#piccolo cameo

[scarletsp1der]

they trynna be superbat so bad

[edithdraws]

hi edith! are you reading any comics right now? if so, which ones and would you recommend them!

Hiii :) the only recent Marvel/DC comic I've been keeping up with is the current Infinity Watch/Thanos stuff which is NOT GOOD lol... But since I work at a bookshop I've been reading more Finnish/European/indie comics instead

And Manga! Here's my tower of shame of books I haven't read yet or managed to shove into my shelf. Highly recommend Blood on the Tracks it's definitely a new favorite of mine, I've been really enamored with Shuzo Oshimi's work in general and I'm excited to get started on Welcome Back, Alice... I reeeaally should finish Pluto and Monster (not pictured) first though because I started them ages ago already and really liked them but. I got distracted 🙈

[ofoceansandtombsanew]

Which One Piece Characters Are Coming to the Cookout?

tags: headcanons, black!reader, gn!reader

notes. i'm not accepting critiques because i'm not wrong in any of my assessments. we all know these people would be there. i was up late for no reason thinking about this and decided to make it tumblr's problem. keeping it light for my first one piece hc post but i'll be making more

usopp

this nigga's one of us, this is a no question. this is his birthright

you don't see us questioning piccolo and the namekians at the black history month dinner, we don't question shit with usopp

bro belongs here

is most popular with all the younger cousins because of all of his stories

your older cousins are asking sniper king what his wash day routine is because his hair is amazing and we all know it

ace, sabo, luffy

ace and luffy were raised by dadan so these niggas are culturally black. sabo may have been raised by her to a lesser extent than his brothers, but he still was in that house so he gets to come too

the only problem luffy's ass would encounter is that he eat too damn much and he'll steal off someone's plate, so keep an eye on your man and he'll be fine

luffy also knows how to party. it's a challenge when one of the uncles go "you don't know nothin' bout this right here, young buck"

it's the same for ace. he grew up hearing dadan play mary j blige and roberta flack when she cleaned sunday morning so he's getting up the moment he hears someone playing word up

sabo and his top hat would get some eyebrow raises when he shows up but when he shows he knows something about some turkey necks and collard greens, they will be revoking their sneaky ass comments

ace and sabo would be particularly popular with your relatives who want you to hurry up and tie the knot. they help with your wash days, are polite and are very handsome. you will be a hearing a "if it don't work between y'all please give me a call" or two

all three of them will probably keep you at the function longer than you expected for various reasons from 'saying goodbye' and staying an additional 40 minutes to 'okay we gotta stay for cameo, they're playing get down on it!'

sanji

this white boy can cook much to the surprise of your extended family, so hell yeah he gets to come

your family gave you the side eye when you told them sanji would be bringing a dish thinking it was going to be potato salad with raisins and a dash of paprika but bro came with a huge ass bowl of banana pudding and the pudding was made from scratch

he's solidified his place in ensuring he is always invited to a function your family throws

your aunts love that he helps during your wash days, something you bragged about endlessly before you brought him to meet everyone

sadly sanji, like the asl brothers, will continuously fall victim to the "alright we leavin' y'all" but then you end up staying an extra hour because he's too busy yapping it up with all your aunties

you practically have to drag him back to the car

law

you already know your cousins are going to be all over this man based on the energy he exudes alone

"oh he a doctor? so he got money" someone's gonna say it at least once

he mostly sits to himself, more content to watch your family have a good time than interact exceedingly with everyone which may make him come off as standoffish but he really is just happy seeing everyone around him be happy

losing his family at a young age, he's happy to be pulled into yours even if his rbf may make others think otherwise

but all the mysterious aura goes out the window when someone jokes he probably can't play ball and suddenly your family is seeing a different side of him that is childish, competitive and amusing

jinbe/any fishman

automatic invitations by virtue of birthright. it's the same shit with the namekians, they're one of us so they get to come. they are with us on juneteenth

if anything, jinbe IS the uncle going "you don't know nothin' 'bout this right here" the moment the spinners, carl carlton or george duke comes on

[cuttyclowngirl]

DAIMA EP.10 (Spoiler)Review/theories

• NOW we've seen every shot from the 2 minute trailer.

• Majin Kuu immediately made it clear they're not the big bad Majin Dr Arinsu hoped for, as some of us suspected. Poor silly goober. I hope we hear him sing someday.

• It's a little easy to lie to Warp-Sama. I wonder if that'll tie into the plot later on somehow. Warp-Sama letting Goku & crew pass also implies that Panzy's single jammer worked, since their Gendarmerie ship wasn't reported stolen. Nice. Though Hybis still has a collar on, so...

• I do think Goku is right in prioritizing getting everyone's adult bodies back. Their kid bodies are still holding them back a bit. Best to skip all the time it'd take to get used to them & go straight back to prime.

• The bit about Piccolo mentioning that Earth's D balls will be useless since Dende's a baby is a little pointless since they were already forced out of cool down & are already on cool down again. Everyone should be back to normal by the end of this Demon Realm adventure anyways.

• Vegeta showed an impressive amount of restraint. Hybis was seriously pushing it. Also, confirmation that Vegeta & Bulma are legally married. Cute.

• While the 2nd demon world is pretty at first glance, we see more & more evidence of Kid Buu's rampage everywhere. So many archipelagos with nothing on them, long empty stretches of ocean where maybe islands or even continents used to be. Same goes for the Namekian home world. It's a somber beauty. At least the air isn't heavy. One less nerf.

• Seems like the legend of the Kraken doesn't exist on Earth. Odd. Unless this is a case of Goku's ignorance outside of fighting.

• The plane trouble's never gonna end, huh?

• So now, if Goku & friends manage to get to 1st world, they'll get to fight an entire army of Gendarmerie, then, maybe, King Gohma, Degesu, & Dr Arinsu+ Majin Kuu, & then Tamagami #1. Good thing Goku had Glorio buy so many bugs. Only 3 revive bugs left though... But how many Join Bugs?

• The first kraken attack scene was so well done that I was legit worried for Panzy & Goku, even though... you know... It's Goku. Also Panzy can fly. She did fly much slower than everyone else, probably due to a combination of age, experience & magical strength. She should really ask for those ki control lessons... She saved the Dragon Ball, though!

• Since Porunga made a brand new Planet Namek back in the day, did he restore the trees the ancient Namekians brought from the Demon Realm, or are they basically replicas made from scratch? (This'll never be officially answered...)

• The way the Revive Bug forced out Goku's aura is clearly a callback to the scenes where Elder Guru unlocked Gohan & Krillin's potential.

• Panzy apparently already knows how Revive Bugs work. They must be used by soldiers at Kadan's castle.

• Goku's not great at charades.

• Krakens jumping out of the water is a terrifying thought. Plus, Goku mentions that he, Vegeta & Piccolo aren't strong enough to fight one yet, which I hope is an exaggeration.

• Being treated "as little more than slaves" coupled with some psycho demon demolishing their home world, plus everything that happens down the line... I hope Namekians will know peaceful days forever after Frieza gets axed again.

• Cameo from other Supreme Kai's was cool.

• People are probably confused, but it seems to me that this "Super Majin Rymus", much like the Yin Yang system between Kaio-shin & Hakaio-shin(Gods of Destruction), Majin Rymus, a being capable of creating entire universes, is clearly Zeno-Sama's counterpart in the same way. I mean, heck, Rymus looks like an old guy while Zeno is practically a toddler. Also, Goku is clearly never paying attention to these lore drops.

• I hope we get some lore behind former Supreme King Abura's seemingly arbitrary fear of outside threats.

•I hope those poor Glind trees get restored at some point.(mainly for the sake of everyone's Kai OCs)

• I hope we get a figure or something of this "Good Supreme Demon King".

• If you listen closely, you can hear Majin Kuu saying "Kuu" during his fight, similar to the way Majin Buu shouts his own name. It'll probably be more obvious in the dub.

• NEVA JUMPSCARE?! (but not, because he walks slow) Will he make it to the plane? Will he chat with the group? I can't wait to find out!

• The next EP preview looks Shintani AF. (I mean, he did work on this EP , but you know what I mean. (Also, it's not him at all, I'm wrong.))

[fandom-trash-xl]

EPISODE 10: OCEAN

Mmm, delicious cameo crumbs

We're off to the Second Demon World, but not before we see Majin Kuu in action against Tamagami Number One! The Tamagami's a sword-wielder and... Kuu doesn't really have anything special to offer besides being absolutely going animal. He's got a few basic energy attacks, a few from the mouth, but I'd be curious to see how they stretch this guy into a Sparking Zero moveset.

With the Gendarmerie plane, they could very reasonably skip straight to the final boss, but they're on a Dragon Ball hunt and Gomah has a long term plan for plan for Dende, so the rescue mission is priority 2.

World 2 has much lighter air and is a big wide ocean like the episode title suggests, chock full of krakens! I like how it has the little Majin Buu hair swirl. It also has a bunch of floating mini planets in the atmosphere- so after we lose the plane again to the rest of the Gendarmerie (who Goku mows down with ease now that he's faster) and a giant kraken, it's off to Even Older Namek to recuperate... and no one's home.

