Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast

It's Summer Convention Season! You think it's not, just because it's winter? Well, tune in to find out why it is! Jelli takes you into the world of our summer conventions by presenting one of the panels we held this year, at Anime Texas 2024, in Spring, TX from Fandom Events. This panel was also presented at San Japan in San Antonio, TX but the audio got too blown-out sounding to put out the full episode...but the Q&A portion of that event is retained here. The panel was also presented at Fan Expo Denver, in (of course) Denver, CO from Fan Expo HQ, the audio from that was unfortunately entirely unusable. In this episode: Jelli is on his own. We delve into the background behind the Toei Manga Matsuri – Toei Cartoon Festival and its inception in 1969 and other such festivals around the country such as Toho's Champion Festival Contextualizing the box office of the films Going through all of the original movies and looking for what interesting facts and value they possess Curse of the Blood Rubies - notes on censorship and references Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle - Ghastel and his relationship with Prince Nezha Mystical Adventure - Similarities to the movie The Last Emperor Dragon Ball Z Movies Dead Zone - The Phantom Zone and Garlic Jr's unique properties The World's Strongest - Hal 9000 Tree of Might - A possible Tree of Life Lord Slug - Super Saiyan and Pseudo-Super Saiyan, or False Super Saiyan Cooler's Revenge - Predator Cooler Returns - The Death Star, the Big Gette Star, the Borg Cube, and Star Trek's Vger Super Android 13 - Don't Lecture Me with Your $30 Haircut Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan - Meme culture in Japan and Nostradamus Bojack Unbound - Stan the Lariat Hansen and WWF/WWE references Broly Second Coming - Toribot and Nata de Coco Bio Broly - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Fusion Reborn - The Dictator, YIKES Wrath of the Dragon - Hirudegarn and kaiju Q&As and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual  Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise. https://www.facebook.com/FinalForumPodcast https://twitter.com/finalforumpod  

There is new Dragon Ball for the first time in years and we felt it was important to share our thoughts and opinions.  Join Jelli and Bekinney as we continue looking at Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball franchise by tackling a discussion of Dragon Ball Daima, and its next five episodes: "Lightning," "Collar," "Tamagami," "Thieves," and "Ocean". Who is Glorio, and what are his motives? Have we learned anything new? What does the recently-introduced Panzy bring to the table? What of the minotaur who wants to eat everyone? Are there any readily apparent cultural underpinnings with the revelation that Shin (Supreme Kai) has a real name, and it's Nahare? What of the rest of the cast? Where do Bulma, Piccolo, Vegeta, Gohan and others fit in? What's the potential significance of Majin Kuu, and the character Hybis? Did we crack the code and realize that Daima is basically Toriyama's riff on Charlie's Angels? Why isn't Drew Barrymore allowed on Final Forum? What about Lucy Lui, Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Banks and the other actors from those movies? Wait, what? Are we okay? Why did we talk about the Hair Club for Men? Join us for this more casual conversation as we dig through the world of Daima and continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise. https://www.facebook.com/FinalForumPodcast https://twitter.com/finalforumpod  

Was the original voice of Dragon Ball Z's narrator almost arrested before he ever got a chance to work on the show? To paraphrase his most famous saying: Find out [THIS] Time, on [Final Forum]! Jelli and Bekinney are still on a break from format and Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon Dragon Ball, and are interviewing one of the voices of our childhood, Dale D. Kelly, the original voice of The Narrator and Captain Ginyu, as well as Porunga.  In this episode: We dive into Dale's career, beginning with his time in radio and his early years in entertainment. Dale tells us how he almost got arrested on his first night on the job Why he chose to answer an ad in a Dallas newspaper What made him initially turn down the opportunity His philosophy behind voice acting as well as music, as he became the composer for Episode of Bardock and The History of Trunks What led to his leaving Funimation His time after Funimation, including working with Rich Little and Tommy Lasorda, as well as a story about Johnny Carson and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual  Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise, and unspool what we all love so much about Goku, the Dragon Ball franchise, the Dragon Ball anime, Dragon Ball manga, and more. https://www.facebook.com/FinalForumPodcast https://twitter.com/finalforumpod  

Jelli and Bekinney take a break from Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon (because we don't do enough of that, right?) by breaking down some early video games. We're talking about Dragon Ball 3: Goku Den, aka Dragon Ball: Goku's Story from the Famicom; Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure for the Gameboy Advance; Dragon Ball: Origins and Dragon Ball: Origins 2, for the Nintendo DS In this episode: Bekinney is checking the ship for abnormalities Cleaning up some items about pre-console video games and talking briefly about Tiger Electronics handhelds A reminder about TOSE Software, the programming company behind Dragon Ball 3: Goku Den TOSE's credits, including Bases Loaded, Mappy-Land, Toxic Crusaders, Tetris 2, Yoshi's Cookie, Resident Evil Survivor, Resident Evil Zero, Scarlet Nexus, Dragon Quest, WWE and Metal Gear Solid Dragon Ball 3 Goku Den story recaps and how it goes through the end of Dragon Ball We discuss early Nintendo RTS (real time strategy) games The port of Goku Den to the Wonderswan color, and a brief discussion about that system, including a reference to the Nintendo Virtual Boy and Gunpei Yokoi Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure story elements and how the game goes from the beginning of the story through the Demon King Piccolo arc How Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure's gameplay works and the mind behind its creation A brief summary of the company Banpresto Getting into Dragon Ball Origins and Yoshiki Okamoto, best known for creating Gyruss, 1942, and Street Fighter II. He also helped created Rockstar’s Red Dead franchise, and was a supervisor on Resident Evil 2 and Dino Crisis Discussing the use of the stylus on the Nintendo DS How Origins 2 functioned as a last-time-out for Stephanie Nadolny as Kid Goku and Tiffany Volmer as Bulma SURPRISE! We mention the game Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo for the Nintendo Wii and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual  Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise. https://www.facebook.com/FinalForumPodcast https://twitter.com/finalforumpod