#Bulla's mailbox

[princessxbulla]

“✉” “✉” “✉”

The thing I hate most about the fandom’s take on Bulla? The one thing I try so hard to subvert here, and even though I may not get it 100% right, I at least try? Ya wanna know what it is?

It’s the idea that her being a girly girl is some kind of character defect. That because she’s feminine and didn’t fight for the .2 seconds she appeared in GT means that she’s weak and pointless and OBVIOUSLY what would make her a REALLY good character is if she was just Vegeta with tits and blue/purple hair.

Fuck that. It genuinely makes me mad because it shows a lack of creativity and a real underlying misogyny that people refuse to address. And I know part of this is on Toei for not doing anything with her but like. There’s enough there to look into, but people are too preoccupied with this outdated view of feminism from the 90s that to be Strong Female Character you must forsake all manner of Female Womanly Girl things and wear pants only. Just. PANTS, MAN. SUCH STRENGTH. A girl who is both comfortable and confident in her femininity, AND a powerful warrior with immense pride in her heritage? No, clearly that would be the least realistic thing about a series with a shape-shifting pig.

I just...it’s so, so easy to make her both girly AND a fighter. But no, in a fandom that was dominated by teenage boys for a good portion of its run, the two things aren’t allowed to exist. And I really hate that. 

[ssjkallion]

15.Who’s the first person you contact on a lonely night and why?

“Gil lives with me, so it’s kinda natural to turn to him, yeah? He’s more responsive than ya might think, heh. I like to text Trunks, too. His sleep schedule’s a little weird though, so sometimes I dunno if he’ll respond. Livin’ in Conton gives me options, though. Mariko, Scaro, 22, Fenn...I got a lot of people to talk to now, which is real nice.”

[moonstoneunivs]

Sons of Crystal Forest

Part 1

Title screen in expensive animation.

Cut to the Son house

Goku and Chi chi getting things prepared for a two week camping trip.

Goku

Thank you honey, I hope you and the girls won't be too lonely without us.

Chi chi

OH Goku, I’ve survived you being gone for months and you being dead twice, I think I’ll live.

Chi chi looks at a picture of Her, Goten and Gohan alone.

Chi chi

Just please make sure you’ll come back in one piece.

Goku grabs Chi chi close and kisses her

Goku

I’m done with being gone I’m ready to be here with all of you

Cuts down to the kitchen, Goten watching tv and Videl and pan help Gohan get ready

Pan

Daddy going

Gohan

Yes princess, but when daddy gets back, we’re going to play all day… thanks babe you know me I only know how to pack a school bag

Videl

And it’s mostly just notebooks and like one pen… by the way is trunks going or anyone else going with you?

Goten

No, Trunks, Bulla and Bonnie and Clyde are going to Volo island, which funny enough they own.

Videl

How about…

Goten

Oolong’s been drafted, Tien and Yamcha are renewing their vows, Krillin and 18 are booked on their staycation, Piccolo is taking a decade long nap and the less I say about Roshi the better

Videl and the rest look confused

Videl

Anyway Me, mom and this little lady are going to unwined

Videl looks around

Videl

(Chi chi has been driving me up the WALL I’m going to take her for spa if it kills her)

Goku enters the room

Goku

Are my boys ready!?!

Gohan and Goten

YES! Sure.

Cuts to them outside

Chi chi

GOKU, DON’T FORGET YOUR JACKET!

Goku

Honey it's going to be warm at nigh…

Chi chi

GOKU YOU ARE NOT GETTING ANOTHER COLD!!!

Goku takes the jacket

Gohan

Be super good, for mommy and grandma, *boop* *boop**boop**boop*

Pan

Giggles

Gohan looks into Videls eyes

Kami I love you

They kiss

Goten on the phone

Yes Jessica the 3rd, no Rebecca ours is the 4th and Chelsey, wear the blue one… no the dark blue one.

Chi chi takes the phone she looks angry

Won’t be needing this

Goku

okay bye every, let’s get going boys, I want to be at Crystal Forest before the fish fall asleep.

