Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
Awesome news for us Australian and New Zealand fans. Resurrection 'F' is getting released on August 6th!
Be sure to continue checking http://www.reelanime.com.au for cinema listings and how long the film will be out for.
Only a mere 2 days from the US release! I fucking love you Madman Entertainment.
Super Saiyan Swagger wrote:Awesome news for us Australian and New Zealand fans. Resurrection 'F' is getting released on August 6th!
The site is down, perhaps we all helped crash it. I'd love to see it in the cinema, but I doubt its playing anywhere near the Newcastle area, and its impossible for me to make a trip to Sydney during the semester and still have time for work .
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.
I wonder why Toei isn't doing anything about the leaked footage on youtube. I just hope this doesn't end up hurting FnF box office performance in the West.
Super Saiyan Swagger wrote:Awesome news for us Australian and New Zealand fans. Resurrection 'F' is getting released on August 6th!
The site is down, perhaps we all helped crash it. I'd love to see it in the cinema, but I doubt its playing anywhere near the Newcastle area, and its impossible for me to make a trip to Sydney during the semester and still have time for work .
You might be able to watch it close to your area. Madman are aiming for a wider release this time around due to last year's big success with Battle of Gods. That film was only meant to be out for 1 day in 1 theatre in each big city within the country but due to high demand the film kept coming back in theatres and was eventually out for a total of 10 days. I'm sure they're aiming for much more with Resurrection 'F' so don't lose hope, you'll probably get a chance to watch it.
Not only is http://www.reelanime.com.au unavailable but http://www.dragonballz.com.au seems to be unavailable as well. Maybe Madman are (finally!) giving the website a face lift. At the bottom of the Australian/New Zealand Resurrection 'F' poster it has the address of the official Australian DBZ website so Madman are probably updating the website in preparation for the film. They did the same thing for the Naruto website in preparation for the upcoming Boruto movie.
I remember it was originally supposed to be in theatres for 1 day in a small amount of theatres for one showing each only.
Then they added an extra day, more theatres and some of them would have two or three showing a day. I do think they underestimated it so what which is why it has a wider release almost everywhere this time.
I actually got my tickets a few days ago, when several theaters in the area showed up as having showings and selling tickets. Can't wait to see the movie!
BlackCatScott wrote:And I'm just sat here waiting for Manga UK to announce... something.
Now that the Aussies have a release date, hopefully we have something announced soon too. I hope.
The whole damn world will get cinema screenings of ROF before the UK do. This is just taking the piss now. Before you know it, they'll announce that Timbuktu is gonna show ROF in cinemas before the UK.
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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.
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.
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.
BlackCatScott wrote:And I'm just sat here waiting for Manga UK to announce... something.
Now that the Aussies have a release date, hopefully we have something announced soon too. I hope.
Manga UK are going about this in completely the wrong way. They are still refusing to answer tweets from fans, and in doing so, are simply achieving nothing but aggravating them.
It's frustrating to see pretty much every other major territory announcing their dates, but nothing for the UK - again.
Hearing people say the name of that form out loud makes it feel like a self-parody. Its appearance doesn't help. lol.
"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
Hearing people say the name of that form out loud makes it feel like a self-parody. Its appearance doesn't help. lol.
Yes, because turning gold and shouting "Super" Saiyan was so much less stupid before, wasn't it? lol.
Only Gotenks did that though so..did it count? I mean Super Vegeta wasn't exactly non laughable but least Vegeta pulled it off. Super Saiyan God SSJ is not only a mouthful but is just a WOAT namename for all anime transformation.
Yea, but nobody in the movie actually said that name. And it wouldn't make sense to, it's literally just Super Saiyan. I'm assuming "SSGSS" surfaced because of marketing purposes. Goku refers to it as "Super Saiyan with the power of Super Saiyan God" and Vegeta refers to it as "the legendary Super Saiyan".
Hearing people say the name of that form out loud makes it feel like a self-parody. Its appearance doesn't help. lol.
Yes, because turning gold and shouting "Super" Saiyan was so much less stupid before, wasn't it? lol.
Errr...not one bit, actually.
I mean, Superman is a thing. And the gold transformation is iconic and awesome. The execution is what counts, and Toriyama did a superb job. I know nobody says it in the movie, but hearing the marketed name coming from someone's mouth sounds silly. You can't deny that.
"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