re: The Official DragonBall Thread....est 2012

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i think it's the toonami version

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My favorite, but I'm biased.

They went with the look of Goku from Dragon Ball.

There were a few differences. He was a little thinner and his face was more round than Goku's. But yeah other than that, Goten looked identical.

They have their differences, as you can see.

Avatar is pretty cool, just haven't seen much. For me, Dragon Ball will always be on top in my opinion. There's nothing out there that will take it's place, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying other shows.

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I was a big fan of Batman

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Forgot to address this, but I used to watch the shite out of Batman the animated series.

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I'm aware, which is why I'm saying they half assed the design.

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It's kind of just how the way that DB and DBZ is designed. There aren't really any distinguishing characteristics sometimes to the simplistic art of the animation. Hair is just an important distinguishing trait to who the characters are and to let you know who Goten is. It's also nice that it homages the original DB in a way.

This simplicity from the characters to the overarching themes of the story lines is a lot of what made the series great and relatable.

There are certainly some flaws in how a lot of the series went along from how the dragon balls ended up getting used for death to become meaningless to the use of power levels with everything just getting to the point of ridiculousness and not really making any sense to the gratuitous use of filler. But I think that DBZ is great despite these and because of these. The true DBZ fans can look at this stuff with a sense of humor and a good bit of nostalgia. There's still a lot that I think DBZ did right.

The flaws are hilariously made fun of in the Team Four Star Abridged Series, and I think that it takes a true fan of the series to really get all of the jokes that they make. I'd recommend them to anyone who hasn't checked them out yet.

While I disagree with some of what you say, I'd say this is a good post and defense of the series.

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It's kind of just how the way that DB and DBZ is designed. There aren't really any distinguishing characteristics sometimes to the simplistic art of the animation. Hair is just an important distinguishing trait to who the characters are and to let you know who Goten is. It's also nice that it homages the original DB in a way.

This simplicity from the characters to the overarching themes of the story lines is a lot of what made the series great and relatable.

There are certainly some flaws in how a lot of the series went along from how the dragon balls ended up getting used for death to become meaningless to the use of power levels with everything just getting to the point of ridiculousness and not really making any sense to the gratuitous use of filler. But I think that DBZ is great despite these and because of these. The true DBZ fans can look at this stuff with a sense of humor and a good bit of nostalgia. There's still a lot that I think DBZ did right.

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This deserves to be printed on a wall scroll, and hung next to my collection.

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my issue with dbz is the whole characters just keep getting more powerful issue, but it's very minor

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Honestly, that's my biggest one with this series. I remember it being a huge deal that someone goes Super Saiyan, and then like 5 characters are able to do it, and not only that, do a more powerful form of that. The thing that is so great about Avatar (which I highly recommend that you start) is they are incredibly specific on when and how characters can achieve certain powers. The Avatar State can only be achieved by the Avatar, and its incredibly difficult to master and they go into great detail why and the setbacks of it. Waterbenders and Firebenders powers are influenced by celestial objects, and their positioning depends greatly on how powerful they are in battle.

They cover their bases well, and I only think DBZ made them more powerful solely because they don't know how they would top the Frieza Saga, which is where I think they should have ended it. It just seemed that everything built up to that, and everything after is merely pointless.

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I only think DBZ made them more powerful solely because they don't know how they would top the Frieza Saga, which is where I think they should have ended it.

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That was the initial plan. The creators wanted to stop after the Frieza Saga because Goku reaching the legendary Super Saiyan stage was supposed to be the pinnacle of the series. There was a huge demand for more episodes after it was revealed Goku was still alive so they agreed to it.