So MLP Just Went DBZ....

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Re: So MLP Just Went DBZ....

Post by qjz123 » Sun May 11, 2014 4:44 pm

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ABED wrote:To bottom line it, it's weird, the clip was a nice homage, but DBZ is still better.
How? Because it doesn't have ponies in it? :eh:
Why don't you call yourself ThatMyLittlePonyGuy? You clearly love that show more.

It's weird that you watch MLP, constantly criticize DBZ on a DBZ forum, and yet you claim to haven't watched any incarnation of Batman.
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Re: So MLP Just Went DBZ....

Post by Super Sonic » Sun May 11, 2014 4:50 pm

Haven't watched the ep, but know a few cast members from that show were on the old dub. Heck, one particular was Penny in "Curse of the Blood Rubies" and little Chi-Chi in the old DB dub from 95 when she was 11.

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Post by B » Sun May 11, 2014 4:53 pm

The things that people immediately associate with Dragon Ball have become so common place, it's hard to see any resemblance beyond the fact that beams were shot.

I saw a couple episodes once. I wasn't impressed with it. It was a typical children's show. I don't particularly care for Adventure Time or Regular Show either, the two series everyone wets their pants over, so this definitely does nothing for me.
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Post by ABED » Sun May 11, 2014 5:17 pm

Kids shows were better in the 90s.
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Re: So MLP Just Went DBZ....

Post by TheGmGoken » Sun May 11, 2014 5:21 pm

ABED wrote:Kids shows were better in the 90s.
Hey 60s - 80s weren't bad either. Though today shows are awful

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Re: So MLP Just Went DBZ....

Post by Weejus » Sun May 11, 2014 5:24 pm

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ABED wrote:Kids shows were better in the 90s.
Hey 60s - 80s weren't bad either. Though today shows are awful
I dunno, Regular Show is pretty good. Adventure Time, while I will admit is a good series, I don't particularly care for. MLP just confuses me.

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Post by TheGmGoken » Sun May 11, 2014 5:30 pm

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ABED wrote:Kids shows were better in the 90s.
Hey 60s - 80s weren't bad either. Though today shows are awful
I dunno, Regular Show is pretty good. Adventure Time, while I will admit is a good series, I don't particularly care for. MLP just confuses me.
Regular show puts me to sleep literally. Its boring. Still one show doesn't make the entire genre of Cartoons good now a days.

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Post by ABED » Sun May 11, 2014 5:35 pm

I honestly can't recall that many good cartoons from the 80s.
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Re: So MLP Just Went DBZ....

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sun May 11, 2014 5:56 pm

Whilst we are talking about Toons. Anyone seen the new Tom and Jerry incarnation? It wasn't as bad as I was expecting.
Anyway. I never thought I'd read a topic comparing DBZ to MLP. I was just watching that clip and my family were laughing at me :lol:

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Post by dbboxkaifan » Sun May 11, 2014 6:00 pm

JEFFMAN219 wrote:My little pony is for little girls and its not more mature than DBZ.
Both of these series were made for children so neither one is exactly mature, although technically I suppose Dragon Ball Z would be.

I love how Dragon Ball doesn't take itself too serious and how Muten Roshi always finds him in awkward situations (needs to take a dump while in an air plane, or gives Crane Hermit a silent smelly fart). :lol:

Then when you think about it both of those voice actors have passed away. Turtle Hermit and Crane Hermit have all the bitchy-bitchy girls as Goku would say, in the Next World. :P
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Post by JEFFMAN219 » Sun May 11, 2014 6:13 pm

dbboxkaifan wrote:
JEFFMAN219 wrote:My little pony is for little girls and its not more mature than DBZ.
Both of these series were made for children so neither one is exactly mature, although technically I suppose Dragon Ball Z would be.

I love how Dragon Ball doesn't take itself too serious and how Muten Roshi always finds him in awkward situations (needs to take a dump while in an air plane, or gives Crane Hermit a silent smelly fart). :lol:

Then when you think about it both of those voice actors have passed away. Turtle Hermit and Crane Hermit have all the bitchy-bitchy girls as Goku would say, in the Next World. :P
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Re: So MLP Just Went DBZ....

