@@self-proclaimedanimator Now you understand DBZA's struggle. It was hard to make a parody of his movie because it was already batshit insane in the best ways.
The fact that trunks called 13 an and I quote “Red ribbon redneck” in the dub as well was awesome! The roasts were just being thrown left and right between the crew for no reason and I love it😂
In this he’s the second southern narrator after the first one leaves. He was also one of the doctors who sent Goku to earth in the abridged Bardock movie and I think he’s popped up in one or two more places.
It's an open secret that DJ Sexcidillionaire is Chris Sabat, the Funimation dub voice of Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, and 8,000+ other characters in the series. He would have gotten in a lot of trouble if he performed under his real name.
the industry hates peoples working on fan projects, specially if its with their bosses' IP .There have been people that lost their VA jobs because they worked on fan projects.
@@ero-senninsama1734 A good chunk of VA's are also unionized and legally are not allowed to work on projects unless the union approves which typically requires that a certain number of unionized members are also given roles within the project, along with what I'm sure is more fine print and red tape on fun projects like this.
Gotta love how the guy who never watched Dragon Ball picked up on the ball busting joke. That is one of my favorite jokes in DBZA I think as well haha.
Probably my favourite non-Broly movie. It's just SUCH a banger from "Do you think "Master Roshi" is my real name?!", "For thousands of years I laid dormant..." and "Mah trucker hat!" to the destruction of Goten.
“Is it because he’s purple?” “Ok racist! If you must know, it’s cause he has a drinking problem.” “It’s only a problem when I run out.” “We don’t like to talk about it.” I know it’s not a single line but that exchange is hilarious.
"Does that even do anything for you?" "Not anymore..." "..." "..." *PUNCH* And of course the 'to be returned later': "Hey! Wanna see something cool?!" "...Yeah okay."
Fun fact: 14's 'static' is actually an effect from PhotoSounder, a program that turns an image into sound. On the commentary for this episode, they actually showed the images used to make each burst of 'static'.
The main reason for TFS stopping was addressed in a video they made where they said that despite the issues with Toei they were still planning to do the Bojack movie and DBZ abridged season 3, but upon writing the movie they realized they were burn out and that the quality of their writing was not up to laid to their level of quality, so instead of forcing themselves to work on something they didn't feel proud of and possibly end up stopping in the future midway through the Buu Arc they decided to scrap what they had and leave episode 60 as the ending of Abridged.
the reason we never got a proper Buu Saga is really a combination of all those things. the team and especially Kaiserneko, the editor, were burned out from both making the episodes and fighting to keep the show monetized or even online at all, which is also the reason why they wanted to move towards original content so they can turn this into a reliable source of income that isn't completely at the mercy of a Japanese company that doesn't understand how Fair Use works in the west and could take down your entire body of work with the snap of a finger, as has happened to others.
@@BJGvideos Japan doesn't have a problem with fan art, comics and animation for the most part, but DBZA isn't re-animated and uses the original footage. They did have a good long think about using 3D animation for season 4 like they are using for HFIL right now, but chose to not do it in the end. But back to the original point, fan comic industry in Japan is cool and as long as all the art is your own, most companies don't bother with any fan creations even if they use their IPs and designs.
I find it hilarious that we got this movie that's great like the rest of dbza but in it goten is erased from the famous nut punch than we never got the buu saga till recently
Ruff: i w9nder what the first few androids looked like? Well we see andiod 8 in dragonball. He looks kinda like Frankenstein. And there's another named Full Metal Jacket who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger
@inkchariot6147 not how that works iirc. Canon, at least in an Anime/Manga adaptation, means it happened in the OG story, not retroactively added to it in another medium. Only Movie that could actually really happen is Bojack, as it takes place between end of cell and the time skip, fitting in anywhere you'd want. Edit: forgot about History of Trunks, that was actually in the manga. Some of Bardock too, retconned now though.
@inkchariot6147 Canon often refers to continuity within a story rather than just bring officially licensed. A franchise with different official works set in two different timelines unrelated to each other would mean those timelines are not canon to each other because of being based on different continuity of events. It can also refer to something being added in an adaptation that was not part of the source material, making the adaptation not within continuity with the source material.
@@pletter64dont know where people keep getting this. Especially when Lani and Kaiser have both stated they arent canon to the main show just to each other
22:09 Oh yeah? You should maybe try looking him up. The DBZ fans who know who it *might* be may be pleasantly surprised! He's also taken part in other various speaking roles in the abridged series, it's fun when you notice him.
In a DBZA commentary that TeamFourStar has been doing They said the reason why they stopped when they did. It just felt like it was a good place to end it. They didn’t even do the Bojack movie they just felt like they were done. They did say that burnout was a bit of the issue. They also felt like this was the best time to end it before they would end up, ending on a sour note.
Fun fact about Android 14, to make his "voice" they sent images through recording software. That is the shrieks of a computer attempting to make sound out of a fucking picture.
@24:06 They put a (IMO weird) video out saying why (it's still on their channel: "DBZ is Over, Here's Why"), but a Patreon post was more clear that it was burnout, worry about copyright issues, the worry about copyright issues negatively affecting their relationship with other businesses, and making the Cell arc feel like too much of a finale to feel good about continuing it.
