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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#34701: Jan 2nd 2019 at 1:09:15 PM

I mean, if that's how you feel fine. But I feel like people forget its Toriyama's stort and not theirs.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#34702: Jan 2nd 2019 at 1:17:24 PM

Characters like Ten and Yamucha staying around should be based on scale...since this series is based around fighting.

At least Yamucha retired and is just a goof.

Kriller is the best friend, it makes sense he's still around.

Ten is a stoic.

Chaozu is just Ten's +1 (which makes 11).

If their character can't contribute even when not fighting, they serve no purpose.

Edited by randomness4 on Jan 2nd 2019 at 1:19:14 AM

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BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#34703: Jan 2nd 2019 at 1:23:17 PM

The irony is that Yamcha's memetic loser status gave him new life as a gag character which gives him an hilarious niche.

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#34704: Jan 2nd 2019 at 1:25:27 PM

He was kind of that already.

The way he screams (in the dub) at Jackie Chun to stop from seemingly killing Kakarrot is Hilarious.

And he was afraid of girls.

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Yumil Mad Archivist Since: Mar, 2016
Mad Archivist
#34705: Jan 2nd 2019 at 2:42:09 PM

kind of a random question, but how old in average is the dragon ball footage they use in abridged ?

Cause it recentely hit me that this shit I assume must be something like 20-30 years old, while dated in style, looks better in terms of animation and drawing consistency than things like the ace attorney or persona 5 anime. At least to me.

I get the fact it's an abridged and they probably handpick the shots that doesn't try to gouge your eyes out, but still.

Edited by Yumil on Jan 2nd 2019 at 11:47:24 AM

"when you stare too long into the abyss, Xehanort takes advantage of the distraction to break into your house and steal all your shit."
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#34706: Jan 2nd 2019 at 2:53:22 PM

It's actually really bad.

You'd never know through editing magic.

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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
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#34707: Jan 2nd 2019 at 2:53:39 PM

I think they switched over to using the Kai footage somewhere around Namek. It's a very noticeable difference, the visual quality suddenly gets significantly crisper between episodes.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
CHADhan Player.
#34708: Jan 2nd 2019 at 3:48:51 PM

Did they?

A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#34709: Jan 2nd 2019 at 3:55:16 PM

Kaiser also takes pain to fix problems with the source footage (On top of his own edits for the sake of the scene).

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#34710: Jan 2nd 2019 at 3:55:23 PM

[up][up][up]and [up][up]If they did I never noticed.

So random thought: Toriyama equates writing females with writing romance. He assumes that having a girl be important means there has to be some romance, hence why women rarely have roles in combat. Since he's bad at writing romance, he keeps the number of women involved to a minimum.

I mean, nearly every female has some connection to romance:

  • Bulma is searching for the dragon balls to get a boyfriend;

  • Chi-chi comes back into the plot to marry Goku;

  • 18 starts off doing her own thing, but is turned into a reward for Krillin;

  • Videl is ultimately there to get beat up to anger Gohan, and then she marries him;

  • Good grief! Mai from the Pilaf gang is brought back into the plot so that she can become Trunks' girlfriend (and that one still pisses me off).

There's also the fact that there are almost no female Super Saiyans until Cauliffa and Kale, and it was Toei who were responsible for the former, with the latter being made as a literal afterthought on Toriyama's end. And this was after the whole there can't be female Super Saiyans because they don't get mad enough or whatever excuse he came up with.

So yeah, he thinks having females means having romance. Or at least, that's my incredibly dumb theory on the matter. Feel free to discuss, dissect and explain why I'm full of shit with impunity.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Jan 2nd 2019 at 4:56:15 AM

One Strip! One Strip!
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#34711: Jan 2nd 2019 at 4:03:53 PM

That's stupid.

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fasoman1996 Google "big ears" from Argentina (A.K.A. Naziland) Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
Google "big ears"
#34712: Jan 2nd 2019 at 4:04:52 PM

Pan?

Uni cat
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#34713: Jan 2nd 2019 at 4:05:55 PM

Babies are born from romance.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#34714: Jan 2nd 2019 at 4:06:57 PM

Wait I thought the stork brought them.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#34715: Jan 2nd 2019 at 4:12:47 PM

The stork has a heart on it.

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#34716: Jan 2nd 2019 at 4:13:37 PM

Pan never got into anyone till the end of GT, victory for GT tongue

fasoman1996 Google "big ears" from Argentina (A.K.A. Naziland) Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
Google "big ears"
#34717: Jan 2nd 2019 at 4:21:27 PM

So aren't everyone born from love then?

wild mass guessIs the Dragon Ball a stealth romance manga?wild mass guess

Toriyama you liar!

Uni cat
Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#34718: Jan 2nd 2019 at 5:38:04 PM

Pan never got into anyone till the end of GT, victory for GT tongue

There's that deer on that one episode we all repressed.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#34719: Jan 2nd 2019 at 5:38:57 PM

Randomness didn't repress it.

It'd be hard to do so with it kept being brought up.

Edited by randomness4 on Jan 2nd 2019 at 5:39:45 AM

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#34720: Jan 2nd 2019 at 5:39:04 PM

Guys what are you on about?

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#34722: Jan 2nd 2019 at 5:51:08 PM

9...?

9 year olds can't date, why did she almost have a boyfriend?

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#34723: Jan 2nd 2019 at 5:52:33 PM

Same reason why Bulla is wearing an outfit unfit for a girl the same general age as Pan.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#34724: Jan 2nd 2019 at 5:54:20 PM

That's surprisingly realistic...pass.

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I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#34725: Jan 2nd 2019 at 7:09:29 PM

Bra in GT is 9 years old. The only good thing about GT was the English dub changing the timeskip from 5 years to 10, turning her into a barely more acceptable (like, REEEAAAALLLY barely more so, still definitely not acceptable) 14.


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