Kanzenshuu

The finale of the Majin Boo arc is wonderful. It's the storytelling equivalent of throwing all the jigsaw puzzle pieces in the air, and through sheer good fortune, all the pieces perfectly land into place. I love that analogy! I'd never thought of it quite like that before, but you are certainly co...

Character Arcs Are 'Number One' - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Majin Boo Arc Part 27! Wow, I can't believe we're here. It's the final battle with Majin Boo. There are a lot of interesting punches and kicks, but that's not really what I remember about this section of Dragon Ball. It's the characters....

Goku's Saiyan heritage wasn't held back from the audience the same way that say the culprits on Strangers on a Train was, but it's still a reveal because we didn't know it for years. It wasn't held back from us at all. We didn't know it for years because it wasn't true. It didn't exist. Goku was no...

I don't understand why anyone thinks that the fundamental difference between the two is whether it was initially planned or thought of later. The writing of a good reveal should be seemless. Whether the writer planned it or did it because it didn't contradict anything since they didn't give all the...

I would say Blue, definitely, although Murasaki is a decent runner up. Murasaki is hilariously entertaining, no question, but he is almost completely buffoonish. That's fine, but Blue is both buffoonish and deadly. The writing strikes that great balance of the best Dragon Ball characters, presenting...

Dragon Ball's Godly Identity Crisis - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Majin Boo Arc Part 26! It's my 10th anniversary episode! Dragon Ball Dissection turned 10 this month, and I am very lucky to have been able to share this with all of you for all these years. To celebrate, let's destroy God. At least,...

This is just me completely spitballing, but I do find the "fans complained when other characters were used" is a bit dubious. Not because I don't believe it happened. It did. I certainly remember that at the time. I just find it an odd rebuttal because I would guess that most of the people...

I'm kinda with Julie on this one. I've never really understood how someone could or would want to ask out a complete stranger in an environment that is not specifically catered to that. They are strangers. You don't know the first thing about them. How can you possibly know whether they are a romant...

I guess it depends on what you mean by "ruined." I'm obviously stating the obvious here, but "ruined" is fairly subjective. Have I personally found myself a bit put off over the years on the Saiyan/Super Saiyan/transformation focus? Definitely. Those concepts can and have been us...

The Movie That Fixed Vegeta - Dragon Ball Dissection: Fusion Reborn!! Goku and Vegeta DBD December for 2021 comes to a close, one with far more bumps and bruises than I expected! But it's been fun! And now I conclude with a look at the movie that is very much The Boo Arc, but with a greater emphasi...

The Final Faces of Boo - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Majin Boo Arc Part 25! Merry Christmas from Dragon Ball Dissection! Enjoy the holiday traditions of crushing the Christmas earrings, tearing down the Christmas skin pods, and escaping through the Christmas head sphincter. Oh, and don't forget the...

Vegetto, the Bootleg Gogeta - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Majin Boo Arc Part 24! This is the one I've been looking forward to. It's that Vegetto guy whose enduring popularity escapes me. To me he's that guy with the incomprehensible name who only exists because Toei screwed Toriyama over yet again....

Yes. (That's my photo.) https://twitter.com/VegettoEX/status/1046924130304647168 https://twitter.com/kanzenshuu/status/1299486042542805000 Whew, that photo has definitely been making the rounds without you then! And, uh, yeah, I guess the best part of this post is the fact that your second link is,...

So we all know that Vegetto and Potara only exist because movie 12 was already going to have Goku and Vegeta Fuse into Gogeta, and Toriyama wanted to do something that was his own thing. But is that all there is to the story? I have had someone share an image with me of the next to last page of chap...

Gohan's Ultimate Disappointment - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Majin Boo Arc Part 23! Dragon Ball Dissection December continues! Glad to see we're mostly in agreement about Gohan's design here, but now it's time for the fight, his role in this story, and just how quickly said story gives up on him i...

The Tonal Dissonance of Gotenks - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Majin Boo Arc Part 22! Dragon Ball Dissection December begins! Here we get to something that's always stuck in my craw. Majin Boo kills nearly every major character... and the story barely cares at all. There's more comedy with Gotenks t...

Gotenks, A Failure of Discipline - Dragon Ball Dissection: The Majin Boo Arc Part 21! I'm back to the main series, right before DBD December kicks into gear! Gotenks steps up to start us off in the never-ending battle against Majin Boo. He's a big fat failure, but he has a lot of really fun moves. ...

A Tournament of Nonsense - DBD TV: The Anoyoichi Budoukai Arc You know, I worried I wouldn't have enough content to make a full video out of this when I remembered that it was only five episodes. But no matter how many times I had watched this in the past, I could never really remember what happene...

DBZ's New Era of Animation - DBD TV: The Cell Arc Part 2 Dragon Ball Dissection concludes its look at the animated Cell Arc with meme-fodder animation, Gohan's filler adventures, and the worst thing that happened to Mr. Satan since his personality! Also, yes, I had to cut the intro, so please don't...

I feel like I've seen most everything that could be considered "core" material: DB manga, DB anime, DBZ, DBGT, all official movies, Super manga and anime. Most of what I haven't seen are spinoffs or other ancillary-type material: Dragon Ball SD Anything Heroes-related Most video game story...