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Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#17626: Jan 27th 2016 at 5:54:55 AM

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.

That gives me the impression that you heard about the series over the internet and never really gave it a chance, and that's unfortunate, but, to each their own.

There's also Dragonball Kai which removes a lot of the padding but loses the Bruce Falconer soundtrack (YMMV on how important that is)

There's certain jokes I'd have thought wouldn't be as funny without knowing what they were making fun of, or seeing the original error. Like Vegeta's "SAD FOR YOUUU", him doing squats on 19's face, HETAP, Frieza getting two extra lives from impaling Krillin, Vegeta killing more people than the Androids did.

"Goku is the one, and only, Super Saiyan!"

"Yeaaahhhhh..."

"What?"

King Kai: Are you questioning god?

Kami: Are you?

King Kai: Not in the mood Kami.

18: Is he your secret project?

Gero: No, no, he's in the baseme- I MEAN YES, VERY SECRET! DON'T TOUCH!

edited 27th Jan '16 6:04:51 AM by Soble

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#17627: Jan 27th 2016 at 6:14:56 AM

The extra lives thing is just a Mario joke, right?

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Watchtower Since: Jul, 2010
#17628: Jan 27th 2016 at 6:25:47 AM

loses the Bruce Falconer soundtrack (YMMV on how important that is)

I consider sticking to the original soundtrack to be a naturally smarter move over trying to throw in your own shit (looking at you Four Kids), but I also consider the Falconer soundtrack to be fucking amazing and anything negative against it to be a heinous crime.

I'm partially jesting, please don't kill me.

Anyway, I can't exactly remember when I first watched DBZ. When the original Toonami was running I was pretty young and had something of a shitty memory, but I do remember me and my cousins getting addicted to the whole program. The Buu saga in particular always sticks out to me, partially because my memory's more solid by that point.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#17629: Jan 27th 2016 at 7:15:27 AM

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Yeah, but I knew immediately that it was a joke on Frieza's survival. The first extra life is for when Goku Frieza cuts himself in half with the Kienstructo Disk, the second is for when he survives Namek's destruction.

[up]Oh no, I agree. I'm just used to being around folk who don't take kindly to it.

Every time I watch a video with the Japanese music, it usually sounds like this. I've heard this same song being used during the Android Saga of Kai, so I don't understand why I'm also hearing it in the Buu Saga.

With the exceptions of Cha-La, Hero from Battle of Gods, and the song that plays when Gohan transforms against Cell - which I'm still trying to find the name of - I vastly prefer Falconer.

edited 27th Jan '16 7:30:26 AM by Soble

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#17630: Jan 27th 2016 at 1:51:57 PM

That gives me the impression that you heard about the series over the internet and never really gave it a chance, and that's unfortunate, but, to each their own.

Oh, I gave the original series a chance later on. And I think, after that, I did watch Kai first.

I didn't give the series a chance at first because the internet says it's a pile of crap. Which isn't exactly true, but I didn't necessarily know that without seeing it for myself, did I?

Basically, I thought, "If DBZ is actually this terrible series, then at least I can enjoy myself by watching people parody it."

Then I ended up liking the story way more than I expected.

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#17631: Jan 27th 2016 at 1:52:51 PM

I thought the Internet loved DBZ?

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#17632: Jan 27th 2016 at 1:54:48 PM

In an ironic way. They like it because it's their childhood, but with all the "OVER 9000" references, jokes about ridiculous hair and how the show is mostly people just standing around and screaming for minutes at a time and SOMETIMES punching...it doesn't give a good first impression.

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#17633: Jan 27th 2016 at 1:58:14 PM

In that respect, Dragonball is probably better.

It was a simpler time to be honest, and I wish Toriyama had stayed in that time.

Though I admit, watching a character move through out his entire life, from childhood to adulthood, to being grandfather is pretty interesting.

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#17634: Jan 27th 2016 at 2:01:10 PM

[up][up][up] Nobody hates Dragon Ball more than Dragon Ball fans.

