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by Fizzer » Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:11 pm
I'd love to see things from all of them! My ideal Dragon Ball remake would flesh out Kame-Sennin's training more, have content from Goku's three-year solo training arc (I'm imagining lots of fun adventures, there could be a great mini-arc here), do something with the five year gap between the 23rd Tenkaichi Boudoukai and the arrival of Raditz (This one is a must, in order to heal up the tear between Dragon Ball and "Dragon Ball Z" which I dislike so much. I'd love to see more Goku/Chichi adventures. It would be good if some form of The Dead Zone, made consistent with the rest of the series, could go here, to open up for a form of the Garlic Jr arc later, and to allow Goku and Chichi to have be involved in a serious battle together), have a lot more character stuff from the three years after Trunks' visit (especially Vegeta/Bulma), and have some story arc between the Cell and Buu arcs (I want to see Kuririn and 18 getting together, I want Goku to be dead for longer in terms of screen-time to make him really seem dead).
I really like the times of peace in Dragon Ball these days. I like stuff to do with the characters, I like it when they're just hanging around and not dealing with any threads to the Earth, so I'd love to see more from all of the gaps. I'm more interested in the relationships developing than anything, because weddings and stuff are pretty big, and Dragon Ball is really just about the lives of the characters. Based on that alone I probably would say the three years pre-androids, but I also care a lot about fusing DB and DBZ back together, so I'd like there to be more content there to create a smooth flow, and I'm inclined to choose the seven years to make Goku dead for longer.
My final decision is the seven years post-Cell. This is because:
1. Goku stays dead for longer
2. Vegeta becoming accustomed to life on Earth. I'm imagining him becoming much friendlier toward the other characters and properly becoming "one of the gang", taking up some hobby besides training, really developing his relationship with Bulma (and, apparently, getting married), and maybe telling her about the alien science that even she and Dr Brief don't know about yet.
3. Kuririn and 18. It would be great for this to develop somewhat slowly, with a "chase".
4. It's a long gap with no "stitching". (The gaps pre-Z are all stitched together, the story before the gap leads directly into the story after the gap. In Z, this often isn't the case. Filling part of the gap with something makes it better)
5. Goten and Trunks.
Clearly, these things would have to be interwoven into some kind of plot or it simply wouldn't be Dragon Ball. The Vegeta/Bulma and Kuririn/18 stuff probably mostly occurs in the first year or so after Cell, so it would continue directly from there. Stuff to do with Goten and Trunks is more likely to be toward the end of the gap, so to have that there we'd just resume viewing a little earlier.
