#OG Shenlong

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I like a lot of the MS from Gundam Wing but I feel that Epyon is extremely stupid

this, like the Deathscythe and its permutations, is the Gundam of a thirteen year old who shops at Hot Topic exclusively

[upgradewater]

i drew this before daima ep 1 came out and i was right! porunga 2 incoming.

[satsuki-yumizuka]

what gunpla have you built?

so far i haaaaave

HG Destiny Gundam

HG Livelance Heaven Gundam

HG OG Gundam (dont know the exact version lol)

HG Heavyarms

HG Shenlong Gundam

HG Red Astray Inverse

HG Barbatos

HG Strike Freedom Gundam

HG Urban Ground Gundam

HG Char's Zaku II

HG Gouf Custom

HG Turn A Gundam

HG Aerial Gundam

RG Zaku II

RG God Gundam

MG Crossbones Gundam

MG Heavyarms

and an SD Gundam with the gundam base colors ..... i think thats all of them...

[stalkerkyoko]

in honor of toriyama

wish it was og db though

6am is Come Forth, Shenlong! The Saiyans Finally Arrive on Earth" / "Shenron Appears! The Saiyans Arrive Sooner than Expected

[julius-novachrono]

Yeah like have Vegeta bring the Saiyans back with the og balls back home at least. It may not bring back their whole entire universe back but DAMN wouldn't it be something if our girls lived in u7's verse 😍.

Yes! Shenlong may not have the power to bring back an entire universe but he should be able to bring back those 3. I'd love to see the girls train in U7 😍

[upgradewater]

The result of Goku's training with Shenlong when he flies off at the end of GT...? Goku using Shenlong's small amount of dragonly god ki? Why not both!

I started drawing this before the news about Toriyama's passing became public, so it feels kinda weird. Weird as in posting it in general, and posting it a couple days later.

I was inspired by a screenshot of one of those "what if" videos that showed Goku in a dragon form that was blue and purple with wings. I guess he was supposed to look like the evil smoke dragon? I went for a more traditional Shenlong-based look.

I wouldn't say my form(?) is a Goku/Shenlong fusion though. I'd dragon him up more if that were the case.

Anyway.

I used to watch GT a lot as a kid because i had easier access to it via DVDs (my rental store didn't have DBZ) and there were more reruns on. I watched DBGT more recently, and of course there are tons of problems. Pacing being the biggest imo. I think they didn't know what to do with the series.

But a lot of my early db fanart as a kid circled around GT and its ending. I think they stuck the landing there, although a little abrupt. Yet it's very precious to me. It had that mysterious air around it, and like the original DB og ending of Goku flying off with Chichi, or flying off with Uub at the end of Z, I think him flying off with Shenlong implies there were of course more adventures to be had for Goku.

Now that i think about it, that's kinda what Super was missing, huh... Of course he has Beerus and Whis' planet, but it ain't the same.

...Well. I wouldn't have written this all about this drawing if i wasn't waxing nostalgic about DB in general. And i know Toriyama wasn't involved in GT's writing, but it was nice to get this out of my system.

[upgradewater]

daima time-ah

blabbering about ep 1!

spoilers obv

btw I blabbered a lot on twxtter about it a lot, so I'm likely gonna repeat myself here.

First of all.

NEW DRAGON BALL SET

NEW STINKY OP NAMEKIAN GRANDPA HACKING EARTH'S DBS LIKE IT'S NOTHING

DESIGNATED DB GUARDIANS NO ONE DARES TO FUCK WITH

NAMEKIANS "OTHER WORLD" ORIGIN LORE DROP FROM THE SUPER MANGA HAD PAYOFF IN LINKING BACK TO THEM BEING FROM THE DEMON REALM, ALONG WITH THE LINK BETWEEN "DEMON KING" PICCOLO AAAAA

was this made for me??? this feels specifically made for me.

And then there's also:

White vs black magic, specifically talking about wishes and what Shenlong won't do

The new DB set is known as Porunga, so I'm really looking forward to the design!!! Porunga OG, the prequel!

Shenlong being hesitant and oddly specific about the age wish and what to do with ones who are already kids, but then deciding for himself who the wish effects. (You could say Chichi stood up to Buu, but 18? Bulma? You could really include everyone who contributed to the genkidama lol)

DEGESU AND GOMAH BEING SILLY and Degesu being related to Shin! And Arinsu is also their sister?!?

That's Kaioshin, Namekian, and DB lore lovers all being fed a feast in this one episode. Upcoming Majin lore with Pansy, I suppose too.

Arinsu potentially could be the first main Big Bad Lady???? And she's pulling the strings from the start???? Amazing.

I think the fact that there is already THIS much (even though it was a slightly longer premiere episode) to talk about just in story and new lore is... Just wow. Who would have thought when Super was at its end that we would be here a few years later with not only story content, but animation QUALITY. Soundtrack quality as well.

I'm so happy to be around for this period of DB. It's so fun. And bittersweet with the timing of Toriyama's sudden (?) death. But so magical.

I don't think I shared this sketch here? Here's my guess at a Super Porunga of sorts.

As a side note, here are some things I guessed correctly from the trailers:

Neva hacking the DBs via auto-summoning

New DB set/new Namekian grandpa (though I thought it might be Zalama) based on the spell in one of the later trailers. (Does this mean the dragon's name is part of the spell? Dorusie? Dorushiē? We'll see. He does say it twice though.)

Other stuff that remains to be seen:

What Arinsu's goals are

What wish does Degesu want? (Surely this will be a silly gag)

What will the other 2 wishes actually be used for?