Meanwhile with the B Team (don't have to call them that for much longer), Hybis wants to swipe Bulma from Vegeta and there's some brief debate of whether Bulma wants to be part of the back to normal wish. Bulma's gushing over her clear skin, but Vegeta's insistent on them growing back up together also, he's implied to a boobs man

"We're already married!" "I don't mind." Hybis polyamorous confirmed?

Also, the subs had Vegeta call Goku "stupid Kakarot", but... I definitely heard a kusottare. ...Yeah, he didn't call him "stupid".

Everyone seems to forget that Piccolo was born on Earth- c'mon, Goku and Bulma should know this. He does seem to have some vague nostalgia, so maybe there's a bit of King Piccolo and Kami poking in.

Goku briefly recalling how he blew up Old-But-Newer-Than-This-One Namek, Frieza got a few more cameo frames!

Meanwhile, Majin Kuu failed his task and tries to get Arinsu to reconsider firing him- he's still good for shopping! Are we going to keep cooking Majins until one works. What other wacky designs do we have in store?

Now that everyone's all together, it's time for the lore dump!

Turns out the main universe was not made by Zeno or even the Great Priest but the Super Majin (not making this title up) Rymus. And the multiverse is still a thing! The Glinds were sent to the individual numbered universes- we got all the Supreme Kais! No confirmation of any Gods of Destruction, but...

Someone wake the Gowasu blog! There he is!

AND OUR BOY FUWA!! I will take whatever Universe 6 content I can get, even if it's just the Kai, I love my cameo light snack.

Turns out the Glinds are a dying breed now that the trees have died out.

Even so, it's time to hit the road again towards the next Dragon Ball... Only for Neva the geriatric Namekian to come creeping up...

Next episode: We check back in with Arinsu and the next Tamagami fight commences- this time, Vegeta gets to take a swing!

EPISODES WITHOUT KNOWING HANVI'S WHEREABOUTS: 10

EPISODES WITHOUT KNOWING UNIVERSE 6'S STATUS: 9 (CONFIRMED! IT EXISTS!)

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Super Movie 2: Super Hero (3/5)

"What are any of us doing here? We're not even in this movie!"

So the Red Ribbon Army is trying to stage a comeback with a fresh crop of new androids, and Goku isn't around to stop them, because he's on Beerus' planet training with Vegeta and Broly. While Piccolo figures out what to do without them, the movie just goes ahead and shows us what Goku is up to. For about ten minutes.

I'm pretty sure this part of the movie is a concession to Goku's fans. Let's face it, the people love Goku, and to do a Dragon Ball movie with no Goku at all would be a risky proposition, no matter how good that movie is. Looking back at the old DBZ films, Movies 9, 10, and 11 were mostly Goku-free, but he still put in a brief appearance in each one. But those are also regarded as some of the worst entries in the series, and I don't think that's a coincidence.

Now, I'm a fan of Dragon Ball in general, so the idea of a Piccolo and Gohan movie is not only appealing to me, but I'd say it's long overdue. I'd take a Yamcha/Tien movie any day. Or a Launch standalone film. I sat through GT, so it'd take a lot to keep me out of the theater. But Toei's trying to run a business here, and they can't just depend on die-hards like me to bring in the ticket revenue. So I'm sure the decision to focus on Piccolo was a controversial one in the home office. But they probably reached a compromise by giving Goku a decent chunk of screentime as a make-good.

One thing that makes this movie so good is that they don't just toss out a character for the sake of having them in the movie. They actually take a moment to show what that character is doing these days, even if it doesn't affect the plot that much. That's important, because it lets the viewer come away feeling like they got something out of the cameo they just saw. For example, we've seen Goku and Vegeta on Beerus' planet before. This is nothing new, but this time Goku's trying to help Broly control his power. And Vegeta's trying to meditate so he can learn how to imitate Jiren's power. Goku doesn't really understand his approach, which goes to show that Vegeta's trying to push beyond the scope of the training they've done on Beerus's planet before now. Gohan is studying ants, Videl has her combat sports class, Piccolo's a homeowner, etc.

Compare this to Battle of Gods, for example. Now BoG's a good movie, don't get me wrong, but a lot of the characters who appear in the film are utterly wasted. Tien shows up but he looks and acts exactly the same as he did the last several times we've seen him. Then he shows up in Resurrection F and nothing's changed either. He says he left Chiaotzu and Yamcha behind for the big fight, but would it matter either way? If they showed up, they wouldn't do anything new with those guys either.

The trick is to not just put Ox King in your movie, but to have him mention something that he's gotten up to lately, something Ox King fans can mull over later. "Oh, hey, remember how Ox King said he was going back to school to get a sociology degree?" You can sink your teeth into that, even if that's the only thing that you find out about from him. It's a lot better than "It's Bulma's birthday, and one of the guests is Ox King, a character who certainly exists."

Let's talk about Vegeta's revelation in this movie, since it caused some commotion among the fans. Goku complains that Vegeta had just been sitting still lately, which he thinks is a waste of time. Vegeta explains that he's been studying the way Jiren fought during the Tournament of Power. While he dominated Goku and Vegeta--sometimes both at once-- Vegeta is certain that Jiren isn't that much stronger than they are. What made Jiren so tough to deal with was that he was completely relaxed until the very moment he chose to strike, which allowed him to put all of his power into those brief offensive moments. But since Vegeta can't do that himself, he's trying to train his mind to conceptualize it before he tries to make his body learn how.

So a lot of fans saw this and concluded that the studio hates Goku, or they think Goku's an idiot, or that the studio is stupid for failing to remember that Goku has meditated before in the past. There has always been a subset of the fanbase that tries to turn everything into a Manichean conflict between Goku and Vegeta. In this case, if Vegeta figures something out before Goku does, then it means that Toei or Shueisha or Akira Toriyama himself must hate Goku.

This is stupid on the face of it, because Akira Toriyama literally created the character and he's credited with the screenplay for this movie. If he truly despised Goku, why would he even have Goku in the movie at all? He could have killed him off a long time ago. Why even make a Dragon Ball movie when he could have been working on some Dr. Slump project instead?

All this scene is... and I promise you, it's nothing more to it..., is a exploration of what the boys are doing on Beerus' planet. They train here, of course. We've seen that before, but why are they training here? Well, they need to receive instructions and guidance from Whis, and this is where Whis lives. Okay, and why is Whis so important to the process? Why can't they just stay on Earth and spar like they used to do? Because that only gets them so far. They need to learn new ways of thinking in order to surpass the level they're already at.

And what does that mean exactly? Well, they can't just do a million pushups. It doesn't work that way. There's other things they have to figure out, and that requires them to think of things they hadn't thought of before. And Whis is already beyond them in terms of power, so he knows things that they're still struggling to grasp. But Whis can't just spell it out for them. He can describe what they need to do, but it's still up to Goku and Vegeta to understand and internalize it.

And that's what they're doing here. They're basically brainstorming ways to get stronger. This time, Vegeta had an idea, and he's following it to see where it leads. Whis approves, so he seems to be on the right track. Tomorrow, maybe Goku will have another good idea, and so on.

But it's not always going to be one or the other who has the breakthrough. And it would be stupid for them both to have the same idea at the same time, just so the partisan fans won't feel slighted. Goku seems to think he can get a lot out of working with Broly, but that hasn't paid off just yet. It might prove more productive than what Vegeta is working on at the moment, but there's only one way to find out.

As far as Goku failing to recognize the value of meditation, well, he's had to re-learn that lesson several times. People will point to the time he meditated in Otherworld, or the time he meditated during his training with Mr. Popo, but they forget that this sort of focus and concentration was part of his training with Master Roshi as well. Whis scolded both Goku and Vegeta on this point when they first trained with him in Resurrection F. We can draw one of two conclusions here.

Goku's quest for greater strength is a flat circle. He just keeps re-discovering the same fundamentals, making a big gain in power, and then forgetting how he achieved that improvement.

Akira Toriyama is recycling the same martial arts hokum over and over again, because he only needs to show the characters working for greater strength. He does not need to design a genuine and internally consistent system for fantasy martial arts, any more than the writers of Star Trek need to explain how dilithium crystals make the ship go.

Anyway, Whis proposes a Goku/Broly/Vegeta three-way match, but no one wants Broly to fight in case he flips out and wrecks the entire planet. Then Beerus wakes up and finds out he has new houseguests. Goku explains that this is a good place to hide Broly from Frieza, and before Beerus can object, he meets Lemo and samples his cooking. It's good, so Beerus decides he can stay. Then Cheelai walks by with a bag full of loot she stole from Beerus' home. But Beerus decides he likes Cheelai's looks, so he agrees to let her stay too. So that's decided.

I've also seen some fans gripe about how Cheelai didn't spend much time with Broly in this movie, and Beerus' crush on Cheelai muddies the waters further. Look, none of these characters got a lot of screen time in this movie. This scene could be cut entirely and you wouldn't miss a thing. Half of it is Goku sparring with Vegeta, so of course Broly and Cheelai weren't going to have a whirlwind romance in this thing.

All I know for certain is that Cheelai walked by Broly and went out of her way to say he was "looking good", which is a lot more than she complimented anyone else on this planet. I mean, she's stealing Beerus' stuff, which ought to tell you how much she's into his lanky purple ass.

Moving on, Whis still wants to do that sparring match, if only so Broly can learn to appreciate a high-level battle with the fighters maintaining control of their powers. But Goku wants to eat first and so they stop for lunch.

