Dragonball new pictures including piccolo

[zakkrusz]

When I watched DBZ which was like 12 years ago it was epic awesomeness (I was 15 or 16). When I tried to rewatch it years later when I was in my 20s it was frustrating and at times lame. Odd how that works. I'm not really much for those longer running super-powered martial arts shows personally (although I am currently enjoying Bleach, and D.Gray-man which are more complex and less annoying) but the shorter ones like Buso Renkin, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Kaze no Stigma are gold.

 

[broberfett]

When I watched DBZ which was like 12 years ago it was epic awesomeness (I was 15 or 16). When I tried to rewatch it years later when I was in my 20s it was frustrating and at times lame. Odd how that works. I'm not really much for those longer running super-powered martial arts shows personally (although I am currently enjoying Bleach, and D.Gray-man which are more complex and less annoying) but the shorter ones like Buso Renkin, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Kaze no Stigma are gold.

The frustrating bit is that it takes them 10 episodes to do anything.

 

[3D Master]

My god, why do I have this horrifying idea, that 'Goku' is an ordinary human being instead of alien with tail?

 

[Michael Chris]

Poor Spike

 

[broberfett]

Is that little scrawny dude behind Chow Yung Fat supposed to be Goku? Goku never struck me as a small guy. How will they show Vegeta being short? Will he be a midget?

 

[FALCONX0N]

Like a lot of people, Dragon Ball Z was my gateway into anime. I tried rewatching it a few years ago, and the only way I could get through it was with lots of beer- -and the revelation that DBZ is just one long refuge in audacity and it almost works best when you see it as a total mocking or affectionate parody of martial arts shows (and to a lesser extent, though likely unintentional, superhero stories).

That being said, uh...this looks awful. It's been doomed from the start, from what I can tell. The guy playing Goku is a bit too small, I'll agree, but hey, aside from the ridiculously overbuilt muscles, Goku is supposed to look like a wimp, so I'm saying maybe this guy is spot-on. Goku's that perpetually innocent, naive, good-natured boy- -and he can afford to be, because he can out-punch Galactus.

 

[Sephiroth]

i keep telling you that the original Dragonball Anime is superior, and it looks to me like this is gonna be another forbidden kingdom

 

[zakkrusz]

When I watched DBZ which was like 12 years ago it was epic awesomeness (I was 15 or 16). When I tried to rewatch it years later when I was in my 20s it was frustrating and at times lame. Odd how that works. I'm not really much for those longer running super-powered martial arts shows personally (although I am currently enjoying Bleach, and D.Gray-man which are more complex and less annoying) but the shorter ones like Buso Renkin, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Kaze no Stigma are gold.

The frustrating bit is that it takes them 10 episodes to do anything.

True which is why shows like Buso Renkin (Arms Alchemy), Claymore, Fullmetal Alchemist, Kaze no Stigma (Mark of the Wind), Scryed, and X TV are superior, because they have the same style and enjoyability but the fights are short and sweet without the grunting and endless posing and posturing.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

i keep telling you that the original Dragonball Anime is superior, and it looks to me like this is gonna be another forbidden kingdom

Yeah, I like the no-Z Dragonball better myself.

My younger cousin told me in school his friends called Dragonball Z "Dragonballs" because they didn't realize it was two words so I always think of DBZ as Dragonballz.

 

[Aragorn]

If this is a doomed movie, they could make it R-rated and have Emmy Rossum run around naked the whole time.

 

[John O.]

I think there's obvious reasons why the characters aren't mirror images of their manga/anime counterparts... A chick would probably look retarded with blue hair, Master Roshi would be hard to take seriously as a bald guy with huge sunglasses and eternally sporting a hawaiian t-shirt, and I think probably they're going to pull out the "Piccolo is an alien" thing as an intended surprise... so they're just going to show him as creepy-but-not-obviously-alien looking.

It's the character changes that bother me. Removing Krillin and adding this "Mai" chick. And where's the Ox King? He wouldn't even need to be called the Ox King, he could just be a huge hefty guy playing Chi-Chi's father.

I also really wish Moon Bloodgood had been cast as Chi-Chi... and I also think this whole "casting a westerner as the main character in a japanese anime" is pretty stupid. Actually it seems insulting to Japanese people. Like an insinuation that a Japanese lead couldn't pull in a crowd.

 

[Galactus]

Actually it seems insulting to Japanese people. Like an insinuation that a Japanese lead couldn't pull in a crowd.