Imagine how psyched Lani must've been to voice Vegeta and Piccolo in a video with the official VA for Vegeta and Piccolo present (DJ Sexcidillionaire aka Chris Sabat)
I'm sure others have commented, but yeah it was a combination of things. 1. The constant fight of keeping the episodes/channel uploaded when Toei and such kept filing copyright strikes. They tried using their own site for a while, but that became a bit of a financial hole. 2. The work was so much. Kaiserneko (voice of Trunks, Yajirobe, Korrin, and a few others) wasn't shy about how much work went into editing the series. He even uploaded videos showing how he edited some of the episodes. On top of that, the writing started to get to them. They've mentioned how they'd have screaming matches over how the scripts should go because everyone started having different ideas of how the show should go. With the Buu Saga being especially long and they couldn't agree how to go about the saga while not only maintaining their current product. but also enhancing and getting better, they decided to stop while the series was at it's peak. Their most recent commentary episode, they made a statement, "I don't to have a Scrubs Finale!" 3. As mentioned before, there was creative stall when it came to the series after the Cell Saga. At this point, they've been working on the project for years (it took a whole year between episode 59 and 60). They literally went from being a bunch of young adults that were barely out of high school to getting married, having a family, etc. They went from "wow, wouldn't it be cool if we met and/or having a convention at some point?" to "we have to put a pause on the editing at the studio, because we have five conventions back to back that we have to get to." When their work on the Buu Saga didn't satisfy them - combined with having arguments during the production of the Bojack movie - and just everything else leading to potential severe burnout, they decided to end the series and focus on original content. After the Cell Games, they came out with Dragonball Shorts (including slice of life episodes) and HFIL. They also uploaded a few shorts featuring some Dragonball Super material. They very recently came out what they call the Buu Bits, which are mini segments of scenes from the Buu Saga. They also have an original series called UnAbridged which is like their take on The Office - and my favorite of their projects.
Specifically he said "Scrubs final season", which basically retooled the entire set and format of the show. It was a spinoff while claiming to be the same show.
@@BJGvideos that's right. Damn, I just watched it earlier in the day, too. But yeah. with that in mind, I don't blame them for wanting to go out on a high note.
Well, he did agree to it. Even if he didn't know what it meant at first. If anything, shows that Chi-Chi thought she could fix him, in which case - lolnope 😆
@@self-proclaimedanimator He blindly agreed to marry her back when they were still kids. Unfortunately, Goku thought marriage was food. Years later, at the 23rd Tournament Chi-Chi confronted him about it. Goku did not recognize Chi-Chi at the time, but she promised to explain everything if he beats her. After the fight the confusion got cleared up, and Goku agreed to marry her regardless. Then, he proceeded to beat Piccolo afterwards.
Mandatory dj seccodillionaire "narrator 2" is the cover name for chris Sabat the va for the real dub of dbz for piccolo and vegeta among many others like all might and Armstrong
The best part about Goten getting erased is that Dragon Ball runs off of multiverse theory where you can't change the future but only create a new branching timeline. Actually removing Goten from a timeline where he existed means 13 hit Goku below the belt hard enough to break quantum physics.
@self-proclaimedanimator We were directly shown Goten existing in the future of this movie's timeline and then getting erased, which was the whole joke. I was just commenting on one aspect of the joke.
The main reason they didn't keep the show going was mainly due to burn out. They wanted to try other things and DBZA was getting a little stifling to work on due to the HEAPS of copyright strikes they had to fight to keep their videos up on nearly every upload. Plus they had other stuff they wanted to work on, spin offs like Dragon Shortz, HFIL and FF7 Machinabridged. Plus they had a gaming channel too thats still going on right now, TFSGaming. They did release some shorts parodying Super and very recently we got Buu Bits that are just little jokes they made for another creator and Dragon Ball fan Totally Not Mark when he was reviewing all of Dragon Ball. Also another abridged they did while working on this was Hellsing Ultimate Abridged led by Takahata101 (the voice of Nappa, Cell, and Guru) as it's main writer.
0:44 Android 17: and how many of us are (complete)? _"howdy folks, im android 13, look at mah trucker hat"_ Gero: I was going through a phase! 7:48 Android 13: howdy, there! I'm android 13, look at mah trucker hat"
Sadly, even though it got 20 million views, they couldn't really monetize it for various reasons, so I'm surprised they were able to keep producing so much quality content for so long
If you look at the date the first episode of DBZA was posted and the last one this project took something like ELEVEN YEARS to complete. After that long you can imagine why most of the crew just wasn't into it any more. They ended in such a perfect high note that it is not hard to see why they felt it was time to walk away.
DBZA also had to deal with a million copyright issues because Toei (or the company they hired to take care of TH-cam claims) is super pissy so they'd claim pretty much every single episode and the copyright claim situation has only gotten worse since DBZA ended.
Billy, if you would be so kind to upvote this so they see. Here's a little bit of trivia for when you guys get to the DBZA Broly Movie. TeamFourStar did not make any changes to Broly's backstory for the abridged movie. What they show in the abridged movie is his actual backstory.
The LEGEND DJ Sexcidillionaire is none other than the official English voice of Vegeta and Piccolo, Chris Sabat. He performed under a pseudonym to avoid any backlash from Toei.
14:45 - Actually, Android 13 has a great line in the Funimation dub, when Trunks tells him they're just machines with no free will of their own, 13 goes: "Freewill!? Pitiful human! War, segregation, hatred! Is that what you've done with your 'free will', boy? Don't lecture me with your thirty-dollar haircut!" That line just stuck.
2:33 well its not mentioned in dbza but in dbz they mention that androids 1-7 were failures so they were destroyed. I think android 8 in of dragonball is the first numbered one we see fully working and he was cool. Android 9 is shown in dragonball online he's like an android version of commander red i belive. But even 9-12 were eventually scrapped.
