The fact that merch and video games refuse to use the name "Super Saiyan Blue" continues to baffle me. Maybe with Super Dragon Ball Heroes they'll rename it, but I doubt it.
ArchedThunder wrote:The fact that merch and video games refuse to use the name "Super Saiyan Blue" continues to baffle me. Maybe with Super Dragon Ball Heroes they'll rename it, but I doubt it.
Better than Blue IMO. SSGSS is a much better abbreviation than SSB, SSJB, and SSJGSSJ.
Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan sounds like a parody name. Something you'd find in flash animations that would poke fun at Dragon Ball and it's ever growing amount of new saiyan forms. Super Saiyan Blue while a lackluster name, is less of a mouthful, and doesn't sound like a name that is a parody of itself. It's such a joke that in the manga, Goku bit his tongue from trying to say it. That's how much they know it's a dumb name.
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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.
Super Saiyan Blue is dumber... more dumb? Whatever. I don't really care what people call it anymore, even if they called SSG "Saiyan God" and SSGSS "Super Saiyan God".
Sandubadear wrote:Goku Xeno's buffiness in this pic is weird. I guess I'm used to their current physiques.
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I love the outfit that Goku Xeno is wearing. Kinda reminds me of this:
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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.
alakazam^ wrote:The game looks great! Hope they port it eventually for a potent handheld
You said it best! I'm praying it will be on the NX. It would be cool if this technology worked on a tablet connected to a TV. Just put the cards on the tablet and have the gameplay on screen. Hopefully one day!
This games have always been Japanese exclusive, why do you even care? Do you even have a single card?
It doesn't have to be a Japanese exclusive forever. Just look Extreme Butoden. Plus even if it doesn't, Nintendo said they're going to stop region blocking their games.
SaiyaSith wrote:It doesn't have to be a Japanese exclusive forever. Just look Extreme Butoden. Plus even if it doesn't, Nintendo said they're going to stop region blocking their games.
They said that years ago, and it has yet to happen.
Whether people like the name or not, Super Saiyan Blue is what they actually call the form in the series, it's never been called SSGSS in the series outside of a single gag in the manga.
That's why it baffles me that merch and games continue to use SSGSS, because that was a name never said in the series and now the form actually has a name.
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.
Anime Kitten wrote:Well, when that's been the thing since a long time, there's not much we can do about it. It's not like they're suddenly gonna change Super Saiyan.
People are complaining how underwhelming names are for transformations, I'm just saying it's always been kinda like that.
