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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#6651: Jun 7th 2014 at 3:46:13 PM

SSJ 3 Bardock... Oy.

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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#6652: Jun 7th 2014 at 4:05:03 PM

God fucking damn it. Bardock is like Wolverine or Batman at this point, in that hyping him up to be so cool actively makes him shitty and makes me less interested.

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Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#6653: Jun 7th 2014 at 4:55:17 PM

The E3 news is here.

The DBH one is a rumor, but does hold cred due to SSJ-3 Majin Vegeta being teased in the DBH manga series.

FireShadow (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6654: Jun 7th 2014 at 5:53:26 PM

[up] Well that pretty much confirms the game is either coming out October/November this year or January/February next year at the latest.

Please be good...

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#6655: Jun 7th 2014 at 6:41:18 PM

It's a modern Dragon Ball game. The likelihood of that is laughable, honestly.

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FOFD Since: Apr, 2013
#6656: Jun 7th 2014 at 8:26:43 PM

Dragonball Evolution at Cinema Sins.

Team Four Star did a video like this.

EDIT: Damn. I looked at the sin counter and saw 54 sins, thinking the video was almost over. I'm only 4 minutes and 52 into it. The video is 22 minutes total.

People talk about The Last Airbender like it was the worst thing ever, but at least it got some of the material correct. The worst thing was how much Earthbending sucked in that movie, and how they kept saying "Ung" instead of "Aang". They had remixes of the series' theme music, names, supporting characters - it wasn't terrible, just poor.

Evolution... they just weren't trying. How do you take "boy who lives in the wilderness who turns into giant monkey" and get "awkward high school kid who is the reincarnation of an ancient demon"? God I'd love to see some of the behind-the-scenes, or talk with someone who was on the set during filming. I mean, how much is your soul (or your career) worth?

edited 7th Jun '14 8:59:54 PM by FOFD

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#6657: Jun 7th 2014 at 10:27:51 PM

The only reason Piccolo was green was because James Marsters, who was a huge fan of the series, demanded it.

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#6658: Jun 7th 2014 at 10:42:17 PM

In the Pirate Cave in the Red Ribbon arc.

It's kinda funny; Not a lot of your standard pirates have hideouts with working lights and a submarine. Yeah, according to Bulma, it's all pretty outdated by the universe's standards but still.

Gotta love how completely wrong General Blue's reasonable presumptions are.

They haven't grown completely stale...For now, at least, but the "Goku 2 stronk" gags are getting kind old, and most battles are too one-sided, now.

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#6659: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:21:41 AM

x4[up] Were you referring to my speculation of when the game will be released or whether the game will be good?

edited 8th Jun '14 2:23:22 AM by FireShadow

Rinsankajugin Since: Feb, 2012
#6660: Jun 8th 2014 at 8:01:18 AM

People are confused at the moment whether this new game is a Spike Chunsoft game or a Dimps game. The screenshots seem that it'll be the former while other people have noticed the Goku render on the game's website seems to resemble the latter's Budokai games. I know it sure as hell isn't an Artdink game since they just barely made one a few months ago.

What would happen if the game is actually a joint project between SC and Dimps...

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#6661: Jun 8th 2014 at 9:26:24 AM

Trying to reconcile two completely different design styles that are, by and large, mutually exclusive would result in an unplayable clusterf*ck of a game.

Breaded Eggs aren't always a good thing.

edited 8th Jun '14 9:27:02 AM by TobiasDrake

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6662: Jun 8th 2014 at 1:36:12 PM

So this is a point. In the series, in, like, the Buu Saga, Kid!Trunks always seems to be operating under the assumption that his dad is actually a good person. Despite all evidence to the contrary. But that evidence is all from stuff from when Trunks either wasn't born yet or a toddler. And we never actually see much of the home lives of any of the characters.

Like, the series just skips over the four years after Gohan was born, and the year Goku was in space after Frieza, and the three years waiting for the androids, and the seven years after Cell, and the ten years after Buu.

Vegeta is so vain.

And gullible/stupid.

Future!Krillin died the way he lived.

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edited 8th Jun '14 1:53:45 PM by unnoun

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#6663: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:13:38 PM

Truthfully, considering how strong he knew Frieza to be, and how genuinely afraid of him he was, I can't totally blame Vegeta for that one.

