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You really should watch Battle of Gods, and Resurrection F too. They're much better than the sagas in the anime. The Frieza movie is also far kinder to Gohan as well. Well, it probably hurt Videl because she wasn't prepared. I imagine you have to be powered up to dodge/deflect bullets, and not in a relaxed state.

Didn't know Dragon Ball AF was an actual fan manga by an honest to god mangaka! Always thought it was just some fan art/fan fic thing fans came up with. But, Toriyama is full of shit to say he "always intended to Goku to be someone who just likes to fight strong guys." When we're first introduced to him he helps people constantly, and is pretty good at judging when someone is a bad guy and helping someone out that they victimize. The first time the Dragon Balls were used to revive someone was Bora, Upa's father who he had just met and befriended. He fought Red Ribbon Army largely to stop them from causing the world pain. He fought King Piccolo to avenge Krillin's death. When Raditz comes to earth, he tries to talk him into leaving, and ultimately fights him to save his son (and the earth). When Goku is fighting Frieza and losing, he has a vision of Freiza going to Earth and killing everyone he loves, which motivates him to get back in the fight. GOKU TURNS SUPER SAIYAN AFTER FREIZA KILLS HIS BEST FRIEND. He sacrifices himself to stop Cell from killing everyone! You can't chalk this all up to "anime changes," either. So yeah, Toriyama is full of shit here. Anyway, we'll see how it goes. Goku doesn't seem so bad in Super so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3BifLnzBdY

I don't think it considers GT canon on any level, but it might take inspiration from it. There were some genuinely creative and neat ideas in GT. I always figured they were that old because, well, it had been a long time since we saw them last and GT was many years since then. Yeah that would be funny, though, heh.

*googles* Oh what the fuck! Well, I didn't look into it closely. Maybe that Trunks is from a different timeline/dimension and that explains the hair color difference? Speaking of that, something that really bothered me about GT, is they not only couldn't get Trunks' hair color right either, but his personality was completely different, and not for the better. I always used to joke that he was an android doppelganger. I've also had someone try to tell me that Trunks hair isn't really purple/lavender, but was intended to be white/silver, and it just looked that way due to the color chosen, like how some characters with black hair looks "bluish."

I must have totally missed that in the movie and in the show. I understand that, but he's including Tights as the sister to one of the characters that's been around since the very beginning and we've never heard hair nor hide of her before now. The Dr. Slump crossover Goku basically went into another dimension, so it didn't affect anything, and it was fun. Tights is pointless and conflicts with the established story. By the way, this reminds me of something. There was an old story going around, guess it would be an urban myth, going by what we know now, that Toriyama wanted to finish Dr. Slump first, then he was going to go back and make more Dragon Ball. I assume there was never anything to this?

Hopefully it's damaging Rick & Morty's ratings. >=]

There's plenty of other stuff they could've played. Like, the second season of Ghost in the Shell. Big O Season 1 if they have it. Point is, nothing has been played as much as Bebop so literally anything else would be better in that slot. Not sure if you noticed but ad breaks don't tend to line up. And many channels will even synchronize them with others to prevent people from doing this very thing. Not everyone has to watch TV the same way as you, anyway, Top_Gun. Besides, I use the ads to make my posts. At least the time during Hiatus I can better spend reading the lulzness in the Tokyo Ghoul thread, but after that show ends...

Don't base anything on what Mochi says. He's been consistently shown to not know what he's talking about.

Just finished watching the episode. Looks like this guy has the powers of The Blob! Watch out Goku! Jaco - "He's dispersing the blows and sending the energy to another dimension!" Bulma - "Do you really know that?" Dragon Ball making fun of its own bullshit technique commentary now. So he's so fat and heavy that he can't do anything if someone knocks him over or picks him up? Goku should have done this a long time ago! Not like the swing and throw has never been used in Dragon Ball before. So polite and friendly! And honorable! Goku says tells Frost to use full power while he's still fighting in his base form... That spinning hurricanrana was impressive, Frost! Final form my ass! :D :D Well, Goku never saw Xenomorph Frieza. Still, he should know better than this. So he does! Frost used his power to put an end to senseless wars and saves orphans! :D Super Saiyan 1 is still not your full power, Goku... That Universe 6 Saiyan looks like he is lying about not knowing about Super Saiyan. Alright this fight is getting good. Did Vegeta really just say "Goku" instead of "Kakarot?" If you have trouble controlling your final form, maybe you should train with it more? What the hell happened to Goku? Did Frost use some crazy paralysis technique? Did Goku catch some alien disease from Universe 6? Did his heart virus come back? Great episode! Can't wait to see the rest of the tournament! Should be especially interesting given Goku has been eliminated.