And yeah, then this movie up and decides to give us Goku/Vegeta III, just like that. I don't want to oversell it, but it's an excellent fight. Whis sets the ground rules to that transformations and ki blasts are forbidden, so in a lot of ways this looks a lot like the kind of battle they might have had at the 25th Budokai before Babidi's henchmen got involved. We only get to see a few minutes of it, but they're so evenly matched that the fight takes a really long time to settle, so maybe it's just as well.

Beerus notes that Vegeta's moves have changed in an almost imperceptible way, due to his recent meditation training. Still, he loses interest in the fight and decides to get ice cream while the boys slug it out. I'm pretty sure Cheelai never cared in the first place, but Broly is enthralled with this action. He's getting to watch two of the greatest Saiyans ever put on a clinic, and he's soaking it up like a sponge.

But the important thing, at least as far as this movie goes, is that Beerus tosses an empty ice cream carton onto Whis' staff, so no one notice it flashing when Bulma tries to call him.

Which means Piccolo's on his own, at least for the time being. He gets the news from Bulma while he's picking up some senzu beans from Korin. The situation looks pretty bad, since Piccolo estimates that the Gammas' power is roughly on par with Goku and Vegeta's. And Dr. Hedo might know 17 and 18's weak spots, so they might not be able to help either. There is Majin Buu, though...

.... ha ha ha! No, did you think this one was going to be any different? Buu's sleeping through this crisis too. Seriously, why did they keep him alive at the end of the Buu Saga if no one had any plans to use him for anything?

So what about Gohan? That's what Korin asks, but Piccolo just says they can't count on Gohan right now, which... ouch.

But Piccolo does have one other idea, and so he flies up to see Dende on the Lookout and asks him to draw out his hidden power. See, the Kami of Planet Namek, Grand Elder Guru, was able to power up Krillin and Gohan way back in the day. Now, Dende is the Kami of Earth, so Piccolo figures Dende could do the same for him.

Only, no, it doesn't work that way. Turns out a Dragon-Type Namekian has to reach a certain age before they can use that sort of ability, and Dende's too young. On the other hand, Dende suggests using the Dragon Balls to solve the problem. They could simply wish away the Red Ribbon Army, but Piccolo doesn't care for that idea. Okay, well what about using Shenron to draw out Piccolo's hidden power? Can Shenron do that? Dende's like "gimme a minute."

So Dende wheels out the cart with the model of Shenron on it, and he powers a flask of water on the model. This makes it glow, and somehow upgrades Shenron so that he can grant a wish to draw out a person's hidden powers. Piccolo remarks that he had no idea any of this was possible when he was Kami. To be fair, when Piccolo was Kami, he didn't even know he was a Namekian, so there's a lot of stuff he was out of the loop for.

Now all Piccolo needs is the Dragon Balls, but Dende tells him that Bulma probably has them already. Ever since Frieza came back, Bulma's been gathering up the Dragon Balls every year, using the wishes up so that they'll be inactive in case any bad guys try to use them. Piccolo calls to ask her and yes, she has the whole set. In the dub, he asks her how many she has and she's like "Oh, uh.... All of them?!" I can't be sure, but I think that's a reference to the "All of them?" line from the dub of Dragon Ball, when Piccolo tried to zap Goku, but he missed all his vital organs. Anyway, Piccolo tells her to hang on to the balls until he gets there.

So they summon Shenron and it works. Piccolo gets stronger, and the Dragon promises that he threw in "a little extra".

That still leaves two wishes to use, so Bulma asks for a nicer ass and slightly longer eyelashes. Then she realizes -- too late-- that they could have wished to bring Goku and Vegeta back to Earth. Whoops.

"Shenron, I wish for you to bring Goku and Vegeta to Earth, so that they might bear witness to all this junk within my trunk."

So Piccolo returns to the Red Ribbon base and just walks right back to the line of soldiers there in Magenta's command room. They're still talking, and Piccolo tells the other soldiers he had to go potty. No one suspects a thing.

Magenta's trying to figure out what to do next. He'd like to target Goku and Vegeta, but no one knows where they are. Mr. Satan is too risky, since no one seems to know what his powers are, exactly. Then Carmine suggests Gohan be the next target. His intel says that it was Gohan who defeated Cell, and he has lots of spy footage of Piccolo going to his house to visit, which suggests that Gohan is a "shadow boss" in Bulma's organization. Magenta likes the idea of taking Gohan out, but he doesn't want Red Ribbon guys operating in the city, since it's too soon to reveal their presence to the wider public.

But if they could kidnap Gohan's daughter and lure him to the Red Ribbon base, then they could fight him on their own turf. Carmine finds that to be a good idea, as it would improve troop morale. Magenta orders a two-man team go to fetch Pan, and Piccolo volunteers, saying that he lives in the same neighborhood and knows Pan's face, because she's the granddaughter of Mr. Satan.

Dr. Hedo objects to the kidnapping angle, but Magenta tells him to mind his own business. Hmmm...

So Piccolo will be picking up Pan from preschool after all, just a bit later than planned. I don't know why Pan can't just run home by herself. She made it all the way here from Piccolo's house, didn't she?

One thing I like about this scene is how there's one other kid here who gets picked up, and that kid's mom apologizes for being late, so it's pretty clear that it's well after 1pm. Pan's been here a while. Her teacher assures here that someone will show up soon, but Pan's still kind of disappointed.

The other Red Ribbon soldier sent to do the kidnapping thinks this will be easy, so he just walks right up to Pan and tells her his mom sent him, but she demolishes him with a single blow.

Then Piccolo reveals himself and Pan recognizes him by his ki and calms down. The teacher already knows Piccolo, so she's cool with him, and Piccolo explains that this was all a security drill arranged by Mr. Satan. Now, in the dub, Piccolo addresses the teacher as "Janet", implying that he knows her as well as she knows him, and I think this is what led to the genesis of the Piccolo/Janet ship. I don't have a lot to say about it that hasn't already been said, but I'm all for Piccolo and Janet getting together. Janet's a fine foxy lady, and Piccolo's reputation speaks for itself.

Of course, Piccolo now has to fly the Red Ribbon airship back to base. He's a pretty crappy pilot, but he manages. I like to think Janet is still impressed, though. "Wow," she thinks as he flies away, crashing into a billboard. "Is there anything he can't do?"

Piccolo's plan is pretty simple. He explains the situation to Pan, and convinces her to play along with the kidnapping. When Gohan shows up to rescue her, he'll kick everyone's ass and that'll take care of everything. Actually, that sounds a little half-baked to me. Piccolo got a power up from Shenron, but is that enough? Anyway, they bring Pan to the base and take a video of her acting scared, then Magenta sends Piccolo and the other guy back to the city to show it to Gohan. Wait, why is that Namekian chair back there? What's that about.

Well, it doesn't matter because Pan sees some cookies and she's like "Don't mind if I do!" but then...

Carmine takes the plate away! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

You suck, Carmine!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Pan would probably attack him right there, except Piccolo's behind him trying to calm her down.

So Piccolo and 15 go to Gohan's house, and Piccolo takes him to the window since he knows Gohan won't answer the door. Notably, Gohan doesn't recognize Piccolo through his disguise, even though Pan saw through it immediately. Also, Gohan hasn't bothered to change out of the clothes Piccolo put him in this morning. Those must be fascinating ants he's working on.

15 shows Gohan the video of Pan and RIP the windowsill.

He turns Super Saiyan and scares the shit out of 15, who promises Pan will be fine if he just returns with him to the base. Gohan gets so mad he makes a crater in the ground...

... and the house starts to list down into the hole. But Piccolo doesn't mind because his plan is working. Gohan's back in a fighting mood and he can clobber the Gammas!

Or can he...?

[kiirajinfan-db]

I'm convinced Toriyama doesn't like Tien. Because the way he did him dirty in so many ways was just awful. You can't tell me that the guy who beat Goku in a 1v1(even if he was lucky), is being folded by King Piccolos Henchmen easily just 2 days later.

I get that Goku is the mc, but after at the 23rd Budokai Goku literally played with him, also meaning that he's nothing compared to Piccolo Jr.

Then there's DBZ where he was basically entirely useless (and don't even mention the Cell Scene)

That guy literally has 3 eyes, can spawn a set of arms, has no past, and brought Bukujutsu(flying) into the show. You can't tell me there isn't ANY room for a power up. Or what about latent potential, it took piccolo way to long too

(yes, that includes Yamcha aswell)

But even leaving all of that aside, the Buu saga treatment was cruel. He wasn't even there half of the time. He saved Dende ans Satan and went down after one hit (which is fine actually). But he just "disappeared" after Dende healed him.

Kid Buu blew up the earth, and they just die on earth completely unmentioned.

Then the Earth is brought back and the last thing ever you see of Tien and Chaozu was them contributing to the Genkidama(Spirit Bomb)

For the last Tournament they "didn't get a hold of them" so they didn't even get to be in the last episode ever. Just showing them doing their thing like a cameo in gt isn't that hard

I'm happy they got some screentime in DBS, even if they aren't as strong maybe

Or did I miss something?

