โโWell, then, please take care of me. I heard that this conversation was Miura-sensei's wish, so please first tell me the reason for that.
Miura:
> There are various reasons, but I thought for this conversation I'd like to speak with someone who has influenced my life as a mangaka. Though the most influential manga for me is "Fist of the North Star" (Buronson & Tetsuo Hara), other works such as "Dr. Slump", "Dragonball" (both by Akira Toriyama), and "Saint Seiya" (Masami Kurumada) were being published in Weekly Shลnen Jump around the same time, weren't they? So Torishima-san was overseeing Jump during my emotional middle school and high school days, and I definitely want to hear some stories. First, please tell me about your family, your childhood, and your upbringingโฆ
Torishima:
> Is there interest in something like that? There's not much to say, reallyโฆ Well, to begin, I didn't have any friends (laughs).
Miura:
> Is there some reason for that, or was it against the rules or something?
Torishima:
> Since I was a kid, I've been on a different wavelength than my surroundings. As for my family, I have few fond memories of my father. He had very few things to say to me, save for things like, "Having no money is harder than having no head." That's true to life, and he continued to tell me that from when I was little. Another one was, "None are so foolish as those who derive pleasure from being called 'sensei'" (laughs). Being a "sensei" could be called "sacred" or "noble", but there's also a lot of stress that goes with it. It's kind of like, "Be someone who doesn't place titles on people," right?
Miura:
> Sounds like your father was intelligent.
Torishima:
> My mother was an incredibly positive person, I remember the words, "Paying mind to fools makes you a fool, too." Fools gather and cause a ruckus, but you shouldn't pay them any mind, right? Anyway, those are the kinds of parents I had.
Miura:
> I seeโฆ Did you spend your whole childhood in Nฤซgata?
Torishima:
> Yes. It's my hometown, butโฆ I really dislike people in Nฤซgata (laughs). And since it's out in the country, kindergarten, elementary school, and middle school were spent with pretty much the same classmates. I really hated that. After that, I failed my university entrance exams, so I turned up in Tokyo to go to a prep school.
Miura:
> So when you got to Tokyo, did it strike you as more open than your hometown?
Torishima:
> Tokyo skies
Check out this article from Dao of Dragon Ball
Clearly not your typical vs thread but it's worth mentioning as many people have noticed and/or felt many life lessons and profound aspects of DB throughout the years.
What do you think?
Dragon Ball author Akira Toriyama originally wrote Trunks to foretell that Androids 19 and 20 will appear and terrorize the globe. Due to backstage politics with his former editor, Torishima Kazuhiko, however, it was eventually retconned so that the androids Trunks remembers were called 17 & 18.
Most dragon ball fans shrug off this plothole by simply saying "Well, Kazuhiko's gonna Kazuhoko." However, I have a theory that can make this plot hole make sense.
How Time Travel Works in Dragon Ball
First, let's discuss the various timelines that were established in the main series. First, we have timeline 1, the original timeline. This version of Trunks (dubbed Trunks(1) for convenience purposes) exits this timeline via time travel, but no time travelers ever enter it. The second timeline is the one we follow, one where both Trunks(1) and Cell(3) enter the timeline.
A third timeline is where Cell(3) defeats Trunks(3) and steals his time machine. Trunks(3) is no match for Cell(3) because, unlike Trunks(1), he went to Timeline #4 and acquired a device to deactivate the androids, rather than a massive power up from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. No characters from Timeline #4 are ever shown, but its creation is the natural conclusion fans draw, since that's the easiest way to explain why Trunks(3) couldn't have defeated Cell(3).
HOWEVER, when Cell(3) steals the time machine from Trunks(3), it is important to remember that he doesn't go back to Timeline #4, like Trunks did the first time. Instead, he goes back to Timeline #2, the main timeline. Why is that?
With the addition of Dragon Ball Super, we learn a few new things about timelines. In the Golden Frieza saga, we learn that the galactic patrol has a strict ban on unlicensed time travel. Meanwhile, in the Future Trunks saga, we learn that there are other timelines besides the four timelines that were necessarily created in the original series. The timeline that is the setting for this saga is known as Timeline #5.
So now that we've gone over the basics, let's talk about ...
The Theory
Cell(3) doesn't go back to timeline #4, despite that being the most logical timeline for Trunks(3) to go back to. So what if ... the timeline you go back to is completely random, and the odds of you going back to a timeline you visited previously are one in a trillion. Maybe it's impossible for you to ever go back to a past timeline you had previously visited.
This would certainly provide a justification for why
... keep reading on reddit โกKazuhiko Torishima has a new series to premiere in Saikyo Jump Magazine. โDr Mashiritoโs Mightiest Manga Techniquesโ (Dr.ใใทใชใใฎๆๅผทๆผซ็ป่ก) will provide tips to readers aspiring to be a Mangaka, tales about his career as an editor in a Manga corner, and the first chapter will be a tribute to the Dai writer Riko Sanjo.
