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[jacquelinemerritt]

Dragon Ball Z: Abridged – Plan to Eradicate Christmas Review

Originally posted... today!

Instead of the true meaning of Christmas, we see the true meaning of an abridged series.

Over the course of Dragon Ball Z: Abridged, Team Four Star has established a lot of minute details about its characters. We saw in Christmas Tree of Might that Goku is earth’s most ardent defender of Christmas. We also learned that across the universe, very few people got to celebrate Christmas, as it was replaced by Freeza Day on any planet he conquered. And we learned that even before Freeza conquered Planet Vegeta, Santa was never able to visit them to spread love and good cheer, because the Saiyans tried to shoot him down.

Every single one of those details is capitalized on here in Plan to Eradicate Christmas. Through snippets of character interaction, we learn that Goku has been itching to defend Christmas yet again. We see Freeza’s ego displayed as he commands the Villains of Christmas past to referthemselves as the Villains of Freeza Day Past, despite them having agreed upon Christmas. Even Santa’s inability to deliver presents to Planet Vegeta is called back to, as Vegeta nostalgically recalls his favorite Christmas pastime of shooting energy blasts at Santa’s sleigh.

If these callbacks rested solely on referring back to things we already know, it’s possible that they could fall flat, but every single one is rooted in the nature of these characters we’ve come to know and love. Of course the violent egomaniac Vegeta would try to shoot down Santa’s sleigh. Of course Freeza would refuse to bow to the demands of Cooler, Turles, and King Picc…Lord Slug, who he all views as his lesser. And of course, the battle hungry, ever optimistic Goku would be salivating over another opportunity to save Christmas, his most wonderful time of the year.

The specificity of these characters is also what makes Santa work so well as a villain here. After our heroes defeat the Villains of Christmas Past, they are confronted by Santa, who reveals that all have been naughty and fallen short of the glory of Santa. Vegeta is, well Vegeta, we know what he’s done. Goku’s lust for battle endangers the entire universe, brought to the forefront with a perfectly timed ad for Dragon Ball Super, and Piccolo is held to account for his and his father’s past attempts at world domination.

Even Trunks is at fault, having time traveled so recklessly as to endanger the space-time continuum, brilliantly highlighted with a cut to what I believe is Dragon Ball GT footage. Only Gohan is without naughtiness, and is granted a present by Santa, but like every Christmas before, Santa gives him what he likes, and he likes books.

The jokes in this Christmas special all land so well because they draw on our understanding of these characters, who we’ve gotten to know over the course of the last decade Dragon Ball Z: Abridged has been produced. It’s genuinely delightful to see Team Four Star tackle a Christmas special once more as well, as they manage to turn a story from an uninteresting OVA with a generic villain into a hilarious Christmas romp.

Plan to Eradicate Christmas is a great example of what abridged series can do at their best. They can take weak ideas and repurpose them, giving them new life and meaning with a comedic edge. Team Four Star really did go and give us a gift in Christmas 2018, and showed us what abridging is really all about.

Rating: 4.5/5

Stray Observations

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the fantastic music Cliff Weinstein composed for this special. Christmas Eve-olution / Carol of the Hells is the standout track in particular. It is wonderfully ominous and builds perfectly to the final confrontation and group Kamehameha.

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[littlepissbabee]

Compilation of Dende being jealous from the dbza buu bits. Absolutely loved these Dende crumbs fr

[chickenoptyrx]

Ngl im perfectly willing to just enjoy Daima.

•Expectations: on the ground

•willingness to just roll with it: high

If i dont like it, oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i still got dragonball and dbz

[vargaslovinghours]

Of course they’re cute, that’s what they’re made of

[peridotite]

today on sami discovering things about dbza: some fandub group did a latino dub of dbza up to when ginyu arrives and the voices are spot-on

[azrael-the-lucifan]

I would once again like to thank TFS for creating my favourite Christmas special, “Plan to Eradicate Christmas”. I watch it every year and it never fails to make me smile and laugh.

[textfromthelookout]

Did you hear of the news?

I have. :(

Everyone else has their tributes so, here, a summary of my experience with Dragon Ball.

