terms, with reasons such as deadlines being a likely culprit for the mistakes.
Especially because they still happen to this day.

Some of the causes can include wanting to match the sound of a JP term but not the meaning, which would probably take an entirely different word that functions as a translation, but with or without that, even one letter in a word being changed (like if the wrong homonym is used) can throw things off big time.

Before Funimation was the Ocean dub, where we got that famous line, "Your father was an average fighter, but he was a BRILLIANT scientist!" If I'm not mistaken, they had nothing to go off of other than the Mexican dub they grabbed the footage from, so they were just making stuff up.

But even before then, there was the original attempt to dub the OG Dragon Ball from Harmony Gold. They changed a lot of stuff. Goku was renamed to Zero, Bulma became Lena, and Karin was Whiskers the Wonder Cat.

Then there was an old video game, where the Dragon Balls were called crystal balls, and the sprite of the panties Oolong wishes for was flipped upside down and called a sandwich or something. The character on the box doesn't even look like Goku.

It seems like they just didn't have confidence anime would sell here unless they Westernized them and scrubbed as much of the Asian culture off of them as possible. At least the Dragon Ball dubs never tried to convince me that rice balls were donuts. lol

[TobyS]

Can Goku and the Z Team get drunk? Their metabolism would suggest that unless the alcohol is magical or REALLY powerful, their metabolism would preclude that.

The real answer is that it's fiction and the writer doesn't have to give the logical that kind of thought, but still an interesting question.

Huh that is a novel question.

I suspect they could get drunk but could also sorta use their amazing constitutions and focus to force themselves not to be too dizzy and such, like fight off the symptoms if you will.

I suspect their bodies could process it faster. Maybe by intentionally powering up and over clocking their bodies they could purge it out of their systems faster too.

[GhostEmperorX]

Before Funimation was the Ocean dub-

I mean, I did say "past the adaptation era" which is mainly the period that those began to die out in favour of more uncut releases and dubs across the board.

In particular, around the same period that Funimation themselves began to be more professional with the series they licensed.

[timjulius1122]

Thank you very much, I appreciate the support.

I thought a website like this was long overdue as there doesn't seem to be one place to go to read all the newest information about any broadcasts, streams or home releases of Dragon Ball in the English language, so hoping I can grow it within the next few months.

No Worries! Yes I also hope within next few months you will grown up.
If you don't mind can you please tell me more about this.

Sure, I'm basically just planning to report on any upcoming dubs, broadcasts, streams or physical releases of any of the various Dragon Ball series, movies or specials so if anyone has any news please pass it on to me and I'll write an article.

I've just been informed original Dragon Ball will be returning to Poland on the GameToon channel, so I wrote about it and I will write more articles whenever there's new episodes, a change of timeslot or any other series coming to the channel.

Of course once we start getting news about Daima being licensed in international territories and dubbed I'll be reporting on that too. I'll be keeping an eye on where it's being distributed. Hopefully I'll hear about some territories when they are announced and can strike while the iron is hot as there are countries we don't know when exactly Super wad released in like Cambodia and no one noticed when it aired in Russia where it nearly passed us by. Hopefully countries like that I'll be able to report on time and any other countries as they are announced.

This is linked to the research I'm doing to help Derek Padula with the book he wants to write about the history of Dragon Ball in every country as he will be talking about the various releases of Dragon Ball globally up to this point.

My website will deal with the present and future of Dragon Ball licensing and distribution as I am naturally learning about the current stuff as I go too.

How do you plan to manage reporting on Dragon Ball's international releases, especially in regions where information tends to fly under the radar, like Cambodia or Russia?

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

No Worries! Yes I also hope within next few months you will grown up.
If you don't mind can you please tell me more about this.

Sure, I'm basically just planning to report on any upcoming dubs, broadcasts, streams or physical releases of any of the various Dragon Ball series, movies or specials so if anyone has any news please pass it on to me and I'll write an article.

I've just been informed original Dragon Ball will be returning to Poland on the GameToon channel, so I wrote about it and I will write more articles whenever there's new episodes, a change of timeslot or any other series coming to the channel.

Of course once we start getting news about Daima being licensed in international territories and dubbed I'll be reporting on that too. I'll be keeping an eye on where it's being distributed. Hopefully I'll hear about some territories when they are announced and can strike while the iron is hot as there are countries we don't know when exactly Super wad released in like Cambodia and no one noticed when it aired in Russia where it nearly passed us by. Hopefully countries like that I'll be able to report on time and any other countries as they are announced.

This is linked to the research I'm doing to help Derek Padula with the book he wants to write about the history of Dragon Ball in every country as he will be talking about the various releases of Dragon Ball globally up to this point.

My website will deal with the present and future of Dragon Ball licensing and distribution as I am naturally learning about the current stuff as I go too.

How do you plan to manage reporting on Dragon Ball's international releases, especially in regions where information tends to fly under the radar, like Cambodia or Russia?

Just need to keep a close eye on them, I suppose. I'm in a Discord server that keeps on top of these things but even for the most savvy web surfers among us all some stuff still passes us by.

The Kurdish dubs are another one that the fandom at large didn't know about when they premiered on Iraq's 4Anime channel in 2019, but they were discovered two years later and luckily didn't become lost media.

Sadly that seems to have been the fate of the Khmer dubs that I was told aired weekday mornings on CTV9 in Cambodia during the early 2010s.