Board 8 > TFS (DBZ Abridged) cancels Buu saga

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.patreon.com/posts/end-of-dbza-33758684

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Boo
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I've known this moment was coming for a long time. Even as they were saying they intended to keep going I knew they really didn't. They barely crossed the finish line with the Cell saga. I do feel bad for any patrons that supported them hoping for more DBZA because that was never going to happen, and even if the full crew didn't know it some of them did. They should have just been more honest when they ended the Cell saga, they simply didn't have it in them to continue. Excluding some Kai episodes they haven't done any DBZA in a year, and even with the Kai eps it has been 7 months. They should have made this announcement a long time ago.

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They weren't going to do better than Episode 60 even if they continued. Sad day though.

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At least, reading this thing, they acknowledged they messed up by not making an announcement sooner.
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Aww was really enjoying it and hoped it could keep going. Nothing lasts forever though :(

What bunch of fuck boys

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I thought this ended back in the cell games when they just did endless parodies of the cell games including a literal Cell lets play for some reason

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MegamanX posted...

I thought this ended back in the cell games when they just did endless parodies of the cell games including a literal Cell lets play for some reason

They used that as a time filler while making the three-part episode 60, which finished out the Cell saga.

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Does this get better than the beginning? I tried it like twice but found the start too unfunny to continue.

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pjbasis posted...

Does this get better than the beginning? I tried it like twice but found the start too unfunny to continue.

yeah beginning is trash. really hits its stride during the frieza stuff. not required watching but can be pretty funny

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pjbasis posted...

Does this get better than the beginning? I tried it like twice but found the start too unfunny to continue.

It does, but if you don't like general silliness and absurdity, you still won't like it later.

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pjbasis posted...

Does this get better than the beginning? I tried it like twice but found the start too unfunny to continue.

yeah, it does. that said it doesn't really feel "abridged" by much. it tries kinda hard as a non-parody telling of DBZ with some awkward jokes, and episodes are pretty lengthy
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pjbasis posted...

Does this get better than the beginning? I tried it like twice but found the start too unfunny to continue.

It is definitely early-Youtube era comedy at the beginning, but starts picking up in quality with the arrival of Nappa. Lots of meme and silliness and quotes that is just super playful with the material.

Frieza saga definitely begins to pick up in quality and storytelling while still retaining the humor and adding some more wonderful comedy, continuity, and callbacks. I will forever love Goku's and Piccolo's exchange before charging up the spirit bomb. It definitely comes into more of its own.

Then the Future Trunks and Android sagas are sublime, and Imperfect Cell is horrifyingly good, and the Perfect Cell saga... I mean, it might actually be better than the original material.

Now that I write that out... DBZA is actually a lot like Dragonball.

Emperor Pilaf Saga is the early episodes where there are gags galore and it was excellent at the time, but feels super antiquated with what comes later.

The Tournament Saga is the latter half of the Saiyan Saga where different things start to take focus, characters get a bit more personality and depth, and we have some hilarious fights before ending in the epic brawl between Goku and Roshi/Vegeta.

The Red Ribbon Army Sagas are all different aspects of Namek/Frieza sagas with different villains popping up only to be thwarted, new and interesting characters getting a moment or two to shine before never existing again, a long adventure questing for the Dragonballs, and the hilariously (and terrifying) over-the-top badassery of Mercenary Tao/Frieza. It's still hilarious but has a lot of dark moments.

Fortuneteller Baba Saga was originally the Ginyu Force, but feels appropriate for Future Trunks as kind of fun but kind of forgettable and very comical break after the intensity of the last saga.

Tien Shinhan Saga is tough. It definitely feels like the Android saga with some really great character work and great fights, but also kind of meanders a bit and gets overshadowed by...

King Piccolo, where **** gets horrifyingly real with quite the mood whiplash right at the start. Mr Sandman is Krillin's death. It is just dark and action packed and story-driven and amazing.

And Cell Games is Piccolo Jr. Saga with one of the greatest fights in dragonball history, where the drama and action have overtaken the gag comedy, where the characters have grown so much over the last eleven years that they're fully formed and not just complete jokes (except for Yamcha. And Raditz.) And it's just so damn good.

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vegeta3986 was part of the creative process during the Saiyan saga

he was one half (the bad half) of Naruto Abridged

they sorta treat him like yamcha and ditch him by the time Namek saga is underway

ironically he voices Yamcha at first before getting replaced

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Cool. An editing job for humor and its own version of storytelling sounds intriguing.

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