HATERS OF DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION!

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Permalink Reply by Universal Guardian on March 18, 2009 at 9:42pm

Except that facts are facts. Dragonball is from Japan, created by a Japanese writer.

I think it is a matter of knowledge, really. If you see Dragonball only as a dub, then you would see it as white. If you know about its origins, and watched anime generally, then you would know the character is Japanese.

A black James Bond wouldn't work for me...but a black original character as a secret agent?

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Permalink Reply by MDS on March 18, 2009 at 9:22pm

God you are SO FUCKING WRONG....

Goku is the MONKEY KING... which by definition is:
The main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West. In the novel, he accompanies the monk Xuanzang on the journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India. Sutras are defined as literally a rope or thread that holds things together.

Just by the fact that Goku IS the Monkey King is a sign that he is really suppose to be Chinese and NOT Japanese. You are bitching about a character that is already OUT of his racially known background being changed again.

That's like bitching that E.T. is cast as Chewbacca and then recast as Alf. It makes NO DAMN SENSE to be bitching about the casting choice of a character that is ALREADY cast/drawn improperly to begin with.

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Permalink Reply by Universal Guardian on March 18, 2009 at 9:44pm

Sun Wukong is the Monkey King, if you want to get technical.

And what the hell is this debate? Now Goku, a character INSPIRED by Sun Wukong in JOURNEY OF THE WEST(who was a villain) is now supposed to be Chinese?

WTF?

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Permalink Reply by Jay Perry on May 30, 2009 at 9:41pm

I don't think making the skin color different would make a difference.But I can see your point,and I respect your opionion.

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Permalink Reply by CTHLHU on March 28, 2009 at 10:03am

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Permalink Reply by MDS on March 18, 2009 at 9:06pm

As far as the movie goes.....
Well, poor acting. Bad writing. Shitty special effects. Lack-luster performances. Zero concern for quality of the end product.


I'm sorry, but this just goes to prove the point that no one actually CARED about the source material at all. This was simply put out into theaters because Sony KNEW ahead of time that Dragonball fans have NO sense to determine "good/bad" products and will be willing to pay to see the movie just because of the NAME alone.

Serves every single one of you Dragonball defenders right. The REAL anime fans that have been enjoying the stuff from the 60's-80's have been saying for YEARS that Dragonball would be (or was) the downfall of quality works of animated material from Japan and would be detrimental to the WHOLE industry because it would loose credibility to produce QUALITY works that would be based on it's OWN standards and not compared to a KID'S SHOW.

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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on March 18, 2009 at 9:26pm

I'm just saving my hatred for the day they make the live action Pokemon movie, and cast a white guy to play Pikachu.

Everyone knows Pikachu is South American!! DAMN IT!!

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Permalink Reply by MDS on March 18, 2009 at 9:37pm

Well, I just hope they can get Cheech Marin involved before he dies.

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Permalink Reply by Zee on March 18, 2009 at 9:14pm

(To AcE!)

I see what you're saying. If you deviate from the source material by leaps and bounds, some people would have a problem. Some people don't like change, while others do. For example, black president.

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Permalink Reply by Universal Guardian on March 18, 2009 at 9:45pm

*Smile*

I don't remember Obama being based off of anything, :).

Although, he has stared in a lot of comics. What if he was white in those comics, instead of black?

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Permalink Reply by Zee on March 18, 2009 at 9:20pm

I don't think ALL live-action movies that uses Animated Movies/Series/Shows as their source material are destined to fail, we just have to wait for a competent writer.

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Permalink Reply by MDS on March 18, 2009 at 9:28pm

Writers don't matter. It's taking the PERFERRED tool of telling the story (animated) and changing that story-telling tool (live-action) to RETELL the story that was already told.

Once again, it's like using a HAMMER to screw in a screw into a piece of wood. While it's possible to do so, it will always be less effective than using the SCREWDRIVER to do the same job.

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