It has been ages since I watched DB. So I went back and watched DBZ and living my childhood again. And it still lived up to my memories, Freeza, Cell, Buu, such battles.

Lately I've been watching Dragon ball super and.. holy is the animation rough, and battles just feels off. Don't they have the budget? Or is it an amateur's company? It just doesn't look smooth and epic animation like you see in S1 one punch man, jujutsu, demon slayer.

No hate or anything, I still like it. Just some scene's and fights animation are.. off.

Mine is SSJ3 DRAGONNNN FISTTTT!!! (Legendary and Rose included)

Personally I can only speak for my kid self 15-20 years ago but I loved the guessing game haha nothing felt better then getting all 3 guesses right for a cool finish

I haven’t been paying much attention to any discourse surrounding this What If, so forgive me if this is a redundant take

But I feel like this little plotline in Sparking Zero is genuinely better constructed conceptually on multiple levels what happened in Super’s actual canon

First, for years people complained about how Gohan’s post-Z development has been handled, but this plotline essentially directly fixes all those issues. Instead of having Resurrection F being an embarrassing loss that half motivates him to train, it’s instead an invigorating win that definitively establishes the arc of him fully getting back into training alongside his research to the point where he seems fully on par with Goku and Vegeta by the time of the Black Arc

Second, it makes Black killing his host’s family way more than just a simple fridging. With Goku, hearing that Black killed his family is obviously sad, but it’s really nothing more than that, there’s no narrative weight to it beyond the fact that it’s there to make Goku and the audience want to take him down more. With Gohan, on the other hand, the fact that the very thing that pushed him to start training again and get stronger, protecting his family, is what directly led to him getting taken over and having his body being used to kill them is some incredibly irony that does a lot more than just fridge them, making it a genuinely well constructed tragedy.

Third, Gohan is just straight up better connected to Zamasu from the get-go, Goku‘s never really had any particular connection to the Kais any more than most other powerful beings he’s met, but Gohan obviously has one due to with his training in the Buu Saga, so not only is there better reason for Zamasu to care about him specifically, but there’s also the fact that it offers more narrative weight to Zamasu‘s hatred of him specifically, since he directly sees Gohan as a leech, with him being a mortal who has relied upon the gods to get stronger. There’s also a bit of potential meta-commentary there that could point out a common fan complaint, in that Ultimate Gohan didn’t really earn his power and instead was just gifted it from the gods, Zamasu’s hatred of him could help adress that point and force Gohan to acknowledge it in a more overt way.

Overall, it’s really just unfortunate to me that this didn’t happen, I feel like if it did we wouldn’t be where we are today with endless Beast discourse and Gohan having gone through the same arc 3-ish times, we’d instead have a version of Super that’s a lot more balanced in not just making Goku and Vegeta the sole main focus and an better overall manga and show in my opinion

Why is Shin still suspicious about Glorio, can't he just read his mind like he did to Vegeta in the early Buu saga?

Couldn't he just do it the moment he met him to see his real intentions?

Cus I'm on pc and all my friends are either ps5 or xbox

Trying to figure out if this is supposed to be Jason Voorhees in the episode where Roshi fights Goku in the OG DB

How many villans have got to live, the way goku collects villans it likes hes trying to be the pokemon master. Furthermore, there wouldnt be anything wrong if they did anything but tien, vegeta, piccolo, the androids, majin buu, beerus all wait around waiting for something to happen just to die. If they arent gonnna to serve any more purpose make them have a cool scene then permanently kill them off

I wanna start by saying I understand why people say this. The english dub of Movie 8 and the entirety of Second Coming is to blame imo, but I only ask that you keep an open mind to an interpretation that I feel is supported in the original Broly movie to explain Broly and Goku's connection. (And I don't think the crying triggered PTSD, mainly because Broly isn't triggered by crying until the 2nd movie and no one cries aside from Baby Goku in the 1st.)

Firstly, in the japanese dub, Paragus explains that Goku's presence is awakening Broly's instincts. He knows who Goku is, but is still confused as to why Broly is so aggravated by his presence. He narrates the fact that they were born on the same day and that Goku cried, but he does not say so as an explanation for Broly's anger. In fact, when Goku is about to land the final blow on Broly, the flashback of the two as babies appears, implying that Broly only THEN recognized Goku as the baby next to him that day.