What the fuck is that Eye item Gomah mentioned? Tenshinhan relevant???

Will they try to go to Namek first, but they'll all be affected too? Please show me tiny Porunga.

Alternatively, it would be funny if Gomah and Degesu hopped along to Namek to summon Porunga for more wishes, and Neva could probably push past the password part. Hence why our main team have no choice but to head to the Demon Realm. The first part likely won't happen as long as they don't find out about the planet though.

Gohan. I have seen discussion about him coming in clutch and having his powers as he's there only one that was in pretty good fighting shape at age 6/7. Please show our boy and tiny Videl.

Okay I'm gonna have to turn my brain off now. But anyway EP 1 stopped at such a great point. I'm so in love with this production and love how positive it has been received. We're so back. I can't wait for Friday.

[upgradewater]

daima teaser thoughts & predictions

I think i got everything out of my system after writing this.

Here's what i got from that trailer:

🟠 baby mode happens. Goku and Vegeta are either fighting each other as we see in the trailer, or some other small fry villain came to fuck with them just before they got babyfied, cause Goku and Vegeta both have some blood on them. (Seems weird to show blood just from them playfighting, no?)

🟠 Whatever turned them into kids must be very specific and not just a 'everyone in 5km radius will become baby' thing because there are regular adult sized catering staff in the background. Cannot for the life of me think of what kind of wording with the dbs would turn the main cast into the same age as roshi and ox king, but also turn the teens into infants. There's also the character design inconsistency thing but that's just Toriyama.

🟠 this is just a list but I'm curious about what will happen with some characters if they're affected/if they're immune:

buu??? shin is a kid, so i guess buu's kaioshin side could get younger? i don't expect him to turn into kids buu obviously, cause that part of him turned into uub

I don't think uub will be affected

pilaf gang? babies???

of course i wonder like everyone else is gohan/videl are included

interested to see where beerus and whis are in all this, or if they're just immune as gods

would that mean dende is immune...?

what's gonna happen to pan and bulla if the teens are babies?!

we didn't see Chiaotzu right? I wonder what he'll look like...

I wonder if any random OG characters are gonna show up as kids (launch, upa, snow) or if any other random characters from super will also be affected (jaco, merus, the u6 saiyans)

Is freeza gonna be babyfied? I guess their alliance is off, so they're not friends, if that's even what the conditions are for becoming a kid

(holds out hands) baby granolah please

🟠 Bulma likely already had the Earth DBs gathered, and so they go to God's temple and use the DBs to ask Shenlong to undo it so there's no interference or something. But it's no good, he can't do it. But he can give them information on who did it and why it happened. Or at the least, maybe tell them that the super Dragonballs would be powerful enough to undo it. Speaking of, I wonder if Dende is also babyfied, and if that would effect the Dragonballs and any power ups he's given them. Rip no tiny Shenlong (unless....! The teaser was a fakeout lol)

🟠 For some reason it looks like they go find Original Kami's (aka Katatz' son's) spaceship or something similar again (their old spaceships don't hold up?), like they initially did to get to Namek. You can see a mossy Namekian ship along with Bulma likely looking at it or fixing it up. I assume this becomes the ship we see later in the trailer. But either Goku/Shin's teleportation powers don't work, or they need the ship to cross into a new world or between universes anyways.

🟠 They need to cross universe lines or enter this "new world" because they need the super Dragonballs, which are scattered between 6/7. I bet Goku and Shin think finding the super DBs will be a piece of cake, so only those two go. Vegeta stays to protect everyone after he learns what happened in SuperHero, but Goku wants to see what's out there. Shin escorts Goku bc mortals shouldn't be crossing universe borders alone or something. That, or they already know who their villain is our what they want, maybe even that the enemy is tied to Shin. (Makaioshin lore finally outside of video games and in the main story?!)

HERE'S WHERE I REALLY REACH:

🟠 We see a sun-like star thingy turn into a Dragonball? Either a Super Dragonball hidden as a sun, or possibly the creation of a Dragonball set. Not to mention we see a wrinkly Namekian eye.... Could it be Katatz' son in a flashback? Or the first Namekian to make Dragonballs? Maybe even....🥁🥁🥁 Zalama? Maybe it's just a flashback to Mr. Daimao Piccolo. It sure would be cool if the series even acknowledged the Super manga arcs, so maybe it's grandpa Monite?

🟠 You know... Maybe they need different space ship parts because they're going beyond their universes. Maybe the "new world" part of Toriyama's comment on the new series has to do with this? Could it be just a new universe since Goku himself hasn't been to other universes, or one of the universes that didn't participate in the ToP? What if it was more? Like the kind of "different world" or "different realm" that the DBS manga lore-dropped about the Namekians originating from? Ahhh, the new world is probably just the Demon Realm.

🟠 Toriyama loves Little Guys, especially Evil Little Guys. The little imp looking fella we see could be the King of the Demon Realm with his attendant Makaioshin, looking back on what happened to the last Demon King--Dabura. That, or there's ties to Babidi or Buu. (The series was originally called Magic after all, with the 魔[ma] part of daima standing for magic, demon, malevolent, and the same 魔 in 魔人[Majin]) I guess this is pretty factual and not a huge reach, actually. 🤓

🟠 Taking the demon King/Makaioshin thing into consideration, the red and black theme the imp wears, along with white accents, are similar designs to Towa and Mira. I wonder if the feminine(?)-looking kaio eye we see is Towa, or maybe just the attendant. (Or is just Toriyama sticking to his same design staples)