Videl

Oh, this is going to be nice for them to… Pan do not touch that… to get some guy time and just relax with… Pan! I said put it down! Anyway let’s get lunch started.

Chi chi

Let’s, I’m just going to get the mail.

Chi chi goes to the mailbox and takes out three letters and gets to the last one and her eyes look scared

Son boys walking the path

Goten

Dad I’m already sleepy can you carry my stuff

Goku

Okay

Goten

And me

Goten gets on Goku’s shoulders and rest on his head in goku’s hair

Gohan

Dad!

Goku

What, my little boy is sleepy

Rustle in the bushes we close in a sinister pair of eyes

!!!

*laugh that sounds like minecraft eating*

Cuts to a dark room with figures on podiums, the one in the middle speaks

Leader

Prid, you have returned what have you found

Prid

The son men are going on a little camping trip, they’re right for the picking my King

Leader

Good, the saiyan blood will be ours! AND ONCE WE SUCK THEM DRY THEY’LL KNOW WHO IS THE ONLY VILLAIN IS!!!

(While he’s talking we see a big gorilla like henchmen trying to eat a snake like member looking longingly at the leader)

They all laugh

$$$

Sire why don’t we just start collecting the dragon balls and get some real power

Leader

Sadly not for another 4 months

The one in the Leader drops a round white stone, then a woman in all red raises a crab claw

XXX

Sire, may I have the young one… Goten I believe that cuties name is

Leader

You may keep his empty husk, Luz

Luz

Even BETTER!!!

Leader

Anyway, be off with all of you, go out and bring me their blood!

Back to the son, boys setting up the tent.

Goten

Bro I can not wait get my tan on, it’s how Lucy likes it

Gohan

Which side piece is she

Goten flips him off while smiling

Goku

Alright, we have all our sleeping bags, grill, tub and snacks

Gohan

On snacks on snacks on snacks

Goku

So what do you boys want to do first

Gohan

Well Videl gave me this camera so hiking

Goten

I’m down

Son boys walking in the forest

Gohan

Goten look it’s a phizzle bird

Goten

Don’t those things hate bright flashes

Gohan

Don’t be ridiculous

Goten

Dude you taught me that when I was 10

Gohan

It’s not even on fla-

*CLICK* *FLASH*

The bird looks right at Gohan and starts pecking at his head

Goku & Gohan start laughing their asses off and Goten takes the camera and does a selfie

We see more of them climbing and hiking and laughing with each other all the while Prid and another henchmen who’s made of gold spying on them

They get back to camp

Goten

That was great

They all freeze, all their food in gone

Gohan

Damn racoons

Goku

Well looks like we’re fishing

Goku starts taking off his clothes

Gohan

Dad are you sure you should be doing that

Goku

What we’ve all seen eachother naked

Goten

This is why I don’t bring girls over dad

Gohan

Yes, but this is public camping grounds and we did bring swimwear

Goku

Come on who’s going to notice

Luz in a nearby tree has to be pulled back by all of her comrades

They then all splash around in the water catching fish

Back to the girls

Videl

Chi chi that was great, but now I have a surprise for everyone

Pan

What is it mommy!

Videl

A SPA DAY!

Chi Chi

NO!

Videl

Why not?

Chi chi darts her eyes around

Chi chi

I just want to stay here and clean

Pan

Grandma, you do that everyday let’s go and relax

Videl

Pan lock the door and let’s go

Chi chi

Wait, I have to iron Goku’s clothes

Videl

They’ll only get wrinkled again

Chi chi

I have to do the taxes

Videl

We all know Goku does that

Chi chi

I have-

Videl

To have a good time and relax for once in your life

Cuts to the spa and them getting all pampered up we even see Pan in a kid spa area

Videl

Isn’t this nice!

Chi chi is silent

Videl

You what Gohan’s been doing lately, he’s been dancing to disco right before he falls asleep

Chi chi still silent

Videl

So are you enjoying yourself

Chi chi

Sure, look I have to get dinner ready

Videl takes the deepest of breathes

Videl

Chi chi what is up!?!

