#robot kaio

[k4pp4-8]

if you take requests can you draw the plaza kids as boxbots please I really love your art

Bodega men become robodega men!!!!!

[starburstdragon]

Guys Who Are Multiple Guys Tournament, Round 1

Elktaur

“He split himself in two because of self-loathing, and when one half of him married his crush, he broke his own heart. :(“ - User submission

K.O.

“hes got his loser emo boy headmate tko, the 3 different fusions between them (cko, pko, mko) which i dont think actually count for this tournament but its worth mentioning and hes even got an au robot duplicate (k-0) from the episode ok au and a silly roboticized form from the sonic crossover episode lets meet sonic (metal k-0)” - User submission

[yall-hate-kids-tourney]

Loser Round 1: Kaio Kincaid (OK, K.O.! Let's Be Heroes!) vs. Monaca Towa (Danganronpa Ultra Despair Girls)

Oops, we forgot to set the duration to 1 week. Let's try this again.

Propaganda below the cut

Kaio Kincaid:

Okay so for most of the show everybody liked this kid. He's sweet and adorable and does his best. Then season 3 comes along and KO decides to lock away TKO, his "evil" alter ego and the fandom's favorite. Sooo lots of people started hating KO, up until the finale- nobody ever really realized "hm. Hating a 6-11 year old for making a not-so-great decision probably isn't that great" the fandom instead just sorta vaporized since we haven't gotten any content since the finale. It still makes me mad. TKO was my favorite too but KO did not deserve all that hate he was doing his best to deal with the circumstances, and yes he hurt TKO but TKO has also hurt him as well- they're kids, man. Nobody ever hated TKO so I submitted KO, because the hate was astounding.

Monaca Towa:

her existence makes the game and its world more interesting, when you think about it she is the one who manufactured and designed the evil robots. Basically funding the destruction of the world for the only person she thought understood her. And she knows she was being manipulated and just is ok with that because everyone in her life is manipulative. Reading her diary one of her last pages is about how much she wants to die.And for a game about how adults should protect children, she is the only child to not get saved. I’m not saying she should’ve been redeemed she’s a manipulative liar, abuser, and murderer but her existence shows the corruption of this world.

I understand most people don’t like her. That’s understandable she’s completely and purposefully designed to be hate able but I love her. And the game is more interesting with her than without

[deltaruneintervention]

Berdly

Berdly is 18 years old and is the king of technoworld,based entirely on twitter. He has his own arcade and has ADHD, he has a chair / robot that can transform into several things, he is kim's 2nd best friend in chapter 2, however she still finds him a little annoying.

He is totally intolerant of homophobia, fatphobia, racism etc, to a point that it gets annoying, any joke he tries his best to say a text about how this is wrong. He currently knows almost all the games ever made and the history of each one of them, he has a giant robot called Golden Berdly / unit 00

which is totally inspired by evangelion (even the giant robot fight is totally a reference to evangelion)

berdly has an extreme attraction to acidic things (banana <-> lime)

one last thing, in the part where berdly, jen and kaio get inside the car (where the beautiful joke "kris, get the banana!")

berdly's chair transforms into a fast and very beautiful and technological car.

he makes a lot of jokes involving twitter trends and he uses things that people have said in the past as an argument,soo basically

he retweets the person's message using it as an argument.

[aroace-ko-archived]

I posted 257 times in 2022

That's 257 more posts than 2021!

22 posts created (9%)

235 posts reblogged (91%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@turbo-noir

@crazeymc

@shanedoesdoodles

@fruitycircus

@whattabop1

I tagged 257 of my posts in 2022

#reblogged - 231 posts

#ok ko fanart - 209 posts

#professor venomous - 109 posts

#lord boxman - 91 posts

#voxman - 78 posts

#kaio kincaid - 41 posts

#enid mettle - 37 posts

#ok ko fink - 35 posts

#ok ko raymond - 33 posts

#radicles x - 29 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#rly wish i watched this show sooner. i couldve had at least 24 hrs of enjoyment before i learn its getting wiped off the face of the planet

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

i have an idea for an ok ko animatic that i rly want to do but idk if itd be worth it because

a) all my animatics so far have been memes and the longest one ive done was 15 secs long. the idea i have would probably be at least a full minute and def more serious so itd take a while

b) i think the fandoms dying and i dont want to spends weeks on something two people will see

so anyway if anyones interested in a kinda angsty animatic about that one scene where boxman leaves bc shadowy venomous took over pls interact with this post in some way. id probably settle for like 10 notes (maybe less). just so i know people would watch it. and if anyone wants a dm when its done lmk