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SHINING VS SHINING

Si è spenta a 75 anni Shelley Duvall, nota al grande pubblico per l'interpretazione di Wendy nel film Shining (1980) di Stanley Kubrick. La produzione del film fu così lunga e stressante che l''attrice si ammalò e iniziò a perdere i capelli. Nonostante ciò, nell'immaginario collettivo, il film è stato spesso classificato come il miglior horror di tutti i tempi. Non era d'accordo Stephen King, autore del libro al quale si ispirò Kubrick, che ha sempre criticato il film per la caratterizzazione dei personaggi e le differenze rispetto al romanzo. King dovette anche accettare per iscritto di astenersi dai commenti, salvo quelli riguardanti Jack Nicholson. Così facendo ebbe l'approvazione di Kubrick per produrre una miniserie, oggi quasi introvabile, sempre intitolata Shining (1997), ma più fedele al romanzo. Il Re dell'horror colmò così la propria insoddisfazione, interpretando anche un piccolo cameo durante la festa nella sala da ballo, vestito da direttore d'orchestra (nelle foto).

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The Regime: Kate Winslet da Emmy nella serie sulla fantapolitica

The Regime, la terza serie tv nella carriera di Kate Winslet in cui interpreta la Cancelleria di un moderno regime fittizio europeo, accanto ad un'incredibile Matthias Schoenaerts e diretti da Stephen Frears.

Kate Winslet non è solo un'attrice talentuosa ma anche una che oramai sceglie con cura i propri ruoli, perché può permetterselo grazie alla carriera che si è costruita. Lo ha fatto ancora di più finora sul "piccolo" schermo, dove si è affacciata pochissime volte e sono sempre coincise - guarda un po' - con un Emmy portato a casa, ovvero gli Oscar della tv. L'aspetto comune è inoltre il coinvolgimento di HBO per un numero limitato di episodi e grandi nomi del cinema dietro la macchina da presa. Non fa eccezione la sua ultima fatica e ci si chiede se porterà al terzo Emmy della sua carriera - che sarebbe un record date.

Una trama (fanta)politica

The Regime: Kate Winslet in una scena

La trama di The Regime si svolge lungo un anno tra le mura del palazzo, infatti originariamente era intitolata The Palace, di un moderno e fittizio regime autoritario europeo. Tutto ruota intorno alla potente e complessata Cancelliera Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet), comandante in capo del regime, che si ritrova minacciata da un dissenso interno sempre più forte. Tutto sembra cambiare con l'arrivo di un militare apparentemente responsabile di un massacro, a farle da guardia del corpo, Hubert (Matthias Schoenaerts). L'uomo, anche lui alle prese coi propri demoni interiori, ha una visione proletaria e utopistica di come dovrebbe funzionare un governo e prova a instillarlo nella mente della sua datrice di lavoro. Ciò a cui assistiamo è da un lato il voler mantenere il potere a tutti i costi, un tema tristemente attuale, dall'altro il vedere come tutto si stia sgretolando intorno a loro. Il loro rapporto è il vero punto di forza e specchio della narrazione perché, proprio come tutta la serie, è surreale e sopra le righe, passando da un eccesso ad un altro.

Un ritratto (fanta)politico

The Regime: Matthias Schoenaerts in una scena

Ciò che emerge da The Regime - Il palazzo del potere è un ritratto crudo e fortemente satirico della politica oggi, sia essa una monarchia, una repubblica o qualsiasi altro tipo di governo. Il creatore Will Tracy insieme alla sua writers room è stato furbo a creare anche visivamente un qualcosa che ricordasse tantissime realtà mondiali, da Buckingham Palace a Londra al Parlamento di Vienna fino al Palazzo dello Zar che subì la Rivoluzione Russa, senza dimenticare le dittature che hanno caratterizzato la Storia con la S maiuscola, ma senza concentrarsi mai su una in particolare. D'altronde le stesse location sprizzano Europa da tutti i pori: dal Regno Unito si passa al Palazzo Liechtenstein, il Liechtenstein Museum, la Fürstengasse e il Castello di Schönbrunn a Vienna. Dopo Todd Haynes e Craig Zobel, Winslet viene diretta questa volta da Stephen Frears e Jessica Hobbs per tre episodi a testa (su sei) che, tra The Queen, The Lost King e The Crown, oltre all'esperienza televisiva di Frears in A Very English Scandal e Quiz, ne sanno qualcosa di reggenti di varia natura. Il risultato è un insieme grottesco di elementi che rendono la storia talmente surreale da fare il giro e risultare drammaticamente vera, perché spesso è proprio l'assetto fantapolitico reale ad essere drammaticamente e amaramente tale.

Due interpreti in stato di grazia

The Regime: un'immagine della serie

Nel cast della miniserie figurano anche due bravi Guillaume Gallienne e Andrea Riseborough, anche se quest'ultima un po' vittima del proprio ruolo, una ben ritrovata Martha Plimpton e un cameo di Hugh Grant, anche dimenticabile e non necessario. Ma a brillare davvero sono loro due, le colonne portanti di The Regime, la Cancelliera e il suo braccio destro, i cui ruoli di potere si ribaltano continuamente nel corso delle sei puntate, e la loro relazione travalica i sentimenti ed è incredibile come i due interpreti siano riusciti a dar credibilità ad un rapporto nato e cresciuto nella più totale follia che imperversa la narrazione e la caratterizzazione dei personaggi. Kate Winslet è una conferma nel dipingere questa donna piena di insicurezze e paure con un rapporto complicato col padre, donandole qualche tic nervoso simile ad una paresi facciale, e un accento particolare non riconducibile a nessuno Stato; mentre la vera sorpresa è Matthias Schoenaerts che finora non si era mai fatto notare così tanto. La follia mista a terrore e forza bruta che dona al proprio personaggio, che ha occhi solo per la Cancelliera, emerge fin dalle sue espressioni facciali. Tutto trasuda (sur)realtà nel serial, dai colori scelti per la bandiera e per il regime fittizio del titolo, alle scenografie e ai costumi, così minimalisti e in tinte decise, fino alle musiche che ci ricordano che siamo in un dark comedy e non in un political drama.

Alla fine di The Regime si rimane attoniti per la (mini)serie che ci si è ritrovati di fronte, che non è quello che ci si può aspettare, ovvero una chiave satirica e grottesca piuttosto che drammatica e farraginosa, ma ci ha sorpreso in positivo. Così come i due protagonisti, sulle cui spalle si erge l’intero assetto narrativo, ovvero una Kate Winslet che per la terza volta si conferma da Emmy e un Matthias Schoenaerts sorprendente in un ruolo così complesso senza diventare una macchietta. Anche perché è l’intera miniserie a fare il giro per diventare satira feroce e farsesca della politica oggi. Chapeau alla messa in scena che rende perfettamente il tono del racconto fin dalle prime battute, così come alla regia briosa di Stephen Frears e Jessica Hobbs, il cui ritmo si fa però sentire nella lunga durata delle puntate.

Perché piace 👍🏻

Kate Winslet e Matthias Schoenaerts, immensi e incredibili.

Scenografie e costumi scelti per parlare di politica oggi senza rappresentare uno Stato in particolare, eppure rappresentandoli tutti.

La chiave farsesca scelta, che spesso supera il surreale…

Cosa non va 👎🏻

…ma rischia di lasciare interdetti gli spettatori.

Non tutti i comprimari sono indimenticabili, su tutti Hugh Grant.

La durata degli episodi un po’ si fa sentire dato il tema complesso affrontato.

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LIAFF SPECIAL #11 - Interpreti in pillole: Kristen Stewart

Carissimi lettori, ben ritrovati con un nuovo appuntamento con LIAFF SPECIAL, la rubrica dedicata all’approfondimento di personaggi e temi nel mondo dell’intrattenimento. Questo mese parleremo di un'attrice molto apprezzata, e che ha visto un incredibile notorietà negli ultimi anni, fra premiazioni importanti e partecipazioni ai grandi festival del cinema, ovvero Kristen Stewart. In questo articolo ripercorreremo la sua carriera, dagli inizi in giovanissima età, fino all'arrivo della fama grazie alla Twilight Saga e alla sua reinvenzione quale volto del cinema indipendente e controcorrente, caratterizzata da grandi interpretazioni e riconoscimenti di rilievo.

A young star: chi è Kristen Stewart?

Kristen Jaymes Stewart nasce a Los Angeles il 09 Aprile 1990, da padre statunitense e madre australiana, rispettivamente un produttore e una sceneggiatrice. Dopo aver studiato in scuole locali, la Stewart continuò gli studi a distanza fino al liceo, e sognava di diventare sceneggiatrice o regista, non avendo mai preso in considerazione la carriera come attrice. Ad otto anni, durante una recita natalizia scolastica, la Stewart fu notata da un agente, portandola a fare audizioni per l'anno successivo, fino ad ottenere il suo primo ruolo, nel film The Thirteenth Year (1999), seguito da The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), entrambi dei semplici cameo. Il primo ruolo di un certo peso arriva con The Safety of Objects (2001), dove interpreta la figlia maschiaccio del personaggio di Patricia Clarkson.

