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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- I was hoping that this adaptation would shed some light on some things that weren’t explained in the manga (I mean, how did Bardock end up in the past?), but sadly, that wasn’t the case. |
| "I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the one wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!" -- Rincewind gives a speech on politics. (Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times) |
| It was okay. The animation quality was very good, and I liked Nozawa's Bardock voice more than Gokus. Still, it was only as good as the Episode of Bardock manga, which was very meh. |
Bum Bum Dum Dum |
| Yeah it was okay. I'd say it still beats the manga since we could see Bardock go super saiyan in color. Awesome~ Now SSJ Bardock just has to be included in a future Xbox/PS3 game. He's always my favorite character to play as and I wanna kick ass, SSJ style >:D |
MonochromeDec 21, 2011 3:37 PM
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Monochrome said: Yeah it was okay. I'd say it still beats the manga since we could see Bardock go super saiyan in color. Awesome~ Now SSJ Bardock just has to be included in a future Xbox/PS3 game. He's always my favorite character to play as and I wanna kick ass, SSJ style >:D I have a feeling that when SSJ Bardock becomes playable, Chilled will be not so far behind. |
| Bum Bum Dum Dum |
Threepwood said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- I was hoping that this adaptation would shed some light on some things that weren’t explained in the manga (I mean, how did Bardock end up in the past?), but sadly, that wasn’t the case. just a guess, but maybe it has something to do with the ability bardock picked up to see the future or past in the dbz movie. |
| so it was because of bardock that freiza annihilated the saiyans, irony. |
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| It was alright. Hated the voice for Bardock. That was just wrong...lol |
"Wait for the signal, and I'll meet you after dark" |
| I liked the animation for Bardock's transformation and the energy balls. Felt more fluid. =D |
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| Never read the Manga so this was all a surprise to me! I still can't believe Bardock was the legend they kept mentioning in Dragonball Z... xD |
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Bardock totally hacked and skipped straight to Super Saiyajin 2. Blue lightning in his energy = SSJ2. |
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OriginANIME said: Never read the Manga so this was all a surprise to me! I still can't believe Bardock was the legend they kept mentioning in Dragonball Z... xD I really love this Bardock is the best! |
OriginANIME said: Never read the Manga so this was all a surprise to me! I still can't believe Bardock was the legend they kept mentioning in Dragonball Z... xD He is the super saiyan that made freiza scaried of super saiyans, but he is not the original super saiyan cause the original super saiyan became super saiyan on planet vegeta not plant. Though yeah he is the super saiyan, that made freiza scaried of saiyans/super saiyans. |
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| I think Bardock became my favourite DBZ character. The Episode overall was just mediocre but Bardock was awesome. Now I remember why I used to like him. - Arm bands/Headbands soaked red in your comrades blood - The father of the future strongest being in the universe - The legendary Super Saiyan himself - Doesn't waste time talking, just gets straight to business and wipes the floor with Chilled. (In one of the fastest battles I've seen animated properly in DB for a long time) I might actually pick up some DBZ games in the future if they include him. |
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| I'm so gonna give Episode of Bardock a DBZ (Down Below Zero) score. What a disgrace to the first Bardock Special. The whole thing about Bardock turned into Super Saiyan... I don't buy it. |
mitch3315 said: Bardock totally hacked and skipped straight to Super Saiyajin 2. Blue lightning in his energy = SSJ2. I agree, Super Saiyan level 2 there! Love this episode, who knew Bardock was the "Legendary Super Saiyan" Freeza was scared of all along. Nice to see some loose ends tied up, sort of. |
mitch3315 said: Bardock totally hacked and skipped straight to Super Saiyajin 2. Blue lightning in his energy = SSJ2. No way he's a Super Saiyan 2. Look at his hair... |
| This earned a 7 from me simply because: -Art and Sound were frikking amazing. -Bardock is almost a Vegeta but he actually kicks ass. But a few things were so nonsense... why did Bardock travel into the past? I'll take it it was that alien he killed who gave him this power but... sending someone back into the past without even being alive is too much even for Dragon Ball standards. If Frieza became afraid of the Saiyans because his father lost to a Saiyan then... hey... wait... If Bardock had never travelled into the past then Chilled would never have lost and never have warned his family... Frieza would never have betrayed the Saiyans so Bardock would never have had the chance to travel into the past. Bardock going Super Saiyan 2 was kinda off~.~ I didn't bother much because it could have been the whole "oh wait, how many years without DBZ... let's rock" thing so they exaggerated. Bardock had trouble defeating Chilled's Ki Blast even though he had turned Super Saiyan 2??? Even if we consider he was a Super Saiyan 1 with an exaggerated transformation, Goku totally overpowered Frieza when he transformed and he was far more hurt than Bardock. Chilled should also be weaker than Frieza while Bardock had the potential to become stronger than King Vegeta making it make even less sense. sLy777 said: so it was because of bardock that freiza annihilated the saiyans, irony. ROFL. I realized that, too. Ubercook said: mitch3315 said: Bardock totally hacked and skipped straight to Super Saiyajin 2. Blue lightning in his energy = SSJ2. No way he's a Super Saiyan 2. Look at his hair... That transformation is SSJ 2... I'll take it you haven't watched much DBZ so I won't go into details, check the wikia page, if you still have any question then drop by my profile. |
