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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#60001: Jul 2nd 2017 at 2:58:45 AM

Hopefully this shits worth the hype.

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#60002: Jul 2nd 2017 at 3:26:13 AM

For some reason, it didn't actually occur to me that without flying, the characters can't self-propel. Just grabbing someone and holding them in the air before throwing them off is an entirely valid means to disqualify someone, much like how Goku beat Botamo in the U6 tournament.

MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#60003: Jul 2nd 2017 at 4:35:50 AM

Yesterday, I learned that the opening to Dragon Ball calls the Kintoun a "machine cloud".

Why?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#60004: Jul 2nd 2017 at 5:41:46 AM

Which one?

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MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#60005: Jul 2nd 2017 at 5:53:28 AM

[up]Makafushigi Adventure, which is Dragon Ball's only opening theme.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#60006: Jul 2nd 2017 at 6:35:42 AM

???

Randomness don't know that one.

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#60007: Jul 2nd 2017 at 6:55:38 AM

It's literally the first theme of the series.

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#60008: Jul 2nd 2017 at 7:50:40 AM

You've undoubtedly heard the jingle from the chorus, but many western fans have never actually watched Dragon Ball. Its all Z over here.

edited 2nd Jul '17 7:52:01 AM by Zeromaeus

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#60009: Jul 2nd 2017 at 7:55:59 AM

So I was kind of annoyed that the episode kept cutting back to the Gods commentating on whats happening in the fights. There were too many cutaways for my liking.

I can think of one or two moments in Z but nothing that he didn't immediately turn around to his favor.

The only thing I can think of in Z was Goku believing Raditz's lie about being willing to reform.

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#60010: Jul 2nd 2017 at 8:06:57 AM

Goku letting his guard down may be something that Toriyama always had in mind, but didn't take time to convey often. Its like how the threats Goku faced made him look battle hungry and heroic, when he was supposed to be mostly battle hungry. Maybe Goku was supposed to appear lax, but his shortcomings just came off as understandable given the circumstances.

I still wish Raditz and Nappa came back. I always thought they were cool. It always bugged me as a kid that they never even thought to wish them back. Young me thought that bringing them back during the wait for the androids would have been a good idea.

edited 2nd Jul '17 8:09:10 AM by Zeromaeus

hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#60011: Jul 2nd 2017 at 8:33:31 AM

I could see the Tournament of Power lasting 48 episodes

This is including the recruitment episodes, right? Because if it's 48 episodes of just the tournament, then that is far too many episodes.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#60012: Jul 2nd 2017 at 10:40:39 AM

[up]x4 The fact that it reads Japanese Opening says all it needs to...

I've never listened to that version.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#60013: Jul 2nd 2017 at 10:45:04 AM

So was there no dub episode of Super today?

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Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
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#60014: Jul 2nd 2017 at 11:15:21 AM

Goku gets caught off guard by some random guy and can't even break out of a basic hold without turning into SSJB. Smh.

I hope he totally trashes Universe 9 team next week.

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
Jedi1113 Since: Jun, 2009
#60016: Jul 2nd 2017 at 11:25:03 AM

They jumped really high. Have you never seen a final fantasy cutscene?

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#60017: Jul 2nd 2017 at 12:23:38 PM

I agree with the high jumping theory.

Plus, when Goku tested out the no fly rule, didn't he fall to the ground rather slowly as well?

Add that to how fast they can move, and it probably just looks like they are still flying...

Or the writers just screwed up because it's been years since they animated a pure ground based fight.

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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#60018: Jul 2nd 2017 at 12:23:40 PM

Or early Dragon Ball, for that matter.

In regards to Dragon Ball's opening, I've actually watched the entire thing (baring episodes that were pure filler) and the dub's OP uses a translated version of the JP one and doesn't say "machine cloud", it says "Nimbus".

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#60019: Jul 2nd 2017 at 1:43:54 PM

Why do people think the Battle Royal will last 48 episodes?

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#60020: Jul 2nd 2017 at 1:47:45 PM

If Toriyama intended for Goku to be someone who always leaves himself open he probably wouldn't have included all those lines in the manga about how he doesn't leave himself open.

Eagal Since: Apr, 2012
#60021: Jul 2nd 2017 at 1:47:55 PM

[up][up]Because the entirety of the last episode only lasted 1 minute in universe and the Grand Priest said the tournament would last 48 minutes.

edited 2nd Jul '17 1:48:21 PM by Eagal

LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
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#60022: Jul 2nd 2017 at 1:48:23 PM

Which of course means the rest will only be a minute.

edited 2nd Jul '17 1:51:49 PM by LordVatek

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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#60023: Jul 2nd 2017 at 1:50:26 PM

Speaking of, I don't see why so many people are complaining that what we've seen of the ToP happened in only a minute. Just take a moment to think about the series' power scaling. As early as the 21st Budoukai, the fighters were moving at speeds too great for the normal eye to see and there isn't a proper adjective to adequately describe how much stronger and faster they are now compared to then. Unless every single fighter spent more than a minute talking (and even that might not be an issue), half an episode taking only a minute of IU time is probably low balling their speeds.

The same thing applies to SSJ Goku VS 100% Freeza. Ignoring all the padding and filler the anime added, it's perfectly reasonable that the fight took less than seven minutes (Freeza added two more minutes to the timer partway through).

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Eagal Since: Apr, 2012
#60024: Jul 2nd 2017 at 1:58:58 PM

It is reasonable. It's just easy to get hung up on something like that. Plus, Dragon Ball is infamous for this sort of thing, re: Freeza's deadline for planet Namek that stretch out over a dozen episodes.

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#60025: Jul 2nd 2017 at 2:03:12 PM

Yeah, sure, you can just ignore my entire post. That's perfectly reasonable. /s

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