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TheDevilsCorpse wrote:Arale is the one who trained Whis. Being a robot, in the distant future after most of her fellow Penguin Villagers have passed, she travles back in time and encounters Whis. She trains him in the art of wrestling and passes on all he techniques, just shy of the toon/gag force. She still roams Beerus' Temple, though the Hakaishin has no idea because of how often he sleeps.
TheDevilsCorpse wrote:Arale is the one who trained Whis. Being a robot, in the distant future after most of her fellow Penguin Villagers have passed, she travles back in time and encounters Whis. She trains him in the art of wrestling and passes on all he techniques, just shy of the toon/gag force. She still roams Beerus' Temple, though the Hakaishin has no idea because of how often he sleeps.
Oh my . Arale and Whis....I want this to now actually happen. Common Arale can casually punch planets in half, she'd be great with Whis-Sama.
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.
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Well, I think this image comes from the same author who drew a Bills' picture, the one Lord Beerus is using currently. And... This image screams for me to make some avatars as well, oh gosh.
SansrivaaL wrote:Well since everyone is interested on finding out how Freeza trained then.....
Ignore Tagoma, thats merely Freeza hallucinating over him.
Finally someone made this. lol.
How I wish a scene by scene parody of the Rocky 1 montage was animated.
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"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
SansrivaaL wrote:Ignore Tagoma, thats merely Freeza hallucinating over him.
Tagoma wasn't actually dead. They retrieved him after raising the shields and tossed him in a healing chamber. Freeza was willing to give him another chance, but the dumbass made stupid a remark about the color choices Freeza picked for his Ultimate Evolution and so the tyrant got rid of him for good this time. =P
Direct translations of the Korean DB Online timeline and guidebook.
My personal "canon" and BP list. (Coming Soon)
SansrivaaL wrote:Well since everyone is interested on finding out how Freeza trained then.....
Ignore Tagoma, thats merely Freeza hallucinating over him.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
Spoiler:
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.
CashmanX wrote:I think people are going to love the animation in this movie. During this weeks Kai episode, three new trailers were shown featuring new scenes. The fight choreography and the camera really add to the sense of motion, especially during the fight with the Freeza soldiers. I can't wait to see this film in theaters!
EDIT: Man, just catching up with all the stuff that I seem to have missed over the past couple of days. Why are you people talking about Gohan when you could be talking about all the cool shit that they're bringing out to promote this movie?! http://www.dragonball2015.com/news/deta ... #post-53b4
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Piccolo's part was awesome
I like that forest shown behind Gohan
Sleeping until the tournament is over.
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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. "
I think the best thing is send both Goku and Vegeta into another universe then introduce new villains for Gohan and the others to fight. Goku and Vegeta would be fighting these stronger gods in one movie while Gohan and Gotenks alongside Piccolo and the others defend Earth in another movie.
. Arale and Whis....I want this to now actually happen. Common Arale can casually punch planets in half, she'd be great with Whis-Sama.
Surely New Zealand will follow suit, though.
