• iAmTheTot
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    9 hours ago

    How was Dragon Ball similar to pokeballs and their catching mechanics? I’m not seeing that similarity at all.

    Never seen any comparisons between Dragon Quest and Pokémon. Do you have examples?

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      2 hours ago

      They might be referring to CapsuleCorp’s capsules. They would store big things in tiny capsules, much like Poke balls work. I don’t recall people or monsters ever being store in them, nor do I remember things forcibly being put into them at all. It’s possible this was bigger on Dragon Ball, as a kid I was more familiar with Dragon Ball Z.

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      8 hours ago

      The anime one will be harder to source clips but I do recall creatures being released as ‘energy’ then forming quickly from thrown objects. Will need to get back to you on that one!

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        48 minutes ago

        Don’t really agree with the top pic at all, but some of the comparisons in the bottom one are interesting. Some are slay a really big stretch I think, but I do see why people would compare. I think if Enix went after Nintendo in the early nineties I could get behind them on a couple of these, but that ship has sailed a long time ago.

        Still going to disagree about the Dragon Ball comparison. Not really seeing any comparison between those two.