Kanzenshuu

Daima SS4 barely even functions as it is right now. It's the epitome of modern Dragon Ball shameless nostalgiapandering. The little it "makes sense" and functions as it does right now is only by seeing it through the lens of SS4. There's practically nothing to work with outside of that.
Makes me the ...

I have memories of people thinking for years and years that Ultimate, Mystic considering the times, was a permanent upgrade and pretty much just Gohan's new default base form. I particularly remember how people used to bring up how on EoZ Gohan's eyes were fully lined-up.
I even remember how common ...

First arc really had mediocre results, no wonder they decided to try to rework things as they did.
So much for the fabled adobencha.
Series seem to have really hit its stride with the tail-end of Red Ribbon and never let the momentum stop.

Sometimes I do wonder how the zeitgeist around Dragon Ball would have changed had Boo ended with Gohan/Goten/Trunks saving the day.

For better or for worse, Goku and Vegeta being the ones winning it, with the fabled Goku & Vegeta team-up, permanently settled an "image" into the franchise. It was ...

Would genuinely not be surprised at all if the anime continues fully original after Moro and/or SH depending of if they re-do that too.
Let's be honest, the manga has always been the awkward middle child of the modern era. It's probably a lot easier for a bunch of people on high places to not have ...

I watched the Broly movie on a whim last and it's impossible to watch it properly or take it seriously from years and year and years of Japanese memes of it. Just kept laughing whenever I saw something they've beaten into dust from how much they've meme'd about it.
What was not very funny was the ...

Is there someone who can manage to tell what would be so "interesting" in yet another Freeza-related plot?

Think of the hype moments and aura!
Imagine Beast Gohan fighting Black Freeza!
Imagine Broly fighting Black Freeza!
Imagine Orange Piccolo fighting Black Freeza!
Imagine them all losing ...

Don't remember why, I think I watching something about Chrono Trigger's making? But I got a Daima retrospective sorta thing video on the recs and with nothing better to do and wanting to keep being a waste of space in bed I went to watch it and fell down a rabbit hole and then watched like ten more ...

There's no mistranslation there.
Goku became dumber and a worse father/husband/grandfather/person in modern Dragon Ball.
Numerous characters call him out for being a terrible father/husband/grandfather/person.
Vegeta calls him out for being an awful husband and father.
Piccolo calls him out for ...

And the complaints about that "kiss" joke should've ended 2016, which btw was 10 years ago. Goku knows what a kiss is, he just thought it was funny that Trunks gave Mai a senzu bean by kissing her since that's a weird and unusual way to give someone a senzu bean.

Or if you don't like that ...

It doesn't take a genius to understand that a TV series isn't built solely from a few character designs and a story summary. A narrative of this scale requires a creative team to develop, expand, and structure it throughout the production process. Akira Toriyama was more involved in Dragon Ball ...

There's also the matter of timing, I feel.
If they made a fabled ADOBENCHA Slice of Life hijinks thing while the franchise has a healthy output, as another one more thing to enjoy, I think it would be much much better received.
It's a matter of the cast too. You know where ADOBENCHA would actually ...

Daima and GT being spoken about in the same breath, put together into the same category, in that one interview thing is super funny.
Game devs don't dictate the canon. I remember before Kakarot released it's entire hype period was that Toriyama worked closely with them too, and in the end we ...

Daima and GT being spoken about in the same breath, put together into the same category, in that one interview thing is super funny.
Straight-up stated to be full-on Super anime continuity. That's that for anyone with common sense, I suppose. Too bad we'll still have people continuing to argue ...

...I have to imagine Shueisha's non-committal-ness is not fun for him, either. Even if he wanted to try and do something else, he might feel somewhat locked down by the fact that he doesn't know if or when he's gonna be called back to draw DBS again.


I feel bad for him in all honesty. He's in a ...

Also we don't have a way to know whether or not it is true that something came from Toriyama.
They could lie...


Sure, but the point others have made is that it shouldn't even matter whether something came from Toriyama or not. A product should be judged on its own merit, not who may or may ...

It''ll be 2050 and we'll have people who weren't even born by the time Toriyama died go "B-But it's by Toriyama! The plastered a sticker that said Toriyama on [product] so it's gotta be true! They wouldn't lie about this!"
Bonus: "It's automatically good because it says Toriyama™!" and "You can't ...

Gotta take all the By Toriyama™ with a massive grain of salt, as always. It'll be 2050 and they'll somehow still have Toriyama™ designs they magically found on some random cabinet.

The situation is looking real dire though. I never thought DQ would get hit by the SE special. Well, to be fair, we ...

Zero fashion at all whatsoever. One of the coolest nicest most interesting details of Dragon Ball was how everyone was always getting a new outfit, new hairstyle, new look, etc on every arc, every new appearance. Which is actually pretty crazy in hindsight when changing a character design like that ...

It's more of a "eh" or "oh, that exists, moving on".
Just too little, too late. Him having it at this point like, just doesn't matter? Adds nothing?
The porcupine hair, ironically enough, by trying to be distinct, feels lazier too. It just gets bigger. Yay? What's even the point of changing it ...