Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
SSJ God Gogeta wrote:Great... They ruin Jaco's big screen debut with that golden abomination.....
I want Jaco to defeat Freeza.
That would make this the greatest movie ever.
Agreed There's just no other way he appears in the film and doesn't get the last word over Freeza. I can't see Toriyama making Jaco appear just for him to be beaten by the bad guys, he's just too cute, lol
Dyno wrote:In Dragon Ball Online, Bardock got caught by Freeza's attack and Mira saved him.
In Dragon Ball GT, Kakarot got caught by the Baby's attack and Kibitoshin's teleport sent him to another dimension.
In Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Bardock got caught by a wormhole and was sent to the future.
Yes, all of those have explanations.
Episode of Bardock doesn't, do you see where I'm getting at here? We can't always assume stuff for ourselves. I know we already do this with plenty of stuff in Dragon Ball, but when it's a major plot point that's not explained, it's a problem.
Kakarot's being sent to another dimension hasn't an explanation.
Rocketman(In response to a post about Pandora's Box) wrote:
I sat here for ten damn minutes wondering what the hell God of War had to do with any of this.
Insertclevername wrote:I plan to lose my virginity to Dragon Box 2.
He may not since we have no pics of Vegeta getting pounded yet. Could mean he does something...or a fake out.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
That shot looks very CGI-esque. And that worries me a lot.
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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.
JulieYBM wrote:So, in the preview of the trailer we can hear the Momo Clover Z theme song and the Maximum the Hormone theme song. The latter sounds different, though, so I wonder if Maximum the Hormone created a new version for the film?
Woudn't they have to anyway? Toei doesn't want Japanese in the international versions, remember? So there will be English versions of both songs sung by the groups themselves.
So they might as well re-record the Japanese as well if they're back in the studio for the English version.
Having Jaco in this movie has me hyped a bit more.
Tanooki Kuribo wrote:If Toriyama joined Kanzenshuu, he'd probably forget his login name and password.
Kamiccolo9 wrote:
JacobYBM wrote: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.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I'm wondering, why is CGI getting some flack here? I understand some may just not like it, but why? I personally thought the Goku/Beerus CGI scenes were beautiful.