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Are you talking about something produced in one aspect ratio and then changed to another? Something that has never been produced at all and is being considered for one or the other?
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Are you talking about something produced in one aspect ratio and then changed to another? Something that has never been produced at all and is being considered for one or the other?
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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!
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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.
Are you talking about something produced in one aspect ratio and then changed to another? Something that has never been produced at all and is being considered for one or the other?
Original Thread Topic wrote:Did Dragon Ball ever motivate you to exercise?
No, why would it? It's fiction. The strength of the characters is not possible to reach in reality.
I mean, you're pretty open about looking at cartoon porn. Why would you do that? It's fiction. The proportions of these women are not possible to reach in reality.
It would have to be its original aspect ratio for it to even begin to interest me.
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Kuririn Fan wrote:Easy - 4:3 for old shows, 16:9 for new.
Pretty much.
I'm fine with watching 4:3 for old shows (including Dragon Ball) on HD TVs with the black bars because it preserves the footage as it was meant to be seen (square as opposed to rectangular) and keeps all the important information in the frame. For old shows you get this with 4:3 blu-rays, but not the 16:9 ones because in that case parts of the frame are cut out in the process, which can't even be changed by adjusting the settings on your TV (perfect example being the Funimation DBZ Season sets).
Nowadays 16:9 is the standard, but I'm also fine watching anything that way if its how it was produced, though I'd be happy to watch a new show in 4:3 if only for an experiment.
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I still have one SD tv at home, so buying a 16:9 release of the show just for the sake of "filling up the tv screen" has never been an option for me. Even when using my hdtv, I still prefer the original aspect ratio of Dragon Ball, as that was the intended way to watch the show. Cropping, DNR, and oversaturation look terrible imo, and it's a shame that those flaws are the standard for home releases.
Even with the movies, I prefer 4:3. I know that technically those films were intended to be watched in widescreen, but I still find the images cramped in comparison to the full 4:3 picture.
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Depends. The orange brick crops were horrendous and actively hurt the experience. It feels like you are looking at something out of a peephole. The Bluray crops were far less offensive, and while noticeable in some areas don't gut the scenes. I'm not too much of a stickler so whatever looks best. If I can get it on my entire screen and still have 95%-100% of the original image, I'm fine.
Never. I repeat, NEVER alter a product's original aspect ratio. If it's animated in 4:3, keep it in 4:3 across all it's releases and the same applies for 16:9. Altering aspect ratios from its native ratio is a horrible practice especially when it comes to shows originally animated in 4:3
Try watching any of the 4:3 Simpson episodes on Fox's HD channel and watch how butchered the picture gets.
KentalSSJ6 wrote:Never. I repeat, NEVER alter a product's original aspect ratio. If it's animated in 4:3, keep it in 4:3 across all it's releases and the same applies for 16:9. Altering aspect ratios from its native ratio is a horrible practice especially when it comes to shows originally animated in 4:3
Try watching any of the 4:3 Simpson episodes on Fox's HD channel and watch how butchered the picture gets.
^This. Dragon Ball, Z and GT? Give it to me in 4:3. Movies? I can go either way due to how they were framed really (except BoG and RF, which should clearly be 16:9). Super? Give it to me in 16:9.
Black bars? I don't give a damn. Heck, most movies nowadays don't fit your average TV either due to their even wider screen format... 2.35:1 or something? In any case, I'll take those with the black bars on the top and bottom too, thank you very much. About the only times where the aspect ratio of a work will bother me, is in stuff like Interstellar which goes back and forth between two different aspect ratios depending on whether the scene was shot in IMAX or not... Like, really Christopher Nolan, was it too much to ask that you keep the aspect ratio consistent even if you couldn't film the entire movie in IMAX? Surely non-IMAX cameras are still capable of shooting in 16:9?
Man-Child wrote:Even with the movies, I prefer 4:3. I know that technically those films were intended to be watched in widescreen, but I still find the images cramped in comparison to the full 4:3 picture.
Can you remind me from where this info came from? If you ask me, I don't think that early movies (DB1-3, DBZ1-3) were meant to be seen in 16:9: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/110232 - looks like random center crop.
