DBZ
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might i be the first to say that this kind of threads suck ass.
i might have understood if you'd ask for something global (anime in general for instance) or trying to get a discussion started, but really "lollerball, i like DBZ, it's like soooooooooo KEWL. what's your fav char, roflcopter?"...
i smell a vatting
i might have understood if you'd ask for something global (anime in general for instance) or trying to get a discussion started, but really "lollerball, i like DBZ, it's like soooooooooo KEWL. what's your fav char, roflcopter?"...
i smell a vatting
I smell a Wooz coming around and beating the crap out of someone.
Dragonball Z was fun when I was 14 and even then only for one season. The whole taking 2 hours to get through ten minutes is really annoying.
Dragonball Z was fun when I was 14 and even then only for one season. The whole taking 2 hours to get through ten minutes is really annoying.
Bradylama
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I've turned impersonating the DBZ announcer into an artform.
Show sucks even by anime standards.
Show sucks even by anime standards.
any way no one has articulated their most worthy character yet.
Bradylama
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The worthiest character in DBZ is Needless Exposition.
This is why you shouldn't make comic-based shows as the volumes are being published.
This is why you shouldn't make comic-based shows as the volumes are being published.
maybe you should take that as a hint...Richoid said:
Malkavian said:
Yeah, it's the same sad crap taken from Dragonball, all good part of discovery or exploration is killed, and you essentially sit there and watch badly-dubbed trash talk for most of the show with pauses for recycled animation shots, but with generally about the same setting and writing depth as a WWE show but with far less new material each season. And that's counting the uncensored, unedited versions as well.
Hop around to find dragon balls.
Meet big bad guy.
Big bad guy kicks the ass of the heroes, usually involving a secret vulnerability of the big bad guy.
Heroes go running around to find some "Sooper-seekrit-saiyan-shitball 4 technique".
"Sooper-seekrit-saiyan-shitball 4-ha!"
Bad guy goes running away, dies, or joins good guys.
Suck dragon balls to make a wish.
Rinse and repeat.
Then came Dragonball GT, but it should have been more appropriately named "Dragonball Special-Ed".
What is WWE? I tried looking it up but referencing was based on wrestling 
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Oh and it is spelt saiyan, not sayan.
New stuff occurs every episode, thus provoking a constant change in emotional withdrawal; it is excellent when applied to such a wide range of characters.
.Oh and it is spelt saiyan, not sayan.
New stuff occurs every episode, thus provoking a constant change in emotional withdrawal; it is excellent when applied to such a wide range of characters.
Bradylama
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Expanding this topic won't get you very far. NMA isn't exactly an anime-watching crowd by and large.
I myself don't watch much of it, because by and large the good majority of it is shit. Not everything has to be on the level of GITS: Stand Alone Complex, but the problem a lot of writers seem to have with creating shows that are just fun is that they confuse being fun with being stupid.
Granted, a lot of humor is regional. Some white boy from Oklahoma probably wouldn't be able to get vague references to Japanese pop culture (Does Family Guy translate well with foreign audiences?). Yet most publishing houses seem more than happy to just take moderately succesful manga and then do a by-the-numbers recreation of it in animated form. A lot of times like in the case of Full Metal Alchemist or Azumanga Daioh, you get good results. The problem though, is that any idiot can write a manga, and there are tons of other idiots that proceed to lap it up. The end result is a lot of shows that recycle the same conventions over and over again with a different setting, or characters. (take for instance, Inuyasha compared to Fushigi Yugi)
In other words, animation studios and their backers aren't willing to take a lot of risks. The end result is a media that's over-saturated with a bunch of the same old uninspired crap.
Note: The WWE is what's left of the old professional wrestling federations. All you need to know about "Professional Wrestling" in its televised form, is that all events on the show are pre-scripted into a soap opera for cretins, and that with the exception of injury or accidental death, none of the matches have an outcome that's based on competition involving the ability of the performers.
I myself don't watch much of it, because by and large the good majority of it is shit. Not everything has to be on the level of GITS: Stand Alone Complex, but the problem a lot of writers seem to have with creating shows that are just fun is that they confuse being fun with being stupid.
Granted, a lot of humor is regional. Some white boy from Oklahoma probably wouldn't be able to get vague references to Japanese pop culture (Does Family Guy translate well with foreign audiences?). Yet most publishing houses seem more than happy to just take moderately succesful manga and then do a by-the-numbers recreation of it in animated form. A lot of times like in the case of Full Metal Alchemist or Azumanga Daioh, you get good results. The problem though, is that any idiot can write a manga, and there are tons of other idiots that proceed to lap it up. The end result is a lot of shows that recycle the same conventions over and over again with a different setting, or characters. (take for instance, Inuyasha compared to Fushigi Yugi)
In other words, animation studios and their backers aren't willing to take a lot of risks. The end result is a media that's over-saturated with a bunch of the same old uninspired crap.
Note: The WWE is what's left of the old professional wrestling federations. All you need to know about "Professional Wrestling" in its televised form, is that all events on the show are pre-scripted into a soap opera for cretins, and that with the exception of injury or accidental death, none of the matches have an outcome that's based on competition involving the ability of the performers.
Richoid said:What is WWE? I tried looking it up but referencing was based on wrestling
Duh.
Oh and it is spelt saiyan, not sayan.
It could be Saran as in the Wrap for all it really matters and for how I care about it.
Yes, something has to go on, otherwise they wouldn't really have much of an intro to talk about for the next episode. They can go on about it like the flashbacks from last week's trash-talk wrestling match, but otherwise it's pretty much the same recycled shit episode to episode.
Sorry if my summarizing of entire seasons was confusing you earlier.
As for anime in general, crap is crap.
Hayao Miyazaki is genius. DBZ is pure unadulterated drivel that repeats itself, which even Toriyama recognizes and parodies in a Neko Majin comic.
Loxley said:
Yeah, in the same way Marcelle Marceau made an impact upon theater. Thousands of shitty derivative mimes, but few truly great, and the original wasn't that impressive either.
Instead, I'd rather look to better works not hopelessly typecast in the same vein as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Such as Shirow's manga work, for example, and Miyazaki has more notable manga influence in Japan with the talented versus those who use DBZ style as a crutch.
Ghost In The Shell.
Nuff said.
Nuff said.
Well when it comes to the basic storyline of DB (boy going to fight, loosing it, trainning, coming back stronger and winning it.)I agree.
I was thinking more about his style of drawing. It is helpfull for some authors to have something to build on when choosing their style of drawing. Be a bit hard to expect everyone to develop their own uniqe style of drawing.
Ever read vagabond by the way? Great drawings.
I was thinking more about his style of drawing. It is helpfull for some authors to have something to build on when choosing their style of drawing. Be a bit hard to expect everyone to develop their own uniqe style of drawing.
Ever read vagabond by the way? Great drawings.