If you could rename the Dragonball series...

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If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by PhoenixEX » Wed May 08, 2013 5:36 pm

Well not exactly rename...i'll get to the point, if you could give the entire Dragonball series an alternative name, what would it be?
By the way this is just for fun. If you're one of those people that will say something like "Dragonball" is a good name and I wouldn't change it and leave it as is, pretend you've never heard the title before and pick a name! Haha.

I personally would call it "Son Goku no Hanashi" which translates to "Son Goku's Story"
As for Z, I would add to the title, something like Naruto: Shippuden...maybe "Son Goku no Hanashi: Tsugi" (Next)
And for GT, I'd probably call it "Son Goku no Hanashi: Ginga" (Galaxy)
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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by WesMan23 » Wed May 08, 2013 5:40 pm

Alien Son Goku or: How I Learned to Start Fighting and Love the Spirit Bomb.
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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Cold Skin » Wed May 08, 2013 5:47 pm

I haven't really thought about it for more than 5 seconds, but the title that comes to my mind is: The Neverending Quest.
It could refer to constantly searching for the Dragon Balls on several occasions from the very beginning to the very end despite circumstances having changed a lot, Son Goku's neverending quest to improve himself, the tendancy to always have a new enemy arriving over years and years... But yeah, that title instinctively comes to me as something that defines Goku's personnality and life.

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Black_Liger » Wed May 08, 2013 6:04 pm

The Quest for the Dragon's Balls.
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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by DBZAOTA482 » Wed May 08, 2013 6:09 pm

Dragon Boy
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DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
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I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by TheBlackPaladin » Wed May 08, 2013 6:11 pm

A small part of me would get a chuckle out of them renaming the show to, "Nothing Ever Dies, We Will Rise Again."
A "rather haggard" translation of a line from Future Gohan in DBZ, provided to FUNimation by Toei:
"To think of fighting that is this fun...so, it was pleasant fight, as many as, therefore is a feeling which is good the fight where."

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by The Monkey King » Wed May 08, 2013 6:13 pm

I dunno...Journey of the Monkey Boy? :lol:

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Marco Polo » Wed May 08, 2013 6:20 pm

"Kamehameha!"

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by rereboy » Wed May 08, 2013 6:27 pm

Monkey fighting

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by dbzfan7 » Wed May 08, 2013 6:41 pm

Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Rocketman » Wed May 08, 2013 6:53 pm

Gokuballz.

Cause that's alll you're gonna see, son.

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Saiyan Prince Vegeta » Wed May 08, 2013 6:55 pm

Protect my balls. A lyric out of 'Lets fighting love' :P

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Son Geeko » Wed May 08, 2013 9:01 pm

Flying Serpentine Round Orb

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Raykugen » Wed May 08, 2013 9:04 pm

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by El Diabeetus » Wed May 08, 2013 9:11 pm

Akira Toriyama Presents: Cash Cow

But, in all seriousness I like Cold Skin's re-title a lot.

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Fizzer » Wed May 08, 2013 9:20 pm

I thought about this before, as "Dragon Ball" isn't really a fitting name. The best I've thought of is "Monkey King" or "Stone Monkey", alluding to the story's origin in Journey to the West but staying vague enough to fit just about anything. There's still the problem that this is pretty much naming the series after Goku, when sometimes the guy's hardly even there, especially during the last two arcs.

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by JulieYBM » Wed May 08, 2013 10:21 pm

Ryuuden Sentai Gokuuger, the story of men narrated by Seki Tomokazu.
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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Payne222 » Wed May 08, 2013 11:46 pm

孫悟空の奇妙な冒険 lolz

For real, the title is good as is.
「あの地球人のように?・・・クリリンのことか・・・クリリンのことか————っ!!!!!!」

「オレは地球からきさまをたおすためにやってきたサイヤ人・・・おだやかな心をもちながらはげしい怒りによって目覚めた伝説の戦士・・・超サイヤ人孫悟空だ!!!!!」

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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Kid Buu » Thu May 09, 2013 12:44 am

The Legend of Son Goku
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Re: If you could rename the Dragonball series...

Post by Ringworm128 » Thu May 09, 2013 1:15 am

Genki.

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