57 notes - Posted August 27, 2022

#4

i got bored and made a voxmore pin :D

60 notes - Posted August 28, 2022

#3

i wasnt going to draw this but then i remembered cringe culture is dead and i can draw whatever i want so its on my water bottle now

62 notes - Posted September 3, 2022

#2

no thoughts just boxman finding out that raymond has a crush on rad and ray expecting him to freak out bc rads a hero (obviously worried bc he told shannon he would discontinue her if he found out in rad likes robots) not knowing that boxman was secretly dating venomous when he was still laserblast. like father like son

102 notes - Posted August 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

i havent been able to draw as much as i want to (ap classes have been turning my brain to mush) but ive been drawing on post-its so heres a doodle dump

See the full post

110 notes - Posted September 10, 2022

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[thesecretingredientislove]

The robots taking care of K.O

[sxrrandomfanfics]

Albedo, watching Dendy finally ask out KO: I think they'll make a good couple.

Malware: There are certainly two of them.

[proship-moodboards]

ko x darrell - red and gold theme moodboard for @proship-ivy

[vancethehuman]

I keep thinking about the Voxman family watching Our Flag Means Death... - Ven's daughter would love Jim. Fink would 100% want to cosplay them. - John (his husband) probably started getting a little misty eyed at the party scene, because he's been in a very similar situations of trying to fit in but failing. - Ven, on the other hand, would relate heavily to how Ed fakes it till he makes it with the Blackbeard persona. His anxiety really does feel like the Kraken sometimes. - Raymond would totally make his next fashion line based on the outfits of the show, also making really good cosplays for the family. - Oh and I think it'd be funny if his son hasn't seen the show, but once saw a picture of "a cool dude with a seagull on his head", so Ven has John make a robotic seagull for Kaio to carry around.

[bat-snake]

I finally colored Quincy...and then should have some sketch pages.

I'm still working on the story on how he...happened, but it involved the destruction of a novelty soap dispenser shaped in the shape of cowgirl. It's often remembered with the Sandwich Incident trumpet.

He had more talent for building weaponry than robots or bio-engineering. As a teenager, he tried to make improvements to Baguette Launcher Darrell, but accidentally inspired forty Darrells to go out on the street and perform an impromptu "Cette Tragédie Musicale Française".

His main goal for carrying on the tradition of attacking the plaza is for his half brother "Kaio" to be his ultimate arch-nemesis, but that isn't going well for him. He's the uncle to all the new robots at Boxmore, but is the adoptive father of Sasha, an alien who literally fell from the sky - and through the roof.

[starburstdragon]

Guys Who Are Multiple Guys Tournament, Round 3

Evelyn

The alternate Evelyns are incredibly relevant to the way the movie plays out, and the movie itself is about love and identity and individuality and all those things, so she’s got the vibe. My friend suggested her :)

K.O.

“hes got his loser emo boy headmate tko, the 3 different fusions between them (cko, pko, mko) which i dont think actually count for this tournament but its worth mentioning and hes even got an au robot duplicate (k-0) from the episode ok au and a silly roboticized form from the sonic crossover episode lets meet sonic (metal k-0)” - User submission

[cherry-doesnt-draw]

'ORDINARY' AU QUARTET!! Here is their Introduction!

[Starting from Left]

Chris Bale, more commonly known as, Combo Breaker!

Our robotic, now human pal, Jethro Boxmore!

Kaio Kincaid needs no introduction, or better yet, K.O!

And our programming genius girl, give it up for Dendy!

Learn more about the characters of this Au below! {Links coming soon}

♤♡♧◇

>About Combo Breaker

>About Jethro Boxmore

>About Kaio Kincaid

>About Dendy

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Z 127

Last time... yikes.  

The one upshot of Yamcha getting taken out is that it alerted the others to the androids’ position.   And since their primary target is Goku, they toss him aside and allow Krillin to take him out of the city for a senzu bean.  

Piccolo calls them androids, which interests #20, since the Z-Fighters seem to have expected a pair of androids to show up here today.  How could they have possibly known?   The answer is time travel, but Piccolo ain’t saying.  

Goku wants to fight somewhere less populated, so #20 obliges him by destroying large swaths of the city.    So when Yamcha wakes up from his injury, he sees half of Amenbo Island reduced to a smoking ruin.  

