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NEWS: 20th Dragon Ball Anime Film Revealed for December 2018

The film's theme will be "Saiyans: The strongest fighting race in the universe," and will depict the "origin" of the strength of the Saiyan race. Toriyama is credited with the original work, script, and character design.

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The film's theme will be "Saiyans: The strongest fighting race in the universe," and will depict the "origin" of the strength of the Saiyan race. Toriyama is credited with the original work, script, and character design.

I hope it isn't like Dragon Ball Minus, which turned the Saiyans, especially Bardock, into sentimentalists. Goku is supposed to be an exception, because of his brain damage. I don't want to see a lot of soft, wimpy touchy-feely Saiyans.

Wrath of the Dragon was the first DBZ movie I had seen subbed.

Animechic420 wrote:

Wrath of the Dragon was the first DBZ movie I had seen subbed.

Was it the fansub where everybody dropped F-bombs every other line of dialogue?

On a related note, I'm just going to wait for "Dragon Ball Super" to make a 20-episode arc for this movie rather than use its own ideas.

Perhaps you have some preconceived notions about them. Hardly any information on them was given to the fans, just because they were known for their ruthlessness does not mean they are incapable of empathy amongst themselves.

The film's theme will be "Saiyans: The strongest fighting race in the universe," and will depict the "origin" of the strength of the Saiyan race. Toriyama is credited with the original work, script, and character design.

Sir Daniel Fortesque wrote:

Perhaps you have some preconceived notions about them. Hardly any information on them was given to the fans, just because they were known for their ruthlessness does not mean they are incapable of empathy amongst themselves.

Goku's entire characterization as a Saiyan is that he's only somewhat noble because he fell into a ravine and hit his head, becoming more placid. Vegeta murdered Nappa without a second thought, didn't care that Raditz had died (neither did Nappa, really), and only sought to avenge the Saiyans' pride, not their lives. Vegeta, Nappa, and Raditz would have been murderous bastards regardless of whether Freeza took them under his wing, that's the whole culture of the Saiyans.

I can understand that SOME Saiyans may have been less nasty (making the legend of the Super Saiyan God somewhat plausible), but for Goku's parents to be sweet and care so much about him just makes Goku less special, and just more of a Superman expy, sent to Earth for his own good, rather than by chance of needing to be there to kill everyone.

It lessens Goku's story. It's saying, "Yeah, Goku's a good guy because his parents were good guys." Vomit.

Goku's entire characterization as a Saiyan is that he's only somewhat noble because he fell into a ravine and hit his head, becoming more placid. Vegeta murdered Nappa without a second thought, didn't care that Raditz had died (neither did Nappa, really), and only sought to avenge the Saiyans' pride, not their lives. Vegeta, Nappa, and Raditz would have been murderous bastards regardless of whether Freeza took them under his wing, that's the whole culture of the Saiyans.

Maybe we can finally get a detailed backstory on Yamoshi. Its been making waves among DB fans when Toriyama first revealed him and gave him a backstory a few weeks ago

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The film's theme will be "Saiyans: The strongest fighting race in the universe," and will depict the "origin" of the strength of the Saiyan race. Toriyama is credited with the original work, script, and character design.

I hope it isn't like Dragon Ball Minus, which turned the Saiyans, especially Bardock, into sentimentalists. Goku is supposed to be an exception, because of his brain damage. I don't want to see a lot of soft, wimpy touchy-feely Saiyans.