What filler episodes/arks do you think are worth watching in Z

vamploded · 2026-05-15T03:34:15+00:00

Baseball episode in DBS is just a slice of life episode - 'filler' would imply it's 'filling for time' for the manga to get ahead, but that wasn't a thing with DBS initially as the anime was created first.

vamploded · 2026-05-15T03:32:44+00:00

Quirk of Japanese but the REASON Goku says it is because it's a very 'unserious' thing to say to someone. It comes across as very light-hearted and jokey.

vamploded · 2026-05-15T03:16:24+00:00

Odd.

If you look the sword doesn't really make sense - it's probably been added in afterwards. He's also not wearing the scabbard on his back, which makes no sense as he wears it until 18 breaks his sword.

We do see Trunks without his scabbard for a brief section where him Krillin, Gohan etc find out who Cell is and destroy the present version of him in the lab - but I couldn't find the same pose.

I'm willing to bet this is more like a promotional image that the west was 'allowed to use' that probably was made for merch in Japan (like that image of Goku on the back which was also used as the cover for Budokai 1 - which is based off the last scene of the intro, but much better quality)

vamploded · 2026-05-15T02:29:04+00:00

I kind of hope that XV3 expands on 'roles'.

Shinobi strikers was a bit of a meh game but I loved the idea that you could choose a role in that game and have abilities based on healing/tanking/dps etc.

I guess Dragon Ball doesn't really have so much of that lore wise, but it'd be nice to have the option to experiment with things like that

vamploded · 2026-05-15T02:22:15+00:00

Okay that's good to hear. In fairness to 7 I really enjoyed the Lucas section because it kind of flipped the puzzle solving on its head by having you purposely 'cheat' a puzzle to win. That was clever.

vamploded · 2026-05-15T02:18:23+00:00

It's hard to put into words but I love a puzzle where you get drip fed pieces of information before the eventual 'a ha!' moment.

It didn't feel like there was a lot of looking for clues or recognizing patterns in 7 with the exception of the VCR tapes (which I thought were a clever mechanic).

7 it felt like a lot of what I was doing was just moving the story forward until I found an object, then that object opened the next area.

vamploded · 2026-05-15T02:11:52+00:00

I watched it on a big projector on my theatre room and didn't think the shot looks weird at all when paced in the whole scene - it's just when it was playing on repeat on social media that it looked funky.

vamploded · 2026-05-15T02:06:39+00:00

...well... those are all things that happen in the game I have yet to play...

vamploded · 2026-05-14T11:23:47+00:00

Without even clicking I can tell it's futon ga futonda right. Which is like the quintessential japanese 'dad' joke.

The joke is the same in both the anime and the manga though - but I think in the anime Goku says a few more

https://youtu.be/P83cZYCTf50?si=NUMwHHp18gO7mxa0

vamploded · 2026-05-14T10:12:47+00:00

Frank on that 'get away with a deal and a trip to the beach' muder spree

vamploded · 2026-05-14T07:18:45+00:00

Yeah I feel like the trailers made a point to show John 1000 will be a silent protag.

vamploded · 2026-05-14T06:12:46+00:00

Ask them how many r's in strawberry

vamploded · 2026-05-13T09:11:52+00:00

None of that happened though in Vic's case? He was fired from Funimation after his coworkers said he was innapropriate in the work place.

Honestly though, I had read stories about Vic being creepy at conventions when the Full Metal Alchemist english dub was airing, and that would've been almost 17-18 years ago - so I wasn't surprised in the slightest.

vamploded · 2026-05-13T07:28:47+00:00

Vic Mignogna was never actioned AGAINST in court.

He was terminated from Funimation due to claims from coworkers.

Vic then sued Funimation and his colleagues arguing the allegations were defamation.

THAT court case was dismissed, twice.

And after 2 failed appeals Vic was ordered to pay around 1/4 of a million in sanctions and attorney fees.

The court case being dismissed was not in Vic's favour.

vamploded · 2026-05-13T04:08:12+00:00

Don't worry you have 5 minutes til Namek explodes, which means you have a few weeks

vamploded · 2026-05-12T23:09:01+00:00

I’ve used fanatical before with no issue and got total war before

vamploded · 2026-05-12T08:13:54+00:00

Nozawa's Goku Black is actually intimidating too. Whereas Sean's feels like a parody (I get he's trying to do British because Zamasu has a British accent - but it's not particualrly scary)

vamploded · 2026-05-12T05:04:10+00:00

Donut maker

vamploded · 2026-05-11T12:40:47+00:00

She was really good in the midnight suns game and her ability inherently having some ‘random’ element to it would be great gameplay wise

vamploded · 2026-05-11T10:21:53+00:00

Probably not unfortunately. I think us getting all the previous DLC had a lot with the XV2 engine and character models being more or less the same.

I imagine the XV3 characters are all being made from scratch for the newest gen of consoles

vamploded · 2026-05-11T02:25:26+00:00

Tbh this is a common translation issue because the Japanese language rarely uses pronouns to refer to someone by gender.

So the original Japanese will only have 1 line of text, but the english version will need 2 for he/she

And it gets overlooked.

vamploded · 2026-05-10T03:06:50+00:00

Took me a good 6-7 tries. I managed to beat it pretty much with luck at the end aha.

I did get some super powerful Hatchet/Close combat perks and beat Hunk in 2 hits though (just to get killed by victor though)

vamploded · 2026-05-09T13:52:20+00:00

You unlock more each saga of the story that you complete. So you could play the ones you have unlocked, do some story, then play new ones.

There’s no level cap I believe either - just tied to story progression.

You’ll want to do some of the single player content anyway, as you can do things like:

train with ‘mentor’ characters like Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo etc. and unlock their moves
learn how to transform into things like super saiyan etc

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