What Goku meant was that he wanted to fly someplace with no people.  #20 agrees to play along.   I put both of these images up because the line from the manga is one of my favorites.   “Choose your place of death, Son Goku.”   Ominous.   I guess it’s not that different from what Vegeta said when Goku asked him to relocate their fight.   But it’s grimmer coming from Android #20.

The others are just surprised that these guys know Goku’s name.   Turns out they know everyone else’s names too.   

Meanwhile... Oh, come on.

Kind of weird how these two don’t hang out much before this.  

Chiaotzu’s sitting over by himself because he’s too worried about Tien to watch aerobics.  

A news broadcast cuts in to report on the attack on Amenbo Island.  Chiaotzu’s worried, but Roshi assures him that things will be fine, becuase for once Goku’s on hand from the beginning.   I suppose that’s been the formula for DBZ.   When you’re used to having to wait for Goku to show up until the last minute, having him on hand must give you an overinflated sense of relief.   But let’s not forget how DBZ started.    Goku was right there when Raditz showed up, and he was the first one to die.  

Oolong points out that Goku’s a Super Saiyan now, so that makes things even cushier for the good guys.   Right, and what happened to the last Super Saiyan, Oolong?   Well, that’s unfair.   Oolong doesn’t know, because I haven’t updated my fanfiction in weeks. 

When the combatants move away from the island, Yamcha gets worried, because Goku doesn’t know that the androids can drain your energy.   #20 took some from Yamcha as he was killing him.   The only thing to do is follow after and warn him, but Yamcha isn’t sure he can go.   He nearly got killed out there, so I can’t blame him.  

But as Krillin and Gohan leave, Yamcha decides that he can’t just stand by.   He tells himself he’s only going to watch from here on, but we all know that isn’t true.   

Yajirobe, on the other hand, is staying put, because he doesn’t want to go, and because he can’t fly. 

At some point, #20 gets tired of waiting for Goku to pick a battleround, so he chooses a spot himself.   But Piccolo decides this was no spur-of-the-moment choice.   The rocky surroundings would allow the androids to hide and use the same hit-and-run tactics they used on the island. 

Goku demands to know what the androids’ beef is, and while he asks, Tien notices that he’s already winded, and the fight hasn’t even started yet.  

#20 explains that Goku has been under constant surveillance ever since he took down the Red Ribbon Army.   That would have been, what?    Sixteen years ago?   Thereabouts.    After the fall of the Red Ribbon Army, Dr. Geron was the only one left, and he sent out these spy robots that look like ladybugs to go collect data on Goku during his adventures.  

All of this information was then used by Gero so that he could design an android powerful enough to defeat and kill Goku.   Goku is somewhat surprised to hear that this is all based on a grudge, but that’s pretty much all it is.  

Piccolo suggests that #20 might be Dr. Gero himself, which... that seems like a really dumb place to throw that out.   In a few episodes, that information will be revealed in earnest, so why have Piccolo spill the beans early?  

Then again, I don’t know why Gero is so determined to convince everyone that he’s dead, and that Android 20 is just another one of his creations.  

Elsewhere, Krilin’s group is having trouble finding the battle, since no one’s actually started fighting yet.  

#20 claims that the data collected on Goku was sufficient to calculate exactly how strong he would be at a particular date, and so their android bodies were designed to exceed that level by a wide margin.    As such, Gero decided there was no point in following Goku into space.   Instead, he just put the finishing touches on the Androids, confident that he would return to Earth without any major changes.  

But Goku can turn into a Super Saiyan, which Gero’s calculations never could have anticipated.  

At best, #19 compares this to the Kaio-ken technique, but they’re clearly not the same thing.  

And yet, #20 seems quite confident that this surprise power-up still won’t make any difference.   He sends #19 to take care of Goku, like it’s not that big a deal.

[supernova1us]

My Dragon Ball Reboot(updated)

Dragon ball is another one of those big awesome anime series that just didn’t know when to quit.  Like many others, rather than go out on a high note, they just keep going and going, regardless of the drop in quality.  I for one hate dragon ball super and think it is just shameless fan service. So, here is the concept for a total reboot of the dragon ball series.  The style would be similar to that of dragonball z, and the setting/world is the same: with earth being the same mishmash of eras of time and cultures. The main alteration to this reality is that planet vegeta and the saiyans still exist. This breakdown will be a bit vague because I do not have any solid names for the characters. To keep things simple for now and consistent with the franchise trends, i will give them temporary stand in names.  

