DragonBall Z

[Taco]

Originally Posted by SSJ4 Goku

we know how old school we are and that's all that counts

Damn Straight!

Just like no one would remember that all the other initial members of the first month left, so it was just you and I posting back in forth to each other. I thought you were the club founder, too... Heh. I was a tad unobservant... and an idiot. Maybe.

Uncle Tom... eh... heh heh... That was probably an unfortunate sn to change my name to... I remember going in the Hall of Doom one time, telling Mydako that was my name, and him saying "So you're the racist guy!" Not my intention at all... Oh well. Tom would've been fine. I'd had it changed to that for a while. Why did I change it back to Telegraph again...? I don't even remember. Some kid took that name for a while, while I was gone, I remember. No clue who he was... Or who he thought he was... that little bitch

Ha ha, "ssjx3_gogeta." It was good that he changed his name, because I would have never remembered who he was if he hadn't. Too many almost seemingly random characters in there... Kevin. How am I supposed to remember your name is Kevin if you still go by Shan'do Spike, foo? What does "Shan'do Spike" even mean? Silly fool...

I read a post by you from sometime last year that said that CN was still finishing them out, then. They should totally bring that show back, and show it at like 7 or 7:30, instead of Foster's, or Grimm, or whatever mundane crap show they show then that they show at all other hours of the day as well Angered!

I don't think I ever finished watching GT... it was interesting to me, but I'd always forget it was on. Nice to know uncut DBZ is still on... maybe I'll watch it sometime... I have an idea! They should fuckin' show uncut DBZ movies! Like The Return of Cooler, and the Brolly movies... anything I personally haven't seen, so they can apease me, personally. They could totally show them during the time slots that they'd been showing Batman and Goonies in at the end of the last year (anyone know why CN was showing live action movies? Silly Fools...)

...la la la... "You silly fool!!" King Kai totally comes up with the best insults ever...

I remember that I had a link to the message board we were gonna do that on. Unfortunately... I... kinda... deleted the link, thinking this club was dead and that this was never gonna happen... But we're back! Now we can go on discussing what we're eventually going to do, just like old times! So... am I Krillin (won't bother with the Japanese spelling) or Master Roshi? I don't remember now...

Someone kick Usagy in the ass and make him come back here!

And thank you, Raine, for not deleting us. If you had, we would not have existed anymore, and undoubtedly had an identity crisis... or something.

Wuv, Yer Mom

EDIT: Foolish italics...

[Mistress Sheena]

Why would I? I was an old school member of this club, too. Way back when I was piroblaze, lol. So I have no way of being that cruel.

[Andromeda]

Yeah a lot of us were, I was part of this thread, when it was a club or whatever. It is probably the only anime thread that is lasted so long. I guess because it is DBZ that it makes sense, though I would wish that it had been something else. I mean I like DBZ, mostly but I have grown tired of it. I barely even bothered with the new uncut episodes, I hate the intro. Stick with the "Rock the Dragon".

But I actually prefer Dragonball having seen most of it. And I really hated DBGT, I only watched it so I could say with proof that it was bad. Dragonball Z, well it was good for a while. But Gohan should have remained the main character after the Cell saga like Toriyama had wanted.

I own most of the DBZ movies, since I buy them as they come out. I still really do not know why I do either, since the movies are not that great.

[Taco]

The thing I never really liked about the DBZ series were the endless episodes of dialogue between two characters, with some fighting intersperced maybe every five minutes, and then a flashback that they'd already flashbacked to at least 10 times before in the last 5 episodes...

To me, the movies took care of that problem. They had about 40 minutes, instead of 90 episodes, to tell a story, so they kept the important stuff-the action-and cut out most of the tedious, trivial crap-the dialogue. The movies were also, to my knowledge, the only place in which we got to hear swearing in the English dubbed versions, at least. What was that movie called? Super Android 13, or something? Anyway, that guy totally says "ass!" "You just got yo' asses kicked," or something. It had me and my friends giggling like school girls. Except not really. In any case, it semi makes up for all the times that, even in the uncut episodes, all Goku was allowed say was "Darnet!"

There was also, in that same movie, the classic ending of Vegeta and Piccolo sitting on a little island. "Is it over yet?" "Not until the fish jumps!" *splash* "...it's over." It's like "what?" Could that exchange possibly have been in the original, or did the translators decide they needed to add some dialogue there, I wonder?

