What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

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Re: What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

Post by dodge2461 » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:18 am

Stress Relieving.

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Re: What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:38 am

Legendary.
fadeddreams5 wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.

I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.

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Re: What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

Post by KameRule » Sat Mar 15, 2014 2:28 pm

SPARKING!!
Master, the batteries inside your Wii Remote are nearly depleted.

Master, there is a 98% chance that the floor is beneath you.

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Re: What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

Post by RandomGuy96 » Sat Mar 15, 2014 2:46 pm

Explosion.
The Monkey King wrote:
RandomGuy96 wrote:
dbgtFO wrote: Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.

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Re: What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

Post by ShinGaijin » Sat Mar 15, 2014 3:11 pm

Eternal.
One hundred years from now, we don't know which works will remain in the memories, but Dragonball will be part of it for sure.

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Re: What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

Post by Looneygamemaster » Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:03 am

Disillusionment.

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Re: What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

Post by JackyBoi99 » Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:48 am

Atmospheric
It is clear that sometime in Mark Satan's life, he acquired the dragon balls and called upon shenlong to grant him immortality.

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Re: What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

Post by FortuneSSJ » Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:28 pm

Happiness.
A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.

Favourite old DB Animators: Masaki Sato and Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Favourite new DB Animators: Yuya Takahashi and Chikashi Kubota

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Re: What one word best describes what DBZ means to you?

Post by garnetjester » Sun Mar 16, 2014 2:30 pm

I think for me it would be something like "Courage" because "never giving up" is not a word.

I like "willpower" a lot too. Maybe because of Hikari no Will Power.
"Giving up is something we can do anytime, so let's head on, even if it's just a little bit!"

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