I was in fourth grade art class. A kid had the February 2005 issue of Shonen Jump, back when Shonen Jump was still physically printed here. I recognized Atem on the front cover because the Blockbuster around the corner from our house had DVDs (I think they were DVDs and not VHSs then since I distinctly remember it having a menu and special features) of some of the later episodes of Duelist Kingdom and my brother and I watched them on repeat. So I was like oh, hey, what's this? They make books of that stuff? I don't remember the conversation but the kid ended up giving me that issue, and I took it home with me.

There were a LOT of significant, groundwork things happening in that issue, now that I think about it. We were just beginning to see Sanji truly in action against Pearl. The Dark Tournament was in it's early stages still with Roto fucking around and finding out against Kurama. Sakura shears off her hair in a move that rearranged sexualities the world over. The reason Atem was on the cover was because Yu-Gi-Oh Millennium World was just debuting its first and second chapter. Bleach wasn't even serialized yet. And Dragon Ball, of course, was also there, about a hundred and fifty chapters ahead of everybody else.

Keep in mind that this was my first experience with manga, period. So my very first experience with Dragon Ball opened on this:

and ended on this:

Yeah. Truth be told, at the time Yu Yu Hakusho piqued my interest more than Dragon Ball (a guy fighting with plants? how creative!) but I never did forget these chapters. I thought the art style was so different from the others.

At some point after this, probably between several months and a year and a half, the TV happened to be on one evening when Toonami was airing Dragon Ball Z. Oh hey, I said, I recognize that art, I know those characters. So I hung around and watched some of episode 281. Two things about watching that episode stick with absolute crystal clarity in my mind to this day. Firstly: Buu choking Vegeta out with his arm freaked me the FUCK out as a child. I could not tell you why I had a fear reaction to it but hey, there you go. The second is this:

Specifically I remember 'You died once. If anything happens to you now, you won't exist anymore. There'll be nothing I can do to bring you back.' Not precisely word for word over the years, but Schemmel's tone of voice on this particular lineread. If I had to guess I'd say it was because at that point in my life, uh, death was kinda permanent? So wait, what do you mean died ONCE. Doesn't that apply to everyone?

This still wasn't enough to get me super invested in it though, it just didn't seem like something that would appeal to me that much. So a couple years go by, I don't think about it all that much, and then of course, TFS hits the scene and drops DBZ Abridged. So you know. As a shithead middle schooler with a shithead sense of humor I thought it was the best damn thing since sliced bread. (My biggest character flaw is that I still think a lot of Season 1 is genuinely funny)

And that was really the extent of my interaction with the franchise for the next several years. Say what you will about DBZA but they did manage to put it all together such that someone who had a nonexistent concept of what the original context was could grok it with not a lot of effort. Some time in high school, I think I was around 15, I decided to bite the bullet and read all the manga, as much to increase the funny factor of DBZA as sheerly for the sake of being able to say I had. Stick it to the other weebs, y'know. Now they can't say I didn't know anything about good anime. This was unfortunately at a time when all that was available online were dirty poor-quality scans and questionable translations, but read it I did. I went 'yep, that sure is about what I expected', and proceeded to get on with my life. GT came and went, I looked up and saw Battle of Gods coming out and went 'oh hey that's still a thing huh', kinda was peripherally aware of all the divisiveness of Super as it was happening, didn't really pay it much attention, just stuck to DBZA and quite a lot of wiki-ing.

And then, this time of year about three years ago now, in the middle of conversation with @prophecydungeon, Dragon Ball somehow came up. Something to do with 'Even though I'm not hugely into DBZ's story or whatever Toriyama does have some great character designs' (yes I was referring to Vegeta and Future Trunks at the time, no i will not stop being predictable, yes i am a parody of myself). They eventually brought up the DBS Broly movie and said, and i quote: 'that was a solid 1.5h of unbelievably fun and wacky animation'. Having seen the Gogeta vs Broly part of it on twitter and been like 'damn that animation's kinda off the hook actually, good for them good for them', my response was to be like. Oh word? I've got a spare hour and a half to kill, sure, fuck it, why not, time to watch DBS Broly.

