I'm more than content with Vegeta calming down and taking it easy. His "rivalry" with Goku was always one sided and when Goku surpasses him, it doesn't faze him at all. It's the logical progression for the character. He still wants to improve himself, but his life isn't consumed by reaching a certain goalpost.
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Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
TheMathemagician wrote:They should have just had him fight Frieza from the start.
I agree, I would've wrote Goku on a trip with Chi-Chi and his kids while Vegeta took care of everything but I'm not in charge unfortunately .
If I had to pick between what Vegeta got or let him go first and lose only for Goku to step in and beat down Freeza then I'd still go with what we got cause the alternative would be like everything we got from him up to that point, fight the villain first, lose, Goku comes in and shows everyone how it's done. in RF's anime arc it was the opposite. yeah him getting Freeza all to himself without Goku being in the picture like what we got with Black would've been better but what we got was still better than what we got before or what we could've got if they let him go first and Goku second.
Well yeah I wouldn't have had him go first if he was just going to lose.
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