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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#37402: Feb 20th 2020 at 2:51:42 AM

Ranma's dad. It's a discussion we had a few weeks back.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#37403: Feb 20th 2020 at 8:11:47 AM

Yeah. The one thing Genma did right is that he actually did train up his son into an incredible Martial Artist.

I should also point out that his wife does eventually find out about their curses in the manga, but still concedes the point that Genma did exactly what he said he'd do and spares them both.

Genma (when he's not being a lazy idiot) is an incredible martial artist...but he's still an asshole without a doubt.

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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#37404: Feb 20th 2020 at 8:42:30 AM

Blacklisting people who got attention to your franchise is a bit of a dumb move.

I doubt that really affects Toei much.

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Primis Since: Nov, 2010
#37405: Feb 20th 2020 at 8:50:36 AM

TFS fans really overestimate how much of an effect DBZA had on reviving Dragon Ball...

I'm pretty sure TFS themselves have said they weren't that big of a contributor to that.

HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
#37406: Feb 20th 2020 at 9:09:38 AM

It's a chicken-and-the-egg problem. Did DBZA create a renewed interest in the franchise, or did it ride a cresting wave of interest that would have happened anyway as people who grew up with it reached an age where a desire to distance oneself from one's childhood interests is replaced by nostalgia for them? It's impossible to know, because we can never say for sure what would have happened. My personal suspicion is "a little from Column A, a little from Column B."

Regardless, it's hard to imagine what advantage Toei thinks it's getting out of all the takedown notices. I can't imagine too many people who watch DBZA but don't consume any of the official products like Super / the video games / etc. would be happy Toei customers if DBZA never existed or disappeared tomorrow. If such people do exist, whatever lost revenue they represent for Toei is likely less than a rounding error on their quarterly income sheet, and meanwhile discouraging people from engaging with your franchise with such heavy-handed tactics isn't how you maintain a happy, loyal customer base.

Edited by HighCrate on Feb 20th 2020 at 9:10:23 AM

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#37407: Feb 20th 2020 at 9:19:41 AM

I don't think Toei cares about what advantage they are or are not getting. They just don't want people making fun of their cartoon.

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Edited by TobiasDrake on Feb 20th 2020 at 10:22:29 AM

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Primis Since: Nov, 2010
#37408: Feb 20th 2020 at 9:29:34 AM

Battle of Gods is what revived interest in Dragon Ball.

HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
#37409: Feb 20th 2020 at 9:33:34 AM

Battle of Gods is one thing that revived interest in Dragon Ball.

Nothing ever happens because of just one thing.

But yes, having good new official content that wasn't just yet another video game taking us from Raditz to Cell all over again certainly didn't hurt.

Edited by HighCrate on Feb 20th 2020 at 9:34:55 AM

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#37410: Feb 20th 2020 at 9:35:00 AM

Battle of Gods was the first big new piece of Dragon Ball media, but Dragon Ball Z Kai was the first hint of a resurgence in the franchise as a whole, and it can be argued that DBZA inspired Kai.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Feb 20th 2020 at 10:35:15 AM

Primis Since: Nov, 2010
#37411: Feb 20th 2020 at 10:12:11 AM

The first episode of Kai premiered less than a year after the first episode of DBZA. That is way too short of a time for them to have decided to recut the entire series, redub all the vocal tracks, and even commission new music, all as a spur of the moment reaction to DBZA.

Toei probably wasn't even aware of DBZA at that point. The first takedown didn't happen until August 2009, months after Kai premiered.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#37412: Feb 20th 2020 at 10:15:06 AM

Technically Evolution is what revived Dragon Ball.

Cause it’s terriblness is what lead to the resurgence of new mainline material to wash off its putrid odor.

Edited by slimcoder on Feb 20th 2020 at 1:17:12 AM

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theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#37413: Feb 20th 2020 at 1:11:36 PM

Yeah, everyone jokes about the "Goku is a terrible father" thing but I'm watching the TFS Plays Kakarot thing and Kaiser and Lani bring up that they only hammered that in for japes and that Goku is a great dad who cares about his family, he's just scatterbrained.

They also bring up Vegeta and how he's the cause of WAAAAAAAAAAAY more problems than Goku.

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#37414: Feb 20th 2020 at 1:21:35 PM

> he's just scatterbrained.

>implying Goku has a brain to be scatterbrained in the first place

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theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#37415: Feb 20th 2020 at 1:35:28 PM

Good point. All the same he's not nearly as bad as Vegeta. Plus in Super Goku being fight-happy actually worked out in everyone's favor.

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#37416: Feb 20th 2020 at 2:35:46 PM

The only thing TFS really revived was a renewed obsession with "Piccolo is Gohan's real dad", which Kaiser himself has admitted to regretting.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#37417: Feb 20th 2020 at 2:39:41 PM

Now that's it's had time to sink in more, I really do regret that the Abridged is ending, if only because I truly wanted to see their take on Buu.

I mean, did we ever find out what character they were going to entirely edit out?

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#37418: Feb 20th 2020 at 2:49:42 PM

I was really curious about how they were going to handle Vegito.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#37419: Feb 20th 2020 at 2:50:48 PM

Oh yes!

And Goku and Vegeta's rematch too!

There's so much I was looking forward to there. Buu does have a lot of stuff I like, despite it's flaws.

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#37420: Feb 20th 2020 at 2:57:08 PM

[up][up][up] They implied it was Mr. Popo; keeping the DBZA version of him around runs smack into Story-Breaker Power issues that they were already having to work around in by making Mr. Popo high in the Cell arc.

HighCrate Since: Mar, 2015
#37421: Feb 20th 2020 at 3:05:42 PM

I mean, did we ever find out what character they were going to entirely edit out?

Shocking twist: it was all the characters.

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#37422: Feb 20th 2020 at 3:55:34 PM

I remember they did their BT 3 let's play and they said that when they did Buu, Majin Vegeta would be "mid life crisis Vegeta"

It would have been a blast to see.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#37423: Feb 20th 2020 at 4:35:58 PM

....

I mean, that's kinda what he is too.

It's literally Vegeta wanting to relive his glory days. That's so perfect.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#37424: Feb 20th 2020 at 4:37:07 PM

Its not like the guy has anything else to do in his life.

He all to does is work out and look pretty for Bulma. He's a trophy husband.

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#37425: Feb 20th 2020 at 6:50:04 PM

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