I think that movie was precision crafted to hit me in the hyperfixation, if we're being honest. Opening on a solid 20 minutes of Lore and Worldbuilding and then having most of the rest of the runtime being mindless slobberknocker fun by way of some of the hardest animation flexes ever? I was done for.

In summation. I have been aware of Dragon Ball for a lot of my life, in that its presence was pervasive and enduring as I grew up. I may have been late to the game of actually wholeheartedly enjoying it, but enjoy it I do. Dragon Ball is the roots of a vast tree of anime, and in reading it I began to understand why that is. I respect it for that, and I love it for that. My current fixation may have shifted, but as far as time devoted to one individual thing goes... it took me a year and a half to watch my way through all of the anime and read all of the manga. ALL of it. So there's something good in there, I'd say.

[jenukiart]

OC Stuff - BKW - The Bomb Brigade

This one's a doozy cuz each member has a lot going on so strap in!!!

Their job is to hunt intergalactic monsters, beasts, and other such dangerous anomalies. With Kisyku running around rampant across the Cosmos, he quickly becomes their biggest target yet!! While their heavy duty weaponry and means of combat mean serious business, the brigade often gets caught up in numerous misadventures (sometimes they're just outright hard to take seriously...)

Also.. I call them the Bomb Brigade as their official title, but I'd imagine in the actual story the name alliteration gets mixed up and butchered every single time, as if no one can remember the actual name hahahaha. Anywhos..

Bombs

Bombs is the head-honcho of the Brigade. He's a human from Earth who leads his team with great confidence (sometimes to a fault). He can be stubborn.. and.. hard to co-operate with sometimes.. but all in all he's a captain who cares deeply for the whole team. Each member to him is like family, so he's always doing anything he can to look out for them.

I'd imagine whenever the Brigade needs to put up with Kisyku (like a temporary truce, or whenever they eventually form an alliance later in the story), him and Bombs would be that kind of friendly rival dynamic that just has them constantly arguing while they have to put up with each others annoyances.

Bombs also has an interesting speech-style, adding a lot of S to the end of words and stuff.. He also has a big rocket launcher, because he believes anything can be solved with explosives.

Bits and Blitz

Bits is little shark-manta-alien-thing who was recruited by Bombs for his incredible technical prowess. He's super smart, and having four hands is quite helpful when you're the team's primary mechanic. Outside of his technical craft, however, he enjoys gardening a lot. Bombs even lets him have his own garden room on the ship! He also just talks with a lot of sailor/sea terminology hahaha

Bits invented Blitz before joining Bombs, but she was just the orb/eye part back then. She didn't get the laser cannon extension until Bits built Bash (yeah he built Bash too!!). Bits has been meaning to give her a proper robot body, but she's actually happy being just the way she is.

Blitz is like a sister to Bits, having a cheery heart-of-gold. She speaks in beeps, chirps, and whirs, but everyone can still understand what she has to say anyways. She's a great listener, and often the one the Brigade members (especially Bury...) confide in to talk about their feelings. Despite her physical limitations she's still a girl at heart, doing things like makeup and stuff. :P

Bash

The Brigade often searches through the aftermath of places Kisyku’s been for anything useful. He tends to really bust up facilities and machines for some reason. Bits managed to collect enough scraps and parts to give Blitz a laser cannon, and eventually construct Bash.

Bash is forged from the scraps of Kisyku’s destruction. He has one goal and one goal alone and it's to "kill the Celestial." That tunnel-vision mindset is kinda like Android 16 in DBZA, except Bash is also very arrogant too. He often sees himself as the superior being, the greatest, flawless, you get the idea. Somehow though, he's just co-operative enough to still be tolerable... except with Bury... him and Bury kinda argue like a LOT.

Unlike the weaponry used by the rest of the Brigade, Bash specializes in sheer physical strength and agility. He can spin his body around a whole 360 degrees, making him very a versatile threat able to keep up with someone as quick and nimble as Kisyku.

Eventually, Bits constructs the Giga Bash, a giant mecha that the Brigade uses at the climax of their rivalry with Kisyku in attempt to finish him off once and for all! This form of Bash is piloted by the rest of the Brigade, and has tons of features like missiles, swords, lasers, and all sorts of heavy duty artillery.

