by Aeritai » Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:13 pm
by Reploid Productions » Sat Jul 13, 2019 2:32 pm
[violet] wrote:Maybe we could power our new search engine from the sexual tension between you two.
by Aeritai » Sat Jul 13, 2019 2:54 pm
Reploid Productions wrote:We already had a DBZ thread in here awhile back, but it's been quite some time since it last saw any action so I think we can leave the old one buried and start fresh. XD
DBZ was one of my gateway drugs into anime as a teenager in the 90s, it was only years later I went back and checked out the original Dragon Ball. It's somewhat amusing to me that you can often tell with reasonable accuracy when someone got into it through certain fan behaviors: Spelling it "Saiyajin" versus the westernized "Saiyan", whether it's being pronounced the Japanese way versus the English version... and also whether or not they absolutely hate the freakin' Tree of Might movie. I'm in that older-ish camp in that I still spell it "Saiyajin", but pronounce it "Saiyan", and hate that friggin' movie. (For the younger/newer fans, in the late 90s the US dub broadcast got halfway through the Frieza saga, to the episode where Goku finally arrives on Namek and Vegeta spends like half the episode freaking out about how strong Goku's gotten and foreshadowing the whole super Saiyajin thing. And that was as far as it got. The next three days the broadcast would go through the Tree of Might... and then cycle aaaaaaaaaall the way back to the very beginning of DBZ again. We ran through that cycle more times than I care to remember for YEARS while waiting to see if the dub would ever get the rest of the saga.)
Honestly, if you're looking to catch up on DBZ at least, I would recommend going straight to the DBZ Kai version. It streamlines the storytelling and chops out the original anime's absurd volume of filler material so the narrative doesn't drag nearly so badly. Basically when the anime was originally being made, it was constantly in danger of overtaking the manga release so they had to pad out the fights and introduce loads and loads of filler so it wouldn't get ahead of the source material. (At one point around the infamous "five minutes until Namek explodes" bit, the anime was barely two chapters behind the manga, which is an insanely close gap hence soooo much padding.) Although I still recommend watching the driving school episode from Z. Yes, it's absolutely pure filler, but it is gloriously goofy watching two of the most powerful people on the planet struggling to accomplish such a mundane task as passing a driving test. DBZ Abridged re-ignited my love for the series, and in all honesty I suspect Team Four Star's parody is likely very largely responsible for stirring up the fandom enough to make stuff like Battle of Gods and DB Super possible.
As for favorite character, I am, and always will be a future Trunks fangirl. He just has more depth to his backstory given that whole "ruined future timeline" thing, and until the Black arc in Super, the History of Trunks special was easily the darkest story told in the setting. Vegeta's probably my second favorite because he has one of the more interesting character arcs over the course of Z and through Super going from completely unapologetic asshole to ... well, probably the third-best father figure in the series after Piccolo and Gohan.
by Aeritai » Sat Jul 13, 2019 3:59 pm
by Fascist PRUESSENS » Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:30 pm
by Reploid Productions » Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:59 am
Fascist Pruessens wrote:I got into Dragon Ball after getting bored in Naruto
[violet] wrote:Maybe we could power our new search engine from the sexual tension between you two.
by Aeritai » Sat Jul 20, 2019 2:53 pm
Fascist Pruessens wrote:I got into Dragon Ball after getting bored in Naruto
by Griemvarant » Sat Jul 20, 2019 3:01 pm
by Aeritai » Sun Jul 21, 2019 12:27 pm
by Reploid Productions » Sun Jul 21, 2019 1:14 pm
[violet] wrote:Maybe we could power our new search engine from the sexual tension between you two.
by Aeritai » Sun Jul 21, 2019 2:01 pm
by Aeritai » Thu Aug 08, 2019 3:29 pm
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