Yeah, the last time a Dragon Ball movie was made before Battle of Gods was Path to Power, in 1996. That thing wasn't dubbed by FU Nimation until 2003.
The same thing happened with Wrath of the Dragon.
edited 30th Apr '14 12:43:19 PM by Ssj3Gojira
Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!Battle Of Gods won't flop even if it takes several years before it's released. It took Funimation nearly a decade before they dubbed Wrath Of The Dragon, and when it eventually got released in 2006 it sold a ton of DVD's and made Funimation a truckload of money
. And keep it mind Anime was, and still is, a niche market. Believe me when Battle Of Gods gets released on DVD and Blu Ray it will sell a shit load.
edited 1st May '14 3:11:05 PM by FireShadow
So, remember when Toriyama released that information about 16 being based on Gero's son and whatnot in the Full Colour volumes of Dragon Ball? Apparently, the latest volume is going to have some jaw droppers.
17 and 18's names have been revealed, for starters. Lapis for 17 and Lazuli for 18. 1
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Because he already waited long enough as it is, it must've never really came up before.
When you name your kid "Lapis," how do you expect him not to want to destroy the awful world that let him get that name?
edited 2nd May '14 9:03:12 AM by Cruherrx
"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."Rrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeebbbbooooooooooooootttttttttt...
But in all seriousness, Beerus was fucking involved in everything. The annihilation of the Saiyan race, great change in the structure of King Kai's planet and now it seems as though he is responsible for sealing Old Kai in a damn sword! How the hell was he able to even do that!?
Kudos to Toriyama for making Majin Buu even more terrifying. The fact he doesn't need energy to do the chaotic shit that he does, make you wonder how the hell the Z Fighters were able to defeat Buu in the end.
Being a Kai must bloody tedious, with an average lifespan of 75,000 years you'd think some of the Kai would be Driven to Suicide from pure boredom.
edited 4th May '14 10:36:46 AM by FireShadow
Yeah. Beerus is way too powerful.
I think he's the kind of character who would never actually be an enemy, but more of a Too Awesome to Use type character in any other series.
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You know, I'm starting to get more and more tempted to agree with your Reboot idea.
There are a lot of things that could be done in new and interesting ways. It might be worth a try. At the least, a lot of the new info we're seeing could find it's way into the series in a Reboot. I'd leave the original Dragonball alone mostly. It's fine as it is.
Also, I think it's interesting that Goku won't be pushing the Super-Saiyan boundary any and instead focus on strengthening himself in base and regular Super Saiyan.
When you think about it, the energy consumption of 3 alone makes it so impractical, that Goku was really making a similar mistake to Frieza: having a form that was too powerful to actually use. Deciding to power himself up in Base is similar to the 24/7 Super Saiyan training he and Gohan did back in the Cell Saga.
That being said, he could still use Super Saiyan 2 I think. It has some genuine advantages over regular Super Saiyan, and lacks the massive energy consumption of 3.
edited 2nd May '14 9:55:31 AM by HandsomeRob
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Yes, you finally see the light! Join the Dragon Ball Reboot Army!
But in seriousness, if Toriyama keeps on dropping bombshells like this, he'll have to eventually stop giving interviews. Because the information that he is giving is essentially retconning the whole the perspective of which the Dragon Ball Universe can be viewed in. As many characters can now back stories that can be fleshed out and appears more three dimensional in terms of personality and their motivations for what they do. The worst example being Dr Gero's backstory, that is literally a tragedy story just begging to be animated.
edited 2nd May '14 10:08:25 AM by FireShadow
I swear to god when he revealed the Android names I thought he was trolling. It sounds like a Minecraft joke when you think about it. But for real. Lapis and Lazuli? What is the connection?
Also Bills being Old Kai's enemy is rather interesting. I actually like that we're actually getting information and character. Took quite a few decades but better then not getting the information at all.
Well I've done some research and Lapis Lazuli is a deep blue gem that is prized antiquity for its intense color. My guess is that the connection from Lapis Lazuli and Android 17 and 18 is Android 18 and 17 had blue eyes and were considered precious by their parents as gemstones are considered very precious and high in value.
edited 2nd May '14 4:48:06 PM by FireShadow
Eh. In a series where people are named after Vegetables, underwear, and Breasts (Chi-Chi folk. Chi-chi.
), naming your kids after precious stones is hardly the worst thing you could do.
That.
The connection is that naming characters after objects is Akira Toriyama's favorite joke. The entire Ginyu Force are dairy products, for Kami's sake!
edited 2nd May '14 4:27:15 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I still disagree with a reboot. It'd just make things worse, there are far too many contradictory elements that exist in the Dragon Ball universe and a lot of them are shit. I'd rather they just try to avoid major world building or stacking retcons upon each other with new material. A reboot is going to be nothing but another contradictory version of the events.
There is someone on Deviant Art (The Devils Corpse) doing his own reboot project to try and piece all the official material together into something cohesive and that's what it should be: a fanwork.
Sure are a lot of retcons/rehashes with this information here. Suddenly Beers sealed Old Kaioshin? Well, the enemy that sealed Old Kaioshin was weaker than Boo. Whoops! And Goku mastering base/Super Saiyan instead of using the latter transformations? We saw that already, but this also contradicts Super Saiyan 2 being the proper way to go ahead. Then there's the Kaioshin being in lots of 3, contradicting the manga (there were 5), living 75,000 years (contradicting East Kaioshin's 5 million year lifespan), their origin (contradicting what Toriyama said in an earlier interview)... jeez.

edited 30th Apr '14 11:29:45 AM by BaffleBlend
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