I guess I'd been so used to thinking about the Buu Saga with the final battle being planned from the beginning. People seemed to assume that Toriyama made that Great Saiyaman stuff unbearable so the audience would really want Goku back.
But, no. Ultimate Gohan wasn't supposed to be just another obstacle. It was supposed to be the END!
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!So did I. I really don't know what he was thinking when he wrote it, but I love it. It's so unlike Dragon Ball, but it's one of my favourite parts of the entire series.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!I love how the Great Saiyaman stuff focuses on the lives of 'ordinary' humans. Even if it is a bit of retcon to how the world used to be portrayed as a World of Badass, I feel like it added a lot to the world of Dragon Ball. Just knowing there are normal people, living their lives, while all this stuff is going on...
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!@ re: DB shippings: At Archive Of Our Own, I found out Bulma/Vegeta surpasses Bulma/Yamcha twentyfold.
Isn't it sad?
I wonder how things woulda gone if Raditz had replaced Vegeta.
Like what if instead of dying from the Special Beam Cannon he survived but before being finished off Piccolo learned that Vegeta and Nappa were gonna show up on Earth and fuck shit up so he said 'screw it' to killing Raditz, kidnapped a toddler, and took off leaving Raditz to die slowly. Dude survives but figures Vegeta would kill him so he trains or something. Stuff happens, Nappa and Vegeta show up and Raditz ends up fighting with the Earth fighters. Then everything else that happened happened but with Raditz instead of Vegeta.
I didn't think this thru at all because of reasons.
What started out as a pleasant afternoon of drugs and surgery has not gone as planned.I've always liked Raditz more than Vegeta. I wish more had been done with him.
What's with people thinking Bardock is some kind of good guy? I saw him as only trying to kill Frieza due to knowing Frieza was going to wipe out his race. I mean it didn't seem like Bardock had an issue with committing genocide, it was only Saiyan Genocide that really bothered him. Maybe i'm wrong but either way, Bardock remains my favorite character.
What started out as a pleasant afternoon of drugs and surgery has not gone as planned.Literally, the first thing we're introduced to Bardock is him and his buddies chilling among the smoking rubble of the planet they just murdered.
My various fanfics.Bardock was apparently given a hefty dose of Adaptational Heroism (Translational Heroism?) in the dub, so that may be the source of it.
If I recall correctly, the dub had him saying he was also attacking Frieza for all the people he made them kill and his last thoughts were wishing he could have held Goku.
Though, I thought that special was actually dubbed first and then carried over to Japan, so maybe that was the original.
I would actually say Bulma/Vegeta is the better ship. It may not have started that way, but it got developed over the years and now I think they're one of the better relationships in the series since they at least interact.
Bulma/Yamcha was purely a way to tie up the loose ends of the first arc, and immediately shown to have problems in their next appearance. And after that, we saw nothing of them as a couple and only Bulma's dissatisfaction with it until they broke up for good.
So... yeah. I can't even imagine why someone would support Bulma/Yamcha except as a trophy for Yamcha.
On Bardock: both the dub and video games make him way more heroic than he originally was. Episode of Bardock contributes as well, with him being tsundere rather than villainous.
I know Saiyans like to fight.
But I wonder exactly how much them liking to kill and slaughter and massacre has to do with Frieza.
Probably not entirely. That war with the Tuffles.
I mean, it doesn't say how the war started. Or why. I could easily imagine it starting almost as a slave revolt. A class thing. The Tuffles had wealth and technology and food, looked down on the primitive, violent Saiyans, shit happened, then there was a full moon, and that's where the story ends on that front.
EDIT: Why would Gine be in hell? It doesn't seem like she ever managed to kill anyone.
Morally speaking she's a lot cleaner than Bardock is.
edited 15th May '15 8:30:48 PM by unnoun
edited 15th May '15 8:32:33 PM by Ssj3Gojira
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The story was that the Saiyans routinely attacked the Tuffles only to be kept at bay by their superior technology. The only thing that kept them from wiping them out sooner was that the full moon only happened once every 300 years on the planet. So, yeah, it was all on the Saiyans, no class thing or anything, they just wanted the planet for themselves.
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edited 15th May '15 8:33:15 PM by LSBK

I've seen a lot of doujins for anime that more or less consist of "most powerful woman in the cast gets raped." As if Japan's gender politics weren't off-putting enough...