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[Dresden]

Didn't one of those just finish?

Rainbow? Yes.

 

[Lafiel]

I don't keep up with current animu.

There's Deadman wonderland coming out next year which is set in a prison i think.

I don't feel any pain in my heart from missing that particular shounen work.

Anyone should experience dragon ball / dragon ball z at some point!

 

[InfiniteNine]

Probably not Dragonball. I'm already watching the abridged series, and if I was going to check out a version other then that it would be Kai. I don't feel any pain in my heart from missing that particular shounen work.

You have no soul!

 

[Hitokage]

I guess that's more likely. Or I could get going with Yawara!.

Better brush up on your Japanese if you want to finish Yawara.

Probably not Dragonball. I'm already watching the abridged series, and if I was going to check out a version other then that it would be Kai. I don't feel any pain in my heart from missing that particular shounen work.

Dragonball is a fairly different show from Dragonball Z. Fights actually involve techniques instead of gigantic power blasts.

 

[Haly]

Twins ruin banner I. I hope they die.

 

[mAcOdIn]

Twins ruin banner I. I hope they die.

They're annoying but they're not as bad as say, oh, Jinto.

 

[Haly]

What no, Jinto is <3

Even cat loving kuudere thinks so.

 

[Solune]

You could watch Sailor Moon.

lol :lol :lol )

Hey, it was legitimately good up until Sailor Moon S then it nosedived. I didn't even bother with SS and beyond though.

 

[mAcOdIn]

What no, Jinto is <3

Even cat loving kuudere thinks so.

Her opinion of Jinto is the one I'd be second to least apt to accept, the first being jinto's himself.

 

[Hitokage]

Hey, it was legitimately good up until Sailor Moon S then it nosedived.

Wat.

 

[zeroshiki]

What no, Jinto is <3

Even cat loving kuudere thinks so.

Jinto is not as spinelessly wimpy as most male leads. Thereby making him awesome.

 

[mAcOdIn]

Jinto is not as spinelessly wimpy as most male leads. Thereby making him awesome.

He's just so flaky, that's my main gripe about him.

 

[Haly]

Her opinion of Jinto is the one I'd be second to least apt to accept, the first being jinto's himself.

Mac...

I don't think we can be friends.



(and right after you got an avatar too)

 

[Crash Station]

Probably not Dragonball. I'm already watching the abridged series, and if I was going to check out a version other then that it would be Kai. I don't feel any pain in my heart from missing that particular shounen work.

It's as important to anime as Shakespeare is to literature. Even if you don't like it, you should at least give it a few episodes just to understand why it's one of the most important series in the medium if not the most important.

 

[zeroshiki]

It's as important to anime as Shakespeare is to literature. Even if you don't like it, you should at least give it a few episodes just to understand why it's one of the most important series in the medium if not the most important.

Bahahahahahaha

I mean, its not very hard to summarize DBZ.

-World-ending threat comes and kicks Goku and friends' ass
-Goku trains and gains extra SSJ level
-Enemy is defeated, Goku and friends collect dragonballs and reset the world.

There I saved you 300 episodes.

 

[mAcOdIn]

Mac...

I don't think we can be friends.



(and right after you got an avatar too)

The avatar's temporary anyways, just to counter Asuka.

I was just kinda disappointed that the one human male was kind of a goober. Granted, he's an acceptable character but when he's surrounded by win being a flaky, apathetic goofball that has some moments of courage and conviction isn't enough. If Jinto was Shinji and surrounded by the cast of Eva he'd be the alpha male(excluded Gendo of course) but surrounded by everyone in the Crest/Banner series he just comes off as lame. I don't expect him to be the alpha male but I'd have liked for him to have ended up somewhere in the middle of the alphabet not near the end.

Sorry we can't be friends

 

[Haly]

Watching DBZ is an experience.

You can't summarize that.

But the whole point is Abh are awesome. They even start with the same letter!

It's okay mac, I'm sure we can resolve our differences sometime in the future.

 

[InfiniteNine]

Bahahahahahaha

I mean, its not very hard to summarize DBZ.

-World-ending threat comes and kicks Goku and friends' ass
-Goku trains and gains extra SSJ level
-Enemy is defeated, Goku and friends collect dragonballs and reset the world.

There I saved you 300 episodes.

I'm pretty sure we where focused on Dragonball and not DBZ.

 

[Lafiel]

I don't know how someone could hate jinto, he's one of the more likable male leads in a anime series.:lol

 

[Solune]

Wat.

I meant, up until the end of Sailormoon S rather.