Panic Room: i primi ruoli di rilievo

La prima vera svolta nella carriera della Stewart arriva nel 2002 con Panic Room, film thriller diretto da David Fincher, dove interpreta la figlia maschiaccio del personaggio di Jodie Foster, ruolo che le vale una nomination come miglior performance al Young Artist Award. A seguito del successo del film, viene scritturata in Cold Creek Manor (2003), altro thriller con protagonisti Dennis Quaid e Sharon Stone. Fra una lezione a distanza e l’altra, la Stewart trova tempo per partecipare ad altri film, come l’action-comedy Catch that Kid, il thriller Undertow e il drama Speak (tutti usciti nel 2004). In quest’ultimo la Stewart interpreta una ragazza che ha smesso di parlare dopo essere stata vittima di stupro, in una performance notevolmente apprezzata dalla critica. In seguito è apparsa in Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) di Jon Favreau in un ruolo marginale, in Fierce People (2006), dove recita a fianco del compianto Anton Yelchin, nell’horror The Messengers (2007), a fianco di Dylan McDermott e Penelope Ann Miller e nella commedia romantica In The Land of Women (2007), assieme a Adam Brody e Meg Ryan.

Into the Wild: le prime attenzioni della critica

Nel 2007 Sean Penn la scelse per interpretare un piccolo ruolo in Into the Wild, adattamento dell’omonimo romanzo di Jon Krakauer, a sua volta basato sulla vera storia di Christopher McCandless, interpretato nella pellicola da Emile Hirsch. La pellicola fu ben accolta dalla critica dell’epoca, la quale si soffermò, fra le altre cose, sull’interpretazione della Stewart, definita rilevante anche se per un ruolo non principale. In seguito la Stewart è apparsa con un cameo in Jumper (2008), ha lavorato a fianco di Robert De Niro in What Just Happened (2008) ed è stata la co-protagonista del film indipendente The Cake Eaters, dove interpreta una ragazza disabile, in un altro ruolo enormemente apprezzato dalla critica.

The Runaways: fra vampiri e ruoli più drammatici

A Novembre 2007 la Summit Entertainment annunciò che Kristen Stewart avrebbe interpretato la protagonista femminile di Twilight (2008), film tratto dall’omonimo romanzo di Stephenie Meyer, e primo di una lunga e redditizia saga cinematografica. Il primo lungometraggio, diretto da Catherine Hardwicke (che la scelse dopo un provino improvvisato sul set di Adventureland), portò alla Stewart una fama mondiale, ma anche una serie di critiche negative per via della sua recitazione poco espressiva. Nel 2009 la Stewart appare in Adventureland, recitando a fianco di Jesse Eisenberg, e nel secondo capitolo della Twilight Saga, New Moon, seguito poi dal terzo, Eclipse, uscito nel 2010. Da quel momento la Stewart si alterna fra i restanti film della Twilight Saga, vale a dire le due parti di Breaking Dawn, uscite fra il 2011 e il 2012, e una serie di film più drammatici, come The Yellow Handkerchief, dove recita a fianco del compianto William Hurt, Welcome to the Rileys, assieme al compianto James Gandolfini, nel biopic The Runaways, dove la Stewart interpreta la rockstar Joan Jett, in una delle sue performance più importanti, il fantasy Snow White and the Huntsman, dove interpreta una versione action di Biancaneve e l’adattamento cinematografico di On the Road di Jack Kerouac. A seguito della fine della Twilight Saga, la Stewart diventa il volto per marchi come Chanel e Balenciaga, definendosi anche come icona di stile.

Camp X-Ray: il ritorno dopo le controversie

Per due anni la Stewart non apparve più sulle scene, anche a causa dello scandalo riguardante Rupert Sanders, il regista di Snow White and the Huntsman, ma nel 2014 ritorna in sala con Camp X-Ray, interpretando una giovane guardia che lavora nel penitenziario di Guantanamo, ruolo che la riporta all’attenzione della critica. Nello stesso anno la Stewart è fra i protagonisti di Cloud of Sils Maria, film diretto da Oliver Assayas e presentato al festival di Cannes, che le ha fruttato il César Award come miglior attrice non protagonista, recitando a fianco di Juliette Binoche e Chloë Grace Moretz, e recita accanto a Julianne Moore in Still Alice, film che ha portato la Moore a vincere l'Oscar come miglior attrice protagonista. Negli anni successivi la Stewart appare in Anesthesia, film diretto da Tim Blake Nelson e incentrato sulle vite di alcuni personaggi residenti a New York, in American Ultra, dove ritrova Jesse Eisenberg, il sci-fi distopico Equals, Certain Women di Kelly Reichardt, Cafè Society di Woody Allen, in Personal Shopper, seconda collaborazione con Oliver Assayas, dove interpreta Maureen, una ragazza che lavora nel mondo della moda e che ha recentemente perso il fratello gemello, in un altra performance elogiata dalla critica e in Billy Lynn's Long Halftime di Ang Lee. In questo periodo la Stewart è anche apparsa nella videoclip per il brano "Ride 'Em on Down" de i Rolling Stones e ha debuttato come regista per un cortometraggio, intitolato Come Swim.

Spencer: la nomination agli Oscar

Nel 2018 la Stewart appare in Lizzie, adattamento cinematografico delle vicende di Lizzie Borden, interpretata da Chloë Sevigny, seguito da JT Le Roy, dove interpreta Savannah Knopp, il volto dietro il famoso caso da cui il film prende il nome e nel 2019 torna al Festival del Cinema di Venezia con Seberg, film che narra la storia dell'attrice Jean Seberg, rivelatosi un altro ruolo importante per la sua carriera. In seguito la Stewart torna al cinema mainstream con il chiacchierato Charlie's Angels di Elizabeth Banks, il thriller Underwater, in cui recita a fianco di Vincent Cassel, ha diretto il cortometraggio Crickets per l'antologia Homemade ed ha recitato nel film natalizio a sfondo LGBTQ+ Happiest Season. A Giugno 2020 la Stewart fu scelta per interpretare Lady Diana in Spencer, biopic diretto da Pablo Larraín ed incentrato sul momento in cui Diana decide di divorziare dal principe Carlo. Per prepararsi al ruolo, la Stewart ha studiato ogni aspetto della compianta principessa del Galles e, a quanto pare, lo sforzo è stato ben ripagato, dato che il film ha debuttato al Festival di Venezia del 2021 ed è stato grandemente accolto dalla critica, soprattutto per l'interpretazione della Stewart, che le ha fruttato fra le altre cose, una nomination agli Oscar come miglior attrice protagonista, momento che segnerà in positivo la sua carriera. In seguito la Stewart torna a Cannes con Crimes of the Future, ultima fatica di David Cronenberg, in un ruolo marginale, ma comunque apprezzato da pubblico e critica e ha un cameo nella miniserie Irma Vep, targata Oliver Assayas.

I progetti futuri

A quanto pare, Kristen Stewart sembra non volersi fermare qui, dato che ha all'attivo numerosi progetti. Fra questi menzioniamo il thriller romantico Love Lies Bleeding, diretto da Rose Glass e presentato al Sundance Festival di quest'anno, con cui recita a fianco di Katy O'Brien, che già sta ricevendo un grandissimo apprezzamento da parte della critica, il sci-fi sperimentale Love Me, dove recita a fianco di Steven Yeun e anch'esso presentato al Sundance, il debutto alla regia di un lungometraggio in The Chronology of Water, tratto dall'omonimo memoir di Lidia Yuknavitch, la comedy Sacramento, attualmente in produzione, un film che narra la nascita della Beat Generation, che sarà diretto da Ben Foster, e un biopic sull'attivista Susan Sontag.

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Tanto bellina e tanto dolcina pare...

Un agricoltore un po’ coglionotto conosce una ragazzuola tanto bellina, tanto piccina e tanto dolcina. Ci passa la giornata e poi la notte. Poi viene ghostato. Questo orribile neologismo deriva dall’inglese ghost, che significherebbe spirito, fantasma. Si utilizza quando una persona viene del tutto ignorata da un’altra persona. Ghostare qualcuno significa sparire dalla sua vita dopo il primo appuntamento, o dopo altri. Questo, almeno, è quello che ci ho capito io. Chiudiamo la parentesi. Il coglionotto rintraccia la ragazzuola a Londra per farle una sorpresa. Ma la sorpresa la fa lei a lui. Sarà anche tanto bellina, tanto piccina e tanto dolcina, però è anche una stracazzutissima operativa della CIA. L’agricoltore finisce catapultato in un ambiente distante miglia da quello in cui si muove abitualmente. Ma tutto finisce bene, anzi benissimo. Questa è la trama di Ghosted, un action movie che comincia con le movenze di una commedia sentimentale per poi accelerare di colpo. Gli attori sono simpatici, il ritmo è discreto e le scene d’azione sono ben congegnate e ben realizzate. Ovviamente la vicenda ha ben poco spessore. Però ci si diverte un sacco. Merito anche degli interpreti: Adrien Brody, Chris Evans e Ana De Armas. Senza dimenticare un piccolo cameo di Ryan Reynolds. Lo ammetto: non mi aspettavo granché. Per questo sono soddisfatto.

