Team Four Star - Creators of a bunch of stuff to make people laugh trying to figure out what to do after a decade of comedically retelling Dragon Ball Z.

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His what-if videos have reached critical mass and he's attempting to bridge them all together into a what-if multiverse staring Punished Zamasu, old man Trunks, and an original the character that totally isn't just Cell shaped like GT's Baby.
Haven’t watched Masako in a while since his stories went off the deep end into pretentious fanfic territory, but I’ll go ahead and say that Salad Saiyan did it better. He did a what-if where the power scaling got so absurd and the final battle escalated so much that it started ripping into the multiverse and affecting other what-ifs, basically presented as “this is ridiculous but it’s cool for a single video so fuck it”.
 
They’re interesting for the wrong reasons. Watching them talk in real life/seeing their solo products reveals how painfully mediocre they are on their own - but for some reason everything just clicks when they get together. It felt like they never even stopped when they put out the shorts for the Buu Saga. Lightning in a bottle, I guess.
They do have good chemistry together. The old Let's Plays they did with Gan weren't that great since Kaiser and Taka suck at games, but the four of them bouncing off one another works really well.

The problem with doing something brand new is they don't have the structure that DBZA or a LP provide, they have to work within the context of the property they're working with and so are restricted. This allows them to focus on what they can do and work within it. If they were able to dub a new anime series, maybe just edit the lip flaps to match their own dialogue and nothing else, it'd probably work out. But a brand new sitcom from scratch? Too many directions they can go, so they pick the weakest ones.
 
And so the big twist with Masakox's multiverse bad guy is that the little runt is John Carpenter's The Thing, mixed with Baby. At least he remembered to strike the thumbs up pose while voicing Vegeta right before he ate shit.
 
He did a what-if where the power scaling got so absurd and the final battle escalated so much that it started ripping into the multiverse and affecting other what-ifs, basically presented as “this is ridiculous but it’s cool for a single video so fuck it”.
I've never seen any Salad video like that which one was it?
 
‘if we were doing Buu Videl would be a jaded fan of Harry Potter’
- Kaiser, Ep 59 Commentary

I’m so glad they are doing Buu. Because I don’t have to deal with every character becoming a political mouth.

Somewhere in the back of Kaiser’s head I get the feeling he knows he is not funny any more.
 
‘if we were doing Buu Videl would be a jaded fan of Harry Potter’
- Kaiser, Ep 59 Commentary

I’m so glad they are doing Buu. Because I don’t have to deal with every character becoming a political mouth.

Somewhere in the back of Kaiser’s head I get the feeling he knows he is not funny any more.
The idea of her being an overly serious Batman type was kind of funny in the Buu bits, but yeah.

Also, considering the way things are shifting, that Harry Potter shit would become outdated pretty quickly since more and more people are understanding that having dudes in women's locker rooms might not actually be a good thing.
 
The idea of her being an overly serious Batman type was kind of funny in the Buu bits, but yeah.
That bit’s fine. It’s totally within her character to want to be a super serious hero of justice that’s taken seriously considering the source material. It’s everything else that was the issue in the Bits.

I assumed they were going to go ‘yellow haired kid is cute and cool, I want to fight monsters too’ and then the HP boy that fights monsters turns up and she gets all obsessive while trying to act like she isn’t geeking the fuck out.

But regardless, glad we did not get Buu.
 
The idea of her being an overly serious Batman type was kind of funny in the Buu bits, but yeah.

Also, considering the way things are shifting, that Harry Potter shit would become outdated pretty quickly since more and more people are understanding that having dudes in women's locker rooms might not actually be a good thing.
So, by the time episode 2 aired they'd have to apologize for offensive jokes?
 
I rarely watch commentary tracks, but on a whim I watched an episode commentary for Busou Renkin the other day. The two main English voice actors talked about their show and voice acting as a job, and I learned a few things about the industry. They kept their commentary on-topic and no longer than the episode's runtime. I don't even like that show's English dub, but the commentary was pretty great.

On another whim, I decided to see how bad DBZA's episode commentaries could be, and I found that they're double to triple the length of the actual episodes themselves, because they keep pausing the show every five seconds to talk about gay wrestling shit and merchandise. It's actually kind of amazing that these dipshits can talk for an hour about a ten-minute remix they made of someone else's property and somehow say nothing interesting about it, even accidentally. I always liked DBZA, but seeing what kind of retards created it is almost enough to sour me on it.
 