One of the main reasons they stopped was because of the constant uphill copyright battle with Toei. That aided in their burn out by constantly demonetizing, re-uploading episodes, dealing with legal issues and being repeatedly struck by Toei for copyright. Japan's copyright laws are incredibly archaic and don't really take fair use/transformation into account. A creator called Definitely Not Mark who makes a lot of DBZ content lost a huge chunk of his channel because they mass claimed him, even though all his videos were reviews, theories and altogether positive feedback on the anime/manga. They don't see any of it as free advertising or publicity, just "Muh content."
I mean for about 4 years when Goku raised Gohan in the original series that was pretty peaceful. And then there was a time skip of after the Cell Saga that was kind of peaceful. And before Super happened the years between the end of Z and GT were peaceful... Now with Super that isn't the case so.... Also certain filler episodes sort of shows some peaceful moments or slice of life but eh not sure you'd count it. Point is there were some moments of Peace off screen... But the series does show that often the characters are busy on an adventures or doing something mundane before disaster strikes. Though to be fair with the constant threat of the universe in danger the Dragon Ball world isn't the best place to be, I mean I guess if you were an unaware citizen... But like sometimes you get caught in the crossfire or where's the fun in being that in this world.
I could rewatch all of the abridged movies over and over and over. Android 13 is easily tied with broly for my favorite. Edit: Also fun fact, the freeze frame of goku's nuts being two cracked eggs? That's not an edit. That's in the actual movie. DJ Sexdillionare is Chris Sabat, I think? Back when he would guest on things but not want to be credited because he's... Chris Sabat.
At about 6:40 they say they want more slice of life moments like a BBQ and I agree. I think most hard core anime nerds would think that’s “filler” and talk about nothing but how much filler it has.
Burnout is the reason. They were halfway through the next movie, and arguing about the Buu saga, and the whole process felt exhausting. They weren't enjoying it anymore. They did eventually come back to do some cg shorts completely divorced from the original series. And they're currently doing a HIFL series of the villains in hell.
its a combo between copyright striking and burn out. they say its not completely off the table that they'll do more, just not now. the ending of the series with goku in heaven talking to all his friends was supposed to be their way of sort of saying goodbye, where he says "maybe ill come back some day, but it is bye, for now at least".
the official answer they gave was that it was disheartening and burning them out because they had to fight toei for every Episode to stay up. Not to mention that at least once every couple months or so someone had to reupload or fight copyright on older videos. Additionally to that a lot of TFS Members did work full time as voice actors and were actively ruining their career with this because Funimation (I think!) refused to work with some of them during their involvement in this show.
Possible minor spoiler: Iirc Piccolo did NOT get his license 😅 He even made a brief comment about it in the English dub of the DB super: super hero movie saying he never got it.
@@AzguardMike.....what? Android 17 and 18 have always been Siblings, what the fuck are you on about? Super does a lot of stupid shit, but the Androids have always been implied to be Siblings and even confirmed to be by Toriyama him-fucking-self
It was a mix of things. They’d been going for I think 15 years straight, and they’d been in a battle with Funnimation for a while with copywrite strikes & had to move to their own website for a time before moving back to TH-cam around the mid 50’s. They tried working on the Bojack movie but just couldn’t finish it, so they knew they had to wrap it up with 60.
I think the only time these characters had a normal day, aside from the filler episode where Goku and Piccolo learn how to drive, was the other filler episode where it was Gohan's birthday and the episode was padded out with flashbacks of him growing up, leading up to the party at the end where Gohan accidentally ruins his birthday cake because he can't control his Super Saiyan strength
In the real dub, the scene with Vegeta and Piccolo at the end was super short and ridiculous but still funny. *PICCOLO* - "Is it over?" *VEGETA* - "Not until the fish jumps!" ( _fish jumps out_ ) *VEGETA* - "It's over."
The segments where they pause with greyscale and a narrator with a guitar and southern accent play are a reference to the game "Bastion". The music that plays when Goku kills Super Android 13 also come from that game.
The one movie where everyone involved cared so little, that at some point during production androids 14 and 15 had their names switched and nobody bothered to fix it.
For context, the DBZ movies 1-13 are non-canon. I believe Toriyama called them “what if” stories or something. And you can tell they are non-canon by their conflicting time placements. For example, Goku doesn’t awaken from the heart virus until Cell emerges, which prompts him, Gohan, Vegeta, and Trunks to IMMEDIATELY go train at the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Why would they go shopping, when Cell and the Androids (16,17,18) are on the loose. Also before Goku awakens, Trunks and Krillin already destroyed Gero’s basement laboratory, which had his Supercomputer
"I wonder what the other androids looked like" We only see one of them, Android 8, aka, eighter. He looked like Frankenstien's monster and Goku befriended him as a kid when he was fighting The Red Ribbon Army.
6:00 the most "slice of life" moment in the whole series is coming soon, after Goku and Gohan get out of the hypebonic rhyme chamber. Goku and Chi-chi go for ten!
forgot 19 and 20 lol love the content. i just started dbz abridged a few weeks ago watching it with you guys. i havent seen dragon ball but ive seen all the rest z, gt, and super. dbz abridged is by far the best anime parody out there.
From what I remember, it was an equal part them being burned out and Toei copyrighting the shit out of them, causing genuine risk of them losing their channel.
