Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
Hey there folks, thought I would share a personal project of mine after lurking around Kanzenshuu/Daizenshuu EX for six years-
Seeing as we are somewhat encountering a 'revival' of the franchise at the minute, I thought it would be interesting to attempt to chart the development and release of each adaptation in the franchise, to see how we got here from a production standpoint.
It's interesting to see how quickly things picked up after the 2008 JSAT special, particularly on the manga front. Let me know if you find any inconsistencies or errors in the above, and I'll be more than happy to fix them. I couldn't find any information on whether Victory Mission/SD are still running, hence the question marks in 2015 for them. That 'World of DBZ' thing was a recap special Funimation made from older material, which if I remember correctly was a 20 minute teaser for the Androids Saga DVDs. I attempted to colour the various adaptations by 'era', but after 1997 the colours are somewhat arbitrary of course.
Edit- Updated to clarify the Trunks TV special. As far as I can tell, it aired in the regular anime timeslot that week, albeit for a longer period.
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That probably could be made clearer- The Trunks special, and "Zenbu Misemasu Toshi Wasure Doragon Bōru Zetto" -"We’ll Show You Everything: Forget the Year’s Cares with Dragon Ball Z" both aired first in 1993. The year end show was never released outside of its original TV broadcast to my knowledge; there was a podcast topic on it ages ago. http://www.kanzenshuu.com/movie/
Those would be these- http://www.kanzenshuu.com/manga/spin-offs/ois/
Theoretically light novel stories rather than manga as such, but it seemed wrong not to mention their presence somewhere.
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.
Thanks folks. And yes, the weird recap thing is indeed a Funimation-originated item of course, which is why it randomly appears three years after everything else in the classical Z era.
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.
