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Not your favorite villain, but the one you like the most purely in terms of appearance (can include DB, DBZ, GT, movies, and games).
For me, it's LSSG Broly. And by Broly, I mean Broly as Akira Toriyama drew him--with yellow ****ing hair! What is up with newer art progressively making his hair more and more lime green?! Whoever is involved with that travesty should go suck on some sour limes until tears start producing.
Runner-up is Perfect Cell. Easily the most badass non-saiyan design for me in the series. To think this creation was the result of an editor being on Toriyama's case. No editor, no Cell, and no... perfection.
"Dragon Ball once became a thing of the past to me, but after that, I got angry about the live action movie, re-wrote an entire movie script, and now I'm complaining about the quality of the new TV anime. It seems Dragon Ball has grown on me so much that I can't leave it alone." - Akira Toriyama on Dragon Ball Super
fadeddreams5 wrote:For me, it's LSSG Broly. And by Broly, I mean Broly as Akira Toriyama drew him--with yellow ****ing hair! What is up with newer art progressively making his hair more and more lime green?! Whoever is involved with that travesty should go suck on some sour limes until tears start producing.
Does it have anything to do with the colors on Funimation's Double Features transfer being a far cry from the Dragon Box masters?
And I would have to say Cell in any form because I just love that Toriyama had to draw every little black spot on his shell. That always showed what real commitment he had.
Original Thread Topic wrote:Did Dragon Ball ever motivate you to exercise?
No, why would it? It's fiction. The strength of the characters is not possible to reach in reality.
I mean, you're pretty open about looking at cartoon porn. Why would you do that? It's fiction. The proportions of these women are not possible to reach in reality.
SSJ God Gogeta wrote:It's a tie between Cell and Janemba for me.
Aw, I forgot about Janemba. For me Movie 12 was the height of character and setting design in the whole series. It took a really abstract mind to sort through that whole Other World location.
Original Thread Topic wrote:Did Dragon Ball ever motivate you to exercise?
No, why would it? It's fiction. The strength of the characters is not possible to reach in reality.
I mean, you're pretty open about looking at cartoon porn. Why would you do that? It's fiction. The proportions of these women are not possible to reach in reality.
I love Yi Xing Long's design. He looks very intimidating with all his spikes and always reminds me of Baphomet with his two horns which is not to say that he has anything in common with him.
Other than that, Janemba looks cool as well. Also first form Cell, which is so hideous that I love it. I guess it completely fulfills its purpose.
But honestly I think everyone looks cool in their own ways depending on what their designs are supposed to convey.
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fadeddreams5 wrote:Not your favorite villain, but the one you like the most purely in terms of appearance (can include DB, DBZ, GT, movies, and games).
For me, it's LSSG Broly. And by Broly, I mean Broly as Akira Toriyama drew him--with yellow ****ing hair! What is up with newer art progressively making his hair more and more lime green?! Whoever is involved with that travesty should go suck on some sour limes until tears start producing.
Runner-up is Perfect Cell. Easily the most badass non-saiyan design for me in the series. To think this creation was the result of an editor being on Toriyama's case. No editor, no Cell, and no... perfection.
His hair was progressively made more green to further distinguish the LSSJ form from the other SSJ forms (because the green aura, hulking body, and all white eyes apparently weren't enough).
- LSSJ Broly(love the wrestling Price of Persia type. And he looks badass with his earrings. No homo or anything)
- Imperfect and Perfect Cell
- Dr Gero
- Syn/Omega Shenron
- All of Super Buu's forms
- King Piccolo
Akira Toriyama wrote:If anyone. ANYONE AT TOEI! Makes a movie about old and weak major villains returning, or making recolored versions of Super Saiyan, I'ma come to yo company and evict you from doing Dragon Ball ever again! Only I do those things, because people love me, and they despise you....derp!
Marco Polo wrote:Goku Black is a fan of DBZ who hates Super and has taken the form of a younger Goku (thinner shape, softer hair) to avenge the original series by destroying the new.
Janemba, both forms. I like the transition from innocence to maniacal evil.
Runner up though!
Full Grown Baby after he splits from Vegeta, I don't know why but I really like that design more then his super Baby Vegeta form.
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Imperfect Cell easily takes the win for me. There's just something very different about his look compared to characters we'd had prior, and I love that he occasionally goes to all fours (at least in the anime, I forget if he does in the manga) to fight. It just adds something even more...feral...to his design and fighting style. He also seems to use his tail to attack far more than any other tailed character did. I'll never understand what Toriyama's editor had against this form. The second form though...well...I think most of us agree with him on that one at least.
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Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
I love Imperfect Cell's design, he really is something that you could call a monster. I also like every form of Freeza and am very excited for his new one.
For DB, Tao Pai Pai and King Piccolo take the cake.
Araki wrote:
These days people start throwing the words "filler" and "silce of life" everytime characters aren't punching each other. No matter if something is moving the plot or there's character exposition.
Imagine if DB started these days. It would go like this:
"hey, what's happening in Dragon Ball today?"
"Goku wants Mutenroshi to train him, so he's bringing him some chicks now."
"oh i see, just slice of life filler then. skippable. "
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