You know there was something about the arc that bothered me, Piccolo Jr was going to destroy the entire arena and/or destroy the world but Goku is concerned with a having a fair fight with Piccolo rather than stop him destroying the planet. Piccolo Jr was going to destroy the arena and civilians were evacuated but Goku was still concerned about having a fair fight with him.
"Mai waifu."I think I mentioned the slasher smile after the gut punch, if anything, my apologices for not wording it in a clearer way (or my apologices if I was rewritting it, then forgot to save, been a quite hetic day over here).
And, once again, being in the same ballpark is not being FUCKING ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE WEAKER. I'm not arguing that Freeza wasn't throughly outclassed, for fuck's sake. Roshi said he wasn't at the same level as the fighters in the 23rd Budokai, yet within those contestants, Goku and Piccolo outclassed everybody else, but Krillin and Tenshinhan were far closer to their level than Taopaipai or lol Chichi.
Piccolo Jr. is kind of an special case, after all, being the reincarnation of your father, which himself had split from an original Namekian, is not standard fare, I'd say.
edited 9th Jan '17 2:26:50 PM by Eriorguez
I guess. I am not used to Original!Goku as much as I am used to Funimation!Goku but even Original!Goku does have his virtues. In Super Goku actually ordered a hit on himself just so he can fight Hit and figured out his techniques. I just need to remember that Goku is not a Silver Age Superman style righteous hero but a country bumpkin who just likes to fight and improve himself.
edited 9th Jan '17 2:51:53 PM by GAP
"Mai waifu."Maybe I didn't pay much attention as a kid but I grew up on the original Funimation dub yet Goku's Blood Knight tendencies have always seemed totally in-line with how I perceived him.
This song needs more love.Yea it's pretty common. It's why people denounce Kai is "ruining" the characters just for not sticking to the characterization they grew up with as children.
Oh man, I cannot wait for how these guys are going to react to how Super annihilates Goku's character and destroys everything they remembered about their childhood
You'd be surprised how hard people are willing to cling to their nostalgia.
edited 9th Jan '17 3:06:49 PM by BlackYakuzu94
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.I will give the dub of the Dragon Ball pre Raditz this, it stayed true to Goku's characterization to the original Japanese anime. I first heard about the true Goku in Youtube comment sections before I came to contact with DB Ztubers later in life.
It actually goes both ways.
edited 9th Jan '17 3:12:56 PM by GAP
"Mai waifu."I mean, now people are complaining about Super ruining Goku's character, but for different reasons. This might actually line up more with nostalgia. That actually seems to Super's modus operandi.
But the Kai bashing was always ridiculous. So many complain complaints about the voices suck and replacing everyone, even though most of the old cast returned and they actually sounded, you know, good. Different, but better different.
But, nostalgia is a hell of a thing. Not even necessarily bad because who doesn't want fond memories of things, but damn.
edited 9th Jan '17 3:15:20 PM by LSBK
It's also not as atrociously bad as some of its contemporaries.
I mean, 4kids existed. It's a damned shame - they had the business sense to pay their talent relatively well, which resulted in people wanting to work for them and giving good performances, but the overzealous censorship killed them.
Depends on which thing you're focusing on.
If the thing you're focusing on is that Goku is way dumber than he should be, you're in the right track.
If the thing you're complaining about is that the characters aren't heroic, you came in expecting the wrong thing from Dragon Ball.
edited 9th Jan '17 3:11:22 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariDidn't Funi have a lot of difficulty dubbing Dragon Ball Z or something? I watched an interview Chris Stuckmann did with Christopher Sabat, and Sabat was talking about how haphazard and rushed the dubbing was, with the equipment being old and outdated and having to record super fast so the show could air on TV (not to mention his early voice for Vegeta sounded like he was blatantly trying to imitate Brian Drummond of the Ocean dub). That's not even going into the cringiest changes they made to the script in the original Funi dub (Freeza telling Goku his shoe was untied was something in particular I remembered Phelous mentioning in one of his videos).
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Early Funimation was very rough; they didn't really hit a stride with the series until the middle of the Android arc. If I remember from one interview before Kai debuted in America, the actors, particularly the ones who were apart of the original dub, were glad they finally got a chance to "fix" things, particularly in the Saiyan to Namek saga.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.

Which was pretty silly of him now that I think about it. Did he think that the child that beaten him won't grow any stronger in the meantime?
Maybe he just doesn't understand how growing up works in different races.