Probably late by now, but ya'll better click that subscribe button at the end! I see you over there, not in incognito and not subscribed :P haha I'm just busting your Gotens ;)
They said they always saw the Cell Saga as the perfect ending to the series. That feeling was the final push on the burnout & their careers taking off, so they retired from the project to explore other creative endeavors mostly..
I actually think the original fillers in Z did the downtime and character development, at least in earlier arcs. It wasn’t like filler now where it’s completely separate from the plot itself
fun fact: in the manga, there's a panel that explains Dr. Gero Androids, and it says the androids 13, 14 and 15 were the one close to being considered good projects, while from 1-12 were considered just prototypes that failed
It’s actually amazing how you noticed DJ Sexcidillionaire because that’s actually Chris Sabat’s(the voice of Vegeta, Piccolo, All Might, Zoro and many other)
23:45 TFS They made a video [DBZA is Over, Here's Why] literally explaining why they won't do it and there have not been any hints or tease of 'If it's gonna happen' other than the bits they did for Totally Not Mark's review on the next saga after cell, quite a serious one too so it's best to watch on your own time when the series ends
2 reasons why Team Four Star didn't continue. As they got more popular, it became more of a problem for Toei animation letting them use their IP (They weren't just a little fan channel anymore), and Team Four Star found themselves in a lot of legal battles to keep going. The second thing, according to the creators, they got burnt out while trying to do the Bojack movie (the movie just after the Cell Saga). Apparently, they had a really hard time making that movie funny, so they felt like they were failing. In the end, they just decided to give up on it, despite having a lot of ideas for the Buu Saga (Which they did do some of with Buu Bits). Fighting a legal battle, while having a difficult time on the movie killed their passion for the project.
Everyone already said everything important but i love how tfs portray Dr.Gero. He is absolutely filled with hatred for goku the part he starts screaming KILL SON GOKU KILL SON GOKU is so good.
The reasons why they stop making dragon ball z abridged is because 1. When they were writing the Bojack movie they released that they were burnt out and decided to stop while they were ahead, instead of trying to milk it for all it was worth. 2. They made 69 (nice) episodes of DBZA.
"DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR 30 DOLLAR HAIRCUT!" - Actual line from Android 13 in the real English dub
@@self-proclaimedanimator Now you understand DBZA's struggle. It was hard to make a parody of his movie because it was already batshit insane in the best ways.
"We'll see about that you Red Ribbon redneck."
The fact that trunks called 13 an and I quote “Red ribbon redneck” in the dub as well was awesome! The roasts were just being thrown left and right between the crew for no reason and I love it😂
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If you guys didn’t know. DJ sexcidillionaire is an alias used by Chris Sabat, official voice actor for Vegeta, Piccolo, etc.
What role did he play???
In this he’s the second southern narrator after the first one leaves. He was also one of the doctors who sent Goku to earth in the abridged Bardock movie and I think he’s popped up in one or two more places.
@@lukyshot248 Played as the priest condemning Alucard in Hellsing Abridged, also sings a southern version of “cat loves food” in DBZA
He plays Van Helsing, don't minimize him, lol.
cool xd
It's an open secret that DJ Sexcidillionaire is Chris Sabat, the Funimation dub voice of Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, and 8,000+ other characters in the series. He would have gotten in a lot of trouble if he performed under his real name.
the industry hates peoples working on fan projects, specially if its with their bosses' IP .There have been people that lost their VA jobs because they worked on fan projects.
I always loved that Sabat was such a cool dude.
@@ero-senninsama1734 A good chunk of VA's are also unionized and legally are not allowed to work on projects unless the union approves which typically requires that a certain number of unionized members are also given roles within the project, along with what I'm sure is more fine print and red tape on fun projects like this.
8k… I see what you did there
@@nightbane44 i do not see why the union has to get involved when you are not getting paid for that role
Gotta love how the guy who never watched Dragon Ball picked up on the ball busting joke. That is one of my favorite jokes in DBZA I think as well haha.
xD
Probably my favourite non-Broly movie. It's just SUCH a banger from "Do you think "Master Roshi" is my real name?!", "For thousands of years I laid dormant..." and "Mah trucker hat!" to the destruction of Goten.
don’t forget “oh right, supersaiyan”
“Is it because he’s purple?”
“Ok racist! If you must know, it’s cause he has a drinking problem.”
“It’s only a problem when I run out.”
“We don’t like to talk about it.”
I know it’s not a single line but that exchange is hilarious.
"Does that even do anything for you?"
"Not anymore..."
"..."
"..."
*PUNCH*
And of course the 'to be returned later':
"Hey! Wanna see something cool?!"
"...Yeah okay."
Fun fact: 14's 'static' is actually an effect from PhotoSounder, a program that turns an image into sound. On the commentary for this episode, they actually showed the images used to make each burst of 'static'.
The main reason for TFS stopping was addressed in a video they made where they said that despite the issues with Toei they were still planning to do the Bojack movie and DBZ abridged season 3, but upon writing the movie they realized they were burn out and that the quality of their writing was not up to laid to their level of quality, so instead of forcing themselves to work on something they didn't feel proud of and possibly end up stopping in the future midway through the Buu Arc they decided to scrap what they had and leave episode 60 as the ending of Abridged.
And now they’ve redirected that creative energy towards HFIL which is a fantastic continuation of the universe they created.
the reason we never got a proper Buu Saga is really a combination of all those things. the team and especially Kaiserneko, the editor, were burned out from both making the episodes and fighting to keep the show monetized or even online at all, which is also the reason why they wanted to move towards original content so they can turn this into a reliable source of income that isn't completely at the mercy of a Japanese company that doesn't understand how Fair Use works in the west and could take down your entire body of work with the snap of a finger, as has happened to others.
