Innagadadavida wrote:The Buu saga was the absolute best saga of the Dragon Ball Z anime, and Majin Buu is the best villain of the entire series.
Were there tons of improvisations? Absolutely. But, this was a common practice with Dragon Ball. Personally I believe the worst offender of random needless improv was the Cell saga. The Buu saga had the perfect balance of humor and action. There was no more gung-ho seriousness and the show was all the better for it. The anime really hit its stride in terms of reasonable filler; I don't remember very many boring moments or dreaded cut-aways in the Buu saga, where as Namek and Cell games was riddled with them. There were tons of cool moves and transformations introduced (Fusion, Super Saiyan 3, Super Ghost Kamakaze, Beam Sword). The SciFi stuff is now mostly absent in favor of magic, which is where the series began. It was the best way to wrap it all up.
And Buu was the best villain because he was a legitimate threat. Freeza was small potatoes and Cell had his own obligations before he started being threatening. Majin Buu is more than just a monster, words can not describe what he is. He has no thoughts, no honor, no needs or wants, nothing but the burning desire for the destruction of everything. Also he was PINK and loves candy! It's a perfect unsettling juxtaposition to accentuate his chaotic nature and over-all absurdity. Even still, he posed a threat to all of existence; Heaven, Hell, Living Rhelm the Kaioshin Rhelm... The God of all creation was shitting his boots over Buu. How epic is that? Way more epic than bug man and hermaphrodite.
Wait, what? No offence, but Majin Boo Saga had to be the worst arc in the whole of Dragon Ball.
Majin Boo, while being a somewhat unique "villain", wasn't all that villainous, not compared to the likes of Vegeta and Freeza. The anime filler was ridiculous and poorly planned. The entire arc was riddled with blatant inconsistencies. At least the Freeza & Cell arcs went somewhere new with their sci-fi element.
There were cool moves and transformations in the Freeza & Cell arcs as well. Freeza Arc introduced Super Saiyan, Freeza's transformations. Cell Arc introduced Super Saiyan 2nd Grade & Super Saiyan 3rd Grade, Super Saiyan 2, 16's Hell's Flash, Final Flash. Perhaps Boo Arc had more moves and transformations, but that's not the main thing that makes an arc great.
Majin Boo wasn't a "legitimate" threat because, despite his strength and regeneration (the latter of which was ridiculously overused and was the main reason for his survival), he had the mindset of a child and all it took to stop him was saying "I think it's wrong". If you think Freeza was "small potatoes", then you haven't watched/read the Freeza Arc. He was the ruler of at least 79 planets, had built an intergalactic empire and was feared throughout the galaxy, even by Kaiô-Sama. "Also he was PINK and loves candy"? So what?
Kaiôshin was not "The God of all creation". There's no proof of that. Gods in Dragon Ball are very different to the gods percieved in the Western world. The gods in Dragon Ball are more like those Eastern gods.
And just because Cell looked like a bug and Freeza had feminine qualities doesn't make them any less of villains. You can't give them marks down just because of their character designs. I could do the same thing and say Majin Boo is less of a villain because he's a big, fat pink blob and wears a cape.
Don't get me wrong, Majin Boo Arc was fun and light-hearted while managing to maintaining the balance of action and seriousness, and it was good to see Toriyama going back to his gag roots. But sometimes it didn't take itself too seriously, and the arc itself was riddled with glaring inconsistencies that did make you stop and think, not to mention the awful plot devices twisted for plot convenience.
That's just my opinion.