ReinhardVonMuselApr 9, 2013 6:01 PM
| Stop the sequels high-ranking stupidity. Group franchises in Top Anime page. Because Gintama is just "one" anime and not 5. |
| This was very much fun for me to watch. I'm glad I was finally able to see it. |
| I reject your reality, and substitute my own. |
| Cool episode, reminded me of why Bardock is one of my favourite DBZ characters, I'm just glad we got more content with him in it. |
| I wish all super Saiyan transformations were done like this. |
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| What an amazing episode, never thought they'd make such an awesome side story upon the already sidestory of Goku's father! Really quite amazed me with both quality and story line, makes things quite impressive and a reason why Frieza is so afraid of Super Saiyans! |
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| It was alright, I guess. |
| It's an infinite loop, Bardock gets sent back into the past before he was born, then he will die before being born again, then gets defeated by Frieza, then sent back into the past. In other words Bardock truly dies in the past from old age I assume. I Also speculate he might have created the Saiyan race while he was in the past by having sex with a human or a species that resembles humans. Because in that past he was most likely the only Saiyan because Chill didn't know what a Saiyan was when Bardock told him plus the planet he was on was his home planet and there were no saiyans there. So in conclusion Bardock is the Legendary Super Saiyan. Plus he might be the father of the entire Saiyan race as well.But I still can't think up an explanation of how he got sent back into the past in the first place. Maybe Frieza's blast had something to do with it. |
AichiroJan 31, 2014 8:01 PM
| It was perfect. |
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| I thought it was a pretty badass what if |
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ReinhardVonMusel said: SSJ2 has more straighter hair, just because it was a energy spark doesn't mean it's SSJ2.This earned a 7 from me simply because: -Art and Sound were frikking amazing. -Bardock is almost a Vegeta but he actually kicks ass. But a few things were so nonsense... why did Bardock travel into the past? I'll take it it was that alien he killed who gave him this power but... sending someone back into the past without even being alive is too much even for Dragon Ball standards. If Frieza became afraid of the Saiyans because his father lost to a Saiyan then... hey... wait... If Bardock had never travelled into the past then Chilled would never have lost and never have warned his family... Frieza would never have betrayed the Saiyans so Bardock would never have had the chance to travel into the past. Bardock going Super Saiyan 2 was kinda off~.~ I didn't bother much because it could have been the whole "oh wait, how many years without DBZ... let's rock" thing so they exaggerated. Bardock had trouble defeating Chilled's Ki Blast even though he had turned Super Saiyan 2??? Even if we consider he was a Super Saiyan 1 with an exaggerated transformation, Goku totally overpowered Frieza when he transformed and he was far more hurt than Bardock. Chilled should also be weaker than Frieza while Bardock had the potential to become stronger than King Vegeta making it make even less sense. sLy777 said: so it was because of bardock that freiza annihilated the saiyans, irony. ROFL. I realized that, too. Ubercook said: No way he's a Super Saiyan 2. Look at his hair... That transformation is SSJ 2... I'll take it you haven't watched much DBZ so I won't go into details, check the wikia page, if you still have any question then drop by my profile. http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Saiyan_2 |
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| Still the past of Bardock was a mystery for me at least. |
| It's a bit silly how he traveled back in time. I did enjoy it though. 7/10 |
| The Bardock Part was really thrilling for me though. It made more length to the original story |
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| I really loved this and that it connected with the future, a 10/10 for me :) |
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| As always splendid job by Nozawa |
| Notes from 2015: |
| was this really never dubbed, and there's just that weird barely passable fandub? I remember watching this subbed and in English way back in the day, if there is no official dub it must've been this same fandub I watched then and just forgot about it. But yeah the special is already average at best, and the fandub doesn't do it any favours, Chilled is the best thing to come out of it I guess. |
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