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Primus
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Not entirely, character themes, along with other lyrical songs are not in that track. But that is not a very consistant thing, some of the Double Features have the character themes, others dont, and so on... |
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jr240483
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Also some people liked the TV version of the music so it's no susprsing that it'll be included. At least it had the original.Hope it's the same for One piece when the full season box sets for that series come out.
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Top Gun
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FUNi's One Piece sets have been coming out for some time now, and no, thankfully the horrific soundtracks of the 4Kids version are nowhere to be found on them. |
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Vuwazy
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Filler isn't restricted to just being episodes and it isn't something conceived out from the gates. DBZ does training well and it doesn't need to be short like YYH to be good or great. It only seems long because there are many instances in the series with training. They do them in between other scenes too. One thing DBZ does well at is building up events that are to come. If you need to take long to make something work you do it.
Oppositely speaking, Naruto is weaker than Dragon Ball Z in a lot of ways. The characters in Naruto do get to shine more but to a degree I'm not impressed with. Too many flashbacking in and out between scenes. Also, explaining stuff that gets pretty irritating. It tries too hard to be deep. Naruto IS predictable. It uses ideas that are hardly original plus could be found in many other anime series before it. DBZ is unique in how it uses its plot. It has twists that turn events around. The characters have a charm to them that can be identified with. They have variety and each adds humor to the series. DBZ delivers when it gets going. If you like battles and something fun you come to the right show. It's got many defining moments. Especially to where one might say to themself that they want to see what happened during the show again. |
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Xanas
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Vuwazy, I don't deny that many of the ideas are not unique to the show, such as power gained through training, or as the result of necessity. That being said, I don't agree overall that Naruto battles are cliche and predictable in comparison to DBZ. I also... can't really think of a twist in DBZ, even though I do like the show. Can you provide an example? Perhaps I'm just not thinking of one?
Naruto does have a lot more flashbacks than DBZ, but I like that myself. It's a good way of portraying backstory even though I would probably prefer that they do it as a set of episodes instead of as extended scenes in the middle of a fight. It's more difficult to fit that much time in though and they may only want to include a small amount of real data about the past so they can reveal something else later. I'm probably more in the Rurouni Kenshin camp on that issue (which has a whole arc related to the past, which you very rarely get a glimpse of prior to that arc). That being said, I don't find flashbacks annoying in the slightest. I think both shows deliver fairly well. I can name multiple awesome scenes in Naruto off the top of my head and I can do the same for DBZ (though less characters come to mind as being in those scenes). |
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doctordoom85
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I'm with Xanas. Heck, any fight with Shikamaru alone is far more creative and unpredictable than any DBZ fight (save maybe Gotenks vs. Buu, but considering how much I despise Gotenks, maybe not the best example). Sure, occasionally they'll resort to "let's just beat the snot out of each other!" like Rock Lee vs. Gaara, but DBZ is hardly innocent of that either.
And yeah, for twists, I'm definitely not following. Should I even put spoiler[Frieza was the one who destroyed the Saiyan's homeworld] in spoiler tags? It's so obvious that you'd have to be asleep to miss it. Compare to some of the recent twists in Naruto Part 2, that are often surprising. Also, why is every shonen after DBZ considered "unoriginal" but DB/DBZ themselves aren't? The Monkey King inspiration is flat out known, and the first few DBZ episodes revealing Goku's backstory practically scream "Superman". Besides, just because you're not the original doesn't make you automatically inferior. Oda has flat out said One Piece is inspired by DB, and OP is far superior as far as I'm concerned. |
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Key
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Oh, I wouldn't go that far. Still, while DBZ was not the originator of many of the things that it did, it was the series that standardized those elements as a core part of shonen action series. And put me in the camp of people who finds the way Naruto handles flashbacks to often be quite irritating. That is, in fact, one of my single biggest gripes about that series. If you want a far better example of a (basically) shonen series handling flashbacks, look at Inuyasha. |
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