#Hoi-Poi Capsules

[deusvervewrites]

Saiyan AU: So how much of Dragon Ball is inserted into the MHA setting? Do we just... have random-ass instances of honest-to-God Dinosaurs roaming around uninhabited stretches of land? Are Hoi-Poi Capsules/DynoCaps in common usage, along with hovercars and the like? Are Kami and Mr. Popo just chilling out on the Lookout, having Opinions™ about whatever the heck is going on on Earth's surface?

It's primarily My Hero Academia with elements of Dragon Ball folded into it. I've already discussed how the Red Ribbon Army is being adapted as the MLA and Garaki acting independently. I'm going to say there probably aren't dinosaurs and no Capsule Corp (yet) as per the earlier ask, but there might be a Guardian of Earth on the Lookout

[malaiz]

Bulma would post some outdated meme trying to promote their newest item while trunks and bulla posted some absolutely unhinged cursed meme with 0 context

OMG anon you're killing me. I can't stop imagining Trunks getting grounded for life after changing their profile to the one picture of two gay men kissing T_T

Bulma's post: 'One does not simply use a Hoi-Poi Capsule'

Trunks' post: SPACEMAXXED CAPSULEPILLED SIGMA POD BUSS IT DOWN HOI STYLE ONLY POI IN OHIO RIZZ

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball: Fight, Son Goku! Win, Son Goku! (South Korea, 1990)

So the 2023 Dragon Ball Apocrypha Liveblog rolls on, and this is the part I’ve been looking forward to: The Gaijin Live-Action Trilogy.  We begin with the first live-action adaptation of Dragon Ball, produced in South Korea in 1990. 

Now, if you’re not familiar with this film, you might be wondering: Why would Toei and Shueisha license a Dragon Ball movie to a South Korean studio?  And the answer to that is: They didn’t.  This was an unofficial adaptation.

Beyond that, I really don’t know the backstory to this one.  Presumably, Dragon Ball had become popular enough in Korea that there was some interest in a movie, and I think it was easier to pull a stunt like this in the 90′s than it would be today.  This movie isn’t exactly a big-budget affair, and if Toei was aware of it at the time, they probably thought it wasn’t worth the hassle of pursuing legal action. 

You can find the movie on YouTube like I did, but I’m pretty sure there’s home video options out there.  But if you just want a quick rundown of the movie’s highlights, I’ve got you covered. 

For the most part, this movie is a straight adaptation of the first arc of the Dragon Ball manga. Bulma meets Goku, convinces him to join her on her search for the Dragon Balls, they meet Roshi, Oolong, Yamcha, Chi-Chi, and the Ox-King, and then eventually they have to deal with the villainous Emperor Pilaf.  Oolong stops him by wishing for panties, Bulma and Yamcha get together, and Goku goes off to explore the wider world. 

The main problem with this movie is that it’s a little too faithful to that plotline, adapting little moments that probably didn’t need to be in a feature film.   I could respect the attention to detail, except the movie also manages to go completely off the rails as well, which sort of defeats the purpose of doing a shot-for-shot retelling of the original comics.  On top of that, the movie also cuts a lot of corners. 

The best example of this is when Goku first meets Bulma.  In some versions of this scene, she hits him with her car, and in some she manages to stop in time, but here, Goku just happens along her parked car while she’s checking the engine. And I get it, they’ve got a pretty young kid playing Goku, and if I was the actor’s mom, I wouldn’t want him filming a scene where he almost gets hit with a car, but considering the other car-related nonsense later in the movie, it’s kind of weird that the opening scenes are so subdued.

Also, when Bulma tells Goku about the Dragon, they just use what looks like footage from the cartoon they’re shamelessly ripping off.  

And when they start off on their journey, and Bulma gets attacked by a pterodactyl, it’s just a guy in a costume.  It’s a pretty fancy costume, although I have no idea what this thing is supposed to be.  Like, if this were a stage musical, I could just accept that this guy represents a pterodactyl, but maybe he’s supposed to be a cyborg bandit, or some other enemy that was easier for the studio to create.  The thing is, he still swoops down and grabs Bulma in his talons like a pterodactyl.  But why didn’t they give him a mask?  Maybe the actor left it at home the day of the shoot.

