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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Goku doesn't do shit through teamwork tbh. DBZ is all about the power of getting really pissed, not the power of teamwork

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please, give me your energy!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay fair but is it really "teamwork" if the other six billion people just had to raise their hands in the air?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey man, when I was a kid and I, too wished to share my energy with Goku, it was hard holding my hands up for the seven episodes it took for him to throw it.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

they really perfected the soap opera cliffhanger

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sometimes, it was the Z crew themselves after every member, including Goku got their ass kicked, e.g. Broly.

Edit:wrong movies

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

The Tournament of Power was won through the teamwork of an utterly exhausted Goku, Freeza, and Android 17. That was pretty cool.

Generally, though, yeah. Everyone has such vast differences in power that the bad guy could kill everyone but one or two good guys in his sleep.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

teamwork is when you emotionally support a stunted manbaby to go even further beyond

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

But the stunted manbaby can't even go further beyond he's hardstuck in SSJ2-

Oh you mean Goku, yeah

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That stunted manbaby is a grandfather

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Isn't that the plot of oppenheimer?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Just generally exerting for a while

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Please, just watch One Piece. Maybe I can finally have a conversation in person about it that way

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

bugs-no it is too long. Clearly it is much more reasonable for you to watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was going to make a joke about it being a thousand episodes, but I didn't realize it was literally a thousand episodes

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I'm working on it 😭

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or better yet, read one piece and you can read all of it in 2-3 months in a conservative estimate.

I want to talk about my funny pirates comic fooey!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

my friend watched the entire anime in like 2 weeks. idk how

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

1000 episodes at 20 mins is 20000 min, which is almost 14 days. So he watched it with no breaks and no sleep for 2 weeks straight.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably used One Pace or found a list to skip filler

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

One Pace is pretty good, and does reduce it a lot, but still, that's way too much anime for two weeks

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Probably had to watch it on some weird accelerated playback setting (x1.2, x1.5?). That's the only logical explanation I can think of.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's happened to several comrades I know online. I suppose if you get hooked on One Piece, you get VERY hooked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Can attest. Up to ep 431 atm. Show is really bingeable because the cliffhangers hook you and the plot twists REALLY stick.

Tbf it helps alot to use an anime filler list to skip filler, and that each episode is really only about 20 mins long once you skip past the openings and recaps.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, anime doesn't usually look like blurry shit coated in Vaseline

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't prove it but I'm convinced somewhere in Disney/Marvel's documents is a scheme to generate their own rabidly loyal otaku

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

isn't that what Disney Adults are

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's 1000% the same thing. Even the collections of plastic toys that you just look at.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

looks at table covered in mecha models you don't have to call me out like that lol.

at least its not from Latest Media Slop Fad #42069, i have some Special Armored Battalion Dorvack (shitty show, cool power armor, lame transforming mecha, kinda based writing for the 80's) power armor models and Maschinen Krieger models as well (the Strahl Democratic Republic did nothing wrong)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

They did just release a disney TCG, so yeah

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never really considered why endgame didn't matter to me, despite me being relatively invested in early marvel (up to avengers) and honestly the answer might probably just be that nothing MCU has done, beats the spirit bomb of dragon ball

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I didn't care about Endgame because Infinity War was just so much better. I'm not a huge MCU person anymore, but Infinity War did an amazing job of making Thanos a great villain while Endgame just reveled in the setup that Infinity War had done. Thanos turning Quill's bullets into bubbles, throwing his own daughter off a cliff, reversing time at the end to rip the stone out of red guy's head, the "I don't feel so good Mr. Stark" were all just completely unexpected from a marvel movie. By far the best villain in the MCU films. Endgame though? The movie schedule of the stuff coming out beforehand was essentially spoiling the movie. And Thanos isn't even that threatening when he comes back because he's just raging out and acting completely out of character in the final battle.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I'm in the exact same boat. Avengers Endgame was just missing... something, compared to Dragon Ball. I don't know if it's the charm or the fights or the villain or what. It's not like DB is high art or anything, but it just has an edge over most Marvel stuff.

Maybe I just find it easier to get hyped over Goku, a character with one full contained story that DB follows, over any MCU character that is just a mish-mash of 60 years of comic characterization.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They will deride anime as childish and absurd when they worship a movie whose premise is based on a godlike being that attempts to solve resource scarcity by erasing half the population instead of simply doubling the resources. I never understood how that ridiculous idea made it past the writers' table.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don’t think his plan is meant to be logical. All the other characters say he’s insane and he’s literally referred to as “the mad titan”. He’s just brain broke. It’s not like fascism in our world is particularly reasonable either.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The writers didn't account for their viewers being dullards with Malthusian fantasies

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it seems more like he’s treated as mad because of the violence of the plan, not because it wouldn’t work, in the eyes of the writers.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

the comic its based on had him doing it purely to impress the female personification of Death, which honestly makes a lot more sense lol. i hate how they have to make comic books into something 'serious' and 'realistically sci fi' these days.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goku? Now that's a Brooklyn man if ever I heard it; Goku Barclay or Goku Fulton for sure; let me guess, it's a tale about a boxer? A man with a heart of gold trying to make it in this sick world, up against the man and trying to earn an honest buck.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"A man with a heart of gold trying to make it in this sick world, up against the man and trying to earn an honest buck."

Goku vs. Vegeta, circa Saiyan Saga, colorized

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Mogami River

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is way too much talking in DBZ for these people, unironically.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This but gamers with manhwa

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I line how chronically online anime watchers think other people arent watching anime also

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i think plenty of people watch both anime and mcu stuff, but i thought it was a funny tweet. and yuuko from nichijou probably just thought it was a funny joke, i don't think it's meant as a serious critique

i do however feel that dragon ball (which i'm not even a big fan of) blows the mcu out of the water

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone calling themselves Yuuko from Nichijou had top shelf taste and should be paid attention to.

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