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Cider The Final ECW Champion from Not New York Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
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#2601: May 1st 2013 at 8:19:43 AM

Who is the kid with the tail and the guy with the Radiz hair cut?

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#2602: May 1st 2013 at 10:26:26 AM

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Spirit Pretty flower from America Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
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#2603: May 1st 2013 at 12:56:13 PM

So I guess Attack On Titan's OP is the new Guile Theme?

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Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#2604: May 4th 2013 at 8:08:29 AM

Dammit, Toei, this is why we can't have nice things. I wish Dragonball was in the hands of an actual competent company. I mean, it's Dragonball. They should be treating it like how Lucas Arts did Star Wars: merch, movies, tv shows, video games, mobile games, comics etc. DB's a world with almost infinite potential.

Don't kid yourself, none of those franchises can even lick the boots of Dragonball. I'm not kidding here, Dragonball is only the most popular series Japan's ever produced and Goku Japan's most iconic character. That's the equivalent of DC pushing Green Lantern over Superman.

edited 4th May '13 8:14:25 AM by Cruherrx

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#2605: May 4th 2013 at 8:11:33 AM

It would be nice if they just redid the Buu saga entirely but that would probably look weird compared to the rest of Kai.

How many episodes do you think that will take anyway? My guess is 40-50 based on how much stuff they removed from the other sagas.

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#2606: May 4th 2013 at 8:15:11 AM

50 would be way too many. I see it being 30-40.

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#2607: May 4th 2013 at 8:43:33 AM

Well Kai was able to remove roughly half of the episodes. Since the Buu saga extends from around episode 198-291 I think somewhere in the 40-50 range is likely.

edited 4th May '13 8:43:43 AM by Kostya

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#2608: May 4th 2013 at 12:59:25 PM

@ Cru: Um, no, they all out rival Dragonball in ratings and in Merchandise sales. Kamen Rider and Super Sentai have been around for years longer then dragonball and is considering even more beloved then it, One Peice has sold over 100 million more copies in manga then dragonball and although Kai's ratings rivaled one piece, they didn't equal one peice at any point. And The new movie didn't do anyhere near as well as one piece film Z did.

And By pure Merchandising Pretty Cure outsells Dragonball by a sheer amount, and earns Toei 10 Billion Yen a year annually.

Just stating facts, cru.

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#2609: May 4th 2013 at 1:08:44 PM

I always heard Dragon Ball was more popular overseas than in its home country. That could explain part of it.

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#2610: May 4th 2013 at 1:11:24 PM

It's popular at home, too, just not as much as a lot of people think.

Saint Seiya and Hokuto No Ken before it, for instance, are still making more money to this day on merchandising then Dragon Ball ever did, as well as the stuff I mentioned in the previous post.

Dragon Ball makes more overseas money for Toei then in home, which is where the likes of the series I talked about get a lot of Toei's revenue from by comparison.

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Cider The Final ECW Champion from Not New York Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: They can't hide forever. We've got satellites.
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#2611: May 4th 2013 at 1:11:32 PM

I suppose Goku might be Japan's most Iconic Character...after Godzilla, and Pikachu, and Super Mario. Goku and Godzilla originated as a Sun Wukong parody and The Beast From 20000 Fathoms knockoff.

Still, it would be nice if had better material for consumers. Correct me if I am wrong but from what I know Sailor Moon's cartoon is decent when compared with the comic it originated from, there was not much point in doing it over. Dragon Ball's cartoon craps out around the time Vegeta and Napa land on Earth. TOEI would not even have to redo the entire thing, just Vegeta's arrival onward. TOEI could even just start with Namek, when the Seasonal Rot hit its apex.

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Demongodofchaos2 Face me now, bitch! from In a Cultivation World (Ancient one) Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
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#2612: May 4th 2013 at 1:14:45 PM

Actually, for Sailor Moon, it's the opposite. Most people in Japan consider the manga to be overall superior to the anime, yet the anime ended up overshadowing the popularity of the original.

It was one of Toei's biggest money makers ever. So much, they just got sick of it outright entirely.

Only recently have they gone through with celebrating the series' anniversary and even then said new series has been delayed past this summer.

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Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#2613: May 4th 2013 at 5:05:14 PM

No, DGOC, just no. Nobody outside of anime fans know what Pretty Cure, Kamen Rider et al. even is. Power Rangers is the only Sentai most Westerners know, and PR has come close to being canceled so many times it isn't even funny. Dragonball, on the other hand, is a genre defining work that is a household name all over the world. You cannot compare those other series with it no matter how well they sell because none of them is even close to being as culturally-significant.

Batman sells more merch that Superman and is perhaps the most commercially and critically successful superhero of all time, but DC never lets him eclipse Supes because Supes is their icon. Goku is that for cartoons from Japan.

I seriously can't believe that with a straight face you're seriously arguing this.

edited 4th May '13 5:09:33 PM by Cruherrx

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#2614: May 4th 2013 at 5:18:24 PM

Dragon Ball is still the best selling shonen manga of all time, not One Piece. One Piece sells more in Japan but globally Dragon Ball comes out on top. And that's with only 2/3 the volumes One Piece has.

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#2615: May 4th 2013 at 5:21:37 PM

[up][up]I sorry I normally agree with you but I think your wrong about this. A great deal of series are more popular then Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball is just more popular over seas.

edited 4th May '13 5:22:57 PM by Saya1

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#2616: May 4th 2013 at 5:27:03 PM

I'm speaking about globally.

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#2617: May 4th 2013 at 5:35:00 PM

RANDOM THOUGHT

I just saw the Dragonball Z version of the bus driver uppercut video...you guys should check it out, it's soo funny.

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#2618: May 4th 2013 at 5:45:58 PM

I have to admit, I lol'd at Abridged!Vegeta at the end.

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Handsomerob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#2619: May 4th 2013 at 6:55:45 PM

So why are we making a joke of that scene of Random violence?

Did she take a swing first? I didn't see any sign he was defending himself.

There was obviously an argument, but it looks like he just decided to haul off and clock her for very little reason.

...good punch though.

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MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#2620: May 4th 2013 at 9:08:44 PM

[up] She provoked him and they started arguing. She grabbed his neck and spat on him. I have no sympathy for the woman.

I was cracking up at the episode title and the music playing.

edited 4th May '13 9:12:03 PM by MsCC93

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#2621: May 4th 2013 at 9:18:12 PM

The title card bit made me laugh.

Handsomerob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#2622: May 4th 2013 at 9:24:16 PM

[up][up]

Oh, okay then.

It's just that I wanted to be sure she asked for it, and that it wasn't just random abuse of a woman. Though I admit, I suspected it wasn't since she was yelling and all.

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#2623: May 4th 2013 at 9:27:43 PM

Anyone ever see this?

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#2624: May 4th 2013 at 10:32:48 PM

Sorry Cru, Gloally means international sales.

In Japan sales are not anywhere close to any of the series I mentioned. This is a fact, not an opinion.

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kay4today Princess Ymir's knightess from Austria Since: Jan, 2011
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#2625: May 5th 2013 at 5:52:23 AM

>Sorry Cru, Gloally means international sales.

edited 5th May '13 5:54:20 AM by kay4today


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