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SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “Here Comes My Baby” by Davy Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNUQKtFgHgY …This song was written by Cat Stevens (before he became a star). In 1967 the song was a breakout hit for The Tremeloes (released 1/13/67), and it’s been covered several times since. Davy Jones performed it in concert and recorded his studio arrangement in 1999 with: 

David "Loafy" Alexander: keyboards & harmony vocals 

Johnny J. Blair: bass, guitars, keyboards, percussion, production, and harmony vocals 

Tim Breon & Skip Kline: mixing 

Jon King: drums 

Aviva Maloney: piccolo flûte & harmony vocals

The video includes cameos with Tim Breon, Mark Clarke, David Robicheau, Patrick Stewart, Felipe Torres, and various dancers and extras. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNUQKtFgHgY

#davyjones #monkees #catstevens #tremeloes #mavericks #loafy #davidalexander #johnnyjblair #skipkline #timbreon #jonking #avivamaloney #patrickstewart #music #britishinvasion #poprock #singersongwriter

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Continuing the Dragon Ball GT rewatch.

Got to episode 40 and it makes me so much happy. All the small cameos and the touching moment between Gohan and Piccolo. It just shows this anime truly loves being Dragon Ball.

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Milano: Mahmood e Omar Pedrini e il Premio Rosa Camuna per la musica

Milano: Mahmood e Omar Pedrini e il Premio Rosa Camuna per la musica. Anche la musica è protagonista del 'Premio Rosa Camuna', la più alta onorificenza istituita dalla Regione Lombardia. Tra i premiati dell'edizione 2024, il bresciano Omar Pedrini, già storico leader dei Timoria (su iniziativa del Consiglio regionale) e il milanese Alessandro Mahmood, uno dei nomi più importanti della scena musicale contemporanea e già vincitore del Festival di Sanremo (su indicazione del presidente della Regione Lombardia). I prestigiosi riconoscimenti vengono assegnati a persone fisiche, imprese, enti, associazioni, fondazioni e realtà residenti, con sede o operanti in Lombardia, che grazie al loro impegno, operosità, creatività ed ingegno hanno contribuito allo sviluppo economico, sociale, culturale e sportivo della Lombardia. Nelle motivazioni del conferimento del premio 'Rosa Camuna', per Omar Pedrini si legge: "Le sue produzioni artistiche e musicali lo hanno reso un protagonista indiscusso della scena rock italiana dagli anni '90 ad oggi. La Lombardia, la terra a cui sente profondamente di appartenere, è un punto di forza e di riferimento in tutta la sua produzione artistica". In quelle per Mahmood si spiega che "i suoi album hanno registrato milioni di copie vendute e innumerevoli riconoscimenti artistici. Non fa mancare il suo sostegno a progetti a favore di chi è difficoltà". OMAR PEDRINI, DA BRESCIA 35 ANNI DI CARRIERA PIENA DI SUCCESSI - Bresciano classe '67 Omar, mastica pane e musica fin da piccolo. La musica è di casa a casa sua: il bisnonno materno era un liutaio, la nonna materna suonava la chitarra e la madre, vicina al movimento hippy, si portava dietro i figli quando andava ai concerti di artisti come Guccini, Vecchioni e De Gregori. Durante gli anni del Liceo Classico Pedrini conosce Carlo Alberto Pellegrini, Diego Galeri ed Enrico Ghedi, con cui nel 1985 fonda la band rock alternative dei Timoria. Dopo il diploma, Omar si iscrive all'Università di Milano alla facoltà di Scienze Politiche, che abbandona qualche anno dopo per dedicarsi alla musica a tempo pieno. Con i Timoria, a cui nel frattempo si aggiunge anche Francesco Renga, raggiunge il successo e pubblica 13 album. Nel 2003 prende una pausa a tempo indeterminato dalla band e si dedica unicamente alla carriera solista, intrapresa già a partire dal 1996. L'amore per le arti figurative, la letteratura e le contaminazioni, lo porta a esplorare molte altre strade, a partire dalla direzione artistica dal 1997 del 'Brescia Music Art', festival della contaminazione tra le arti, alla direzione del festival 'Valtrompia MUSIC Art', all'esperienza di autore televisivo e di docente al Master in Comunicazione Musicale dell'Università Cattolica. Nel 2009 firma la colonna sonora del film di Pupi Avati 'Il figlio più piccolo' in cui interpreta anche un cameo. Nel 2016 vince il Premio Lunezia per il valore letterario dei testi delle canzoni con l'album 'Che ci vado a fare a Londra?'. Nel 2014 collabora con Regione Lombardia e con il presidente Roberto Maroni al 'Lombardia Unesco Tour' per promuovere l'area archeologica del Capitolium, in vista di Expo. Pedrini è ambasciatore Expo del Patrimonio dell'umanità bresciano. Il progetto istituzionale organizzato da Regione Lombardia, nato con l'obiettivo di valorizzare i nove siti Unesco presenti nella regione e il 'Saper fare liutario' di Cremona. Dal 2003 al 2021 subisce tre interventi cardiaci, per un aneurisma all'aorta. Nonostante l'annuncio del ritiro dalle scene per i ricorrenti problemi di salute, prosegue con le sue attività e nel 2023 si esibisce come ospite alla finale della diciassettesima edizione di X Factor, con il brano 'Sole spento', pubblicato dai Timoria nel 2001. ALESSANDRO MAHMOOD - Alessandro Mahmoud, in arte Mahmood, nasce Milano nel 1992, da madre sarda e padre egiziano. Dopo l'abbandono del padre, cresce a Milano nel quartiere periferico di Gratosoglio con la madre e inizia a studiare canto e chitarra a 12 anni. Muove i primi passi sotto i riflettori a X Factor 6, nel 2012, dove entra nel gruppo Under Uomini. La passione per la musica lo porta a iscriversi a una scuola dove studia pianoforte, teoria e solfeggio. Si mantiene agli studi lavorando in un bar, rimanendo molto legato alla sua Sardegna e alle sue origini. Tre anni dopo X-Factor, vince nel 2015 'Area Sanremo' con il brano 'Dimentica', che gli varrà anche un quarto posto nella categoria 'Nuove proposte' del Festival nel 2016. Da quel momento pubblica i singoli 'Pesos' e 'Uramaki', presentato al 'Wind Summer Festival', e inizia a collaborare con grandi artisti della scena italiana. Scrive tre pezzi per Marco Mengoni, tra cui il brano 'Hola (I say)' in duetto con Tom Walker, canta con Fabri Fibra nel 2017 il brano 'Luna', pubblicato in 'Fenomeno'. Scrive per Elodie e Michele Bravi, a fianco di Dario Faini, il pezzo 'Nero Bali' diventato Disco di Platino. La sua carriera decolla, fino alla vittoria della 69ª edizione del Festival di Sanremo nel 2019 con il brano 'Soldi', Disco di Platino a meno di un mese dalla sua uscita. Nel febbraio del 2022 partecipa per la seconda volta al Festival di Sanremo, in duetto con Blanco, con il brano 'Brividi' e vince nuovamente, rappresentando di diritto l'Italia insieme a Blanco all' 'Eurovision Song Contest' 2022. Il 2024 è un grande anno per l'artista: torna a suonare sul palco dell'Ariston per la 74ª edizione del Festival di Sanremo con il brano 'Tuta gold', e tra aprile e maggio è impegnato per il terzo European Tour:16 date in 10 paesi europei, tra cui Regno Unito, Francia, Germania, Spagna, e Italia.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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i was getting a lot of youtube algorithm videos pointing me to dragonball so i rewatched dbz abridged and now my recommendations are nothing but dragonball tube

because of that it keeps being on my mind and it just occured to me that they actually very easily could have made dragonball evolution/condensed all of dragonball into an ok movie. but they just didn't

like…

Act 1 ish - Goku as a hermit aspiring martial artist with posters of like Tien and similar in his room. One night his grandfather's hierloom is stolen, place gets shot up and burnt down in the process, though Goku doesn't see who or why in the process. Next day he meets Bulma, Yamcha, Puar, and Oolong looking for the balls, and despite getting shot by the four establishes that they aren't the thieves, and travels with them because Bulma has the radar and Goku doesn't really have a house anymore. Montage of references to sillier pilaf-era adventures but coming off with no balls. Eventually they catch up to the chaos - turns out the Red Ribbon Army's been terrorizing people stealing them, and Bulma figures they have a few months before RR takes the last balls.

Act 2 ish, They meet Roshi, Krillin, maybe Chichi (Roshi's perviness would have to be toned down), Roshi being someone Goku's always wanted to train under. Goku's torn because they have to leave collect the balls, but he wants to train to take part in the Tenkaiichi Budoukai. Despite that, Roshi takes Goku and Yamcha on for a couple months of hell training as part of a plan to stop the Red Ribbon Army, and in the training montage Goku befriends Krillin and Chichi and learns the Kamehameha. 4 go on to take on the Red Ribbon Army

Interweaves Blue, Tao Paipai, etc. Defecting 8er as a cameo? idk. Goku's almost killed out of bravado maybe. But they corner Red, who reveals that they have all the balls, but it takes a passphrase to summon Shenlong, and while Red was planning to wish for power and use piccolo to enforce his rule, cornered, red unleashes piccolo to fight off krillin, yamcha, chichi, and injured goku. Piccolo just kills Red, Krillin, maybe Yamcha idk, stupidly leaves Goku and Chichi alive, summons Shenlong with a Namekian passphrase to wish for youth, begins a campaign of terror.

