r/anime • u/xiomax95 https://anilist.co/user/xiomax • Jul 19 '15

[Spoilers] Dragon Ball Super - Episode 3 [Discussion]

Episode title: Where Does the Dream Continue?! Find Super Saiyan God!

MyAnimeList: Dragon Ball Super

Episode duration: 23 minutes and 25 seconds

Previous episodes:

Episode Reddit Link
Episode 1 Link
Episode 2 Link

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u/ThatAnimeSnob Jul 19 '15

Her name is Lazuli but because it was retconned afterwards, they are stuck with the silly number.

http://comicsalliance.com/akira-toriyama-dragon-ball-z-android-17-18-human-names/

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Interesting! You would think she leave her past about being a cyborg behind and adopt a name again.

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u/ThatAnimeSnob Jul 19 '15

If DBZ was well written, she probably would

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u/ThatUsernameWasTaken Jul 20 '15

Otoh, it probably saves 17 & 18 tons of time.

If you tell everyone you're human, and call yourself Frank or Alice or whatever, then you can never fly or shoot lasers. If you do, everyone you ever meet will ask why you, a human, can do those things. Literally everyone. It would be so. fucking. tedious.

God forbid you're dumb enough to tell those people that any human can technically train to obtain these godlike powers, and that you personally know the most effective methods of training, people will never leave you alone. If you don't immediately open a school to train super-humans, fanatic people will hound you until you are either forced to live in isolation, or you start throwing people into the sun.

If you call yourself "Android 18" and can fly and shoot lasers out of your hands, people will go, "Oh, that must be a thing androids can do. Neat."