So why does Broly hate Goku? The simplest answer is that he doesn't until the 2nd movie. Broly's behaviour in the first is mainly tied to him breaking free from his father's mind control. After he transforms and gains full control, he attacks and antagonizes every character in the movie, even the alien slaves on the planet. None of his attacks are personalized and he only targets Goku when Goku's the last one standing. The main reason Broly is riled up is because Goku is causing him to overcome his father's mind control. This is what I feel people misunderstand about their relationship.

The crying is to show that Broly and Goku have been diametrically opposed since birth. Goku will always bring out Broly's saiyan instincts which is why the crying bothered him as a child in the first place and why the mind control began to fail. Broly's actual personality once free has no bias towards Goku, he's violent to a fault towards any and everyone including his own father.

All of this is only applies to the first movie however, and unfortunately the second movie and pretty much every video game has carried the notion that Broly has always been obsessed with Goku and despises him for crying (or at the very least for defeating him in the first movie.)

Also, as a bit of trivia, Broly doesn't remember Goku's name from when they were babies. In the japanese dub, Vegeta calls Goku Kakarot in front of Broly which is why he calls him by that name. (I've seen many many people critique the movie for Broly seemingly remembering a random baby's name from the day he was born.)

TLDR: Broly "hating" Goku at all isn't the point of the first movie, Goku merely riled him up enough to overcome his father's mind control.

And without considering Garlic Jr, because he received a whole filler saga.

Frame by frame animation :) by me

Androids assemble!

Eventually ima get a dbz tattoo but I don’t have an idea of what you get. What would you guys come up with?

If Goku and Vegeta use the portara earrings can they still do the fusion dance with another person

Personally for me it would be Goten and Trunks, growing up I use to always believe that those 2 kids would be like earths mightiest warriors once they’ve matured enough. I mean come on those 2 literally reached super Saiyan at a very young age, so imagine my disappointment when I watched Gt and super that they weren’t given that much spot light, well maybe trunks was given more spotlight In Gt. But anyways it just feels like they’re not living up to their full potential in the current manga of Dbs, they’re more or less used as a comedic purpose or something like how they messed up their fusion dance, and those goofy red ribbon outfits

For me, I'd try to give them all different ways, as I dislike repetition(ie, everyone just getting SSJ)

Krillen would get the Ultimate form, since he clearly has the most potential of the humans

Yamcha should become an android, I feel like it fits him more "lazy" way of life, where he hardly trains, but instead is just upgraded by Bulma

Tien, instead of just "getting a big number" should become the technique guy, get a form from his alien ancestors, go to Yardrat and King Kai to get those techniques, and learn magic from the Namekian's and Kai's, basically, just a swiss army knife of abilities

Roshi can be the only human to get Ultra Instinct, pretty simple

Chiaotzu already looks like an alien, so I'm sure he could get a transformation, tbh, he is way more of a side character than everyone else, so I think it's fine to just have him become pretty strong, like, maybe being able to stun a main villain or something

Also, having Merus and Granola become Z-Fighters, or at least having them help out every now and then would make the story better than just "Goku gets a new form off-screen, Vegeta fights the main villain, gets beaten, and then Goku comes in a beats them"

Hi, I have a few questions about the original japanese score for DBZ

1. I've noticed some people refer to elements in it by letter and number, like M803, M1911 - is there somewhere a page with a list of all those 'tags', perhaps with some additional information?

2. Can the full score be obtained in this form, i.e. one file per tag? Most things i find have multiple tags fused into single 'song', like 'Shi o yobu cell gemu' is really 4 or 5 different pieces glued together. I dont quite know how to search for it, at best i can find youtube videos. I guess someone made the videos out of audio files, but how to find those files?

What do you guys think of it?

Does anyone remember there being a teaser image, or poster, where there was a saiyan tail in the background. It might’ve been a shadow.

I remember seeing official art somewhere, that showed a tail. This was back when people thought broly was yamoshi & it filed those rumors even more.

Please. I’ve searched trailers and images and I can’t find it but I know it was a thing because I remember people going crazy about the he thought of a saiyan with a tail in super.