Also, Goku fights this guy for a really long time.  I’m pretty sure he just hit him once in the comic, but this movie drags it out for a really long time, and it’s a very one-sided beating.  I don’t understand this.

One touch I really like is how Bulma uses Hoi Poi Capsules in the movie.  It’s a simple thing to skip, but when you think about it, it’s such an easy effect to pull off in a live-action movie.  Just have the actor toss a prop, show some smoke and fireworks, and then show the characters looking at the building or vehicle that “suddenly” appeared before them.  This movie features literal puppets, and it still managed to make Hoi Poi Capsules work, so later productions really have no excuse.

So Bulma sets up a house for them to spend the night, and inside Goku watches... Dragon Ball?  Wow, they really had no shame at all about this. 

They do the bit where Bulma gives Goku a bath, and there’s some sort of censor effect over Goku’s crotch, which.... yeah, this all gets really messed up when it’s a real live kid standing around in the buff.  Also, why are we doing this scene from the manga?  Of all the things you could cut, this should have been a no-brainer.

Then we get to the part with the Turtle, and he’s just a guy in a suit, but it’s a pretty damn good likeness of the character.  That’s one thing I respect about this production.  They wanted to do a live-action Dragon Ball, and they didn’t just shy away from logistical challenges like a talking turtle. 

On the other hand, while they wait for the Turtle to return from the sea, Bulma starts wishing she’d brought a swimsuit so she could enjoy the ocean.  Then the movie just shows her in a swimsuit, cavorting around the beach.  This doesn’t actually happen, they just decided to show this anyway, as if it had happened.

This movie just makes a lot of weird choices.  For instance, Master Roshi is dressed very authentically.  He’s got the clothes, the staff, the turtle shell, all of it.   And yet they gave him these braids for some reason.  He’s bald on top, but they stopped short of just shaving his whole head.   Also, he never has on sunglasses.  And yet, the character always has sunglasses with him at all times!  He keeps a pair hanging from a lanyard around his neck.  So why not just put them on and complete the look?

Anyway, things play out pretty much like they do in the comics.  Roshi gives Goku the Kinto’un cloud, and then Bulma notices Roshi’s Dragon Ball.  This would be the part where Roshi offers to trade it for a look at Bulma’s underwear, but that doesn’t happen.  Instead... I’m not really sure.  They get really close together as they look at Roshi’s Dragon Ball, and then she accidentally kisses him, more or less, and Roshi just gives the thing to her, as though he’s already satisfied. 

Then we just smash cut straight to this scene, where Goku and Bulma are in a whole other place.  There’s no transition or anything.  They’re just like “Oh, we’re at the house,” as if they turned around and found this place along the same beach they were just at.

This leads into the Oolong part of the story, and while I don’t understand this setting, I have to give them props for their pitch-perfect casting of Oolong’s disguise.  He looks almost exactly like he did in the original story. 

Also, his robot disguise kicks ass.  Goku fights him for a bit, and then...

Yeah, not so impressive.  I don’t know, I feel like Oolong was close enough to human that you could get away with prosthetic ears and a snout.  So Bulma takes him along on their quest, and they do the bit where Oolong tries to turn into a fish and escape, except....

Mai is spying on them.  So Mai looks pretty much like you’d expect her too, but here’s a weird twist.  She raises her arms...

...And turns into a centipede?  And then she goes in the water?  I didn’t think centipedes could swim.  Anyway, she attacks Oolong for no obvious reason, and Goku has to save him.

Then they do the bit where Bulma tricks Oolong into eating magic laxatives.  Fun fact: In Korean, they say “pee pee pee”, but it actually means “poop poop poop”.  At least, that was the impression I was given by this scene.  Anyway, this is all observed by Puar, who reports back to Yamcha’s lair.  Also, Puar enjoys a cigarette, because who knows?  This movie was made in Korea, but Puar is in Flavor Country.

