Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
ShadowWolf87 wrote:I know I shouldn't be... but part of me is eager to see how certain folks online are going to react to a certain character surviving while another certain character ties his death count.
That said, glad people really seem to love this movie so far.
Lol, okay, he did die within the events of the movie, but since time was reversed, technically, it never happened. So in the true timeline, his death count is still 2.
Still want to know Bulma's reaction to before time was reversed, though!
But everybody but him still remembers it.
except Freezer....
Favorite Character: Vegeta Seconds favorites caracteres:Goku , Piccolo Previously I like: Kid Gohan I do not like: Adult Gohan I hope more: Trunks and Goten I claim for: A girlfriend and a happy life for Yamcha. Women SSJ Hate: Send all women to take care of children, including A18. Need more of: Ten Sin Han
Do you think there will be official English reviews of the movie prior to the Japanese release from the people who saw the LA screening? Or will there will be a review embargo?
Spoiler:
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.
AjayLikesGaming wrote:
She's on her knees crying over "Vegeta, Trunks, Papa and Mama".
Why ? Goku could teleport to Namek and use their Dbs to bring them back which would probably take less then a minute.
They still suffered - their deaths, though quick, weren't instantaneous. Especially in Vegeta's and Trunks' cases, due to their durability. The explosion probably killed Trunks, while Vegeta probably took a ton of damage before suffocating.
Lord Beerus wrote:Do you think there will be official English reviews of the movie prior to the Japanese release from the people who saw the LA screening? Or will there will be a review embargo?
Aren't embargoes aimed at people who work at big websites like IGN ? what will happen if some random person who got to see it goes against the embargo ?
July 9th 2018 will be remembered as the day Broly became canon.
ShadowWolf87 wrote:Glad people really seem to love this movie so far.
Hopefully enough do so it reaches it's 4 billion yen goal.
If it makes more like 5 billion do you think we'll get 1 a year ?
I hope not. I seriously rather wait 2 years to have a great movie to see, than one rushed movie every year.
The goal is always aim higher. If this movie succeeds to reach the 4 billions, then for next one, toei should rise the bar again and have even more budget.
A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.
Favourite old DB Animators: Masaki Sato and Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Favourite new DB Animators: Yuya Takahashi and Chikashi Kubota
FortuneSSJ wrote:
I hope not. I seriously rather wait 2 years to have a great movie to see than one rushed every year.
Good point however as good as the last 2 movies are they're nothing but set up movies for something bigger and it takes a long time for Toriyama to get to the main event of an arc so we could end up getting 2-3 more set up movies which will mean we'll have to wait 6-8 years to get to this arc's main event.
What they can do is get 2 talented teams to work on them which will give each movie 2 years of development time.
July 9th 2018 will be remembered as the day Broly became canon.
A film every 2 years is enough. They need time to put together solid animation to an acceptable level, am delighted "F" looks good at least for the most part.
I would have thought Toriyama has an idea where the story goes from here, and will need time to write it.
A question for you all: Do you think there will be an Extended version like we had for BoG?.
A little off topic.
But today I went to an anime convention and when I arrived, the song that was starting to play was the F song. Couldn't have start better.
It was the first time that I had the chance to play Xenoverse too. Loved it.
DBZ_Lee wrote:
A question for you all: Do you think there will be an Extended version like we had for BoG?.
I seriously hope so. Maybe with the so awaited cliffhanger ending teasing the next movie.
Or they should make a second version, where Vegeta is the one that goes back time and kills Freeza.
Fukkatsu no F Goku Edition and Fukkatsu no F Vegeta Edition.
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A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.
Favourite old DB Animators: Masaki Sato and Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Favourite new DB Animators: Yuya Takahashi and Chikashi Kubota
DBZ_Lee wrote:A film every 2 years is enough. They need time to put together solid animation to an acceptable level, am delighted "F" looks good at least for the most part.
I would have thought Toriyama has an idea where the story goes from here, and will need time to write it.
A question for you all: Do you think there will be an Extended version like we had for BoG?.
The movies typically only have six months for animation no matter how many years are between films.
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:Yeah, agree'd a film a year would feel too rushed and we probably won't get awesome animation like are with RF.
Yeah, I wouldn't want a film every year either. Give Toriyama and Toei time. And to also make sure the Dragon Ball fanbase don't get too spoiled.
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Spoiler:
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.
Just got back from the premiere and just wanted to drop a line and say I fucking enjoyed the hell out the film and have a good feeling most of you will too. It's 100% Toriyama goodness. The event itself was also great fun. Hearing Nozawa's kamahameha in person is an absolute memory to be treasured. I'll post some photos later.
More importantly and intriguingly, however, is a special book labeled as “Jump Comics Godliest Edition” (JC最“神”刊; janpu komikkusu sai-“shin”-kan) — a pun on “the latest volume” (最新刊; saishinkan) — and entitled Dragon Ball Volume “F” (ドラゴンボール 巻『F』; doragon bōru kan “efu”) — a pun on how the original tankōbon volumes of the series were labeled. While it should be noted that it is not advertised to contain any actual comics, this booklet is set to compile the complete script of the film, along with conceptual material and commentary on the film itself. As this booklet will touch on the plot of the film in detail, the packaging advises attendees not to open it until after seeing the film.
radrappy wrote:Just got back from the premiere and just wanted to drop a line and say I fucking enjoyed the hell out the film and have a good feeling most of you will too. It's 100% Toriyama goodness. The event itself was also great fun. Hearing Nozawa's kamahameha in person is an absolute memory to be treasured. I'll post some photos later.
Ahh man that is awesome to hear! Glad you had a good time!
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Glad you had a good time!