Dragon Ball Thread - RIP Akira Toriyama

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i don't really get emotional anymore, but this hit hard.... Lots of people grew up with Dragon ball and so did I... I still remember how i rushed home from school, in the early 00's, just to watch DB on the German RTL2... And also remember how I had to argue and beg my parent to watch DBZ, as it was during the same time as the news were on, and we only had one TV at the time... Toriyama even inspired me to draw and Goku pretty much showed me not to give up, which helped while I was competing in sports... Anyway, i could spend hours talking about this stuff, but I think lots of people have similar stories... Thanks for everything Toriyama-san, you will be missed...

Time to reread the series.

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Yosha said:
i don't really get emotional anymore, but this hit hard.... Lots of people grew up with Dragon ball and so did I... I still remember how i rushed home from school, in the early 00's, just to watch DB on the German RTL2... And also remember how I had to argue and beg my parent to watch DBZ, as it was during the same time as the news were on, and we only had one TV at the time... Toriyama even inpired me to draw and Goku pretty much showed me not to give up, which helped while I was competing in sports... Anyway, i could spend hours talking about this stuff, but I think lots of people have similar stories... Thanks for everything Toriyama-san, you will be missed...

Time to reread the series.

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At almost 4 A.M., I randomly went back on Amazon to buy Sand Land and his not often talked about manga series Manga Theater for almost $50. Usually, I don’t even do fever rush buys like this since I try to save money, but this was absolutely worth it.
 
WhimsicalTrolli said:
He couldn't name drop the girl who got killed because of his open border correctly, I'd hate to see him butcher his name and get the ip he created wrong.
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"I was devastated to hear about the death of Hiromu Arakawa, renowned for writing Full Metal Panic."

Politico Fact Check - he got 60% of the name right, that's basically true right? Mostly accurate. No, completely accurate as she has not stated she does not identify as Akira Toriyama or as a corpse!
 
This is the worst celebrity death. Like many others, DragonBall (mostly z) had a huge impact on my life. It was something I shared with my partner and many others, and if I had kids I would share it with them as well. It's hard to put words to the impact it's had. I've been a fan for over two decades now and definitely have a lot of emotions.
RIP. I hope that the line at King Yemma's isn't too long today.
 
Daddy's Little Kitten said:
DB merchandise is gonna go through the roof now.
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I fucking hate "value speculators"with a passion. Every time someone dies this shit happens.A lot of stuff in the thread I would have said was already said which says something about how universal of an impact this guy's had.
 
If pokemon was the groundwork for anime in the west then DBZ was the spark that set it off completely, at least in the young boys(Adult was more Cowboy Behop and the old Adult Swim Line up but you could argue DBZ had a role in that as well). The pokemon show existed to hype the games, DBZ just existed and became a fucking juggernaut all on it's own.

I am half worried about the future of the franchise. After Daima and this current arc in the manga, everything will be completely Toyotarou or Toei. Dragon Ball as a franchise won't go away, It makes way too much fucking money. It's like Star Wars, it's always going to exist. But now with it's creator gone things could go either way.
 
Bork Laser said:
If pokemon was the groundwork for anime in the west then DBZ was the spark that set it off completely, at least in the young boys(Adult was more Cowboy Behop and the old Adult Swim Line up but you could argue DBZ had a role in that as well). The pokemon show existed to hype the games, DBZ just existed and became a fucking juggernaut all on it's own.

I am half worried about the future of the franchise. After Daima and this current arc in the manga, everything will be completely Toyotarou or Toei. Dragon Ball as a franchise won't go away, It makes way too much fucking money. It's like Star Wars, it's always going to exist. But now with it's creator gone things could go either way.
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Toyotaro could live longer than Toriyama, retire, and Shueisha would still be milking the husk.
 
I remember people were speculating about what would happen when masako would pass if there's a successor in place. Who'd expect toriyama to be the one who pass before nowaza.
 
Most people discovered DBZ on Toonami. My path was slightly different. I watched the original Dragon Ball on television when it first aired in syndication in 1995. Then in 1996, I became a huge fan of the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z during its original run on television. But that was all we had in America for years. I'd go to comic book conventions and buy as many Dragon Ball bootleg VHS tapes I could find. I went to Otakon to buy the manga volumes. I tried to get my local comic book store to order the tankoban from Previews magazine, and, as a result, wound up getting a first printing of volume 42. I would go online and download translated scripts of dragon ball volumes. I would read the fucking scripts over and over and over again. When I was sixteen, I went to Paris and fuck the Eiffel Tower, take me to the bookstore so I can buy Dragon Ball manga. The first time I read the Freiza saga was from French manga volumes because, as stated, America had jack shit in terms of actual dragon ball material. And even though I couldn't understand a single word, I was so fucking hype because I could finally finish the story the Ocean dub left hanging.

I never got into Super and I think Goku Black is gay, but its hard to understate how influential Z was to teenage me. I used to draw comics in school, and there is a clear demarcation pre- and post-DBZ in the kinds of stories I wrote and drew.

RIP Toriyama.
 
Hembruh said:
I already have it but I ain't gonna lie that commercial touched me and would have worked hard on me
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It probably wouldn't have before Toriyama's death honestly, but now I want to go through the story again and it seems like a fresh way to do it. That commercial really is amazing though, the jaded part of me wants to dismiss it as cynical nostalgia manipulation but it seems pretty genuine at the same time.
 
SSj_Ness said:
It probably wouldn't have before Toriyama's death honestly, but now I want to go through the story again and it seems like a fresh way to do it. That commercial really is amazing though, the jaded part of me wants to dismiss it as cynical nostalgia manipulation but it seems pretty genuine at the same time.
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I would too if I didn't already play Xenoverse 2.
that fucking game has me by the balls, especially now
 
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