Dragon Ball/Z/Super TV Show • Page 8

I always had a soft spot for the Bojack movie because its one of the last times that they treated Gohan like he was initially planned to be: the successor to Goku.

 

I watched some of the Buu arc today. It's so weird that they changed the direction of the show midway through the saga. Gohan is such a central piece at first and he gets one last time to shine before Goku has to save the day anyway.

 

Holy shit. This arc is going to be so good. Just seeing all of these new characters my brain explode from speculation.

 

Just watched the new episode. It was awesome to see Buu in a real fight since dragon ball z.

 

Getting back to this, jumping back in at the start of the Future Trunks arc. I remember thinking the animation was getting better but it's still so bad at this point. Really off putting.

 

Has anyone been reading the manga? The Goku Black arc in the manga is more organized and well-paced compared to the show.

 

This is so bizarre but I like it. Hopefully Goku as a god will be great

 

I had my doubts about another tourney arc but I think doing a huge battle royale will be awesome. I'm pretty excited for this "everyone hates Goku" saga.

 

For years, I mean, like atleast 10 years, the video games had amazing animated clips/sequences. I just don't understand why the tv series in 2017 can't equal it. The movies are good though.

 

I remember those game intros and wishing we could get a show that looked like that and being so disappointed by Super.

 

The manga story for the Goku Black arc is way better than the anime. I wish they could redo that arc and make it identical to the manga.

 

That's what everyone said, so I decided to check it out for myself. Definitely agree. It's got much better pacing and it doesn't seem like they had to just make stuff up as they go.

I've had many debates about this, but I'm convinced they started writing this arc, realized how many plot holes they were going to create, and they just started making up a bunch of nonsense to simply get the story to the end. When they went back to do the manga and had more time, they knew the places they wanted to improve on.

 

I read an article recently that claims Toriyama gave an outline of the arc to the director of the show and the writers filled in the blanks, opposed to the manga which is 100% Toriyama.

I wonder which is considered "canon", the show or the manga.

 

I don't know that there really is a "canon" at this point. haha. It was debatable before, but now with Super and it's retconning of the movies, the manga, etc. I don't think you can really nail down what is the true source material.

But yeah, the Toriyama outline thing makes sense for sure. Some things like the Evil Containment Wave were just laughably bad in the execution. We got an entire episode of Goku learning it for days only to get distracted and have Trunks perform it after watching a 10 second clip. Just terrible...whereas the manga has Goku actually attempting it like he was supposed to, but the piece of paper that they completely forgot in the anime was changed to Goku grabbing the wrong paper by mistake. Still not the best plot, but it's miles ahead of what they gave us in the anime.

 

Part One - Blu-ray | home-video

The first physical release for the US was announced yesterday. I'm not thrilled at spending $34 for 13 episodes, but I think I need it for the collection.

 

Fml. Why can't they just wait until the Golden Frieza arc and then release a Season 1 box set for $34.

 

Just realized it won't even have the finale of the Beerus saga since it's 14 episodes. Wtf are you doing funimation?

 

Exactly. Pretty bummed out about this release.

The Japanese box 1 has episodes 1-12, which is also strange.

 

I hate that I'll probably buy all of these small sets. Skilled with voting with my wallet, I am not. It better at least be the "final" versions: if they release an "uncut" version after these like the million Z releases, I will be so mad.

 

From what I understand, physical home video is a very niche thing in Japan given their mobile-heavy media intake and is considered more of a luxury item

 

Really pumped to see the return of Tenshinhan and Chaozu in the next episode of Super.

 

The dub or the sub? I love them

 

Sub. The dubbed version of that episode probably won't air until 2019 haha

 

Yeah it's brutal at one episode a week. Have those two really not appeared yet that far in?!

 

It's totally worth following the sub, imo. I will let a month or two of episodes accumulate, then binge those on another free trial of Crunchyroll haha.