Anyway, Yamcha looks fuckin’ awesome in this movie.  The fact that he’s constantly accompanied by this ridiculous Puar doll only heightens the immersion for me.

Hell yeah!

Cool pals 4-ever.

Very intimidating.

Yamcha tries to do a cool entrance with his car, but it doesn’t work and he nearly runs himself over, and then he has to struggle to get it to stop.  Then he and Goku fight until he sees Bulma and backs off.

The weird thing is that Yamcha isn’t afraid of girls like he normally is in this story.  They never even get into that.  Instead, it just seems like he’s really infatuated with Bulma, which distracts him.  Here, he sees Bulma for the first time and imagines frolicking on the beach with her in a wedding dress.  Then Goku hits him and knocks him out.

Then he spies on their house to learn what the Dragon Balls are, and he accidentally sees Bulma in the shower, but he just tells Puar he saw something great.  And he confidently says he’ll get his wish, but he never explains what that wish would be.

Then we get to the Frypan Mountain stuff.  They just show Chi-Chi running around killing some monster or bandit or whatever.  Meanwhile, Ox-King is just a regular-sized man with a really red costume. 

Chi-Chi’s costume looks kind of bad.   Like, the design had the right idea, but her helmet is way too big and the pink armor parts just look like fabric attacked to the white tights.  She looks like a little kid who just got done with ballet class and her dad let her put on his motorcycle helmet. 

In further-away shots like this one, it looks pretty good, though.  Like, I can tell what they were going for, and it could have been really cool, but they just didn’t pull it off. Speaking of pulling, Chi-Chi pulls on Goku’s tail, but it doesn’t mean anything, because Yamcha’s not around to see it, and Goku’s secret weakness never comes into play.  I’m a little surprised that he even has a tail in this movie, since it never figures into the plot.

So then we go back to Master Roshi, and when Goku and Chi-Chi ask him for the Bansho Fan, Turtle reminds him that he doesn’t have it.  Then Roshi just starts smacking him around for no reason, and Turtle bites Roshi’s balls.

Then Roshi continues to assault Turtle, even as he uses him to fly to Frypan Mountain.  I get using Turtle in place of Baby Gamera, but that’s about the only thing I get about any of this part of the movie. 

Then he arrives and sits on Ox-King like a chair, and makes Bulma sit down in front of him, like Ox-King is a motorcycle or something.  For several awkward minutes, Roshi kind of gestures at Bulma, but there’s no dialogue, so I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.  Well, obviously, this is meant to reflect the part where Roshi asks Bulma to let him fondle her in exchange for putting out the fire on Frypan Mountain, but this bears no resemblance to any of that. 

Also, I’m pretty sure the Dragon Ball isn’t even in Ox-King’s burning castle.  Chi-Chi has it in this movie, if I’m not mistaken.  So Bulma really doesn’t have anything at stake here.

So Roshi finally gets down to business and bulks up, which is a pretty simple effect they pull off.  Just get a jacked up dude to pose in the same costume and never show his face in the shot. 

And here’s the Kamehameha.  Dunno why it’s orange, but no big deal.   Goku does his own and blows up a rock, but it’s not as spectacular.

Chi-Chi is all impressed and Goku does this cute humblebrag pose.  “Yep, not too shabby for a first try.  Yeah, I’ve been working out a lot.  Chopping wood with my hands, crushing rocks.  Been thinking about trying some Spirit Bombs one of these days, but I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself.”

So let’s check in on the villains.  They’ve shown up a few times in pointless scenes, but I need to point out this scene because it’s the best picture I could get of this dude, named Murasaki.   I don’t know if he’s meant to have any connection to Murasaki, aka Sgt. Major Purple, but he looks like Nappa with hair.  Anyway, Emperor Pilaf sends him to go take out the good guys, who now have five Dragon Balls. 

