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animesavior · 3 months

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“It’s an Oni [mask]. I heard they’re scary demons from Japan. Oni are big baddies, and they’re mean.” - Kyle Logan, Ninja Kamui (Ep. 01)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for February 10-11, 2024. Acclaimed director Sunghoo Park, known best for directing the Jujutsu Kaisen anime series, would bring his newest original anime series, Ninja Kamui, to the better cartoon show.

In regards to this week’s social media buzz, #Toonami trended in the United States on Twitter alongside Ninja Kamui and Lycoris Recoil. Toonami also trended on Tumblr.

For this week’s feature, Toonami showcased a sneak preview of the upcoming Rick and Morty: The Anime series, which is scheduled to air on the network sometime later this year.

Toonami has also revealed the opening theme for Ninja Kamui, titled Vengeance by coldrain. You can check it out below.

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On Monday, Toonami revealed the schedule for the night of February 24th, announcing that DBZ Kai will be returning to the lineup at 2:30 a.m. EST. This also means that Toonami will be deferring airing the second season of IGPX remastered, as the season 1 finale will be airing tonight, February 17. In regards to if and when Toonami plans on airing it, Jose Argumedo, whom is in charge remastering the show, has said that: “Season 2’s done and turned into the network. Up to them when and if they want to air it.”

Not much else to say other than congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on winning back-to-back Super Bowl titles and their fourth overall, and we'll see you again next time for another round of the better cartoon show. Later.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown.Forthe Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#10]

#NinjaKamui [#8]

#LycorisRecoil [#18]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [4,809 tweets]

#NinjaKamui [3,255 tweets]

#LycorisRecoil [2,160 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#Toonami [#3]

If you wish to send me a tip for the work on the trending rundown, donations can be sent to PayPal.Me/DanielLimjoco.

Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

#toonami #adult swim #cartoon network #toonami trending rundown #ninja kamui #demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #lycoris recoil #Youtube

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toonamisquad · 6 months

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IGPX Remaster to air on Toonami this November 4, Demon Slayer and Dr. Stone: New World returns November 11

IGPX Remaster to air on Toonami this November 4, Demon Slayer and Dr. Stone: New World returns November 11.

With FLCL Grunge and Shoegaze coming to an end, Toonami reveals some of their plans for the final stretch of 2023, including the debut of an HD Remaster of IGPX for the end of Daylight Savings Time on November 4, plus the return of Dr. Stone: New World and Demon Slayer: Mugen Train on November 11. With the completion of both FLCL Grunge and Shoegaze, Toonami has reveled some of their moves for…

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#Adult Swim #Cartoon Network #Crunchyroll #Demon Slayer #Dr. STONE #FLCL #FLCL Grunge #FLCL Shoegaze #IGPX #Toonami

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mrawkweird · 6 months

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I’m excited to see IGPX remaster since I’ve never seen or I don’t have any memories seeing it. Either way I’m looking forward to see Toonami’s first original.

It's definitely worth checking out. Shit, I still remember when IGPX started as a miniseries with Joshua Seth. I actually can't wait for that blu-ray to drop.

#IGPX #Toonami

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seeyounexttime · 6 months

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NEW SHIT!! but not tonight

Tonight, November 4

daylight savings - the good kind that let's you sleep an extra hour

encore presentation of Attack on Titan: The Final Chapters (part 1) - twice!

for that bonus hour they will show the first two remastered episodes of IGPX in honor of the announced Blu-ray set

November 11

one hour premiere of the TV version of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train Arc

((the TV version contains a prologue of sorts as the first episode, so if you've seen the movie come tune in to that first episode for new stuff))

followed by the premiere of part 2 of Dr. Stone: New World

One Piece finally returns too!

IGPX (remastered) will also continue airing

November 18

Demon Slayer goes down to one episode as expected

One Piece goes up to 2 episodes

I suspect this will be the new "normal schedule" for the rest of Demon Slayer's run

However holidays are coming up, and the week after will be Thanksgiving weekend. What the holiday schedules will be like remains to be seen, but hey Toonami finally got new shit :D

Uzumaki when

#toonami #dr stone #demon slayer #attack on titan #one piece #igpx

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acevenoms · 2 months

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I wonder if anyone actually still has the Funimation audio from the Toonami broadcasts for DBZ. I have all new remastered BD sources, but I'd like the original broadcast music for nostalgia's sake at least

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animanga-bc-tournament · 1 year

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Yu Yu Hakusho Toonami 30 second intro

Youtube source / Toonami Remastered website

#toonami #video #yu yu hakusho

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faboover · 5 months

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About 30 Music Tracks That Get Me Thinking About RWBY Volume 10 (Vacuo Arc)

I posted something like this earlier this year for RWBY Volume 9. This time around, it is just a collection of Music that truly gets me thinking about Volume 10 and what it might have in store. Just like before, how the music is listed doesn't matter, this is mainly for fun, and I hope you enjoy this collection cause I made it a point to select only 1 track for each Music Artist and Show/Movie/Video Game I picked from this time around.

