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Darth Chaltab

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#219171
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/219171/action/topic#219171
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Ultimate Avengers is.... It's alright. Not amazing, not bad. They took out the good stuff from the comic book, like the part where the alien beats Captain America down and tells him to surrender, and Captain says: "What do you think this letter on my head stands for? FRANCE?!?!" Then beats the crap out of the alien.

I really wanted to see that.
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#219072
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Manga and Anime Fans
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
The Garlic Jr. saga?! Ugh, blech, no! Based on a crappy movie that can barely be squeezed into the timeline and still have continuity issues. But to each his own. I only liked it because Maron was hot. I was referring more to most of the Saiya-jin saga filler (aside from the crappy one you mentioned) like Yamucha being a baseball player, Goku falling to Hell (I mean, come on, he was warned about falling to hell in the manga... where was the payoff?! Nowhere!), and the Pendulum Room episode. Later on, the Great Saiyaman filler are some of my favorite episodes. I wish the manga had carried it farther. It freshened the series so much.

I liked it because someone other than Goku was the big hero for a change. Even in the cell saga, Goku got himself blown up to give Gohan a chance to win.

Originally posted by: dudius
i agree with Death Chaltab, some stuff does draw on and on because theyre very dependant on the manga.


My name is not Death Chaltab.
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#218462
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Manga and Anime Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/218462/action/topic#218462
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Originally posted by: ricarleite

Incorrect. Toriyama did intend to end Dragonball on the Freeza saga, but the publisher demanded for more. By the time the Freeza saga was aired on TV, the Androids/Cell saga was being published, so they knew what was ahead of them. The reason for draging the story for so long is the pace of the publication and the anime. You had 28 pages of manga and 90 minutes of anime in a month. You do the math. All anime adapted from a on-going manga suffers from this, because the producers try to keep up with the same pace as the manga - which is why I prefer anime created directly for the screen, like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop and Haibane Renmei. (*sigh* yes there ARE manga for those anime, but it was created later - every manga adapted from an anime sucks)


Yeah, I knew it was something like that.

In reguards to some of the filler, some of the anime filler was quite good, like the Garlic Jr. Saga, but other filler just... wasn't. The Captain Ginyu stealing Bulma's body for one. How the heck does she build a translator that can change Namekian frog speech into the universal language everyone seems to speak?

And it also created some plot holes, like the one where the moon projected from Goku's old ship he came to Earth on made Gohan transform despite the fact it was only a Hologram and therefore incapable of emmiting Brute Rays.

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#218241
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Superman Movie
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I have a theory about the DC Cartoons.

Okay, when did the last episode of Superfriends air? 1985.

What ELSE major in the world of DC happened in 1985? Well, the CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, of course. After that DC didn't get a new animated universe until 1993 with the premiere of Batman TAS. It was also established in the new Scooby Doo movies that Scooby Doo took place in a DC Universe because Scooby Doo met Batman and Robin on two occasions.

After CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, Scooby Doo was rebooted to a puppy in the late eighties in "A Pup Named Scooby Doo", sliding the old adventures forward into the 90s and What's New Scooby Doo into the 21st century. In other words, CRISIS is the reason Scooby Doo seems to the same age for all these years.

And, just hypothetically, the Max Fliecher Superman cartoons were part of the old DC Animated Multiverse, and the Superman of those old cartoons served the same purpose as Earth-2 Superman, eventually destroying whatever animated equivalent of the Anti-Monitor might have existed.
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#217926
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Superman Movie
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He hits his physical peak the over the same period a human does, but he retains his physical peak a lot longer than humans do, and constantly gets stronger as long as he absorbs solar energy. The best examples of this are in 'Dark Knight Returns' and 'Kingdom Come'.

Also the Batman Beyond episode "The Call".
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#217532
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Manga and Anime Fans
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I think that's part of why I have trouble getting into anime. A lot of it is directly adapted from the manga, so the plots drag on and on. Dragon Ball Z is one of the worst, especially in the Frieza saga. (This is actually mostly the publisher's fault. Akira Toriyama had intended Frieza to be the last sory arc, so when they were animating it, they dragged it on and on so it would feel bigger and more epic, and keep the show--and hence flow of advertising money--coming for longer. But then the publisher demanded more manga from Toriyama, so he went back and extended it for two more sagas.)