On the Daizenshuu website before it merged with Kanzentai, there was a section in the Dragonball guide that allowed us to check stuff in the daizenshuu such as the attack dictionary, character dictionary, growing up characters and other stuff. Now for some reason I can't see any of the stuff from the daizenshuu, and only now tells me what is included in each daizenshuu instead of actually showing the info. Was this purposely taken out or will the info come back?
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
Spoiler:
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.
Last couple of posts (though there aren't that many to begin with).
Thank goodness they're not getting rid of the translations. But are we going to see them again anytime soon? It's been a month since (then) and they're not back.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
Spoiler:
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.
Well, all the daizenshuu translations you're talking about were never available on Daizenshuu EX, but actually on Kanzentai. As of right now those translations are not up on the website, and we're not entirely sure when, or if, they will be up. When/If they do get put back up, they may not be exactly like they were before (possibly text-only). It's something we haven't really discussed yet.
I'll be sad if they aren't available again in some form. It was always useful to be able to check exactly how something was worded in the guides. Of course, even if it never ends up back on the site in any form, we'll still have the wiki to add it to someday!
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