Manga/Dragon Ball

The 2009 one is probably why he's making this one. We know it's why Battle of Gods, Resurrection 'F', and Dragon Ball Super exist. In hindsight, Dragonball Evolution led to basically nothing but good things.

edited 26th Apr '16 10:32:42 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

There's nothing ironic about the original writer looking at a terrible adaptation and going, "I can do better."

Toriyama disliked Evolution because it's a piece of shit. Not because he despises live-action filmmaking.

edited 26th Apr '16 10:17:51 AM by TobiasDrake

Star Wars is one of his biggest inspirations, after all.

edited 26th Apr '16 10:25:05 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

Actually, Tobias, after re-reading the Tweets Toriyama made, he said that the movie will be out in August in Japan and December in English so... get hype, I guess! Live-action Dragon Ball movie coming in two months with a dub by the end of the year! Weird that this is the first I've heard of it.

I really can't believe this but I can't deny the evidence.

What is it with Bulma and having a different hairstyle every time she shows up?

Yamcha does that too. And Gohan's hair style changes fairly often as well.

It's because, unlike most shonen manga, this series doesn't really pretend that the characters never change their clothes or hair. The ones who don't change have specific reasons why they don't change.

Bulma, not wearing a martial arts uniform, naturally will show up in different clothes far more often than the others, who wear specific clothes or specific styles for fighting.

Krillin deliberately shaves his hair because he's a monk, when he's no longer way into martial arts, he stops doing so and grows it out. Yamcha likely changes it simply because he does have a social life and thus must keep with the times. 18's hair probably doesn't grow. Tien is likely to be completely bald so he wouldn't change ever. The saiyans' hair doesn't grow past its predetermined form. Piccolo has no hair 'cause Alien.

Gohan's grows like a human so naturally he has to cut it so it's not annoying for him. Presumably, the same would happen with Goten, and we know that Trunks' hair grows thanks to his future self's hair growth. Which he then cut when he was drafted by the Supreme Kai of Time, back to the bowl cut.

edited 26th Apr '16 2:48:21 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

@Zelenal Don't believe it. After doing some research, I discovered that the only news website reporting it, the one I linked to, is a farcical satire website. To be fair, it looked very legitimate and never once implied that the article was a joke. We all were fooled.

That makes sense. Jackie Chan as Goku hasn't been sitting right for me. I finally placed my finger on why.

Akira Toriyama is Japanese. Jackie Chan is Chinese. Think about that.

I mean, Jackie Chan is such a huge fan of Dragon Ball that he'd probably jump at the chance to play anyone in it and Toriyama has referenced him before with Roshi's disguise so that's not really all that far-fetched.

That too.

edited 26th Apr '16 3:44:17 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

Dragon Ball is based on a Chinese work that takes place primarily in India, your argument is invalid.

That and Toriyama has said that he would have liked Jackie to have played Goku in a live-action movie back in the day. Also, the fact that Toriyama's tweets were in English really should have clued people in.

Also the fact that Jackie Chan, while still a badass, is like a bajillion years old at this point...

He's 62. A few more years and he could play a mean Roshi.

I think this was a fine example of Poe's Law. It was so absurd that people assumed it had to be real.

The robot, he can't fly but he can jump really high. And the madder he gets, the stronger he gets. And he gives off heat, which also gets hotter when he gets angry. He has the powers of both Green Hulk and Red Hulk! Yet he lost when he tried to fight a blond guy.

That's probably because Vados put a barrier around the arena. If not for that, Botamo could jump into space where the lack of gravity would have allowed him to hit Vegeta with his own hammer.

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Okay, Battle of Gods and Resurrection F Beerus was apathetic and had a Blue-and-Orange Morality. Couldn't give any fucks, but, at his core, he was pretty much an overgrown kid. The parallels with Goku weren't lost.

Who decided having a bully instead of that was a good choice? Because damn, DBS Beerus is throughly unenjoyable as a character, quirks aside.

The same party who thought retelling "Battle Of Gods" and "Revival Of F" in the most drawn out way possible was a good idea?

I don't know, i find him more menacing I'm Super.

I'm not sure menacing is the right thing to be.

Honestly, I've been focusing more on the manga than anything else, only really keeping up with anime info from all of you.

He's not supposed to be menacing though. Also, just being a bully doesn't make him menacing.

The scariest thing there is out there is the unknown, and DBS Beerus is predictable.

To be fair, Battle of Gods Beerus was also insane; didn't he have a rant about not getting any pudding when Gotenks tried to fight him?

Yes, but he also apologized to Bulma for ruining her party, and his temper wasn't on such a hair-trigger. He was also more personable and friendly at the party with everyone.