Kanzenshuu

I think that, while it would be great to get some condensed versions or manga adaptations as OVAs or something, the content is both too long, and perhaps too ill-suited to movies, to work. I suspect if we ever get a retread or attempt at a single-medium Super , we’d just see a ground-up manga adapta...

Assuming an average of 40 pages per DBS chapter and 20 pages per DB chapter, as a rough estimate, if DBS were running weekly, we would be at around 180 chapters at this point. By this point in the original series, we were about 10 chapters away from "Z." I'm not sure if this info is parti...

Krillin vs Dr. Hedo's bug is honestly crazy. You mean to tell me that this same bug is way stronger than 90% of characters from the Namek Arc? I mean... that's the whole context of the scene. There's a reason that when Hachimaru re-activates itself and takes out Kuririn, it's interpolated with Hedo...

I normally don't use twitter as a barometer for anything, but was pleasantly surprised to see Toyotaro getting praise for the art of this chapter in comparison to the movie. I think he did a good job making it his own even though it is as close to being a shot-for-shot recreation as can be without ...

I normally don't use twitter as a barometer for anything, but was pleasantly surprised to see Toyotaro getting praise for the art of this chapter in comparison to the movie. I think he did a good job making it his own even though it is as close to being a shot-for-shot recreation as can be without ...

He also has the sole screenwriting credit for other movies like Resurrection F, but according to him, it's "just a memo" and "something I idly dashed off for the staff, just to help explain the flow of the story and the dialogue". How do we know that all of his scripts aren't ju...

Thanks for sharing. I hadn't heard of the recent character designs or seen that Toyotaro interview. I guess a lot of where my idea of Toriyama's involvement being an exaggeration comes from is at the beginning of each chapter in the Super manga, he gets the sole writing credit instead of at least s...

When they created Black Frieza, do you think they had Vegeta's warnings about Frieza getting stronger in the Broly movie in mind? Or do folks think it's just a coincidence & an asspull? I think it’s more than sufficiently set up—while also remaining a fun punchline and surprise—by that line, th...

Starting the series off on so many rape/sexual harrassment jokes. You have no idea how often I see this posing a very, very understandable hurdle for curious 2020s readers on Reddit, etc. Almost all of the first arc's humor could also be restructured to work without them--see US TV edits of Episode ...

We have drawings from him for Super Hero and the Granolah arc, and comments for the former as well. That's it, but it's about as much as we've gotten since Super started, outside of some comments for the 30th anniversary book and the interviews in the back of the first few manga volumes. The last ve...

It’d operate exactly like any other manga adaptation anime, right? Some readers would ignore it, but it would still get plenty of talk and attention from those experiencing it for the first time, or from comic-readers as far as how it worked as an adaptation. (I also really feel like people are unde...

The four Toriyama-scripted movies are a sweep for me. (Even “F” , the weakest of the lot, provides a new status quo and a heap of character interactions that immediately feel like they were provided by the original author), and then Z Movie 8 would bring up the rear as my favorite original-run entry...

The four Toriyama-scripted movies are a sweep for me. (Even “F” , the weakest of the lot, provides a new status quo and a heap of character interactions that immediately feel like they were provided by the original author), and then Z Movie 8 would bring up the rear as my favorite original-run entry...

Koitsukai wrote: ↑Mon Mar 13, 2023 3:58 pm Chapter 83, Bardock vs Gas: round 2 featured only them, Granola, Toronbo, Monaito and the Heatas. No Goku, he wasn't even mentioned by name but referred to as one of "my kids".

Ah, right! I’d forgotten the chapter set entirely in flashback.

I'm very late on this, but ... was this the first chapter of Super to not feature Goku at all? Was there one in the Moro arc he wasn't present for?

I can see the manga's adaptation making some annotations and additions to the film's script, but I doubt there'll be any significant differences or inherent contradictions between the two. It'll likely play out like an "extended edition" of sorts – which could be for the better, given som...

This is the strongest filler arc on the strength of the Caterpi gag alone. It also doesn’t overstay its welcome. I like it. Paikuhan is basically a Hit before Hit—a stoic but non-antagonistic rival with little backstory who provides a challenge to Goku in a short, half-comedic tournament while befri...

I think Movie 4 is actually on the upper end of the really formulaic henchman-based-villain ones. The martial arts aren’t as flashy as in 1 or 2, but I love the look of the film, with its dark, neon-strewn city, and the Goku-Piccolo team-up for the climax (in addition to the pay-off with Piccolo’s h...

I’m right there with you on Movie 9. After a refreshing departure in Movie 8, it’s back to the dull-as-dirt formula of early Z movies, and despite a couple of neat background environments, I don’t think its action is enough to make up for its aggressively shallow and predictable plot. It also hinges...

I definitely still hold to the idea that, even if every subsequent antagonist has been technically stronger, it's not by any real significant amount. In raw power in my personal opinion, the power of Jiren, Broly, Moro, Granolah, Gas, and Cell Max are all relative to each other; differences lie in ...