 ARC 1

Two saiyans, brother Kabij and sister Kereta, land on earth with the missions to raise it.  They split up and kereta meets the human Tech; a young inventor with some martial arts training.  Making her intentions clear, he challenges her, knowing he has little chance of winning. Though she consistently beats him severely, he refuses to stay down.  After letting her take a rest, he uses a technicality of their agreement (her being on the ground for 10 seconds) to declare victory.  Initially furious, she becomes amused, respecting him and concedes. The two become fast friends and, impressed by earth’s food and beauty, she begins to decide she does not want to destroy the planet.  Meanwhile Kabij amuses himself with mischief and destruction. Returning, the siblings clash in a fierce battle which she wins and Kabij, badly injured, spitefully sends a message through his scouter for saiyan backup before escaping.

Tech is told of the saiyans’ mission of conquering planets in reluctant servitude of the space tyrant, king Frieza. Tech reveals he has one of the legendary dragon balls as a family heirloom and if they collect all 7, they can wish for the earth’s safety.  With practice, Kereta realizes she can detect the unique energy of the dragon balls and they set out across the world to find them. A healed Kabij learns of their intentions and sets out for the balls as well, desiring invincibility. Tech and Kereta have many adventures in their search for the balls, including an ongoing feud with an underground militia of sentient machines who desire world conquest. One night Kereta also transforms into her great ape form, causing destruction.  When this occurs again on the next full moon, Tech manages to get through to her, allowing her some clarity and control in the form and a romantic tension between them begins to build. They also come to meet the hidden alien guardian of the earth, Kami, and become quick enemies with his evil counterpart, Piccolo, after a battle. They also gain a dragon ball from Hits, a martial arts master after first defeating his 3 guards then him. Impressed and recognizing Keretas potential outside of just her raw power, he offers to train them.  They accept but will only return after they have made their wish.  

They gain all but one ball, which Kabij has retrieved from a crew of infamous pirates. Confronting each other again, the battle turns to wide spread carnage when the moon rises and both transform to battle in their great ape forms.  Needing to end the threat, Tech severs both their tails, and when Kabij attacks civilians in a last act of desperation, Kereta is forced to deal a killing blow. Reconciling with his sister as he dies, he tells her that they have at least 2 years before the other saiyans are likely to come.  Both Tech and Kereta agree to use the dragons wish to undo the damage done by the battle, and summon the dragon to do so.  Tech builds a clock to count down until the dragon balls will be usable again, and the two return to master Hits to train.  

 ARC 2

Training under the hardy Hits and Black, his strict niece/assistant, Tech and Kereta both have shown great improvement in their fighting skills, with Tech having learned flight and to use ki. More open signs of feelings for each other have also developed.  With nothing left to learn, they are dispatched far and wide to do odd ball tasks for their master (lots of filler).  Eventually, he reveals that due to financial difficulties, he intends for them to represent his dojo in the world’s martial arts tournament.  They do and face many opponents and win. However, the semi-final has them battling each other. After a long match that sees many feelings and issues brought to the surface, Kereta ultimately wins.  She faces the final opponent, revealed to be a disguised piccolo.  After a brutal match in which both resort to using their energy attacks, she seemingly destroys Piccolo and wins the tournament.  She and Tech reconcile and begin a relationship.  As an act of love he gathers the dragon balls and wishes Keretas tail back, though he is scolded for the recklessness of doing so.  

 ARC 3

Before the dragon balls can renew again, Kereta, tech and their allies, now called the Z fighters, are summoned by Kami. Revealing that the saiyans are on their way and will arrive sooner than expected, he intends to train them in special new techniques to better stand against the saiyans’ power. During their training, they also learn of the history of the saiyans as well as of Kami’s race. Eventually the Z fighters head for the desert in hopes of keeping the fight away from populated areas.  A squad of 5 saiyans arrives, including an old friend of Kereta and led by the psychotic saiyan prince Broly. Broly declares her a traitor but chooses to sit and watch as the others fight.  A massive battle erupts between the groups in which two of the saiyans are killed but Hits is badly wounded and all but Kereta and Tech leave to take him to heal.  All of this is also witnessed by Piccolo from afar, who takes an interest in Broly.

The moon rises and Kereta and the two other saiyans transform and do battle as great apes all through the night.  Though Broly also transforms, he still remains neutral. She manages to kill one but chooses to spare her defeated friend. Broly finally enters the battle and is the stronger as he beats her mercilessly. Summoning as much ki as he can muster, Tech manages a single punch to Broly, scarring his face and briefly disorienting him. His hand now shattered and with no energy left, Tech can only smugly accept his fate as Broly angrily delivers a fatal blow. Driven by grief and fury, Kereta transforms into a legendary super saiyan, while her friend takes Tech to safety.  Despite unleashing his full power and going into a battle craze, broly is beaten to within an inch of his life and left for dead.  Unknown to the others, he is rescued by Piccolo, who returns him to his ship and maintains that he is an ally.  Kereta and Tech declare their love as he dies, but he reminds her that she can bring him back with the dragon balls and she promises to. Her friend declines to stay on earth and leaves to rejoin the other saiyans.  