Anyways, I forgot what else I was going to say... Oh yes. Anyone who is of the DBZ club must love DBZ. If you do not love DBZ as much as the minimum requirement is (a lot) I will have to kill you.... This is serious business, kids. The internet is serious business.

Wuv, Yer Mom

Man is someone here?

Did you play game Dragonball Z Budokai-Tenkaichi?

[Taco]

Originally Posted by Naruto

Man is someone here?

Did you play game Dragonball Z Budokai-Tenkaichi?

I did not. Sorry.

However, I was just thinking of something the other day. I do not remember if it was touched on before, but...

...Who was the most developed character of DBZ? I would say it was Vegeta. He has a lot of changes throughout the series. He starts out as a completely ruthless, arrogant bastard, whom we may or may not hate, and slowly works his way in as one of the good guys; but it's not even as simple as that. During the Namek Saga, we learn he was the prince of a planet that a tyrant destroyed, and that he was forced to work under him for most his life. During his last few moments before that tyrant kills him, he is seen pleading telling Goku all about this, and pleading to him to defeat that tyrant for all Saiyans, and he even comes to tears over it. Then, although he was unified with Goku in that, he is still an arrogant bastard, and scares the crap out of everyone else from Namek that is brought back from the dead with him.

From here, his thing is that he cannot stand the fact that he is not as strong as Goku, and that Goku became a Super Saiyan before he did, so trains several years to get to Goku's level. When he comes back to Earth, however, he meets a girl, and, although he doesn't seem to like her at first, there is something between them, and they end up together, with a child. Now, he's fighting along side the very people he had fought against for so long. They defeat the enemy, and peace returns for a time. However, his nemesis, Goku, is dead, so he doesn't get the chance to prove himself against him, until years later, living with his family, and becoming "soft." When Goku returns for a tournament, Vegeta denounces his new life, and does everything in his power to get Goku to fight him. He even sides with the ultimate evil in the universe (at that point) to accomplish this. However, we find that even though he should be a slave to this ultimate evil, Vegeta still has enough will power to disobey a direct order, in order to continue his fight with his arch nemesis.

Eventually, Vegeta realizes that the universe is more important than his feud, and he sacrifices himself for the cause; however, he still holds a grudge against Kakarot for a time. It's not until the very end that he decides that it's okay for Goku to be stronger than he is, because Goku is the universe's true hero, or something, and he puts the grudge behind him.

So the character of Vegeta does a full 180, almost. Although I didn't see most of DBGT. I also didn't see all of Piccolo's story either, or Tien's, and I know they had some fairly substantial changes in character, too (although Tien was probably never near as big a villain as the other two.)

So now, we can either discuss this, or we can let the DBZ "club" drop into oblivion again. Or, you can bring up something else entirely, and ignore this big long post. *shrug*

Wuv, Yer Mom

hi. dbz kicks ass. i like pie.

I love Dragon Ball Z, it is one of my favourites. My favourite Character is Goku and then Trunks. To have that much power would be Awesome.

[TomStrife]

I like the DragonBall Z video games.

I also love how much of a different kind of show DB was to DBZ. Wow, what a transformation, plotwise.

It was the anime that got me into anime.

[Crazy Chocobo]

I have Dragonball Z Budokai 1 and 2 on PS2. They are awesome games. I haven't played them much lately but I love playing in the Tournaments. I didn't like how the first one was in Japanese but oh well. I can't stand Goku's Japanese voice, I think it sounds a bit girly lol. I wish they would show another DBZ marathon on Toonami. The last one here was about two or three years ago now.

Whatever happened to the live action movie they were going to make? Did they just not bother with it after all?

The DBZ Uncut is on Adult Swim now, everyday at 10:30 pm or 9:30 pm I think Eastern (GMT -4). I think it still airs, not sure.

[Crazy Chocobo]

I wish the uncut version of Dragonball Z was on Cartoon Network here in Australia! Ugh! I don't think they have showed it yet...or have they? I would love to see it! I have been told it's a lot better than the Funimation version! I hope they put it on here soon if they haven't already because they're showing boring stuff on Adult Swim currently.

[H.U.N.K]

I loved the DBZ games. my friend has number three and I really like two and one.The tv show is cool to.