all i know is that cartoon network and my basic channel played raditz-ginyu force saga for a few years before they release new episode.
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TFS DragonBall Z Abridged
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all i know is that cartoon network and my basic channel played raditz-ginyu force saga for a few years before they release new episode.
KittenMaster
Member
The Yamucha/Bulma bit was exactly how they would have broken up. Still a painful moment in DBZ history.
Wait, I could have sworn
. Am I remembering wrong? Or does this just happen at a different point?
I honestly barely remember anything that happens... well, period - it's been forever since I watched an episode of DBZ - but especially after this. I know there are the androids and Cell, then Buu, but I only occasionally caught episodes during the android/Cell saga, and I think I saw like two episodes of the Buu saga. But I enjoyed Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged even though I've never seen an episode of that show in my life, so I'm sure I'll still enjoy DBZ Abridged from here on. Honestly, that may be the preferable way to experience the rest of the show, seeing how DBZ Abridged up to now has arguably told the story better than the show itself.
Dende made new dragon balls or something after Guru died
I honestly barely remember anything that happens... well, period - it's been forever since I watched an episode of DBZ - but especially after this. I know there are the androids and Cell, then Buu, but I only occasionally caught episodes during the android/Cell saga, and I think I saw like two episodes of the Buu saga. But I enjoyed Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged even though I've never seen an episode of that show in my life, so I'm sure I'll still enjoy DBZ Abridged from here on. Honestly, that may be the preferable way to experience the rest of the show, seeing how DBZ Abridged up to now has arguably told the story better than the show itself.
ThatObviousUser
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Dende comes back midway through the Cell arc after Piccolo merges with Kami, leaving the Earth's Guardian job vacant.
Edit- And you miss a lot by just watching Abridged. It's like comparing popcorn to a steak. You get the same kind of gist but one's not really comparable to the other.
Edit- And you miss a lot by just watching Abridged. It's like comparing popcorn to a steak. You get the same kind of gist but one's not really comparable to the other.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
Awesome ending very well done.
Lets hope we do not have to wait TO long for S03 to start.
Lets hope we do not have to wait TO long for S03 to start.
It's implied that Yamcha cheated on Bulma, though it's kept as ambiguous as possible.
EmCeeGramr
Member
They didn't, they just made their wishes and there was a "AND SO ANOTHER FOUR MONTHS LATER" narration and they wished again.
KittenMaster
Member
Really? I never picked up on this before, but then again I never did get to watch that part of the show in a format faithful to the JP version so I wouldn't be surprised if it was something they removed from the original dub.
It was there. In episode 29, if I remember right.
Season 2 was pretty much two seasons, though. Pre Ginyu Force and post Ginyu Force. The Ginyu episodes even had their own theme music.
All in all, it's a pretty big improvement they've made since the first episodes, but I'm glad they're still keeping it just silly enough, and still use deliberately bad photoshops.
Also, yay!
Muffin Button!
ThatObviousUser
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Oh yeah, Muffin Button bit killed me.
The Godzirra bit was funny for the first two seconds but then overplayed.
The Godzirra bit was funny for the first two seconds but then overplayed.
Oh wow, completely forgot it actually happened like it joked about.
It was a one-off line by Trunks who briefly said Yamcha wasn't always faithful and so one day she just turned to Vegeta and boom.
Toriyama has said he's no good at writing anything romance related so he left it alllllll offscreen.
First Yamcha was deathly afraid of girls, then he was okay but only around Bulma, then he wanted to marry her. After Namek, he enjoyed looking at sexy girls in the gym, suggesting that his fear of girls was wearing off, but not necessarily that he was ready to cheat.
Bulma never really loved Yamcha. She liked that he had a massive power level and that he wasn't as short as Krillin or green as Piccolo or as old as Master Roshi. She falls for every attractive guy in the series. She wanted Zarbon just a few episodes ago.
Yamcha knew he was finished as soon as Vegeta moved into Bulma's backyard and started demanding that she serve him, and Yamcha was forced to admit that he couldn't compete with Vegeta physically.
Future Trunks said that he was born while Yamcha and Bulma were having a fight, and that Goku can't tell them about it or prevent it from happening, otherwise he'll never be born. And then the timeline gets changed and Yamcha and Vegeta both spend three years training to fight the androids. And Trunks is born in spite of that change.
