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Why is Dragonball called Dragonball? I mean, what has the bouncing glenz pink ball with yellow stars to do with dragons or the dragonball cartoon?
added on the 2003-12-06 12:02:43 by Optimus Optimus
balls of dragons must be damn huge, prost!
added on the 2003-12-06 12:11:10 by ttl ttl
Because Melon Dezign called it like. Why Larousse fire clouds are called Larousse? They're just a plain tunnel with an opacity map. Because Jmagic had this name for it. Simple.
'Freax' will include a dictionary for such terms.
added on the 2003-12-06 14:13:17 by tomcat tomcat
why are you called Optimus? Can transform yourself into a truck? (ok, low humour) ;)
added on the 2003-12-06 14:46:56 by ekoli ekoli
Was Melon the first to make a dragon ball then?
added on the 2003-12-06 15:58:25 by Pete Pete
Yes, in 'Humantarget'.
added on the 2003-12-06 16:52:44 by tomcat tomcat
the dragonballs in the series are pink balls with yellow stars on them, Jmagic had nothing to do with it.
added on the 2003-12-06 17:02:08 by okkie okkie
Because there was an object on the DragonBall Z cartoon that looked likt that, a ball with stars on it. I don't watch that show, so that's as far as my knowledge goes.
added on the 2003-12-06 17:03:17 by phoenix phoenix
ah, i am mistaken, in the series they have red stars on them, still, the object probably was inspired from the balls in the series.

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added on the 2003-12-06 17:06:33 by okkie okkie
Good to know. Did these balls bounce like the demoeffect-dragonballs?
added on the 2003-12-06 17:46:58 by tomcat tomcat
Btw Okkie, read back, I didn't say Jmagic has anything to do with the dragonballs.
added on the 2003-12-06 17:47:31 by tomcat tomcat
ah, i see, sorry for the Jmagic mixup.

The balls didn't really bounce, they kinda where hard to find, actually, the series is about finding the seven balls (the beginning of the series that is) cause when collected, you can get people back from the 'death' (a place floathing in the sky, also known as King Kai's house :))
added on the 2003-12-06 18:09:59 by okkie okkie
Anyway, it's quite obvious that the effect is named after the japanese anime (the one in okkie's post), which is called "Dragonball", even if the original version doesn't bounce like jelly.
Where else have you seen crystal balls with stars inside?
added on the 2003-12-06 18:23:35 by dixan dixan
Well, it's not that obvious anyway.
So, the entire point of the Dragonball story is about finding these Dragonballs?
added on the 2003-12-06 18:30:24 by tomcat tomcat
So how old is Dragonball Z? I thought it was quite new and dragonballs have been in demos from the early 90s. Are you sure the series didn't copy the scene? It happens all the time.
Dragon Ball premiered (in Japan) 1986
added on the 2003-12-06 20:01:50 by cats cats
I thought it was just a Pokemon ripoff but I was wrong. I suppose it also inspired Ninja some too.
lol
added on the 2003-12-06 23:24:00 by psenough psenough
The reference is totally obvious it's named after the manga/anime, if you are familiar with it.

Dragonball was shown in france as early as 1988.
added on the 2003-12-07 00:01:19 by _-_-__ _-_-__
1988 ... one world, one future.. dub dub dudub dubdudub.... sry, too drunk today... this week sucked a lot
added on the 2003-12-07 01:48:45 by ttl ttl
Tell us about it ttl. Drowning your sorrows with alchohol is the worst way to deal with your problems.

You need to address them not suppress them.
Thanks for the infos, they were interesting. I know about the Anime and watched it 1-2 times but haven't encountered any dragonballs in it yet. I will ask my brother who has watched enough episodes.
added on the 2003-12-09 12:41:42 by Optimus Optimus
When you find all seven Dragonballs and put them together, the dragon Shenlong is called who grants one wish. (He can even bring back a dead person, but only once.) After that, the Dragonballs will transform into normal stone balls, and get scattered around the world. After one year, the Dragonballs re-transform, and can be searched again.
added on the 2003-12-09 21:05:31 by ie ie
Created a list of prods with dragonballs. Feel free to suggest additional additions here.
added on the 2020-02-01 00:44:01 by cruzer cruzer
Haha, I called it a cartoon back in time. Now I call it a weeaboo.

p.s. Still haven't ever watched dragonball
added on the 2020-02-01 09:41:23 by Optimus Optimus

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