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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by TheGmGoken » Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:13 pm

Ryuji-Otogi wrote:Naruto is awesome. Y'all just a bunch of haters. Seems like everyone puts Dragon Ball and One Piece on a pedestal around here. I like them all personally.
Wow that hurt. Jk. Though I love Naruto. One piece is in my bottem 10 for all anime I've watched. It's horrible.
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Post by Gonstead » Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:40 pm

I'd like to see how Kouta Hirano would approach the story. Absolutely love Hellsing!
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

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Gonstead wrote:I'd like to see how Kouta Hirano would approach the story. Absolutely love Hellsing!
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by Kid Buu » Sat Jun 21, 2014 3:18 am

TheGmGoken wrote:
Ryuji-Otogi wrote:Naruto is awesome. Y'all just a bunch of haters. Seems like everyone puts Dragon Ball and One Piece on a pedestal around here. I like them all personally.
Wow that hurt. Jk. Though I love Naruto. One piece is in my bottem 10 for all anime I've watched. It's horrible.
I dunno, the last chapter made me drop Naruto, but I do like it more than One Piece.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by TheGmGoken » Sat Jun 21, 2014 3:25 am

Kid Buu wrote:
TheGmGoken wrote:
Ryuji-Otogi wrote:Naruto is awesome. Y'all just a bunch of haters. Seems like everyone puts Dragon Ball and One Piece on a pedestal around here. I like them all personally.
Wow that hurt. Jk. Though I love Naruto. One piece is in my bottem 10 for all anime I've watched. It's horrible.
I dunno, the last chapter made me drop Naruto, but I do like it more than One Piece.
Just read it. I'm laughing at the garbage. I still like it though. But One piece is just :sick:
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by Flame Dragon » Sat Jun 21, 2014 12:39 pm

Ryuji-Otogi wrote:Naruto is awesome. Y'all just a bunch of haters. Seems like everyone puts Dragon Ball and One Piece on a pedestal around here. I like them all personally.

Naruto is horrible. One of the worst manga ever.
It was really great in Part I and it was good at the start of Part II, nowadays it's a joke.

It's not even interesting anymore, i feel like i'm reading fanfiction.
Aliens? Different dimensions?
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by Super Sonic » Sat Jun 21, 2014 1:02 pm

Video game boss battles are cool.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by TheGmGoken » Sat Jun 21, 2014 1:32 pm

What if
Ubisoft(company for Assassin Creed) Yano Takashi(writer of AC manga)

Wrote DB?
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by KentalSSJ6 » Sat Jun 21, 2014 2:17 pm

TheGmGoken wrote:What if
Ubisoft(company for Assassin Creed) Yano Takashi(writer of AC manga)

Wrote DB?
As someone who loves the AC games (except 3), I absolutely hated the modern elements with Desmond. I personally think the series would have been much better off just sticking 100% to the ancestors you play as. Altair, Ezio, Edward, Conner, and Arno.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by TheGmGoken » Sat Jun 21, 2014 2:20 pm

KentalSSJ6 wrote:
TheGmGoken wrote:What if
Ubisoft(company for Assassin Creed) Yano Takashi(writer of AC manga)

Wrote DB?
As someone who loves the AC games (except 3), I absolutely hated the modern elements with Desmond. I personally think the series would have been much better off just sticking 100% to the ancestors you play as. Altair, Ezio, Edward, Conner, and Arno.
Indeed. Desmond was the worst. AC3 was bad though because Connor was quite boring. My favorite is Revelation. I even cried during the ending. Arno is a good 7.5/10. Altair is just one inch below Ezio. Excited for Unity. I would prefer had it stayed Ancestry too.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sat Jun 21, 2014 6:27 pm

Flame Dragon wrote:Naruto is horrible. One of the worst manga ever.
It was really great in Part I and it was good at the start of Part II, nowadays it's a joke.

It's not even interesting anymore, i feel like i'm reading fanfiction.
Aliens? Different dimensions?
Not to go off topic, but uh, what? Aliens? I...do not recall this at all, and I'm caught up on the latest chapters.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by Saiga » Sat Jun 21, 2014 7:52 pm

Gyt Kaliba wrote:
Flame Dragon wrote:Naruto is horrible. One of the worst manga ever.
It was really great in Part I and it was good at the start of Part II, nowadays it's a joke.

