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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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#28951: Nov 21st 2015 at 2:06:50 PM

Personally, I actually greatly enjoy the plot and most of the characters. It's not the most amazing series ever but it's one of those series that I can go back to at basically any time and still love it.

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#28952: Nov 21st 2015 at 2:30:56 PM

For a great deal of people, it's mostly the fact that Dragon Ball was the anime that got most people interested in anime to begin with.

In my case, eh, it works well enough.

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#28953: Nov 21st 2015 at 3:05:28 PM

Only the well animated ones, mostly.

Especially when it's from Toei's better animators, like Natoshi Shiida or Kazuhiro Ota

You might enjoy TOEI's work enough to pick out individual names, Dragon Ball is still a manga comic that was continued by three movie and inspired a successful string of video games to me.

Although the Funimation translations have long sense overrode whatever I use to be used to. I'm just now remembering "Dijin Buu" and "Gotunks".

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#28954: Nov 21st 2015 at 3:23:46 PM

Ah, you remind me of the day I learned that for some reason, the Spanish Spanish dub for DBZ had them pronounce Gohan's name as 'Goanda'. Yeah I don't get it either.

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#28955: Nov 21st 2015 at 3:58:35 PM

The characters are endearing and silly. That's why I like the series. Plot holes and retcons matter very little to me here because I know I'm not supposed to take this series to seriously.

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#28956: Nov 21st 2015 at 4:31:52 PM

I actually had no idea how popular Dragon Ball was until a few years after I read the whole manga. The 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai will forever remain my favorite arc.

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#28957: Nov 21st 2015 at 5:05:53 PM

I think it's because it knows exactly what it is. It never tries to overreach itself. It never tries to be philosophical, or overly mature. It knows it's aimed at children, and it never gets too complex or bogged down.

The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#28958: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:11:57 PM

Which ironically makes it far more mature and adult than the ones who try to be.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#28959: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:15:21 PM

Yeah, DB doesn't pretend to be anything more than it is.

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#28960: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:24:48 PM

There's a lot I love about Dragon Ball. The setting is really cool, I like that this is a world where you have aliens, robots, alien robots, demons, alien demons, martial artists, alien martial artist demons, animal people, monster people, wizards, gods, dragons, mutants, fusion, psychics, time travel and what-not and it all just seems to fit together pretty well.

And I also just love the simplicity of the Ki Attacks in the series.

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#28961: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:26:33 PM

It helps that, despite being a happy, fun series for all ages, Dragon Ball has NEVER shyed away from GRAPHIC violence. From Goku's tail being chopped off, General Blue getting tongued in his brain, Yamcha's leg breaking, Goku puching Drum's head apart to King Piccolo getting a huge hole punched through him, Piccolo Jr blasting a hole through Goku's shoulder then attacking the hole, to Tenshinhan getting his arm punched off, Vegeta killing Burter by knee-slamming his throat, Freeza continuously blasting Piccolo, Dr. Gero impaling Yamcha, to Cell drinking people, Videl breaking Spopvich's neck, Buu liquifying himself and exploding a man from the inside out, and countless other instances.

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#28962: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:28:23 PM

It's the product of its time, as you couldn't really get away with that level of violence nowadays In a Shonen magazine unless it's Attack On Titan.

Fist Of The North Star and Jojos Bizarre Adventure are similar in that regard.

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#28963: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:30:12 PM

Also, because the story of DB is so simple, you can essentially take any meaning out of it. For one, there's the whole "The Freeza Saga is about the black man's journey in America". What is a Super Saiyan? Who knows! They don't really tell you the minute details. They don't tell you where it comes from. So it can symbolise literally anything you want it to be.

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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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#28964: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:35:02 PM

I suppose Dragon Ball has a high level of applicability.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#28965: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:35:31 PM

I echo Saiga in the general flow of the story being a major appeal, especially since most of it was written on the fly. There's only a couple places where you can see the proverbial seams, such as, as I mentioned earlier, the fact that the Gohan high school drama just sort of stops.

edited 21st Nov '15 6:35:54 PM by HamburgerTime

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#28966: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:44:05 PM

To be honest, I actually don't think it's bad that it just suddenly stops... mostly because, it kinda does in-story too. Gohan's all like "got this shit to deal with", and then Goku drops in and is like "fuck that noise, let's go beat each other up!" and Gohan's like "YAAAAAY DAD!" and totally forgets about his problems, because he is, in the end, his father's son.

It's never bothered me because it kinda makes perfect sense. It stopped being important to the characters, so it stopped being important for the story as well.

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#28967: Nov 21st 2015 at 6:44:39 PM

I want Xenoverse 2 to have animal-person as an option for the Human race. They're sorely underrepresented.

edited 21st Nov '15 7:10:42 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#28968: Nov 21st 2015 at 7:02:51 PM

I want Xenoverse 2 to exist, mainly.

There's been no talk of it, whatsoever, anywhere that I know.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#28969: Nov 21st 2015 at 7:07:07 PM

Which could be a good thing, because if there was anything right now it'd likely because the game was being pushed out too soon to get proper development and then we're trapped in the yearly Dragon Ball game cycle again.

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#28970: Nov 21st 2015 at 7:08:16 PM

[up][up][up]I agree. We hardly ever see them at all after the King Piccolo arc.

I think I remember King Furry getting a Tear Jerker moment during the Cell saga after the military is wiped out, but that's pretty much all that we see of them other than Oolong.

[up]I agree with that, too. Xenoverse isn't even a year old yet!

edited 21st Nov '15 7:09:17 PM by BaffleBlend

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#28971: Nov 21st 2015 at 7:08:54 PM

Anyone else remember that wild mass guess someone had a while ago that Beerus was a cat-person from Earth originally?

[up]Don't forget Puar who, by the way, can still hover with no explanation.

edited 21st Nov '15 7:10:14 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#28972: Nov 21st 2015 at 7:10:14 PM

I'm pretty sure King Furry and Oolong are actually the only animal-people to appear in the Z portion. Toriyama probably forgot them, like Launch.

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#28973: Nov 21st 2015 at 7:11:15 PM

They just were never that important. None of them joined the main cast and they mainly just served to establish the weirdness of the setting.

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#28974: Nov 21st 2015 at 7:12:07 PM

[up][up]Nope, they're constantly in crowds.

edited 21st Nov '15 7:12:23 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#28975: Nov 21st 2015 at 7:13:01 PM

Are animal people humans? I mean, I would think they would be counted as earthlings, which is probably how those rosters or whatever works right? I haven't played a Dragon Ball game (or really any video game) in years.


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