You just met Akira Toriyama

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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by TheZFighter » Tue Jan 24, 2017 12:33 pm

precita wrote:Why are people acting like he would reveal some sort of mystery?

Literally everything about Akira Toriyama and his work on Dragonball has already been revealed in the various interviews he's had over the years. We know what he thinks of the characters, why he wrote sagas the way he did, why he changed things due to his editor, why he originally stopped, etc.

While some insight into Super's production would be interesting, its probably not much more than vague outlines. I mean what else could be asked?
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Post by dbs fanboy » Tue Jan 24, 2017 1:18 pm

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Nah, i would probably ask him how did he became the most hilarious troll ever :lol:
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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by Grimlock » Tue Jan 24, 2017 1:44 pm

I think I'd be making one of the most prolonged interview Toriyama ever had in his life. So many questions. :roll:

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Post by sintzu » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:08 pm

Can Vegeta go Ssj3 ?
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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by Ki Breaker » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:11 pm

sintzu wrote:Can Vegeta go Ssj3 ?
If he could he would against berrus
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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by sintzu » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:16 pm

Ki Breaker wrote:
sintzu wrote:Can Vegeta go Ssj3 ?
If he could he would against berrus
What about after training with Whis ? We know Vegeta is strong enough to use it if power is all it requires but is that the case or is there a key to unlocking it that has nothing to do with strength ?

If I couldn't ask that for whatever reason then I'd ask him why he changed things up the way he did with the Saiyan arc. did it just happen and he didn't think much of it ? or was it meant to be like a soft reboot ? was it all his doing ? or was it because he got a new editor after the 23rd Tenkaichi and he wanted him to change things up a bit to bring in new readers ?
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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by DHM211 » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:21 pm

To settle the age old question, what does he consider to be cannon.

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Post by Ki Breaker » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:22 pm

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sintzu wrote:Can Vegeta go Ssj3 ?
If he could he would against berrus
What about after training with Whis ? We know Vegeta is strong enough to use it if power is all it requires but is that the case or is there a key to unlocking it that has nothing to do with strength ?
Vegeta most likely just achieved god ki and didn't even try to go SS3..
His mutated SS2 was stronger than goku, he dosen't even need that intensely draining form, it makes sense for him to not even care about it..
If he never tried it, he most likely can't do it..

About your other questions they are pretty interesting..
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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by sintzu » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:34 pm

Ki Breaker wrote:About your other questions they are pretty interesting..
The reason I ask them is because the other anime I watch (Naruto&One Piece) had major time skips but they didn't feel different from what came before them.

Even DB had time skips, one major one when Goku became an adult but like the above, they didn't make it seem like I watching a different show.

The time skip to Z on the other hand made it seem like one adventure ended, a completely new one began.

Not only did the overall focus of the story shift from adventures on earth to full combat in the universe but even the characters in the spotlight changed. in DB Goku was always the one and only character to be in the driver's seat while in Z he was mostly out of the picture in favore of other characters taking over.

Again, maybe it was just a coincidence and Toriyama didn't think about it but it seems too big of a change for it not to be intentional.
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Post by coola » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:38 pm

I would ask him , if he plan to move Super beyond end Buu Saga?
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Post by sintzu » Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:50 pm

Dragon ball is 520 chapters, Dr.Slump is 238 chapters and it took him 15+ years to write them so I'd ask him how different DB would be if he spent all those years and chapters on it.
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Post by Nejishiki » Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:13 pm

PelicanDynasty wrote:I'd ask about when exactly he decided Goku was an alien.
He already answered this.
TV Anime Guide: Dragon Ball Tenka’ichi Densetsu wrote:When it comes to Dragon Ball, of course, there’s Goku; how far had you thought out Goku’s concept at the start of the serialization?
Toriyama:
I’d hardly thought out anything. I hadn’t come up with the concept of him being an alien until Vegeta came, and I think I originally meant his giant ape form to be “just a transformation”, like a werewolf. For it to turn out over the course of the writing that “Goku’s really an alien!” was something that took even me by surprise. (laughs) At any rate, I had really only thought, “I’ll make a motif of Journey to the West, with a little bit of Kung-Fu thrown in.” I was prepared for it to end after 10 weeks if it wasn’t a hit.

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Post by Lord Beerus » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:13 pm

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Post by Gog » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:15 pm

sintzu wrote:Can Vegeta go Ssj3 ?
All saiyans can, its just that the form isn't unlocked through rage, and anger. But from what it seems another way, that only Goku ever managed to find out about.

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Post by successoroffate » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:37 pm

Very politely I would ask him...
"Is GT Canon?"
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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by Bansho64 » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:38 pm

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Post by Gog » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:39 pm

successoroffate wrote:Very politely I would ask him...
"Is GT Canon?"
If you asked him that question I bet that a strange expression would take up Akira Toriyama's face, he would lean to you, and whisper the truth to you.

"There is no canon..."

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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by FoolsGil » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:47 pm

What is the name of the race that the Freeza Clan mutated from?

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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by ShadowBardock89 » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:48 pm

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Re: You just met Akira Toriyama

Post by PelicanDynasty » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:56 pm

Nejishiki wrote:
PelicanDynasty wrote:I'd ask about when exactly he decided Goku was an alien.
He already answered this.
TV Anime Guide: Dragon Ball Tenka’ichi Densetsu wrote:When it comes to Dragon Ball, of course, there’s Goku; how far had you thought out Goku’s concept at the start of the serialization?
Toriyama:
I’d hardly thought out anything. I hadn’t come up with the concept of him being an alien until Vegeta came, and I think I originally meant his giant ape form to be “just a transformation”, like a werewolf. For it to turn out over the course of the writing that “Goku’s really an alien!” was something that took even me by surprise. (laughs) At any rate, I had really only thought, “I’ll make a motif of Journey to the West, with a little bit of Kung-Fu thrown in.” I was prepared for it to end after 10 weeks if it wasn’t a hit.
Thanks, but, when Vegeta came? Does he mean Raditz, or what?

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