Dragon Ball Thread - RIP Akira Toriyama

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

[DRAGON BALL] 40th Anniversary Special Video​

Here we go again...again.

Anime “Dragon Ball Super: Beerus” | SUPER Launch Trailer​

Sparking Zero is getting DLC that doesn't fix the issues that Sparking Zero has that keeps players from staying or even buying the game, seriously look at this shit:

Considering the game barely has any SP content that isn't minor, done better in other games, or just poor quality, and the focus seems to be on the terribly balanced slog of a multiplayer that was never the point of BT games in the first place, I expect a big boost followed by a bigger drop-off almost immediately.
Not only are people shitting themselves over worthless (paid) DLC towards an overpriced poor excuse of a sequel that people have waited a 17 year gap for that will do nothing for the game, people seem to be forgetting how dogshit Super was and are getting hype as shit over the next arc being animated. I barely count Mexicans towards this hype since violent crime and Dragon Ball are the only thing they care about so it goes without saying that they'll eat anything DB related, but we'll probably see very little concern in the wider audience over the Galactic Patrol arc going poorly since the average DB fan is a mindless consoomer. Can't wait to see people going "Super wasn't actually that bad" to justify jerking off to the announcement.
And then we have a Beerus remake that seems to be a movie adaptation of Super's adaptation of the original Z movie, we've come full circle. What a terrible day to be a DB fan.

Its just a remaster similar to One Piece Fishman Island from last year with promise that they'll add some new scenes to iron out some of the narrative inconsistencies with early Super leading up to the Moro arc. A huge nothing burger and the fact that this is the...fifth iteration of this arc from over a decade ago really shows how dire things are with this franchise now.

Case and point, just some tuning up over the worst parts of it and then resell it to the mindless audience of consoomers.

 

[Smack Patrick]

So is it gonna be a new MMO but with updated lore and shit?
Could be good, I remember enjoying my time with DBO.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

So is it gonna be a new MMO but with updated lore and shit?
Could be good, I remember enjoying my time with DBO.

DBO was enjoyable for what it was, couldn't get into the fan resurrection of it since it felt like I was chasing after an experience I could no longer have so I hope something new is done with the material from DBO.

 

[Ravana]

Sparking Zero is getting DLC that doesn't fix the issues that Sparking Zero has that keeps players from staying or even buying the game, seriously look at this shit:

It's an anime arena fighter. What are you expecting?

 

[Smack Patrick]

It's an anime arena fighter. What are you expecting?

More Gohan Black level what-if scenarios.

 

[Whirus]

The DLC for Sparking Zero is supposed to be massive, I could see them adding more to the story mode. I don't think we'll see another Gohan Black what if though, unless it's Vegeta Black lol.

 

[Rick The Stick]

It also made the experience for new fans abysmal because once they get to Super, where do they go? The anime? Well what about everything the manga changes and no longer lines up with the anime? It made Super completely unapproachable for new fans so a remake is kind of necessary.

No it didn't, this isn't fucking Warhammer. You start with dragonball, anime or manga, and go from there. That's it. Simple as.
The changes the manga makes are irrelevant as a new fan, unless you're doing both at the same time which isn't what any new fan would do. The real issue is that Super just isn't very good.

 

[Yosha]

More Gohan Black level what-if scenarios.

they did add mission 100 today, that was in the previous tenkaichi games. Also, the story mode may not be that great, but it's still much longer than Tenkaichi 3, which is like a gold standard for Dragon Ball arena fighters.... And with all the Dragon Ball games getting support for years, i am sure that this game will also get lots of content.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

The best part about Super was the funny screenshots:

 

[Cave Fisher]

If they couldn't get the arc just right the first four times, just let it GO man, its obviously gotta be cursed or something.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Honestly, that's fine. The Super Hero movie was CGI and it worked.


A Super Kai "remake" would be absolutely hilarious.

The only Kai show we need is OG Dragon Ball.

 

[MirrorNoir]

It's alright, it just doesn't stick the landing. It's good enough to hold up there with something like the original DB arcs. Merus is the best part of the arc, easily and is a welcome addition to the cast. I like Jaco, so more of him is always good in my opinion. It's biggest weakness is that Moro himself is kind of stupid, and it feels very fanficy.

