Anime Kitten wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 1:28 am
SupremeKai25 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:48 amThe best mystery and hype Super created was definitely that around Goku Black, Zamasu, and his whole mysterious identity. I wasn't on this forum back then, but I can imagine there would've been countless theories about Goku Black and how he linked to Zamasu (some theories more crazy than others cough cough Future Goten cough cough).
Although I've been away for a while, I have to say my fondest memories of posting on this forum are of
this right here, I had so much fun speculating on Goku Black's identity and how everything linked together!
There was pretty wild stuff as soon as that first promo image for the arc came out, with Black showing off a Potara and half his face being out of view... is his face half-something that's not human? Is he fusing with multiple different timeline Gokus and that's what the Potara is for? Is he FUTURE GOTEN?
(That one was always a favorite of mine to be honest)
Fun times!
But to contribute to the topic more directly, I thoroughly enjoyed Super's anime as a whole (love the manga too but I'm behind on it), and I definitely owe my near-universal "sit back and enjoy the ride" mentality to it, since it was what made me realize I have a lot more fun not trying to critique or analyze things I watch or read
Of course there's nothing at all wrong with doing that, it's just for me personally, Super grabbed me in some ways that made me want to enjoy things for what they are and, most of the time, leave the criticism to others, so to speak
I know this sounds very... consumer-ish? But it's really helped me to appreciate Dragon Ball more in general in my own way! I have so much fun with this and other series despite any issues I might have with them, and I definitely think Super being such a wild ride kickstarted that for me, haha
This kind of posts, I enjoy. It is good to discuss dragon ball Super, the rights and wrongs, the things we like/dislike, the reasons for it, etc; but I also appreciate people just expressing how they felt watching it, not everything has a clear reason. I'm happy you and others enjoyed Super so much.
For me, unfortunately, it's not the same, but that's a story for another time (and thread). I'll just say Dragon Ball is really important to me, and perhaps if Super was the only Dragon Ball anime ever released, I would just think of it as a slightly mediocre, anodine show, with highs and lows (I would not dislike it as much). It does have things I enjoyed, which I will list here:
-Nice ideas. Most of the new concepts they added, were pretty good. Gods of destruction, the multiverse, ssj god, ultra instinct, tournament of power, new abilites like time skip, angels, galactic patrol (I'm aware the galactic patrol was not really introduced in Super though), Super dragon balls, corrupted Shins etc
-More protagonism to secondary characters
-Morally grey villains
-Interesting fights
Those are the ones I can think off of the top of my head. I might eventually write a detailed post with good and bad things, who knows.