 ARC 4

While Kereta deals with her loss and boredom in the living world, Techs soul appears at a crossroad between heaven and hell. A middle road appears to him and a voice leads him down it to a small world. There he is greeted by the great Lord Kai, who intends to train him so he will be stronger when he is brought back to life.  It is revealed that Kabij is also there being trained by the Kai.  Though there is initial hostility, the two grow closer through their training and become friendly rivals.  Tech is also taught the kaio-ken technique. With the dragon balls active again, Kereta is in a race against Piccolo to retrieve them.  After all have been found by one or the other, they fight for all 7.  Piccolo wins but the dragon cannot grant his wish of invincibility, as he is technically still a part of Kami, and the dragon cannot grant his own creator a wish. While piccolo angrily battles the dragon, Kereta is telepathically informed by Lord Kai to phrase her wish a certain way.  She steals the wish in the confusion, which results in reviving both Tech and Kabij. Syphoning some of the dragons power to empower himself before it vanishes again, Piccolo battles the three, who ultimately defeat him.  They are however warned not to kill him for fear of killing Kami, so Piccolo is instead imprisoned beneath the dojo.  

A brief time jump shows that Tech and Kereta are married, she is pregnant and they have moved into a house connected to their master’s dojo. Kabij has also joined them, now having a love/hate relationship with Black. They all take part in a celebration and competition between many of the regional martial arts schools. Afterwards, the competition is attacked and many are killed by the ultimate weapon of the robot militia, a perfectly designed cybernetic fighter. Declaring itself “The Slayer”, it issues the Z fighters, its targets, a challenge. It almost defeats them all, having studied all their fighting styles, but Techs otherworldly kaio-ken technique proves to be the power that tips the scale. Thought they believe it destroyed, its creators recover the remains, intending to scrap it and start again. It however asserts its independence, granted sentience through its desire for revenge, and demands they rebuild and improve it.  

 ARC 5

8 years later, Tech and Kereta act as instructors for the now more popular dojo, with their half saiyan twin son and daughter among their students. Kabij and Black are also together and have 2 sons.  As their anniversary nears, Kereta finds herself teleported to Lord Kai’s world, who warns of a great threat heading to earth; the forces of Frieza. He reveals that Broly hid the news of the battle on earth out of shame but Frieza eventually learned of the situation and intends to make an example. He teaches her many powerful new techniques, primarily the spirit bomb. Sending her back, she and Tech celebrate their anniversary before the earth comes under invasion. The Z fighters fight friezas forces across multiple locations and skirmishes, including his elite enforcer team, the trinity. Slayer and the robot army also briefly aid in the defense of earth, but only out of self-interest. Frieza and a healed Broly soon arrive, along with Kereta’s friend, now a brainwashed cyborg.  Broly and Kabij clash in a furious battle, with both reaching super saiyan forms and fighting to a standstill. Tech battles the cyborg saiyan but is beaten, but she is then overwhelmed and beaten by the 4 half saiyan children.  

Kereta battles with Frieza but cannot overcome him and transforms into a super saiyan.  Frieza, finding it hard to contend with her new form, absorbs the ki of his forces, killing them but making him a giant and far more powerful.  Using her knowledge of earth to her advantage, the moon rises and she becomes a super saiyan golden great ape.  Now more evenly matched, they engage in a titan sized battle that destroys the landscape and scatters the other combatants.  By dawn Kereta reverts to normal and a beaten and humiliated Frieza prepares a blast to destroy all of earth and announces he intends to do the same to the saiyans home world, Sadala.  Hearing this, Broly furiously attacks him, thwarting the charged blast.  Using the opening, Kereta generates a spirit bomb and blasts Frieza into space and his apparent death.  Broly escapes in the chaos and vows to return with the whole saiyan army.  

