Dragon Ball

so, are there any dragon ball fans here? this can be a place to talk about it and everything related to it! merch, video games, side-content-- feel free to go off! i just wanna chat with more db fans hehe :3

for a conversation starter, how about who are yalls favorite characters? mine are frieza, beerus, and piccolo :oD i also loved pan in GT and fu in xv2!

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yeah well our fav characters are frieza, goku, and vegito mainly but honestly we cant decide theres a lot we love.... only certain about who we hate WTF IS THIS EMOTE HAHA i was gonna put the goku one but this is so funny

RIGHT ITS SUCH A FUNNY EMOTE me when vegeta

its perfect reaction to anything vegeta does can i say tho i keep thinking about that post we read on vegeta its been plaguing our brain i cant stop thinking about it i WANT TO STOP THINKING ABOUT IT DONT LET ME THINK DEEP ABOUT VEGETA GET ME OUT I DONT WANT TO LIKE HIM NOOOO

My favorite DBZ characters are Frieza and Vegeta (though Vegeta can definitely be SO frustrating!)

YAAAAAA ANOTHER FRIEZA FAN LETS GO

Yessss Frieza is the best villain!

i love you villains that are so evil but also so powerful you can do nothing but fear them i love you terrifying figures that tower so high over the hero that a miracle needs to happen for them to topple down and be defeated i love you

Exactly! And Frieza has a ton of fun being the evil terrifying bastard he is.

YESSSSS hes enjoying every bit of it

been thinking about this, which one of gokus voices do you guys prefer?

i can say i like his japanese voice more, he just sounds so so cute. his english voice isnt as cute as the japanese one but it really fits him too. and the laughs are always so funny idk why the laughs specifically but its perfect

havent heard any other dubs but if there are other dubs that sound good, hey.... give examples.. i wanna hear them

always wanted to try watching the dragon ball series since my only experience with the series has been the budokai video games and teamfourstar's abridged series, i should probably try finding the series set for a good price at some point

ohhh ive been meaning to play the budokai series... it looks fun

personally ive only read dragon ball and caught up, didnt actually watch it. i did start watching dbz kai though, still havent finished it :'3

dbz is really long and we're not really a long series watcher... so we just settled for the manga. we watched some of the movies with epic here and those are really fun even tho the old ones dont make any sense. theyre so funny and stupid <3

OH and dragon ball GT we watched all of that too. have a lot of opinions on it... but id say it was still fun watching it with someone else.. suffering together

I used to watch the anime back in the day, but I personally prefer the manga as well. It doesn't have so many fillers! I've watched Kai ages ago. I didn't like Super much, but did watch and enjoy the recent movies. I haven't finished GT.

super is hmm... id say i like some stuff about it but somehow even tho we read it at a slower pace than dbz and og dragon ball (read almost 100 chapters a day ) i remember even less from it.

it seems.. less memorable.. in terms of character design as well. some of them are really good though i love beerus silly cat and zamasu but the rest are like.. fine. idk. they dont live up to character designs in og db and dbz they feel like theyre TRYING to emulate the same feel of those designs but it just doesnt work. they dont have the vibes.

the movies are really fun tho i agree. broly and pan are both really cute (in different ways id say but you get me)

also if you ever finish watching GT... i wanna talk about the ending so bad with someone it makes me feel so many emotions

I like Beerus and Whis as well, but from what I've seen in the Super anime the characters just seem stale and they're trying to recycle big moments in the anime but without any of the emotional impact. It's not as noticable in the movies I think, but it's telling that I didn't need to have finished Super to be able to follow them, even the Broly one that includes Frieza (who carried the movie tbh). 

Also, most of the characters feel really meh. Frieza is great because he's a super villain who doesn't need an arc and I also liked the villains in the Super Heroes movie, but the main cast is just .... ehhh. Like Vegeta used to be among my favorites, but he's boring in Super because he has no real character arc any more. Goku seems to have lost all his braincells. He wasn't that stupid in Dragon Ball/Z. Characters are just getting a different color palette as a new 'form' (Saiyans getting different hair colors, Frieza's golden and apparently black forms, Piccolo getting an orange form, etc). 

Kind of the same problems with the character designs you mentioned.

yeahhh somewhat feels like that...its why it feels less memorable. also about the colours, the super anime looks soooo bad in terms of colour palette its so uglyyyy idk why but somehow they really fucked up the colours. everything is so damn de saturated and bland looking and the shading looks like theyre all made out of hard plastic. unforgivable honestly

Yessss it is, they really seem to love using shiny highlights! What also doesn't help is simply how they've drawn the characters, especially compared to Z. Really not digging the Super art style and coloring. It looks stiff and lifeless.

Dragon Ball Super Broly at least looked much better, the characters weren't so shiny. They used CGI animation in Super Hero which wasn't bad, but jarring and 'too clean', if that makes sense. CGI was fine for a game like FighterZ, but in this movie it just made the characters more plastic-y.

i can agree. i did like super hero a lot bc it was so cute with pan and piccolo but the plastic feeling was definitely there unfortunately and the super broly i think looks sooooo nice the animation is really nice and the style looks really cute :3

i think fighterz is the best 3d dragon ball game honestly. they managed to translate dragon balls style pretty well to 3d. the animations and colours all look nice too!!

other 3d dragon ball stuff ive seen that i liked were the budokai games (they look silly <3) and also dragon ball origins since its low poly it just looks so cute honestly if they tried they could make dragon ball look good in 3d but they dont get it...

we also play dragon ball legends and hmm well... it also looks pretty nice id say. but thats about it. we like 2d more but honestly... supers anime makes it really hard.... ugly thang...