Kisk does.. end up beating the Giga Bash though.. I'd imagine it's then that they finally put the bounty stuff aside for good. Though I imagined later big story beats will have them bring Giga back out again to help out with massive threats Kisk faces.

Bury

Oh boy uhm. Bury is. interesting. She's my personal favorite member of the Brigade! It's probably why she's the only one I have a proper reference sheet of, haha

Not much is really known about Bury, The Brigade, by complete and utter luck, just found her unconscious on a desolate planet. They were there just looking for parts and stuff, so it was a complete "right place right time" sorta deal to even have found her.

Thankfully, they were able to recover her back to health, Bits even gave her a prosthetic arm to replace the one she was missing.

But Bury is a total mystery to the Brigade, she refuses to elaborate about her past, why she was stranded, etc. Whenever they prod her about it, she's very cold, rude, and defensive about it.

Eventually they just stop trying to push something out, and learn to just live with her as she is now. Doesn't mean things are awkward though. Despite her mean-girl nature, Bury gets along moderately well with the Brigade, still following orders where needed. While she has her problems with the gang, she still manages to tolerate her relationships with em fair enough.

Except Bash..... Bury argues with Bash like all the time them two like never get along, but it's mostly played up for laughs than anything really serious.

Though I'd imagine with time she grows a secret soft spot for them that she just doesn't wanna admit. It's probbaly why she still sticks around them. Not like she has anywhere else to go.

So the best way I can describe her is "space tsundere/troubled sister" hahaha

In terms of abilities though, Bury excels at both close quarters and long range combat, making her a threat on all covers.

Her laser scythe can be turned into a sniper rifle and vice versa with just a spin of the handle, so it's not like she's stick to one mode of combat at any time.

She REALLY doesn't like Kisyku, and is the only member of the Brigade who seems to ACTUALLY give him a a run for his money (see this saying is ironic because Kisyku is constantly broke but it's not actually about money sorry idk why I'm rambling I thought I felt so cool saying it)

But yeah, them two seem to not get along very well.... It's especially awkward when the Brigade is forced to team up with Kisyku for episodic antics. Kisyku genuinely doesn't know what her deal is though.

She just seems to have a lot going on that she just doesn't wanna talk about. For her to be so locked up about her past leaves her shrouded in complete mystery to the rest of the cast. I hope that one day if I can truly get BKW out there, I'll get to uncover her secrets to you all.

And wow that's them!! Hopefully you learned a lot about these guys, it's my first time sharing info about them like this!! Now I can go and draw my silly doodles about them :P

[punkpuppy1312]

20s | They / She / It / Pup / Fluff / Wolf / Drae | Genderfae Puppydragongirlthing | Polyfidelitous Biromantic Lesbian | Black / Indigenous | Anarchist | INFP | ♌𖤓♒☾♊⇡ | 🌊🐟

My Special Interests (⁠●⁠_●⁠)💕 *angel choir*:

💗 Cartoons

💗 Philosophy

💗 Magick

💗 Nature

My Recurring / Long Running Hyperfixations ヾ⁠(⁠*⁠’⁠Ｏ⁠’⁠*⁠)⁠/💖:

✨ Music

✨ Cannabis

✨ Psychedelics

✨ Natural Medicine

✨ Alt Culture

✨ Romance

✨ Dreams

✨ Powerscaling

✨ Hacking

✨ Science

✨ Tech

✨ Engineering

✨ Pop Culture

✨ Conspiracy Theories

✨ Cryptozoology

✨ Quirky Online Quizzes

✨ Martial Arts

✨Free Love

✨ BDSM & Kink

✨ Architecture

✨ Religion

✨ Mythology & Folklore

✨ Identity

✨ Horror / True Crime / Dark Content

✨ Neurodivergence

fav cartoons 📺:

