Why on Earth are you framing it back at me like this? I'm sorry if I ran over your pet, or something!!!The Monkey King wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:09 pm Honest question, why not?
Is it because the "DEEBEEZEE" fans would like it and you have a need to feel "superior" to them?
But seriously, it's just not interesting a premise at all to me. I think it's fascinating that the rematches we DO get in the series-proper (that is to say, original serialization) are:
- Largely played for humor and low-stakes (see: Goku vs. Tenshinhan at the 23rd Budokai)
- Largely... not even shown at all (see: Goku vs. Majin Vegeta, which folks think of more in the anime than the manga)
Going beyond that and sticking with Goku vs. Vegeta, I think to Toriyama's outline for Dragon Ball Online where they fuck off into space and no-one sees anything of the fight except the leftover light from an explosion.
I'm all aboard Toriyama's train of thought there. Rematches aren't necessary, and Toriyama himself is far more interested in using the next character/antagonist/villain as the ever-moving goalpost. He actually keeps taking them FURTHER away from us! I think that's quaint, neat, and quintissential Dragon Ball.
I'm just as guilty as everyone else, but this really has nothing to do with this chapter of Dragon Ball Super at all! Brining this train back on track a little bit, I guess I'm pretty apathetic and excited and ambivalent all together here? I'm just as ready and excited as anyone to see what's "next" on the horizon for a potential story arc, but I'm also just as fascinated with seeing where Toyo can take an extended version of this story. I really liked the characters and writing from the film itself, which I thought were (mostly!) spot-the-fuck-on, and infinitely more so than just about everything post-Battle of Gods (film specifically)... so I'll take a little more time with them, sure!
But then that also kinda equals out and negates the "what's next?" excitement, wrapping it all together in a bunch of mostly just keeping my head down, checking out what comes out, nodding along with it, poking over to the Meteor Mission manga, nodding along with it as well, and just plugging away at stuff!