Mr. Scruff - Sweetsmoke

Amon Tobin - Easy Muffin

(Album is Bricolage, but due to some BS Easy Muffin has been scrubbed from all Official Outlets/Releases some time after the Mathew McConaughey Lincoln Commercials were put out)

Yoko Shimomura - Dearly Beloved (KINGDOM HEARTS II Version)

DJ Food - Dark Lady

Bonobo - We Could Forever

Jackson and His Computer Band - Billy

Bayside - Montauk

Dolor - 'Misteria' (Official Audio)

Two Fingers - Jewels and Gems TWO FINGERS - Jewels and Gems (Ft. Sway) Jewels and Gems (Instrumental)

Mapaputsi - Kufa

Hint - The Look Up

Sum 41 - The Hell Song

The Rainstick Orchestra - Electric Counterpoint Fast

Pest - Moody Hoe

Satoru Kosaki - Rainy Devil

Neotropic - Laundry (Pt. 3)

Animals on Wheels - Egg Shell

Pretty Lights - Hot Like Dimes

Near Future - Mass Migration

Takeharu Ishimoto - The Beginning of a Happy Life

Dauwd - Kolido

Marty Grimes, BJRNCK - Showdown | Cannon Busters (Netflix Original Series Soundtrack)

Yoshida Brothers - Kodo (Inside The Sun Remix)

milet - Prover

Ulrich Schnauss - A Letter from Home (2019 remaster)

Plaid - Marry

London Funk Allstars - There's Only One F In Funk

Tycho - Awake

Takeharu Ishimoto - OWARI-HAJIMARI

Pelican City(?)/Joe Boyd Vigil(?) - Announcer/Mosquito/East Toonami Black Hole Megamix - Announcer | Track 04 | Absolution Music Toonami | Pelican City - Mosquito (Mind's Edit) ⁂ East [HQ Quality] ⁂

Blockhead - You've got Maelstrom

TNGHT - ACRYLICS (OFFICIAL)

Giraffage - 'Slowly (feat. Matosic)'

LOSTPROPHETS - Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)

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astroboyart · 2 years

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4K remasters of Toonami’s promo and first intro of the 2003 Astro Boy anime series, remastered by metroidman7 and uploaded to YouTube by SlimD716.

This promo and first intro originally aired on Toonami in 2004 to advertise the American dub of the 2003 Astro Boy series.

Toonami is an American TV action-animation block that originally ran from 1997 to 2008 on Cartoon Network, before being revived on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network’s late night TV programming block) in 2012 where it still runs (as of 2022).

#Astro Boy

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stellamancer · 4 months

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okay so my translation/localization ramble requested by @itoshisoup

please note that i am not a professional nor am i fluent in japanese hahaha. so it's not REALLY like i know anything i am just rambling

so in the blorbo powerpoint i posted the following quote from kira yamato from gundam seed:

“what the hell can you protect when your emotions are the only weapons you’ve got?”

this is actually a line that he says in the original english dub. what i mean by that is that the show actually received two dubs the original english dub which aired on toonami in the early 2000s and then a new dub that was done by funimation/crunchyroll a few years ago. i decided i'd take a listen to the line in the new dub which is:

"and what the hell do your feelings mean to everyone who is already dead?"

which on it's own really is a pretty fucking raw line. but it made me wonder about the sub line which... i can't transcribe by ear but a barebones translation is "what can you protect with only your feelings?" in the conversation that kira is having with the character he's speaking to tells him that they're fighting to protect the people and things that are important to them and, i don't know, it feels a bit odd to only address the feelings bit when i feel like there was just as much emphasis on 'protecting.'

i looked into the dub as a whole more since the question of 'why did they re-dub in the first place?" came up. so the version of gundam seed i watched this clip in was part of the blu-ray remaster which added some new scenes so they couldn't just switch the dub over which meant rerecording. according to a reddit thread i found it was likely cheaper to re-record the entire dub than to have the original cast reprise?

anyway, back to the difference in the lines. it got me thinking about dubs and the decisions made when dubbing things. very recently, in that article about the boy and the heron that was going around with that tweet about robert pattinson showing casting director some clips on his phone, there was another actress who mentioned that she was asked to pronounce things in a particular way. additionally i've seen another english voice actor mention the same. and so i think it's interesting that that is something that is also intentional in the dubbing process? though i know a lot of people do complain over pronunciations....