In the aftermath, the Z fighters return home with the cyborg saiyan, who appears to be free of her brainwashing, and one of Friezas long-suffering soldiers who has gone AWOL.  They quickly locate the dragon balls again and finally use their wish to protect earth, making it invisible to any who mean it harm.  This is just in time as Broly returns with his forces but cannot locate the planet. Embarrassed in front of his troops, he is also belittled and ordered back to Sadala by his father king Paragus to answer for his betrayal of Frieza, who is revealed to have survived.  On earth, the cyborg saiyan is briefly taken over by a preprogrammed order and silently slips away and frees Piccolo, giving him a special task from Broly.

 ARC 6

1 year after the defeat of Frieza, Tech, Kereta, Kabij and Black leave to take part in the next world martial arts tournament.  While they are gone, Piccolo returns and battles master Hits, with the cyborgs conditioning keeping her from interfering.  Piccolo wins and kidnaps the 4 half saiyan children, per Brolys request.  Their parents return and are told by the cyborg that Piccolo has taken them to Sadala. Before they leave on a ship salvaged from Friezas invasion, they are summoned by kami. Knowing that Piccolo must be destroyed, he names master Hits as his successor and gives each of the fighters a portion of his power.  They leave and briefly stop on Namik, Kamis home world. They train in new techniques, resupply and learn the legend of a single renegade warrior, who sought redemption by splitting his good and evil halves, forming Kami and Piccolo.  The cyborg, thinking herself a liability, chooses to stay on Namik and mentally train to overcome her conditioning.

Arriving on Sadala, they find Broly has rebelled and killed his father, become king and is in the midst of a battle with Frieza’s empire. They infiltrate the planet only to discover Broly and Piccolo striking a truce with a now cyborg Freiza.  They reveal the children, now brainwashed, and have them attack their parents.  After some time, the parents use the mental abilities they learned on Namik to reach through to the children and free them.  An all-out battle soon erupts; Kereta fighting Broly, Kabij fighting Frieza, Tech and Black fighting Piccolo and the children and the Z fighters fighting Broly/Frieza’s henchman. The rest of the saiyans are rallied by the returned cyborg to rebel against Broly and renew their fight against Freiza’s forces.  Both Frieza and Piccolo are killed in the respective battles, and on earth, Master Hits bids a sad farewell to Kami as he dies. This coincidentally depowers the dragon balls just as Slayer the machine militia prepared to use them to convert the human race into robots.  Their battle having taken them to a nearby barren world, Broly and Kereta are evenly matched as super saiyans.  Broly absorbs all the ki of Freiza’s forces, destroying his whole army and transforming into the super saiyan god form.  Kereta is able to achieve the same with the ki willingly given by her family, friends and the other saiyans.  She manages to win the fight by blasting Broly into the sun with a spirit bomb, killing him.

In the aftermath, the cyborg becomes the new queen of Sadala and the others enjoy a vacation there before returning to earth. The Nemikian who trained them also joins them so as to aid Master Hits in his duties and repower the dragon balls. Kereta and Tech henceforth take over as masters of the dojo.

 ARC 7

6 years later, the half saiyan children deal with high school and mundane life while keeping their considerable power under wraps, including an unintended great ape transformation during a party.  The Z fighters are forced to again contend with the return of the machine militia and Slayer, who has been upgraded into the deadliest fighting machine ever. They are also confronted by the vengeful brother of Freiza, Cooler. Cooler however is more honorable and, after a furious battle, relents after accepting the necessity of his brother’s death.  The earth soon faces the new, greater threat of the Dark Kai, a demonic former kai who sought cosmic destruction. He now unleashes disasters and demonic monsters on earth and many worlds. Joined by Cooler, the Z fighters infiltrate his fortress in the other world and contend with his generals, the 7 Sins. It finally takes the power of the whole saiyan family together to overwhelm and destroy him.  

Lord kai invites the fighters to the restored otherworldly realm and asks them to represent him in a celebratory fighting tournament of beings from across the universe.  The fighters compete until Kereta and Kabij alone remain. They battle as a team in the semi-finals, facing the vengeful spirits of Frieza and Broly, the champions of the Lord of Hell.  They manage to win, and are then forced to face each other, with Kereta winning after an intense fight.  She faces the final opponent, the reformed Nemekian of Kami and Piccolo, and she and Kabij use fusion to become a single fighter to face him. After a long hard fight, he concedes, proud of the progress the siblings have made, and they are declared the universal champion.

When they return home, they are confronted by Slayer for a final showdown. Now the last remnant of the robot militia, he has been upgraded to his full potential with data from all the saiyans’ previous battles. His new power proves so great that Kabij and Kereta are nearly killed. The saiyan teens fuse with their siblings into two new fighters, but even they cannot defeat him, as he seems to grow exponentially stronger as he fights. The fused teens then fuse themselves into an all new fusion who, after going super saiyan, completely obliterate Slayer.

