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#37626: Mar 9th 2020 at 2:35:18 PM

Goku convinced Buu to kill him.

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#37628: Mar 9th 2020 at 2:40:27 PM

Yes? So is Frieza, by the by.

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#37629: Mar 9th 2020 at 2:40:43 PM

Babidi is meant to be male-presenting, though the recent content that Babidi is actually a clone of his father Bibidi might throw a wrench into how that species interprets gender.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#37630: Mar 9th 2020 at 2:41:08 PM

Never heard of Babidi confused for a woman before. Frieza, on the other hand...

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#37631: Mar 9th 2020 at 2:44:33 PM

Throughout my whole childhood I thought Babidi was a woman.

...and thinking back I have no idea why.

@fred: Oh, no one in Brazil ever misstook Freeza for a woman, the dub gave him one hell of a sexy baritone.

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#37632: Mar 9th 2020 at 2:47:34 PM

We gave Frieza an old lady voice, which did not help with the gender ambiguity. Especially since that old lady voice, later on, became specifically associated with the decidedly female Genkai of Yu Yu Hakusho.

Fun fact from the recent interviews: before LittleKuriboh nailed his Frieza audition (which was supposed to be a Ginyu audition), Lanipator was going to play Frieza using the Genkai voice he used for Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged.

Bardock: Father of Goku Abridged plays with that particular casting gag for Frieza's first ever appearance in the Abridged series. Lani does his Genkai for Frieza before Frieza coughs and switches to LittleKuriboh's interpretation. Something in his throat, he explains.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Mar 9th 2020 at 3:51:10 AM

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#37633: Mar 9th 2020 at 3:02:51 PM

I still think Ryuusei Nakao's catty, effeminate aristocratic Freeza voice is the best.

The sheer smugness he can impart in it is beyond human, I love it.

Edited by HailMuffins on Mar 12th 2020 at 2:46:11 PM

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#37634: Mar 9th 2020 at 3:07:43 PM

Was it ever confirmed whether Chris Ayres' fantastic take was inspired by Little Kuriboh's, or was that solely an attempt to capture Ryuusei Nakao in English?

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#37635: Mar 9th 2020 at 3:10:51 PM

The people at Funimation are on pretty friendly terms with TFS, so I'd argue bit of column A, bit of column B.

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#37636: Mar 9th 2020 at 5:02:18 PM

Looking it up, seems the last instance of the afterimage technique in the manga was Dabura using it against Gohan.

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#37637: Mar 9th 2020 at 5:16:10 PM

Which was magic, apparently. Also, Gohan falling for it was scene as an indicator of him being rusty.

Medigo03 Since: Sep, 2013
#37638: Mar 9th 2020 at 5:18:00 PM

Yeah the after-image lasted way too long for it to be a feat of speed.

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#37639: Mar 9th 2020 at 5:57:51 PM

I'm looking at all the examples I can think of but I can't find an example of the Afterimage Technique being defeated by ki sensing. The idea doesn't seem to make much sense since you'd have to physically go into the space to make the image.

theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#37640: Mar 10th 2020 at 7:43:47 AM

Yeah, TFS and Funimation have a great relationship, unfortunately cuz Toei is a bunch of scumbags they've blacklisted the group from working with Funimation on anything Dragon Ball related, hence why in Kai the take where TFS was used to voice the characters in Mr. Satan's version of the Cell Games wasn't used.

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#37641: Mar 10th 2020 at 12:42:25 PM

Random thought:

Do we know if Toriyama has commented on Abridged in anyway? We know that it was Evolution that brought him back to the series (via angering him so much he started up again to prevent that movie from shaping people's opinions on DB for years to come), but I'm wondering if he's ever said anything about TFS and their work.

Considering he seems massively detached from the regular anime version at times (I've often gotten the impression he doesn't bother to watch it, often creates his own version of what few ideas they come up with, and is now apparently not saying anything to them while they wait for the script fro the next movie) it wouldn't surprise me if wasn't aware of it, or just didn't care.x

I feel like we've talked about this before, but I can't really remember what was said.

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#37642: Mar 10th 2020 at 1:06:21 PM

I mean, he'd have to know English first.

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#37643: Mar 10th 2020 at 2:58:17 PM

So official: Short Z are still a thing.

I don't know if they said anything about it beforehand, but either way, now you know.

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#37644: Mar 10th 2020 at 3:21:20 PM

They did say that they'd still be doing shortZ before...

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#37645: Mar 10th 2020 at 3:25:39 PM

Reread my post, paying attention this time.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#37646: Mar 10th 2020 at 3:32:31 PM

I'm not sure how that'll change what I said...

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#37647: Mar 10th 2020 at 3:34:54 PM

In answer to that post, they did say that the Short Z would be continuing back when they ended DBZA.

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#37648: Mar 10th 2020 at 7:42:16 PM

Yeah Kaizer Neko straight up said that when they announced DBZA was over. This is old news.

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 10th 2020 at 10:46:35 AM

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#37649: Mar 10th 2020 at 7:43:47 PM

It's old enough to be a one-number Android.

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#37650: Mar 10th 2020 at 7:44:13 PM

Old enough it fought at Muscle Tower.


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