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Right from Jaga's hilarious entry (to Satan), to him bein slapped by 18 (cuz Satan said she's his pupil) to Goten & Trunks ROFL stompin the Bio Warriors.
The whole segment was ROFL
Subbed fans may be familiar with da epic "villagefest"
2. Master Roshi's training segment (pre 21st Tenkaichi Budoukai)
If anyone has any of the DB/DBZ/DBGT or Maho Tsuaki Sally Japanese single DVD's that they'd be interested in selling send me a PM and I'll see if we can work something out. .
Any time Bulma is an asshole to Goku. The juxtaposition of this cute girl being a slefish prick never fails to make me smile. Bonus points for the anime, as Hiromi Tsuru is perfection.
(Incidentally just looking at birthdays for the actors... Tsuru, Tanaka, and Furuya were all late 20s-early 30s when they took on their roles. Wow. They're barely older than my parents.)
Keen Observation of Dragon Ball Z Movie 4's Climax wrote:Slug shits to see the genki
More recently, it would have to be Goku's attempt at greeting Beerus in Battle of Gods. From Yanami's hilarious scolding to Nozawa's excellent delivery of "DESU~!", the entire scene is just great.
Going back to the very beginnings of the series, I'll never forget the "Bulma, your balls are missing!" gag. Absolutely perfect in every way.
Any moment with Mr Satan. He's just such a great gag character.
Spoiler:
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.
baneofdemon22 wrote:10. Vegito turning into chocolate and beating up Boo
Dang I completely forgot about that one, I just remember another one as well, Roshi crashing into and grabbing 18's boobs in the buu arc (speaking of which for anyone that watched buu arc Kai did Kai keep that scene or was it cut?).
If anyone has any of the DB/DBZ/DBGT or Maho Tsuaki Sally Japanese single DVD's that they'd be interested in selling send me a PM and I'll see if we can work something out. .
dbgtFO wrote:
Please elaborate as I do not know what you mean by "pushing Vegeta's destruction"
He's probably referring to the Bardock special. Zarbon was the one who first recommended destroying Planet Vegeta because the saiyans were rapidly growing in strength.
It was actually Beerus disguised as Zarbon #StayWoke
Herms wrote:The fact that the ridiculous power inflation is presented so earnestly makes me just roll my eyes and snicker. Like with Freeza, where he starts off over 10 times stronger than all his henchmen except Ginyu (because...well, just because), then we find out he can transform and get even more powerful, and then he reveals he can transform two more times, before finally coming out with the fact that he hasn't even been using anywhere near 50% of his power. Oh, and he can survive in the vacuum of space. All this stuff is just presented as the way Freeza is, without even an attempt at rationalizing it, yet the tone dictates we're supposed to take all this silly grasping at straws as thrilling danger. So I guess I don't really take the power inflation in the Boo arc seriously, but I don't take the power inflation in earlier arcs seriously either, so there's no net loss of seriousness. I think a silly story presented as serious is harder to accept than a silly story presented as silly.
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