Along with the announcement, we have been provided new artwork of everyoneโs favourite rejective villain: Dr. Mashirito by Akihiro Kikuchi.
SOURCE: https://natalie.mu/comic/news/439475
This is an exciting series announcement and I cannot wait to see it ^^ Dr. Mashirito lives on!
This weekend, I picked up an SNES classic from my local game store and added FF4 Namingway Edition to it. I decided to start a dry run of the game ahead of recording my playthrough for my retrospective series for next year, and after about 2 hours of gameplay I can say that I feel like this is going to be something special.
The presentation, right off the bat, is stellar coming off of FF1-3. The use of Mode 7 to create wide shots gives a sense of scale unlike anything from the Famicom trilogy. The minor alterations in sprites to convey emotion entirely through visuals (namely, Cecil tilting his head down) is really effective. The ATB system, a system with which I'm already familiar from multiple incomplete attempts at FF7, feels good but I do wish I didn't have to press select to see the percentage of party members' recharge, which is only measured in increments of 25%.
Visually, it's distinct from the Famicom games on an almost purely technical level. Designs outside of color for the most part aren't very far removed from FF4's 8-bit predecessors, but the more naturalistic and sprawling structure of caves as well as the use of parallax scrolling and, as mentioned before, Mode 7 and greater use of different sprites really have raised the bar, here, at least to me.
In my research, I've found interviews in which Takashi Tokita says that one of the goals for FF4 was to break away from the traditional RPG progression loop of town-dungeon-boss, and try to inegrate and weave story into more than just the town aspect of that loop. I feel this was accomplished very well early on with the Mist Dragon and the narrative consequences of defeating it. The overall focus on narrative and Cecil's character, even in the little that I've played so far, are a marked improvement over the previous three games and I found myself to be invested in Cecil's personal struggle to reconcile his past acts with his current objectives and his adamancy to protect Rydia.
Once again, in my research, I've found that Sakaguchi was obsessed with getting an FF game featured in Weekly Shonen Jump, who at that point had featured Dragon Quest so frequently it may as well had been a Dragon Quest showcase exclusively. During a dinner meeting with Jump editor Kazuhiko Torishima to learn what he could do to make FF worthy of being featured, Torishima simply asked him why Final Fantasy was so bad. Torishima, over the course of that dinner, would outline to Sakaguchi the shortcomings of FF1-3's sto
... keep reading on reddit โกI don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies ๐
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Theyโre on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
As a teen, Toriyama loved movies... he even tried to make a Kung-Fu film with a friend! Apart from that, he also loved to draw: so much his textbooks looked more like drafts.
But he didn't want to be a manga artist or animator.
Instead, he wanted to be a graphical designer, so when it came time to find a job, he chose an advertising agency, where he would draw flyers and posters: stuff like "New Years bargains! Super sales!".
There was a problem: Toriyama hated it.
He wouldn't get up on time, wouldn't follow the dress code, would get chewed out and lose bonuses... Three years after entering the company, Toriyama decided he wasn't made for this life, so he quit. Now Toriyama thought an easier job as illustrator would soon appear... after all, he was confident in his drawing skills!
It didn't.
Toriyama was living at his parents', and had to borrow money from his mom for everything, even to go out or buy cigarettes. His parents told him not to go out anymore: in that small Japanese town, their son being unemployed was embarrassing for the family.
But Toriyama didn't obey. It was lazying around in a cafe that he read that Shonen Magazine was offering a prize for new manga artists, the equivalent of about $8 thousand today. He started drawing for this contest to get some money...
Except he finished his entry too late for the contest.
He couldn't wait for half a year without his smokes, so he sent his work to Weekly Shonen Jump's contest instead, which had a lesser prize but was more regular. Toriyama was confident...
And he lost. Completely.
Being left out even of the honor mentions messed with Toriyama's pride, so he redoubled his efforts, and drew another, more perfected comic.
Of course, he lost again.
But this time, after the results were published, he got a phone call. That was the youngest and most junior of WSJ's editors, Kazuhiko Torishima. He had found the story mediocre... but Toriyama's sound effects in Latin letters, the ones he had learned on his stint at the advertising agency, these he found cool! So Toriyama started sending new manga concepts to Torishima directly...
And he got rejected. Again and again.
On the next 3 years, Toriyama would draw 500 pages worth of concepts, and get rejected almost every time. His first work to get on WSJ was a two-shot called Wonder Island, about a kamikaze pilot who got stranded on a tropical isle.
It flopped.
WSJ always conducts a manga survey with their readers. And of all the millions of WSJ
... keep reading on reddit โกI won't be doing that today!
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Where ever you left it ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คญ
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
It was about a weak back.
