DragonBall Z Abridged

[Ajay]

Excellent episode!

One of the best in quite a while. Barely any lines that fell flat for me. I laughed from beginning to end.

God, the Cell lips thing slayed me.

[Gyt Kaliba]

I could be overthinking this, but...was the Krillin/Bulma exchange about 'protection' a reference to a line in this video that someone from the forum made a few years back? Cuz it instantly made me think back to that.

[Polyphase Avatron]

The end made me laugh, and the part with Tien as well

[Ex-Dubbie369]

The Kikoho scene was amazing! What was the music used during it?

[Demon of Light]

Oh man, I feel plain spoiled at this point with all those episodes coming out so close together. Waiting for 49 is going to be so hard, especially since I only caught up to Abridged a little before 47 was released.

I love that Cell is still a giant mess of a creature, even after the upgrade. He's basically a psychopathic manchild taken to the extreme, it's great. The lips thing slayed me, as did EXTREME early 1990s 17, and the exchange concerning the frequency of deaths in the Z Warriors' company. But then, Krillin receiving the detonator from Bulma... That was surprisingly heavy.

Can I talk about the characterization of 16, 17 and 18 for a second? How the hell does TFS make the three of them so damn lovable? There's some really genuine affection between them in the abridged series that wasn't really there in the manga or anime. Their last scene in episode 47 was actually sweet, and I literally went "aww" when 16 and 18 both expressed their sadness about 17's fate. I came for the laughs and suddenly I have feels.

(That unavoidable Ebisawa footage though...)

[violadude]

I love the foreshadowing in this episode of Goku assuming that him and Gohan are the ones that are going to be saving the day and Piccolo calling him out on his bullcrap.

[Jackal puFF]

Epic episode! I totally liked Tien kikoho screams. I was laughing hard when we saw what Goku was thinking of Vegeta's speech. The music with that was a nice touch

[CaBrPi]

Goku's "pop" got me good.

[BlazingBarrrager]

Goku's "pop" got me good.

Second. Reminded me a lot of Episode 30 and Kai Episode 2. lol

[kemuri07]

"You know what? FUCK POWER LEVELS!! FUCK SUPERSAIYANS!! AND FUCK YOU!!!!!!!"

If that isn't a screed towards how humans have been portrayed in the regular series, I don't know what it. Fuck yeah, Tien is the best character.

Can I talk about the characterization of 16, 17 and 18 for a second? How the hell does TFS make the three of them so damn lovable? There's some really genuine affection between them in the abridged series that wasn't really there in the manga or anime. Their last scene in episode 47 was actually sweet, and I literally went "aww" when 16 and 18 both expressed their sadness about 17's fate. I came for the laughs and suddenly I have feels.

It's crazy how in the last couple of years how TFA has gone from outright parody to straight-up sincerity. This is simply another (arguably better) retelling of the same story, and despite knowing how each of these characters end up, it still feels as if I'm watching DBZ for the first time. It's a testimate to how amazing the writing is for an abridged series.

[Dbzfan94]

Best episode in a while. I feel this episode went back to more of what it should be (to me): a parody.
It was still a parody before, but it seemed much more of a quasi-official fandub with jokes in there in earlier episodes of season 3 of abridged.

[Noah]

Just watched episode 48 and I find pretty funny oh god, Semi-Perfect Cell is amazing

"so that's how feel to have lips" lol

But I didn't get... Why did you guys try to use original names in this parody? I didn't get used to Super Kikoho instead of Neo Tri Beam, it's sound so better for us that are used to Funnimation dub, using the original names make the parody looks somewhat serious for what it should be a comedy, but that's not a criticsm, just my opinion after all

[rereboy]

Just watched episode 48 and I find pretty funny oh god, Semi-Perfect Cell is amazing

"so that's how feel to have lips" lol

But I didn't get... Why did you guys try to use original names in this parody? I didn't get used to Super Kikoho instead of Neo Tri Beam, it's sound so better for us that are used to Funnimation dub, using the original names make the parody looks somewhat serious for what it should be a comedy, but that's not a criticsm, just my opinion after all

Because they are trying to be a parody of DBZ, not Funimation's DBZ. There's plenty of influence of Funimation's dub in their parody, of course, but it's not limited to it.

