Good chapter, I wouldn't say great chapter, but good chapter and at least a
necessary chapter.
With that, I mean that this chapter and the 4 chapters before, is about Goku and Vegeta fighting Granolah, without much story telling, more or less. It also means that when DBS manga volume 17 comes out, that book is all about fighting matches against Granolah. I think it can be a bit too much focus almost entirely on fighting. Hopefully it gets funnier and more meaningful to read, when you're able to read it in all of it's entirety, like many of you say too. But as a monthly manga, I think the latest chapters are getting a bit one-sided thematically. Don't misunderstand me, I love getting new DB material, and if having a lot of chapters focusing almost only on fighting, means getting more new DB material, at least for a while, fine by me. It's just if I
were to decide the content of the latest chapters, I would have liked it a bit different
By necessary, I mean that in this chapter, we're getting some details, that I needed at least.
One of these things is Vegeta's cognition that he can't put behind all the character development he have gotten since the saiyan arc. I love Vegeta's new form, but I didn't like how he said he didn't care about the fate of his saiyan race and how he subverted back to his saiyan saga unfeeling self. This chapter proved that Vegeta indeed have gone through his character development and grown as a character that has feelings. I like that.
Furthermore, Granolah is slowly, but steadily acknowledging he is attacking the wrong people and is just repeating his own history by fighting Goku and Vegeta. Great to see some more from Granolah's past! And I can't wait the see what Bardock did and if Vegeta has something to say about this.
As a big fan of Dragon Ball, I should be expected to hate the live action movie "Dragon Ball: Evolution", but I don't. I don't like it because of the content, but because it gave us Dragon Ball Super:
"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.