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Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by PhoenixEX » Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:27 am

I don't know what it is about this particular scene, but everytime I watch it it creeps the hell out of me.
Am I the only one or does anyone else feel the same?

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Post by Metalwario64 » Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:57 am

No, but I thought the art style looked a tad American in that shot when I was a kid for some reason.
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Post by DoomieDoomie911 » Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:21 am

Is this a shot from Kai?
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Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:23 am

It always looked funny to me.
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Post by VegettoEX » Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:26 am

DoomieDoomie911 wrote:Is this a shot from Kai?
That particular shot appears to be from a bootleg digisub of Kai (time in the corner, yellow font, widescreen), but it was also a shot in the original version of DBZ, as well.

And yeah, that one shot always felt very different from pretty much anything else in the entire series.
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Post by DoomieDoomie911 » Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:34 am

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DoomieDoomie911 wrote:Is this a shot from Kai?
That particular shot appears to be from a bootleg digisub of Kai (time in the corner, yellow font, widescreen), but it was also a shot in the original version of DBZ, as well.

And yeah, that one shot always felt very different from pretty much anything else in the entire series.
Oh, okay. I agree though, that shot does look pretty weird.
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by The Monkey King » Tue Nov 12, 2013 1:00 pm

Goku's hair looks so realistic, how it's sprawled everywhere.
I guess it is kinda spooky but dang his ear is huge :o
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by Fennekin » Tue Nov 12, 2013 1:12 pm

This creeps me out too. Didn't they cut this out from Nicktoons' edit of Z Kai?
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Post by Godo » Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:02 pm

From what I remember, they had a few of these super-detailed pictures. There was one in the end of one episode where Goku rushes with his Kaio-ken and it becomes a still, with it being drawn detailed.
I think that it was in the end of the episode where Goku rushes to fight Vegeta or Nappa.
The mentioned picture in this thread doesn't creep me out. Goku looks peaceful.
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Post by TheBlackPaladin » Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:07 pm

To answer the topic's question.....

Now I am. It's really weird how seeing that still frame creeps me out but seeing it in motion didn't.
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by PhoenixEX » Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:52 pm

Fennekin wrote:This creeps me out too. Didn't they cut this out from Nicktoons' edit of Z Kai?
Yeah nicktoons cut this out, I remember wondering where it went aha.
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Post by TheGmGoken » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:41 pm

Isn't this type of detail common for a hero death?
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by Weejus » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:45 pm

Don't know why but I like it. They used this style in a few episodes, for example during the Goku vs. Vegeta (Saiyan arc) fight where it was at the end of an episode where Gohan and Kuririn were trying to finish Vegeta off, and at the end of the episode before Goku fights Cell, during a still of Goku stepping onto the Cell Games' arena.
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by DarkPrince_92 » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:51 pm

Yeah, I got thrown off first time I saw that when I was younger. I was like :shock: . Now I'm like 8)
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by Metalwario64 » Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:59 pm

Godo wrote:From what I remember, they had a few of these super-detailed pictures..
Lots of anime from back in the day (not sure about these days) had a few high-detailed shots.

Thing is, this one looks different stylistically from the rest.
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by Blu-ray_Mistress » Sat Nov 16, 2013 11:49 am

the shot never creeped me or anything, but I was never crazy about the style in which Goku was drawn. I don't know why, he always seemed a bit a off model to me.
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by TheGmGoken » Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:39 pm

Blu-ray_Mistress wrote:the shot never creeped me or anything, but I was never crazy about the style in which Goku was drawn. I don't know why, he always seemed a bit a off model to me.
It's his head/hair. I just stared at it and it seems to wild even for Goku. Resembles more or less of Mufassa's hair from Lion King more than Goku.
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by DonZ » Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:09 pm

He look like Joe Yabuki from Ashita no Joe.
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by Unicorn_Bazooka » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:59 pm

I never thought it was really creepy, but it does kinda look weird.

Also noting that his left eyebrow is still up and other down... Looks like he's just sleeping. He's supposed to be dead, what the frig.
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Re: Anyone else get creeped out when they see this?

Post by DrBriefsCat » Sun Nov 17, 2013 12:15 am

That shot did use to creep me out as a kid upon first watching the uncut Spanish dub on Telemundo back in 1999. I don't remember it being present in the English dub of the time, which was the heavily sanitized one by Saban.
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