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by Attitudefan » Fri Dec 29, 2017 12:08 am
I dislike it a lot, at least in terms of its visual design. I think the idea itself is unique and the call-back is pretty great to Saiyan's ape transformation.
However, the magical clothes that come with the design is a huge gripe of mine. So, the clothes they initially transform in for the first time, are now stuck with that apparel forever? Vegeta literally regrows his shirt when he falls back to base form!
I do think it's overly designed... if that makes sense. The original Super Saiyan transformation's aesthetic is so unexpected due to how it was hyped up to be this magical, savage transformation of character, and instead is more of a pure form of self. SSJ4 reminds me of when Vegeta recounted the legends and we see what most of us thinks it would look like (a play on the Oozaru form) but is instead not that at all.
SSJ4 follows a different philosophy, and would be better not as a SSJ transformation, but as a different form/transformation altogether. It's concept is just too different to SSJ that on its own which I think works better, not as a successor to the SSJ transformation, but as a new branch of being.
But really, get rid of the magical clothes that come with it. Even in the games, the form has its own costume rather than the clothes the character is wearing at that moment...
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Attitudefan on Fri Dec 29, 2017 1:39 am, edited 1 time in total.
My favourite art style (and animation) outside Toriyama who worked on Dragon Ball: Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, Masaki Satō, Minoru Maeda, Takeo Ide, Hisashi Eguchi, Katsumi Aoshima, Tomekichi Takeuchi, Masahiro Shimanuki, Kazuya Hisada