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Since we are here, it's probably obvious, but who else is the biggest Dragon Ball fan in your circle of friends?
I have plenty of friends who like, even a few who love Dragon Ball, but none of them have read, or even own the entire manga like me. Reading the entire manga thoroughly, to me, is all you need to experience and know the true Dragon Ball. (If you are an American ) Knowledge of how it's been presented in America compared to what it originally was is extremely important as well, for the anime especially, and the manga, in regards to the dialogue edits and such.
I know more about Dragon Ball than anyone I know personally. Who else is the same?
I won't lie, I clicked this thread going 'Oh boy, here we go' not because I was going to argue it myself, but because I knew, I just knew it wasn't going to end well.
So well played.
I'd say I'm the same as well. A good chunk of my internet friends are also into Dragon Ball, but definitely not into it to the same level. And my girlfriend is the only other person into it like I am in real life, but she's not quite as into it anymore compared to how I am. She still loves it, but it's usually me that brings stuff up or has the answer to a question. So yeah. I feel like I'm really smart and know everything about the series! Then I come here and am proven wrong instantly. Oi.
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I am. I barely have any friends that are even slightly into this series.
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Out of all of my friends, I'm definitely the bigger fan I meet people all the time and they talk about Dragonball and how they're such a big fan, and I just think ''No...you're not'' that may sound rude but I'm not I'm one the crazy fans that like all the dubs and the original Japanese heck, everything! I love meeting people that says ''I GOT IT ALL!'' and then I ask them about the Goku's fire fighting regiment and Traffic safety and the overview special and some other stuff and they're like ''I don't have that'' Getting carried away I better slow down haha
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I will say, I have two best friends, and one of them couldn't care less ( lol, he's the semi-religious republican, although you wouldn't know it unless you asked him, lol.), and the other ( bass playing hippy, lol. By the way, we are all 3 best friends who love each other ) truly loves everything Dragon Ball, but even the latter still doesn't know anywhere near as much as I do about it.
I am. I've been a huge fan of the series since it first aired in the UK in 2000 and was the only kid in my class that was into it. Sadly most of them didn't even know what it was. Even now none of my friends are really into it but I still watch my DVDs and watch Kai on TV and get the games every year unless they're said to be plain awful.
Tyro wrote:Unless your friends also visit this forum I doubt there'll ever be a time when someone says "my friend(s) know more about Dragonball than I do."
True for most of us. But hey you never know. Could be a fun thread I thought...
I'm the only one. My friends used to be into it but aren't anymore. My brother used to be a fan but left. Still don't know why he would ever pick Pokemon (anime) over dbz.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Tyro wrote:Unless your friends also visit this forum I doubt there'll ever be a time when someone says "my friend(s) know more about Dragonball than I do."
This guy right here.
You make me feel like I'm not alone because of all the text messages. Our nerdom has infected our phones!
Yeah, I'm the clear winner when it comes to DB knowledge within all my friends, tho my friend Jessica isn't far behind me.
My family members (cousins, Brothers, etc) are all dubbies, so they are operating on wrong info most of the time, and it irks me lol.
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Tyro wrote:Unless your friends also visit this forum I doubt there'll ever be a time when someone says "my friend(s) know more about Dragonball than I do."
This guy right here.
You make me feel like I'm not alone because of all the text messages. Our nerdom has infected our phones!
It's comforting to know that there's someone else out there on your level who you can bounce ideas off of and recieve flavorful feedback from. I think this is how Goku must feel when he comes across a powerful enemy, or how Vegeta feels about Goku towards the later arcs. I imagine if anyone else read a conversation we had via text they wouldn't know that the fuck we were talking about. I mean, how many other people can you honestly get a genuine opinion from on a subject as fine as SSj Vegeta vs. Cell (post-#17 absorption)? Haha
HA! Jokes on you! I don't even have friends! So I win......shit, I'm pathetic..
But in all seriousness, not many of my friends are into Dragon Ball. Maybe two of them but nowhere near the level of nerd I am (I don't know if that last part is supposed to be cocky or self deprecating).
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It would have to be me, yes. Most of my friends have no contact with it whatsoever outside of myself. I do have a friend who is a big Once Piece fan, and he likes Dragon Ball too. His One Piece obsession overshadows it though. There is also the neat fact that I sorta got one of my friends into Dragon Ball, but he's in that weird state where he watches the Japanese version and the Funi dub without any real care between them. It's often the case that he watches episodes in Japanese with me, but then goes off and watches Funi clips on the net (Maybe because it's easier to find?). Something that annoys me is that some of my friends (Even some family members) have this odd perception that my main interest is Sonic The Hedgehog for some reason........ Although I totally have a mini nerd obsession with it.
I was pretty lucky, I ended up with a circle of friends that LOVED "Dragon Ball." I mean, mostly the animes, but I even have one friend who ventured into the manga. So, in my group of friends, I'd say that I'm "tied" for being the biggest fan in my group. Pretty cool, all things considered. Not to sound too mushy/corny, but I love my friends!
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