Sagas VS Arcs?

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Sagas VS Arcs?
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+ Yusuke	Mar 11 2014, 04:18 AM Post #1
Posts: 7,023 Group: Elite Member Member #9,876 Joined: August 11, 2013 Gender Male Country Canada	How would you define the two? For me, a Arc is a major storyline over a period of time whereas a saga is a subdivision of an arc, usually focusing on a particular event in the arc. I would group DBZ's chain of events like this Saiyan Arc Raditz Saga: Raditz's arrival to the Saiyan's arrival Nappa Saga: Vegta/Nappa's arrival to Vegeta killing Nappa Vegeta Saga: Goku VS Vegeta Fight to the end of the arc Frieza Arc Namek Saga: Gohan/Krillin/Bulma's arrival on Namek to the Ginyu Force's arrival Ginyu Saga: All of the Ginyu Force fights to Frieza confronting Vegeta/Gohan/Krillin Frieza Saga: All of the Frieza fights to the end of the arc Cell Arc Trunks Saga: Mecha Frieza's arrival to the part were all the Z-Fighters begin their training. Android Saga: From 19/20's introduction to the end of the Vegeta VS 18 fight. Imperfect Cell Saga: Piccolo merging with Kami to Cell absorbing 17 Perfect Cell Saga: Tien using the Kihiko on Cell to Cell defeating both Vegeta/Trunks and announcing the Cell Games Cell Games Saga: Goku and Gohan coming out of the RoSaT to the end of the arc. Buu Arc Great Saiyaman Saga: From Gohan starting High School to thd Z-Fighters preparing for the 25th Budokai Tenkachi World Tournament Saga: From the start of the Kids division to the Z-Fighters pursuing Spopovitch/Yamu Babidi Saga: Dabura turning Piccolo/Krillin to stone to Majin Vegeta's introduction Majin Buu Saga: From the Goku/Majin Vegeta fight to Super Buu's formation Fusion Saga: From Super Buu arriving on the lookout to Kid Buu's introduction Kid Buu Saga: From Kid Buu blowing up Earth to Goku and Uub setting out to train together Edited by Yusuke, Mar 11 2014, 04:20 AM.
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* Crashbreaka	Mar 11 2014, 05:37 AM Post #2
Captain Oblivious Posts: 6,888 Group: Retired Staff Member #7,771 Joined: June 14, 2012 Gender Male Country New Zealand Favourite Anime Onepunch-Man, Gurren Lagann What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Seven Deadly Sins, Food Wars, Onepunch-Man	I think of a saga as a longer detailed description of a story, whereas an arc generally has a central theme or motif to focus on. That being said, I think they're both fluid enough words to use interchangeably. However if I had to chose I'd have saga's enveloping multiple arcs, pretty much the opposite of what you have



