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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#31051: Jul 25th 2018 at 10:08:48 AM

I imagine the issue behind Saiyan tails is their fuzziness. More annoying to draw than the clean straight tails of Freeza, Cell, Beerus.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#31052: Jul 25th 2018 at 11:22:25 AM

I guess.

I didn't consider his lack of issue with the tails of those three, but then again, Frieza and Cell don't wear any pants, and apparently, Toriyama wondered how Goku put on pants with his tail or something like that.

Beerus does have pants, but apparently, it's not a issue with him; maybe as a God, he just poofs his clothes on or something.

Maybe it is about the fuzziness, though he's already stated his reasons for ditching them.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#31053: Jul 25th 2018 at 11:48:38 AM

You can clearly see an open seam in the back of Beerus' pants that lets his tail out.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#31054: Jul 25th 2018 at 11:55:08 AM

Well, apparently he thought it was an issue for Goku, so I guess it is the fur.

Unless someone has some other explanations for why Saiyan tails are taboo, but other tails aren't.

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#31055: Jul 25th 2018 at 12:03:39 PM

monkey comparisons are terribly offensive to Saiyans

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#31056: Jul 25th 2018 at 12:59:45 PM

[up][up][up][up] I mean, if Piccolo can clothes beam, maybe that is a divine power of some sort.

Edited by Larkmarn on Jul 25th 2018 at 3:59:26 PM

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#31058: Aug 8th 2018 at 3:11:24 PM

I'm actually kind of sad Hellsing is about to end. I know they're on the final OVA, considering they combined two into one, but it was one of the things that got me into watching Abridged series (along with YGO and DBZ, naturally), and it just kind of feels like something representative of this decade for me.

Still, it's been a fun ride. Here's hoping DBZA continues, but Cell would be a great place to end it at.

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#31059: Aug 8th 2018 at 4:15:29 PM

Kaiser indicated that the show will continue past Cell.

Well, more specifically, he said that if this hiatus had never happened, then the show would be ending at Cell. This implies that because of the hiatus, we will still be seeing more DBZA content in the future.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#31060: Aug 8th 2018 at 4:18:46 PM

Huh...... how does that work?

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#31061: Aug 8th 2018 at 4:59:25 PM

Because it means they had time to set DBZA and its associated stress aside, work out their schedule and how they may incorporate DBZA into it in the future, release some of the deadline frustration they've been wrestling for years, etc.

Sometimes, with any given creative project, you just hit burnout. Kaiser says that if they had never gone ahead with this hiatus and had forced themselves to finish the season right then and there, they would without question call this the final episode and walk away. That was the stress level they were at with trying to prioritize it above everything else.

This was a much-needed break to retool their business model, figure out the logistics of starting some actual for-profit work like their new official anime dub, and then decide where DBZA will fit into that model. Rather than rushing out a final product and then declaring that it doesn't.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 8th 2018 at 6:02:16 AM

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#31062: Aug 8th 2018 at 5:02:30 PM

Huh well good for them then. [tup]

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#31063: Aug 8th 2018 at 5:07:57 PM

I was under the impression that there were rights issues stuff to deal with and that was why they were thinking of cancelling.

I'm very glad to be wrong on this one.

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#31064: Aug 8th 2018 at 5:31:34 PM

That is part of the stress, yes. The fact that it's a constant fight with YouTube to keep their videos up and all.

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#31065: Aug 9th 2018 at 2:09:26 PM

It's a fight that's been going on since 2010 at the earliest, too. It was referenced several times late in Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged's second season that TFS' channel went down (and whoever did it was a terrible person).

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#31066: Aug 9th 2018 at 2:14:18 PM

Wasn't there suspicion that Toei had something to do with it as well?

As in, they were putting pressure on someone within Youtube to jump on TFS' head because they were using clips of DB?

I might be wrong on that, but I'm pretty sure we talked about it a little.

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#31067: Aug 9th 2018 at 6:08:22 PM

Hellsing might just be the best abridged series, and it's both a good and bad thing that it's so short.

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#31068: Aug 13th 2018 at 2:41:54 PM

I'd argue SAO Abridged is the best. Hellsing is amazing, but SAO completely restructured the story to make it even better (and a lot more hilarious) than the original, while still hitting you with some particularly hard moments.

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#31069: Aug 13th 2018 at 4:26:00 PM

I think that SAO Abridged has the best protagonist, Hellsing Abridged has the best jokes, and DBZ Abridged has the best villains.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#31070: Aug 13th 2018 at 6:28:51 PM

Final Fantasy 7 Abridged has the best...

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#31071: Aug 13th 2018 at 8:29:15 PM

How was Season 2 of that, by the way? I haven't actually gotten around to watching it.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#31072: Aug 13th 2018 at 11:05:14 PM

I was... admittedly not the biggest fan. I liked the first season more. Season 2 had Tifa, Aerith, and Cloud change in ways I didn't appreciate and they skipped over the cliffhanger from Season 1, presumably so that it could be addressed later in Season 3.

Barrett and Red were downright hilarious at points but their gag gets old quick, and their character arcs end up being back to back in a way that feels too sudden. Tifa and Cloud sort of switch roles as the group punching bag. Yuffie is pretty annoying at first but she grew on me, but Vincent wasn't given the same amount of time to develop and I wasn't too impressed with what they did to him. Cait Sith was pretty great.

My favorite moment was Tifa learning about the Lifestream. "Ghosts RUN this shit!"

[down] (2) Honestly I think The Sevening was a much better parody, and it kind of stole all of the good material that the Abridged team could have used.

Edited by Soble on Aug 15th 2018 at 7:06:14 AM

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#31073: Aug 14th 2018 at 7:17:19 AM

So, tagging this about Vincent if you don't want the spoiler.

I love how they completely subverted the expectation. I thought that was amazing. As a fan of The IT Crowd, the fact that he's essentially Richmond is just fantastic. In hindsight, Alucard would have been too easy.

Anyway, as for the rest of Season 2, I do agree that it did feel like it was missing something compared to S1, but I like how it did ramp up Cloud's Attention Whore personality, I enjoyed Yuffie after a while, and overall, I felt that, while it wasn't as good as S1 on the whole, it was still a joy to watch.

It did feel like everything was moving at a breakneck pace from time to time, though. If Season 1 had taken the same time as Season 2, they woulda been out of Midgar about four episodes in.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#31074: Aug 14th 2018 at 11:04:19 AM

I found Final Fantasy VII Machinabridged really boring in season 1, and season 2 was only marginally better to me. I know this doesn't get brought up a lot because it could sound petty, but I prefer Final Fantasy VII: The Sevening to it.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#31075: Aug 14th 2018 at 11:23:22 AM

The Sevening is... or rather was pretty fun.

Shame the guy doing it seems to have stopped.

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