[Noah]

Because they are trying to be a parody of DBZ, not Funimation's DBZ. There's plenty of influence of Funimation's dub in their parody, of course, but it's not limited to it.

I don't know, they could establish a pattern... I mean they call ROSAT by HTC and they prefer Spirit Bomb instead of Genki Dama and Special Beam Cannon instead of Makankosappo, so I didn't get it why they used Kikoho, but this is a small thing, just arguing about it

[BlazingBarrrager]

Because they are trying to be a parody of DBZ, not Funimation's DBZ. There's plenty of influence of Funimation's dub in their parody, of course, but it's not limited to it.

I don't know, they could establish a pattern... I mean they call ROSAT by HTC and they prefer Spirit Bomb instead of Genki Dama and Special Beam Cannon instead of Makankosappo, so I didn't get it why they used Kikoho, but this is a small thing, just arguing about it

That's actually a running joke in the series since Piccolo can't pronounce Makankosappo right. He tried in Episode 2, but failed 3 times and just went "screw it." Since he still calls his attack by the Funi name it's safe to say he still can't pronounce Makankosappo right. King Kai also called his Spirit Bomb technique "Genki Dama" when he told Yamcha and co. he wouldn't teach it to them after Yamcha pronounced Kaio-Ken wrong in a Stinger.

Also funny is that Mr. Popo uses Hyperbolic Time Chamber, especially since he told Goku it was called "The Room of Spirit and Time." My guess is that they use Funi terms for simplicity sake (like Galeck Gun for example), or as part of a joke.

[coola]

I wonder about one thing, did Cell knew about Super Saiyans? In series, robo bug insect stopped observing Z-Warriors after fight with Vegeta, and only added Freeza and Cold DNA after they arrived. In future, they ignored Trunks, because they had enough data about Saiyans

[BlazingBarrrager]

I wonder about one thing, did Cell knew about Super Saiyans? In series, robo bug insect stopped observing Z-Warriors after fight with Vegeta, and only added Freeza and Cold DNA after they arrived. In future, they ignored Trunks, because they had enough data about Saiyans

I would say so since he knew about Future Trunks. He did kill the guy and steal his Time Machine after all.

[dbgtFO]

Because they are trying to be a parody of DBZ, not Funimation's DBZ. There's plenty of influence of Funimation's dub in their parody, of course, but it's not limited to it.

I don't know, they could establish a pattern... I mean they call ROSAT by HTC and they prefer Spirit Bomb instead of Genki Dama and Special Beam Cannon instead of Makankosappo, so I didn't get it why they used Kikoho, but this is a small thing, just arguing about it

That's actually a running joke in the series since Piccolo can't pronounce Makankosappo right. He tried in Episode 2, but failed 3 times and just went "screw it." Since he still calls his attack by the Funi name it's safe to say he still can't pronounce Makankosappo right. King Kai also called his Spirit Bomb technique "Genki Dama" when he told Yamcha and co. he wouldn't teach it to them after Yamcha pronounced Kaio-Ken wrong in a Stinger.

Also funny is that Mr. Popo uses Hyperbolic Time Chamber, especially since he told Goku it was called "The Room of Spirit and Time." My guess is that they use Funi terms for simplicity sake (like Galeck Gun for example), or as part of a joke.

In that episode, where Yamcha mispronounced Kaio-ken, Tenshinhan's response to Kaio refusing to teach them it, was "fucking weaboo."
So I thought Tenshinhan would refrain from the original japanese names and go with English equivalents.

[coola]

I wonder about one thing, did Cell knew about Super Saiyans? In series, robo bug insect stopped observing Z-Warriors after fight with Vegeta, and only added Freeza and Cold DNA after they arrived. In future, they ignored Trunks, because they had enough data about Saiyans

I would say so since he knew about Future Trunks. He did kill the guy and steal his Time Machine after all.

I can't believe i forget about that

[BlazingBarrrager]

So I thought Tenshinhan would refrain from the original japanese names and go with English equivalents.

And yet he uses the Japanese name for Kikoho instead of Funi's Tri-Beam. Hell he did so before he made that weaboo comment.