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#36226: Nov 14th 2019 at 1:39:30 PM

Sorry for that assumption BTW.

No, fair enough. I realized that as I was posting, but I was too lazy to go and edit. =p

[up][up]Yeah. And that doesn't go just for Nappa, of course. Nº17 and his park ranging adventures is another obvious one. Less funny than either, but there is Tenshinhan and Chaozu as well. Not to mention characters who do have post Cell footage but have limited iteraction with a lot of the cast, like Nº18.

The project have potential and that was a good first episode, so I am hopeful.

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#36227: Nov 14th 2019 at 2:05:24 PM

This is most certainly the reason they got this dude to do the animation.

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#36228: Nov 14th 2019 at 2:24:52 PM

Yeah. And that doesn't go just for Nappa, of course. Nº17 and his park ranging adventures is another obvious one. Less funny than either, but there is Tenshinhan and Chaozu as well. Not to mention characters who do have post Cell footage but have limited iteraction with a lot of the cast, like Nº18.

The project have potential and that was a good first episode, so I am hopeful.

Yes!

I want to see 17 and Krillin awkwardly trying to hang out.

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#36229: Nov 14th 2019 at 2:28:48 PM

Also, while this one takes place after the Cell Saga, same place we left off, they don’t have the obligation to follow the flow of plot like in Abridged. They can make shorts that take place way back in the Saiyan or Freeza arcs, or take place as far off as Super, without screwing up their time frame.

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#36230: Nov 14th 2019 at 3:26:33 PM

Hey, what about Goku having very homoerotic conversations with Neo-Broly, same way he did with Cell?

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#36231: Nov 14th 2019 at 3:36:26 PM

Neo-Broli?

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#36232: Nov 14th 2019 at 5:23:54 PM

Yeah I never got the impression Goku ever got a homoerotic broyay out of Broly.

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#36233: Nov 14th 2019 at 5:29:08 PM

I don't remember him having any with Cell, either, yet here we are.

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#36234: Nov 14th 2019 at 5:48:38 PM

I don't remember him having more than 2 dialogue interchanges with Broli...

Neither of which were filled with much feeling...

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#36235: Nov 15th 2019 at 6:15:59 AM

Y'know, this Dragon Short made me realize something.

Nappa still has his tail. Nothing ever happened to remove it. He is now the only living Saiyan in the Abridged Verse that can become the mighty Oozaru.

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#36236: Nov 15th 2019 at 6:38:55 AM

It's not that mighty anymore, to be honest.

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#36237: Nov 15th 2019 at 6:42:49 AM

After DBS: Broly, I think it is, actually.

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#36238: Nov 15th 2019 at 7:36:02 AM

Oozaru Nappa would be about as strong as Nail, after all.

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#36239: Nov 15th 2019 at 7:37:28 AM

Saw Oozaru was was like 'lol wut' then I remembered it means they turn into king kong basically

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#36240: Nov 15th 2019 at 8:07:11 AM

It's not that mighty anymore, but it's neat that he's the only one who can still do it. Everyone else traded in the Oozaru for Super Saiyan.

Though I do wonder. If Nappa spent five minutes punching the Plot Bag to unlock Super Saiyan, it would open back up the question of "What happens if you go Super Saiyan and Oozaru simultaneously?" Literally the only Dragon Ball media that's ever actually addressed the Golden Oozaru concept was GT, of all things.

Like. Depending on how the multipliers stack, Super Monkey could either be weaker than Super Duper Saiyan (60x v. 100x) or stronger than Super Dee Duper Saiyan (500x v. 400x).

The Shortz are slice of life so we aren't going to get an answer to that but it's fun to think about.

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#36241: Nov 15th 2019 at 8:16:02 AM

Speaking of, do we know what the multiplier for the Oozaru-but-not-really form Neo-Broly has is?

Because it seems way bigger than the usual 10x the normal Oozaru form has.

BTW, until such a time comes when the series offers a different explanation, I choose to believe that the green Super Saiyajin Neo-Broly and Kale have is just regular Super Saiyajin mixed with the Oozaru power.

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#36242: Nov 15th 2019 at 8:34:52 AM

Nappa still having his tail is enough for me.

I really hate that Toriyama went on some kind of tirade against tails, taking them off every single Saiyan whenever he got the chance.

Tails are Saiyan's distinctive and set them apart, and him getting rid of them has become annoying to me, even if it's a minor thing.

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#36243: Nov 15th 2019 at 9:56:53 AM

It was probably because they were a pain to draw and became too superfluous to justify their continued presence.

It was there when Goku was very wild and his fighting style including oddball moves like standing on his tail, and the Sun Wukong references like being disabled when it’s grabbed were still a relative staple of the series.

The Saiyan Saga, where Goku fights enemies that are essentially stronger versions of him, is those aspects’ last hurrah. Once he realized those traits wouldn’t be a thing any more past that point, out the window the tails went.

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#36244: Nov 15th 2019 at 10:02:48 AM

Well the disabling aspect was referenced in the Broli movie, so they'll always remember.

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#36245: Nov 15th 2019 at 10:18:14 AM

The Broly movie was also the first time being a Saiyan had any significance beyond Super-Saiyan reasons since the Saiyan-Namek arc.

Plus the animation there was kind of next level, rendering the “don’t want to draw these” issue kind of diminished.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Nov 15th 2019 at 10:21:43 AM

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#36246: Nov 15th 2019 at 10:51:01 AM

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Exactly. He’s still getting rid of tails even though he’s not even drawing much of the series himself anymore.

There’s still so much to explore about Oozaru and how it interacts with Super Saiyan, but his tail hate prevents him from trying to the point that he’s still getting rid of it.

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#36247: Nov 15th 2019 at 11:04:34 AM

Tail dislike?

Getting rid of the tail was a good thing, it means no death.

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#36248: Nov 15th 2019 at 12:32:17 PM

Our Great Gay God has spoken!

This is the DBZA canon!

...wait, why the hell did Toriyama taught a dinosaur how to ride a ball?

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#36249: Nov 15th 2019 at 12:39:32 PM

Bardock: Father of Kakarrot is canon.

Episode of Bardock isn't canon.

"Wait...Bardock isn't canon?"

Why people gotta be like this sometimes?

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#36250: Nov 15th 2019 at 1:57:35 PM

Why can't Episode of Bardock be canon? It's not even canon to itself, it ends with the reveal that it's All Just a Dream.


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