#nikuniku spam #please don't perceive me #i'm honestly a big dub enjoyer hahah #i also learned recently that japanese voice actors do record together often times versus american voice actors who are alone in the booth #i didn't mention it here but it's also fascinating the changes that are made to cultural references #like stuff that gets translation notes in manga #so i didn't ramble about localization a lot but #yeah hahahaa #please don't perceive me i beg i was just rambling

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prgilland · 9 months

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life update

i think this is a blogging site. i guess i'm gonna blog a bit

if anyone who left twitter ages ago has been wondering what I've been up to for the past year, my family moved from tennessee back down to florida back in january and are currently living in my aunt's house rent-free, and my dad suddenly passed away from alzheimer's early last month, on july 2 at 2:25pm surrounded by my mother, aunt, her boyfriend, my brother, and I. we're still reeling from the aftermath, especially with finances and insurance and all that shit. things kinda have sucked the big one this year

i'm still on twitter while the ship is still sinking, which has become turbulent now that the official tweetdeck is gone, and unofficial addons are living on borrowed time. i'm trying to find alternatives, and i've decided that vivaldi will be my social media web browser because of the tab-tiling feature, kinda like tweetdeck's columns. it'll never be the same though. anyways, i wish the CEO a very go to hell

on lighter news, moving down here means I get to see family and friends again, whom I haven't seen in 6-10 years, so that's been very nice. for games and such, the big games i've played this year have been xenoblade x and future redeemed, kirby return to dreamland, metroid prime remastered, pikmin 4, zelda totk, and i think's that's it. i've been on another hyperfixation for nearly 2 months: the dragon ball anime series. i started with DB which i've only seen part of when i was a kid, and i'm almost done with Z, which i used to watch the original on toonami as a kid and through kai when i was in high school. not sure if i will watch GT or super or any of the movies

anyways, here are other websites I can be found at:

YouTube: youtube.com/user/masterofs…

Twitch: twitch.tv/prgilland

Discord: PRGilland - won't add you if I don't know who you are

some extras I barely use:

Newgrounds: prg.newgrounds.com

Deviant Art: deviantart.com/prgblah

Gamebanana: gamebanana.com/members/1317176

feel free to contact me or invite me to games or streams or something, i'm free 100% of the time pretty much

ok I think that's everything. see you all next year, bye

#life update #dragon ball #twitter

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astragifs · 1 year

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Toonami Remastered

#90s anime #retro anime #classic anime #villaintines day #toonami #slimd716 #Joe Boyd Vigil #Deep Space Bass #toonami remastered

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animesavior · 5 months

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“Intruding on one soul is something I won't allow. This trespassing of yours shall not stand!”

- Tanjiro Kamado, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (Ep. 04)

The Toonami Trending Rundown for November 2023. After two years of being stuck in “Crunchyroll Jail”, Demon Slayer has finally returned to the better cartoon show to premiere the highly acclaimed Mugen Train arc. And it’s not alone, as Dr. Stone has also returned to resume the second half of the 3rd season, the New World, while IGPX returns to the lineup for the first time in 10 years, as Discotek releases an HD Remaster of Toonami’s first original series.

November 4-5 was a post-Halloween marathon night, as Toonami re-aired Part 1 of Attack on Titan: The Final Chapters, in addition to the first two episodes of IGPX due to the extra hour the block got due to the end of Daylight Savings. In terms of trending, both shows trended in the USA, although the former got some assistance as Part 2 was just released in Japan and on simulcasting. For the night of November 11-12, the premiere night of Demon Slayer and Dr. Stone, #Toonami trended in the USA alongside Demon Slayer and Dr. Stone. #Toonami also trended on Tumblr alongside Demon Slayer and One Piece. On November 18-19, #Toonami trended in the USA on Twitter and on Tumblr, while Demon Slayer and Dr. Stone both trended in the US. And on November 25-26, #Toonami trended in the USA alongside Dr. Stone and IGPX.