After that everyone moves on with their lives; the Z fighters all go their separate ways. Kereta and Tech resume running the dojo, which is more popular than ever before while Kabij and Black retire to Salada. Cooler leaves earth for unknown objectives and Freiza’s former goon becomes guardian Hits apprentice. The saiyan teens finish high school and, before college, leave to explore the world like their parents before them.    

The end.  

[fighterxaos]

Yesterday, Hero Club converged on Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Station for Tamashii Nations 10th Anniversary World Tour: New York City! For those who may be unaware of the event, it is a two-day event showcasing upcoming products from Bandai’s sub-division Tamashii Nations. Tamashii Nations is known for its work with anime/manga and tokusatsu properties to create high-end collectible figurines, and accessories. In addition, Tamashii Nations has expanded its lines to include living individuals such as Michael Jackson, Bruce Lee, and WWE Superstars as well as characters from DC, Marvel, and Star Wars.

  The event is elaborately set-up to be like Japan’s own Tamashii Features events, or its Akiba Showroom. Dragon Ball is the focus point of the exhibit, as a balloon display for Shenron and the Dragon Balls hang over head. Furthermore, there is a large statue of S.H.Figuarts Super Saiyan Goku Awakening Edition on display, and an area for attendees to get pictures taken of them riding the Nimbus Cloud. There are at least eight to ten displays for Dragon Ball, consisting of S.H.Figuarts, S.H.Figuarts ZERO, Tamashii Buddies, and Absolute Chogokin figures. For the regular S.H.Figuarts a majority of them are separated into their individual series, and arcs. The new reveals are S.H.Figuarts for Kid Goku, Korin, Gotenks, Majin Vegeta, and Super Saiyan God Goku. Furthermore, almost every existing figure is on display with exclusion of Broly, and previously teased Champa and Vados. One of the best displays for the Dragon Ball S.H.Figuarts is the circular which attempts to show the evolution of the series as a whole.

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Yet, among the area set-up for Dragon Ball there are a few displays set-up to feature the event exclusive items one can purchase. Now, these items are limited to two per customer and have a limit on how much can be sold per day. The stock is incredible low too, so items tend to sell out within less than the first 90-minutes. The Saint Seiya Myth Appendix Gold Cloth set is out favorite display piece due to the fact it is paired with the Saint Myth Cloth Goddess Athena – Original Color Edition. Whereas, the other exclusives including S.H.Figuarts Kaio-Ken Goku are just shoved into one display case. The only things any of our staff managed to obtain was the limited-edition World Tour Tamashii Stages, and single Saint Myth Cloth Aries Cloth. Luckily, Bluefin Tamashii has a booth set-up with current items, as well as pre-sale items to buy such as Soul of Chogokin Daizyujin as its Power Rangers’ release, as well as the S.H.Figuarts for Street Fighter and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. Near the sale booths is a display promoting Premium Bandai’s launch for its North American website, showcasing items like S.H.MonsterArts Mothra Special Color Edition, S.H.Figuarts x Ultra-Act Ultraman Limiter Release Ver., and various Robot Damashii Gundam figures.

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Now, on one side of the hall is the anime and video game related section, and on the other is mostly live-action properties. However, somehow the S.H.MonsterArts Godzilla display managed to end up with anime stuff. In that section, there are two displays for the various Sailor Moon items, two displays for Naruto, and a Megaman display which is shared with Neon Genesis Evangelion. There is even displays for Kinnikuman and Street Fighter, but we unfortunately could not get close enough to snag photos of those displays at the time. In that section, the biggest standout was the preview for the Digivolving Spirits 01: WarGreymon; possibly a new line of Digivolution figures for Digimon. Furthermore, Tamashii Nations has a page on its website with a countdown clock that is winding down to the series’/ figure’ reveal in 26 days! We now, eagerly wait for further information on this item…

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Then as for the opposite side of the hall, it features the live-action properties as mentioned it earlier. There one can find a Power Rangers display for the Tamashii Buddies and Soul of Chogokin Megazord. Two other cases then feature the S.H.Figuarts WWE series, Marvel Cinematic Universe series, and various DC films (somehow we lost the pictures for the WWE & DC displays). The Meisho Movie/ Manga Realization series receives a lot of love at the event, as it seems to take up a solid third of this section. While we were examining the figures, we were often crowded by others just curious at this overly unique line of figures. Also on display is the upcoming releases for Chogokin R2-D2 and C-3P0. Among this area is another teaser/ prototype for Soul of Chogokin Gipsy Danger, along with promotional artwork for Pacific Rim: Uprising’s Gipsy Avenger.