So they run into each other in a cave, where they fight and have a fun chase in mine carts, and Murasaki has ninjas on his team so maybe he really is a reference to Sgt. Purple.  Anyway, Goku takes him out with a Kamehameha.  Then Yamcha shows up and lends his sword to the team.

Then this green robot attacks and they all take turns trying to beat him.  Oolong attacks him with nunchucks (!) but it doesn’t work.  Goku tries his best, but nothing.  Then Yamcha summons his car to the battle and flies(!!) the car into the robot, but that does nothing.

I still don’t understand how this fight ended.  Bulma starts powdering her face, and I think the robot saw its reflection in her compact mirror, and then it exploded?  I can’t explain why, I’m just reporting my observations.  The gang all congratulate her for winning, but I’m not even sure she was trying to do anything.

Then they go back in the cave?  I guess?  And Pilaf knocks them out with gas to steal their Dragon Balls.  That guy in red and black armor might be Shu, but they never specify it in the subtitles. 

Then we just immediately cut to this hole in the wall that Goku made with his Kamehameha.  They don’t even show the group being trapped in a place, or Goku shooting the blast to create the hole.  Bulma suggests that Oolong turn into a bat to pass through, and he does, but they don’t show it, which is pretty weak.  I mean, how hard would that effect have been?

Outside, Pilaf is at... EPCOT center?  What the fuck?

Pilaf has all seven Dragon Balls, so fair play to him, although we only ever saw six of them in this whole movie.  Bulma started with one, then found four more, and Pilaf had one. I think the last one might have been in the cave?  Or maybe Bulma had it from the start, since in the original story she had two Dragon Balls before she met Goku, even if the movie never showed that. 

Anyway, here’s cartoon Shenron again.

Pilaf verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

slllloooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwlllllllyyyyyyyy makes his wish, giving Oolong time to figure out that he can just make some other wish first and stop him. 

See, it’s important to make live-action adaptations of cartoons, because that way you can depict moments like this with a more realistic style that pen and ink could never do justice.

So from here the plot just completely abandons the original story.  Instead of Goku turning into a giant ape, Pilaf starts using Force Lightning on Oolong, until Goku busts out to save him.

So it’s these three vs. the good guys.  Goku fights Mai for a bit, then hits her with a ki blast and she explodes.  Shu (?) beats the crap out of Oolong until Yamcha throws a flagpole at him like a javelin and that blows him up.

Pilaf just wrecks everyone’s shit, and even Goku can’t stop him.  Also, I should note that Pilaf has been making weird faces throughout the movie, and now Goku is making faces as well to mock him.

But nothing he does seems to work.  Even Goku’s mighty weapon, the Pool Noodle Nyoi’bo, seems to be useless.

Also, Pilaf can do the Kamehameha too?  The good guys are fucked... until!

Turtle suddenly shows up, offering to help?  Wait, really?  What the hell is he gonna do?  Is he going to beat up Pilaf like he took out those guys in that one filler episode?

Yes, that is exactly what happens.  He just goes right up to Pilaf and starts smacking the shit out of him with his flippers.

Get turtle’d.

Then they all gather together and shoot Kamehamehas at him together.  This is like the end of the second Broly movie, only instead of Goku and his sons, it’s Goku, Oolong, and the fucking turtle.

Finally, after taking a triple Kamehameha, Pilaf makes one last goofy face and explodes.  Huzzah.

Then the characters just sort of make small talk.  Oolong explains that he wished for panties because he stole Bulma’s panties the day before, and he wanted to give her a replacement pair.  Wait, why not just give her back the pair he stole?  Bulma says she wanted to wish for a boyfriend, but seems less than eager to find one in Yamcha?  I have no idea what they were going for with Yamcha and Bulma in this movie but they totally blew it.  Then Goku taps his foot on Turtle’s groin and declares that he has no boobs, so that makes him a boy. 

Then the cast and crew all stand around posing together, and an explosion goes off behind them and they run for it.  Yeah, okay.

Anyway, the moral of the story is: Don’t fuck with Turtle. 

