Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
Seeing Dragon Ball Movie 4 (aka DBZ Movie 1 - 1989) is much similar to Rogue One that will be released next year, I wonder Dragon Ball could get the Star Wars treatment. For starters, I think the expanded Bardock special and the origins of the Saiyan race could be explained in the Dragon Ball anime prequel.
As fans, would you like a standalone or a prequel DB anime? The franchise never has a prequel anime at all.
For the spin-off, I would like to portray Freeza, the villain as a hero just like The Scorpion King in a civil war on his homeworld which Toriyama-San never reveals. Fan service could be easy. As for above, what spin-off series do you like based on Toriyama's manga.
Jelo Gutierrez Cantos(Dr. Fresh) I'M GONNA BREAK YOU, LIKE A KIT-KAT BAR!! - TFS Goku. (have a Break, have a Kit Kat Freeza!)
SilverPlaqueVII wrote:the origins of the Saiyan race could be explained in the Dragon Ball anime prequel.
As fans, would you like a standalone or a prequel DB anime? The franchise never has a prequel anime at all.
If DB Minus is anything to go by then no. They should leave the Saiyan race as unexplored territory.
SilverPlaqueVII wrote:For the spin-off, I would like to portray Freeza, the villain as a hero just like The Scorpion King in a civil war on his homeworld which Toriyama-San never reveals. Fan service could be easy.
A Freeze spin-off does sound interesting and I wouldn't be apposed to the idea.
SilverPlaqueVII wrote:As for above, what spin-off series do you like based on Toriyama's manga.
I would like to see a spinoff on some of the other space races that we see in DBZ and maybe more about how Jaco and his space patrol missions.
I don't think we need an entire anime series but a TV special or 2 every year that focuses on parts of the franchise that weren't explored in the manga and Super would be a good idea if they're written right.
July 9th 2018 will be remembered as the day Broly became canon.
We already have had MORE than enough of the Saiya-jin. I'll never, ever understand the mentality of fans who think that there somehow WASN'T enough of the Saiya-jin's origins explained already, between the various anime filler flashbacks in the Freeza arc (as well as the Plan to Eradicate the Saiya-jin/GT) as well as the Bardock TV special, and now even more recently Episode of Bardock and DB Minus (dogshit though they may be). Enough is enough. Any more would just be far beyond overkill.
Honestly, the ONLY DB extension I'd ever want to see at this point (and I've felt this way for a good number of years now) is a prequel series focused on the exploits of young Muten Roshi and/or the nameless Namekian/child of Katatsu pre-Kami/Daimao split. There's so, so, so many beyond cool possibilities that those concepts could offer, whereas at this point yet more of the Saiya-jin is just tired old hat and frankly at this point thoroughly hacky. They're far beyond played out.
Don't get me wrong, the Saiya-jin are indeed plenty cool, but as far as I'm concerned they're the furthest thing possible from the end-all-be-all of Dragon Ball. Focus on something different already.
Journey to the West, chapter 26 wrote:The strong man will meet someone stronger still:
Come to naught at last he surely will!
Zephyr wrote:And that's to say nothing of how pretty much impossible it is to capture what made the original run of the series so great. I'm in the generation of fans that started with Toonami, so I totally empathize with the feeling of having "missed the party", experiencing disappointment, and wanting to experience it myself. But I can't, that's how life is. Time is a bitch. The party is over. Kageyama, Kikuchi, and Maeda are off the sauce now; Yanami almost OD'd; Yamamoto got arrested; Toriyama's not going to light trash cans on fire and hang from the chandelier anymore. We can't get the band back together, and even if we could, everyone's either old, in poor health, or calmed way the fuck down. Best we're going to get, and are getting, is a party that's almost entirely devoid of the magic that made the original one so awesome that we even want more.
Kamiccolo9 wrote:It grinds my gears that people get "outraged" over any of this stuff. It's a fucking cartoon. If you are that determined to be angry about something, get off the internet and make a stand for something that actually matters.
Rocketman wrote:"Shonen" basically means "stupid sentimental shit" anyway, so it's ok to be anti-shonen.
I still want new series that focuses on the new generation, Oob, Bra, Pan, Goten, Trunks etc.
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.
As for above, what spin-off series do you like based on Toriyama's manga.