Chi chi pulls Videl close and harshly whispers

Chi chi

OKAY SO WHEN GOKU DIED… AGAIN, I DIDN’T WANT GOHAN TO FIGHT AND GOTEN WAS JUST BORN!

Videl

Where is this going

Chi chi

I FELT ALL ALONE AND UNPROTECTED SO I DID SOMETHING DRASTIC I HIRED SOME GANGSTERS TO PROTECT MY FAMILY

Videl

:0 … from what?

Chi chi

I was not thinking straight I thought more evil bug men and androids would come after us

THEY JUST SENT ME A LETTER

Gangsters letter

Dear chi chi

It has been 20 years since you’ve hired us and we want it so pay up or we’ll kill you and your family.

Anyway have a good day,

Jake

Videl

Direct, but Chi chi it’s okay we can go to Krillin with this

Chi chi

Shakes her head

Videl

Well dad will gives us the money

Chi chi

No, I'm sick of staying back and not doing anything IT'S TIME TO FIGHT!

Videl completely understanding nods

Videl

Me and Pan are ready

Chi chi

I’m not going to let Pan get involved in this

We suddenly move to the front door

THIS IS A ROBBERY!!! PUT ALL THE LAVENDER LOTION IN THE BAG!

Pan

HIYA!

Pan then chops the man right in the stomach

Videl gives Chi chi a look

Back with the boys drag nets filled with fish

Goku

That was great boys, we’ll eat for days

Gohan turns to Goten

More like a day ;)

That night we see them eating and having a good time, Goten sitting politely on a log and Goten sitting in his dad's lap

Goku

So Goten finished with school, now what?

Goten

More school like with Goten

Gohan

It’s not all bad and you’re not a dweeb like me maybe you’ll make friends

Goten rolls his eyes

Goku

I remember when I had to work so damn hard on the farm just to get you through your first year

Goten

Yeah, because Mr. Asshat wouldn’t just give you and Videl money

Gohan

Goten! There’s a reason he would have been bankrupt if he paid for both of us

Goku

I just don’t know what we’re going to do about you

Goten

I could stay home with you and you could train me to become stronger, like you promised

Gohan

Mom would love that

Goku

Haha, well sure, yeah, we can do that until we build up the money

Goten

Then I can make some money at the tournaments

Gohan looks up at the stars

Gohan

That reminds me when you and me dad were in the time chamber preparing for the cell games, those were the best moments of my childhood and maybe even life

Goku

Man… I wish I was there for you kids more, I wish I didn’t die, I wish I didn’t sacrifice myself and stayed dead; because of some crap I thought about myself

Gohan

Dad we love you and we hold nothing against you

Goku

I know, but it’s just… I feel like sometimes… piccolo’s your real dad

Goten and Gohan look at eachother and burst out laughing

Goku

What?

Goten

Dad, really?

Goku

Yes, look at all the stuff he does for you

Gohan

Yes, he’s a great friend, loves kids, but he’s not my parent who I love, when you were gone he wasn’t there for me neither

Goten

Also let’s talk about that training or as I like to call it, bullying

They all laughed

Gohan

He is amazing with Pan though and I don’t even know every other child is like call 911, but she treats her better than me

Goku

*laughs* thanks kids I feel better now

It goes silent for a bit

Goten

Dad you know how I always say the shoe will be on the other foot

Goku nods

Goten

It’s just I always wanted to be stronger than you, but it’s more like I want to be you, I heard stories of you and how you had so much love and yet so much power (cries) You are my everything dad I love you so much

Goku embracesses Goten

Goten

You kids are my everything, all I want you kids to be is yourselves and buddy I know for a fact the shoe will be on the other foot, you’ll go ultra mega instinct super great ape saiyan.