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Now, after purchasing one’s items, and checking everything we really insist one should check out the “Try Me” booth. There anyone can get a feel for some S.H.Figuarts, and get to test out the Soul of Chogokin Megazord. Our staff really feel in love with that product, as it is a wonderful representation of the mecha. The last day for the World Tour is today, and we hope that those interesting in attending the event can get a chance to stop by. We also hope that this is not the last time New York is graced with an event like this from Tamashii Nations!

Tamashii Nations 10th Anniversary World Tour NYC

Yesterday, Hero Club converged on Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Station for Tamashii Nations 10th Anniversary World Tour: New York City…

Tamashii Nations 10th Anniversary World Tour NYC Yesterday, Hero Club converged on Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Station for Tamashii Nations 10th Anniversary World Tour: New York City…

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The basic reason why all Sonic = DBZ comparisons fall flat

You know how it usually goes. People notice that Sonic the Hedgehog has many similarities with Dragon Ball Z. And this usually devolves into noticing “7 Chaos Emeralds = 7 Dragon Balls”, “Super Sonic = Super Saiyan”, “Sonic = Goku, Shadow = Vegeta,” etc. etc. 

But no matter how hard people try, the cold fact is that Sonic has never actually come close to feeling like DBZ except in fan works and comics. And you know why?

Ask yourself this: when Sonic and his cohorts actually do utilize their super forms, when do they use it? Who do they use it against? I wouldn’t be wrong in betting that, 65 out of 66 times, it’s against some behemoth? A Goliath? A giant robot? A kaiju?

Now, go to Dragon Ball Z. What’s one of Toriyama’s most basic working rules? To always subvert expectations. And what’s one of the biggest expectations (no pun intended)? That bigger = stronger. It’s why the smallest opponents were often the most powerful. This didn’t really get its start until Z proper; Dragon Ball played it relatively straight but then again, there were never really any Goliath-sized enemies to fight back then. 

But think of the series most powerful and threatening villains— most of them were usually smaller than Goku himself. Vegeta when he first appeared was almost as short as Krillin; Freeza went from a form Ridley Scott could’ve sued to a literal walking mannequin; Majin Buu wasn’t at his strongest when he was Kid Buu, but he was at his most unhinged and dangerous. Cell didn’t really go either way, but in that case, who was stronger among the heroes— adult Goku or preteen Gohan? 

It was only the movies that seem to play it straight (which makes sense since Toriyama didn’t write them, even if he came up with a few of the designs). As far as I know, Oozaru Vegeta, Dr. Wheelo, Giant Slug, and Hirudegarn are the only large enemies Goku had to face off against who were definitely stronger than himself. Giant Piccolo doesn’t count since he was clearly not superior to him. 

King Yemma is huge, isn’t he? But isn’t Kaio-sama stronger than he? And isn’t Kaio-sama smaller than Goku?

Indeed, the whole idea behind Super Saiyan God was to subvert expectations. People were expecting a golden SSJ4 or something even more ridiculous. And we all know about Super Saiyan 5, 6, 7, 9001, infinity, whatever. But Super Saiyan God is just your base form with red hair and eyes. In fact, you’re even slimmed down. And Beerus is supposed to be a God of Destruction, but he looks like a humanoid Sphynx (and acts like one too). Not the overlordly monster some DBZ fans might’ve wanted or rewritten him as. 

Now go back to Sonic. Keeping it to the games, when was the last time super forms have clashed against each other? 1994— Super Sonic or Super Knuckles vs. Super Mecha Sonic. You could include Sonic Chronicles and say Imperator Ix. That was 9 years ago, in 2008. 

More than that, a battle between two ultrapowerful humanoids is going to look different than a battle between a humanoid and a sky scraping monster. The last time we got a really direct battle between two energy-using hedgehogs in the Sonic franchise was in Sonic 06*, between Shadow and Mephiles, as well as between Shadow and Silver. Character battles in Sonic are usually poor, which is why these fights didn’t really feel anything like a, say, DBZ battle. Yet these are the absolute closest the franchise has actually come to really “being” Dragon Ball Z: Furry Edition. 

Anyone who tells you otherwise by reciting what I mentioned in the first paragraph is lying to you. And if you like being lied to, I won’t judge you; we all have fetishes.

*Unless you include Super Sonic in Sonic Generations.