The feature for November 11 was a new ID bump made by The Foreign Correspondents' Club. You can check it out below.

The feature for November 18 was a game review of Sea of Stars, a role-playing video game by Sabotage Studio that is available on modern platforms. TOM and SARA have called it a modern-day rendition of the classic Chrono Trigger video game.

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And for November 25, Toonami aired another new ID bump featuring TOM and SARA trying out an explosive new weapon, this time from MoreFrames AnimationCo.

With Demon Slayer finally back on the lineup, Toonami has plenty of Demon Slayer to catch up on. Demon Slayer’s Mugen Train arc is only 7 episodes long, given it’s a TV version of the hit Mugen Train film. But there is also the Entertainment District Arc, which will be an addition 11 episodes in length to complete season 2. Followed by the 11-episode Swordsmith Village Arc that makes up season 3. During the Aniplex panel on Saturday morning at Anime NYC, it was announced that the Entertainment District Arc will also be making its way to Toonami on January 13, following the completion of Mugen Train.

Demon Slayer fans will have plenty more to celebrate in the future, as the official Kimetsu no Yaiba Japanese website has already confirmed that a fourth season is in production, to cover the Hashira Training arc. Additional details are to be revealed on December 10.

When it rains, it pours, and with Toonami rekindling relationships with Aniplex (and potentially all of Sony-Crunchyroll LLC), Aniplex USA has announced on Friday at Anime NYC this weekend that a second show is also on the way for the better cartoon show. Lycoris Recoil, an original anime series directed by Shingo Adachi, the character designer and chief animation director of Sword Art Online, will be joining the Toonami lineup on January 20, as the first new acquisition in the 2024 calendar year.

Luffy from One Piece made his debut on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade this year, as he had his own float parading down the streets of New York City for the very first time. Anime was well represented, as he was joined by a Goku float from Dragon Ball Super, as well as a Christmas themed Pikachu and Eevee float from Pokémon. Unfortunately, Luffy’s hat would deflate after it got snagged by a tree branch due to strong winds in the area. The float was still able to fly and would later be showcased on the NBC broadcast, albeit with Luffy’s straw-hat looking like a bucket hat as a result of the tear and partial deflation.

Finally, Toonami has announced marathon nights for Christmas and New Year’s as the block winds down with the year coming to a close. For Christmas week on December 23, Toonami will air all 7 episodes of Dr. Stone: New World Part 2 it has aired to that point from Midnight to 3:30 a.m. EST. While for New Year’s week on December 30, Toonami will air all 7 episodes of Demon Slayer’s Mugen Train arc from midnight to 3:30 a.m.

Until next time, we hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving, congrats to the Texas Rangers for winning the World Series, and see you again next week as always.

Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.

November 4-5, 2023 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [Trended with #IGPX]

#AttackOnTitan [#1]

Eren (From Attack on Titan) [#6]

Armin (From Attack on Titan) [Trended with Eren]

Mikasa (From Attack on Titan) [Trended with Eren]

#IGPX [#12]

Tweet Counts:

#AttackOnTitan [213k tweets]

November 11-12, 2023 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#12]

#DemonSlayer [Trended with #Toonami]

#DrStone [#20]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [3,522 tweets]

#DrStone [3,469 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#Toonami [#5]

#DemonSlayer [#4]

#OnePiece [#2]

November 18-19, 2023 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [Trended with #DrStone]

#DemonSlayer [Trended with #DrStone]

#DrStone [#15]

Tweet Counts:

#DemonSlayer [3,669 tweets]

Tumblr Trends:

#Toonami [#3]

November 25-26, 2023 Trends

United States Trends:

#Toonami [#9]

#DrStone [Trended with #Toonami]

#IGPX [#13]

Tweet Counts:

#Toonami [3,394 tweets]

If you wish to send me a tip for the work on the trending rundown, donations can be sent to PayPal.Me/DanielLimjoco. All proceeds will be used to help pay for my cable bill and other materials that make this trending rundown possible.

Only Toonami on [adult swim] on Cartoon Network.

#toonami #adult swim #cartoon network #toonami trending rundown #demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #dr. stone #attack on titan #shingeki no kyojin #igpx #one piece #luffy #goku #eren #mikasa #armin #Youtube

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sxvethelastdance · 1 year

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Love as The Catalyst, a Dragon Ball Z post:

Hello!