It's not even interesting anymore, i feel like i'm reading fanfiction.
Aliens? Different dimensions?
Not to go off topic, but uh, what? Aliens? I...do not recall this at all, and I'm caught up on the latest chapters.
All the stuff said about Kaguya is making people think aliens. Plus her appearance, and the fact that she needed to build an army when she had everyone on Earth enslaved already. So what else would she need an army for?
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:12 pm

Gyt Kaliba wrote:
Flame Dragon wrote:Naruto is horrible. One of the worst manga ever.
It was really great in Part I and it was good at the start of Part II, nowadays it's a joke.

It's not even interesting anymore, i feel like i'm reading fanfiction.
Aliens? Different dimensions?
Not to go off topic, but uh, what? Aliens? I...do not recall this at all, and I'm caught up on the latest chapters.
It is hinted that Kaguya is an alien. She calls Earth by name, wants to turn every single human into White Zetsus to make an army, she came from a far away place, Naruto asks Hogoromo if he is an alien and he laughs...
Saiga wrote:All the stuff said about Kaguya is making people think aliens. Plus her appearance, and the fact that she needed to build an army when she had everyone on Earth enslaved already. So what else would she need an army for?
Well, her appearance should be like that because she ate the Chakra Fruit, with Hogoromo & Hamura sharing this appearance as her children. Besides, Obito & Madara took a similar appearance when they became the Juubi Jinchuriki.
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by Saiga » Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:15 pm

I thought we saw her before eating the fruit and she still looked pretty weird?
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Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:16 pm

Saiga wrote:I thought we saw her before eating the fruit and she still looked pretty weird?
When did we see her before that?
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Superman is, and always has been, a symbol for truth, justice, and upstanding moral fortitude–a role model and leader as much as a fighter. The more down-to-earth Goku has no illusions about being responsible for maintaining social order, or for setting some kind of moral example for the entire world. Goku is simply a martial artist who’s devoted his life toward perfecting his fighting skills and other abilities. Though never shy about risking his life to save either one person or the entire world, he just doesn’t believe that the balance of the world rests in any way on his shoulders, and he has no need to shape any part of it in his image. Goku is an idealist, and believes that there is some good in everyone, but he is unconcerned with the big picture of the world…unless it has to do with some kind of fight. Politics, society, law and order don’t have much bearing on his life, but he’s a man who knows right from wrong.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:19 pm

Huh...I never really got the 'alien' vibe at all myself, but...if it turns out to be that, I'm going to facepalm so hard that anyone standing behind me is going to feel the shockwave. Oy.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by Saiga » Sat Jun 21, 2014 8:37 pm

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:
Saiga wrote:I thought we saw her before eating the fruit and she still looked pretty weird?
When did we see her before that?
We only see a mural depicting her standing before the fruit in chapter 646, and she at least has horns. Possibly the Byakugan as well. Then again, that same chapter called her a human so who even knows.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by Kid Buu » Sun Jun 22, 2014 2:51 am

Flame Dragon wrote:
Ryuji-Otogi wrote:Naruto is awesome. Y'all just a bunch of haters. Seems like everyone puts Dragon Ball and One Piece on a pedestal around here. I like them all personally.

Naruto is horrible. One of the worst manga ever.
It was really great in Part I and it was good at the start of Part II, nowadays it's a joke.

It's not even interesting anymore, i feel like i'm reading fanfiction.
Aliens? Different dimensions?
I felt like Shippuden went downhill during the Sasuke & Sai arc. Sai and Yamaoto just turned out to be mostly wasted characters, Sakura returned to her familiar role of being shafted, and it left on an anticlimax of them finding Sasuke and nothing really coming out of it. I also didn't like how it vindicated Sasuke's decision to go to Orochimaru for power, since he ended up getting a lot stronger than Naruto did over the timeskip. Sasuke never paid any price for that, in my humble opinion.

The fighting was still good for me to watch it, at least until the War Arc. The War Arc has just seemed to lose all direction once Kabuto was beaten, I've heard rumors that Kishimoto said he didn't even know how to beat villains in this arc themselves.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by TheGmGoken » Sun Jun 22, 2014 2:58 am

I think it was on Saiyan Island but he said he doesn't know how it'll end and even he dont know how it'll play out.
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Re: If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

Post by SSJ3_Zack » Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:10 am

If Kentaro Miura wrote DragonBall it'd still be on going! Haha.
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