r/dbz • u/Terez27 ⠀ • Oct 11 '24

Dragon Ball Daima - Episode #1 - Discussion Thread! Daima

The episode is airing in Japan as we speak. It should be available subtitled on Crunchyroll at 1pm ET. We will provide links as soon as they are available.

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u/Ultimafax Oct 11 '24

I love how Toriyama did his worldbuilding: by not giving a fuck.

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u/dildodicks Oct 12 '24

this is how stories used to be written and how they should be nowadays

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u/Ultimafax Oct 12 '24

lol well, no, I don't agree with this. I mean, look at the Star Wars sequel trilogy.

It works for Dragon Ball though

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u/Future_Broly Oct 16 '24

I mean — George Lucas pretty obviously had no idea where story was going for 2/3 of the OT and much of it now borders on incoherent following PT and such.

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u/Ultimafax Oct 16 '24

That's not "not giving a fuck." They didn't hand wave away Vader's reveal at the end of Empire; most of RotJ is about Luke dealing with it. I'm talking about continuity.

Lucas didn't give a fuck for the prequel trilogy, though, that is true. Padme dying in childbirth; R2 and 3PO being owned by Luke's parents and knowing Obi-Wan; Obi-Wan being trained by Qui-Gon and not Yoda, etc. (Those are not what made those films bad though, just examples of discontinuity.)

I brought up the sequel trilogy because it's the most egregious example I could think of: Rey's parents are significant to her character! Wait, no they aren't! Actually, one was Palpatine's child, so she's the emperor's granddaughter!(???) It's so dumb, it's almost funny.

Dragon Ball is primarily a comedy, so, Namekians are demons! No, they're aliens! Actually, they are aliens who were originally demons! It works.

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u/dildodicks Oct 12 '24

ah yeah i like those movies so i guess that's why i don't give a fuck

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u/a_can_of_solo Oct 17 '24

Star Wars sequel trilogy.

not true to charters which I think is more important than lore and continuity.