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#17635: Jan 27th 2016 at 2:20:30 PM

Funny thing is, it wasn't really until Naruto became the poster child of Anime in the West that people started to flip their opinions again on DBZ.

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#17637: Jan 27th 2016 at 6:04:40 PM

Though I admit, watching a character move through out his entire life, from childhood to adulthood, to being grandfather is pretty interesting.

This is, today, one of my favorite things about the series. A lot of thing haven't aged well in DBZ, so I wouldn't really recommend to anyone. However, this simple concept is still great and something I wish more series followed. Despite all the crazy "inner potential" and "sudden power-up" bullshit, it is still easy to swallow the great growth DBZ characters undergo when compared to other fighting shonens. We actually do see them spend years on their training, well up to their adulthood instead of having them reach their peak when they are children or in the early 20s.

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#17638: Jan 27th 2016 at 6:23:23 PM

...huh. So changing 18's shut-down device to a detonator was originally an accident. That's actually quite interesting.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#17639: Jan 27th 2016 at 6:39:12 PM

I mean, I personally think it being a shut-off device would make more sense, given the remote Gero had.

You don't blow someone up when they're standing right next to you. In a cave, in a mountain.

And, like.

Given what Cell and 16's self-destruct features are like, I'm not sure there would be a planet or an atmosphere if 17 or 18 blew up.

edited 27th Jan '16 6:39:23 PM by unnoun

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#17640: Jan 27th 2016 at 7:08:34 PM

Then I ended up liking the story way more than I expected.

Fair enough.

Nobody hates Dragon Ball more than Dragon Ball fans.

Eh, I'd beg to differ.

Always a shame because I really did like what they did with Mai in this film, making her and Shu competent would've been a plus.

Apparently Toriyama was ticked off by it too, if Wikipedia is anything to go by. Then again, hearing "Toriyama said this" is always something to be taken with a grain of salt.

But what ho, this is from kanzenshuu! Toriyama dawg, I love you, but you need to unleash the beast, crack the whip, that film was a disgrace.

edited 27th Jan '16 7:09:24 PM by Soble

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#17641: Jan 27th 2016 at 7:44:40 PM

Yeah, he hated it. It didn't convince him to make Battle of Gods (the initial script was already written, I think), but he didn't like Evolution one bit.

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#17642: Jan 27th 2016 at 9:54:18 PM

Did anyone like Evolution?

The answer is no.

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#17643: Jan 28th 2016 at 6:06:08 AM

I managed to get their Riff on Evolution working.

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#17644: Jan 28th 2016 at 3:32:17 PM

I've seen DB, DBZ, and DBGT as well as reading the manga, but I watch with a few people who've never seen any of it. You'd be surprised at people's ability to catch that a thing is parodying something without knowing the original context for what. For instance, it's not that hard to guess at what the HETAP joke is. The joke is that the cans say HETAP on them.

Critical thinking skills can take the place of context when you already grasp the basic concept that you're watching a parody.

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#17645: Jan 28th 2016 at 7:43:07 PM

What even is HETAP supposed to be?

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#17646: Jan 28th 2016 at 7:44:53 PM

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EchoingSilence Since: Jun, 2013
#17647: Jan 28th 2016 at 7:47:59 PM

"Wait a minute. Did someone take the last Hetap?! I'll kill you!!" - Vegeta

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#17648: Jan 28th 2016 at 8:14:27 PM

Uh? Is the HETAP thing a joke? I just assumed it was a brand name, with nothing particularly humorous about the name on itself

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#17649: Jan 28th 2016 at 8:19:42 PM

The joke is that the characters are acting like the nonsense word hetap is a popular drink and that there's nothing weird about it.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#17650: Jan 28th 2016 at 8:24:48 PM

Which isn't immediately obvious in a show about wish granting, magical balls.

Vegeta makes the joke funny, Trunks serving it isn't as funny.

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