Sunday, November 26, 2017

Vegeta's Death on Namek

Vegeta is introduced in Dragon Ball Z as a merciless character, but during the Frieza Saga you begin to learn more about why he is the way he is.  As he is dying you have an opportunity to sympathize with the saiyan prince.  We are only told some of the details, but Frieza made Vegeta do terrible things when Vegeta was a small child in order to spare the life of Vegeta's father, but Frieza killed him anyway.  Watch this powerful scene for yourself and take it to your heart.  Goku then honors Vegeta by burying his corpse despite their rivalry.  There is a good lesson in this: sometimes people are the way they are because of what they have gone through or are currently going through.  Be kind and understanding even towards edgy people, you never know their full story.

Vegeta's Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCD4PDz4JNQ

Goku Buries Vegeta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saNCwmFlvb8




Friday, November 24, 2017

Dragon Ball Z AMV Picks


These are links to some of my favorite Dragon Ball Z AMVs (Animated Music Videos).  If you have any suggestions to add to this list link them below in the comments.


In the End --- Linkin Park

Immortal --- Adema

I Stand Alone --- Godsmack

My Demons

Evanescence

Sunday, November 19, 2017

Bulma's Death

The Japanese voice actor of Bulma Brief for over 31 years, Hiromi Tsuru, has passed away at age 57.  She was found in her vehicle wearing her seatbelt with its hazard lights on.  She was taken to the hospital where they pronounced she was dead  May Hiromi Tsuru rest in peace.  She will be remembered.

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Dragon Ball Z: Light of Hope



Dragon Ball Light of Hope is a fan-made live action 2 episode series of Dragon Ball Z centered around the story of the Android Saga and future Trunks by Robot Underdog on Youtube.  Although low-budget, it is far better than Hollywood's "Dragon Ball Evolution" failure.  Dragon Ball Evolution was shameful to say the least, Dragon Ball Light of Hope is amazing.  Imagine if they had the budget of Hollywood.

Check it out below---
Pilot Episode:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opji5DgE_nQ
Episode 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH04ys6y2Ko

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Dragon Ball AF


Dragon Ball AF, meaning "Dragon Ball: After Future," is a non-canonical fan-made series that follows the debatably canonical Dragon Ball GT series.  The rumor of Dragon Ball AF began with the circulation of a "Super Saiyan 5 Goku" image drawn by David Montiel Franco within the May 1999 issue of a Spanish magazine called: "Hobby Consolas."  By October of year 2000 a popular website called Majin.com posted the picture as a new SSJ5 Goku, claiming that Dragon Ball AF was a real thing.  Some people thought the SSJ5 Goku image was an image of a "god-transformation" of Goku after he was taken away by Shenron in the main series.  On November of the same year, the website administrators apologized and said they were "tricked by a con-artist."  Following this prank, a lot of fans—remarkably Toyble and Young Jiji—made their own fan fictions and fan artwork based on this rumored series.  Some people call Dragon Ball AF: "Dragon Ball April Fools."

Dragon Ball AF by Toyble:  
Toyotaro was a dojinshi artist going by the name "Toyble" and is the author of his very own fan-made Dragon Ball AF manga.  There are four volumes of his Dragon Ball AF series, but it was never finished so he closed it up with "4th volume special" which is meant to be read after volume 4 to give some closure to his series.  Toyble has drawn Dragon Ball ever since he was young, generally drawing it after eating breakfast.  After his Dragon Ball AF series in the 2000s he was hired by Shueisha in 2012 and became an official manga artist.  Toyble is the author of the spin-off manga "Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission," which came out in the November 2012 issue of V-Jump and is the illustrator of the Dragon Ball Super manga.  He created the manga adaptation of the "Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F" film as well.  Toyble drew two pages of Dragon Ball Super as a demonstration, and Toriyama chose him as his successor. (For more information check out: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Toyble ) Toyble became the official artist of the manga version of Dragon Ball Super.  As of the "Universe Survival Saga" Toyble has also become a character designer for Dragon Ball Super, creating designs while working with Toriyama.  He also drew "Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 The Manga." 

Dragon Ball AF by Young Jiji:
This version of Dragon Ball AF is separate from Toyble's but has many similarities.  There is an obvious influence between the two.  Young Jiji's Dragon Ball AF is significantly longer than Toyble's (it is 14 or more volumes) and appears to have less plot-holes or inconsistencies from the main series than Toyble's.

Here is a link to download the entire versions of both of these series of what is currently available in English:

(Note:  There are other versions of Dragon Ball AF as well, these two are the most recognized by the Dragon Ball AF fan-base.)