New Facebook Dragon Ball hoax?

[DragonBoxZTheMovies]

I guess there are a lot of people who have already made up their mind about these sorts of rumours

I see what you mean:

!U Should Just Scoop, on 16 April 2013 - 07:11 AM, said:
You guys are joking right? It's just a false rumor. Even the actual podcast on the website in the link explains that it's fake.

Don't be so gullible.

Scoop you and ur negativity....WHO'S WITH ME!!!!!???
Edited by Squezze, Yesterday, 11:57 AM

[Saiyan Prince Vegeta]

Oh wow, that's really bad. I will never understand how people can accept stuff without researching it first.

[Metalwario64]

Oh wow, that's really bad. I will never understand how people can accept stuff without researching it first.

Not even that. Forget research, they aren't even reading what's presented to them.

I know it's against this forum's tone and such, but I can't help but feel frustrated at the ignorance of so many people.

[penguintruth]

Think of all the people you know on the internet. 90 percent of them are halfwits. The other 10 percent are also halfwits, but you haven't figured it out yet. Baby steps.

That anyone would believe this rumor for a moment is a testament to the disease eating away at this fandom. People will believe whatever they want to despite no evidence to support it and/or significant evidence to the contrary.

[B]

The way false information spreads like crabs for this series is a testament to the fact that it's aimed at and mostly appeals to children. Couple that with the fact the series is so old that it hails from a time when you couldn't Google something in five seconds to verify that people weren't bullshitting, and you have... this becoming normal. It's just standard at this point that anyone will believe anything they hear about Dragon Ball.

[Blade]

The way false information spreads like crabs for this series is a testament to the fact that it's aimed at and mostly appeals to children. Couple that with the fact the series is so old that it hails from a time when you couldn't Google something in five seconds to verify that people weren't bullshitting, and you have... this becoming normal. It's just standard at this point that anyone will believe anything they hear about Dragon Ball.

There's certainly an element of this.

I think also there's something about Dragonball which really captures the imagination of fans and seems to open the story up to almost infinite expansion. Fan-fiction, most likely born out of this, has always been a big thing in the Dragonball fandom and continues to be. The appetite for something new remains insatiable, and as is often demonstrated in Dragonball fan communities in the face of nothing new the next best thing is often to invent it.

[VegettoEX]

Jesus Frackin' Tapdancing Christ.

There are still responses like this out there. I'm pretty much convinced that no-one on the Internet has any amount of reading comprehension capacity what-so-ever. We're trolling people? We're pulling pranks? It's all a joke?

EVEN WITH A GIANT BOX ON THE POST SAYING WHAT THE PODCAST EPISODE IS ABOUT AND HOW THERE IS NO NEW SERIES, PEOPLE THINK WE WERE MAKING AN APRIL FOOL'S ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THERE WAS A NEW SERIES.

There are no words.

Don't blame the people fighting every moment of every day to provide legitimate information and thoughtful analysis. Blame the shitty reporting on sites like the Spanish IGN who ran a news story with a fabricated quote announcing a new series.

[Blade]

[omegalucas]

Don't blame the people fighting every moment of every day to provide legitimate information and thoughtful analysis. Blame the shitty reporting on sites like the Spanish IGN who ran a news story with a fabricated quote announcing a new series.

That's pretty much the same thing said on the Portuguese newspaper (Correio da Manhã).
And because it's said in a newspaper it has to be true, right...? Everybody is even more convinced of it because of that news article...

[Blade]

Don't blame the people fighting every moment of every day to provide legitimate information and thoughtful analysis. Blame the shitty reporting on sites like the Spanish IGN who ran a news story with a fabricated quote announcing a new series.

That's pretty much the same thing said on the Portuguese newspaper (Correio da Manhã).
And because it's said in a newspaper it has to be true, right...? Everybody is even more convinced of it because of that news article...

The memetic context is relevant.

[DoomieDoomie911]

It doesn't look like people are going to give this up anytime soon... No matter how many facts are staring them in the face, they won't give it up.

[Chuquita]

It's the most retweeted tweet when you type "battle of gods" into twitter's search.
https://twitter.com/search?q=battle%20o ... s&src=typd

[VegettoEX]

Holy Jesus Tapdancing Christ can we please eradicate all of these completely irresponsible in-character Twitter accounts.

[Chuquita]

With twitter, I was under the impression for a while that you needed to give them your real first and last name (which is why I don't have a twitter account) so it's confusing to me how there are "character" accounts. I guess it's like YouTube where you're given the option to use a "nickname" if you want?

[soulnova]

Holy Jesus Tapdancing Christ can we please eradicate all of these completely irresponsible in-character Twitter accounts.

There's a reason why I wanted to activate Order 66, but alas, I don't have a blaster.

[TheMightyOzaru]

This is why I consider the DBZ fan base to be the most retarded fan base . I just wish there were more fans like the ones on this site.

[saiyangoku]

http://www.dblegends.com/2013/05/new-dr ... qus_thread

Recently I see this news, it say that there will be new TV series later, anyone know it is real or fake?

[superrayman3]

I'd say it's fake because if this was real it would've been announced by Toei first with other sites posting after the initial announcement.

[dbboxkaifan]

Reminds me of the Facebook 200+ New DBZ episodes hoax.

If Toei Animation were to produce a new series of the franchise, it would possibly be something else than Dragon Ball Z considering DBZ has ended in 1996 with 291.

[Blade]

Look - let's just stop and think about this: how would a small Spanish publication find out about this, if it held any real weight, before the Japanese press?

If there is to be a continuation of the anime then there would be a major announcement from an official, or at least semi-official, party. Even as a rumour, if it's not coming out of Japan or from a major publication then it's not even worth repeating. That's how these rumours grow, via repetition, and as we know from the Facebook hoax, once something like this becomes big enough then people are going to believe it regardless of any information on the contrary.

Also, keep in mind that Toei are currently producing two anime series: Toriko and One Piece. Their production staff share the workload of these two shows, which currently occupies Toei's one hour 'Dream 9' television slot. To begin production of a new Dragonball series would involve either stretching their production staff further, cancelling one of their current shows, or opening an entirely new production department, which is an expensive undertaking. I'm just stating the obvious here, but the evidence against a new regular Dragonball production commencing is pretty disparaging of the idea - especially when the current economic conditions are considered.