To be fair (while making it clear Toei is still wrong here)....I don't think anybody really understands how Fair Use works
TH-cam certainly doesn't @@Schramm456
It's so odd to me since Japan has a bustling fan comic industry that even has huge (150k attendees) events just to sell them.
@@BJGvideos Japan doesn't have a problem with fan art, comics and animation for the most part, but DBZA isn't re-animated and uses the original footage. They did have a good long think about using 3D animation for season 4 like they are using for HFIL right now, but chose to not do it in the end.
But back to the original point, fan comic industry in Japan is cool and as long as all the art is your own, most companies don't bother with any fan creations even if they use their IPs and designs.
They also just dont like the Buu Saga anyway. They talked about that a lot in the ep 60 part 1 commentary. They didnt have the same passion for Buu
I find it hilarious that we got this movie that's great like the rest of dbza but in it goten is erased from the famous nut punch than we never got the buu saga till recently
The Senzus healed his nuts, worry not for Goten
It gets me every time, that Krillin is in the hospital because he CAUGHT Vegeta 😂
Ruff: i w9nder what the first few androids looked like?
Well we see andiod 8 in dragonball. He looks kinda like Frankenstein. And there's another named Full Metal Jacket who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger
And android 5 who just robot and in crona trigger which is the same word dbz but different time point
If you're confused about the Z movies, a majority of them take place in branching timelines.
Except in abridged, they are all considered cannon there but are never mentioned in main line except maybe Garlic Junior.
@@pletter64Technically, they're already canon since it's officially licensed by Toei.
@inkchariot6147 not how that works iirc. Canon, at least in an Anime/Manga adaptation, means it happened in the OG story, not retroactively added to it in another medium.
Only Movie that could actually really happen is Bojack, as it takes place between end of cell and the time skip, fitting in anywhere you'd want.
Edit: forgot about History of Trunks, that was actually in the manga. Some of Bardock too, retconned now though.
@inkchariot6147
Canon often refers to continuity within a story rather than just bring officially licensed.
A franchise with different official works set in two different timelines unrelated to each other would mean those timelines are not canon to each other because of being based on different continuity of events.
It can also refer to something being added in an adaptation that was not part of the source material, making the adaptation not within continuity with the source material.
@@pletter64dont know where people keep getting this. Especially when Lani and Kaiser have both stated they arent canon to the main show just to each other
22:09 Oh yeah? You should maybe try looking him up. The DBZ fans who know who it *might* be may be pleasantly surprised! He's also taken part in other various speaking roles in the abridged series, it's fun when you notice him.
So. Good.
15:46 I just want to point out that you can see Goku's balls shatter, and no, Team Four Star did not add this. It was in the original movie.
Fun Fact: The voice of older Gohan is Justin Briner, aka Deku from My Hero Academia.
This means All Might and Deku were in this video.
Also does cloud for temafourstars ff7 abridged.
Goku in the anime: I will let you go so that one day we will fight again...
Goku in movies : 19:48
i love how there’s just 0 explanation for vegeta and piccolo being under the ice because i’m pretty sure there wasn’t one in the actual movie 😂😂
I love the implication that Vegeta was just waiting in a glacier in the arctic for some random to happen by so he could scare the shit out of them
They do have peaceful moments. It's just not shown in the show.
In a DBZA commentary that TeamFourStar has been doing
They said the reason why they stopped when they did.
It just felt like it was a good place to end it.
They didn’t even do the Bojack movie they just felt like they were done.
They did say that burnout was a bit of the issue. They also felt like this was the best time to end it before they would end up, ending on a sour note.
Fun fact about Android 14, to make his "voice" they sent images through recording software. That is the shrieks of a computer attempting to make sound out of a fucking picture.
@24:06 They put a (IMO weird) video out saying why (it's still on their channel: "DBZ is Over, Here's Why"), but a Patreon post was more clear that it was burnout, worry about copyright issues, the worry about copyright issues negatively affecting their relationship with other businesses, and making the Cell arc feel like too much of a finale to feel good about continuing it.
Imagine how psyched Lani must've been to voice Vegeta and Piccolo in a video with the official VA for Vegeta and Piccolo present (DJ Sexcidillionaire aka Chris Sabat)
Probably stoked. Especially because he also worked with them in the Bardock Father of Goku special
An easter egg in this special is that if you take the screechy audio from 14 and put it in a spectogram, there's images hidden in each one
I'm sure others have commented, but yeah it was a combination of things.
1. The constant fight of keeping the episodes/channel uploaded when Toei and such kept filing copyright strikes. They tried using their own site for a while, but that became a bit of a financial hole.
2. The work was so much. Kaiserneko (voice of Trunks, Yajirobe, Korrin, and a few others) wasn't shy about how much work went into editing the series. He even uploaded videos showing how he edited some of the episodes. On top of that, the writing started to get to them. They've mentioned how they'd have screaming matches over how the scripts should go because everyone started having different ideas of how the show should go. With the Buu Saga being especially long and they couldn't agree how to go about the saga while not only maintaining their current product. but also enhancing and getting better, they decided to stop while the series was at it's peak.
Their most recent commentary episode, they made a statement, "I don't to have a Scrubs Finale!"
