Kanzenshuu

First thing's first, sending my respects to Akira Toriyama and may he rest in peace. His legacy and his creations will be remembered fondly by millions for decades. With that aside, I just want to say in lieu of Super Hero and Broly, I really, really dislike modern Dragon Ball's writing style. I kno...

I am of the opinion that we as a fanbase need to take a step back and analyze whether or not Dragon Ball is and always has been problematic. Obviously, times change, and what may be seen as appropriate, humorous, or even encouraged in one time period may not remain so in another, but the passage of ...

No. Gohan was easily the weakest part of Super Hero and held it back from being truly great. It also made me realize Toriyama wasn't wrong about Gohan being unsuited as the MC. He's a passive character because he doesn't have any goals that pushes him forward towards something. He finds himself in a...

Gero is Japanese onomatopoeia to represent vomiting, so is Gevo and Vomi is self-explanatory. Hedo is also a word for vomit and if you listen to the Japanese dub, characters like Freeza will often say stuff like "hedo ga desou," which means something along the lines of "I think I'm go...

There is not a single line in the original manga of Vegeta ever saying this. "I still fight to win...To enjoy it...To kill enemies... To puff up my pride ." https://i.ibb.co/4dKXQk3/Vegeta1.jpg https://i.ibb.co/z480k8c/Vegeta2.jpg And what the hell does any of this have to do with lacking...

You know, one thing I still can't understand is why are his fans still insisting that he did nothing wrong. Because it was never about right or wrong. It was just about their boy Vic getting hate from the leftist and the feminist and the woke or whatever they're complaining about these days ISWV ne...

Personally, I think it's because of Chi-Chi that Goku's descendants are superior to Vegeta's. She’s not an uber fighter, but she is highly trained and presumably stays in shape. Bulma doesn't fight physically, she fights intelligently if she fights at all. So Chi-Chi being a warrior (or at least tra...

I'm going to ask of you people to not take GT into consideration, as I am going to try and explain what I think Toriyama, not Toei, wanted to prove at the END. The true reason behind Oob's creation is always overlooked by most people in the Dragon Ball fanbase, and the main reason for this is, I bel...

Vegeta is a good character but fans love him for the wrong reasons, and as time passed, the meaning behind Vegeta's whole "Saiyan Pride" shtick got lost and misconstrued by the fanbase and its creators (Toyo/Toei). Vegeta has admitted on two separate occasions in the original manga that th...

Fusion is single-handedly THE worst thing to happen to Dragon Ball and broke the ENTIRE game. When it was a perk exclusive to the Namekians, it was OK, but starting from the Majin Boo arc, it becomes so infuriating to watch. I like Fusion as a concept and when it's used in comedic situations like Go...

The Dragon Ball fandom chiefly hates Ribrianne because she is pink, hyper-feminine and overweight. All things that the obnoxious, testosterone obsessed dudebros that make up much of the casual and even hardcore fandom for Dragon Ball and much of the anime community despises. And before anyone tries ...

Hot take Incoming: Akira Toriyama was carried by his editors. The Buu Saga shows that. Its the only arc in Z thats written by an unrestricted Toriyama and its Trash. We know Toyotaro is capable of good writing so if you gave Toyotaro more freedom while hiring a good editor you'd get a better manga....

Goku genuinely sounds like a more interesting character in Toriyama's head than he ever was in the manga. He rants on and on about Goku being a bad dad, but is that ever addressed in any way beyond one-off comments? You don't need to do a full-on family drama soap opera, but stuff like "Goku is...

Your statements have nothing to do with what was said and shows fragile feelings. I don't care if Vegeta's shift to the dark side made sense to you or not, because I feel we are derailing from the topic established in the original post and our opinions are unlikely to change anytime soon. DB is the ...

You seem to have a really bad sense of what makes good character writing. No, I just don't turn to look at Dragon Ball for good character writing and I never did. None of the characters are especially well-written, compared to other works in its genre both in its time and in the contemporary, most ...

It's been 7 years since Vegeta settled down on Earth and started a family with Bulma, and Toriyama has been essentially telling us to take his word for Vegeta's settling down. We see very small bits and pieces of it; an episode of his trying to figure out how to relate Trunks, his being more relaxed...

People feel guilty when they invest in a kids show like Dragon Ball in their adulthood. So they make these excuses that there are some deep meaning to every arc or any meaningful character development. Piccolo, Tenshinhan, Vegeta, Krillin, Bulma, and a handful of others don't change or develop? I g...

The funny thing about that quote is that Toriyama said the exact same thing and they're not wrong. People feel guilty when they invest in a kids show like Dragon Ball in their adulthood. So they make these excuses that there are some deep meaning to every arc or any meaningful character development....

Even in anime/manga, Fist of the North Star did a lot of that stuff before Dragonball. Dragon Ball hasn't done anything that other shonen predating it hasn't done before (though, I suppose Dragon Ball did change the whole "manly artwork" scene in favor of "cute/goofy artwork"). ...

Bowlcut Gohan was just kind of generic. I prefer teen Gohan (actual teen not what Funimation thinks is a teen) from the Boo era or Saiyajin saga Gohan. Boo era Gohan is probably my second favorite version of the character and an upgrade from the Cell Games. He adopts a persona that isn't crying all...