Post by WittyUsername » Sun May 11, 2014 6:17 pm

Well the comments on this thread were pretty amusing to read. I never thought I would see the day where people would debate about Dragon Ball vs MLP on a Dragon Ball forum. Anyway, everyone knows Breaking Bad blows everything else out of the water.
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Post by Super Sonic » Sun May 11, 2014 6:18 pm

ABED wrote:I honestly can't recall that many good cartoons from the 80s.
There were quite a few memorable ones back then. (Not wanting to spam, otherwise would've put a lot more up).
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Re: So MLP Just Went DBZ....

Post by Super Sonic » Sun May 11, 2014 6:24 pm

Well, seems this ep might've been interesting. Haven't watched the show much (though for friends being fans, know more of the characters' names here than the original which I saw with my sis and cousins back in the day) but perhaps I'll take a look when I get the chance.

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Post by XanatosVanBadass » Sun May 11, 2014 6:59 pm

I'll just leave this here.

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Post by ABED » Sun May 11, 2014 7:06 pm

WittyUsername wrote:Well the comments on this thread were pretty amusing to read. I never thought I would see the day where people would debate about Dragon Ball vs MLP on a Dragon Ball forum. Anyway, everyone knows Breaking Bad blows everything else out of the water.
Breaking Bad is great, but I don't want everything to be Breaking Bad. It's a VERY dark show, and most of the time, I don't want to watch that. Much of the time I want to watch Dragon Ball. If I want something a little more intellectually stimulating, I'll watch something like Veronica Mars.
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Post by Gaffer Tape » Sun May 11, 2014 7:06 pm

ABED wrote:The real question is why are you watching My Little Pony?
ABED wrote: Yes, especially if you're not a pre-pubescent girl. First off, farts are always funny, and fights don't stop being cool even into adulthood. I know we're supposed to be accepting of all cultures, but I find Bronies to be weird.
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If you are watching this, well, just confess to it online, not even to your friends.
Yeesh. Just yeesh. I've never even seen MLP, but I find the attitudes displayed here to be incredibly insulting on a deeply personal level. At least I get the impression from Gokuden that he's just trying to "tell it like it is," but this just encapsulates what's so screwed up about society, and how judgmental and narrow-minded people still are about things while being completely oblivious to their own surroundings. Again, this is a DRAGON BALL FORUM! It's a series for little boys. So why aren't you telling the adult women here how "creepy" and "weird" they are, let alone the adult men? Well, I guess at least the latter have the potential "excuse" of liking it from their childhoods, so it's okay, right?

Women have spent the entire last century expanding their roles and breaking down the walls for themselves in the gender divide while men just hold up this ridiculous masculine ideal and remain committed to just stagnate and remain less diverse than their female counterparts just because they're so very afraid of being judged. How very manly.
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Post by JulieYBM » Sun May 11, 2014 7:09 pm

If this is a homage it's a pretty weak one. The beams are just surface-level. The actual action choreography, storyboarding, and animation lack the punch that Dragon Ball battle scenes employ. It's like watching two cardboard cutouts of the character models sliding across the screen. There's no sense of motion or personality despite all of the money spent.
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Re: So MLP Just Went DBZ....

Post by ABED » Sun May 11, 2014 7:15 pm

Yeesh. Just yeesh. I've never even seen MLP, but I find the attitudes displayed here to be incredibly insulting on a deeply personal level. At least I get the impression from Gokuden that he's just trying to "tell it like it is," but this just encapsulates what's so screwed up about society, and how judgmental and narrow-minded people still are about things while being completely oblivious to their own surroundings. Again, this is a DRAGON BALL FORUM! It's a series for little boys. So why aren't you telling the adult women here how "creepy" and "weird" they are, let alone the adult men? Well, I guess at least the latter have the potential "excuse" of liking it from their childhoods, so it's okay, right?

Women have spent the entire last century expanding their roles and breaking down the walls for themselves in the gender divide while men just hold up this ridiculous masculine ideal and remain committed to just stagnate and remain less diverse than their female counterparts just because they're so very afraid of being judged. How very manly.
Please don't make this a women's rights thing (for lack of a better term). I admitted that regardless of whatever positives it has, I PERSONALLY find it weird.

You can say that it's for little boys, but generally speaking, most American children's programming doesn't include stuff this violent or dirty.

You do realize that you are judging people for being judgmental, don't you?
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