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Non-Sogna/VIPER Discussion => Anime Discussion => Topic started by: ROMate on December 03, 2006, 01:42:32 pm
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Because the description told me to.
The first time I ever saw DBZ was early in my freshman year of high school. And by early, I mean I saw episode 1 on like the first day of school. I had trouble deciding a favorite character until Piccolo used the Special Beam Cannon; he's been my favorite hero since then. Raditz was my favorite villain for a long time, until I saw the Android 13 movie. Now, it's Android 13, Raditz, then the rest of the Androids in no particular order.
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Man the first time I saw DBZ was around '96 when Toonami first went on air. I enjoyed it, my favorite character was Piccolo and my favorite villian was Vegeta. Now it's older Trunks (with the sword), Goku, Vegeta and Piccolo.
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I admit I liked the show until suddenly every little green fag could wish for immortality. What, is there like 151 dragon balls now?
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21. The original set from Earth, the set from Namek, and the Black Star set.
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I have to admit, it was a simpler time when I enjoyed Dragon Ball Z.
Growing up, it was cool as shit. Theres no way you can deny it, that at 13-14 you were like "DBZ R00LZ"
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It's like pro wrestling. It's just plain awesome. The thing is, DBZ has laser beams instead of signature grapples and submissions.
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One character ruled my DBZ fandom. His name: Garlic Jr.
He's probably my friggin favorite character period on that show. Dont ask me why. It's probably because he's a midget that can kick your ass (and probably his own forehead).
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LOL XD
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Q: How many DBZ characters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Just one... but it takes 5 episodes. XD
DBZ is good old-fashioned anime. Sure, it pales in comparison to most stuff nowadays, but it's a classic series that should be remembered. I've actually got a black DBZ t-shirt that I found at a Gadzooks store (right before they became an female-only apparel store) that I still wear to this day, right alongside my FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, and Amazing Nurse Nanako shirts. Makes me wanna get some more stuff from Hot Topic, lol...
As far as my favorite character goes... probably Vegeta, since he was always so arrogant and yet so similar to Goku in terms of skill.
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I hate Vegeta because he always seems to make the situation they're in worse, and because of that, I like Piccolo better than I did initially because he usually makes things better. Vegeta provokes Frieza into transforming into a state that nobody can beat (until Piccolo shows up). Vegeta lets Android 20 activate Androids 16, 17, and 18 (Piccolo buys the Saiyans time to train up and beat them). Vegeta lets Cell absorb all the Androids (Piccolo helps distract Cell so Gohan can kill him). In the movies, Piccolo is also always helping because he either A: Stalls the main villain so everyone else can clean up the henchmen, or B: Cleans up the henchmen so Goku/Gohan can fight the main villain. Piccolo's always got a fast, efficient plan for ending their fights quickly (though it usually is spoiled by something).
I'll admit Vegeta gets better as the series progresses, but he'll never be high on my list of favorites.
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you know whats funny everyone...I still like DBZ O_o
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I still like DBZ too. Not as much as I did when I was younger, but it's definitely up there on the list.
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you don't know how glad that makes me sound to here someone say that........
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I like Dragonball and the first half of DBZ up to the Buu Saga.
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DBZ was much cooler before I knew the outcome of all the Sagas. It no longer has that "O SHIT!!!" factor that got me hooked to it...
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The good news is, the later episodes (and the redoes) didn't exactly butcher the story like the Saban versions did. Although the Nappa and Vegeta scene was classic in everyone's opinion.
For example, they changed HELL (Just Hell, it doesn't stand for anything.) to HFIL (Home For Infinite Losers). How low can you go?
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Quiet. Home For Infinite Losers is the best euphemism for hell ever!
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And their Hell has go-karts!
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True that. I got a kick out of HFIL
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Well, if they have go-karts, then why call it the home of infinite losers? Does nobody get first place, and they are all tied at last place? Usually King Emna (Or whoever his name is) takes first place, and so far, he's the only one that's ever won.
Hence the title.
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Well, if they have go-karts, then why call it the home of infinite losers?
That's something you'll have to ask the boy's mother. Piccolo just wants to gobble him up. D:
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That's something you'll have to ask the boy's mother. Piccolo just wants to gobble him up. D:
I don't remember that in DBZ. However, I do remember that Goku and Chichi were fighting (read, arguing) about certain things. Then, Piccolo mused, saying that, "This is a fight even Goku can't win." It was also featured in DBZ Bukokai 3 too! It fits perfectly!
