Is there STILL not a Dragon Ball thread? If so

It is a Dragonball spinoff based off a Japanese arcade battle card game, that as of last year after Super wrapped up started getting animated shorts to promote itself and I think a Switch port of the arcade game or spinoff.

Basic gist is similar to Xenoverse, except not only time travel but alternate dimensions, which leads to fan service fights like a version of adult Goku that learned GT style SSJ4 fighting against SSB Goku, and other original characters that are likely to never appear in manga or anime unless they get popular enough.

The animated shorts are like ten minutes and subtitles on youtube if you want.

Kai 3 from TFS is coming

I’m ready to die tfs…hit me with it

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so i never watched any movie reviews from actual dragon ball fans. they hit on alot of points i realized and appreciated. But its funny how they are oblivious to other aspects…mainly because its a group of white nerds so i dont expect them to notice. like how saiyans seem to have racial/skin color differences. like bardocks homie looked like a lightskin dude to me…has a lineup and everything.

White anime nerds consider all characters white

I mean they are almost all drawn white or green or some shit. No one in Dragon Ball looks remotely Asian lol.

Which is why he stood out so much to me

I mean kid goku, baby gohan, and chi chi all were chinese to me.

Even teen goku looked chinese

But that is me and bias.

Uub looks like any filipino darkie

I feel like Dragon Balls designs are vague enough as far as racial codifiers that almost anyone could see themselves in those characters.

It’s a real strength of Toriyamas style imo.

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except when he goes all 1930’s on black people

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I believe that Goku, Vegeta etc, are Asian looking as well, or at least the most “Earth” like representative would be Asians.

In the world of “anime” the Asian characters never really look like real Asians anyhow, I could literally name dozens of characters whom are “Japanese” in an anime, but look nothing Asian about them.

It’s the sameway I feel about Dragon Ball with their characters.

I’ve never found how namekians look to be racist. :nerd_face:

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Yeah, much like Jynx he will never live down Mr. Polo. But his was from a much earlier time.

Which I get…its Japan. This is why I appreciate the newer looks, and I have to lean more or towards it being the new writer than toriyama being progressive.

In dragon ball they look more round and cutesy

In dbz/gt and up they got all edgey and pointy. Like literally everybody is pointy

Super rounded out the faces a bit

i was thinking more of android 15
Android_15
so black he purple.
got the zoot suit and flask of liquor and everything.
why would a robot need liquor anyway.
maybe its antifreeze.
battle did take place in the arctic ya knowwww

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PoPo: Always racist. Pick a connotation.

I was gonna get the Amazon exclusive set…but I may hold off for this one.

hmmm. could…could nippon be copy catting mexican ideas? too many similarities to be coincidence

Naw, I mean with DB I think they literally have no idea what they can or should do with the franchise from a story perspective. Much like American super hero comics they have reached the point of retreads on popular fan ideas or previously non canon elements to avoid gambling on new stuff that could lead to GT level backlash on unpopularity.