Welcome to part one in a series of many long-winded informal posts I’m slated to make revolving around my series rewatch of Dragon Ball Z. I don’t know what made me want to sit down in 2021 and re-evaluate my relationship with the series as I’ve known it across 2 decades, but we ended up here. 291 episodes of torture and all. As a matter of purity for my re-evaluation, I decided to go with one of the dubs I spent watching as a child. I used Funimation’s 2007 digitally remastered dub of Dragon Ball Z, since it’s so difficult to get a hold of the version that was syndicated on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block from 1999-2004 without hunting down a bunch of VCR tapes and singles. Generally, the remastered dub does contain a lot of the untouched Funimation voice acting in certain seasons over others. Take Season One, for example. You can visit this wiki page for what got changed and what remained untouched between the two dubs.

If you see this and think of the dreaded orange bricks, you are correct! I used those babies. That being said, I am treating this dub as its own contained product, I will NOT be comparing it to the original because there’s nothing I can say that like. 15 Youtubers and faithful scholars of the text already haven’t. “The dub” as it is colloquially known, is a Western recontextualization of a fundamentally Eastern product and it suffers for that when we take into account its merits as an adaptation. I KNOW. So I didn’t even try. Instead I point you toward the wealth of intelligently reasoned critiques on that subject. Just hit up the youtube search.

Instead, I went about my watch observing the dub in a vacuum of its own merits- mainly the scripting and themes. Every post in this vein will be analyzing through that lens specifically. I watched with the Falcouner score to preserve maximum integrity toward tone and documented a lot of shit as I went along my experience.

Be warned: Opinions will be shared. You don’t have to take them as gospel, you don’t have to take them at all really! So don’t take it personally, this is my exercise in picking apart the experience. Bringing back YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary. So… Read at your own risk.

Here’s my thesis:

Love is Funimation Dragon Ball Z’s call to action. Bear with me here, it seems like an obvious cliche, but it’s one of those threads woven through every major story arc. It’s by far one of the more consistent themes expressed in its scripting of the characters and their priorities. There are lots of different definitions of love, typically we think of romantic, familial, and platonic love as our qualifiers. Maybe you’re an 8 types of love categorizer. At different points you see how central at least one of those definitions is to moving the emotional plot line along, there’s an intensity built into the displays of unbridled emotion that get the audience into a power-up scene.

Every single one of those scenes is steeped in the things that the characters value. Their relationships and their reason for fighting. These reasons are born from the connections they have with their loved ones, or the things that they love and hold sacred in their lives. Below are some key examples from each arc.

Saiyan saga.

Starting with an example exclusively from the Filler: we have Gohan and C-6 in episode 9. Gohan makes friends with an abandoned robot buried in the ruins of a cavern and through his kindness, gives him a friend: The first in 80 years. This newfound affection and maybe even love (categorized as “philia” under the 8 Greek definitions I mentioned) for Gohan is what makes C-6 sacrifice himself to get Gohan out of the cavern when it starts to crumble around them.

Most important for his character going forward: Piccolo came to love Gohan, he admits that what started as a quest for revenge turned into something different and his love for Gohan made him sacrifice his life to keep him from dying. Gohan’s kindness and care for him introduced Piccolo to the concept of more than hatred. He developed a concept of love from their interactions and it made him a better person. This gave him the necessary context to GROW.

Gohan’s love for Goku awakened his power at the very beginning of the saga and stopped him from wreaking more havoc in his ape form than he already had.

Frieza/Namek saga:

Guru’s love for every Namekian child he bore killed him, the strain of them all dying was the direct cause of his death. He couldn’t have been brought back by Porunga otherwise- Qualified under a death of “natural causes.”

Porunga means “Dragon of Love.” in the Namekian language. Porunga, the original wish granting dragon, whose existence is the very reason that the Dragon Balls can bring back the loved ones of the characters in this series.

Goku’s love for Krillin and the anger that sprang from losing his friend gave him the power to become a Super Saiyan. Krillin, with Bulma, is one of Goku’s very best friends.

Android/Cell Saga

It was Future Gohan’s love for Trunks that made him knock the kid out to fight the Androids alone. Trunks’ love for Gohan not only triggered his transformation, but it made him determined to travel to the past with the chance of preventing his future.

Chi-Chi very clearly loves Goku, the scene they share after he wakes up from his coma is a good example of what she understands to be true about him and his nature. She encourages him to fight Cell and give it all he’s got. This is a marked difference from her begrudging acceptance and downright disapproval (for her own really good reasons). She knows what kind of person he is and steps out of the way to give him the space he needs to prepare for that trial.

