Dragon Ball (All Series)

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

FUNimation continues to drop the ball (no pun intended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QZDHVwpHZo

I really wish that I had bought the Dragon Boxes back when I had the chance. It's becoming clear that we are never really going to get a proper release of the series in North America at this point, or pretty much anywhere outside of Japan.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Someone recently dug up an old vhs of FUNimation's early dub of Curse of the Blood Rubies that used the Harmony Gold names. The early DB dub attempts are hard to find, so I'm glad this one has been rediscovered. I'm hoping the entire thing gets ripped and put online for posterity soon.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

So, reliable sources have indeed confirmed that there is in fact plans to produce another animated Dragon Ball movie (not anytime this year, mind you), and this is separate from any news relating to Super's return to television. On the latter in particular, while it was originally speculated to be returning in July this year, that obviously isn't happening at this point, but I wouldn't take that as a sign that it's not coming back at all. More than likely Toei is just delaying and rescheduling the re-launch of the series as they see fit. I'd like to think that this is at least partly because they have learned their lesson from Super's disastrous initial launch in 2015 and want to make sure a decent amount of episodes are completed so as to maintain a more well-balanced production schedule for the series' run from this point on.

That said, the notion of a new movie has me excited since Broly did a lot to restore my faith in the franchise, even though I'm still not entirely won over yet as much as I enjoyed that movie. Personally, while I don't think that they'd ever do this, I wouldn't mind if for the TV side of things they produced 1-2 cour seasons for TV every year (in-line with how most other anime are produced these days), which would definitely help with the production schedule as well as story-planning. These seasons could tell a complete story-arc in and of themselves, and rather than trying to up the ante they could actually focus on smaller-scale incidents that capture more of the adventure-esque feel of early Dragon Ball, and wouldn't even necessarily need to put the primary focus on Goku and Vegeta. Then the movies could come once every 2-3 years and be the big event stories like how Broly was. I feel like a set-up like that would be a lot more fresh, engaging, and exciting, than the run of Super that we had for the last few years.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Yeah, I think Dragon Ball Super would really benefit from going seasonal. They can plan out a story arc that can last 1 to 2 cours and be able to produce it properly without needing to drag things out or stall until they've come up with the next arc. I think the best strategy they could go with is having Super have a tv season one year, then a movie the next year, and then continue alternating like that. Two different formats to allow for different-size stories to be told properly.

[Daikun]

The FUNi cast did some raunchy porn takes while recording DBZ back in the day.

The audio has been leaked.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Damn....https://youtu.be/MFJr0qj7_Jk

[Dr. Insomniac]

Turns out this is far from the first time these bloopers have leaked, and the VAs mention them all the time at 18+ panels.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Turns out this is far from the first time these bloopers have leaked, and the VAs mention them all the time at 18+ panels.

Either way, you've just gotta love how Vic stans are somehow making this out to he some damning evidence that will lose FUNimation the case. One party is accused of physically engaging in inappropriate misconduct with fans, some of who were underage. The other got caught making some dirty jokes from a couple of decades ago. These two things clearly don't add up to the same level.

[Foggle]

The attempted smokescreen is extra hilarious considering that Vic stans are 100% the kind of people who complain about outrage culture/censorship killing comedy and would absolutely love these outtakes if they were from anyone else under any other circumstances.

[Nel_Annette]

Yeah, when I saw the news about these "leaks", I just kept thinking "didn't I already know about these? For years?"

[Dr. Insomniac]

In case you wanted to hear five Friezas wish you a Merry Christmas.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Thoughts on this year's DBcember?

Spoiler

I was surprised Ultra Instinct made it to #2. I like it a lot, but I figured it wouldn't rank super high since the TFS team is pretty down on Super overall. I would've liked to see Zarbon and Freeza's other transformations make the cut because I think they're iconic too, but otherwise, I think it's a pretty solid list.

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Also, I thought MistareFusion's dissection of why Majin Vegeta doesn't work for him very interesting. I still like the moment and its place in the story and Vegeta's character arc myself, but as usual I can't disagree with much of his points, particularly the disconnect between how the fandom often interprets the event and sees Vegeta's character versus what his characterization and role in the series actually is until the very end.

[Daikun]

[Daikun]

New DBS movie announced today at Comic-Con.

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

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Not gonna lie, I forgot the news of this movie we heard from several months ago was technically a leak and not an official announcement. So, when this news came out I was wondering: "Why are they announcing another Dragon Ball Super movie for next year when we haven't even gotten the previous one they announced yet?"

It took me a bit longer than I'd care to admit to realize that this is merely the official reveal of one of Toei's worst kept secrets.