Act 3 ish, back at base Baba reveals to Roshi, Bulma, Goku, Chichi, Puar, Oolong the legend of Kami's lookout. Goku sets off, climbing Korin's tower, with a moment to reflect on Goku's feelings, some of the themes, etc. Goku reaches the top and is greeted by the face of Piccolo's doppelganger, Kami, who maybe exposites their backstory, before training Goku.

Goku blasts through Tambourine and Piano to face Piccolo, who fights him, largely outclassing Goku, but Goku slowly wearing him down. Fight plays out similarly to the anime with a broken Goku blasting through his chest.

A year later goku, taught the passphrase by kami, summons Shenlong with Bulma, Roshi, Chichi, Puar, Oolong, and Baba and the gang, wishes back Yamcha, Krillin, and every innocent killed by Red Ribbon and Piccolo. Miracles as dead come back over the world, Bulma hugs Yamcha, Goku and Chichi hug Krillin, all's well that ends well. Elsewhere a young Piccolo Jr. is seen training to get revenge for Piccolo Daimyo.

Sequel would do what's needed to be done to set up for Z. Goku enters the Tenkaiichi Budoukai, only to be confronted with the Swan School rivalry. The tournament's derailed by Piccolo Jr. trying to take revenge on Goku. But it comes out he's more principled/noble than his father, maybe he's caught bluffing threatening the crowd to get Goku mad enough to fight him to death. I'd thought maybe it would be good to confront Kami and Piccolo being linked to the lifeline of the dragonballs, and so goku et al would have to give that up to get Piccolo off their backs, but also I'm not sure it wouldn't be good to derail the plot with Wheelo/Gero/etc mid tier androids to set up the cell saga later, with the threat to the world forcing noble Piccolo into joining forces with Goku, Tien, Chaotzu, Krillin, Yamcha to stop them. Oozaru would also have to introduced here if it were to be introduced at all. Maybe flesh out characters since movie 1 had a ton of characters. Inject some themes? idk

Threequel on would be DBZ arcs. Saiyan, Namek, Cell, Buu. They'd need less fundamental rewriting, I think, just fitting to pacing, and maybe doing something other than oozaru for vegeta's fight.

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Dragon Ball Super Movie 2: Super Hero (2/5)

This line might just encapsulate the entire movie. "Yeah, sorry, folks. They made me the star of the movie this time, so it probably won't be as good. Why are you all cheering? Did Goku walk by or something?"

Last time, we set up the main villains of the story. Now, it's six months later, and we find Piccolo sparring with Pan near his house. Yeah, Piccolo has a house now. I remember when they revealed the house in an early promotion for the movie, and everyone was nuts about it. Piccolo has a house! What's inside? Look, he has a mailbox! What kind of mail does he get? What a time to be alive.

So Pan is three years old, according to this movie, so I think the idea here is that this is set just before the 25th Budokai and the finale of Dragon Ball Z. So Super Hero represents a turning point for the franchise. Up to now, every story told under the Dragon Ball Super brand has been set during the ten-year-gap between DBZ Episodes 288 and 289. But now we're at the end, which means the next movie, anime, or manga arc has to make a big decision:

A) Set the story after the 25th Budokai, and work around Goku's decision to train Uub at his home village.

B) Ignore the "End of Z" continuity altogether and just keep trucking along like it doesn't matter.

C) Just keep telling stories in the small time interval between Super Hero and the 25th Budokai and hope no one calls attention to it.

D) Jump back to the beginning of the ten-year-gap and tell stories out of chronological order.

I think A or B is the most likely option, since they wouldn't have jumped this far forward in time for Super Hero if they were worried about staying inside the ten-year-gap. I also suspect that they'll try to respect the "End of Z" lore, if only because they've mentioned Uub a few times in the DBS anime, and Uub actually had a cameo appearance in the manga.

But no matter what happens, Things Are Going To Be Very Different. In theory, Toei/Shueisha can do just about anything with the franchise now. They could kill Bulma, or give Majin Buu a whole new transformation. I guess they could try to steer the storyline towards the events depicted in Dragon Ball GT, but I'm pretty sure that ship sailed when they turned the Pilaf Gang into children. The point is that anything is on the table.

But back to the matter at hand. Pan's whole deal now is that she trains with Piccolo at his house every morning, then runs off to attend preschool until 1pm. Piccolo thinks she's showing great promise as a martial artist, even more than Gohan did when Piccolo first trained him, and Gohan was a year older back then. Pan thinks that qualifies her to learn how to shoot energy blasts like Goten and Trunks, but Piccolo says she has to master the fundamentals first, which means Pan has to learn how to fly, among other things.

This is Pan's character arc for the movie. She's not a major player in this story, but she still has an obstacle to overcome, and by the end of the movie, she succeeds. This is a big leap forward from the Pan we saw in GT, who remained static through the entire series. I guess she sort of learned a life lesson in the TV Special, but she was 110 in that story, so I think the implication is that GT Pan was a bossy twerp for a full century, which isn't exactly satisfying.

The weird thing is that we saw Pan fly all the time when she was a baby. In the DBS anime Baby Pan flew out into space, and she'd float around the house and such. I guess she forgot how to do it, or it got harder as she grew up and gained some weight.

Pan asks if it's true that her dad (Gohan) could be even stronger than her grandfather (Goku) if he tried. Piccolo says that used to be true but he isn't so sure anymore. Pan says she's never seen Gohan in action, and Piccolo explains that he hasn't had to fight, but if the need arises, Gohan will fight when necessary. Then he sends her off to preschool. A short time later, he gets a phone call from Pan's mom, Videl.

Okay, so let's unpack all of this. Piccolo has a cell phone, but he just leaves it in his house while he's training outside, because his Namekian hearing can pick up the ringtone from hundreds of yards away. Also, he holds it like a weirdo, dangling it from his fingers like he found it at a crime scene. Also, the case looks like a cartoon character. This is Penenko, an in-world fictional character that seems to be very popular. Its like a cross between a penguin and a cat, and it has a green tie like Yogi Bear, which I think is a classy touch.

As for Videl, she needs Piccolo to swing by the preschool this afternoon to pick up Pan. This is because Videl teaches a combat sports class, and they're having a tournament today, so she can't make it. As for Gohan, he's too busy working on a scientific presentation, and he hasn't come out of his study in days. Piccolo is annoyed with this, but he agrees to pick Pan up. Videl offers to buy him lunch, but he reminds her he doesn't eat food, so Videl considers buying him a Penenko plushie instead. Piccolo doesn't want one, though, because he already has a pile of them in his house. Presumably those plushies represent a whole bunch of past favors he's done for Gohan and Videl.

Okay, more importantly, let's talk about Videl. This is her only appearance in the movie, save for a still image in the closing credits where she comes home to find the house has been damaged. Still, this conversation tells us a lot about what Videl's been doing ever since she and Gohan got out of school. She's teaching a "combat sports class". This makes sense to me, as she must have given up the vigilante work around the time she was pregnant with Pan. But teaching students how to fight would be easier for her, since she could set her own schedule and arrange for the students to train independently when she's not available. It's the perfect career for the new mom with a talent for whippin' ass.

The thing is, Videl's not just any martial artist. She knows basic ki techniques, but besides that, she's the daughter of a world famous celebrity buttkicker, and she earned a reputation of her own as a crimefighter. So this can't just be any old "combat sports" class. I mean, they're participating in a tournament for goodness sakes.

So this is my Videl headcanon: She's teaching people to fight crime. And not just any crime, but the rocket-launcher-weilding maniacs she used to fight when she was in high school. Videl stepped away from that life to focus on her family, but she's still got one foot in that world. It started as a self-defense class for women, and then she decided she could show them more advanced techniques, until eventually she had a cool stable of badasses.

The tournament she's talking about isn't some fun little romp, although to her it would be, and it's barely beneath Piccolo's notice. But to everyone else, it's some kind of hardcore mixed-martial-arts event. Videl brings her students in and they're all wearing kick-ass uniforms to represent their school. What kind of uniforms? Here's a hint:

GTH. That's the name of Videl's dojo. The Go To Hell Combat Club, so-named because you have to go to hell to learn the combat style of Mr. Satan's daughter. Imagine going to some indy wrestling show and instead of wrestlers out comes a bunch of MMA guys all dressed like Pan from this movie. It probably looks cooler on grown adults, which is why Pan likes to wear it.

So what's Videl wearing when she leads her squad to the competition? Oh, we already know the answer to that question, because we saw her return home from the tournament.

I mean, it makes so much sense when you think about it. remember, we saw Videl wearing regular clothes when she called Piccolo. She must have changed into her Battle of Gods red-devil dress specifically for the tournament. She might have a different outfit for fighting, but this is what she wears when she's in the corner for her students. She's like a sexy ECW manager, which explains the red leather dress, black tights and white go-go boots. She's so over-the-top with this thing that it makes the Great Saiyawoman outfit look dull by comparison, because she's trying to get over this image of smash-mouth combat supremacy. It's the same reason Mr. Satan wears the cape.

This is a weird tangent, I know, but for so many years I've heard fans lament the way Videl was depicted in Dragon Ball Super, and they're absolutely right, but I'm a "yes and" kind of guy when it comes to this stuff. There's nothing wrong with having Videl be a housewife as long as it doesn't preclude some other, cooler lore from happening off-screen. And Super Hero seems to be holding out an olive branch to the fans. Yes, Videl has a life outside the home. She teaches martial arts, so she clearly hasn't given up fighting altogether. How and how much she fights is left to the viewers imagination, and I can imagine a lot.