That's a problem with all of Toyotaro's OG arcs honestly. They don't feel like Dragonball. Sometimes that's for the best, like him trying to fix Goku Black where his changes are very welcome. However, things like the Goku avatar, Ultra Ego, and honestly most of the Granolah arc kind of stop feeling like Dragonball and more like fanmade arcs. You can tell a secondary author made these. Toyotaro's best work is his slice of life stuff like with his Goten and Trunks mini-arc. In fact, i'd argue stuff like that is why Toriyama chose him as his successor in the first place. It really does seem like stuff Toriyama himself would do, but has a more modern DB take on it.


I mean that's Toei's own fault. Making the Super anime and manga alongside each other and then having to justify the manga's existence was a fucking horrible idea from the start. They had no plan or direction for Super and so if you look back on it, Super really does kind of suck. It also made the experience for new fans abysmal because once they get to Super, where do they go? The anime? Well what about everything the manga changes and no longer lines up with the anime? It made Super completely unapproachable for new fans so a remake is kind of necessary.

The only fucking thing that needs a top to bottom redo is the motherfucking Super manga. It's impossible to fucking recommend the manga to ANYONE given that it skips critical arcs for spite and malice reasons and if you redid it to make it more or less 1:1 to the anime, more people would buy it instead of just watching the anime.

 

[winderson_silva]

You know, sometimes I forget that pretty much everyone with ki control can read minds, telepathy, or telekinesis. These types of power are usually reserved for "the frail dude" in fiction, not the punch guy.

Granted, you rarely see anyone using them, but it is funny that Moro's telekinesis, iirc, comes from his magic, not his ki.

 

[Terror Sandwich]

[DRAGON BALL] 40th Anniversary Special Video​

Beautiful animation, except for the ending when they changed to the gross super style.
It looks like it was rotoscoped from 3D models.

I just don't know why they went with fucking Hans Zimmer slop as the music, it doesn't fit the series and it didn't sound good at all.
It was probably not even truly composed by him, some assistant shat this out and put his name on it.

 

[YouDoNotHaveTheRight]

No it didn't, this isn't fucking Warhammer. You start with dragonball, anime or manga, and go from there. That's it. Simple as.
The changes the manga makes are irrelevant as a new fan, unless you're doing both at the same time which isn't what any new fan would do. The real issue is that Super just isn't very good.

The manga was pretty good, but they made Goku a retard in the anime, so much so that its a humiliation ritual to even watch it. Also the stakes in super seem to just climb higher and higher which has been a thing since the boo saga in Z, but I really think GT did its villains, plot better. If you didn't like super's anime I recommend the manga.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

The only fucking thing that needs a top to bottom redo is the motherfucking Super manga. It's impossible to fucking recommend the manga to ANYONE given that it skips critical arcs for spite and malice reasons and if you redid it to make it more or less 1:1 to the anime, more people would buy it instead of just watching the anime.

That was the problem though. If the manga is an exact adaptation of the anime, then why bother drawing the manga at all? The anime already exists.

Toyotaro did do Battle of Gods but struggled to justify its existence. So he linked it to the Universe 6 Arc and come Frieza, he just said "go watch the movie". At the time, the anime was already forcing fans to retread old movies as arcs. Everyone hated it. Why do it in the manga too for a third time? Does anyone need a 3rd retelling of Resurrection F?

 

[Valstrax]

I've been thinking on it for a while, so I'm just gonna say it now: DevilArtemis is just Dragon Ball-flavored SNL. A bunch of comedy sketches based heavily around pop culture and Current Thing™ that depending on who you ask, varies in humor.

I won't deny his work is pretty high quality, but there comes a time where someone has to ask... is "Cell goes to see the Snow White remake" funny?

Really, is this kind of video funny?

 

[Cave Fisher]

Really, is this kind of video funny?

I don't like to call everything I find lame "Reddit" but I recognize a reddit-tier slopfest of a channel when I see it, namely the only other video I've seen from this channel being of Master Roshi and Kermit the frog in a submarine replicating the oceangate incident.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Happy 40th birthday. This shit is older than me.

 

[God of Nothing]

Ten more years of XV2!