I don't think its too much of a daunting task to try and give certain characters some moments. I'm talking about interesting interactions, like Cabba being defeated by Frieza for his disdain for Saiyans. A unique elimination because of Frieza's experience with them. Or that Maji Kayo guy, who was seen doing well against goku, and overpowering Dyspo, but then Jiren enters and easily knocks him out. Pretty sure that would take a couple pages to do. Toyotaro has plenty of time to wrap up the arc, I don't understand why he would need to rush it.LightBing wrote:I reiterate my point, Mr. Toriyama gave this arc 48 minutes.Exline wrote: It doesn't work in this type of arc? The whole point of the Tournament of Power was bear witness to the fighters from other universes that were hinted to be much stronger than Goku.
If anything its the perfect arc to be fleshing out the other universes, so we can decide how we feel about them and become interested in them. A large cast of characters that were made only to be meaningless after one hit should have never been made in the first place.
No random character deserves 20+ pages, you're over exaggerating D;
However, each character should get a proper elimination instead of being easily thrown off the stage.
I think Toyotaro was right to set up that some characters are easy to beat, but then he should slowly develop it to the point where most of the cast is at least able to take on Piccolo or the Androids at the very least. If we have every competitor at Earthling's level, this tournament is going to be very uninteresting to be reading.
A proper elimination doesn't have to take away too much focus from the main cast. What would be the point of introducing 5 other universes into the ToP if they are not going to have any impact in the story besides being fodder?
It's like with the all Tenkaichi Budokais: more than a hundred of the best fighters on Earth and the story cares about eight, with a couple extras having a few panels to serve as punching bags to Goku and company.
Just threw a random number. I completely agree that's the approach Toyotarõ needs to take but he still needs to cut a lot of people before getting there. 80 people is just too damn much.
The point is exactly that, to be fodder to hype up the main contenders. Like I said above, it's the Tenkaichi Budokai formula. It's a shame to waste all this potential but that's par the course. I just can't see developing more than 8/10 characters(U7 not included) to work in the set up we were given.
I was not trying to imply we should get serious character development for all 80 fighters, I was trying to convey that the competitors not from the 3 main universes should be used in a certain way to give us a reason to care about them when they are erased. The impact of a Universe being erased would be meaningless if we didn't feel for those characters. That is why U9's erasure was so unsettling.
Btw, When you say 8 important characters, did you mean the final 8? (Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Android 17, Frieza + Jiren, Toppo, Dyspo)?
If anything, I'm hoping the final 8/10 is characters from at least different universes, mostly U7, U6, and U11. It'd be an interesting set up imo instead of having those two universes showdown again.
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