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It's a good review, but IMHO it's doing Dragon Ball a bit of a disservice about how it handled the heel-face turns.
- Yamcha and Vegeta each respectively came around due to alliances of convenience followed by falling for Bulma. Repeatedly trailing behind Goku is what almost made Vegeta go back to being a villain.
- My memory re: Tien in original Dragonball is hazy, but IIRC he fought Goku to a draw in the tournament, agreed to help the others when Piccolo (senior) became a global threat, and it was training with the others at Roshi's house while he was recuperating that brought him around to just being a friendly rival.
- Piccolo still wanted to become strong enough to defeat Goku to avenge his father and take over the world right up until the Raditz fight, then he needed to train Gohan to fight Nappa & Vegeta. After that debacle he was stuck on King Kai's world for a time, and then he merged with Nail (a good guy) on Namek, etc. But basically becoming Gohan's surrogate father is what changed him.
Basically, none of them turned because Goku was stronger. They all turned because of forming bonds with Goku's friends & loved ones while dealing with mutual enemies.Like sure, anime protagonists usually don't have parents around for whatever reason, but the fact that no one was supposedly in Naruto's life at all aside from Iruka for that one year in the Academy and maybe the Third Hokage just stretches my immersion a little too much.
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The closest it gets is Piccolo going WAIT NO I LIKE GOHAN and essentially becoming a full bore Good Guy from dying on and then Vegeta realizing wait no his son is dying is bad
They aren't awful but they're fairly sudden and the genesis of their turns is absolutely grounded in Goku beating their asses and their wanting to stick by him/continue to face him to get stronger
this seems cute, and also very funny
Yeah, that always made no sense. You have a child weapon capable of in theory curbstomping entire cities out of hte way!
Better leave him teh hell alone.
(I'd be fascinated and also probably a bit repulsed to see a take on Naruto that leaned into the tailed beasts as Weapons of Mass Destruction + the whole child soldiers thing. It's still a goddamn crime that we only got really exposed to what, 3 of the beasts?)
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IT'S SO GOOD
I love all of these idiot children!!!
Aoi Koga as Kaguya as always gives her all
Hayasaka is being awesome
Miko Iino is properly introduced
and one important secondary character gets her first dialogue line in the series!
As always, brilliant episode.
Yes. Yes she did.
I also love her asking the girls who they like relationship wise... and they all declare her, while blushing furiously.
She of course thinks they're being Just Friends. Because she apparently has negative points in social skills.
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I know 0 about this show, but I have watched the first episode.
Yes yes, I am onboard for this train wreck. It looks fun.
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I love how utterly genuine she is. Just bits like her mucking in to sort out the fields, and genuinely thinking she's being done a favour by being allowed to tinker with them.
(Also that all of her training means that earth bump can now... Knock somone off balance. Oh you loveable idiot)
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But if they were going to focus on child weapons, Naruto probably would have (should have?) gone feral a lot sooner than he did. Kurama initially was always trying to escape and control Naruto, there's no reason he wouldn't listen to him if no one else talked to Naruto or even gave a shit.
I basically never watched any of the anime past the transition to shipudden, so i woudlnt know. Going by the manga though, the vast majority of the Jinchuriki and tailed beasts are pretty bit players, which just... rankled for me, i guess. (Some of them had very good visual designs! HOW ARE YOU WASTE INTERESTING VISUAL DESIGNS)
Look, i've got priorties, okay?
*shrug* Naruto is done, and what it was was pretty okay, even if i do find my self wondering what could have been.
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It's very cute and wholesome
I still chuckle thinking about episode 1
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*heroine crying*
"You're my friend!"
*heroine cries harder*
Yeah. I don't know about anything other than the anime, so I don't know what world building they're skipping, but I can't shake the feeling that back in Season 1
Also, the whole 'Child Labour Is Good' thing is getting pretty iffy.
That movie is insane and amazing. So glad you all recommended it.
Felt like an episode of looney toons in some ways I did not expect.
I am super smitten with it tho.
Yeah, but they seem to be positioning it as the good, wholesome solution to the problem, rather than a hopefully temporary necessary evil. I get that everybody else can see it as an actual solution, but Main really should know better.
Or she does know better. Any person with a passing understanding of history knows how terrible just living was until very recently and the idea of somehow making a child labor free society when we haven't even accomplished that in the modern era in parts of the world is... Yeah.
Maybe find a way to skip over child coal miners, but them kids gotta work to eat. The alternative is murdering children you don't need because they have no value. Which I guess is also a solution some places have tried but it doesn't seem like an improvement.
Nothing wrong with making the best of a situation, can't solve society.
I think she's actually 7 now because it's a year since she reincarnated. I wish the show would play up the whole putting one face for the priests and another for the rest thing, because her cheerfully saying "those who don't work don't eat" to a room full of children who were very recently locked in dark room starving to death was pretty shitty.