So yeah, this movie is... well, awful.  I mean, it’s amusing in places and kind of fun to watch.  It’s bad in an entertaining way, which makes it the perfect antidote to a screening of Dragon Ball GT.  But it’s still a terrible, terrible piece of cinema.

I’m not sure what else to say here, so I’ll just close out with a gallery of Emperor Pilaf’s goofy expressions.

[mindlaby]

The King Hyena in a Land of Scavengers: Dragon Ball Chapter 7-8 Review

When Bulma loses her Hoi-Poi capsules, our heroes must travel through the desert on foot, but will they manage to survive against the desert bandit Yamcha?

In the last chapter of Dragon Ball, our heroes, Goku and Bulma, acquired their fifth dragon ball and met Oolong, the shape-shifting pig, who is joining them on their adventure, but will his shape-shifting abilities actually prove to be useful? Goku, Bulma, and Oolong are riding a motor boat down a river when Bulma announces their next stop will be Fry-Pan Mountain. “What?! Fry-Pan Mountain!…

[promptyper]

 I made a Live-action movie poster of Dragon Ball Z using AI-generated images and Photoshop.

 This is a fan art. I also hope this legendary manga to be made into a live-action movie. Rather than filming an actor's acting, I think we need CG that cannot be distinguished from the actual situation. Like Avatar and Alita : Battle Angel, for example.

 I think Bulma has shown a versatile and capable woman image in Dragon Ball series. The technologies she uses, such as miniature capsules (Hoi Poi Capsules) and Dragon Ball Tracker, were extraordinary, and it was a great pleasure to see them work in animation.

 And Bulma was one of the first characters to introduce me to the concept of "pretty woman" at the time. Let's stop discussing whether this is okay. We'll find out about this one day anyway and find it ourselves. Animation just moved it up a few months to a year. Ha Ha.

[jedisnimportequoi]

Comment Gargantua apporta le confort moderne à son fief, le commentaire de texte

Je m’auto-déclare souvent pur produit tourangeau, rabelaisien et arrière petit fil de Gargantua. En 2022, j’ai donc écris une histoire sur mon arrière grand père. Consultable à la BnF ou en me passant commande.

Cette bd est une succession de grandes d’ellipses qui semble rendre la compréhension difficile. Voici un commentaire de texte rédigé par moi-même pour préparer le bac de français cette année.

Le style est très inspirée de la culture japonaise : Dr slump de Akira toryama, Plaza de Yûichi Yokoyama, les séries de super sentaï, Godzilla. Mais ce n’est pas un manga, cette bd se lit dans le sens occidentale. Ce n’est pas non plus un vitrail du temps de Rabelais qu’on lirait en boustrophédon.

page 1

la bd reprend exactement là où le livre s’arrête : une partie de jeu de paume.

Gymnaste est représenté en slip en référence direct à son nom, préfixe gymno signifie nu (je regrette en écrivant ceci de ne pas l’avoir dessiné tout nu).

page 2

Jean le Hachis n’est autre que Frère Jean des Entommeures qui signifie faire du hachis de ses ennemis. C’est avec son bâton de croix qu’il fait du hachis mais ce bâton lui sert dans bien d’autres situations, comme jouer au jeu de paume.

Gargantua apparait petit et potelé, il a régressé mentalement et physiquement. il ressemble au personnage de Dr Slump dessiné par Akira Toryama, qui lui aussi a plusieurs apparences en fonction de son état d’esprit.

page 5

Jean ne boit pas d’eau, en tant que cloitrier, il boit du vin : le corps dieu, sa source d’énergie.

page 6

J’ai imaginé l’histoire pendant la grève des employés de Total à l’automne 2022. La pénurie de pétrole a été transposée à l’époque de Rabelais où les chevaux étaient la plus grande source d’énergie (hormis le soleil) pour le transport de charges. Le mouvement social de 2022 a aussi été transposé, ce sont les chevaux qui font grève. Rabelais était humaniste à son époque, peut-être aujourd’hui serait-il animaliste et voudrait le bien être de toutes les espèces sur terre.

page 8

Voici l’arrivée de nouvelles technologies : c’est le progrès technique. Séduisant car il laisse apparaitre la fin du travail (pour les humains mais aussi les animaux) et le développement d’une société de loisir.

page 10

Dans Dragon Ball, le mangaka Toryama invente les capsules Hoi-Poi pouvant contenir des équipements type bâtiment dans le volume d’un tube d’aspirine. Très pratique pour mettre en place une ellipse de construction d’un bâtiment en 2 cases.

