Kanzenshuu

Toriyama is no stranger to excessive designs despite some arguments to the contrary so I'm kinda here for it as well. While their implementation into the story is a whole topic in itself, I can reflect on the designs and how well they're utilised overall. Orange Piccolo is a great example of a hulki...

Ah, VAR-sama: the one authority above a Hakaishin, the Grand Priest and Zeno.

You make a solid argument there, and I guess the Buu arc plays with the same apocalyptic/existential themes with a more facetious presentation. However, I think the arc that surprisingly handles existentialism best is the Tournament of Power, because we see what all the characters are willing to do ...

Tenshinhan is a difficult case. For a Dragon Ball character, he's fairly three-dimensional and his stoic personality is a nice contrast to the wackiness around him, but practically all of his shades revolve around his capacity as a martial artist. PlagueOfGripes covered this better than I can, but T...

Horikawa isn't too bad, though his voice has undeniably become "scratchier" over the years. Like most of the cast, he used to have much more range in his performance; it could be surprisingly soft and elegant, yet still cocky and imperious. Now, he just pants and groans out any emotional m...

I mean, Toriyama did forget Dragon Ball Super's name while coming up with Super Hero. I don't really believe those Toriyama's statements, I'm sure it's part of his humor to say that he forgets things, he makes fun of people and then they keep repeating it for years. He surely wanted to create anoth...

Fans love to assume Toriyama really is on top of every step Toyotaro takes in the manga, but the truth is that he provided plot guidelines, contributed designs (for manga and anime) and really only corrected some of Toyo's ugliest drawings. Definitely, since Jiren's defeat the manga feels aimlessly...

True, I don't think Toriyama has ever spoken extensively about it, but fans somehow started interpreting that as a confession that he actually had nothing to do with Ultra Instinct's creation and design and that it's not even canon to "the Toriyamaverse". Some even say he's barely aware of...

Just noticed, but was Karin affected by the wish? Obviously it's hard to tell, but he doesn't look any different. Shouldn't he be a lil kitten? (=˃ᆺ˂=)

With either the Marvel or DC Universes, if you ever ask the question "does *concept X* exist in some form", the answer will almost always be "yes".

I was assuming that would be the case. The spell or whatever caused them to defuse. On the trailer, at 2:23, there's a brief shot of Shin and Kibito on the ground looking at each other while looking surprised, with only one ear visible with a potara, and, it's Shin's left ear and Kibito's right, th...

Piccolo when he was a kid, he wasn't fused to Kami and Nails, yet it doesn't look like their fusion is undone. Don't we see a wrinkly Namekian-looking eye at one point in the trailer? Maybe Kami (and probably Nail) were defused from Piccolo, and since Dende has presumably been de-aged into a border...

• The Z-Fighters helping Gohan in the final beam struggle for the sake of Earth. Tbh i consider this the worst thing anime did compared to manga, on par with Vegeta laughing at Goku's "death" on Namek and beating Gohan. While Z-fighters helping Cell was itself a cool idea, it completely c...

I thought gatekeeping was a widely understood term, it has little to do with moderation. A gatekeeper is just a specific type of fandom asshole who, without having any actual power to enforce, pushes a non-existent criteria for what makes someone a "real fan" of something.

I've been reading up on branding and graphic design lately, and just now, I was thinking about how many rebrands Dragon Ball has undergone, particularly with its many logos. You have the original manga logo, depicting a playful, chibified Shenron snaking around the bolded text and taking a bite into...

And yeah, I TOTALLY agree about the ToP time limit bullshit. I got REAL sick of being told at the end of EVERY EPISODE of that disgustingly overlong arc that only one minute had passed over the course of the entire 20-minute episode. My explanation for this is that all the different fights show in ...

There’s a strong association between the magical elements and Arabian mythological motifs in the Majin Buu arc. Buu himself is basically a Djinn, something some manga translations make even more explicit — he’s a mischievous magical being who emerges from his sealed tomb in a vaporous form before wr...

Filler can be really damn good tbh. The Gohan training arc in DBZ and several episodes of DBS prove that imo Yeah, you can make some good arguments for filler. Although it’s by definition not needed for the main plot to work, it can give the story some added texture and it goes a long way in making...

No it didn't. Goku still hasn't mastered UI If Dragon Ball had ended after Freeza then it would have ended without Goku mastering Super Saiyan. Yet many fans think it should have ended after Freeza. I don't, I'm glad it continued after Freeza because I like what we got (Both Buu and Cell arcs despi...

As we all know, the idea of Goku being reverted into a child form was one of the key premises in Toriyama’s concept for Dragon Ball GT. Although he had no intention of being hands-on in the production after just completing the manga run, he was the one who fielded the idea of how Goku’s journey mig...