- Nappa: Bleach! It's like us with swords, Vegeta!
- Vegeta: Meh. I liked that show better when it was called Yu Yu Hakusho, and I liked that show better when it was called Dragon Ball Z!
edited 15th Sep '12 11:34:23 AM by TheWanderer
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |The reason things happen before Z is because at that point they had more room to put filler episodes in. There weren't many opportunities like that in Z so they resorted to padding. Lots and lots of padding.
The light speed thing is bullshit not only because of the talking but also because the Z fighters were never said to be close to light speed in anything but the early english dub, which isn't accurate to the original.
If the anime's pacing bothers you, there is always the manga. Of course I understand that a lot of people don't like reading manga.
edited 15th Sep '12 5:28:23 PM by Saiga
I've always noticed how totally arbitrary some of our time numbering is.
And for the record, minutes aren't actually based the same way as years. Everything days on down is based on the planet's rotation, but months on up is based on its revolution, IIRC.
I'm also part of the crowd who finds abridged to be a marked improvement on certain incarnations of the original series. Though certain character depictions and gags grow thin when I want the seriousness of the original series.
I disagree. My whole life in fandom I've never gotten what the hell the other girls see in Vegeta; in the manga he's an eminently punchable idiot, and in the anime he's at best an amusing prima donna.
In the Abridged? Shit, I'd nail that 'til Nappa ran out of stupid jokes to interrupt with.
Hence, improved viewing experience.
A True Lady's Quest - A Jojo is You!Weren't they there to stop that shit from happening? It still just screams stupid to me.
So if a Saiyan dies, I wonder if they get a Zenkai in other world...
I just thought I'd mention how incredibly unsettling Krillin's family situation was during the last saga. Naming your daughter after your ex is kind of awkward, recycled theme naming or no, Toriyama. I guess maybe 18 might've been fine with it, or even suggested it. We don't know. But what's worse...
Every time I think of a woman being anywhere near Roshi, my skin crawls a bit.
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Vegeta was there purely because he wanted to make sure Goku didn't weasel out of his promise to fight him. He gave zero fucks about Majin Boo.
And Maron is an anime only filler character. Since Toriyama didn't watch the anime and didn't do her design, he probably didn't even know she existed. Marron's name is the french word for chestnuts, following her father's name pun.

That sounds like a guarantee of explosions. Are you sure you want to commit to that promise?
What's precedent ever done for us?