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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ima2bNo8O9A Dragon Ball is a long running Manga and Anime series. Starting as the Manga Dragon Ball in 1984, it is a long running Shonen series created by Akira Toriyama. Centered around the titular Dragon Balls that grant every wish, characters interact, help, and fight over them and for a good reason: They grant any wish you desire. Staring Goku and his ever growing cast of friends and enemies every series has a very different tone and feeling. Dragon Ball is about adventure and mysticism, and is more light hearted until near the end of the series where things start to get more serious. That runs over into the time skip/continuation Dragon Ball Z. Now a full fledged action series about big fights and serious villains that takes things even into space. Dragon Ball GT was a anime only new series that was not received well at all. Akira Toriyama's only input was the Super Sayian 4 design, it was completely Toei made. It was only 64 episodes. Dragon Ball Super saw Toriyama's return to lead his series again. It started with two movies under the dragon ball Z title that were so well received that he wanted to continue again with a new series. In this thread we talk mostly about the Anime and Manga. If you're looking to chat about the console Dragon Ball video games here's the thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3797982 If you want just the FighterZ thread it's here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3831421 If you're looking to talk about the mobile game Dragon Ball Dokkan Battle here's the thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3732619&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 The current anime is Dragon Ball Super, a continuation of Dragon Ball Z. It starts before the last episode of Z and completely ignores Dragon Ball GT. It ended in 2018 and we've gotten a couple movies since, beyond that we don't know what the future holds. It is available to watch at these places: http://www.daisuki.net/ http://www.crunchyroll.com/ https://www.funimation.com/ https://vrv.co/ Buy the Blu Rays here: https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-...agon+ball+super Dragon Ball Kai is a shortened redone version of Dragon Ball Z. It closely follows the timing and flow of the manga and leaves out the filler. If you don't have a lot of time to read or watch the OG series this is highly recommended. It airs on Toonami every Saturday at 11:00 EST, currently at the end of the series The Buu saga. You can buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Ball-Kai-Season-Blu-ray/dp/B0079KGANU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522953608&sr=8-1&keywords=dragon+ball+kai The manga started after the anime had already started airing. The anime and manga follow the same guideline that Akira Toriyama set but both deviate from each other in telling the stories. There is no true "canon" version. It is drawn and headed by Toyotarō. It will continue even though the anime is on hiatus. You can read it here: https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/dragon-ball-super Or buy it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XH6G8PG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 These are the two most recent movies to be all caught up. RBX fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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"Canon" only needs one n. Unless you're talking about a large projectile weapon.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 01:39 |
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all aboard the S.S Sayian
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 01:43 |
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I thought it was Toei that brought Toriyama onto doing Super? Either way how involved Toriyama has been with either the manga or anime versions of Super has been a thorny issue.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 01:43 |
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Special Beam Cannon is the only canon I need
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 01:45 |
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So, Super Manga did the "Zamasu still lives" reveal better, but it's too Goku focused and the awesome Trunks-Sword scene is completely gimped. Anime is superior.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 01:46 |
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jivjov posted:"Canon" only needs one n. Unless you're talking about a large projectile weapon. It was a typo, thanks! Raxivace posted:I thought it was Toei that brought Toriyama onto doing Super? Only thing i'm getting is he did the overall plot and it differs from there: quote:Its overall plot outline is written by Dragon Ball franchise creator Akira Toriyama, while the individual episodes are written by different screenwriters. from wikipedia
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 01:46 |
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RBX posted:It was a typo, thanks! Always happy to provide some lead-off pedantry.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 01:49 |
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Let me say the thread's icon is gorgeous.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 01:51 |
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where's the poll? also, to the guy who said tien is the only human to survive the human extinction attack, tien's not human
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 02:31 |
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Condiv posted:where's the poll? He's very much human, he just has some alien blood in him. It's likely too diluted to count as anything else than human, and he's always been referred to as an Earthling anyways. Also, a bit of a correction on the opening post: Toriyama did not design Super Saiyan 4 Goku, that was Toei Animation's character designer Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru.. Toriyama was, however, responsible for all the main character designs (yes, that includes Vegeta's moustache and Trunks' awful outfit) and he designed the logo.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 02:38 |
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Note re: the all powerfullness of the dragon balls. They are almost always just powerful enough that the main bad guy needs to be prevented from getting them but just weak enough that you can't just get them first and wish mcbaddy was never born or anything. Enter the Super Dragon Balls. These are the size of planets and are distributed across two of the twelve universes (no really) for basically no thoroughly explained reason. The titular dragon balls that the original manga was named for were ostensibly created to mimick the super dragon balls but until somebody wishes for a super-history lesson this doesn't shed any insight into why these things exist and only exist in two universes (to the best of our knowledge). So what do the super dragon balls do? Supposidly anything. This has not been tested against the powers of some of dragon ball's greater dieties (wait till we get into the child emporer of all creation) but for the moment any wish that has been made upon the super dragon balls has been granted no muss no fuss. If you can't currently move seven planet sized objects across two universes into one location I recommend you start delivering milk by foot in the mornings. Wear weights.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 02:43 |