Also, from my knowledge, Namekians don't eat. They only drink water.
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(http://www.hyperguy.net/billefting/Assorted%20Pics/1165250159992.jpg)
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WHAT, NINE THOUSAND?!
Seriously, the author of the Nine Thousand Video has made a few others that aren't quite as overused as this one, but at least they were great nonetheless. The search engine in Youtube is temporarly disabled, and I still haven't figured out how to post vids yet.
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It's over nine thousand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD I like that line :P
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Nyoro~n
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Here's some more DBZ Humor! Listen carefully and you'll probably laugh if you taken your grammar courses.
[youtube=425,350]LbSjKjjObLg[/youtube]
If the nine thousand joke got old, here's the next big thing. Plus, Chibi Nappa forgot his next line after Vegeta said the internet phenominon! All it was is a Nyoro-n.
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Are they still on Namek?
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Are what still on Namek?
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Frieza Saga is the longest part of DBZ. "Are they still on Namek?" refers to the incredibly stupid amount of time Krillin and Gohan spent on the planet. Usually people ask that when an anime or manga series spends a fucking ridiculous amount of time on one event or place. For example:
In Bleach, they're in Soul Society for like 50 years.
In Naruto, they're doing Chuunin exams for 20.
In One Piece, they fight Don Krieg for at least 100 years.
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Frieza Saga is the longest part of DBZ. "Are they still on Namek?" refers to the incredibly stupid amount of time Krillin and Gohan spent on the planet. Usually people ask that when an anime or manga series spends a fucking ridiculous amount of time on one event or place. For example:
In Bleach, they're in Soul Society for like 50 years.
In Naruto, they're doing Chuunin exams for 20.
In One Piece, they fight Don Krieg for at least 100 years.
Oh, okay. That joke just went over my head for some reason. You are right they do spend a retarded amount of time on Namek. Most of it powering up.
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That is so true.....I hated the Namek Sagas, and the Frieza sagas, all I did was watch the fight between SSJ Goku and Frieza.
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And it takes 30 something episodes for 5-10 minutes to pass.
I appreciate the eye-candy, but not when there's 1000... minutes worth of it and causes the plot to slow to a crawl.
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That is definitely true. While time dialation is frequent in anime (possibly due to the massive speeds (i.e. large Lorentz factor) involved in many actions in anime that get dialated) it usually doesn't happen to that extent.
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I used to try to catch it along with Sailormoon....cuz I ama chick and believed in woman power (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b263/YunaChouChan/Emoticons/hardgay.gif)
I miss those shows (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b263/YunaChouChan/Emoticons/frere.gif)
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My DBZ-related confession is that I've never watched an episode from beginning to end. I can't.
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My DBZ-related confession is that I've never watched an episode from beginning to end. I can't.
Looks like I need to go over dere and make that happen (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b263/YunaChouChan/Emoticons/I20cut20you20bad_bonus.gif)
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Found some interesting info:
(Son) Goku is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese Sun Wukong, more commonly known as the Monkey King in the West, from the Chinese epic "Journey to the West." This explains a lot of his powers (at least in the original Dragon Ball series). A list of similarities:
The monkey tail (if I need to explain this, I will whack you with a laughing gnome that's high on helium)
The staff (it can grow to absurd lengths, although in Journey to the West, it could shrink to the size of a sewing needle and weighed 6,750 kg, among other things). Also notable: the staff was said to go as high as the heavens. Goku had to extend his staff to get to Kami's Lookout for the first time in the Dragon Ball series (which can be equated as "heaven" in the living world).
Sun Wukong had something called the "Cloud Summersault," which allowed him to jump ~54,000 km. He also had a pair of cloud-walking boots. This is parallelled by the Flying Nimbus and, later, the ability to fly.
Sun Wukong was able to defeat 100,000 soldiers, the Four Heavenly Kings (four really powerful guys with really long life spans), Erlang Shen (warring deity), and Nezha (trickster deity). Parallelled by Goku's exploits in beating many powerful opponants.
Both lost their masters due to a problem with them, although Wukong lost his (or rather, was "disowned" by his) due to his arrogance vs. Goku killing his [surrogate grandfather/master] due to his monkey transformation.
Both came from the mountains and were born unnaturally. Wukong came from a stone made of primodial chaos while Goku is an alien.
They have to protect and help people throughout their journeys.