3. As mentioned before, there was creative stall when it came to the series after the Cell Saga. At this point, they've been working on the project for years (it took a whole year between episode 59 and 60). They literally went from being a bunch of young adults that were barely out of high school to getting married, having a family, etc. They went from "wow, wouldn't it be cool if we met and/or having a convention at some point?" to "we have to put a pause on the editing at the studio, because we have five conventions back to back that we have to get to."
When their work on the Buu Saga didn't satisfy them - combined with having arguments during the production of the Bojack movie - and just everything else leading to potential severe burnout, they decided to end the series and focus on original content.
After the Cell Games, they came out with Dragonball Shorts (including slice of life episodes) and HFIL. They also uploaded a few shorts featuring some Dragonball Super material. They very recently came out what they call the Buu Bits, which are mini segments of scenes from the Buu Saga.
They also have an original series called UnAbridged which is like their take on The Office - and my favorite of their projects.
Specifically he said "Scrubs final season", which basically retooled the entire set and format of the show. It was a spinoff while claiming to be the same show.
@@BJGvideos that's right. Damn, I just watched it earlier in the day, too.
But yeah. with that in mind, I don't blame them for wanting to go out on a high note.
I love Vegetas reaction to all the new androids, I find myself quoting that bit a lot
06:03 Well if Chi-chi wanted a normal life, she shouldn't have been adamant about marrying GOKU.
Well, he did agree to it. Even if he didn't know what it meant at first.
If anything, shows that Chi-Chi thought she could fix him, in which case - lolnope 😆
@@self-proclaimedanimator He blindly agreed to marry her back when they were still kids. Unfortunately, Goku thought marriage was food. Years later, at the 23rd Tournament Chi-Chi confronted him about it. Goku did not recognize Chi-Chi at the time, but she promised to explain everything if he beats her. After the fight the confusion got cleared up, and Goku agreed to marry her regardless. Then, he proceeded to beat Piccolo afterwards.
9:36 this is probably one of my favorite Vegeta's grand entrances in the DBZ movies.
I’m a fan of him saying “That is MY kill” when repeating “mine” on the way to kick 19
Mandatory dj seccodillionaire "narrator 2" is the cover name for chris Sabat the va for the real dub of dbz for piccolo and vegeta among many others like all might and Armstrong
The best part about Goten getting erased is that Dragon Ball runs off of multiverse theory where you can't change the future but only create a new branching timeline.
Actually removing Goten from a timeline where he existed means 13 hit Goku below the belt hard enough to break quantum physics.
@self-proclaimedanimator
We were directly shown Goten existing in the future of this movie's timeline and then getting erased, which was the whole joke.
I was just commenting on one aspect of the joke.
I like how Vegeta and Piccolo decided to go under the ice to make a grand entrance after preparing a whole monologue
The main reason they didn't keep the show going was mainly due to burn out. They wanted to try other things and DBZA was getting a little stifling to work on due to the HEAPS of copyright strikes they had to fight to keep their videos up on nearly every upload. Plus they had other stuff they wanted to work on, spin offs like Dragon Shortz, HFIL and FF7 Machinabridged. Plus they had a gaming channel too thats still going on right now, TFSGaming. They did release some shorts parodying Super and very recently we got Buu Bits that are just little jokes they made for another creator and Dragon Ball fan Totally Not Mark when he was reviewing all of Dragon Ball. Also another abridged they did while working on this was Hellsing Ultimate Abridged led by Takahata101 (the voice of Nappa, Cell, and Guru) as it's main writer.
**WHEEAAARRESSS MAAYYY TRUUCKERRR HATT??!**
They all once had a big party at Bulma's place at the end of the Buu arc, I think
0:44
Android 17: and how many of us are (complete)? _"howdy folks, im android 13, look at mah trucker hat"_
Gero: I was going through a phase!
7:48
Android 13: howdy, there! I'm android 13, look at mah trucker hat"
Goku being so literal and so shocked after being punched in the dick had me ROLLING
Sadly, even though it got 20 million views, they couldn't really monetize it for various reasons, so I'm surprised they were able to keep producing so much quality content for so long
If you look at the date the first episode of DBZA was posted and the last one this project took something like ELEVEN YEARS to complete. After that long you can imagine why most of the crew just wasn't into it any more. They ended in such a perfect high note that it is not hard to see why they felt it was time to walk away.
Yeaa you speaking facts...least they dropped the Buu bits and can still do HIFL
The original channel got taken down due to copyright strikes, so the first episodes are actually reuploads.
DBZA also had to deal with a million copyright issues because Toei (or the company they hired to take care of TH-cam claims) is super pissy so they'd claim pretty much every single episode and the copyright claim situation has only gotten worse since DBZA ended.
Billy, if you would be so kind to upvote this so they see.
Here's a little bit of trivia for when you guys get to the DBZA Broly Movie. TeamFourStar did not make any changes to Broly's backstory for the abridged movie. What they show in the abridged movie is his actual backstory.
Oh right. I keep forgetting that he *eats* the Spirit Bomb in this one.
What happened to Hman
Btw DJsexcidillionaire is Chris sabat or the voice of vegeta from actual dragon ball
Fun fact, the Trucker Hat is custom made. But you would never know it wasnt real unless someone told you
2:34
Well, Android 8 was basically Frankenstein.
He played a role in Kid Goku's part of the Dragonball story.
A lot of people forget that Piccolo kidnapped Gohan for an entire year. Chi-Chi deserves a normal day for dealing with the bullshit
lol
“For thousands of years I lay dormant”
Lol
If you guys are talking about Dragon Ball slice of life moments Super has a TON of them.
