Dragon Ball Z Abridged

How are you supposed to pronounce Bulla? Because I'm pretty sure it was Byoo-la in the original DBZ dub, but in Super they call her Bull-la.

Edited by WillKeaton on Jan 2nd 2019 at 8:22:26 AM

Bra.

Huh so the dub made everyone older.

Feels weird there.

Edited by slimcoder on Jan 2nd 2019 at 7:15:35 AM

I did not know they were younger in the original. Goddammit Toei.

At the end of the day, I feel like this is the problem with Tenshinhan. He doesn't particularly like anyone but Chiaotzu, he doesn't want to socialize, he straight up tells them all to f*ck off at the end of the Cell Games, etc. He has no job or aspirations or goals. If they aren't fighting a dude, then he has better things to do, and those things are training.

Tenshinhan is basically Goku as a supporting character. He's who Goku would be if Goku wasn't the Magnetic Hero, pulling in satellite characters to bounce off of despite not making any real efforts to be a part of anyone else's life. He's who Goku would be if Goku wasn't the shonen hero, getting plot-relevant power-ups to always stay at the head of the power curve. He's who Goku would be if Goku wasn't the main protagonist, always having an in-road with the plot by virtue of the story literally being about him.

Tenshinhan is the Goku around whom the universe does not revolve, and who therefore comes off looking a lot worse for it.

He showed up to Bulma's birthday.

Her name is ブラ, which is transliterated as 'bu.ra'. The 'u' is like the English 'oo', but shorter. The 'r' is nothing like the common English 'r', being more like the Spanish 'r' or an 'l'. The 'a' is an 'ah' or like the 'a' in 'hat' for many accents (most importantly, it is not an 'ey', the way English says the vowel alone).

In summary, "Bull-la" pronunciation is the most correct. 'Byoo-la' is just a common anglophone thing of inserting diphtongues where there were none (kinda like "ka-mey-ha-mey-ha"). You can also just say 'Bra' as ブラ is literally just that word in Japanese. I think of her family Bulma's name is the only one that is not directly a word for underwear (the Japanese word for bloomer is slightly different).

So, a thing I realized is that.

In Jaco the Galactic Patrolman the manga, Omori meets Tights and says her name sounds like she's from the West District.

When Goku gets to West City and asks a cop around, there's three different Bulmas in West City including our Bulma.

Ranfan comes from a word for lingerie, and according to a guidebook Ranfan has a husband named Trunks.

It's not just Bulma's family. Everyone in the West District is named after underwear.

Im now imagining a crossover episode with Panty & Stocking with Gartebelt for no other reason than just their names.

Hmm.

Now that I think of it, the smart kid in that show was named Brief..

Bulma's mom is blonde, and seemingly unaging... And named Panty...

Only 2 of those things are true.

She never got named, but Toriyama says her name Would have been Panchy, which with how forgetful and useless the man is, I consider close enough.

Speaking of not aging. You know who else seems unaging? Yamcha. He changes hair, gets scars, but he doesn't really change. You might argue he gets more buff everyone sort of does as Toriyama's art style evolves.

He has some wrinkles in the epilogue

Everyone does amusingly enough.

In the Epilogue breakdown, Kaiser mentions a few things that got cut. Instead of 17 calling Gohan "Goku Jr." They considered "Goten", and "Yamcha." Also the part where Cell asks the audience what to do, he wanted to have kids respond with Kamehameha. He nearly went to twitter and asked anyone who had kids to record them saying Kamehameha.

I almost want to see what The Uncle Cell Show would look like.

Maybe a Space Ghost Coast: Cell Edition.

He'd be eating a lot.

Or alternatively...

Edit: Whew. Forgot how violent that link is. Don't watch at work.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Jan 9th 2019 at 9:45:00 AM

Damnit, I had the perfect Immaseru video to answer that (Cell singing the "here's the mail" song from Blue's Clues), but it seems like he deleted that video.

So I was watching The Orville and in the most recent episode the security officer went back home for medical leave. She's from a high gravity planet. Anyway, we meet her parents and her older sister. Said sister mentions that she's engaged. The name of her new fiancee? Turles.

I think it's supposed to be Tullece. Because lettuce.

Bojack Horseman? What is this, a crossover episode?

One of the movie villains is named Bojack.

I assume that movie will render him as a weird Bojack Horseman expy.

I think they just put that there for the cute visual pun. Lani doesn't talk about Bojack in the video, and the character of Bojack has been a part of Dragon Ball Abridged since the Saiyan arc. The space pirate trapped inside Kaio's planet is a longstanding running joke.

"Shut up, Gregory. Shut up, Bubbles. SHUT UP, BOJACK!"

As a consequence of all the groundwork TFS likes to lay for their movie villains, Bojack already has a pretty defined personality. This upcoming movie will simply be the first time we get to see him in action.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 18th 2019 at 4:15:37 AM