VegettoEX wrote:What I'm most curious about is where these types of fans hang out and converse this way. I'm lucky in that I had the power to create my own community with my own vision, and therefore conversations like that are as likely to occur as Zarbon suddenly appearing on my desk and demanding payment for his upcoming college tuition.
I mean, we hear about crazy (young / inexperienced / ignorant / happy / enthusiastic) fans like this, but I seldom have the... opportunity?... to experience this kind of stuff, myself. At the risk of possibly putting other communities in a negative light -- which is far from my goal, mind you -- where on Earth is this happening? Is it real? Or are they just out for some common, everyday lulz?
I mean, it takes two seconds to look at the progression of the movies and see that Trunks already existed by the time Broli came around. So what's the deal, here?
Fans like this are an every-day reality. Hell, in my line of work you wouldn't expect to hear anyone talking about Dragon Ball, but on a plane ride, I overheard a group talking about how fondly they remember "DBZ" and were discussing "how many dozens of times Goku had died."
They listed that he died "about four or five times in Dragon Ball", then they started listing the Z deaths they 'knew of.' "He died to Raditz, to Vegeta, to Freeza," etc.
Do you think I bothered to jump in this conversation and correct them? Hell no. It was entertaining just to sit back and listen to it. This kind of thing I find to be relatively common.
Believe it or not, these "casual fans", as I've come to call them, far outnumber you and your kind, VegettoEX. Daizenshuu EX and Kanzentai along with it have gone greath lengths to dessiminate actual knowledge to the fanbase community, but there are
so many casual fans out there who remember "DBZ" as something they watched on Cartoon Network, but aside from that, they
don't delve into studying it.
You may reject this; but the fact is, if you took 100 self-styled "DBZ fans" off the streets, and asked them all about the manga, I'd wager a guess that at least 25 or more of them wouldn't know what a "manga" is, or know that "DBZ" was even based on a manga.
The missinformed exist in droves, and I find it difficult to believe you haven't encountered this. Surely you've been to a number of conventions and the like. Hell, not even speaking of an anime-convention, I fondly recall a conversation I had with someone at Comic Con in which he was explaining to me with utter certainty that SSj3 Goku was stronger than Super Vegetto, and that Kid Buu was stronger than "Mystic Buuhan" (this was the term he used), and he knew it was fact because it was said in a Daizenshuu.
Anyway, as far as on the Internet, you can see these fans for yourselves at a numbeer of sites like YouTube, FUNimation Community Forums, Pojo, Neoseeker, My Favorite Games, and many others.
) I just wanted to clear this up because I'm pretty sure Trunks was first. Although if I'm wrong I'll happily admit to being so.