Goten laughed and dried his tears

They start going to bed

Goku holds Goten by the shoulders

Goku

Buddy are you okay to be here

Goten

Yeah, yeah dad I’m just glad I got that off my chest

Goku

Ok, I love you my sweet boy, with all my heart

Gohan walk out in his Teddy bear underwear

Goten

Bro, really?

Gohan

What?

Goten

I think Pan’s diaper’s had less embarrassing prints!

Gohan

They hug my waist and are cozy

Goten

Are… are they ladies panties

Goku

Do you wanna talk about-?

Gohan

Say what you want I’m secure!

They all go to bed

We then see a silhouette of similar shadowy figures

Prid

Do you have the syringe, Graedig?

Graedig pulls out a sharp shiny needle

Hey guys so this is something new I'm writing a script for this DB movie and it's about Goku, Gohan and 18-year-old Goten (because this little bitch needs to grow up) go camping... and that's it (JK) vampires are involved. Hope you enjoy this is something new for me. This is part 1

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

I guess I should provide my hottt takes on the new DBS movie.  A few days ago, they did this video for Comic Con announcing the title of the movie and teasing some details about the story.  

I gotta say, this is exactly why I’ve never had any interest in Comic Con.    They put this on YouTube, I guess because of the pandemic, but any other year they would have gathered an enormous crowd and made them stand in line for hours to watch all of this in person.   I live in the Midwest, and when I went to comic book conventions it was for the sole purpose of rummaging through back issue bins.   SDCC was always promoted like the biggest and most important convention in the U.S., but all I ever heard about it were trailers for movies and TV shows.   Or, like, you had to go to Comic Con because that was the only way to get an exclusive Orange Lantern Hal Jordan action figure or something.   They would always hype up all of this useless stuff and I just never heard of anything so important that I was willing to fly out to San Diego and stand in line for three hours for it.   So now SDCC peels back the curtain with this video, about something I’m fairly interested in, but it’s really not that big a deal.  I found out most of the information on Twitter before I even knew to watch this video.

But I’m just not that hyped about trailers or sneak peaks or sneak peaks at trailers.   Which is probably why I waited this long to talk about it.  

I’ll just go through the video.   The first four minutes are Hironobu Kageyama performing “Cha La HEAD Cha La” live on the stage.   That’s a pretty epic way to open this, but I feel like it oversells the importance of this event.  You finish watching him and you think you’re about to see the movie itself, instead of hearing from the people who made it.  

Next we have Sascha, the host of this panel.   He speaks better English than I do, but I’m not sure what the point was in having any of this in English since he has to talk to the guests in Japanese.   Pretty much all of the important information in this video is in Japanese, and I think everyone understood that going in.   I guess it does give an international feel.  If I spoke another language as fluently as Sascha, I’d want to show it off too.

4:56 is where Masako Nozawa comes out, and she’s just a joy to watch.   She looks like this sweet grandmotherly figure, all warm smiles and then she busts out “Ossu! Ora Goku!” and immediately sounds like a badass. 

Guest #2 is Akio Iyoku, Toriyama’s editor.   Not to be confused with the awesome editor who poo-pooed all the androids and Cell’s semiperfect form.    That was Yu Kondo.  Iyoku comes out dressed like Goku, but he can’t talk like him so he’s immediately second-tier. 

Guest #3 is Norohiro Hayashida, Producer from Toei Anaimation.   He is also rocking the Goku cosplay, which would be a faux pas in most fandoms, but he can just say that he’s cosplaying as Krillin or Yamcha, which gives him greater nerd credibility because those are more obscure references.

Around 8:30 we really start getting into this, and they show us a model sheet of Piccolo.  Is Piccolo being in the new movie a big surprise?   He had a dry spell in the mid-90s, but he’s been in every Dragon Ball movie made in this century so far.   And it’s not like they changed his look, like when they put Goku and Vegeta in those adorable coats last time.   I’m not complaining about any of this.  It’s nice to see that a) Piccolo is confirmed for new movie and b) they didn’t tinker with his appearance.  

