Comments on: Fenzel on Dragon Ball #1: Why Overthink Dragon Ball?

By: Kopakka el Incrópito

Kopakka el Incrópito — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:12:32 +0000

Finally typing from a relatively decent keyboard, looking forward for more on DB and any other of the many and very interesting things one gets to read in this extremely fun site.
Are they really going to be 48 posts?. Groovy.

By: Kopakka el Incrópito

Kopakka el Incrópito — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:56:18 +0000

SOORY MY KEYBORD IS KIND BROKEN!!!

By: Kopakka el Incrópito

Kopakka el Incrópito — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:53:04 +0000

That’s it,you made it, I’m gonna read the comic, the TV series was fun, up to a point, but just that. Now there’s more to DB. hey since you took the hard way wway and went to suffer the “adaptation” to film, I’m going theere too, your work clearly deserves it.

By: Sheldon

Sheldon — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:37:07 +0000

Great article, excited for more! I love Dragonball – I used to watch Z when I was about 13, now I’m watching Dragonball from beginning to end, then I will move on to Z!

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:59:35 +0000

The synth tune playing in the first half really reminded me of the intro to “Money for Nothing”. I expected the pivotal power-beam moment to be interrupted with the big ballsy “Duh-dudu-DUH-duh-Duh-duh duh-DUH duh DUH” bass line.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:07:47 +0000

Wow, very impressive Fenzel! I was a fairly big fan of the TV show, but never read the manga, so my experience is fairly limited…..but I cracked up at the symbolism in people’s names (Piccolo, Drum, etc. and Briefs, Bra, Bulma, Trunks, hahaha).

Maybe a story looking at the theme of becoming your true potential? If I remember correctly, Gohan was the most powerful for a while, but rarely lived up to his potential.

By: Gab

Gab — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:52:05 +0000

Oh God… I didn’t think y’all were serious during the Podcast. I’m giddy beyond belief. Fenzel, you’re the Trunks of my anime heart right now.

There are too many ideas running through my head…

To relate it to other posts, a _Dragonball_-and-time post may be another cray-zay way to go; not just the generational thing (Goku-Gohan-Pan and the symbolism there), but also how some of those epic battles last 4evar (ahem, Namec).

I’d like to hear why the manga is better. I watched but didn’t read, so I’m curious.

You kind of hint at it a bit, but a deeper look at the influence the series has/had on pop culture, both on those that love it and those that hate it and why each does so, has potential. There is, indeed, a lot to “get” out of it, so should it be taken with a grain of salt by those that *want* to “get” something (apart from the pleasure)?

Speceism (sp?). You know, discrimination/assumptions/etc. based on species. Is that a metaphor for racism, ethnocentrism, etc.? How about those inter-species marriages?

I need to stop now (must… go… to… work…), but I couldn’t help myself.