Kanzenshuu

I mean we're saying all this but the manga still skipped Resurrection 'F' and rushed through the Broly film but okay. I guess now's the time to suddenly care about having a complete and coherent manga for some reason. Like I said... The manga is admittedly stuck with this problem somewhat anyway be...

^ I agree. The objective is not to "speed through it because we've already seen it all so who cares?". The objective is that it's supposed to feel like a natural manga arc for someone who has never seen the movie at all and doesn't plan on seeing it - which also gives us a 2D version of t...

I never much liked how F and Broly were just skipped entirely and then just briefly recapped through narration whenever anything from them became relevant ... This isn't meant to be a call out to just you but I see a lot of people saying this; again even though it barely had any posts I think three...

Speaking as someone who had previously only read up til volume 9 and only now decided to check out the last few chapters because I heard Toyotaro was actually covering the movie in detail, I will say... Yeah, perhaps these chapters don't leave us with an abundance of things to talk about, but it doe...

Well the simple answer would just be that Dragon Ball is a very crowd-pleasing kinda series and that Toriyama knew how to hook people, and that this shone through in the adaptations... But I think there's still a bit of luck involved. Getting it shown on the right channels, at a time when kids are a...

So all in all, we are stuck with the very same setting, with the very same background and with very same characters. And for how long? Well, according to Kanzenshuu, for sixty damned and long weeks ! No wonder everything about it is boring! It's sixty weeks of non-progression, endless battles that ...

I found the Tournament of Power absolutely a chore to sit through, made worse when we were essentially just waiting for Goku to turn Ultra Instinct because that was the only compelling thing about that arc. I think people choose to "forget" the often poorly animated episodes in between th...

I didn't assume he took Goku's body out of spite for Goku. It seemed he took it, because it was the strongest body he knew of. Indeed. Just look at the manga, where Zamasu never met Goku before deciding to steal his body. He just heard about him, looked into the matter, and concluded "Yes, thi...

I seem to recall hearing that part of why she was recast was that she was genuinely not able to keep up with how verbose Freeza was in the Kai dub. Like, FUNi by their own admission had no idea what kind of character Freeza was supposed to be back in the Ocean days, which was partially down to the a...

I was under the impression that Toei did touch up the colors on the Dragon Boxes, which is why they look significantly different than the original broadcast. Thing is, the miscoloration on the DBox isn't consistent at all. Some episodes are overly green, others blue, others still yellow... Some are...

Yeah I guess I shouldn't have made that statement quite so general. It's not so much that shows will keep going indefinitely as long as they are successful, as just... the more successful they are, the more likely it is that there are some studio execs somewhere that will at least push for them to c...

Put yourself in the mind of a Toei employee in 1997. After the studio had spent 11 years working on an anime series that produced hundreds of episodes, a dozen and a half films, partial work on additional media, and some noncanon promotions, you kinda might be in total despair upon believing that y...

I think Toriyama and Torishima's rants about Dragon Ball having nothing to learn have some additional context that's often overlooked. IIRC, around the time they talked about this, WSJ editorial had started focusing on publishing PSA comics with "socially relevant" moral and educational m...

They argue at length about the wisdom of letting Vegeta go. Goku says that it would be a waste to kill him at this point, and it wouldn't solve anything. He says that Vegeta deserves mercy, that he's learned his lesson, and also that this is the strongest opponent that he has ever seen, and that he...

I don't think TFS ever muddled the argument anywhere near as badly as the actual dub of Z. Because Abridged has a disclaimer in every episode that "This is a parody. Dragon Ball belongs to Toriyama. Support the official release." Like, if anyone actually thinks Popo is an evil overlord of ...

Don't know if convoluted was the right word. But yeah, using two sets of Dragon balls to bring everyone back and then send them to Earth all while Goku and Freeza were fighting felt out of place amongst the action. The Grand Elder also coming back to life even though he seemed to have died of natur...

Surprised nobody mentioned the Boo arc as the best. Everything comes together nicely. The stakes are appropriately the highest they've ever been with Boo killing off everyone, destroying the planet and the fight being moved to the godly realms with spectactors from Otherworld and beyond watching th...

Honestly the button press is whatever. It was properly set up ahead of time. It is a Deus Ex Machina in an extremely literal sense (A machine that brings down God to resolve the situation) but narratively it isn't that. ...I mean I still cannot stand the end to the Zamasu arc but it's not because of...

The post-credits scene very much reads like a gag to me. In fact I find it hard to even fathom seeing it as anything else. It's like "Hoooray, Vegeta defeated Kakarot!!! ...in a training match... that went on for hours... just barely... in a completely irrelevant side plot... when a legit crisi...

The same amount of hype? Maybe not. But I have little doubt they would still generate hype. Much like how I still see people excited about the end to the Attack on Titan anime, even though the manga ended a good while ago and people hated how it ended. (Well, obviously not everyone, but I see way mo...