Dragon Ball Thread

 
A thread dedicated to one of the greatest manga/anime of all time. You can post about Z, GT, Kai, original DB, TFS Abridged, or anything else related to Dragon Ball.

Does this mean we’re going to have to yell for five minutes inbetween posts?

@uc9
 
For that matter, does that mean we’ll have to make 52 posts to finish expressing a single opinion?

I kinda like the part when Goku was a kid better. Later on, all the Dragon Balls collecting just happens off-screen, there’s no adventure anymore.

Really curious how they’re going to handle Cell in Abridged. I imagine with 3 different personalities/voices, it’s a lot of exploitable stuff!

@Grieffon
 
…the transformation really is drastic; DB started out as comedy loosely inspired by “The Monkey King” with a fantastic, adventurous atmosphere, but then it sort of turned into something like a Michael Bay sci-fi film about alien combatants, time travel and genetic engineering. In fact, it seemed to change more every time Toriyama “failed” to end the manga. (Heck, just look at “Battle of the gods”; history is repeating itself.)

@uc9  

 
 
@archestereo  

 
Don’t forget that we need to keep unlocking potential every time a new page changes

Did you know that there are people STILL waiting for Dragonball AF?
 

The amount of DVD’s with that name here is baffling to say the least. And that’s not counting the supposed XBOX Version

@SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION  
I FOUND WALDO!!!

Kai has finally reached the Majin Buu saga!
 

I’m throwing this one out there.
 
Battle of the gods is one of the worst DBZ Movies right next to Bio Broly and the Dead Zone

@QuasarNova  
Duuuude. I have my beefs with Battle of the Gods, but it is fucking Hayao Miyazaki compared to Biobroly.

@TheAbridgenator
 
If you mean the animation, just barely. It didn’t felt like a movie, it felt like a half-decent TV Special

Ah, yes, the Japanese equivalent of Superman. Lots of good childhood memories. Oh, and I’m not going to mention the Dragon Ball movie as that didn’t happen. EVER.

@Background Pony #36FD  
You mean Dragon Ball Evolution.

THE ENTRY-LEVEL IS HIGH WITH THIS ONE

What can be said about Dragon Ball that hasn’t been covered already?

I feel it would be nice if Toriyama would do a remastering of the series, to close all the plot wholes and unify the whole thing, instead of it’s current state where it’s obvious he never planned out more then one arc ahead,

@MoogSourceVermona  
While Z is definitely entry level, I feel that the Original Show is just obscure enough to not be entry level
 
 
@Thanotos Omega  
What do you mean?

@Thanotos Omega
 
…but wasn’t the whole point of Dragon Ball that everything came outta left field? Furthermore, how could he plan more than one arc ahead when the end of each arc was intended to be THE end?

@archestereo  
He’s talking about the Original Show too, Not just Z (Not every arc of the Original dragonball was meant to be the end)

@archestereo  
@trashboat  
He now knows that he went well beyond Goku’s wedding the original intended ending, then beyond Freeza, and Cell, there are allot of plot holes that creeped up from this, i would like to see him do the series again but with his knowledge of all that is to come sealing up the flaws that currently rely on nostalgia to cover them up, like more scenes showing Goku being good with his family to deal with the almost universal fanon that he is a neglectful jerk, as well as other flaws, maybe even manage to write some of the movies in,

@trashboat  
Dragonball isn’t obscure. It showed on Toonami.

@igotnopicks  
I wasn’t implying that it was, I meant in Comparison to DBZ, Dragonball is incredibly obscure