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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#33276: Jan 24th 2016 at 8:37:43 PM

So, according to Whis, there's a 13th Universe that the other 12 reside in. I don't believe that was in the manga.

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#33277: Jan 24th 2016 at 8:37:51 PM

God, SN Piccolo was a waste. It's enormously significant from a story point of view, but then it gets blown on the new bad guy's weakest form and the most boring Android.

edited 24th Jan '16 8:39:43 PM by HamburgerTime

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#33278: Jan 24th 2016 at 8:53:16 PM

I don't remember SN Piccolo fighting Android 19.

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#33280: Jan 24th 2016 at 8:54:07 PM

Not sure if it was in the manga, but it's hardly surprising. They pair up based on the number 13, which suggested there bigger things at play...even though Universe should be the largest unit of measure but Dragon Ball is hardly the first work of fiction to take that liberty.

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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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#33281: Jan 24th 2016 at 9:21:07 PM

Universe only means "there's only one of it, dipshit" when talking about real life, though. After all, every Franchise exists within its own 'universe', doesn't it?

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#33282: Jan 24th 2016 at 9:29:14 PM

Stories exist in their own universe to the extent that they are fictional, thus their events never really take place in the universe as we know it and the author(s) are the figurative god(s).

I'm guess thanks to language being what it is(you don't have to know what every word fully entails to speak it), when authors ended up with more than one fictional universe but then tried Canon Welding they ended up with "multiverses" even though the moment two things are shown to coexist the universes are no longer separate, they just prove bigger than previously thought.(again, Dragon Ball wasn't the first to do it, I think it was DC Comics when they did a crossover between the golden and silver age Flashes, or maybe it was Tenchi when the franchise went crazy with metaphysics? What's most important is that Saint Seiya has gone there, opening the door for Dragon Ball to follow.)

edited 25th Jan '16 7:11:51 AM by IndirectActiveTransport

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Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#33283: Jan 24th 2016 at 10:23:36 PM

Universe only means "there's only one of it, dipshit" when talking about real life, though.

Not necessarily, but do we really want to get into advanced physics that I only vaguely remember?

Envyus Since: Jun, 2011
#33284: Jan 24th 2016 at 10:37:44 PM

So, according to Whis, there's a 13th Universe that the other 12 reside in. I don't believe that was in the manga.

Incorrect. Whis said that there are 12 Universes. All of the Universes have a Mirror Universe that are similar to it. Which ones are Mirrors have Numbers that add up to 13. For example 1 and 12 are mirrors, 2 and 11, 3 and 10 and so on.

There is no 13th universe.

edited 24th Jan '16 10:38:14 PM by Envyus

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#33285: Jan 24th 2016 at 10:39:16 PM

It was either a bad translation or the anime has something different to the manga.

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#33286: Jan 24th 2016 at 10:45:49 PM

Like how the opposite faces of dice add up to 7.

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#33287: Jan 24th 2016 at 10:47:07 PM

Was Champa's attendant voiced by Nico Robin?

Envyus Since: Jun, 2011
#33288: Jan 24th 2016 at 10:50:38 PM

[up][up][up]Must have been a bad translation on your part as the Anime was what I was watching when I posted this.

Whis did not mention anything of a 13th Universe.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#33289: Jan 25th 2016 at 4:34:07 AM

@Arha

Just because you or I know things doesn't mean the average man knows things.

I'm talking about how it's usually used, not about how true a definition it is.

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#33290: Jan 25th 2016 at 4:55:53 AM

That and you're getting into the scientific definition versus the layman's definition. I don't think either one is more correct than the other in this situation.

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#33292: Jan 25th 2016 at 1:51:59 PM

@Lionheart: Yes. It's pretty awesome.

There is no 13th universe. You're probably watching the shitty fansubs. There's a group 'Dragon Team' that are the most reliable, but they sometimes take a while to get their subs out.

Anyway, yeah, Super was good. Pretty much the same as the manga chapter, but it was fun.

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#33293: Jan 25th 2016 at 3:59:23 PM

So I just read chapter 8 of Super and I cracked up at Goku only barely passing the written test.

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#33295: Jan 25th 2016 at 8:39:50 PM

So she'd be grabbing men's balls all the time?

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#33296: Jan 25th 2016 at 8:41:14 PM

Would Fortuneteller Baba be a warlock, then?

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#33297: Jan 25th 2016 at 8:49:57 PM

Not a Miniature Older Person, 1/10.

edited 25th Jan '16 8:50:03 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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#33298: Jan 25th 2016 at 8:55:02 PM

So she'd be grabbing men's balls all the time?

What makes you say she still wouldn't be groping women?

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#33299: Jan 26th 2016 at 12:02:02 AM

[up][up]Remember that Roshi is canonically one centimeter taller than Vegeta. He just hunches.

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#33300: Jan 26th 2016 at 2:15:04 AM

Regular Roshi actually looks like an old person, but genderbent Roshi looks like a teenage girl with white hair.


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