But that is exactly what they are saying. They did the same thing for Forbidden Kingdom and they will continue to do it, because they are probably right.

 

[roguephoenix]

When I watched DBZ which was like 12 years ago it was epic awesomeness (I was 15 or 16). When I tried to rewatch it years later when I was in my 20s it was frustrating and at times lame. Odd how that works. I'm not really much for those longer running super-powered martial arts shows personally (although I am currently enjoying Bleach, and D.Gray-man which are more complex and less annoying) but the shorter ones like Buso Renkin, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Kaze no Stigma are gold.

The frustrating bit is that it takes them 10 episodes to do anything.

alas if only that were true. it actually took twice that long to have anything done. lol

i'm glad i'm not the only one who was so annoyed by this. i loved dragonball (the original run) with the young goku. it was funny and the action, whatever there was of it, lasted 1 or so ep only.

if you're doing an anime based on a currently running manga series, befor you proceed, you will have a contract that states you will have to take liberties in the story else the manga maker will have to churn them out as fast as the tv series. you DO NOT take one fight scene and make it last an entire season. well i guess it was made for kids and kids really don't know any better lol. like the people who are rewatching the show now, that they loved during childhood, and are finding out how silly it is because it was made for children.

i guess it's really not fair complaining about a show when it was made for a different demographic lol. i just hope they don't make the movie like they did dbz because i will just not watch it.

 

[Sephiroth]

if Mai is in it, that means Ol Emp. Pilaf, remember this is set in the original Dragonball period, not DBZ

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Actually it seems insulting to Japanese people. Like an insinuation that a Japanese lead couldn't pull in a crowd.

But that is exactly what they are saying. They did the same thing for Forbidden Kingdom and they will continue to do it, because they are probably right.

It's really difficult to google since people use "Japanese remakes" and "American remakes" to mean the same thing but I have seen no sign that Japan doesn't do the same thing. I know they remake popular Korean TV series and movies and I doubt they cast Korean actors and set the series there. The Japanese Spider-Man show cast a Japanese actor in the lead and adapted the source material to fit their cultural needs. Powerpuff Girls Z was another localized adaptation of American material.

 

[broberfett]

As far as fighting goes, I love the huge scale of the battles when they actually get to it. I mean in DragonBallz. I couldn't get into the original when they showed it, but I think all the dirty jokes were cut out. I like Z, just so long as the story is progressing. I remember I first saw episodes they were showing at 5 or 6 in the morning and everytime I tuned in, Goku was running on that Dragonway(Forever!). I mean if it was once a week, it probably took at least a month.

 

[Roshi]

^Hey, Goku was supposed to run 1 million kilometers! With an empty stomach, no less!

 

[broberfett]

Actually it seems insulting to Japanese people. Like an insinuation that a Japanese lead couldn't pull in a crowd.

But that is exactly what they are saying. They did the same thing for Forbidden Kingdom and they will continue to do it, because they are probably right.

It's really difficult to google since people use "Japanese remakes" and "American remakes" to mean the same thing but I have seen no sign that Japan doesn't do the same thing. I know they remake popular Korean TV series and movies and I doubt they cast Korean actors and set the series there. The Japanese Spider-Man show cast a Japanese actor in the lead and adapted the source material to fit their cultural needs. Powerpuff Girls Z was another localized adaptation of American material.

I agree. I was expecting a Japanese guy though(or Chinese guy like Journey to the West). Who is playing Goku?

 

[Samurai8472]

hooray Alien nation is coming back

for those who haven't seen Emmy as Bulma

movie execs-we added one blue steak, happy now? go away

 

[3D Master]

Thing is, I don't mind Goku being played by a westerner at all. He's supposed to be a Saiyan, a non-human, so there's nothing saying he should look Asian, then look at the drawings of Goku in the manga and the anime, doesn't look particularly Asian to me. At least Vegeta has somewhat Asian eyes, Goku though, has big round orbs for eyes.

What I find far more problematic, is Goku not having a tail, and from the way the site talks, it seems he's human. Son Goku, is friggin' Sun Hauzi, Sun Wu-K'ung, aka the legendary Monkey King. MONKEY King! The entire point of him, is that he's not human, that he has a tail - that he's Saiyan in Dragon Ball.

Him being human is just wrong. Not having a tail, is wrong, wrong, wrong! It's a 1500+ year-old-legend. That's like making King Arthur a talking chicken.