Weekly, we see TV popularity ratings from Japan for Dragon Ball Super, but there's nothing to gauge the quality of each episode. People who may want to sample Super will want to see what episodes to watch, and perhaps which to avoid. So I've created a ratings poll for Kanzenshuu:
Episodes are listed using the English titles. If you have the time, and have seen an episode or all episodes, please rate them on a scale of 1 to 10. If you haven't seen all the episodes, please leave a "5" as neutral. You can also see the results here:
"Dragon Ball once became a thing of the past to me, but after that, I got angry about the live action movie, re-wrote an entire movie script, and now I'm complaining about the quality of the new TV anime. It seems Dragon Ball has grown on me so much that I can't leave it alone." - Akira Toriyama on Dragon Ball Super
It's very inconsistent, but it's in the 6-7/10 range as a whole for now. When it's bad, man, is it bad. But when it's at its best, it's absolutely fantastic. It's the same feeling I get while re-watching any of the other series.
The last episode is very high, the first episodes will suffer because people don't remember them clearly. 50 votes or more and we should be getting a better picture.
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:The first reply doesn't inspire confidence that people are going to vote appropriately.
I was honest about every episode.
Episode 5 is just...legendary, you know? Whenever people look back at this series, the first thing that will come to mind is, "do you remember episode 5? What a trip THAT was. ROFLMAO."
"Dragon Ball once became a thing of the past to me, but after that, I got angry about the live action movie, re-wrote an entire movie script, and now I'm complaining about the quality of the new TV anime. It seems Dragon Ball has grown on me so much that I can't leave it alone." - Akira Toriyama on Dragon Ball Super
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am
I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.
I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:The first reply doesn't inspire confidence that people are going to vote appropriately.
If you hover over the results, you can see a vote breakdown and determine what votes were outliers. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good for a free site.
Baggie_Saiyan wrote:The first reply doesn't inspire confidence that people are going to vote appropriately.
I was honest about every episode.
Episode 5 is just...legendary, you know? Whenever people look back at this series, the first thing that will come to mind is, "do you remember episode 5? What a trip THAT was. ROFLMAO."
I mean if people keep bringing it up over and over again while repeating the same generic jokes, of course nobodies going to forget about it. I personally don't even care about that episode anymore.
The highest rating for an episode of Super I gave in that survey was EP16, and it seems to show as it has the highest average so far.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
sintzu wrote:Overall it's been average which is disappointing considering it's a sequel to one of the most influential anime/manga ever made.
It's also one of the most deeply flawed, and in many areas, especially with the anime, has not aged well.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
DBZ has aged better than pretty much every action anime of the '80s-'90s I can think of. Even then, we have Kai.
"Dragon Ball once became a thing of the past to me, but after that, I got angry about the live action movie, re-wrote an entire movie script, and now I'm complaining about the quality of the new TV anime. It seems Dragon Ball has grown on me so much that I can't leave it alone." - Akira Toriyama on Dragon Ball Super
fadeddreams5 wrote:DBZ has aged better than pretty much every action anime of the '80s-'90s I can think of. Even then, we have Kai.
That fact that Kai even exists just shows how bad DBZ has aged in many areas. Plus, there are several action anime from the 80s and 90s that have aged better than Dragon Ball has. YuYu Hakusho, Saint Seiya and Rurouni Kenshin come to mind
Last edited by Lord Beerus on Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
fadeddreams5 wrote:DBZ has aged better than pretty much every action anime of the '80s-'90s I can think of. Even then, we have Kai.
That fact that Kai even exists just shows how bad DBZ has aged in many ahead. Plus I there are several action anime from the 80s and 90s that have aged better than Dragon Ball has. YuYu Hakusho, Saint Seiya and Rurouni Kenshin come to mind
There's also Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Neon Genesis Evangelion (which could be argued as to whether or not it's an "action" anime, but there's a good deal of action in it), and so on that come to mind. Dragon Ball really isn't all that special, especially not any of its anime adaptations.
fadeddreams5 wrote:DBZ has aged better than pretty much every action anime of the '80s-'90s I can think of. Even then, we have Kai.
That fact that Kai even exists just shows how bad DBZ has aged in many ahead. Plus I there are several action anime from the 80s and 90s that have aged better than Dragon Ball has. YuYu Hakusho, Saint Seiya and Rurouni Kenshin come to mind
Take out Saint Seiya and you'd certainly have a point.
fadeddreams5 wrote:
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:... Haven't we already gotten these in GT? Goku dies, the DBs go away, and the Namekian DBs most likely won't be used again because of the Evil Dragons.
Goku didn't die in GT. The show sucked him off so much, it was impossible to keep him in the world of the living, so he ascended beyond mortality.
jjgp1112 wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:31 am
I'm just about done with the concept of reboots and making shows that were products of their time and impactful "new and sexy" and in line with modern tastes and sensibilities. Let stuff stay in their era and give today's kids their own shit to watch.
I always side eye the people who say "Now my kids/today's kids can experience what I did as a child!" Nigga, who gives a fuck about your childhood? You're an adult now and it was at least 15 years ago. Let the kids have their own experience instead of picking at a corpse.