Adventure Time, Dead End Paranormal Park, Invader Zim, Gravity Falls, Avatar, Owl house, Centaurworld, Growing Up Creepie, She-Ra, MLP:FIM, MLP: Equestria Girls, Craig of the Creek, Bee and Puppycat, Inside Job, We Bare Bears, Bluey, SpongeBob, One Piece, Steven Universe, Jujutsu Kaisen, dbza, Blue Exorcist, Kid Cosmic, Big Mouth (literally chat to me bruv, I dare you I'm so fuckin fr), MHA, Summer Camp Island, Bobs Burgers, Bojack Horseman, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Mighty B!, Samurai Jack, Danny Phantom, PPG, Toradora, Lovely Complex, Inuyasha, Ghibli, Another, Tuca and Bertie, Total Drama, Star vs, Fanboy and chum chum, the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold, The Weekenders, Bravest Warriors, Cowboy Bebop, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ren & Stimpy, American Dragon: Jake Long, Fantastic Mr Fox, Zootopia, Ponyo, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke (#1 fav Ghibli movie), Big Hero 6, Lilo & Stitch, Maximum Ride (but I like the novels too), Lumberjanes, Seconds, Scott Pilgrim, Zebrafish, Bone, Dragon Ball, Naruto, uuuh, haha, its kind of a long list.

my fav bands/music artists 🥁🎸🎤: Dirty Heads, Snoop Dawg, MF DOOM, Kendrick Lamar, Andre 3000, Mac Miller, Kid Cudi, Denzel Curry, Danny Brown, Run The Jewels, Dominic Fike, Ken Ashcorp, Say hi (to your mom), Mike Krol, Bikini Trill, Fall Out Boy, Free Cake For Every Creature, Adult Mom, Death, Gorillaz, Motion City Soundtrack, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Sublime w/ Rome, Sidney Gish, Bad Brains, Atlas, Rustage, Dodie, Mommy Long Legs, Bratmobile, Sleater-Kinny, Gito Gito Hustler, Yabadum, Hands Off Gretel, Yucky Duster, Violent Femmes, Teen Suicide, Acid Ghost, Arcade Fire, K. Flay, grandson, ACDC, Nirvana, My Chemical Romance, Cage the Elephant, Bloc Party, Paramore, Mitski, Destroy Boys, Minor Threat, The Pillows, Electric President, Aly & AJ, Oliver Tree, 100 gecs, Chloe Moriando, Glass Animals, Studio Killers, Mystery Skulls, Vampire Weekend, Plumtree, The Classic Crime, Pillow Theory, Fun., Mom Jeans., Good Kid, The Front Bottoms, Calpurnia, Wallows, Mother Mother, Pleasure Venom, Bikini Kill, Pure Hell, Mitski, Aer, Slightly Stoopid, Pinkshift, Heavens To Betsy, Crass, Crook & Nannie, Netherfriends, Wu Tang, Eric B & Rakim, Khai Dreams, Oz the Originator, Richie Branson, Hideki Naganuma, Chaba Take, Hatsune Miku, Vocaloid, Rebecca Sugar, Arctic Monkeys.

my fav movies 🎥🍿: Fantastic Mr Fox, Zootopia, Ponyo, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke (#1 fav Ghibli movie), Big Hero 6, Lilo & Stich, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Pineapple Express, EEAAO, The Book Of Clarence, The Blackening, The Harder They Fall, Joker.

fav games 🎮 : The Simz, Zelda, Skate 3, JSRF, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Metroid, Fortnite, Animal Crossing, Genshin Impact, Minecraft, Spiderman, Saints Row, Sleeping Dogs, mostly adventure, sandbox, rpgs, and sim games!

[thepuff09]

DBS SUPER HERO EASTER EGG BELOW THE BREAK

So I just finished watching Super Hero for the first time, I know I’m late, and after a bit of research, I’ve made an incredible (but not very new) discovery:

Akira Toriyama might be a Abridged fan

See, for those who didn’t realize, in the beginning of the movie we get to see Dr. Gero’s family tree. Now, there’s a couple cool Easter eggs here, including his wife being 21’s base, but what I’m interested in is there son, Gevo, also known as Android 16.

For those even more out of the loop, there was a special addition to DBZA’s Cell Saga which shows a locked off file in 16’s brain playing a video. This video happens to show a turnip-boy, who calls Gero “dad”, and who has a bird, talking about how he just enrolled in the Red Ribbon Army. Suddenly, we hear a boy’s voice yelling in the background, and a Kamehameha destroys the camera.

