The aura is such a mess. The color of it is nice, but everything else is so bleh. I don't see a damn difference between a green hair SSJ5 Gohan, and just calling something god or blue. The fanart is literally the same shit this is, and yet for some reason those people are stupid for lazily taking a typical Goku image and changing his hair and clothes. Goku's new outfit has more thought put into it. There's barely any info on it, and when there is, it's utter nonsense from what we've been told earlier. Better ki control for something that heavily drains stamina vs something that literally was trained to have no strain, and be the absolute most natural state closest to base.dae428 wrote:Honestly, I don't mind as much what the design is as long as the explanation for why it looks like that works. For instance, Ultimate Gohan is basically regular Gohan with serious eyes. However, this works because we know that Gohan has gotten a huge power boost and is now full of confidence. SS Blue is basically just SS but blue, but we know that it's supposed to be SS with God Ki added so personally I think it works just fine. Plus give it some credit. The aura does have a very different look to it compared to regular SS and there is some interesting extra stuff added to how works too like how it has better ki control or something stupid like that. The thing about most of the fan art is that the majority of people who made it just gave Gohan green hair and said that it was SS 5 or something without giving it any proper explanation as to why it's green at all.dbzfan7 wrote:Doesn't matter to me whether he had the opportunity back then or not. Nor if he had the idea back then or not. Though now lot's and lot's of photoshoppers should never ever get shit ever againZephyr wrote:Reminder that Toriyama was drawing Dragon Ball originally as a largely black and white manga. He never really had the opportunity to make new forms that took advantage of changing colors (other than changing once to remove shading). There were never different forms that had different hues from one another, which also weren't black.
This recent material is Toriyama's first opportunity, really, to do this sort of design work, since it's largely been made for anime material.
The new forms are certainly minimalistic, but Toriyama's taking advantage of a certain medium for conveying change for the first time.. Whether it's Greyku, Greenku, or Rainbowku.
Also, at this point I kind of feel like you're just beating a dead horse. I mean you've been saying this over and over again since the Resurrection F movie came out. I don't know about others, but to me it's getting a bit annoying. You make great points on a lot of things, but a lot of times you kind of come across as a cynical asshole no offense. I mean this horse beating has gotten so old that me telling you you're beating a dead horse is now me beating a dead horse.
Also, it really bugs me how you think that people are so stupid that they just mindlessly like something just because it's canon. I find it insulting and very rude. I like SS Blue but I guess I only like it because it's canon.
I am somewhat of a cynical asshole yes. No denying that. I also have been beating this like a dead horse, as well as other white knights.
It's not out of stupidity. It's out of coping. I'm not saying every single person is guilty of that, but it's definitely something I've noticed. When something is deemed canon, it's slowly must grow on you, or else it'll be something that will forever bug you. Hence coping to either tolerating or liking something. My best comparison is Minus vs EOB. EOB is still shit upon without much change, because it's a what if, so it's very easy to ignore. Minus is still shit on by some, but also more accepted and liked over time. Because in that case there's no ignoring it.