 

[Hitokage]

It's as important to anime as Shakespeare is to literature. Even if you don't like it, you should at least give it a few episodes just to understand why it's one of the most important series in the medium if not the most important.

Here's an interesting question:

Why is Dragonball more important than Fist Of The North Star?

I meant, up until the end of Sailormoon S rather.

Oh, ok. :lol

Yeah, the anime really tanks going into SuperS, and it doesn't get watchable again until the fucking Amazon Trio are about to leave. BUT WAIT! The Trio happen to stick around longer than anyone else in the entire anime run.

Stars is good, though.

 

[zeroshiki]

I'm pretty sure we where focused on Dragonball and not DBZ.

Fine.

-Boobs!
-Goku fights world ending threat
-Panties!
-Goku beats world ending threat

 

[Lafiel]

The thing about DBZ is a newcomer to the series in 2010 can't possibly recreate the experience it was, when it was airing on television 5-episodes a week!

 

[InfiniteNine]

Fine.

-Boobs!
-Goku fights world ending threat
-Panties!
-Goku beats world ending threat

I can't take you seriously anymore!

 

[Dresden]

Fine.

-Boobs!
-Goku fights world ending threat
-Panties!
-Goku beats world ending threat

I see no problem with this. I don't remember much fanservice, but whatever.

 

[Haly]

Here's an interesting question:

Why is Dragonball more important than Fist Of The North Star?

Because it's critical to understand the shounen genre as it is today!

 

[luka]

There I saved you 300 episodes.

 

[Hitokage]

Watching DBZ is an experience.

...in fast-forwarding.

 

[Haly]

You can't fastforward Toonami man.

You sat there. And you watched it. Commercials and all.

And you liked it.

 

[Lafiel]

I remember the sheer amount of tension when i was watching that part on live-television.:lol
all this DBZ talk brings me back memories. *sniff*

 

[Crash Station]

Bahahahahahaha

I mean, its not very hard to summarize DBZ.

-World-ending threat comes and kicks Goku and friends' ass
-Goku trains and gains extra SSJ level
-Enemy is defeated, Goku and friends collect dragonballs and reset the world.

There I saved you 300 episodes.

You can summarize anything like that.

Here's an interesting question:

Why is Dragonball more important than Fist Of The North Star?

Helped cause the anime boom in the west, defined modern shounen (JJBA was a remnant of the FOTNS era) and is just plain awesome. Sooooooooooooooo many things wouldn't exist without DB, even in unrelated genres.

 

[Hitokage]

Helped cause the anime boom in the west, defined modern shounen (JJBA was a remnant of the FOTNS era) and is just plain awesome. Sooooooooooooooo many things wouldn't exist without DB.

JJBA is better than most shounen fighting anime, though.

 

[Crash Station]

JJBA is better than most shounen fighting anime, though.

Not denying this (well, at least parts of it) but that doesn't make DB/Z less important to the global anime market.

 

[Jex]

Better brush up on your Japanese if you want to finish Yawara.

Well damn,

Dragonball is a fairly different show from Dragonball Z. Fights actually involve techniques instead of gigantic power blasts.

But that's no fun.

Helped cause the anime boom in the west, defined modern shounen (JJBA was a remnant of the FOTNS era) and is just plain awesome. Sooooooooooooooo many things wouldn't exist without DB, even in unrelated genres.

The real hero is Violence Jack, without him there'd no Fist of the North Star.

It's as important to anime as Shakespeare is to literature. Even if you don't like it, you should at least give it a few episodes just to understand why it's one of the most important series in the medium if not the most important.

Woah woah woah lets not get crazy.

There's so many other works more important than DB, which just categorizes the recent 20 year period. Anime has been around for over fifty years.

Let's not be forgetting Tezuka, who invented TV anime.

 

[Crash Station]

Well damn,

But that's no fun.

The real hero is Violence Jack, without him there'd no Fist of the North Star.

Woah woah woah lets not get crazy.

There's so many other works more important than DB, which just categorizes the recent 20 year period. Anime has been around for over fifty years.

Let's not be forgetting Tezuka, who invented TV anime.

Astro Boy is to DB what Alice Comedies is to Mickey Mouse. Okay, maybe that's a bit of a stretch, but you can't deny the effect DBZ had on introducing the world to anime, for better or worse. The fact remains many people outside Japan wouldn't even know what anime was if it wasn't for Toriyama. I bet this thread would look a lot different.

 

[Haly]

Tezuka is like the first mickey mouse cartoons in black and white.

There's such a thing as going too far back.

