Dragon Ball Series(es) Talkback Discussion and Stuff

[Dr Kain]

[MekaGojira3k]

Got my tickets for opening day.

[klen7]

Viz is doing digital bundles on major discount for Akira Toriyama digital manga.

http://www.vizmanga.com/view_all/bl

[Dr Kain]

Watched the first episode of Super today. Outside of Beerus for some reason being awake, it was quite good.

[jellydonut25]

[Dr Kain]

[Gman2887]

[Hybrid Gojira]

^ I could see that being true based on the first Ep of Super. It would be disappointing.

[Dr Kain]

[Gman2887]

[Dr Kain]

In the first scene with Goten and Trunks together, Goten says, "My brother Gohan is getting married to Videl, right?"

[Dr Kain]

Finally watched episode 2, but what is up with the laziness of all of these fansubbers? I've gone through 3 different groups now and none of them have bothered to translate the openings and endings, one didn't bother to translate the next episode previews, all three had lines of dialog missing, and one of them didn't even have Beerus' name properly (they called him Bills). Is there anyone that is even going to bother putting an effort into these subs or do they just not care since it will get licensed?

Anyway, the episode was great, but I really don't like them removing Battle of Gods from continuity. There was no reason for it. The stuff with Vegeta felt off though. He said he would never fight again at the end of the series because he knows he would never top Goku, but he is suddenly wanting to top him. That just doesn't make any sense. Loved everything with Beerus, but I do have to say, he feels a bit off from how he was in BoG. The worst aspect of the episode though was Kaio's new voice. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Well whatever. It was an enjoyable episode despite its shortcomings and I hope they continue to focus on developing the characters each episode before getting into the action. Each character/family deserves to have their own focus before then.

[Hybrid Gojira]

^Ah, so BOG was officially retconned, eh? It looked that way based on the little snippet we had of Beerus in Ep 1.

[Dr Kain]

Who the hell animated this ****?????



I didn't know the Super stood for Dragon Ball Super Deformed.

[The Shadow]

So, as I've been watching Dragon Ball Z Kai running on Toonami it struck me over the last few episodes that Krillin is an under-regarded genius.

The little used attack technique Krillin developed, kienzan - the energy discs, while training before Vegeta's and Nappa's arrival on Earth. The energy discs are incredibly ki energy efficient and yet lethal to opponents far more powerful than the user. Vegeta & Nappa outclass Krillin during their fight on Earth and Krillin would have killed Nappa if not for Vegeta's intervention. Later Krillin nearly takes out the far far more powerful Frieza and does manage to clip off part of Frieza's tail.

[jellydonut25]

And for some reason, nobody else ever thought to try to learn the technique from Krillin (despite nearly everyone learning Solar Flare)

[Dr Kain]

[jellydonut25]

[Dr Kain]

So episodes 15-18 of Dragon Ball Super were actually really really good, especially 17. There are some many great moments from 17, but the best comes from Goku's Kool-Aid Man moment. However, there is a strange continuity error because Chichi mentions Bulma having another bingo game, but she never had a Bingo game in Super. WTF? That aside, this show seems to be great when it isn't just ripping off the recent movies.

[Russzilla]

First got into DBZ back when it started in '89, and watched a bunch of episodes when I used to tape trade, I couldn't stand the Funimation dubs later on, but now I'm streaming the entire series English subtitled on Funimations website. (currently on the False Namek episodes) I sometimes have to force myself to remember how great this series was. Vegeta is still as bad ass as ever.