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sockpuppet1 Since: Apr, 2013 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#4076: Dec 18th 2013 at 8:50:28 PM

...you know, there's a reason the Genius Ditz trope exists.

Oh, and also: Saiga, were you still doing that Dragon Ball review? I ask because you said you'd have the first part posted "tomorrow", but that was four days ago...

Also, Bojack WAS technically Trunks' fault, because Trunks intervention lead to the Cell Games.

edited 18th Dec '13 8:51:22 PM by sockpuppet1

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4077: Dec 18th 2013 at 8:55:35 PM

Ehehehe... yeah. I ended up being away from home for longer than I thought, without my manga volumes with me. I'm actually typing up two posts for it now, the first is another note before I start, and the second is the volume 1 review itself.

Wow, nearly turned 1 day into 1 week. Anime Freeza would be proud.

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#4078: Dec 18th 2013 at 10:38:24 PM

If Kenshin's version of Japan can have guys punch apart trees with their bare fists and survive knives being thrown at their heads just because their skin is that tough, it can have a woman with decent combat abilities.

A badass female fighter be easier to believe than Cannibal Social Darwinist Mummy or a three stories tall giant. (not sure if he was exactly three stories tall but Fuji was kinda....yeah, totally not possible)

Misao is the only respectable female in that series.

edited 18th Dec '13 10:40:05 PM by Nikkolas

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#4079: Dec 18th 2013 at 10:46:14 PM

[up]x4

> > > > > > > > > >(Joke here)

(Your head here)< < <

...A person can be genius and dumb at the same time...the qualities of greed, arrogance, forgetfulness, and clumsyness can all cancel out genius cred, or just summing the last two up as Ditzy.

edited 18th Dec '13 10:47:08 PM by randomness4

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#4080: Dec 18th 2013 at 10:51:51 PM

Put it this way.

She's a genius at machines but dumb as a sack of hammers when it comes to people. See: her going googoo over Zarbon.

edited 18th Dec '13 10:52:35 PM by Nikkolas

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#4081: Dec 18th 2013 at 10:58:24 PM

Booksmart and peoplestupid.

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ScorpioRat from Houston, Texas Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#4082: Dec 19th 2013 at 3:26:06 AM

@Nikkolas: Kenshin is historical fiction, and the setting must be established cultural-wise before you start bending the suspension of disbelief. If you just make everyone act like modern day, there's no point in it. And once again, characters don't have to fight to be respectable. But this is off topic..

edited 19th Dec '13 3:26:39 AM by ScorpioRat

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#4083: Dec 19th 2013 at 5:18:34 AM

Apart from Bulma, what do you guys think of Android 18?

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#4084: Dec 19th 2013 at 5:22:10 AM

Her extortion of Satan is one of my favourite moments in the series. Absolutely loved her for that.

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#4085: Dec 19th 2013 at 5:32:22 AM

Android 18 and Krillin are actually one of my favorite couple/parents from the show. She broke Vegeta's arm and trashed Mr. Satan's office (As mentioned by another troper).

Bloodsquirrel Since: May, 2011
#4086: Dec 19th 2013 at 5:59:54 AM

You know, I've never minded Chichi's freakouts, given that they all involve her insane husband's wacky putting-their-son-in-mortal-danger antics. Even if the fate of the world is at stake, it's gotta be kind of hard to handle seeing your young child go out to fight a life-or-death battle, being able to do nothing to help him, and seeing his father treat it as a game.

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#4087: Dec 19th 2013 at 6:31:13 AM

[up] It's only when she gets upset over trivial things that she bothered me. I never minded her freaking out over the fact that Gohan was missing for a year, and when she didn't want him to go to Namek (I think she had good reasons to not let him go). I honestly dislike when characters are villainized for showing realistic emotions in traumatizing situations. Not to mention, most of her obnoxious moments are only in the anime at least.

I just get annoyed when fans single her out and make her looks like an evil person compared to the other females.

I actually like Goku a lot, but I dislike how he always tries to seek a good fight when the world is at stake (like allowing Frieza to transform, giving Cell a Senzu Bean, etc).

edited 19th Dec '13 7:52:19 AM by MsCC93

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#4088: Dec 19th 2013 at 8:42:21 AM

Well, he can't really help that.

The Saiyan's love of a good fight tends to trump everything.

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#4089: Dec 19th 2013 at 9:02:02 AM

I think it's more the fact he's literally brain damaged.

All the Chi Chi as a wife talk just makes me think of this

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#4090: Dec 19th 2013 at 9:03:04 AM

[up]

That might be a factor as well.

Though maybe we shouldn't make such casual jokes about that.

edited 19th Dec '13 9:03:26 AM by HandsomeRob

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ScorpioRat from Houston, Texas Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#4091: Dec 19th 2013 at 9:13:29 AM

Android 18 was always one of my favorites. I played as her a lot in the original Budokai games.

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#4092: Dec 19th 2013 at 9:39:34 AM

[up][up]What do you mean we shouldn't make jokes. I think the tutor got what he deserved.

Bloodsquirrel Since: May, 2011
#4093: Dec 19th 2013 at 10:16:46 AM

Ah... the tutor.

"Sure, Gohan can take hits from casual moonbusters, but a ordinary man with a stick? That's going to smart!"

Bless you, filler writers.

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#4094: Dec 19th 2013 at 10:20:47 AM

[up] The tutor to me was good filler, even though I hate the tutor.

Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#4095: Dec 19th 2013 at 10:21:35 AM

How do you know that tutor isn't secretly a casual moonbuster? Or secretly Frieza in disguise?

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Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
I say things.
#4096: Dec 19th 2013 at 11:17:00 AM

Movies and supplemental stuff are largely fanservice. 90 minutes of Goku fighting the villains has been done for a bunch of movies. I want Future Trunks back only because I like him. Entirely shallow reasons, but these are entirely shallow affairs.

"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."
ScorpioRat from Houston, Texas Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#4097: Dec 19th 2013 at 11:29:33 AM

I want a movie set in an alternate GT timeline, just to see what could be done with it.

Cruherrx I say things. from my own little world Since: Apr, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
I say things.
#4098: Dec 19th 2013 at 11:50:03 AM

I want anything so long as it doesn't involve Bardock.

"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."
SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#4099: Dec 19th 2013 at 11:51:24 AM

What about.....Broly?

shudders

My various fanfics.
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#4100: Dec 19th 2013 at 12:11:28 PM

What do you mean we shouldn't make jokes. I think the tutor got what he deserved.

No no. I mean the whole Goku has brain-damage thing. Yes, it's kinda true, but I can't help but wonder if it's in poor taste.

Though Goku has one of the best reasons to be an Idiot Hero ever.

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