 

[zeroshiki]

This thread is populated by hardcore fanboys that would have found anime with or without DBZ.

Maybe your statement could have worked on a more general level but for people who regularly get into arguments about which shoujo-ai is more shoujo-ai, these people would have found this thread one way or the other.

 

[Hitokage]

This thread is populated by hardcore fanboys that would have found anime with or without DBZ.

For me, DBZ was something that happened along the way, not the impetus.

 

[Haly]

I didn't know about anime while watching DBZ. I thought westerners made this shit and was flabbergasted why there was nothing like it on Cartoon Cartoon fridays.

Same goes for the rest of the Toonami block.

 

[Crash Station]

This thread is populated by hardcore fanboys that would have found anime with or without DBZ.

Maybe your statement could have worked on a more general level but for people who regularly get into arguments about which shoujo-ai is more shoujo-ai, these people would have found this thread one way or the other.

Eh, I guess. Still, we'd be missing a few significant posters.

 

[Solune]

Oh, ok. :lol

Yeah, the anime really tanks going into SuperS, and it doesn't get watchable again until the fucking Amazon Trio are about to leave. BUT WAIT! The Trio happen to stick around longer than anyone else in the entire anime run.

Stars is good, though.

I'll have to take your word for it!

So I'm watching Yakitate!! Japan. Such a ridiculous premise couldn't be this amusing, could it?

 

[Jex]

Astro Boy is to DB what Alice Comedies is to Mickey Mouse. Okay, maybe that's a bit of a stretch, but you can't deny the effect DBZ had on introducing the world to anime, for better or worse. The fact remains many people outside Japan wouldn't even know what anime was if it wasn't for Toriyama. I bet this thread would look a lot different.

What show became popular overseas isn't really good criteria for the most important anime ever.

It certainly represents a generation of anime fans, but that generation is passed. Many modern anime fans haven't even seen Bebop, let alone Dragonball. Their entry show is Naruto or Bleach or One Piece.

You can then argue "but without Dragonball there'd be no X Y and Z", but without Astro Boy the face of anime would be completely different. Or non-existent. (But it would probably have better quality animation, Tezuka you cheapskate. (And without Violence Jack, Fist of the North Star etc there'd be no DB).

 

[Lafiel]

I probably would have gotten into anime even if i hadn't seen DBZ in the past. You see the main reason i got into anime in the first place - was because of my interest in japanese rpgs. And when i started browsing forums (back in like late 2003-early 2004) i noticed people on forums who liked japanese rpgs like me seemed to watch something called anime. Of course, that's not the only reason, browsing the anime section at video stores, was a another factor that got me interested in the medium.

 

[Hitokage]

I didn't know about anime while watching DBZ. I thought westerners made this shit and was flabbergasted why there was nothing like it on Cartoon Cartoon fridays.

Same goes for the rest of the Toonami block.

Watching a show that's heavily censored helps bring that distinction out.

 

[Haly]

So I'm watching Yakitate!! Japan. Such a ridiculous premise couldn't be this amusing, could it?

My bread baking anime can't be this over the top!

Watching a show that's heavily censored helps bring that distinction out.

I don't think I even noticed the censorship.

 

[Crash Station]

So I'm watching Yakitate!! Japan. Such a ridiculous premise couldn't be this amusing, could it?

Just a warning; it ends up getting REALLY stupid with the gags. At first, they don't really affect anything and are nothing more than puns but then they start affecting the plot and even the physics of the universe. It's still amusing but you really can't figure out what's going on at all and you'll be able to take it less seriously than something like Bobobobobo :lol

 

[zeroshiki]

For me, DBZ was something that happened along the way, not the impetus.

Me too. It was incidental to my watching anime. I would rank Eva and RK as bigger influences in pulling me into the anime world.

 

[Haly]

Just a warning; it ends up getting REALLY awesome with the gags.

Fixed.

 

[InfiniteNine]

This thread is populated by hardcore fanboys that would have found anime with or without DBZ.

Maybe your statement could have worked on a more general level but for people who regularly get into arguments about which shoujo-ai is more shoujo-ai, these people would have found this thread one way or the other.

Well I was introduced via the fansub community with a disk a friend gave containing the first episodes of Evangelion, Slayers, and Chobits. I don't know how someone can be a hardcore fanboy before even being introduced to the medium.

So I'm watching Yakitate!! Japan. Such a ridiculous premise couldn't be this amusing, could it?

Good on you. Yakitate is hilarious.

 

[Hitokage]

I don't think I even noticed the censorship.

Not talking about DBZ there.