If it happened in two radically different timelines, it was always going to happen. It's inevitable that Yamcha was going to notice other girls, and it's inevitable that Bulma was going to dump Yamcha and boink Vegeta at the drop of a hat. The idea that Yamcha cheated is just a way to make Bulma seem like less of a slutty whore.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Good season. Android/Cell Saga next? Should be good.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Maybe like they did the movies, there is enough stuff to riff on but no need to have it go more then 30 min.
TheVampire
Banned
My organs!
Stay in there! Stay in your home!
Daddy needs you!
lol
Stay in there! Stay in your home!
Daddy needs you!
lol
Hot Coldman
Banned
The Android/Cell saga is what I watched as a kid so I'm pretty excited for season 3.
cat litter
Member
lmao with the gay dende bit
Yeah, I don't even think they've done a special for Dead Zone yet, have they?
TheVampire
Banned
He was just showing off.
He transformed again for Goku and it took him only 1 second that time to do it.
My point exactly.
Sure there was: filler.
But yes, it was annoying.
Mister Zimbu
Member
I like the implication that Krillin
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Going back to the beginning, the very first few episodes are pretty painful to watch now. Just full of memes and adult swim callouts. They've improved exponentially both in comedy and production values as they've went on.
spent four months in the afterlife doing nothing but screaming
Going back to the beginning, the very first few episodes are pretty painful to watch now. Just full of memes and adult swim callouts. They've improved exponentially both in comedy and production values as they've went on.
Episode 30 is available in full on their site (Blip) with an extra bonus scene. http://blip.tv/dragon-ball-z-abridged/tfs-abridged-episode-30-full-6223170
It's a parody of the Revenge of the Sith ending with King Cool finding Freeza's body and re-building him, then telling him in his anger he blew up both Namek and the Dragon Balls. Cue the big no.
XiaNaphryz
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Nice.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
hahahahhahaaha at the very end thing so so awesome well done.
Shouta
Member
Unfortunately, Bulma will always be the slutty whore! Yamcha didn't deserve that kind of treatment! But then again, everyone that wasn't a Saiyan shouldn't have gotten that treatment. Tien got a little bit of cool stuff to do, barely but everyone else is just fodder.
Poor Freeza also ending up jobbing to Trunks was so stupid and sad, but funny.
Keru_Shiri
Member
I was always ambivalent towards that. On the one hand, it seemed lame that Frieza was able to come back from all that, just to get one-shot'd. On the other hand, it seemed fitting that the son of the Sayian prince was able to avenge his people (though I'm sure that was the last thing Trunks cared about).
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Freeza was coming off a legit injury, his time as a top heel was over, feeding him to Trunks was the right movie, the problem was Trunks and Goku not having a real program just one fight ,that was given away on free TV!
XiaNaphryz
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Well, we would have gotten a Trunks/Gohan final if it wasn't for the run-in by Bojack's crew! ;P
haha well said.
Trunks was easily the coolest character in DBZ at that point. Got over instantly.
Didn't Toriyama intend to end the series after Freeza? I know he had plans to end it after Emperor Pilaf (but it got popular so he kept going) and Cell (editors forced him) but some parts felt like Freeza was the grand finale.
Counting the Saiyan Saga, 107 episodes. Condensed into 30. Impressive feat for KaiserNeko.
Counting the Saiyan Saga, 107 episodes. Condensed into 30. Impressive feat for KaiserNeko.
I'm not sure about your question.
But somewhat related, I really liked how they did the ending to DBZ Kai with the except of where that leaves Vegeta. I'm pretty sure his last line in the dub is "I will never fight again" which seems so unlike him :/
Sho_Nuff82
Member
I love the DB call back:
King Kai: Tien?
Yamcha: Ow, my good leg!
King Kai: Tien?
Yamcha: Ow, my good leg!
Banana Kid
Member
If I remember right, that line's directly out of the manga. So that sounds pretty faithful.
Keru_Shiri
Member
I don't know if I can dig up the link, but I remember reading somewhere that Toriyama had always intended the story to go at least a little bit beyond Frieza Saga. I think Vegeta was originally the final villain.
It fit Vegeta's character, he wanted everyone to know how he transformed, I agree that it was unnecessary though.
SouthernDragon
Member
Less. Most episodes were 10 minutes. If we think of them as 30 minute episodes, to match the original series, he condense 107 into 11.