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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#9276: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:09:27 PM

I know plenty about the source material.

The Android/Cell saga kept being rewritten and the main antagonist kept being changed.

The next villain is made of bubblegum.

In the very first arc the world was saved by a perverted shape-shifting pig wishing for a pair of panties.

In the "current" arc the world is almost doomed because Vegeta is such an arrogant tool.

And somehow Vegeta and Trunks go in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber a little bit before Piccolo fights 17 and come back a day later.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:11:17 PM by unnoun

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#9277: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:10:51 PM

Dragon Ball trivia...we all learned something here today.

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#9278: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:12:40 PM

None of which as ridiculous as the muffin button, which saved Goku's life, Vegeta's dimensional busting screen, Popo, and plenty of other TFS gags. Nothing TFS have added have made things more serious or dramatic than the original.

[up][up] a little bit on-screen is not a little bit in-universe. It jumped forward while nothing but waiting was happening, not very hard to understand.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:14:20 PM by Saiga

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#9279: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:15:46 PM

The original series does have a dimensional busting scream.

Which brings me back to the bubblegum monster named after a disney song.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:16:46 PM by unnoun

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#9280: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:17:56 PM

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Dimension-busting scream, you say?

Yeah, that's way too silly to ever be a plot point in DBZ.

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#9281: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:19:04 PM

I think part of the reason why DBZA works so well is because one of the big problems of DBZ in general is its padded out way too much, even in terms of the manga. If you want to follow the story, it can be a little frustrating having to watch episode after episode until you find the stuff that's really good. DBZ NEEDED an abridged series - way more than Yugioh did.

It's a lot easier to do a DBZA marathon than a DBZ marathon, that's for sure.

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#9282: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:19:57 PM

Worded that badly but if you can't see the difference between Boo and Vegeta's screams you must be being intentionally obtuse.

Also, Kaiser said on the Kanzenshuu Abridged thread that the seriousness of that preview is a joke. The actual special will be entirely non-serious.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#9283: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:20:05 PM

I think half of the characters are only there because the writer wanted to make a pun.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#9285: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:22:44 PM

I mean.

It's not like the muffin button is that out of place in Dragon Ball. What with the rabbit that can turn people into carrots that gets taken to the moon to make toys for small children.

...The moon that gets blown up like three different times.

Wait, that's not silly.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:23:22 PM by unnoun

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#9286: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:23:43 PM

Only twice.

Well, okay, maybe Buu's planet-buster also caught the moon at the same time.

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#9287: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:24:24 PM

The first arc really isn't indicative of Dragon Ball as a whole. That was Early Instalment Weirdness and such a thing would be really out of place in later arcs.

[up] God never restored the moon after the second time.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:25:00 PM by Saiga

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#9288: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:25:43 PM

At one point a character uses psychic powers to immobilize the enemy.

They're defeated by breaking their concentration with basic math problems.

There's the really smelly guy defeated by one of our "heroes" not having a nose.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:27:06 PM by unnoun

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#9289: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:26:54 PM

[up][up] Except the Buu Saga, where the weirdness comes back in full force.

But I feel like the Buu Saga was when the show started to get self-aware.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:27:07 PM by LOLypop1224

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#9290: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:27:00 PM

I like me some silliness, actually.

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#9291: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:27:02 PM

Yeah that's really not at all comparable to TFS gags.

[up] So do I, but saying TFS is close to becoming more serious than the original is absurd. Especially with what Kaiser just said about this trailer.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:28:17 PM by Saiga

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#9292: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:28:34 PM

Well, there's the time the world is doomed because a bubblegum monster didn't want to share pudding.

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#9293: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:29:02 PM

I'd expect the "wait! I wasn't drawn with a nose!" scene from a TFS gag.

Or a Yugioh Abridged gag, anyway. TFS is more likely to correct animation oddities.

[up][up] Well, I wasn't saying that anywy.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:30:22 PM by Enlong

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#9294: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:31:07 PM

I'm not quite saying that either.

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#9295: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:31:08 PM

Dragon Ball in general works as both a martial arts comedy and a straightforward action series. I feel like that's one of the reasons I like it.

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#9297: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:32:52 PM

[up][up][up] How? That's pretty much exactly what you originally said.

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#9298: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:34:09 PM

I did say it's not there yet.

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#9299: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:35:19 PM

[up][up][up] Hence, DBZA. They make some of the more boring parts of the series more enjoyable by fleshing out side characters a bit, and they play it straight in the dramatic moments (like seriously, Goku going Super Saiyan? Thank god they didn't make that a gag.)

Is it better? Not necessarily. It's a parody. But it's a parody that's enjoyable on its own, and not all parodies can say that.

edited 1st Feb '15 6:36:22 PM by LOLypop1224

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#9300: Feb 1st 2015 at 6:36:18 PM

[up][up] And I said close. Same thing.


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