+ Pyrus	Mar 11 2014, 05:44 AM Post #3
Posts: 39,342 Group: Legend Member #5,088 Joined: August 1, 2010 Gender Not Specified Country Chile	Yusuke Urameshi Mar 11 2014, 04:18 AM Spoiler: click to toggle How would you define the two? For me, a Arc is a major storyline over a period of time whereas a saga is a subdivision of an arc, usually focusing on a particular event in the arc. I would group DBZ's chain of events like this Saiyan Arc Raditz Saga: Raditz's arrival to the Saiyan's arrival Nappa Saga: Vegta/Nappa's arrival to Vegeta killing Nappa Vegeta Saga: Goku VS Vegeta Fight to the end of the arc Frieza Arc Namek Saga: Gohan/Krillin/Bulma's arrival on Namek to the Ginyu Force's arrival Ginyu Saga: All of the Ginyu Force fights to Frieza confronting Vegeta/Gohan/Krillin Frieza Saga: All of the Frieza fights to the end of the arc Cell Arc Trunks Saga: Mecha Frieza's arrival to the part were all the Z-Fighters begin their training. Android Saga: From 19/20's introduction to the end of the Vegeta VS 18 fight. Imperfect Cell Saga: Piccolo merging with Kami to Cell absorbing 17 Perfect Cell Saga: Tien using the Kihiko on Cell to Cell defeating both Vegeta/Trunks and announcing the Cell Games Cell Games Saga: Goku and Gohan coming out of the RoSaT to the end of the arc. Buu Arc Great Saiyaman Saga: From Gohan starting High School to thd Z-Fighters preparing for the 25th Budokai Tenkachi World Tournament Saga: From the start of the Kids division to the Z-Fighters pursuing Spopovitch/Yamu Babidi Saga: Dabura turning Piccolo/Krillin to stone to Majin Vegeta's introduction Majin Buu Saga: From the Goku/Majin Vegeta fight to Super Buu's formation Fusion Saga: From Super Buu arriving on the lookout to Kid Buu's introduction Kid Buu Saga: From Kid Buu blowing up Earth to Goku and Uub setting out to train together You pretty much do it the FUNimation way, I see. I take a much broader approach and use the three main villains as the arc centers. Freeza arc - Raditz through Freeza's defeat on Namek. "Saiyan/Namek/Freeza" could be the sagas in there. Cell arc - Trunks' arrival to Cell's death. "Android/Semi-Perfect/Cell Games" could be sagas. Boo arc - 7 year time skip to the end of the manga. "Great Saiyaman/25th TB/Majin Boo/Fusion/Pure Boo/28th TB" could all be sagas in this mess. Edited by Pyrus, Mar 11 2014, 05:44 AM.
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+ Yusuke	Mar 11 2014, 05:54 AM Post #4
Posts: 7,023 Group: Elite Member Member #9,876 Joined: August 11, 2013 Gender Male Country Canada	Kamikaze Pyro Mar 11 2014, 05:44 AM Yusuke Urameshi Mar 11 2014, 04:18 AM Spoiler: click to toggle How would you define the two? For me, a Arc is a major storyline over a period of time whereas a saga is a subdivision of an arc, usually focusing on a particular event in the arc. I would group DBZ's chain of events like this Saiyan Arc Raditz Saga: Raditz's arrival to the Saiyan's arrival Nappa Saga: Vegta/Nappa's arrival to Vegeta killing Nappa Vegeta Saga: Goku VS Vegeta Fight to the end of the arc Frieza Arc Namek Saga: Gohan/Krillin/Bulma's arrival on Namek to the Ginyu Force's arrival Ginyu Saga: All of the Ginyu Force fights to Frieza confronting Vegeta/Gohan/Krillin Frieza Saga: All of the Frieza fights to the end of the arc Cell Arc Trunks Saga: Mecha Frieza's arrival to the part were all the Z-Fighters begin their training. Android Saga: From 19/20's introduction to the end of the Vegeta VS 18 fight. Imperfect Cell Saga: Piccolo merging with Kami to Cell absorbing 17 Perfect Cell Saga: Tien using the Kihiko on Cell to Cell defeating both Vegeta/Trunks and announcing the Cell Games Cell Games Saga: Goku and Gohan coming out of the RoSaT to the end of the arc. Buu Arc Great Saiyaman Saga: From Gohan starting High School to thd Z-Fighters preparing for the 25th Budokai Tenkachi World Tournament Saga: From the start of the Kids division to the Z-Fighters pursuing Spopovitch/Yamu Babidi Saga: Dabura turning Piccolo/Krillin to stone to Majin Vegeta's introduction Majin Buu Saga: From the Goku/Majin Vegeta fight to Super Buu's formation Fusion Saga: From Super Buu arriving on the lookout to Kid Buu's introduction Kid Buu Saga: From Kid Buu blowing up Earth to Goku and Uub setting out to train together You pretty much do it the FUNimation way, I see. I take a much broader approach and use the three main villains as the arc centers. Freeza arc - Raditz through Freeza's defeat on Namek. "Saiyan/Namek/Freeza" could be the sagas in there. Cell arc - Trunks' arrival to Cell's death. "Android/Semi-Perfect/Cell Games" could be sagas. Boo arc - 7 year time skip to the end of the manga. "Great Saiyaman/25th TB/Majin Boo/Fusion/Pure Boo/28th TB" could all be sagas in this mess. The thing is, I group Arcs as what the major focus overall was in the series of events while a Saga focus's on what the problem was at that time. (i.e. The Cell Arc was about defeating Cell as a whole but the Android Saga primarly focused on the Z-Fighters stopping the Andriods). FUNimation had the right idea with their grouping though they should have included the 4 arcs as well. Edited by Yusuke, Mar 11 2014, 05:57 AM.
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Vertical	Mar 11 2014, 06:12 AM Post #5
Posts: 2,542 Group: Member Member #8,475 Joined: October 27, 2012	Freeza Arc Jinzoningen Arc Buu Arc I hate the use of the word "saga" when talking about Dragon Ball.
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+ Emmeth	Mar 11 2014, 06:29 AM Post #6
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+ Yusuke	Mar 11 2014, 06:59 AM Post #7
Posts: 7,023 Group: Elite Member Member #9,876 Joined: August 11, 2013 Gender Male Country Canada	Emmeth Mar 11 2014, 06:29 AM I believe this thread could be of some help. I know but like I said before, I like to use arcs as a way of classifying a major series of events and a saga to classify a particular event in the series of events.
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Hearts	Mar 11 2014, 01:19 PM Post #8
Posts: 1,173 Group: Member Member #10,454 Joined: November 6, 2013	I would do the opposite of you, Namek Saga, Android Saga instead of Namek arc.. But then i realized how stupid it is to say Raditz saga, Nappa Saga, Dr Gero Saga... Im torn between the options Im just going to call everything a saga



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