He was probably on high alert that whole time, and just reacted instinctively.

The one with Krillin was great too.evil grin

edited 8th Jun '14 2:36:48 PM by HandsomeRob

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RandomGuy96 Since: Apr, 2014
#6664: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:21:31 PM

My theory was that Kid Trunks was just an idiot.

I really don't like the Buu Arc.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#6665: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:27:37 PM

[up]

Your theory might be a smudge biased.

Of course, few theories aren't biased, but still.

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#6666: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:34:48 PM

I consider the Buu arc a postchapter. I enjoyed it, but it's not really connected to anything.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#6667: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:36:32 PM

I thought Buu was funny.

It still cracks me up, though I can understand why some people don't like it.

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RandomGuy96 Since: Apr, 2014
#6668: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:38:26 PM

Well, I did like it until Babidi died.

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#6669: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:43:59 PM

[up]For a lot of other people, that's when it got good.

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#6670: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:48:55 PM

Babidi served his purpose, but he was a cowardly idiot who couldn't even control the least insane version of Buu (at that time, arguably Super Buu was just as sane, and much smarter).

His dad survived being around the purely insane Buu for who knows who long.

Babidi couldn't even control someone who was technically already his puppet.

And he got beat up by a normal human waitress.

He's kinda pathetic truthfully.

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RandomGuy96 Since: Apr, 2014
#6671: Jun 8th 2014 at 2:49:42 PM

Well the reason I disliked it is because Buu was a generic villain with no connection to the characters, it seemed to go off on a million tangents, Goten and Trunks were annoying, Goku seemed dispassionate and his negative traits shone through far more, Babidi was wasted potential, and everyone seemed to fool around. Once Vegeta "sacrificed" himself and Babidi died, there wasn't any more gravitas, and it became silly.

From what I heard, Toriyama wanted it to be more like early DB. Since I'm more of a fan of late DB/early DBZ, that is probably why it didn't work for me.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#6672: Jun 8th 2014 at 3:28:58 PM

The original Dragon Ball was the best.

I will always prefer the days when it was a dumb, slightly pervy gag-manga.

edited 8th Jun '14 3:29:19 PM by unnoun

Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#6673: Jun 8th 2014 at 3:38:14 PM

I think classic DB even did drama and more serious arcs better, like King Piccolo.

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#6674: Jun 8th 2014 at 4:09:53 PM

[up] I though the Freeza Arc has fantastic drama and tension. There were so much hype about Freeza considering how much he molded the Dragon Ball universe with the huge role he played, and damn he delivered in spades. He was essentially King Piccolo on steroids but a little less savvy. The biggest black eye about the arc is the infamous "5 minutes" fiasco, even in the manga it still kinda drags but nowhere near as bad as it was in the anime originally. But still, that fight between Goku and Freeza... epic and legendary... one of the greatest battles in manga or animation ever, if not the greatest. It was like the Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader for anime and manga, so climatic and a pretty awesome cliffhanger to boot. There a reason why some people think the Freeza Arc was where the manga was supposed to end, even though that's totally false.

The King Piccolo Arc was pretty awesome as well and really doesn't get the attention it deserves, that arc is an underrated gem.

The Cell Arc can rot for all I care. I mean Dragon Ball was never a Battle of Wits to begin with but damn did the heroes and villains do some stupid shit. Imperfect Cell, Future Trunks and the Cell Games, however, were all bloody awesome. And Android 16... I always shed a tear... sad

The Buu Arc was pretty random but I loved it embraced the random nature of it and was just silly, goofy and Crazy Awesome because, "Dammit this used to be random-ass action comedy, lets remind them of that!"

edited 8th Jun '14 4:17:39 PM by FireShadow

Jaken Since: Jun, 2014
#6675: Jun 8th 2014 at 4:14:56 PM

I thought the manga should have ended at the 23rd Budokai, maybe Freeza arc at latest. The Freeza arc does have a lot of tension, but once the Ginyu Force arrives it becomes "wait for Goku" saga and the tension is cheapened.

The only thing I'd miss about Cell and Buu arcs are the Saiyaman stuff. So maybe end the manga at Freeza, and make a Saiyaman OVA?


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