La boule, c’est le nom vernaculaire donné à la centrale nucléaire de Chinon (de par sa forme). On découvre finalement que ce nom vient de Gargantua, comme nous a habitué Rabelais dans ses livres. La forme de la centrale a été définie par l’expression “Aboule l’énergie” (page 9).

page 11-12

L’arrivée de cette nouvelle source d’énergie permet d’avoir de l’éclairage, de garder des aliments de première nécessité au frais : c’est ce qu’on appelle le confort moderne.

page 12 et 13

A lire sur l’air de la queue leu-leu

page 14

Pourquoi inventer un méchant quand on en avait un bien. C’est surement ce qu’a pensé JJ Abrams en écrivant star wars 9. C’est donc le retour de Pichrochole. 

page 16

Bien avant la canne à alcool mondaine, le bâton de croix de Jean lui servait aussi de calice pour communier.

page 18

La haine de Picrochole est intensifiée par son contact avec les déchets nucléaires qui éveille en lui le monstre. Ce monstre gigantesque est à l’image des kaijū japonais, exploités dans le cinéma japonais pour représenter la peur post-Hiroshima.

page 19

La bile amère est l’étymologie du nom Picrochole, nom inventé par l’érudit Rabelais.

Les bio-humanistes sont les sentaïs du monde de Rabelais (en référence aux bioman). Chacun d’eux est représenté par un produit de la gastronomie tourangelle comme les bioman le sont par une couleur.

page 22

Gargantua prend conscience des dangers de l'énergie nucléaire. Il grandit mentalement et physiquement (c’est un géant après tout) et décide de fournir à son peuple l’énergie pour leur confort en pratiquant une activité physique comme ses amis Gymnaste et Jean.

La technologie seule ne rend pas le monde meilleur.

[pageliveblogscomics]

The first panel is just here because I think the face is funny.

The second panel though, really reminds me of something. Some “Thing” Get it? The Thing. Ben Grimm. Mostly it’s weird, because even when he was small, he was still a man.

Then he destroys the growth and shrinking serums because they are too dangerous? It’s a little weird, because honestly, it doesn’t feel like we’ve seen it as being that dangerous. It’s not uncontrollable, or unpredictable, but if people are small enough, there are some extra risks in being outside. Mankind was never meant to have the power of Hoi Poi Capsules, I guess?

[nakamorijuan]

ロマンティックあげるよ

[catbowserauthor]

Dragonball 30 Day Challenge: Day 25: Favorite Inventions

Dragonball has no shortage of inventions. One thing I love about this series is that you can have a family trading and making a living off the land just as much as a one making a living off technology. They aren’t mutually exclusive which I love.

As for my favorite? Well as much as people love the Time Machine I tend to be neutral to it. It’s a fun design and is a great plot device but time travel in my opinion is hard to get right. Dragonball does it pretty well all things considered.

Then we have things like the gravity room which is one of my favorite elements of the Saiyans training but it’s really pretty limited. Humans can really utilize it beyond 300g. Though it IS a fun element in my fanfictions sometimes.

Then there’s inventions that people have forgotten about like Bulma’s shrinking watch from the the early days. Can’t say there’s much use for it but it is fun and the fact Bulma made it when she was a teenager is pretty cool.

Doctor Gero making tiny robots shaped like flies and bees to gather the information on Goku and the others is brilliant. That man knew his ways around mechanics. Too bad he ended up using it fir such nefarious purposes.

