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Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#34751: Jan 19th 2019 at 4:05:58 AM

"What is this, a crossover episode?" is a recurring joke told by a character from Bojack Horseman. I'm pretty sure they were joking.

alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
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#34753: Jan 19th 2019 at 4:12:17 PM

I've actually been hoping for a Kai redo of the original Dragon Ball. It could use some animation updates and cutting of filler.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#34754: Jan 19th 2019 at 5:46:22 PM

but the dragon ball filler is so good, consistently and universally, especially compared to the z filler

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#34755: Jan 19th 2019 at 5:51:23 PM

Probably cause there was so little of it, compared to Z. Off-hand I'm not even sure I can name any filler from the original series.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
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#34757: Jan 19th 2019 at 6:54:16 PM

Understated, but TFS parting ways with Ben (hbi2k) sucks for me, as he voiced Nail, who is one of my favorite characters in this universe. Also Dr. Briefs, who is ...fine.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#34758: Jan 19th 2019 at 7:14:13 PM

TBH, they seem to have remained in good terms and I wouldn't really be surprised if he did some voice cameos in the future, even if not part of the team.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#34759: Jan 19th 2019 at 7:33:02 PM

Isn't Masako not technically part of the Team? I know he doesn't live in Texas at any rate.

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#34760: Jan 19th 2019 at 7:43:23 PM

Voiceover isn't exclusively done by TFS members. Sometimes they get other V As outside the group like Amber Lee Connors, Xander Mobus, Remix or Little Kuriboh.

So i do think Ben will stay voicing Nail and Dr. Briefs. Taka too kinda "left" the group and won't take new roles but he will still voice any character he has done in the past (Meaning at least he is still doing Dende and Nappa)

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#34761: Jan 19th 2019 at 8:45:04 PM

Taka also left? Huh.

Also, I hope Ben stays, but if not, I imagine Remix might take on Nail duties.

TheMageofFire Since: May, 2012
#34762: Jan 19th 2019 at 11:20:36 PM

This is the first I heard of Taka leaving.

Thebrawlbro Since: Aug, 2013
#34763: Jan 20th 2019 at 5:17:51 AM

I wouldn't say he's left. He just lives in Canada while the most of the team lives in Texas. Just because he's done doing voice acting for Abridged series doesn't mean he has left the team.

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#34764: Jan 20th 2019 at 5:28:42 AM

Indeed. Taka still pops into the streams and goes with them to cons I think, but I imagine it's not practical for him to keep working full-time while he's in Canada.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#34765: Jan 20th 2019 at 7:49:53 AM

Taka didn't leave the team, but he does plan to stop acting in Abridged Series after MHA Abridged is done. However many years that takes.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#34766: Jan 20th 2019 at 8:45:16 AM

Given this is an internet based thing, it honestly never occurred to me before now that the members of TFS actually lived in the same state.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#34767: Jan 20th 2019 at 9:27:40 AM

They didn't until they set up the Patreon and formed the Production Studio. As part of all that they had to set it up as an actual corporation.

...I don't remember when that happened. TFS Gaming was part of it.

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#34768: Jan 20th 2019 at 11:23:39 PM

Anyway, their spoiler free and spoiler full reviews for Super: Broly were spot on. That movie was a lot of fun. My biggest issue was that it gave another retcon to Bardock's backstory, and full on turned Goku into Japanese Space Moses, like how Kal-El is American Space Moses.

Also, Cooler was nowhere to be seen.

Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Jan 20th 2019 at 1:25:07 PM

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#34769: Jan 21st 2019 at 7:03:26 AM

Cooler should be nowhere to be seen, because he's not a thing. Prior to "Battle of Gods", none of Toei's movies are canon. They're basically filler arcs that don't even pretend they fit into the narrative anywhere.

The most egregious example, in my opinion, goes to "Wrath of the Dragon" which goes to all the trouble of telling the story of how Trunks got his sword without ever noticing that they're doing it with the wrong f*cking Trunks.

This movie is basically Broly's migration into canon, taking place after the events of the Dragon Ball Super anime and being roundabout mentioned in the pages of its manga - there's a placeholder between the Tournament of Power arc and the next arc that basically just says, "And then the Broly movie happened; check it out!"

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 21st 2019 at 8:04:34 AM

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#34770: Jan 21st 2019 at 7:05:31 AM

I think it has more to do with an early spoiler that indicated Freeza namedropping his brother, which in reality no such thing happened

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#34771: Jan 21st 2019 at 7:10:16 AM

I should note that the movie being canon does not mean it's entirely devoid of Toei-isms. Toei's gonna Toei.

Remember that time when Goten and Trunks had trouble fusing, and turned into a fat Gotenks and then an anorexic one? And then Toei copied that joke wholesale for "Fusion Reborn", playing it in exactly the same way but having it make very little sense because they were doing it while a fight was going on in the background? Yeah, "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" copies that entire joke again, and does it in exactly the same way that "Fusion Reborn" did. Toei outright plagiarized themselves to get their rehash gag into canon.

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alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#34772: Jan 21st 2019 at 7:12:52 AM

Rehashing jokes is totally within Toriyama's territory tho

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#34773: Jan 21st 2019 at 7:46:15 AM

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You're misrepresenting how the scene plays out. The punchline isn't "the fusion fails and looks goofy", the punchline is Piccolo going "another thirty minutes!" *smashcut to Frieza getting his ass whooped*. That shit was hilarious, one of my favorite gags in the movie and had both me and the audience in riots.

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#34774: Jan 21st 2019 at 8:56:53 AM

YMMV. Given the speed at which fights are supposed to play out is vastly greater than the time we see them in - see Frieza's five minutes for reference - the idea that Golden Frieza and Broly could spend a literal in-universe hour pounding each other when all the preceding and following action probably took place in like seven in-universe minutes is much too unreasonable for me to find humor in it.

The bit about tricking Frieza into fighting Broly to buy Goku and Vegeta time was hilarious, but stretching it out for the sake of rehashing the Gotenks Fusion joke for a second time was dumb. Frieza should have been paste long before Veku ever even unfused.

This was a problem in "Fusion Reborn" and it's even more of a problem here, where the fighters are much stronger and more capable of having an entire prolonged combat sequence in the span of half a second.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 21st 2019 at 9:59:00 AM

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#34775: Jan 21st 2019 at 9:20:25 AM

I sort of wonder how TFS will deal with the change to where Bojack was imprisoned; in theory Bojack should have died in DBZA continuity when Cell exploded King Kai's planet.

(I know that the answer is that the movies aren't canon, but I'd like an alternative answer, or at least an acknowledgement.)


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