All I’m saying is that they only brought up this model sheet to show off how they’re using his color scheme from the manga as opposed to the anime.   Hence the red belt and the yellower arm sections.   In the anime, the belt was always blue, and his biceps were hot pink instead of off-yellow.   But it’s such a subtle thing that even Sascha didn’t pick up on it.   It’s like they were hyping up the fact that it’s such a minor change.    I like it, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a weird flex.   Also, he looks like he still has his five-fingered anime hands, so I’m not that impressed.   Give us four fingers, Toei!

Sascha asks Masako Nozawa what she thinks about Piccolo and she just starts off with “He was Gohan’s teacher,” and talks about how strong and cool he looks.    She speaks of him like he’s a family member, because she’s awesome.

Next up, we have Pan, and now we’re talking.  The scuttlebutt is that this was the character Toriyama was referring to when he spoke of an “unexpected character”.  And I guess Pan fits the bill, since I don’t think anyone expected her to be this old in the movie.   I understand this is her kindergarten uniform, so she’d have to be about five or six years old.  I love Masako Nozawa’s reaction here.   Throughout this video, you can see that Goku and Gohan aren’t just roles to her.   

I’ll put on my fanboy hat here and point out that Pan’s age may imply that this movie takes place after the final episode of Dragon Ball Z.    She looks older here than she did when she fought Wild Tiger, at any rate.   So far, the entire Dragon Ball Super franchise has been set during the ten-year gap between the Buu crisis and the finale of Z.    So everyone has been wondering if DBS would move beyond End of Z, or whether Akira Toriyama even still recognizes the continuity of those final chapters.   They were supposed to be ten years of peace, but all the battles in DBS say otherwise.   Also, I’m pretty sure Pan and Bulla’s ages in the DBZ finale don’t line up well with their appearances in Super, but I’ve never studied it very closely.  

So this might be set post End of Z, or this might be Toriyama retconning End of Z altogether.  I’m interested to see which way this goes. 

Here’s Krillin, still working for the police, although his uniform looks more like Bronze Age Lex Luthor than anything else. Like Piccolo, the “big” story here is that he’s been tweaked to resemble the coloring in the manga, so his sclera are now white instead of fleshtoned.  

Never mind that, here’s Piccolo’s house.  This is probably the breakout star of this video, because I think everybody is excited to see Piccolo’s house.   Because it’s new lore!  No one even knew if he had one or not.   It was a running gag in DBZ Abridged that he was homeless.   I mean, congratulations to Krillin for getting his eyes colored in right, but that doesn’t tell me anything new about the character.  But Piccolo’s house is a big friggin’ deal.   What’s inside of there?  What’s on the second floor?   Check out his mailbox.   What kind of mail does he get?  It’s exciting.  

Nozawa even points out that she and her co-workers would talk about this sort of thing in the recording studio.    That’s a big deal to me, that the voice actors think about the same kind of stuff that I do as a fan.   

Around 15:30, they start talking about Toriyama’s commitment to the making of this movie, which seems like a weird thing to focus on, because he wrote the screenplay to the last two movies.   Did anyone think he was stepping back? I get the impression that there’s still some hard feelings about the failure of Dragon Ball Evolution, in the sense that they want to reassure everyone that we’re still in good hands.   I suppose one of these days, Toriyama won’t be as heavily involved in a project like this, so maybe it makes sense for Toei and Shueisha to make it clear that today is not that day.

On the other hand, Toriyama was just as involved with Broly as he was with Resurrection F, and Broly was a much better film.  The Dragon Ball Super manga seems to have revived the old argument over who’s to blame when the story is a letdown, and I think that misses the point.  Look, the Zamasu arc sucked, and I don’t care who wrote what parts, or whether Toriyama had a bad idea or whether he handed a good idea off that was badly executed.   They can hash that out behind the scenes if they want to.  

About 19 minutes in, they show us this model sheet, and refuse to explain who these guys are or what they’re doing in the movie.   Are they villains?  Who knows?  I’d like to think they’re important characters to the story, but I have my doubts that Krillin will have a big part to play.  