My all time favorite though has to go to the House Poi Capsules. Can someone invent these for real please?

The idea that you could carry your car, a plane, a bike or even your entire house around with you and just pop it out as needed is such an awesome concept. I doubt storage facilities really need to exist in this world!

[the-soft-saiyan-hybrid]

"Yeah!"

He pulls out a Hoi-Poi Capsule, an item that stores many things inside of it and when thrown, can take out the item, out of his armor.

"Stand back!"

He throws it and out comes a miniature keyboard.

"This is the song I'm trying to play."

He would start playing a soft sweet little song. And when he's done with it he'd press a little button on the side of the keyboard and it turns back into a capsule.

"There ya go."

A white booted, blue armored 15-year old boy was patrolling the town, when something caught his eye. It seemed like something was happening, so he went to check it out. He landed where it was happening.

"Heyo, hiyo! What's going on here?"

@the-soft-saiyan-hybrid

Huh?

(The saiyan in town caught the teenagers attention,as she had been walking with her cats.)

[cosmicmewtwo]

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What beautiful image is this???

apparently it’s the cover for the DBS soundtrack!

[duhragonball]

With the Dragon Balls around, any mistake can be undone. In extreme circumstances, even people who have died can come back to life. Up until this point, it was repeatedly treated as a given. Unfortunately, however, such a useful tool doesn’t actually exist. They are clearly tools like something out of a dream, but what's need to achieve that dream is ultimately the strength of people so the people who gave rise to those corruptions take responsibility for them one by one, That's what I'm saying.

What's your point? The Dragon Balls shouldn't be in Dragon Ball because they're not real?

Ki blasts aren't real either!

King Furry isn't real!

Saiyans aren't real!

Hoi Poi Capsules aren't real!

All that noise about how overusing the Dragon Balls is dangerous? That's not real either!

It's a fantasy story! The whole point is that there are ways to do miraculous things that wouldn't be possible in real life.

This right here is the big sin committed by Dragon Ball GT. It took a big, rich fantasy world, and started arbitrarily forbidding cool stuff for no reason. Dragon Balls? "Those are bad, m'kay?" Super Saiyan 1, 2, and 3? "Oh, we have to nerf those to the point where they barely matter." Gotenks? "No, we can't have that!" Pan and Bulla win some fights? "That's crazy talk, everyone knows girls can't do anything!"

And for what? Realism? There's an episode where Goku breathes underwater, for cripes' sake!

[emperorsfoot]

Can you put non-pokemon things in poke balls? Are they like the Capsule tech from Dragon Ball? Is that why you see characters using things like tents and camping stoves, but never see them CARRYING these things on their journey?

[dax-micro]

It’s Bulma’s Capsule Bike from Dragon Ball.

[jinzoboy]

the cyborg’s hair silently parted as he tilted his head. seventeen gripped the hoi-poi capsule in his hand tightly, studying trunks with an almost dehumanizing level of curiosity; as if he could hardly tell that it was a saiyan in front of him and not some strange animal.

 “ i can go wherever i please. i don’t recall there being a citywide ban on androids. ”     of course, seventeen heard what trunks meant loud and clear :  ‘ you’re a dangerous machine. i don’t trust you. you make me feel unsafe. leave. ‘ etcetera, etcetera.

alas, he had no regard for the wishes of someone he did not respect.

normally, seventeen didn’t have much of a reason to hang by west city. he struggled to relate to normal people and eighteen was busy settling down with krillin. he needed an incentive. luckily, bulma getting the clutter out of her lab with a techy yard sale was the perfect bait for the cyborg. he was unaware that a certain sword-wielding nuisance would also be in attendance.

seventeen stepped around to fully face trunks, the summer sun warming his numbed skin.    “ i’m bulma’s guest right now. wanna take your complaint up with her? ” 

@galiq​ said :  " it would be a lot easier for both of us if you weren’t here. "

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Dragon Ball Hoi-Poi Capsule boli - Leganés (Madrid, españa) - Disfraces (Compraventa) [Anuto]