I rarely watch commentary tracks, but on a whim I watched an episode commentary for Busou Renkin the other day. The two main English voice actors talked about their show and voice acting as a job, and I learned a few things about the industry. They kept their commentary on-topic and no longer than the episode's runtime. I don't even like that show's English dub, but the commentary was pretty great.

On another whim, I decided to see how bad DBZA's episode commentaries could be, and I found that they're double to triple the length of the actual episodes themselves, because they keep pausing the show every five seconds to talk about gay wrestling shit and merchandise. It's actually kind of amazing that these dipshits can talk for an hour about a ten-minute remix they made of someone else's property and somehow say nothing interesting about it, even accidentally. I always liked DBZA, but seeing what kind of retards created it is almost enough to sour me on it.
They got worse as the series started to shift from regular abridged series to comedy dub. So, basically around the time Perfect Cell showed up.
 
They got worse as the series started to shift from regular abridged series to comedy dub. So, basically around the time Perfect Cell showed up.
Rewatching the series, I'll admit that my personal favorite thing to do is watch in real time the moment when their heads begin to go up their own asses on "This isn't a Parody, this is a DUB."

Personally, I'd say that starts at the Frieza fight, picks up when Kaiser's Precious Husbando Trunks shows up, and as mentioned, peaks when Perfect Cell showed up. Those first two you can go either way on, but Trunks onward is when the jokes land less consistently imo.
 
On another whim, I decided to see how bad DBZA's episode commentaries could be, and I found that they're double to triple the length of the actual episodes themselves, because they keep pausing the show every five seconds to talk about gay wrestling shit and merchandise.
It also completely defeats the point of an episode commentary. The point by the way being that your watching along with the creators/whoever is involved in the behind the scenes production as they point out something cool that a laymen wouldn't notice or talk about their overall experience as the episode goes on without pausing. Its a constraint to prevent overly technical or far too in-depth explanations, so the commentators have to be on point and brief.

They don't pause every five seconds to dick around and go into a heavy explanation about some stupid bullshit no one cares about.
 
They don't pause every five seconds to dick around and go into a heavy explanation about some stupid bullshit no one cares about.
I wouldn’t mind if they paused every 5 seconds if they talked about relevent stuff, how they did something or why but they don’t. The livestream commentary they did years before was way better in that regard. As were Kaiser’s episode breakdowns.

These Commentaries? I honestly think it’s too late as they seem to have forgotten half of who suggested what and why.
 
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It also completely defeats the point of an episode commentary. The point by the way being that your watching along with the creators/whoever is involved in the behind the scenes production as they point out something cool that a laymen wouldn't notice or talk about their overall experience as the episode goes on without pausing. Its a constraint to prevent overly technical or far too in-depth explanations, so the commentators have to be on point and brief.

They don't pause every five seconds to dick around and go into a heavy explanation about some stupid bullshit no one cares about.
Don't you want to know how cleverly they rewrote Dende to be a fag? Or how many months it took to digitally edit shit no one cares about?
 
I wouldn’t mind if they paused every 5 seconds if they talked about relevent stuff, how they did something or why but they don’t. The livestream commentary they did years before was way better in that regard. As were Kaiser’s episode breakdowns.

These Commentaries? I honestly think it’s too late as they seem to have forgotten half of who suggested what and why.
The problem is at this point they've gone over this shit so many times that they've probably already said everything that they had to say already, so they have nothing left. But they need these because DBZA is still a huge part of why they were ever successful, and it's turning out to be the only reason they were ever successful, so they're desperately trying to recycle shit to stay afloat.

In the last episode they talked about never touching Buu, and there was a caption that said this was recorded before they knew about that Buu review they were part of. But considering how many hits those Buu compilations got, the main one is almost at 3 million after just a month, they have to be realizing just how much easier it would be to come back to DBZA and keep their other stuff as side projects. Will Lani and Taka rediscover their balls and tell Kaiser to get over himself and they all get back to work? Unlikely, but everyone has their breaking point.
 
Or how many months it took to digitally edit shit no one cares about?
Back when Kaiser did a tech breakdown of the episodes in his video editing software, it was interesting just because he'd point out what was difficult and what solution was used. But that only works if he's got the timeline infront of him and has a fresh memory of what was done. Doing that type of breakdown later just isn't interesting
 
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