At 20 minutes, they announce the title of the movie, and I’m not very thrilled with “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.” They can talk it up as much as they want, and maybe the title is relevant to the plot, but it’s just too many uses of the word “super”.   Especially when they’ve got another series called “Super Dragon Ball Heroes” on YouTube. 

Then we get this teaser trailer, or whatever you want to call it, with a CG Goku hopping around and doing his classic fighting pose.  Now, for some reason, lots of people concluded that this means the entire movie will be done in this CG style, which has led to a debate over whether or not that’s a good thing.  If they can make the whole movie look this slick, then I’m fine with it.  Hell, I’m not picky.   They could animate the whole thing in Yukio Ebisawa style, and I’d be thrilled. 

But I’m not understanding where people got the idea that it’s definitely going to be a 100% CGI movie.   They never spell that out in this video, and they even go out of their way to admit that this shot of Goku isn’t actually from the movie.   So is there some other source people are referring to, or did everyone just jump to conclusions?  

And that’s pretty much it.   I don’t mean to sound negative on this panel, but I don’t feel like they revealed very much, unless this is actually going to turn out to be Piccolo and Pan having an adventure by themselves.    I think Toei could make a movie like that and it would be a success, but I have my doubts that they’d go in that direction.  If this is going to turn out to be another big slugfest with Vegeta, then I’m down for that too, but don’t show me Piccolo’s house if the movie’s going to be about Vegeta punching a guy. 

Bottom line: I’m still looking forward to this, but I don’t feel like I know much more about the movie than I did before.   Well, except for the part about Piccolo’s house.  I’m looking forward to seeing the inside of it.

[jozefsquare]

Vintage poster for Hungarian drama Cat’s Play. 

title: Cat’s Play | Hungary, 1974

director: Károly Makk

with: Margit Dajka, Ildikó Piros, Elma Bulla

poster design: Unknown Poster Artist, 1975

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[princessxbulla]

“There are more of them?!“ (Auntie Launch is here!)

“You bet. There’s more of my brother in the universe then stars in the sky and shoes in my closet.”

[princessxbulla]

✓✓✓

(Nice try, she’s underage still dude)

[princessxbulla]

‵  everyone  thinks  i’ve  gotten  better.  i  haven’t.  i’ve  just  gotten  better  at  hiding  it.  ′

“...but, you know? You’re not alone, Trunks. You’re my brother, after all. I’ll kick your butt right out of that funk, okay?”

[princessxbulla]

❝ I like you. You got balls.. ❞

“I learned from the best, auntie!”

[princessxbulla]

what kind of stuffie is mister pookie?

“Mister Pookie is a monkey!!!”

“I think he looks like daddy.”

[princessxbulla]

👍👍

Bulla is a princess! The most important princess in the multiverse!

Bulla is a princess because her daddy is Vegeta, the Prince and basically King of all Saiyans! That makes Bulla the Princess of all Saiyans. She is a Saiyan Princess. She is also a daddys girl.

[princessxbulla]

"What's the best way to tell Mom that she's wearing isn't that...fashionable nowadays?"

“...Just give me five minutes with her.”

[princessxbulla]

"Talk about me, Gohan!" (queue the stupidest smile you've ever seen, on this boy's face)

“Uncle Gohan is the biggest dork I know. He has no sense of style, and really needs to consult me or anyone before getting a haircut. 

That being said, he’s always there to talk and makes me laugh! Sometimes unintentionally. He’s a good guy and a hero!”

[princessxbulla]

" They call me Baby the relentless… because I just never relent. "

“You’re gonna give yourself an ulcer if you don’t chill. DON’T come crying to me about it, pal!”

[princessxbulla]

“Sorry for always imposing on you like this.. who am I kidding? No, I’m not.”

“Trunks...did you just admit that you like hanging out with me? Me? Your precious baby sister?”

[princessxbulla]

”Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to.”

“If you’re itching for a fight, I’ll give it to ya big sis!”