Weebshit Thread

[Keith Chegwin]

the original Broly Trilogy are all non-canon now.

It was never canon

[Guest]

But so far, Bardock Father of Goku are all non-canon now.

RIP true dragon ball kino

[Liar Revealed]

Dragonball animated continuity was very loose up until now. Things that appeared in the movies like Garlic Jr. or Gogeta would show up in the TV series and it was just kind of accepted even if it didn't make canonical sense.

In this movie, it's flat-out stated that the characters have never encountered Broly or Gogeta before.
It feels a bit like the Hollywood reboot plague, where something that was done perfectly fine before is being done again for no reason.
I can't really judge it fairly until I watch a proper rip of it. But I really felt like the original had more emotional "weight" to it. This seems to be a kinder, gentler 21st century Dragon Ball. Spoiler: Almost nobody dies in this.

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Even Freeza and Broly live. It could have been cool to have Broly kill Freeza, but no.

Even though they don't have a TV anime anymore and Masako Nozawa is 82, they seem like they want to keep dragging this out forever.

[Poonoo]

But so far, Bardock Father of Goku is non-canon now.

The best movie they made is now non-canon, nu-dragonball is worse than GT.

[Keith Chegwin]

Even Bardock was never canon. The only canon as far as Dragon Ball is concerned is Toriyama's original manga.

[Poonoo]

Even Bardock was never canon. The only canon as far as Dragon Ball is concerned is Toriyama's original manga.

At least Bardock and the Future Trunks movies actually matched the timeline in the original and basically retell what was explained in the original story (Frieza blowing up Planet Vegeta and Goku's dad being a low level soldier, Gohan mentoring Trunks in a post apocalyptic world where the Androids run riot). You have shit like in Tree of Might where Goku can do the Kaioken even though Tien, Chiaotzu and Yamcha are alive and in the Garlic Jr one where Piccolo knows who Gohan is even though when that happened Goku was dead.

[Guest]

The Trunks movie was pretty different than it's mango counterpart. Not like it matters.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

It's like coming up with an entire multiverse, only to then waste it on a tournament arc left them creatively exhausted (even moreso than usual).

I'm certainly looking forward to Lord Slug and that snake lady getting their well-earned canon status in the next movie.

[Keith Chegwin]

At least Bardock and the Future Trunks movies actually matched the timeline in the original and basically retell what was explained in the original story (Frieza blowing up Planet Vegeta and Goku's dad being a low level soldier, Gohan mentoring Trunks in a post apocalyptic world where the Androids run riot)

The reason the Bardock movie 'matches' the manga is that the anime people did the movie, Toriyama enjoyed the movie so he included a Bardock cameo in the manga (I think Freeza sees his face when Goku shows up to fight him)

[Bobito]

From what I recall the bardock and trunks stuff were technically tv specials not movies, that's why it can fit on the dbz canon, the movies were just "what if" kind of stuff with better animation.