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Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#5151: Dec 1st 2013 at 6:57:15 PM

Regarding Krillin and 18, I actually think it would be more hilarious if the whole romance went as it did in the manga/anime. Krillin manages to impress 18, the two hit it off, and then they go back to town to have Denny's afterwards or something. Just wanna see the reactions of everyone as Krillin manages to do something right for once. Might even take a notch off the Krillin Owned Counter.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#5152: Dec 2nd 2013 at 2:41:23 AM

Krillin isn't Yamcha. That's the key thing we have to remember here.

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#5153: Dec 2nd 2013 at 11:44:43 AM

Yeah, Krillin and 18 could have a happy and stable relationship maybe.

Yamcha cannot have anything ever.

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#5154: Dec 2nd 2013 at 11:59:20 AM

I think it would be funny if the Krillin Owned counter just brakes if 18 and him get together in the abridged version.

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#5155: Dec 2nd 2013 at 12:30:48 PM

I like the idea that the Owned counter would just be there the whole time, hovering between one number and the next, waiting for 18 to kick him in the balls....but then they get together, and the counter just explodes.

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#5156: Dec 2nd 2013 at 1:23:19 PM

I'd said before I'd like the counter to drop back to zero, or negative 1.

I feel weird mentioning what I'd like to series, because two members of Team Four Star are tropers, and on the off chance they lurk this thread (which they might not, because it's generally wise to distance yourself from sycophantic feedback), I'd rather not tell them how to do what they're doing. And if I did tell them, I feel a Be Careful What You Wish For would be likely, where they'd either do the opposite, or it would have Gone Horribly Right.

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#5157: Dec 2nd 2013 at 1:26:06 PM

I have faith that I'll like whatever they end up doing with the 18 affair. I may not like it right away, but knowing these guys it'll grow on me. I didn't like Nappa at first, IIRC.

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#5158: Dec 2nd 2013 at 1:29:48 PM

As far as what they're going to do with the 18-relationship thing... they said that, among other possibilities, they might consider taking one off of the Krillin Own'd Counter.

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#5159: Dec 2nd 2013 at 1:31:32 PM

What they did with the Garlic Jr. saga bugs me, because I'd have liked to see the interactions borne out of it, but the direction they went works as a concept. I'd have liked maybe 1 more episode, with the actual arc compressed into it, before Popo curbstomps.

That's basically the only change I've less than liked. I loved a lot of their changes, like Popo, Nail and Nappa.

Huh. Until I rewatched the recent Gero episodes yesterday, and realized how similar Gohan and Goku sound, I would've easily believed Gohan to have been a case of Cross-Dressing Voices. I don't pay much attention to who voices who, honestly.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#5160: Dec 2nd 2013 at 3:27:30 PM

[up][up][up] Well, they have a thread on Kanzenshuu, and Kaiser actually joins in the thread, so he might also be keeping up on this one as well. But then if he was, he'd probably post just like he does over at the Kanzenshuu thread. I do believe he's said they plan things out well in advance so it's unlikely that people speculating about jokes will affect anything.

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#5161: Dec 2nd 2013 at 3:31:37 PM

Still, this isn't the first time I've brought up 18 here.

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#5162: Dec 2nd 2013 at 6:19:41 PM

I'm fine with what they did with the Garlic Jr. Saga, mainly because I frequently forget it ever even happened. I was never a fan of that arc; I thought it was a bland waste of time even before I found out it was 100% filler based on a non-canon movie. Filler usually at least tries to avoid destabilizing the canon, but the Garlic Jr. Saga being filler that can't actually happen makes it...like...SUPER-filler.

It's basically a sequel movie that got cocky and decided it should interrupt the show proper, and a fairly derivative one that ends exactly like the first movie did.

edited 2nd Dec '13 6:21:04 PM by TobiasDrake

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#5163: Dec 2nd 2013 at 6:24:08 PM

The very least they could have done is try and think up a different ending. Especially when the first ending was so stupid, they could have found a more plausible solution.

Mullon Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
#5164: Dec 2nd 2013 at 8:13:30 PM

I would totally watch a video of Takahata dressed as Loki messing with people for ten minutes.

Still not gonna buy a shirt though.

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MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#5165: Dec 2nd 2013 at 9:05:12 PM

I like the idea that the Owned counter would just be there the whole time, hovering between one number and the next, waiting for 18 to kick him in the balls....but then they get together, and the counter just explodes.

Nah, I'm expecting the gag pertaining to him being happy.

Krillin: "We're getting married!"
[Beat]
\*Krillin owned counter increments by one.*
Goku: "Congratulations!"

Or something to that effect, I'm not writing the show.

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#5166: Dec 2nd 2013 at 9:08:57 PM

That'd be pretty funny.

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#5167: Dec 2nd 2013 at 9:10:30 PM

[up][up]They actually brought that possibility up, too.

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KBSL Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Forming Voltron
#5168: Dec 4th 2013 at 1:53:25 PM

Question, who do you think is a bigger Butt-Monkey, Meg or Yamcha?

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#5169: Dec 4th 2013 at 3:38:01 PM

Well... Yamcha gets to die.

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#5170: Dec 4th 2013 at 3:38:19 PM

Yamcha. Meg has fought back against her status from time to time.

edited 4th Dec '13 3:38:48 PM by GethKnight

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#5171: Dec 4th 2013 at 5:19:52 PM

Yamcha spent his entire life training to become a great fighter, was killed by a mook, and then came back to life just to be unceremoniously dumped by his girlfriend so that she could go have children with the villain whose mook killed him.

A lifetime of hard work earned him failure, humiliation, death, and a resurrection just because life wasn't done laughing at him yet. Top that, Meg.

edited 4th Dec '13 5:21:57 PM by TobiasDrake

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#5172: Dec 4th 2013 at 6:15:46 PM

Ignore. I forgot what this was about.

edited 4th Dec '13 6:16:45 PM by GethKnight

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#5173: Dec 4th 2013 at 6:23:16 PM

We-ll... he spent like 9-ish years training as a martial artist. Until he met Goku, he was fighter, but that was a means to an end. Specifically, it was for banditry.

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#5174: Dec 5th 2013 at 8:19:44 AM

Man Tobiaos Drake you really seem to hate Yamcha.

But on another note, they've uploaded a video about the future of Team Four Star, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA6sPyxz7GI.

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#5175: Dec 5th 2013 at 9:38:26 AM

Actually I like Yamcha. Of the characters we had when Z started, he ranks #3 for me, under Bulma and Krillin, because of the fact that he can keep a surprisingly positive temperament and outlook despite the fact that life hates him and wants him to die.

He's just so confident in himself and that confidence is so hideously unjustified. XD It's awesome. He was the show's Hercule before Hercule was introduced, and more entertaining to watch doing it than Hercule was. I'm not sure why.

edited 5th Dec '13 9:39:13 AM by TobiasDrake

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