Before Cell kills Android 16, 16 pleads with Gohan: “Let it go. It is not a sin to fight for the right cause. There are those who words alone will not reach, Cell is such a being. I know how you feel, Gohan. You are gentle, you do not like to hurt. I know because I too have learned this feelings. But it is because you cherish life that you must protect it. Please, drop your restraints. Protect the life I loved.”

Gohan’s love for peace- the anger that accompanied having something as sacred as life ripped from a kindred spirit broke the barrier between his fear of losing control and his power.

Android 16’s love for living in general, he is another character born to kill. And yet he, a machine, finds something to love in nature. Gentle with birds, at peace.

Contentious as Goku’s choice is at the end of the arc, its intentions are pure- he removes himself from the lives of his loved ones because he believes HE is drawing the danger toward them. It’s a decision that stems from a selfless love for his friends and family.

Buu Saga.

Gohan’s love for Videl- whether you want to categorize it as friendship and loyalty or a budding romance by this point- it’s responsible for the dangerous move that makes him go full-power, leading to Yamu’s theft of his energy to take back to Babadi. I’m calling it love specifically because of the intensity its treated with in the narrative.

Daikaioh’s love for life and Shin was a redeeming force for the pure evil Buu.

Majin Buu’s love for Hercule and Bee the dog was what turned him good and made him separate from the evil half. Had he not learned to love them, the rest of the arc wouldn’t have taken place.

Piccolo sympathizes with the sacrifice Vegeta makes because he knows what it’s like to walk through that door himself, “Gohan’s love changed me.”

Vegeta’s getting his own category not only because I write him, but because of how strange his relationship with love is, and how it continues to come up

The famous “Trunks, Bulma, I do this for you.” line before he blew himself up to try and take out Majin Buu. How he, in this new form after claiming that they meant nothing to him, holds his child and tells him he’s proud. Knocks him out and sends him safely back with Piccolo. This is a very clear change from the android saga, where he didn’t give a fuck about whether Bulma and Trunks died when 20 shot them out of the sky.

Goku lays Vegeta out when he refuses to entertain fusion: “Look. You’ve always talked about our Saiyan race. How we’re the last of a mighty people. Well it’s time we accept we’re starting a new race! One that’d be just as strong! Just as proud! But not if we’re caught up in so much of our old “birthrights” to see what we have right in front of us! We’ve lost our old race Vegeta! Let’s not lose THIS one too!” It’s THIS that makes him get his fucking act together, along with the revelation that Bulma has been killed.

Vegeta BEGS the people of Earth to give their energy- what’s very important to this appeal is that it’s to their pathos. He uses ‘children’ in the plea, knowing that he’s just lost his own. Genuine empathy, born of what I struggle to categorize as anything OTHER than the love he has for his family- however complicated it may be. Put himself on the chopping block, pride be fucking damned just to have a chance at keeping him safe in the Otherworld (because Buu can go there too). This man is anti-sentiment and vulnerability, but you can hear him earnestly beseeching- and that’s part of his love for his family forced to come out. The kind of desperation he has isn’t for his own sake- he’s someone who doesn’t treat his life with any sort of sacredness.

Finally, on the subject of love: Majin Buu’s love for Mr. Satan is actually what saved the entire fucking planet! Had Kid Buu not spit him out because of the burden that is his hesitation to kill Satan, there wouldn’t have been a way to stall for time while Goku gathered energy for the Spirit Bomb. Majin Buu held Kid Buu off with Vegeta, they needed that help.

Among some fan favorite scenes out of this dub are:

Goku going Super Saiyan for the first time;

Future Trunks finding Gohan’s body and transforming, and;

Gohan’s snap into Super Saiyan 2.

Many fans latch onto the anger, and for good reasons! It goes toward the dramatic weight of the scenes, but here’s the thing:

That anger does not have any meaningful purpose in a setting like this if NOT connected to a more meaningful emotion. It’s raw because it’s more than just how you feel in the moment. It’s knowing that somebody else spurns the things you value and mocks them, mocks the memory of the person who made you better and stronger than you ever could have been. You, or rather, the characters in Dragon Ball Z- They do not exist in a vacuum. The Dragon Ball franchise, for all its hang ups, can’t get from point A to B without that.

#Dragon Ball Z #DBZ #Dance Break! - OOC #Vegeta.txt #Gohan.txt #dragon ball

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