Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
Chuquita wrote:
I don't want to lose my ssjg Gokû. I really really really don't.
They better get rid of that stupid skinny Kaioken knockoff for good!
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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.
There's so much thing happening before EoZ, Goku and Vegeta got a lot strong since Majin Boo battle, Goku fighting Oob in his godly power-up base form don't seems to fit
Are we too old to enjoy new Dragon Ball movies/series?
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Nickolaidas wrote: Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:10 am
Guys, I'm going to be straight with you. If you feel the show has gotten 'silly' ... it hasn't. You're just 'too old for this shit'. Seriously, 95% of the people in those boards do not fit the target demographic of the show, so don't expect the show to be 'everything you hoped for'. I'm referring to the people here who expect Super to be rich with dark moments, serious storytelling, meaningful characters etc etc. It won't. It's a show for kids. A show for kids being kids. Everyone in those boards has a manchild in him/her, clamoring to get out, and that's fine. But having unrealistic expectations (such as believing the show grew up alongside you) is naïve at best. Honestly, do you take seriously a story where the supposed God of Destruction halts his urges to blow up stuff in order to eat ice cream sundae? That's the show's silliness at full force, take it for what it is. The show hasn't matured one bit, so don't expect it too. Again, I'm not saying that's a bad thing. I'm saying *that* is DB and always will be.
SaiyanZ wrote:Ah I see, my mistake. It and Rurouni Kenshin seem to be the only shonen from that age that are pumping out new content now (JoJo's has turned to a seinen now so I don't count it). I always felt Dragon Ball had muscular designs though, like Goku when he used the Kaioken against Vegeta, though obviously it was never as used like in FotNS.
Kinnikuman still is ongoing (went Seinen for a sequel, then went back to the original characters continuing the volume count *and possibly Shonen status* in the last few years), as is Saint Seiya (which is still counted as Shonen, but with Shonen Champion now, instead of Shonen Jump).
As for the figures, they could be real, they could be fake...I'd just wait for official confirmation before jumping the gun on this and getting too mad and/or happy about it. Lots of making assumptions with little basis/possible false information in this topic in recent weeks. Kinda ridiculous at times.
Noah wrote:I think that they will re-do the manga ending
There's so much thing happening before EoZ, Goku and Vegeta got a lot strong since Majin Boo battle, Goku fighting Oob in his godly power-up base form don't seems to fit
The manga ending will remain untouched. They'll learn how to control their God power-up and even then it won't really make a difference.
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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.
Waiting for spoilers has me so anxious that I feel like it's New Years Eve and I'm waiting for a New Year! I'm just that excited. As far as that blue hair for Goku I'd be a little dissapointed if it were to become real. Wonder what that transformation would be called though, I honestly believed God mode would be the highest level a Saiyan could reach
There's so much thing happening before EoZ, Goku and Vegeta got a lot strong since Majin Boo battle, Goku fighting Oob in his godly power-up base form don't seems to fit
Unless Uub is actually way, way stronger than the Kid Buu we knew... maybe because his soul has been purified, so he's no longer corrupted by the evil that Buu absorbed from various species over the gazillions of years he existed before Bibidi ever managed to awaken/summon him, and can now access the true power of the original Buu that we haven't actually seen at all so far (which was apparently something along the lines of a force of nature, and became evil and more destructive through exposure to evil in other beings.)
If that ends up being what they go with, I'm hoping this "primordial Buu"/Uub's full power outclasses the newly revived and powered-up Freeza just so Buu (in some form) can return to the strongest-in-the-universe slot once again. (Or at least, strongest minus Beerus and Whis, but I'm okay with those two being above everyone and I hope they don't get "GT'ed" and left behind as Goku gets even more absurdly strong.) I liked the way things were back when Freeza's claims of superiority were more his own arrogance than anything even close to actual fact, and damn near anyone who could reach the millions in the first place could surpass him with enough training (or fusions, or transformations... or just by being a Kaioshin/android/etc.)...
Why are yall still worrying about the manga ending? I thought that Goku not using his Super Saiyan forms much explains why he didn't use any of them in his fight with Uub.
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.
EXBadguy wrote:Why are yall still worrying about the manga ending? I thought that Goku not using his Super Saiyan forms much explains why he didn't use any of them in his fight with Uub.
Using SSJ against an untrained kid would be such a logical thing.
I think Uub or Buu's soul/body/w.e he has will undergo some sort of change to make Uub seem competent at the end of the series. Especially since Buu could copy techniques just by looking at them, maybe AT will play on that 'genius' part on him as well.
SaiyanBaller22 wrote:Waiting for spoilers has me so anxious that I feel like it's New Years Eve and I'm waiting for a New Year! I'm just that excited. As far as that blue hair for Goku I'd be a little dissapointed if it were to become real. Wonder what that transformation would be called though, I honestly believed God mode would be the highest level a Saiyan could reach
Super Saiyan God 2 is my fan-name until official name.
"The life is the hardest video games of ever. Because you have only one life and the powers are kinda lame. And sometimes a stage takes years"
"The life is a game, the objective of the game is trying to find the objective of the game, and then, finish the game"
--by Ranely Jr
SaiyanBaller22 wrote:Waiting for spoilers has me so anxious that I feel like it's New Years Eve and I'm waiting for a New Year! I'm just that excited. As far as that blue hair for Goku I'd be a little dissapointed if it were to become real. Wonder what that transformation would be called though, I honestly believed God mode would be the highest level a Saiyan could reach
Super Saiyan God 2 is my fan-name until official name.
SaiyanBaller22 wrote:Waiting for spoilers has me so anxious that I feel like it's New Years Eve and I'm waiting for a New Year! I'm just that excited. As far as that blue hair for Goku I'd be a little dissapointed if it were to become real. Wonder what that transformation would be called though, I honestly believed God mode would be the highest level a Saiyan could reach
Super Saiyan God 2 is my fan-name until official name.
wasnt the official name ''Saiyan beyond God''?
Yeah, that's what Heroes is calling it, or something along those lines.
SaiyanBaller22 wrote:Waiting for spoilers has me so anxious that I feel like it's New Years Eve and I'm waiting for a New Year! I'm just that excited. As far as that blue hair for Goku I'd be a little dissapointed if it were to become real. Wonder what that transformation would be called though, I honestly believed God mode would be the highest level a Saiyan could reach
Super Saiyan God 2 is my fan-name until official name.
I know it's Toriyamas art but to an extent wouldn't that be overdoing it? Kind of like how it went from SSJ to SSj3?
SaiyanZ wrote:Ah I see, my mistake. It and Rurouni Kenshin seem to be the only shonen from that age that are pumping out new content now (JoJo's has turned to a seinen now so I don't count it). I always felt Dragon Ball had muscular designs though, like Goku when he used the Kaioken against Vegeta, though obviously it was never as used like in FotNS.
Kinnikuman still is ongoing (went Seinen for a sequel, then went back to the original characters continuing the volume count *and possibly Shonen status* in the last few years), as is Saint Seiya (which is still counted as Shonen, but with Shonen Champion now, instead of Shonen Jump).
As for the figures, they could be real, they could be fake...I'd just wait for official confirmation before jumping the gun on this and getting too mad and/or happy about it. Lots of making assumptions with little basis/possible false information in this topic in recent weeks. Kinda ridiculous at times.
Oh wow, Kinnikuman is still going?! And I forgot to include Saint Seiya like you & Gyt Kaliba said, my mistake
