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by Adamant
Mon May 27, 2024 3:39 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?
Replies: 104
Views: 2793

Re: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?

Cure Dragon 255 wrote: Mon May 27, 2024 2:51 am Welp, nevermind I was wrong its even worse in full. I do hope this is a thing you grew out of tho.
...You're absolutely free to come over and observe our supposed thriving dub industry for adults, I'll reimburse the travel cost if you can find it.
by Adamant
Mon May 27, 2024 2:39 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?
Replies: 104
Views: 2793

Re: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?

You are now deflecting outright, Adamant outright went with "Dub people are mentally deficient. Do you mean in the post from literally 12 years ago? That had nothing to do with the conversation on hand until it got weirdly brought up here? Seriously 12 years ago. Even if Adamant still holds th...
by Adamant
Sun May 26, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?
Replies: 104
Views: 2793

Re: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?

I initially didn't bother replying to this nonsense because you wrote like a three page screed misinterpreting and taking offense at a post everyone else seemed to understand just fine. But Jesus Christ what the actual hell are you doing trying to discredit people by referencing fucking 12 year old ...
by Adamant
Fri May 24, 2024 3:09 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?
Replies: 104
Views: 2793

Re: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?

I don't know enough about Cardcaptors to make any sort of statement but I can assure you Power Rangers fans who don't also like Super Sentai don't call themselves Sentai fans and will proudly tell you they're not. It's not some sort of elitism bullying thing, they would agree they're not Super Sent...
by Adamant
Fri May 24, 2024 2:15 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Has Toriyama ever worked as an assistant?
Replies: 4
Views: 319

Re: Has Toriyama ever worked as an assistant?

Toriyama famously didn't even realize mangaka commonly had assistants, so he produced the first few months of Dr. Slump all by himself until it was pointed out he should probably get some help.
by Adamant
Fri May 24, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?
Replies: 104
Views: 2793

Re: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?

In any case I would strongly advise against telling anyone they are "not a Dragon Ball fan", its petty, juvenile, schoolyard bullying tactics that I think this forum should rise above. Are fans of Power Ranger "Super Sentai fans"? Are fans of Cardcaptors "Card Captor Sakura...
by Adamant
Fri May 24, 2024 1:23 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?
Replies: 104
Views: 2793

Re: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?

In any case I would strongly advise against telling anyone they are "not a Dragon Ball fan", its petty, juvenile, schoolyard bullying tactics that I think this forum should rise above. Are fans of Power Ranger "Super Sentai fans"? Are fans of Cardcaptors "Card Captor Sakura...
by Adamant
Fri May 24, 2024 9:35 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?
Replies: 104
Views: 2793

Re: Why are the English dubisms far too ingrained into the fandom?

The bigger question being asked, which is obviously more debatable is - can a Dragon Ball fan be a hardcore fan if their preference and default version of the show is their dub? To that end I would still say yes. Thought experiment, though: If Funimation or whoever had renamed the dub something els...
by Adamant
Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:15 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Funimation Release Doesn't Include DB OP2 & END 2-4
Replies: 19
Views: 920

Re: Funimation Release Doesn't Include DB OP2 & END 2-4

MasenkoHA wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:52 am
Tbf the 2nd ending in the first season kind of sucked imo. No big loss
Those are fighting words. It's way better than the first one.
by Adamant
Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:20 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball influences in Western products
Replies: 39
Views: 2973

Re: Dragon Ball influences in Western products

So female characters breaking other people's arms is a concept unique to Dragon Ball. That's literally the exact same scene just with different characters, dude. It's a clear reference. Oh ok, I would have loved a visual refence to the Dragon Ball scene to know that. The post does NOT make this ver...
by Adamant
Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:55 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Dragon Ball influences in Western products
Replies: 39
Views: 2973

Re: Dragon Ball influences in Western products

I think a pic got lost here or we are now considering punching and kicking as concepts unique to Dragon Ball now. It's probably the "18 breaks Vegeta's arm with a kick" moment that's being referred to. So female characters breaking other people's arms is a concept unique to Dragon Ball. T...
by Adamant
Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:34 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.
Replies: 350
Views: 26668

Re: Akira Toriyama Passes Away.

Kikuchi was 100% definitely chosen to do the music for Dragonball because he did the music for Dr. Slump. So that's probably what your actual question should be.
by Adamant
Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:26 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Petition to mark March 8th as "International Dragon Ball Day"
Replies: 13
Views: 1965

Re: Petition to mark March 8th as "International Dragon Ball Day"

...not only does it feel rather morbid to mark a day we learned of the death of an author by commemmorating it as a day in honor of ONE of the franchises he created (screw the other stuff he made, and the guy himself, apparently), but... there already IS an "international Dragonball Day", ...
by Adamant
Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:31 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Is Dragon Ball SD worth to buy?
Replies: 14
Views: 1148

Re: Is Dragon Ball SD worth to buy?

I've read it a bit off and on, and... it's really just Dragon Ball with different art and the occasional minor change. Extremely uninteresting and pointless in general. It's not funny either? It's a retelling, not a parody, so it doesn't attempt to be any funnier than the original material it's ret...
by Adamant
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:09 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Is Dragon Ball SD worth to buy?
Replies: 14
Views: 1148

Re: Is Dragon Ball SD worth to buy?

I've read it a bit off and on, and... it's really just Dragon Ball with different art and the occasional minor change. Extremely uninteresting and pointless in general.
by Adamant
Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:19 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: What are the worst Dragonball hot takes you've ever heard?
Replies: 32
Views: 1514

Re: What are the worst Dragonball hot takes you've ever heard?

I remember we had one member named Gokurulez that try to agrue that Dragon Ball is more popular than Christianity It probably is in certain Asian countries where Christianity is a relatively minor religion. Yeah, I don't think that's all that incorrect a take, really. China is a VERY big place and ...
by Adamant
Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: How would you introduce Dragon Ball to Gen Alpha?
Replies: 69
Views: 2687

Re: How would you introduce Dragon Ball to Gen Alpha?

Jord wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:30 pm Surprisingly, Roshi's wacky antics are a big hit with them.
Yeah, it sure is surprising that the target audience finds a character the target audience is meant to find funny to be funny.
by Adamant
Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:34 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Actual Celebrities doing dubbing on Dragon Ball (Star Talents)
Replies: 37
Views: 2722

Re: Actual Celebrities doing dubbing on Dragon Ball (Star Talents)

Weirdly, while dubbing in the US seems to have much better luck with celebrity voice actors, regular non-dubbing voice acting has a much bigger problem with hiring celebrities who clearly have no business voice acting. To be fair, American anime dubs tend to exclusively hire non- celebrities that c...
by Adamant
Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:14 pm
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: When Funimation got the license for Dragon Ball were they aware of the Creative Corp Product dub?
Replies: 7
Views: 545

Re: When Funimation got the license for Dragon Ball were they aware of the Creative Corp Product dub?

Not sure if it mattered though, I always felt Funimation (and the fandom) way overexaggerated how bad those Toei Engrish scripts were. There were plenty of times in those first 3 seasons where the English dialog is pretty close (the Raditz episodes really weren't that far off for example) and even ...
by Adamant
Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:27 am
Forum: General Franchise Discussion
Topic: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?
Replies: 271
Views: 12065

Re: Inclusivity towards women in Dragon Ball?

This thread sure went places. But um, whether you want to call it "forced diversity" or something else, there's absolutely something to be said about how "diversity" way too often just gets interpreted as "more black people", which is extremely noticable here in Europe ...