What if the SOCIAL MEDIA had existed back during the Buu Saga?

[tonysoprano300]

Gohan is the first Saiyan to be able to access his whole power, without relying on any transformation. Gohan needed to be still for 24 hours, which isn't easy.

I mean, it easy because he's getting his power up handed to him. No fighting, no training, no emotional trauma just "here ya go". It's a saving grace of the story that Gohan isn't the one who defeats Majin Boo the story repeats a similar plot beat from Daimao arc (hero gets power up given to them and then saves the day) and says "sike" even though it probably intended to play that same plot point straight

And it's really tiring and meandering in the Majin Buu arc, too. At least the power up in the Daimaou arc failing didn't lead to numerous extra fights like it did in the Majin Buu arc.

Man there really was an insane amount of fake-outs in every arc post Saiyan Saga, the Island fight in the Cell arc alone consists of characters getting advantages through a power up only for their opponent to one-up them by getting a power up of their own. Just an endless rotation of characters being hyped up and then written out of the fight.

I could see the reaction to Buu being very similar to the reaction to the moro arc in this respect.

The Boo arc itself is as long as the Namek arc (72 episodes*) with way more going on so I don't know if fans could really argue it drags any worse that that.


* I guess if you count the Saiyaman arc as part of the Boo arc it's 92 episodes but then you'd have to play fair and count the Saiyan saga and Namek saga as a single arc, since one leads directly into the next, and that's 107 episodes

I think the difference is that the saiyan saga works as a standalone story whereas the great saiyaman stuff doesn’t

[Vhanos]

the internet was alive and well both for the japanese broadcast and western ones... Op bro what you smokin

Yes, you're right. In the days when people had stuff like AOL or other programs in the earlier days of the internet.