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If we kept the numbers in their proper context, it could be fun, but no. Nerds do what nerds do. They turn nerd stuff into math problems.

Dragon Ball is a show that is just not working in a usual 26/52 episode seasons/year. It needs to go continously like Naruto/Boruto or One Piece, the lore, the "epicness" can't be contained into seasons.. There's only a little problem with that: DB Fans hate "filler" (or non-Tor...

I'm also unsure what you are referring to when you say they tried to get Piccolo murdered. At no point during the Piccolo Daimao arc, a single one of these characters thought, "You know what? Who cares about this Piccolo guy? Who cares about the fate of the world? I'mma fight him hand-to-hand ...

The characters aren't acting out of character. them letting Gero go is in character. No. Even excluding Goku and Vegeta, it's not. Tenshinhan, Chaozu and Yamcha all tried to get Piccolo murdered and the arc stopped dead in its tracks with the Dragon Balls. The entire, "I want to test my abilit...

Goku's sudden concern for the danger he attracts was a silly justification to take Goku out of the story and put Gohan in the driver's seat. At best Goku was just talking out his ass as an excuse to stay dead because he was tired of beating opponents in the living world and wanted to see what the n...

Why do they matter to you? Why do you care if the world is put in danger? It's not like the multiverse is actually going to end in the world of the story. We know Piccolo won't actually succeed in killing everyone. We know Vegeta won't succeed in murdering everyone. So why do you care about those s...

Why do the ridiculous stakes bother you? Oh, and the tournament wasn't Goku's idea, either. The ridiculous stakes don't bother me. What bothers me is what they do with them. It feels like getting erased from existence is not a ridiculous enough condition for the writers, as Goku tries to lie about ...

I dunno, all in all I just think it's a little weird to act like stakes shouldn't matter in a story where evil bastards who can destroy entire solar systems with their eyebrow hairs are constantly threatening the lives of the characters we love. If you don't want stakes to matter, go watch Clifford...

I've constantly maintained since 2015 that Super "playing it safe" and sticking itself inside the ten year timeskip between the defeat of Boo and the 28th Budōkai was a huge debilitating crutch. Why care about the stakes when we've known since 1995 that everything will be perfectly peacef...

And even though Torishima (the one responsible for 17 and 18 and then Cell existing) was no longer Toriyama's editor, it still goes against the idea the Cell arc was "bad" because Toriyama had too much creative control. You can either believe the Cell arc was bad because of his editors fe...

I disagree about Battle of Gods in Super. It works well. RoF is awful because the movie is awful. Garlic Jr. arc might have been better as a movie or just shaved off a few episodes. I don't know about you, but I found myself increasingly frustrated with Super's adaptation of BotG and RoF. There wer...

If they adapt Broly-Super Hero into episodes, I would imagine the episode count be: Broly Saga: 18 episodes (BOG saga in Super had a similar episode count) Super Hero Saga: 13 episodes That would be over 78 new episodes to adapt at the moment. Please, no. They tried with Garlic Jr. It turned out te...

I can forgive quite a bit. Like with Star Wars. Clearly there was no big plan. Luke and Leia are revealed to be siblings in the movie after Leia practically sticks her tongue down his throat. And yet, the idea of them being siblings makes a lot of sense narratively. The execution is wonky but the i...

good post To add to this, a key part of this arc and something that greatly differentiates it from the Buu arc is that while a lot of the story developments are triggered by characters making horrible decisions, all of the bad decisions in this arc are driven by established flaws and quirks in ever...

This sounds more impressive than it actually is, sad to say. Piccolo softens a bit, but the reunion with Kami offers little except for a power up. And Gohan's crisis was a last minute addition to milk the drama. I think it accomplished something besides power up (although that was definitely the ma...

My big point of conjecture was you equivocating an unchosen consequence (fame) with a chosen profession like politics. And if we're talking about bad political views, while I don't have as much fear of some random asshole on the street with a terrible political POV, I don't think this fundamentally ...

Not necessarily saying it's a fault... But an oddity unless there's some logical explanation to it. I just drew attention to it because the realization coming after Vegeta not sensing any killing intention yet mentioning later on such is specific for SSJs comes off, apparently, as contradictory... ...

No, I was interested if the not intent to kill and the thought of SSJ was kind of an oversight of there was some logical explanation for that. Edit: also, the intent to kill isn't something Vegeta only remembered as a kid. When Goku didn't want to murder Recoome and Jheese, Burta, Vegeta said he ca...

Yes, but didn't Vegeta highlight specially the calm and no intent to kill there? Should that tell him he hadn't that SSJ trait? What is the issue you are trying to point out here? I don't honestly get it. Are you saying there's a contradiction or bad writing bc a character in the heat of the moment...

You all keep bringing up JK Rowling but it's still the same issue - don't be an asshole. Doesn't matter if you are successful or not. It's not fundamentally different when you are dealing with one person or a mass audience.