The episode was fine for me, nothing great, and nothing too bad either. Even when Ribrianne transformed into her much prettier state, I hated her exactly the same. It just goes to show it's not a fat thing, it's just that she's a horrendous, horribly written character. Yes, I understand it's a gag about magical girls, I get it. It's like people forgot what execution means behind an idea though, because this execution was terrible. Almost every single sentence, every single one, had the word "love" in it, and she's obnoxious as hell as a result. None of her dialogue makes any sense, she might as well have been a robot from U3 that's stuck on repeat. It seems to me that people like the idea of a magical girl gag character, and ignore the actual execution as a result.
Truly this character could have been good even as a magical girl gag. It's very much possible had she actually been written well. Why did they even hype her up this much and give her this much screen time if she literally did NOTHING? For those who hated Kale and Caulifa, at least the scenes would pay off because they'd do something or eliminate someone, but Ribrianne, wow what a completely pointless character.
So in the NEP, I notice the last shot looks a lot like the shot of Piccolo getting killed by Nappa when he saved Gohan. Is this really going to be another "Piccolo saves Gohan" moment? Please TOEI, fucking enough already.
A breakdown in what way? Like they're pissed off that Ribrianne got eliminated?precita wrote:Kek, resetera/neogaf is having a breakdown over this episode and the tournament in general. It's so weird to see places with completely different reactions to the eps or the TOP in general than here.