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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#83801: May 5th 2018 at 5:23:38 PM

I don't think anyone was advocating for jumping into a next generation thing immediately anyway

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#83802: May 5th 2018 at 5:24:58 PM

I don't think Toriyama would go for that anyway; as far as he's concerned, Goku is the only suitable to be the main character, no matter how much we may disagree lol.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#83803: May 5th 2018 at 6:12:43 PM

Pretty much.

Goku seems to be the only one he likes writing. And he only likes writing Goku as a fight loving Manchild who only cares about getting stronger...even though that's not what he had Goku as in the beginning.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#83804: May 5th 2018 at 6:29:24 PM

It's not even what he really ended up being...by the original's end.

edited 5th May '18 6:29:42 PM by randomness4

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#83805: May 5th 2018 at 6:32:29 PM

I guess it's easier to get the plot to do whatever you want with a main character like that

Kind of like how "Saiyan pride" started to be used to excuse no end of dumbassery

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#83806: May 5th 2018 at 7:28:02 PM

Yup, he sticks to what he knows...

Not for nothing, but Toriyama seems really inflexible with his writing. Even the new movie, out of any other idea he could have came up with...he just decided to go with more Saiyans.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#83807: May 5th 2018 at 7:41:42 PM

He should do more comedy.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#83808: May 5th 2018 at 7:47:13 PM

I'm like does he not want to write DB anymore or does he still want to?

Cause before he's like "Oh I want them to become more independent from me & do their own stuff so I can finally leave" but now he's like "Oh I finally get to write a story I've always wanted to write & boy did I write a lot this time."

Makes me go "Dude pick one!"

edited 5th May '18 7:47:28 PM by slimcoder

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#83809: May 5th 2018 at 8:13:47 PM

I'm pretty sure he does still want to do it since he's apparently heavily involved in Super.

And Battle Of Gods was a story he came up with.

I think he just has his way of doing things, and while occasionally willing to experiment, easily falls back into patterns.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#83810: May 5th 2018 at 8:49:08 PM

I don't think 'next gen DB' would work at all.

DB already have a revolving cast, and if Gohan had stayed the main character we would have had a main cast that comprises none of the originals.

The only way to get more 'next gen' than that would be a abrupt change to a new cast, which would be alienating and wouldn't have the organic build up that the cast rotation presented.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#83811: May 5th 2018 at 9:15:28 PM

But...the originals didn't need to "stick" around.

They could've been "doing" their own thing.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#83812: May 5th 2018 at 9:16:29 PM

Its not like anyone is clamoring to see more of Namu

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#83813: May 5th 2018 at 9:19:05 PM

Agreed.

And it's not like Toriyama was really using them that much anyway.

I mean, we don't really see what they are doing when they aren't fighting, and when they do fight, they get beaten into the ground to hype up how powerful the newest villain is, with all of them lamenting that only Goku can do anything.

He went through the trouble of building up Gohan, and trying to do the sam with Goten and Trunks, so it'd have been nice if he tried to follow through on that.

And now, we have the story going out of it's way to not even age them at all, even though at the same age, Future Trunks actually looked much older.

Hell, current Trunks has a lot more potential than his future self! He became a Super Saiyan at age 8...unless we're going by the manga version where he was already a Super Saiyan, but I don't think it said how old he was when he did it.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#83814: May 5th 2018 at 9:27:11 PM

Someone said that Gotendo and Trunks should train actually and not use the fusion technique...

How stoopid...

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#83815: May 5th 2018 at 9:54:00 PM

So I just had a random thought:

If Majin Buu used his candy beam on a Senzu bean, would said transformed Senzu still have the properties of a Senzu?

As in, would the now Senzu cookie (for example) still both restore strength and heal injuries?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#83816: May 5th 2018 at 9:59:23 PM

Well if people who get turned into candy still have their power, it'd only make sense.

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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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#83817: May 5th 2018 at 10:00:09 PM

Depends on if that milk the formerly blind kid drank had all the nutritional properties of a human.

edited 5th May '18 10:01:11 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#83818: May 5th 2018 at 10:13:52 PM

The milk was just blood turned white...

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
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#83819: May 6th 2018 at 12:01:41 AM

Dragon ball is the Goku show..confirmed.

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hardcorefakes coolest_guy from probably America Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
coolest_guy
#83820: May 6th 2018 at 12:32:12 AM

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The real question is if Senzu Beans can even cure something like blindness.....

Ikedatakeshi Baby dango from singapore Since: Nov, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Baby dango
#83821: May 6th 2018 at 12:37:37 AM

The Saiyan tails don't grow back, so no.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#83823: May 6th 2018 at 1:18:26 AM

So did Goku's, like twice. Either it stops growing back for adults, or there's a limit to how many times it can be regrown.

FrozenWolf2 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#83824: May 6th 2018 at 1:25:34 AM

or its one of those... Toriyama didn't like drawing the tail XD

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Jedi1113 Since: Jun, 2009
#83825: May 6th 2018 at 1:29:16 AM

I always assumed it was surgically removed at the base of presumably the spine.

[up] This is known.

edited 6th May '18 1:30:29 AM by Jedi1113


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