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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#17601: Jan 26th 2016 at 12:27:37 PM

Goku vs Tenshinhan is my all-time favorite fight in the franchise, with Goku vs Jackie Chun and Goku vs Demon King Piccolo not far behind.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#17602: Jan 26th 2016 at 12:28:44 PM

Yeah. While there's a lot about Z that I love, I do think something was lost when the power scale grew so big.

One Strip! One Strip!
BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17604: Jan 26th 2016 at 4:05:31 PM

I think my favorite part of the Goku vs Tien fight was when Tien and Goku were falling to the ground, and Tien was gloating about how there was no way Goku could win, since he couldn't fly. Then Goku uses his Kamehameha to launch himself at Tien and Tien just stays where he is for about three seconds while Goku is flying at him and looks like he's thinking "Man, if there was only some way I could get out of the way!"

You could practically hear Abridged Piccolo yelling his head off in the background.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#17605: Jan 26th 2016 at 4:30:30 PM

I, uh, I only watched Abridged. So, yeh, here's to me, who don't know precisely what's gonna happen.

You've really never watched Dragonball? You watched this series without knowing the outcome of each season?

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#17606: Jan 26th 2016 at 4:32:20 PM

A surprising number of people do that. You'd think that doing so would take away from the experience, especially consider how often they play up memes you'd have to know about the series, but people love it all the same.

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#17607: Jan 26th 2016 at 4:33:19 PM

Those reviews unnoun has been posting are almost entirely based around that viewpoint.

edited 26th Jan '16 4:33:26 PM by Moth13

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#17608: Jan 26th 2016 at 4:49:43 PM

I found them because Kaiser reblogged them on tumblr and apparently likes them. And has responded to them a few times.

And responded to some criticism in an incredibly mature way that more creators should learn from.

So in a sense they're the "official" reviews of the series.

Also I just think they're good and neat and cool.

edited 26th Jan '16 4:50:02 PM by unnoun

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#17609: Jan 26th 2016 at 4:53:07 PM

[up][up][up][up][up]Only in the anime my friend. In the manga, the conversation is much shorter and takes place in-between Goku rising and falling and Goku immediately rockets into him with the Kamehameha faster than Tenshinhan could react to dodge.

edited 26th Jan '16 4:53:47 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

LOLypop1224 ...what am I even DOING here? Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
...what am I even DOING here?
#17610: Jan 26th 2016 at 5:15:37 PM

I started watching DBZA because I wanted to know the story of DBZ without having to go through almost 300 episodes with a ridiculous amount of padding. They're short, they're on Youtube, and they're easy to find. It's a great gateway.

The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#17611: Jan 26th 2016 at 5:52:58 PM

[up][up]I think the dub gives an explanation that he doesn't really have the energy to move very fast or maybe he could only float there after using most his energy destroying the stage.

I think that's what he planned on doing, just floating there until Goku hit the ground.

edited 26th Jan '16 5:55:19 PM by randomness4

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BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17612: Jan 26th 2016 at 6:21:44 PM

[up][up][up]That kind of makes sense.

[up]Why didn't he just start floating?

Since both of them were in freefall at that point.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#17613: Jan 26th 2016 at 6:40:26 PM

My fave fight in the series is Goku vs Piccolo Jr. All the weird directions the fight took as each fighter tried totally new techniques really caught me. Plus, there's a lot to like about Teen(?) Goku and the place all the characters were in that point in time, and I wish we had gotten a little more of it.

edited 26th Jan '16 6:41:02 PM by KnownUnknown

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#17614: Jan 26th 2016 at 6:50:19 PM

Again, this ability to watch Dragon Ball Z Abridged without ever seeing the anime or reading the manga is thanks to Dragon Ball Z Abridged behaving as a another dub of the Z anime rather than an Abridged Series.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#17615: Jan 26th 2016 at 6:56:10 PM

Eh, that only really happened after the first season. It's all good but there's a definite split in what they're doing from after the season one finale.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#17616: Jan 26th 2016 at 7:05:23 PM

[up]x4 Tien was already floating when he did the attack...Goku was just falling really slowly when they started talking.

edited 26th Jan '16 7:07:51 PM by randomness4

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#17617: Jan 26th 2016 at 7:55:51 PM

@Soble & LSBK: If there are meme jokes I'm not getting, I apparently didn't need 'em.

I only caught on about the "All of them!?" Piccolo joke later one, but it was no big loss.

edited 26th Jan '16 7:56:29 PM by God_of_Awesome

BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17618: Jan 26th 2016 at 9:04:11 PM

You might have missed this one.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#17619: Jan 26th 2016 at 9:07:26 PM

All things considered, I prefer "I trained all day yesterday."

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#17620: Jan 26th 2016 at 9:10:59 PM

There's been a couple of them:

edited 26th Jan '16 9:13:24 PM by Lionheart0

SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#17621: Jan 26th 2016 at 9:19:22 PM

[up][up]Honestly, either one works fine.

My various fanfics.
BaconManiac5000 Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#17622: Jan 26th 2016 at 11:13:15 PM

[up][up][up]I do as well.

[up][up]Yeah, those are the best ones out there.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else
randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#17623: Jan 26th 2016 at 11:44:43 PM

[up][up]Of course they do, TFS used both.

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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Cat Knows Where It's At
#17624: Jan 27th 2016 at 12:52:30 AM

So it turns out that we have Antfish to thank for Vegeta's infinite rage scene from Season 2.

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God_of_Awesome Since: Jan, 2001
#17625: Jan 27th 2016 at 4:24:24 AM

Vegeta's power-up line: Huh. Well, I just enjoyed it for the sheer mockery of it.

Edit: Okay, so the Piccolo one helps understand that joke better.

I just though Pics was a dork.

edited 27th Jan '16 4:27:07 AM by God_of_Awesome


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