There’s also multiple barbecues.
The LEGEND DJ Sexcidillionaire is none other than the official English voice of Vegeta and Piccolo, Chris Sabat.
He performed under a pseudonym to avoid any backlash from Toei.
14:45 - Actually, Android 13 has a great line in the Funimation dub, when Trunks tells him they're just machines with no free will of their own, 13 goes: "Freewill!? Pitiful human! War, segregation, hatred! Is that what you've done with your 'free will', boy? Don't lecture me with your thirty-dollar haircut!"
That line just stuck.
Great reaction guys, i love the half hour of void! really
2:33 well its not mentioned in dbza but in dbz they mention that androids 1-7 were failures so they were destroyed. I think android 8 in of dragonball is the first numbered one we see fully working and he was cool. Android 9 is shown in dragonball online he's like an android version of commander red i belive. But even 9-12 were eventually scrapped.
I guess we need to find the dragonballs to revive H-man.
He's not even in the thumbnail anymore
Fun fact: they got Chris Sabat, the real voice actor for Vegeta, Piccolo, and a more, to voice that country guy saying all those southern sayings.
I love how goku gets hit by a ki blast and says ow when he is forming a spirit bomb 17:25
One of the main reasons they stopped was because of the constant uphill copyright battle with Toei. That aided in their burn out by constantly demonetizing, re-uploading episodes, dealing with legal issues and being repeatedly struck by Toei for copyright. Japan's copyright laws are incredibly archaic and don't really take fair use/transformation into account. A creator called Definitely Not Mark who makes a lot of DBZ content lost a huge chunk of his channel because they mass claimed him, even though all his videos were reviews, theories and altogether positive feedback on the anime/manga. They don't see any of it as free advertising or publicity, just "Muh content."
(At 9:35) Best "making an entrance" in DB history.
I mean for about 4 years when Goku raised Gohan in the original series that was pretty peaceful. And then there was a time skip of after the Cell Saga that was kind of peaceful. And before Super happened the years between the end of Z and GT were peaceful... Now with Super that isn't the case so.... Also certain filler episodes sort of shows some peaceful moments or slice of life but eh not sure you'd count it.
Point is there were some moments of Peace off screen... But the series does show that often the characters are busy on an adventures or doing something mundane before disaster strikes. Though to be fair with the constant threat of the universe in danger the Dragon Ball world isn't the best place to be, I mean I guess if you were an unaware citizen... But like sometimes you get caught in the crossfire or where's the fun in being that in this world.
I could rewatch all of the abridged movies over and over and over. Android 13 is easily tied with broly for my favorite.
Edit: Also fun fact, the freeze frame of goku's nuts being two cracked eggs? That's not an edit. That's in the actual movie.
DJ Sexdillionare is Chris Sabat, I think? Back when he would guest on things but not want to be credited because he's... Chris Sabat.
At about 6:40 they say they want more slice of life moments like a BBQ and I agree. I think most hard core anime nerds would think that’s “filler” and talk about nothing but how much filler it has.
Burnout is the reason. They were halfway through the next movie, and arguing about the Buu saga, and the whole process felt exhausting. They weren't enjoying it anymore. They did eventually come back to do some cg shorts completely divorced from the original series. And they're currently doing a HIFL series of the villains in hell.
It wasn't as much about writing, more so about the constant copyright bullshit they had to deal with.
DJ Sexidillionaire is a pseudonym for Chris Sabat, the voice actor for Vegeta and Piccolo in the english dub of the actual show.
its a combo between copyright striking and burn out. they say its not completely off the table that they'll do more, just not now. the ending of the series with goku in heaven talking to all his friends was supposed to be their way of sort of saying goodbye, where he says "maybe ill come back some day, but it is bye, for now at least".
the official answer they gave was that it was disheartening and burning them out because they had to fight toei for every Episode to stay up. Not to mention that at least once every couple months or so someone had to reupload or fight copyright on older videos.
Additionally to that a lot of TFS Members did work full time as voice actors and were actively ruining their career with this because Funimation (I think!) refused to work with some of them during their involvement in this show.
I'm pretty sure most of their days are normal days. I mean over the decades, they only have what....six...ten arcs?
16:54 : Basically Goku from old DBZ movies: Well, if you can't beat them....bomb them.
Lmao!
@15:44 my brother and i had this movie on VHS in the mid 90s
Goku getting punched in the dragonballs was WILD lolol
Possible minor spoiler:
Iirc Piccolo did NOT get his license 😅
He even made a brief comment about it in the English dub of the DB super: super hero movie saying he never got it.
Wild how Goku got his
Thats BS. The only reason they gave Goku his was because he saved then...with Piccolo there also saving them
@@AzguardMike.....what?
Android 17 and 18 have always been Siblings, what the fuck are you on about? Super does a lot of stupid shit, but the Androids have always been implied to be Siblings and even confirmed to be by Toriyama him-fucking-self
@@AzguardMikethey were siblings in the original Z too 😅
@@AzguardMike17 and 18 have always been siblings, so wtf do you mean by that?
It was a mix of things. They’d been going for I think 15 years straight, and they’d been in a battle with Funnimation for a while with copywrite strikes & had to move to their own website for a time before moving back to TH-cam around the mid 50’s. They tried working on the Bojack movie but just couldn’t finish it, so they knew they had to wrap it up with 60.
