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Kunzait's Wuxia Thread
Kunzait's Wuxia Thread
Journey to the West, chapter 26 wrote:The strong man will meet someone stronger still:
Come to naught at last he surely will!
Zephyr wrote:And that's to say nothing of how pretty much impossible it is to capture what made the original run of the series so great. I'm in the generation of fans that started with Toonami, so I totally empathize with the feeling of having "missed the party", experiencing disappointment, and wanting to experience it myself. But I can't, that's how life is. Time is a bitch. The party is over. Kageyama, Kikuchi, and Maeda are off the sauce now; Yanami almost OD'd; Yamamoto got arrested; Toriyama's not going to light trash cans on fire and hang from the chandelier anymore. We can't get the band back together, and even if we could, everyone's either old, in poor health, or calmed way the fuck down. Best we're going to get, and are getting, is a party that's almost entirely devoid of the magic that made the original one so awesome that we even want more.
Kamiccolo9 wrote:It grinds my gears that people get "outraged" over any of this stuff. It's a fucking cartoon. If you are that determined to be angry about something, get off the internet and make a stand for something that actually matters.
Rocketman wrote:"Shonen" basically means "stupid sentimental shit" anyway, so it's ok to be anti-shonen.
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I know there's connections, but it's nearly always retroactive. The Freeza saga continues the Saiyan saga, but nothing in the Saiyan saga suggests it will continue in that direction. They beat Vegeta and then suddenly "It's a shame this won't stop the roots of the evil". The biggest deliberate arc connecting device in the series is Piccolo's origins, and that stretches over 3 arcs. But even then it doesn't feel massively important.
Dragonball never sets up a working world of significant background characters. With the way it was written it was pretty much impossible to do that. One set of problems come along, they get dealt with, and then the next set appear. You can't really say the plotting is anywhere near being on par with One Piece, and that's probably not a bad thing either. A massive, single, overarching dramatic plot wouldn't really have suited it.
Dragonball never sets up a working world of significant background characters. With the way it was written it was pretty much impossible to do that. One set of problems come along, they get dealt with, and then the next set appear. You can't really say the plotting is anywhere near being on par with One Piece, and that's probably not a bad thing either. A massive, single, overarching dramatic plot wouldn't really have suited it.
To me it felt important when Piccolo's origins were revealed and when Kaio-sama said them beating Vegeta wouldn't stop the roots of evil. The fight with Nappa and them saying they could just go to Namek to get the Dragonballs there suggested the story would continue on in that direction.Amigo Ten wrote:I know there's connections, but it's nearly always retroactive. The Freeza saga continues the Saiyan saga, but nothing in the Saiyan saga suggests it will continue in that direction. They beat Vegeta and then suddenly "It's a shame this won't stop the roots of the evil". The biggest deliberate arc connecting device in the series is Piccolo's origins, and that stretches over 3 arcs. But even then it doesn't feel massively important.
Dragonball never sets up a working world of significant background characters. With the way it was written it was pretty much impossible to do that. One set of problems come along, they get dealt with, and then the next set appear. You can't really say the plotting is anywhere near being on par with One Piece, and that's probably not a bad thing either. A massive, single, overarching dramatic plot wouldn't really have suited it.
On the subject of One Piece, it really can't be compared to Dragonball. Two totally different types of stories with two very different authors.
The series doesn't start with the arrival of Raditz. Stop being lazy and watch Dragonball.