This was decades before DBSSH, so it is 100% possible that Toriyama was inspired by the folks at FourStar.

[dreadsuitsamus]

Would it be in-character for Vegeta to tell Trunks and Bulla that Santa isn't real when they're kids because his pride wouldn't let a pigment of their imagination take credit for getting the presents and eating the cookies?

i choose to go with the belief that santa is real in the db universe and vegeta dreams of killing him 🤣 there's a dbza christmas special featuring this and i like going with that

but to give an actual answer, i don't think bulma would let him do that, since it's most definitely her getting the presents for the kids and wanting them to have a nice christmas. he's a tough father but he doesn't want his kids unhappy, so if he would maybe want to tell them santa isn't real, i don't think he would do it out of pride. but largely i don't see him caring all that much outside of maybe thinking believing in santa is silly

[jacquelinemerritt]

Dragon Ball Z: History of Trunks Abridged Review

Originally posted May 13th, 2016

The darkest entry yet.

“History of Trunks” is an odd entry in the Dragonball Z: Abridged, as it toes the line between traditional anime melodrama and comedy, yet comes out more often on the side of actual drama than any other episode, special, or film has. Where Team Four Star merely hinted at their interest in directly engaging with this drama in “Fear and Loathing in Ginger Town,” “History of Trunks” dives directly into the melodramatic meat of Trunks’ backstory, while the comedy has a far subtler role.

I call the comedy in “History of Trunks” subtle because despite the presence of cutaway gags and an often sarcastic narrator, the special focuses far less on the comedy than it does the narrative of Trunks himself. We get to follow him from being a doe-eyed teenager obsessed with heroism to a functional nihilist who has sacrificed his innocence for the sake of personal strength, and it’s this very subtext that makes his transformation into a Super Saiyan so goddamn poignant.

We saw this with Goku as well, back on Namek, when Krillin’s demise and the hopelessness of the fight against Freeza triggered the first Super Saiyan transformation we would witness on the show, but the context here is even bleaker: even post-transformation, Trunks is nowhere near as strong as Gohan, and Gohan never stood a chance against the Androids himself. Where Goku’s transformation gave us hope in the fight against Freeza, Trunks’ transformation gives us nothing more than the pain of pointlessly battling for a world that is too far gone to ever be saved.

The overlay of “Doomsday” from the Doctor Who soundtrack1 adds to this moment tonally and thematically in an incredibly powerful way as well; the Doctor is time traveling hero of eternal optimism and hope, and in the moment “Doomsday” first plays for him, he’s forced to accept the hopelessness of ever being able to reconnect with the person in the universe he loves the most. In this moment, Trunks is forced to deal with the first great loss of his life, and he lashes out in anger, transforming into bestial version of himself for no reason other than to physically embody his own pain, because his last hope for his own world has died, and there’s nothing else to be said.

I realize that so far I’ve spent the entirety of this review focusing on that singular moment, a single scene that lasts no more than two minutes, but “History of Trunks” is at its core, the story of Trunks, and the entirety of Trunks’ person can be traced back to that singular moment where his world was shattered before his eyes.

The rest of the characters in this special are confronted with this same experience: Gohan refuses to validate Trunks’ romanticizing of the past, viewing it in stark terms of constant death, fighting, and abuse; Android 18 slowly becomes disillusioned with the destruction he and his sister wreak across the world, unable to find joy in the end of the world; Bulma refuses to believe in destiny and only holds hope in the possibility that she might undo everything horrible that’s happened to the world. The only characters that find any solace at all in the destruction of the world are TJ and the Wombat, and their solace stems from purely selfish desires, justifying their lack of pain by dismissing the value of the people they love.

I could go on about how the characterization of our protagonists embody typical responses to trauma, as the voice of Piccolo lingers in Gohan’s mind or Bulma embraces hypersexuality as a coping mechanism, but this review has gotten bleak, and truthfully, “History of Trunks” is interested in more than simply exploring the darkness at the end of the world.

