You just proved my point by saying that.
Irregardless, Dragon Ball is Wuxia. Granted if you've never watched a Wuxia film you wouldn't understand what that meant, but to anybody who has watched several Wuxia films or is big fan of the genre, they would label Dragon Ball as Wuxia immediately. It's the random, melodramatic, high flying action adventures of a group of martial arts heroes in a martial arts world in martial arts universe. That is true definition of Wuxia and Dragon Ball. End of story.
edited 7th Oct '14 12:45:37 PM by FireShadow
Nitpick, Piccolo was masking his power when his 1,220 reading was taken, Vegeta even says as much when he calls out to Nappa not to rely on the Scouter readings. According to Daizenshuu, Piccolo's actual battle power was 3,500, nearly as strong as Nappa himself.
That being said, while it's unknown how much Piccolo could have advanced on King Kai's planet, it can't have been substantial. He was only there for a few days, compared to Goku's months of training, and those months only raised Goku to 8,000. It's very unlikely that Piccolo even came close to Nail's incredible power level of 42,000, and the fact that combining the two resulted in a power level greater than 1,000,000 is just phenomenal, and a true testament to how utterly broken Namekian Fusion is.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Piccolo + Kami kept up with 17 and base Cell. Even with all the Power Creep, that's pretty impressive.
edited 7th Oct '14 3:33:28 PM by HamburgerTime
Seriously. Even with the tremendous gap in their powers, Namekian Fusing with Tien and Yamcha would shoot Krillin's power level through the roof.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.DBH does have influence from just about everything in the franchise except for most of DB, the 2009 special, the Post-GT special, VRVS's Ozotto and some missing DBO elements. (which will be covered in the next mission series)
With DBXV, Dimps could just transfer many of the franchise's elements to the game though Heroes' middleman.
edited 7th Oct '14 8:14:22 PM by Rinsankajugin
Depends on how you, personally, define canon. But Toriyama let the anime team create him, then redesigned him because he didn't resemble Goku (and Raditz had already said that he did in story) then included him for a panel.
But then there's DB Minus which gives him a different personality, slightly different design and completely different history, so the whole thing is a bit muddled.
Short version: Bardock the character is canon; Bardock the anime special is as canon as any of the anime filler, no more, no less.
edited 8th Oct '14 7:37:05 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Every character in DBH and the characters they haven't included yet.
A 193 character roster with 43 characters to go. (Not including What-If forms if they do more)
Majin SSJ 2 Semi-Perfect Baby Tiencha (Omega Shenron (Pikkon Absorbed) Absorbed) (Scouter)
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

Y'know, if you're gonna complain about the series, you could at least do some research first.
but HOW?