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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#30026: Feb 16th 2018 at 7:54:18 AM

It's hard to tell with randomness.

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#30027: Feb 16th 2018 at 8:00:45 AM

The phrasing makes it pretty clearly a joke to me. Here I go ruining it.

That doesn't seems likes a lot of time put into an episode.

Note the use of the phrase "put into" an episode. He's responding to the previous poster calling it the 90 minutes they "put aside" for episode 60.

The joke is that he's "accidentally" misinterpreting the statement to mean that episode 60 will have 90 minutes of effort put into it, instead of being 90 minutes long.

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IceAnt573 Forever not amused. Since: May, 2015
Forever not amused.
#30028: Feb 16th 2018 at 8:08:48 AM

I remember just a few months ago they said this was worse case scenario and now they are leaning to the worst case scenario.

(Honestly, I have no issue with them revisiting the Buu Saga years later if these circumstances can be cleared up eventually).

edited 16th Feb '18 8:11:30 AM by IceAnt573

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#30029: Feb 16th 2018 at 8:10:20 AM

Well makes sense they'd rather be ready for it if it was it.

KarkatTheDalek Not as angry as the name would suggest. from Somwhere in Time/Space Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: You're a beautiful woman, probably
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#30030: Feb 16th 2018 at 8:36:56 AM

Just to be clear, what’s the current situation here?

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Thebrawlbro Since: Aug, 2013
#30031: Feb 16th 2018 at 8:45:22 AM

The situation is that due to reasons that they are unable to disclose (probably something with Toei), they are having a lot of trouble getting the episode out. So if they aren't able to continue the series, they want to make sure the last episode ends amazingly, meaning they are taking much more time to make sure they don't miss any opportunities.

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#30032: Feb 16th 2018 at 8:57:34 AM

He talked about it a bit back.

I'm getting a lot of people asking me about the verbiage I used in the last couple of tweets regarding Dragonball Z Abridged. Will we be ending at the end of Cell Saga?

Maybe. In all honesty, it's a possibility. Not one that I like, but one that exists.

With the state of YouTube, copyright, and the industry as a whole right now, we can't make any guarantees. We would rather people be prepared for the worst, than being insured of the best and things going south.

But come hell or high water, the Cell Saga will be finished. And we're going to put all of our hearts and souls into it.

edited 16th Feb '18 8:57:44 AM by Moth13

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#30033: Feb 16th 2018 at 8:59:03 AM

Man it be sad if they can't adapt the Buu Saga.

But hey at least we'll finally will finish Cell's Bizarre Adventure.

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#30034: Feb 16th 2018 at 10:13:57 AM

And what a glorious episode it will be, with Cell Juniors, 16 in pieces, Super Saiyan 2, Cell ejecting 16, Goku pulling the most touching "bye son"...

I am getting hyped.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#30035: Feb 16th 2018 at 10:36:14 AM

So Bulma really does like country music...

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#30036: Feb 16th 2018 at 10:50:06 AM

But I so want them to cover that scene in the Buu Saga where Bulma is smoking. I mean, since when does she do that? I guess she inherited it from her dad, but she smokes in literally one episode out of 444. Also, if they decide not to do the Buu Saga, will they continue with the movies?

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#30037: Feb 16th 2018 at 12:06:29 PM

I'll be super sad if they can't get to Buu, but I'll still be happy for what they already did manage. I mean, shit, they already got all the way through my favorite villain and to be honest, that was already much farther than I ever reasonably expected the series to go.

It is phenomenal how much they've covered already.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#30038: Feb 16th 2018 at 12:52:00 PM

The Boo Saga is randomness' fave, if they can do it...faith will be restored.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#30040: Feb 16th 2018 at 1:12:04 PM

Monster Carrot of course.

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#30041: Feb 16th 2018 at 1:18:42 PM

Staff Officer Black. I just really like his design, personality, and attitude. He was underutilized.

TyeDyeWildebeest Unreasonably Quirky from Big Rock Candy Mountain Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
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#30042: Feb 16th 2018 at 1:25:59 PM

I'd give it to either the Ginyu Force or Mercenary Tao.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#30043: Feb 16th 2018 at 1:31:36 PM

Tao needs more love. He wasn't the first guy to beat Goku in a fight, but he was the first to beat him without trying and thoroughly pwn his ass.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#30044: Feb 16th 2018 at 1:31:53 PM

Jire........ bwahahahaha, nah man I can't bring myself to say it even for a stupid-ass joke. [lol]

I'll go with the Ginyu Force. tongue

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#30045: Feb 16th 2018 at 1:38:04 PM

Jiren's not a vile lemon anyway, so it wouldn't work for the question.

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Weirdguy149 Former King from Lumiose City Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
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#30046: Feb 16th 2018 at 1:41:27 PM

Zamasu's a pretty different villain compared to everyone, so probably him.

The legend has returned.
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#30047: Feb 16th 2018 at 2:11:20 PM

I gotta give it up for Frieza, the Strongest in the Universe (not counting gods and eldritch horrors). I love his dynamic of using transformations as power inhibitors rather than boosts. I love that he's basically a spoiled manchild; despite the trappings of being the head of the PTO and/or Galactic Emperor, he presents himself as an elite nobleman but is actually more like an angry child who throws a tantrum any time he can't have what he wants.

His personality fits perfectly with his natural power. Frieza is a character who grew up in a world of Yes. Even setting aside that King Cold's a manipulative little weasel, his parents couldn't hold a candle to his incredible might. His capacity for violent force supercedes everything and anything that could possibly be done against him, so how could even a good parent be expected to raise him properly?

How do you discipline a child who is entirely capable of overpowering you physically and taking what he wants? How do you raise a child that cannot be disciplined?

That's what Frieza is: not a king, not the noble liege he likes to present himself as. He's a child who never grew up, who couldn't grow up, because he lives in a world incapable of something so basic as saying "No." They very idea of "No" is entirely foreign to him. He can't fathom wanting something and not being allowed to have it. It's beyond him.

As reprehensible Complete Monsters go, it's a very humanizing character trait that Frieza is just so privileged as to lack empathy for the less fortunate, leaving him only able to regard people based on how much they do to exalt him. So far as he understands, the entire universe revolves around him and that's just the natural order of things; he's never been given any reason to believe otherwise. He's so goddamned proud of what fortune gave him. He's only powerful because he won the genetic lottery but he's more than willing to gloat as if he did anything at all to deserve it. And he can act like that because the very nature of his situation deprives him of any life experience that would provide perspective.

Frieza has so much applicability to the behavior of second-generation wealthy. The princes and princesses, heirs and heiresses of the world. People who, like Frieza, were lucky enough to be born with all the advantages in the world and consequentially never developed a sense of empathy for the common man. He's a fantasy exaggeration of a very well-known real-world phenomenon; the embodiment of everything wrong with inherited power, turned so far up to eleven that he literally runs a profitable corporation on manufacturing genocide.

edited 16th Feb '18 2:12:52 PM by TobiasDrake

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IceAnt573 Forever not amused. Since: May, 2015
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#30048: Feb 16th 2018 at 2:27:00 PM

I'll assume we will get a definitive answer when the episode releases what their decision will be in continuing abridging DBZ or not?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#30049: Feb 16th 2018 at 2:28:51 PM

Or maybe it'll be ambiguous and the answer will also be hiatused away.

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Thebrawlbro Since: Aug, 2013
#30050: Feb 16th 2018 at 2:37:20 PM

[up][up] Doubt it. Of course they want to continue it, it just isn’t certain if they will be able to. Any annoucement will probably happen after they know they will be able to continue.


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