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I tried to keep the OP short,sweet, and simple any extra stuff people can google themselves. The details of everything weren't as important as getting the overall point across to possible new people.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 02:52 |
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Condiv posted:where's the poll? If you're
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:08 |
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hot take on the ground floor: Goku is good
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:10 |
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i'm re watching DBZ Kai so I can catch up on Super and watch that as it airs. i barely remember anything that happens up to the Cell Games. i wonder if they'll ever get to that there namek planet also bulma best character
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:12 |
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Carlosologist posted:hot take on the ground floor: Goku is good You don't watch Super then. He's clearly the main villain, which is why The Pride Troopers from U11 want to annihilate him for Great Justice.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:13 |
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Dias posted:If you're To be fair to Trump (Allah forgive me), he's never had all the inhabitants of an apartment complex killed in order to take it over.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:13 |
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Carlosologist posted:hot take on the ground floor: Goku is good Goku is Good for sure, he's just a hilariously dumb person with the brain damages, so we gotta forgive all the bullshit that his Good comes at the cost of, and it's why we love him ps Kaioken best technique in all of Dragon Ball, first page
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:14 |
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Goku is very powerful. Your favorite character cannot defeat him.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:16 |
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Dias posted:If you're president dog is not human, he's a dog. tien has 4 arms and a third eye, he's not human
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:16 |
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yamcha strongest humanTrilliontonNixon posted:To be fair to Trump (Allah forgive me), he's never had all the inhabitants of an apartment complex killed in order to take it over. hail lord frieza
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:16 |
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Raxivace posted:Goku is very powerful. Your favorite character cannot defeat him. Goku cannot defeat Goku, huh
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:18 |
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Carl Seitan posted:You don't watch Super then. He's clearly the main villain, which is why The Pride Troopers from U11 want to annihilate him for Great Justice. The pride troopers are gonna have some hidden secret like they get all their power from eating people that their universes Buu has turned into chocolate. Calling it now.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:19 |
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Lessail posted:Goku cannot defeat Goku, huh
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:20 |
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dragon ball is good
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:25 |
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Raxivace posted:He cannot, as the Black arc shows. To defeat yourself you must first defeat yourself. The
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:26 |
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Raxivace posted:He cannot, as the Black arc shows. Well Vegeta did ok for a bit at the end. Bye old thread Pureauthor fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Jul 20, 2017 |
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:45 |
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"Hm, I am overpowering the man who killed my wife and who we know gets stronger when he gets beat up. I think I'll keep on uselessly punching him some more instead of blowing his head off."
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:46 |
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Please consider adding these to the OP:
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 03:48 |
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I'll add those. I gotta explain Kai and reasons to watch each version too.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 04:23 |
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Thanks! Excellent thread, OP.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 04:27 |
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You can also watch super on daisuki.net
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 04:49 |
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Aurora posted:dragon ball is good hmm... controversial, but I'll allow it
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 04:59 |
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I hope that Goku instant transmissions my cool friend Krillin back on to the fighting stage and he wins because he is strong and brave. After Krillin wins, he will use his wish on the Super Dragon Balls to wish this thread had a poll.
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 05:04 |
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I can't believe we have no GodTube yet, that's easily the best part of Super
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 07:21 |
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Pro-Tip: It is called Dragon Ball Super because it is Super fun to watch!!!
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# ? Jul 20, 2017 07:36 |
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I thought it was called Dragon Ball Super because Goku's final opponent will be Superman.
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I thought I was called Dragonball super because it's super profitable and marketable
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