Anyway, I need to commission some art of the GTH school looking cool. Videl's in the center of the group with a riding crop or something. Gohan's in the background with a snack tray. He made Chex Mix for the whole class because he's a sweetie.

Back to business, Piccolo decides to head for Gohan's house and confront him over this. He knows Gohan won't answer the door, so he just flies to the window of his study and scrapes the glass with his fingernail to get his attention. This fucking rules.

Gohan's working on a study of a newly discovered ant species that glows yellow when threatened, like a Super Saiyan. Piccolo isn't even a little impressed, but he agrees to pick Pan up from preschool anyway. He asks why Gohan never trains anymore, and Gohan gives the stock answer about how nothing bad will happen, and even if it does, Goku and Vegeta will surely deal with it. I mean, that is what happened in the last movie, but they cut it pretty close in Resurrection F. Piccolo uses his clothes-altering powers to make Gohan wear his old training outfit, but that's about all he does.

I don't really understand this constant back-and-forth about whether or not Gohan trains enough in DBS. Obviously, Gohan let himself go in Res F, and then Gohan asked Piccolo to train him again to get him back in fighting shape. Then they made it look like he'd slacked off again leading up to the Tournament of Power, except he did really, really well in that arc. And now it's like he's slacking off a third time.

I mean, there's time for that. We're talking about a five or six year period here. It just seems odd to me that no one mentions we've been through this cycle before. I think the disconnect is that Gohan trains, just not often enough to satisfy the likes of Piccolo or Vegeta. He'll stop training for months or years at a time, so that he can concentrate on his biology career, and then he whips himself into shape when he has the time. This movie pretty much confirms that pattern, but each time it comes up, the characters always act like we haven't been here before.

Gohan offers him another Penenko plushie as thanks for picking up Pan, and Piccolo insists that he never liked them. I think it is very likely that Gohan and Videl do this to him on purpose. I mean, Videl knew this tournament was coming up, and she could have made other arrangements, but this way Piccolo feels obligated to be involved with their family. If they just invited him over to things, he'd probably decline, but this way he feels like they need him and he can act all put-upon, but he still gets to spend more time with Pan and such. Also they might be trying to fix Piccolo up with Pan's teacher, but we'll get to that later.

So now Piccolo just has to get in as much training as he can until 1pm, right? Wrong, because as soon as he sits down to meditate, some new guy shows up and attacks him. He refuses to identify himself, but the Red Ribbon pack on his uniform pretty much gives it away. Plus, this guy has no ki signature, so he must be an android or cyborg like Gero's creations.

So they fight, and it doesn't go well for Piccolo. At one point he asks why he can see words appear whenever he gets his. I thought this was a cute fourth-wall-breaking joke, but in fact this new guy has a holographic projector that makes the comic book sound effects appear behind him.

The mysterious attacker only refers to himself as a super hero, and after he blows up the butte Piccolo is on, he flies back to his base, thinking Piccolo is vaporized. But Piccolo escaped unseen, and he decides to trail this guy and find out who he's working for.

This leads Piccolo to a secret base inside what I believe is a crater. It looks like the crater is full of lakewater, but it's actually a holographic illusion. Piccolo finds a goon in his size and swipes his uniform.

Inside, he finds the bad guy command center, where the new android reports to Magenta and Hedo. Piccolo learns that his name is Gamma, and there's actually two of them. Hedo already watched Gamma 2's attack on Piccolo via a remote feed from 2's eyes, and his only feedback is that 2 should have done a cool pose after killing Piccolo. Gamma 1 is more concerned that Piccolo might have survived because 2 was too sloppy to check for a body.

Sure enough, 1 reviews the footage and discovers evidence that Piccolo escaped. And since Magenta insisted that the Gamma's wear RR patches on their costumes, there's a real risk that Gamma 2 tipped their hand to the enemy. Gamma 2 isn't worried, though, because he still overpowered Piccolo, and the end goal is to defeat Dragon Team, so if this escalates the conflict, then so much the better.

And that pretty much sums up the Gammas' characters. They both play the superhero role they were designed to resemble, but 1 is more cautious and responsible, while 2 is more carefree and funloving. Earlier in the film, we see pictures of Hedo at some sort of autograph signing, and there's a character who looks almost exactly like the Gammas there, so I assume he designed his androids to look just like that character. Hedo doesn't seem too concerned with originality.

Carmine agrees with Gamma 1's concern. Their enemies have the combined power of Goku, Vegeta and Majin Buu, not to mention Mr. Satan. Apparently, the Red Ribbon Army still isn't clear on how powerful he is. If they find out about the Red Ribbon too soon, it could jeopardize everything, no matter how powerful the Gammas might be.

Hedo disagrees. Once he collects enough combat data from 1 and 2, he can simply upgrade them and create even more Gammas until they have enough power to tip the scales.

Apparently, Hedo doesn't think it would take very long to get more Gamma's manufactured, which is why they have these two booths already set up. This makes me wonder if Gamma 3 and 4 are already in there, just waiting for Hedo to activate them.

As for Magenta, all he wants to talk about is Hedo's other project-- Cell Max. This leads to a heated discussion over the value of the project.

Basically, Magenta considers Cell to be Gero's greatest creation, and while the RPC has Gero's notes on how to make Cell, they were too complex for anyone to reproduce the experiement. This isn't much of a surprise, since Gero never finished Cell the first time. When Gero learned that it would take decades to complete the work, he turned it over to his computer and moved on to working on his other plans. That computer never finished, because Krillin and Trunks destroyed it and the embryonic Cell back in DBZ Episode 145. However Magenta got the data on Cell, it must have been sent to him before then, but it would have only represented the earliest stages of the project. No wonder his own scientists couldn't get very far with it.

The only reason Magenta even considers it worth pursuing is because a completed Cell showed up to menace the world. Magenta thinks that Gero must have pulled it off somehow. What he doesn't know is that this Cell came from an alternate future where Gero's computer had time to complete the project. So Magenta knows what the finished Cell is capable of, but he doesn't have a complete recipe to make a new one.

But Dr. Hedo is even smarter than Gero, which is why Magneta hired him. The Gammas are fine machines and all, but what Magenta was really hoping for was that Hedo could take the notes on Cell and figure out how to build a new and improved model. And to his credit, Hedo was able to do that, but not completely. He created Cell Max's body and made him far more powerful than the original Cell, but he's still not done because his brain takes a long time to develop. I don't know if this is like a programming thing or Cell Max needs time for his brain matter to grow complex enough to support his mission.

At any rate, Magenta just wants to turn Cell Max loose right now, because he's so high on the prospect of unleashing such a powerful weapon. But Hedo warns him that they won't be able to control Cell Max the way he is now. If they activate him now, Cell Max might easily run wild and destroy the world, which defeats the purpose of using him in the first place.

Hedo's argument is that they don't even need Cell Max, so instead of wasting time on him, they should focus on the Gammas, who are more than powerful enough to carry out Magenta's plans. They can defeat Dragon Team, then the rest of the world will fall to the Red Ribbon Army, and then Magenta can reveal Cell Max to show off his power to the world. Magneta seems to buy into that idea, at least for now.

The thing is, we really don't know how long it would take for Hedo to finish Cell Max. It took Gero's computer decades to finish the original Cell, so maybe most of that time was spent developing his brain, and yet that Cell never did follow his programming completely. So maybe Cell Max would be uncontrollable too, no matter how much Hedo tinkered with him.

Then again, Hedo built the Gammas in just six months, so he's demonstrably smarter than Gero ever was. It's possible that he could finish Cell Max's brain in a matter of weeks and make him fully obedient. He just doesn't want to spend the time because it's busy work and Max doesn't look like a super hero, so he's not very motivated to complete the project. It kind of makes you wonder what Hedo could have accomplished if he'd given it his full attention.

Needless to say, all of this freaks Piccolo out, so he excuses himself and finds a quiet spot to make a phone call to Bulma. She tells him Vegeta has been away for three weeks now, training on Beerus' planet. And Goku went along with him, so they're both unavailable. Piccolo asks her if she can use that device Whis gave her to call him, and she says she'll see if she can reach them that way.

I just want to pause here to admire Bulma's yellow jumpsuit. This is definitely one of her hottest looks, perhaps because it's so workmanlike and unsexy. She just makes it look cool because she's Bulma. She just got done welding a quantum computer to a ham radio or something.

In the meantime, Piccolo leaves the RR base to go to Korin's Tower and get some senzu beans. He's still in the mindset that Goku and Vegeta will be the ones to take care of things, but he has to do as much as he can in the meantime to improve their chances.

As he flies through the holographic lake, we get a nice exterior shot of the base. So yeah, it does look like a couple of craters, although I'm not sure what the use was in disguising the inside when you can see all this stuff built up around the outside. I guess they have some sort of phony mining operation set up if anyone snoops around.

And that'll about do it for now. I've still got a couple of image spots for this post, so let's show off the photos on Gohan's desk. Pretty cool.

And here's a cool shot of Cell, since he came up in conversation.