They also cheat death a few times, although Goku actually dies once (in the beginning of DBZ)
In both endings (for Dragon Ball, the GT sub-series ending), they ascend to higher levels (Wukong attains Buddhahood; Goku effectively becomes of a comparible level to Shen Long [the Eternal Dragon])
They both have a pig companion who lusts after women and can transform. (Oolong in Dragon Ball series). On a side note: how they meet and become companions is VERY similar. Wukong and the priest he was guarding went to a town and subdued to lustful pig there, who joined the journey afterwords; similar deal with Goku and Oolong.
On a completely unrelated to DBZ note:
Sun Wukong had a headband that would cause him a lot of pain that triggers by a special chant by the guy he was to protect; this is VERY similar to Inuyasha's necklace and Kagome, not to mention the usage (IE used whenever they become irritating or otherwise annoying).
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I think Akira Toriyama has been pretty open about the influences of Son Wukong and the travelling monk Xuangzang myth in dragon ball. I mean in Asia you can't really get away with that since everybody knows about the monkey king story ^^
PS. I forgot this thread even existed until today. Yey!
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Toriyama has stated that Dragonball was inspired by monkey king story.
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Yeah that's one of the things easily discovered about the series in its first era.
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I mean in Asia you can't really get away with that since everybody knows about the monkey king story
That, and the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter/Kaguya-hime. Hell, just having a girl named "Kaguya" instantly sparks flags of reference to the story.
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Yeah I mean it's from asia those guys know their asian myths.
I wonder why, I guess they have nothing better to do LEARN SOME [size=9]REAL MYTHOS, JAPAN/CHINA/KOREA!!!![/size] losers
Edit: goddamnit hyperguy your forum's fonts only go up to size 9.
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Well its the same with Western culture and Greek/Roman Myths. The minute someone's named Hercules.. you know he's going be a beefcake.
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Excellent info Cashino. I for one did not know that info. My knowledge of myths only extends to the Western World not the East. Perhaps I will go do some reading on it.
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Well its the same with Western culture and Greek/Roman Myths. The minute someone's named Hercules.. you know he's going be a beefcake.
[size=9]WELL DUH THAT'S 'CUZ HERCULES IS A REAL AMERICAN HERO![/size]
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I beg to differ with the previous posts. Hercules Klump from the Nutty Professor movie (http://www.imdb.com/rg/photos-name/summary//gallery/granitz/1012/Events/1012/mixon_jamal.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Mixon,%20Jamal) was not a beefcake. Just beef.. and cake.
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I beg to differ with the previous posts. Hercules Klump from the Nutty Professor movie (http://www.imdb.com/rg/photos-name/summary//gallery/granitz/1012/Events/1012/mixon_jamal.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Mixon,%20Jamal) was not a beefcake. Just beef.. and cake.
Eric Cartman would disagree. BEEFCAKE
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Wow dbz,I was 11 years old I guess,I remember stealing one of the manga in a library lol I was all proud...I was actually more into Ranma1/2. Ranma kick ass
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Don't tell me that we are going to a DBZ vs. Ranma show down. Cause that would quite possibly be the most geeky (animewise) evar.
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I could never choose.
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lol no anyway I don't think we can put Ranma and DBZ in the same boat.
Ranma is more a drama with lot of humour and some fight,DBZ is what I call the shonen tournement type.DBZ is the Father of those,Naruto,Yuyu Hakusho,Shaman King...(my opinion of course)
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Well, I've always thought that Yu Yu Hakusho was far superior to DBZ but thats just me.
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lol no anyway I don't think we can put Ranma and DBZ in the same boat.
Ranma is more a drama with lot of humour and some fight,DBZ is what I call the shonen tournement type.DBZ is the Father of those,Naruto,Yuyu Hakusho,Shaman King...(my opinion of course)
That's the first time I've heard this genre given a name-type, but I think it fits quite well.
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That's the first time I've heard this genre given a name-type, but I think it fits quite well.
I concur.
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I can't stand any of those shows, I'm sorry. I prefer my anime to full of complex romance storylines and lots of drama.
*looks at anime shelf*
Gravitation, Onegai! Sensei, Loveless, New Kimagure Orange Road, Evangelion, Rurouni Kenshin...
Yeah...my tastes are kinda off...
I petition that Akira Toriyama be kicked in the nuts for creating DBZ.
OBJECTION SUSTAINED
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Humm I like those kind too.New Kimagure Orange Road? Is'nt that the title of the movie or there is a new season? DBZ was at first great,its the fact that fan were asking for MORE non-stop that made DBZ what it is now.
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New KOR is the movie. You're right.