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The art style is like classic anime! Like the original Gundam and... Robotech! It's lovely! Dunno about kids. Hopefully they won't be annoying. Don't think they are little kids, though. Teenagers probably.

Dat music. Holy... I need to get my ass back in the recliner! I'm missing some awesome action sequences and animation! So this takes place 17 years after the original Gundam? What was all that about a new century, then? Figured this would be a hundred years later. What does that 0083 and 0096 shit all mean anyway? Just placement in the timeline? But I already don't understand the timeline. x_x Heh, the art style and character designs are like 70s and 80s anime. Those times when characters were softer and rounder, and had... such hair! Speaking of, she's got some softness and roundness. 8)

Blah blah blah time for peace and a new era for all mankind- *everything explodes* You dun blew up the space colony! I like the design, though. That ring design is like the old space station designs proposed by scientists and the like decades ago.

Well, good luck figuring out what the hell is going on here. End of AD? Is this a thousand years in the future or something? Or they're just changing calendars because... because? And if it's the Universal Century (main/original Gundam timeline/universe), I hope there aren't any characters like Amuro.

Oh yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Just like in Indy and Hellsing, heh. And of course tons of other stuff! Nazis and the ancient evil emperor will probably both be villains.

I see. Interesting. We'll just have to keep watching and see how it sounds I guess.

Ripped a tooth out... that bastard! Good job, Straitzo, now you've angered JoJo! He reflected it with a Hamon shot glass! What the... suicided himself with Hamon? But I thought only the living could create Hamon. Did he save it up from when he was still human? : o Straitzo is dead already, so the main villain will probably be "the pillar man", then. And that's why the bodies were thrown in the river. Haha, that guy looks like Wesker, or Duke Nukem, though I suppose it's the other way around, eh? I thought WWII didn't start until 1939. Or maybe they're talking about the build up. Aha! Just like Indiana Jones (and real life), the Nazis are after ancient, mystical treasures! The Nazis left that kid alive and killed all the others! BASTARDS! Wow, this is progressing really fast. They've already got the "pillar man", and they're about to revive him! STOP, you fools! JoJo on a classic (modern, for this time) Harley. Nice! Uh-oh, someone is following him!

He lives on... in bumps.

Joseph's secret weapon is... to RUN AWAY! > Well, that's no good. Straitzo is here, and with a hostage that he is going to kill regardless of what Joseph does!

I thought of Parasite but also Baccano!

I caught up on the TWO JoJo episodes I missed thanks to being out driving through a big trail of Christmas lights a decent drive from home. I didn't expect JoJo to die. Very sad about that. I'm surprised we skipped a generation, though. I thought Erina would raise the baby she saved along the one she had from JoJo as brothers/siblings, and hopefully this time the adopted brother would't be evil. If we're already in 1938, the show is going to run out of time in future arcs! Unless... it goes into the future way later on? : o The JoJo of this arc is kind of fruity with how he talks and acts, but I like his weird sense of humor and his anger management issues, haha. Plus, he's like the Sherlock Holmes or Psych of warriors, with how he's so super-observant and "predicts the future", haha. This is gonna get really good, I have a feeling. So, That One Guy who was studying under Tom Petty decided to become evil! And there's a whole slew of masks, plus an ancient slumbering Emperor! And I'm still not clear if the ancient culture is supposed to be the Mayans or Aztecs? Either way, it seems we're not done with vampires, and we get to hear more of Dave Mallow! For some reason I thought he had Byakuya's VA in Part 1, though. "I know what you'll say next." "Too much time meditating in the Tibetan boonies has dulled your senses." "Straitzoaf" Oh yeah, I like Smokey, and it was nice to see Joseph stand up for him against the cops and in the restaurant.

I enjoy the high school stuff with Gohan. Especially what's about to come up. Too bad the Otherworld Tournament won't get to see the light of day on modern Toonami, though. Apparently it was filler. But I liked it!

Well I'm glad Videl's voice didn't change then. It sounded the same as her old voice to me.

Without that recap we might have been able to see a certain superhero sooner! So what is the score for this? Taken from the original DBZ, or something completely original?

He jumped up, no, flew, that high and through the ball at super speed! So much for his cover story! Gohan doesn't even know what his dominant hand is? Really? Then again when I played some sports (badly), I didn't use my left hand, except for bowling. And I use a mouse better with my left hand. Maybe that's what it is. I mean, he's never played baseball before. That blonde guy has a design kind of like the Androids.

"I'm Erasa and the sourpuss behind me is Videl." Videl is an anagram for Devil, heh. Keeping that name theming going. I love Videl but Erasa is pretty cut herself. Huge knockers! Gohan your cover story is crap if even in this futuristic world you couldn't have flown in a conventional vehicle here that fast!

What was her original voice?

It's an anagram, actually.

Carl - Oh, good. And I think I saw on the channel guide that this is a Universal Century show, too. I hope there's no characters like Amuro in it.

All that recap... like 6 or 8 minutes in and we finally get to "Gohan is a high school student." Videl! <3 Anybody know if her voice changed? Been a while but it sounds similar. Oh hey, it's these student friends of Gohan and Videl... I'm sure they'll go on to be very important! "Transfer students"... always such a tradition in anime. "What kind of name is Gohan?" ROFL Seriously, though, it means cooked rice or something. Almost all the Dragonball characters are named after food, random objects, and/or jokes. Of course many of the original characters were based on the original Journey to the West characters, but after that... we've got the underwear family, vegetable aliens, etc...

Yeah. I have no idea. It's like something out of a bad kids show. x_x Yeah GT wasn't all bad. A nice what-if story, and I liked how it was more like the original Dragonball, though I still think it should've focused more on the next generation and not Goku again. I think Pan is still going to be conceived. Wasn't she inside Videl in the Battle of Gods movie or whatever?

Whoa... that sounds like the guy from Head Cha-La and/or We gotta Power! : o This is like the classic JP OPs! Now this is more like it!

I thought the classic cel animation of Dragonball/Z looked better. Super is so overly bright and vivid, and lacking in detail and contrast. The art and character designs seem a bit different in Super as well. I suppose I'll get used to it eventually. But, to me, the old stuff looks better.

The New Year's Banner is from Bleach. Nice. Rebels mid-season premiere was great tonight. I also caught up on past weeks of JoJo and some other stuff, plus other things on my DVR, so I'd have space to record tonight's Toonami. Anybody new to Dragonball Z, or at least those who first started watching since Toonami's airing of Kai, however few they may be, are going to be very confused. Thankfully, I think most of us have seen Dragonball/Z countless times and should be fine? Hell, we were okay when Dragonball Z was played before Dragonball, and then both concurrently. This show isn't like X-files or anything. You can miss stuff and watch things out of order and follow along just fine I think. And I see we've got all the ASMB emoticons back, plus a redeco of the background and forum in general! Nice!