what is with the PANTS?

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Post by SonGokuGT » Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:24 am

Ooh! Ooh! Let's talk about why Goku goes from Kid to Ohzaru and rips his pants off, and the when he's SS4 he has pants again!! :roll:

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Post by askani son » Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:41 am

Ooh! Ooh! Let's talk about why Goku goes from Kid to Ohzaru and rips his pants off, and the when he's SS4 he has pants again!!
Maybe the smily meant you weren't serious about that question, but I will give my answer anyway.
Either
1/It's a transformation like fusion (maybe combining 2 states).
or 2/ The animators did not want a naked furry guy fending evil from the earth.
Pick one :P
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Post by Tanooki Kuribo » Sat Mar 26, 2005 10:47 am

The animators did not want a naked furry guy fending evil from the earth.
Pick one
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Post by *PINHEAD* » Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:36 pm

Because golden pants are all the rage on that planet. Duh.

Golly gee, I wish I had the ability to grow pants out of nothing!
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Post by Fuujin » Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:14 pm

You fools! Magic has nothing to do with it! It's FUNi! They added digital pants! In the original version Goku spent almost 50% of the time practically naked! THAT WAS TORIYAMA'S TRUE VISION!

It's true. My friend watched the show in Japan.
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Post by askani son » Sat Mar 26, 2005 6:58 pm

DAMN FUNi!! Those bast- *Random attack of conscience*
So anyway. The theatrical release of budokai 4 eh? :P
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Post by SonGokuGT » Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:50 pm

askani son wrote:DAMN FUNi!! Those bast- *Random attack of conscience*
So anyway. The theatrical release of budokai 4 eh? :P
Theatrical? Like in a movie theater? That'd rock! :lol:

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Post by Pedro The Hutt » Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:10 pm

XD Bwahaha, Playing Budokai on the silver screen, now that would be an experience worth remembering. Every little pixelly detail would be yours to behold! Not to mention the biiiig THX worthy speakers making the explosions sound really loud.

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Post by askani son » Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:43 pm

It was a joke!! :P
But yeah. Budokai on the big screen? SWEET.
A while back I was thinking about this 'cause I was in a PS2 tournament and it was a big screen we used (I got to see all the wrestlers from WWE in all their sweaty detail. YAY :lol: ) At the time a few friends and I were thinking a budokai game would have made it much more interesting. There is a tournament in it anyway. What more could a person ask for?

EDIT: I just realised what I did. A lapse in concentration led to me making a completely out of context joke since I thought this was a different thread. Sorry :oops:
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Post by SonGokuGT » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:39 am

That's cool! ^_^ We got our kick out of it! *thumbs up*

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Post by Sun_Wukong » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:57 am

TripleRach wrote: There was that one time where Pilaf destroyed Gokuu's pants...
Hah! I remember that! He ended up stealing Shou's outfit.

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Post by laserkid » Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:42 pm

They do lose their pants on rare occasion but thasts at the end of the battle for a comedic laugh. Remember Dragon Ball was originally a comedy. Keping in mind Toriyama-Sensei used these sort of things to evoke laughter, that would just completely and totally ruin a fight scene if he were to pull that in the middle of a more seirous fight. Reccome got away with it because the Ginyu force was obviously comedic anyway.

In short, yes, a Wizzard did it, named Akira Toriyama, who knew what he was doing with a manga.
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Post by Demonique » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:14 pm

Well, they're all super-powered so they can obviously handle the wonders that are stainless steel trousers. That, or they're very lucky. It would be interesting to see their trousers ripped off to reveal that Vegeta wears pink boxers. :)
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Post by Mike D » Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:12 am

Demonique wrote:Well, they're all super-powered so they can obviously handle the wonders that are stainless steel trousers. That, or they're very lucky. It would be interesting to see their trousers ripped off to reveal that Vegeta wears pink boxers. :)
Speaking of Vegeta, why would Goku picture him naked?

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Post by askani son » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:43 am

Speaking of Vegeta, why would Goku picture him naked?

Umm. Randomness?
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Post by lost in thought » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:30 pm

Mike D wrote:Speaking of Vegeta, why would Goku picture him naked?
Because Goku is silly like that.

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Post by tarsonis » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:48 pm

I thought Vegeta was projecting his thoughts into Goku's mind.

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Post by lost in thought » Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:24 am

Can't you remember anything?! Saiyan's aren't telepathic!!
Goku just kinda... has it... once and awhile, and loses it again...

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Post by Mike D » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:06 am

Oh yea. Like the way he reads minds by touching heads and evesdrops on the telepathic conversations of Gods and Gurus.

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Post by Gamingdevil » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:53 am

Yeah + he talked to Gohan when the Spirit Bomb missed so he had to deflect it. That's some weird stuff. :?
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