Bulma’s hope, in fact, is the one thing that saves Trunks and allows him to retain some form of optimism, even if he’s only optimistic about being able to rewrite the entire timestream. In the face of this destruction, he and his mother still have the gall the write “Hope!!!” on the outside of their time machine, to look to a possible alternate universe where things don’t end up nearly as shitty.

Trunks may have been forced to embrace the hopelessness of the Doctor, but he embodies the same kind of foolish optimism too, understanding the true capability of humanity to fight back against its failures and mistakes, even if that battle only results in a better universe that isn’t even your own. For all the darkness “History of Trunks” has to show us, there’s a tiny glimmer of optimism too, and that optimism is ultimately far more important than anything else.

Especially since it means Trunks will finally get to see his father.

Rating: 5/5

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Stray Observations

1Specifically the season two soundtrack, for the curious.

Trunks: “Mom, do you believe in destiny?” Bulma: “I’m a scientist, so, no.”

Gohan: “I’ve got one Mr. Piccolo.”

“We’ve got plenty of room, but no extra beds, so we’ll have to share.” Now, I don’t know about you all, but I hope to someday have the same unflinching confidence in my sexuality as Bulma does here.

Ox-King: “So, is dinner happening?” Chi-Chi: “Will dinner bring my husband back!?” Ox-King: “Maybe?!”

Gohan: “If you’re already bored, maybe you should take a ride on my fist!”

Trunks: “She wasn’t wrong. I, however, was.”

Android 18: “After you wipe an entire genre of music off the face of the earth, what’s left?”

Android 17: “I’m gonna range the shit out of that park!”

I love how monkey-like Trunks is made to look when he first goes Super-Saiyan. It’s a very nice touch by the original animators.

Vegeta’s scream though! That’s real commitment to continuity right there.

Bulma: “And…multiverse theory it is. Shit.”

[thelastsaiyanprincess]

Damn the whole thing!? No wonder you needed a break ahaha, isn't the fight against freiza something like 50 episodes for a "5 minute fight" 😂 whenever you do feel upto it tho, deffo check out the abridged version, it's funny af and even tho they had to stop after the cell saga (some behind the scenes reasons idk I didn't really follow them or anything) the voice actors actually got hired into doing the English/American dub for dragonball super 😮 anyways, hope you have a good day, just throwing my 10 cents in or whatever they say ahaha

Yup, the whooooole series 🥴 do not underestimate the power of a neurodivergent girl with a special interest LMFAOOOOO

well yes the DBZ fight with frieza was like 50 fucking episodes but thats because DBZ had terrible pacing 😂 it's wayyyy better in DBZ kai! but to be fair the first super saiyan transformation was more hype in DBZ because the build up was longer lolol

i'll check it out sometime!! ppl keep recommending it to me so it must be good lol. and thats cool af i didnt know the VAs were invited to work on super!!! dream job fr!!! do u know who they voiced?

i guess im just a lil hesitant because DBZA has given the dragon ball fandom a bad name because a lot of new fans watched that instead of actually watching the show/reading the manga, so they miss out on a LOT of important context. thats where the whole "dont fuck with dragon ball fans, we havent watched the show" comes from 🥴🥴🥴

[crotchpopacop]

20s | They / She / It / Pup / Fluff / Wolf / Drae | Genderfae Puppydragongirlthing | Polyfidelitous Pansexual | Black / Indigenous American | AuDHDer + CPTSD | Anarchist | INFP | ♌𖤓♒☾♊⇡ | 🌊🐟

My Special Interests (⁠●⁠_●⁠)💕 *angel choir*:

💗 Cartoons

💗 Philosophy

💗 Magick

💗 Nature

My Recurring / Long Running Hyperfixationsヾ⁠(⁠*⁠’⁠Ｏ⁠’⁠*⁠)⁠/💖:

✨ Music

✨ Cannabis

✨ Psychedelics

✨ Natural Medicine

✨ Alt Culture

✨ Romance

✨ Dreams

✨ Powerscaling

✨ Hacking

✨ Science

✨ Tech

✨ Engineering

✨ Pop Culture

✨ Conspiracy Theories

✨ Cryptozoology

✨ Quirky Online Quizzes

✨ Martial Arts

✨Free Love

✨ BDSM & Kink

✨ Architecture

✨ Religion

✨ Mythology & Folklore

✨ Identity

✨ Horror / True Crime / Dark Content

✨ Nuerodivergence

fav cartoons 📺:

