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It is indeed. I did actually feel like Dragon Ball met Yu-Gi-Oh! while reading it and it was a good experience. I do want Toyotaro back now that his art has improved a lot, Victory Mission would look more appealing and beautiful. I started reading it on a whim earlier today, and Toyotaro has succes...

Victory Mission is a lot more enjoyable than it has any right to be, and it deserves a collected release.

It's not completely necessary when the plot is broken down into bullet points, but as a representation of pure excess in a final arc where logic breaks down in tandem with the situation becoming more dire (in a good way), it's an inclusion I really like. The beat with Gotenks wanting to save it for ...

Polyphase Avatron wrote:You think Freeza wouldn't have made a selfish wish?

He would, but the point is that when push comes to shove, he trusts Goku enough to forgo his chance at the wish and try to take Jiren out with him.

One day we'll find out what Jiren's "selfish" wish was and I think we'll be surprised. I don't think we'll ever be told, but I don't think we need to be. Without directly expressing it, the series makes it clear it's something related to fixing or addressing the past. Whether that means a...

I'm unsure that Dragon Ball has great depth, as it makes no particular effort to wrap itself in subtext or respond in any particular way to either specific real-world events or emotional states, but what it does offer—along with the greater library of Toriyama works which it's a part of—is a worldvi...

It is Kaio-Ken. Sorry. They did this weird thing where they wrote Kaio-Ken out in kanji and wrote "serious" next to it in furigana. I completely missed that on first pass. As we know Hachihyack shows up in this story and the inclusion of the black smoke is an odd detail, it's also highly l...

I didn't initially interpret from the drawing that Vegetto was using Kaioken, and he never announces he's using it, but his aura is a bit different once we return to the fight and see Cumber as a Super Saiyan, so it's certainly possible that was the intent. Also, summary on the previous page was edi...

I didn't really doubt you. Anyway, got the issue. Summary below. As there aren't scans yet, it didn't seem reasonable to do a full translation. Alakazam^ will probably still handle that in a few days when scans arrive. And it seems like crt/taddlelegacy will still be doing full scanlations. --------...

Cipher's post also doesn't really work for anime Jiren to me since I never get the impression he has any kind of sense of justice. Much less that he associates power itself as a form of justice, nor do I feel he's kind anything approaching a desire to prevent tragedies that have happened to other p...

I'll check bookstores around my area tonight and see if they have it. Haven't looked for Saikyo Jump specifically before, so I don't know how quickly places around here get them in. Even in Japan, the only way to get it earlier would be connections to a retailer. Someone tweeted a blurry photograph ...

Is the chapter out-out yet, or are people just getting advance copies?

If it's past street date, I can go look for one this weekend.

Again. Most of that is still subjective. Buddy, fiction is subjective. The very title of your thread is a subjective statement. You want an objective statement on "Dragon Ball Minus"? "Dragon Ball Minus" is a comic written by Akira Toriyama and published in 2014. It is sixteen p...

I felt that it was because I had asked what was wrong with Minus for doing what it was doing with it’s intentions and people just keep repeating “it’s just so bad... because” without offering anything of substance to it. People can have their opinions of it for not liking the Minus manga’s directio...

I do think it harms the story thematically, but for its length and presentation (not to mention two-decade removal from the original run and connection to another work), I also find it difficult to get worked up over. The most I might say is that Toriyama didn't need to include it or might have foun...

The inability to accept a lack of control over the indifferent universal forces that press upon our lives as we inch ever closer to the grave.

Mosco is absolutely a reference to Lood, and I believe Maji Kayo is one to Baby as well.

But we can't forget about the most important one:

It's by far the most amusing and genuinely intriguing part of current Dragon Ball for me. I'm all for it.

Mostly just want to say I'm super curious to hear/see Mike lay out a timeline of Japanese GT promotional material with all of the vintage magazines he's accumulating. Hoping it'll show up in the form of either an article or a future podcast! Also, the lack of filter on oozaru Goku in these episodes ...

The question Jiren means to pose is what the application for that strength is. Motivation for motivation's sake, or for purely selfish curiosity, is inconceivable to Jiren. For him, it comes with the end goal of either preventing or reddressing the kinds of tragedies that befell his friends and fami...