Which happened due to those shows being rerun to death for years, with Bebop being the worst offender. Hmm. Doesn't matter how long into the night the block is running. If a slot is doing bad enough they'll modify it.

You know what I mean. The run will be cut short, just like last time, due to horrid ratings.

Could be a lot of difference depending on how tired someone is. And as I said, Attack on Titan is the hot ticket that just aired. Who the fuck is DVR-ing Bebop? Old people that don't know how to use Netflix?

I kinda was, yes. Now I have to change the channel TWICE. Once for Hiatus and again for Bebop. I'm not a channel surfer, and I don't switch to something else during commercials, because I don't want to miss anything. I won't even watch a movie if it's already started, in the rare case I do watch a movie on TV these days, given the editing, and the fact I can get them elsewhere. I like to sit there and watch something beginning to end. They've stopped my ability to do that with Toonami. Oh and Jack is gone, lul. That's what they get for trying to run THAT into the ground. This brain trust never learns a damn thing.

Dense? No. I understand exactly what their thought process is. Just 2 years gone compared to the decade plus it was run ad nauseum. What a tragedy! I don't care how long it's been gone. It needs to stay gone. No one is watching it. Toonami is airing for its own sake. I mean, anyone who even remotely dips their toes into anime is going to have someone recommend Bebop to them as one of the must-watch shows. They don't need Toonami to "discover Cowboy Bebop." Buying those HD tapes was an idiotic waste of money. Demarco only bought them because he can't bear to be separated from his precious Bebop. Hope this run gets canceled too so they look like even bigger jackasses.

Oh, definitely. Well, not the worst time. The writing had been on the wall for a while, so it was nice of them to let One Piece stay long enough to finish out Thriller Bark. And 385 was a perfect send-off so I'm pretty sure it was intentional. Good to hear. Sounds like a plan!

Some retcons are easier to swallow than others. Goku being an alien. Gero working for the Red Ribbon Army... behind the scenes apparently, since he never actually appeared in the Red Ribbon Army Saga. It's fine. Probably helps the things that resulted from these retcons were good. But Tights existing? Come the fuck on. Not only is it unbelievable, given she hasn't appeared or been referenced at all until now, but she's totally pointless, and to top it off, has a crappy, boring character design.

So... no explanation for why the Pilaf gang are kids? Some Dragon Ball related mishap I presume?

Twitter is chaotic and disorganized, difficult to keep up with, has a shitty user interface and set up, and anything more than a day old might as well not exist. So yeah, no thanks.

We tried to get something like this going before but it never panned out. You might have noticed the pinned thread. I hadn't watched any for a long time since Toonami canceled it. I ended up binging 385-417 a little while ago though. Planning to watch more at some point. But I wouldn't mind re-watching with others, since I didn't get to discuss them yet. And yes, so far, these arcs are awesome!

How did she even get captured in the first place? And where were the other members? Kinda annoying we jumped into that scene in the middle of events.

McDougal back-stabbed the pirates! His brother is nuts. DAMN PIRATES! Go out in a space suit? She's crazy! So are the pirates! You bastards... Wow, did not see that coming. RIP Hilda. Surprised the pirates are already taken out too. Thought thy would be longer term enemies. I'M NAMING THE SHIP... THE OUTLAW STAR!

Like the bits of lore we get at the beginning of episodes. Why the hell would the Space Forces and Pirates be working together? To pilot the ship Melfina has to be naked in a bacta tank. Works for me! She's crazy to get naked at a time like this.

Not bad compared to most of the rest of the show. But yeah Shippuden already has such a bad reputation for being shitty that it looks like people stopped caring. I can't blame them, haha.