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DarkPrince_92 wrote:Goten looks lame. Gohan looks worse. Goku looks good. I love Videl's hair. Bulma is fine. And...Vegeta in any kind of jacket reminds me of...
...uncanny.
It just looks great to me.
I know I love it. Vegeta Mishima for president.
Also @Goten's biggest fan, that avatar is awesome.
I've always thought Kazuya was a badass Vegeta-inspired character. While Vegeta went from villain to hero Kazuya did the opposite. He also happens to be my main in Tekken and I customized him to dress like Vegeta in TTT2.
Sora Saiyan wrote:I actually enjoyed most of the EoZ designs, I loved Vegeta's (tournament) and Goku's clothes and IMO they were the best in the series. Not a fan of how Bulma looked, probably my only complaint.
I liked the design because I felt it reflected her age well, even allowing for some humor as well on the part of Goku and it went along with her character.
DB Wiki said Future Bulma looks younger than Bulma because Bulma had the stress of 2 kids. Which is fucking funny because I didn't know living in an apocalyptic world with your friends dead is less stressful than raising 2 kids
TheGmGoken wrote:DB Wiki said Future Bulma looks younger than Bulma because Bulma had the stress of 2 kids. Which is fucking funny because I didn't know living in an apocalyptic world with your friends dead is less stressful than raising 2 kids
TheGmGoken wrote:DB Wiki said Future Bulma looks younger than Bulma because Bulma had the stress of 2 kids. Which is fucking funny because I didn't know living in an apocalyptic world with your friends dead is less stressful than raising 2 kids
Lol yeah that Wiki can be hilarious
I laughed so hard at reading that for the first time.
Anyhow, I'm still preferring EOZ Bulma to the alternate timeline appearance
TheGmGoken wrote:DB Wiki said Future Bulma looks younger than Bulma because Bulma had the stress of 2 kids. Which is fucking funny because I didn't know living in an apocalyptic world with your friends dead is less stressful than raising 2 kids
Did the wiki seriously say that? If so, I take back every negative thing I've said about them. That is hysterical.
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.
TheGmGoken wrote:DB Wiki said Future Bulma looks younger than Bulma because Bulma had the stress of 2 kids. Which is fucking funny because I didn't know living in an apocalyptic world with your friends dead is less stressful than raising 2 kids
Did the wiki seriously say that? If so, I take back every negative thing I've said about them. That is hysterical.
Calm down guys. I misread. Lmao
At the end of the Dragon Ball Z series, Bulma looked older than the version seen in Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks. This is odd, because technically, the alternate version of Bulma seen in the Trunks special is actually three years older than the mainstream timeline Bulma. However, this could be due to the fact that in the main timeline, Bulma has another child, Bulla, which may make her appear older.
Attitudefan wrote:Bulma looks older in the regular time line because of her hairstyle. If she wore it long like in the future time line she would look just as young.
I agree. I think part of the reason for her looking as though she's aged was because of the hairstyle, which Toriyama probably designed so he could have the gag with Goku making note of her aging.
Marco Polo wrote:I like that Gohan wears glasses and civilian clothes, yet doesn't look weak like in more recent portrayals.
You said somehing interesting. Because nowaydays they already proved they can't do that three times.
Its this kind of things that makes me happy, Dragon Ball was made in another era.
A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.
Favourite old DB Animators: Masaki Sato and Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Favourite new DB Animators: Yuya Takahashi and Chikashi Kubota
I always loved the designs of Goten and Trunks. Especially their outfits. This and the GT gi are my favorite outfits on Goku.\
Mirai Bulma's design (at EoZ time) is my favorite DBZ Bulma design. It's probably the hair and the younger look. EoZ main timeline Bulma was not very great IMO. Probably the ugliest hairstyle she had in the series. Lol
Toriyama said he regretted making the characters so old, but to me, the only ones that look bad are Bulma and Kulilin. Kulilin looks too old for his age, and Bulma, as others have mentioned, has terrible hair and a terrible dress. If Toriyama actually wanted to continue the story, he could easily give her a new style to make her look better. The only real sign of age would be a very minor wrinkle around her mouth, as future Bulma has.
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Metalwario64 wrote:Toriyama said he regretted making the characters so old, but to me, the only ones that look bad are Bulma and Kulilin. Kulilin looks too old for his age, and Bulma, as others have mentioned, has terrible hair and a terrible dress. If Toriyama actually wanted to continue the story, he could easily give her a new style to make her look better. The only real sign of age would be a very minor wrinkle around her mouth, as future Bulma has.
I'm definitely not a fan of Krillin's EOZ look, though I still prefer that to GT. Matter of fact, I prefer most EOZ designs to GT, but they made Krillin look too old at the end of the series (Z) so it's a problem all around.
Metalwario64 wrote:Toriyama said he regretted making the characters so old, but to me, the only ones that look bad are Bulma and Kulilin. Kulilin looks too old for his age, and Bulma, as others have mentioned, has terrible hair and a terrible dress.
We're not sure if he was really talking about EOZ because he mentioned Vegeta mustache...Knowing Toriyama, he could probably be confusing GT character designs with EOZ. Anyway a sequel would still work if he wanted, because we have the new generation. And i's not like the old cast can't have screentime.
A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.
Favourite old DB Animators: Masaki Sato and Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Favourite new DB Animators: Yuya Takahashi and Chikashi Kubota
They could have justified Krillin's look by saying he is purposely trying to look older to be the new Kame-sennin (In DB Online he literally re-forms the Turtle School)
Those designs are AMAZING! I actually really like Bulma's design. My only problem is that I wish she had long hair and maybe toned down the lipstick a bit.
EoZ had amazing redesigns but why not push it a couple years further with the GT designs? So great.
I always loved a more civilian/street attire for the Z-boys, in the vein of Piccolo's Post Boy and Vegeta's Bad Man get-ups. Maybe that's the appeal of the EoZ and GT designs.
I liked the majority of them except for one Kuririn. Oh Jesus Mary what happened to Kuririn, he looks like he's in his 90s while everyone else looks their age.
