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Lord Geo
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Is this something that we might see done for other long-running series here on ANN? Dragon Ball is an understandable starting point, due to its popularity, but overall isn't all that super complicated from a timeline perspective, even once the modern movies, Super, & Daima came into existence.
Still, this would be neat to see with other works, too. |
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mdo7
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Wow, this timeline was really needed for both Dragonball, and anime fans. Thank you ANN for doing this.
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Ataru
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I like the new feature on the site, but you might want to flip The Otherworld and Android/Cell Arc around.
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ANN_Lynzee
ANN Executive Editor
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So far, we've also done Sword Art Online: http://4NN.cx/.217224 |
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Covnam
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Neat!
UC Gundam is the first thing that popped in to my head. Hard to think of too many others off the top of my head. Maybe Yamato or Index? Hmm... maybe One Piece or Naruto? |
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MarshalBanana
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That was far more informative than I could have hoped for. I know there was a timeline, but I didn't know that every single; show, film, OVA and TV special fitted into it with very specific dates.
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BalmungHHQ
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Other World Tournament definitely needs to be pushed back. Due to the way this timeline is structured, its vague "May or June 767" designation causes it to display before the Android & Cell arcs, due to those having specific dates throughout May.
The Other World Tournament is very explicitly after those events (so if it is within May, its within its last few days), so somehow the table should be modified so it isn't displayed out of order. 
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BrazillianCara
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This is a fine timeline - but aside from fixing the Cell/Other World Tournament order, it may be a good idea to put History of Trunks before the Cell Saga.
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Richard Eisenbeis
ANN Reviewer
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Thanks for pointing this out. A lot of these timelines is hard coded. So as in I enter dates, it automatically puts those dates at the right place on the timeline. Apparently, it places general months (like "May") before specific dates within those months (like "May 27"). This caused the ordering error. It has been fixed and now I know what to look for when making future timelines. Thanks again!
While I could have jury-rigged it so that The History of Trunks appeared before the Cell Saga (or even before the Trunks Saga), I decided it was more interesting to show when it actually happened on the timeline--so you could easily see where it falls compared to what's happening in the main series timeline.
That's the plan. I have a massive list of possible series along with a few I've already started work on. |
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TheLineOfSight
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I am not a huge fan of anything after the Android Saga but this timeline confirms that Android 16 was most likely "completed" before the beginnings of Dragon Ball Z. The Red Ribbon Army had a fighter far more impressive than the Saiya-Jins or even Frieza even before we knew there was a Frieza Force. Its also entirely possible that Android 16 existed before the 22nd Martial Arts Tournament before Son Goku has his key battles with the Piccolos. Dr Gero was super brilliant, and its fun to imagine what could have been if Android 16 had been activated properly back in the early 750s.
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rikku45
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I wish we had canon content set after the 28th tournament, it’s a bit annoying how everything is before it. I want the story to go past this point cause it will feel fresh and new
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saiyajedi
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DB Wiki as your source? really?
I certainly hope this doesn’t mark a shift towards general clickbaity content-mill articles. Dende knows there are too many of those already. |
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Ataru
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Timeline wise, the History of Trunks happened closer to the time of Buu in the normal timeline since Gohan is an adult(-ish) and Trunks is in his mid/early teens. I guess that tells you how much time Android 17 and 18 went around destroying buildings, driving cars, riding rollercoasters, and taking their sweet time killing humans. |
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Richard Eisenbeis
ANN Reviewer
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No, that's not what I wrote. What I actually wrote was:
To be frank, I've known about Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Encyclopedia since the early 2000s. However, I needed to be pointed in the right direction to find post DBGT timeline sources. The DB Wiki timeline listed the primary sources they used. I then went to those sources myself and checked them out and used those dates. Of course, using a wiki--any wiki--as your main source is just asking for trouble. Anyone can edit it after all. But that doesn't mean they're useless--especially if you use them as a means to find primary sources. I'm thankful they gave me a way to find the info I was looking for. It's clear you don't like them for whatever reason but the sources they listed that I used checked out. I don't know what else to tell you.
How is this, in any way, a clickbaity article? What about the headline is a misleading half truth? Or are you just saying that any headline that makes you want to read the article is "clickbait"? I know I'm getting a bit on in years but in the olden times of yore we called that "a good headline." Next, how is this a content-mill article? I spent days looking up information, hitting up the library (for a copy of Daizenshuu 7), and watching movies/episodes to double check the info I found elsewhere. I then wrote an article describing my process for making the timeline, wrote up 38 blurbs of information with pictures, and then had to format all the date to make it show up like it does in the final product. If this is a content-mill article, I failed spectacularly at it because it took days, rather than minutes.
I understand where you're coming from (as that would seem to make sense given the main timeline and Buu and Daima and Super and all that) but... Daizenshuu 7 states that Gohan dies in 780 and Trunks departs for the past in 784 (on page 34 if you can find a copy). And if you need more proof, Bulma herself says in the TV special itself she's sending Trunks back 20 years--and Frieza and King Cold show up in 764. (It's mentioned in the scene when Trunks is in bed after losing to the Androids near the end of the special.) it all matches up. |
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Shay Guy
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I'm wondering how this would work with series that don't use calendars with our months. I'm looking at TimelineJS's docs, and they're a bit oddly presented, but I think the closest you could get to something like "early winter, year 102" would be to give your Slide a pair of Dates with the range, each of which shoehorns its endpoint into Gregorian months. Obviously, the years can be anything (though I'm not sure how well it works when there's not a single "Year 0" -- and the Gregorian calendar doesn't even have that!), but if you consider an example like Star Wars, where the fandom's been using BBY/ABY for decades but there isn't a further subdivision AFAIK, how do you say "these events take place in the same year, and in this particular order"? Not to mention especially esoteric examples like The Stormlight Archive (ten months to a year, ten weeks to a month, five days to a week, 20 hours to a day, 50 minutes to an hour -- and God help you if you want to synchronize this to events on other planets). I guess something like The Apothecary Diaries would be comparatively simple; you'd just have to set a Year 0. (I have a Google Doc where I used the year of Maomao's birth, putting the anime currently in spring of Year 17.) You'd still need a lot of guesswork, though, because Natsu Hyuuga doesn't really do dates. And the East Asian age reckoning means we don't even know the time of year most characters were born in -- though I suspect Jinshi was born late in the year, and Maomao early, because that minimizes the time between "Jinshi born, Luomen fired, Lakan sent abroad" while still letting them be born two calendar years apart. The other series I've spent too much time thinking about the timeline for is Oshi no Ko, which would be hard for a completely different reason, and I don't mean the manga ignoring changes in real-life tech and the entertainment industry over its 20-year timeline -- there's a lot of aggravating inconsistencies, puzzling bits like "just how long had B Komachi been around when Sarina died?", and some very important missing birthdays like Ai's, the twins, and arguably even Kana's. The live-action series is ambitious enough in its alterations to try and fit the whole thing to the real-world calendar (the flashback scenes with Sarina are even explicitly set in 2002), but I still noticed some on-screen timestamps that didn't quite seem to fit with the rest of the timeline. |
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