Adventure Time, Dead End Paranormal Park, Invader Zim, Gravity Falls, Avatar, Owl house, Centaurworld, Growing Up Creepie, She-Ra, MLP:FIM, MLP: Equestria Girls, Craig of the Creek, Bee and Puppycat, Inside Job, We Bare Bears, Bluey, SpongeBob, One Piece, Steven Universe, Jujutsu Kaisen, dbza, Blue Exorcist, Kid Cosmic, Big Mouth (literally chat to me bruv, I dare you I'm so fuckin fr), MHA, Summer Camp Island, Bobs Burgers, Bojack Horseman, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Mighty B!, Samurai Jack, Danny Phantom, PPG, Toradora, Lovely Complex, Inuyasha, Ghibli, Another, Tuca and Bertie, Total Drama, Star vs, Fanboy and chum chum, the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold, The Weekenders, Bravest Warriors, Cowboy Bebop, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ren & Stimpy, American Dragon: Jake Long,,, you get the vibes, its kind of a long list.

my taste in music 🥁🎸🎤:

Dirty Heads, Kendrick Lamar, Andre 3000, Mac Miller, Kid Cudi, Dominic Fike, Death, Gorillaz, Motion City Soundtrack, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Sublime w/ Rome, Sidney Gish, Bad Brains, Atlas, Rustage, Dodie, Mommy Long Legs, Bratmobile, Sleater-Kinny, Ken Ashcorp, Say hi (to your mom), Mike Krol, Bikini Trill, Fall Out Boy, Free Cake For Every Creature, Adult Mom, Gito Gito Hustler, Yabadum, Hands Off Gretel, Yucky Duster, Violent Femmes, Teen Suicide, Acid Ghost, Snoop Dawg, MF DOOM, Arcade Fire, K. Flay, grandson, ACDC, Nirvana, My Chemical Romance, Cage the Elephant, Bloc Party, Paramore, Mitski, Destroy Boys, Minor Threat, The Pillows, Electric President, Aly & AJ, Oliver Tree, 100 gecs, Chloe Moriando, Glass Animals, Studio Killers, Mystery Skulls, Vampire Weekend, Plumtree, The Classic Crime, Pillow Theory, Fun., Mom Jeans., Good Kid, The Front Bottoms, Calpurnia, Wallows, Mother Mother, Pleasure Venom, Bikini Kill, Denzel Curry, Danny Brown, Run The Jewels, Pure Hell, Mitski, Aer, Slightly Stoopid, Pinkshift, Heavens To Betsy, Crass, Crook & Nannie, Netherfriends, Wu Tang, Eric B & Rakim, Khai Dreams, Oz the Originator, Richie Branson, Hideki Naganuma, Chaba Take, Hatsune Miku, Vocaloid, Rebecca Sugar, Arctic Monkeys, Lemon Demon, IDKHBTFM, again, you get the vibes .

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Another dream: was playing an rpg, like guild wars crossed with guild wars 2, and I was being run through a map, had to wait on top of a dresser in a house with others to avoid a deadly gas while the runner fought a rare random boss that was a clown from a circus who'd been corrupted. Killing him opened up special boss zone called the theater and we all ran to it. The entrance hall was a spiral staircase down that led to a small main gate. At the gate we ran into shadow spiders we had to fight 2 gw wind riders but in the dream they were some of the hardest monsters. They stopped when a strange lady came up. She was singing (to the tune of dbza day of fate). We all stopped and listened. "The mind darkness is aware, the mind of water is asleep, the mind of metal is between, all 3 work to keep/find? the peace." She was in a trance almost and as soon as she walked away the fight continued. Many people saw her from far away but never met her. No one knew she talked. I realized that if we kept fighting the bosses, eventually or something far, far worse would come. Something that could break the game. Then I woke up.

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DBZA is really something special.