It's cool how Super shows Chi-Chi and #18 as best friends

[DBZAOTA482]

If you've been around this subforum, you would know I am not the biggest fan of Dragon Ball Super but I actually like the slice-of-episodes. While I still have my complaints about them, they are consistently the best offerings from the anime. One of the things I like most about them are the various character interactions.

One interaction is the few between Chi-Chi and #18 which depict them as being best friends. I honestly much more believable than Chi-Chi being besties with Bulma (who has a lot of chasing personality traits and values) and it's much more meaningful too as #18 doesn't seem like the type to make friends but she did. We see their friendship when they hung around each other through Bulma's birthday party, #18 was the first person Chi-Chi told about the "picnic", and they were shopping at the mall together.

The first connection must be that Goku and Krillin are already the best of friends so they must've bonded on that basis. Another may be that they can really relate due to their checkered lives ( warrior princess --> martial artist --> housewife = runaway delinquent --> enslaved fighting machine --> housewife).

But you might asking why the "cool, sarcastic" #18 would hang with someone as obnoxious as the "nagging, overbearing" Chi-Chi? Maybe #18 really appreciates realness and isn't just a.... no... I'm better than that...

Anyways, I would love to see Super expand on their relationship when it comes back.

[Diccolo-420]

Honestly if Super was just slice of life episodes it would probably have been even better, Z could have benefited from some of those to break between all the action.

[Zen Yabuki]

It's even cooler to see Goku develop friendships with both 17 and 18 in this current saga.

[Dbzfan94]

Honestly if Super was just slice of life episodes it would probably have been even better, Z could have benefited from some of those to break between all the action.

Idk about better than Z, but the slice of life stuff were definitely the best parts

[PerhapsTheOtherOne]

It's these little character moments that I always appreciated from the anime over the manga.

Really helps sell how far these fan favourite characters have come, and shows that underneath the power and fighting, they're still people that have their own lives and deal with their own issues. There's a certain charm to the way these characters interact when the universe isn't at stake and nobody's at risk of dying.

[majinwarman]

It's these little character moments that I always appreciated from the anime over the manga.

Really helps sell how far these fan favourite characters have come, and shows that underneath the power and fighting, they're still people that have their own lives and deal with their own issues. There's a certain charm to the way these characters interact when the universe isn't at stake and nobody's at risk of dying.

I'm a fan of Super anyway but I still love the character moments in Super.

[TheShadowEmperor8055]

Goku and Krillin are best friends from childhood so it's natural, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