I think the only time these characters had a normal day, aside from the filler episode where Goku and Piccolo learn how to drive, was the other filler episode where it was Gohan's birthday and the episode was padded out with flashbacks of him growing up, leading up to the party at the end where Gohan accidentally ruins his birthday cake because he can't control his Super Saiyan strength
In the real dub, the scene with Vegeta and Piccolo at the end was super short and ridiculous but still funny.
*PICCOLO* - "Is it over?"
*VEGETA* - "Not until the fish jumps!"
( _fish jumps out_ )
*VEGETA* - "It's over."
The segments where they pause with greyscale and a narrator with a guitar and southern accent play are a reference to the game "Bastion". The music that plays when Goku kills Super Android 13 also come from that game.
magic time wizards was some kind of improv game they did and then later animated, i think its worth watching, its fun
This is a very special one for me: I was in the audience for the live premiere at Youmacon ^.^
The one movie where everyone involved cared so little, that at some point during production androids 14 and 15 had their names switched and nobody bothered to fix it.
For context, the DBZ movies 1-13 are non-canon. I believe Toriyama called them “what if” stories or something. And you can tell they are non-canon by their conflicting time placements.
For example, Goku doesn’t awaken from the heart virus until Cell emerges, which prompts him, Gohan, Vegeta, and Trunks to IMMEDIATELY go train at the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Why would they go shopping, when Cell and the Androids (16,17,18) are on the loose. Also before Goku awakens, Trunks and Krillin already destroyed Gero’s basement laboratory, which had his Supercomputer
"I wonder what the other androids looked like" We only see one of them, Android 8, aka, eighter. He looked like Frankenstien's monster and Goku befriended him as a kid when he was fighting The Red Ribbon Army.
6:00 the most "slice of life" moment in the whole series is coming soon, after Goku and Gohan get out of the hypebonic rhyme chamber. Goku and Chi-chi go for ten!
forgot 19 and 20 lol love the content. i just started dbz abridged a few weeks ago watching it with you guys. i havent seen dragon ball but ive seen all the rest z, gt, and super. dbz abridged is by far the best anime parody out there.
They addressed with schedules and timing it was hard to keep going considering jokes for buu were harder to write and agree on
I think it started when they were trying the Bojack movie
@@junglekxngtalksanime yeah I do wish they’d done that one though
Eighter looked like Frankenstein's Monster and when he was killed, you saw a glimpse of Goku's true power.
From what I remember, it was an equal part them being burned out and Toei copyrighting the shit out of them, causing genuine risk of them losing their channel.
Probably late by now, but ya'll better click that subscribe button at the end! I see you over there, not in incognito and not subscribed :P
haha I'm just busting your Gotens ;)
They said they always saw the Cell Saga as the perfect ending to the series. That feeling was the final push on the burnout & their careers taking off, so they retired from the project to explore other creative endeavors mostly..
I actually think the original fillers in Z did the downtime and character development, at least in earlier arcs. It wasn’t like filler now where it’s completely separate from the plot itself
fun fact: in the manga, there's a panel that explains Dr. Gero Androids, and it says the androids 13, 14 and 15 were the one close to being considered good projects, while from 1-12 were considered just prototypes that failed
It’s actually amazing how you noticed DJ Sexcidillionaire because that’s actually Chris Sabat’s(the voice of Vegeta, Piccolo, All Might, Zoro and many other)
23:45 TFS They made a video [DBZA is Over, Here's Why] literally explaining why they won't do it and there have not been any hints or tease of 'If it's gonna happen' other than the bits they did for Totally Not Mark's review on the next saga after cell, quite a serious one too so it's best to watch on your own time when the series ends
I like that the teen gohan from the future shot was voiced by the VA for Deku from MHA before he got the role
2 reasons why Team Four Star didn't continue. As they got more popular, it became more of a problem for Toei animation letting them use their IP (They weren't just a little fan channel anymore), and Team Four Star found themselves in a lot of legal battles to keep going. The second thing, according to the creators, they got burnt out while trying to do the Bojack movie (the movie just after the Cell Saga). Apparently, they had a really hard time making that movie funny, so they felt like they were failing. In the end, they just decided to give up on it, despite having a lot of ideas for the Buu Saga (Which they did do some of with Buu Bits). Fighting a legal battle, while having a difficult time on the movie killed their passion for the project.
Fun Fact: The VA for that Buu Saga Gohan is actually the English VA for Izuku Midoriya
Lord Slug, Super Android 13, and Broly are my favourite DBZA movies. So damn funny. TFS did a amazing job with them.
Everyone already said everything important but i love how tfs portray Dr.Gero. He is absolutely filled with hatred for goku the part he starts screaming KILL SON GOKU KILL SON GOKU is so good.
The reasons why they stop making dragon ball z abridged is because
1. When they were writing the Bojack movie they released that they were burnt out and decided to stop while they were ahead, instead of trying to milk it for all it was worth.
2. They made 69 (nice) episodes of DBZA.
3.-69. TH-cam copyright bs.
19:45 Grape face Goku.
7:11 I JUST REALIZED NOW THAT THEY PLAY THE BORDERLANDS 2 “THE DUST” COMBAT MUSIC
2:40 well, Android #8 looks like a tan Frankenstein. Other than that, no idea
They've said they were worried about the quality dropping, and wanted to end it at its peak.
I _just_ noticed that the dog treat actually goes flying when #15 explodes.
You need to show the og android 13 with his famous quote “don’t you lecture me with your $30 haircut”
The amount of Borderlands music they manage to get in this series makes me question Gearbox's copyright policies.