LoganForkHands73 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 10:40 am
Like I said, I
highly doubt Kami will come back in any capacity. There's no guarantee that Nail will come back either. We're probably picking this one throwaway interaction way too much.
If the line was never meant to mean anything or hint at anything, then it should never have been included.
Fusion has always been a busted ass-pull technique in all its variations - Namekian Fusion was never foreshadowed at all, Potara Fusion came out of nowhere simply because Toriyama didn't want to contradict Gogeta's movie design, even Buu's absorbing ability which caused him to become the fat blob we knew at the beginning was a late addition to the backstory to justify Kid Buu's existence. Normal Metamorran Fusion was the only one introduced somewhat organically and was originally the only one with a clear weakness in its time limit.
Namekian Fusion we can say has been hinted at given the fact Namekian's could Divide themselves in the way Kami did. And we can argue that the reason why it's Forbidden, as Nail says it is, because it's Permanent. It's not something that could or should ever be undone. That there is a cost for participating in it. As noted, Nail's persona would gradually fade into the back of Piccolo's consciousness and he'd effectively cease to exist.
Potara was certainly pulled out the butt, but by then they'd already told of the Metamorran Fusion so finding an easier way to do it was almost expected. But, as suggested originally, the caveat was that it could be permanent and thus the two fusing would no longer exist and the new persona would take over. It's only cleared up in Super that only Potara fusions with Gods are permanent. It's also a fact that Toriyama didn't want to do the Buu Saga and his editor kept having him make changes. Much like with how the Android Saga went.
In any case, I don't see how it's bad writing to introduce a counter-fusion technique. I love Fusion but it's been used as a narrative, and more importantly marketing, gimmick or crutch in a lot of recent stories to the point where it's starting to feel a little overexposed, something I think that Toriyama understands better than the other writers. He understands that the series is about individual characters fighting, not about characters always having to fuse together like some kind of CCG gimmick. Frankly, I can't see it as anything but a good thing to see it brought down a peg. I don't see it as bad writing for Vegeta to boast about it to Piccolo, either. It just shows the breadth of potential his new ability has.
Yes, Fusion is a huge thing for Marketing. Just look at DBFusions for that. But it also gives you creative ideas on how the Fusion would work and what abilities the new fusion would have. It's also a fact that a Fusion, outside of the Fusion Reborn movie, has never actually won the day. Vegitto 'beat' Buu, but was absorbed and the fusion came undone with Kid Buu ultimately being killed by Goku with support from everyone.
Even in the Future Trunks arc, Vegetto seemed to be winning, and then fusion came undone and everything went to shit. Kefla gets taken out by UI Sign Goku and Aniraza gets taken out by the U7 Team. You could make the argument that the only fusion to succeed is Gogeta. Gotenks loses all the damn time. So yeah, Gogeta is the only fusion that ever wins at anything.
I don't see this as a good thing because it completely eliminates all narrative tension. It would've been one thing if it was a technique to block or prevent Moro from draining and absorbing energy, but this eliminates any such future adversary that utilizes such an ability as being completely pointless since Vegeta can now just slap the stolen energy out of them or separate all the people they've absorbed/fused with. There goes any and all tension against such an opponent. Even with Morro eating Seven-Three, Vegeta can now just pull a SS2 Gohan on Perfect Cell, gut punch Morro and get him to spit up Seven-Three.
And there you have it. No more dramatic tension and all stakes completely disappear. All this does is ensure that all future enemies will not have such abilities, thus rendering Vegeta's technique completely superfluous in the future. Just fluff in a back catalogue of abilities that's no longer useful i the future. Ain't gonna work against Jiren, after all.
As for Buu and Daikaioshin, nothing about Buu really makes sense, so I'm sure they'd find a way around having Daikaio (and maybe South Kaioshin) ripped out of Buu somehow with no consequences. It would be quite shit writing, but it seems to be the main thing they're foreshadowing here.
It would completely destroy the character of Buu and render the Daikaioshin's sacrifice utterly meaningless, since the whole point of allowing himself to be absorbed was to weaken Buu and make him less of a threat since Buu's personality is affected by those he absorbs. If you took out the Daikaioshin and South Kai without having any consequences for doing so, it wouldn't just be terrible writing, it would show a complete lack of creativity or talent on the part of Toyotaro.
And this' my opinion, but unfortunately I don't view Toyotaro as having much creative talent at all, given how all of the ideas going into the manga have been stolen or 'borrowed' from various other shows and media and Dragon Ball's own history. He's brought nothing new to the table and the entire manga has been a bit of a clusterfuck. Some ideas were executed fine while others were just utter garbage.
