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And, well, since FGO itself is a completely absurd parody setting half the time, FGO carnival phantasm just didn't have quite the same kick?
Edit: Like nothing that show did was funnier or more ridiculous than the original FGO Jalter event.
The characters I could recognize as MHA before watching it were All Might, Deku, and the pink bug girl.
Now after having seen the entire first season, I know jack shit about the pink bug girl. She's just stood around and had a few lines. I'm not even sure we saw her ever use her power. I don't know why it bugs me that one of the most recognizable characters to me just did absolutely nothing.
On another note (Episode 12 spoilers):
Also her recurring copyright infringement is funny.
While very far from the most egregious example of what I was talking about before, I'm not impressed by this scene at all, and is pretty emblematic of why I don't like the way UFOTable puts together action scenes these days. Indistinct and unfollowable flashing lights, explosion, everybody stands 10-20 feet and yells a recap to each other/internally about what happened, repeat until one person arbitrarily falls down after an explosion. There's no actual choreography, use of music and sound, flow, banter, ups or downs, use of how they fight to show or exemplify the characters themselves, or even space for things like humor like you'd see in a Jackie Chan fight (or Horizon/Rage of Bahamut for an anime version), just flashing lights and explosions in between explainations. It's a lot of raw animation frames, but the direction itself is lacking so much of what really elevates a scene, action or otherwise. You don't even need all those pauses or narration at all. Dead Fantasy is one of the most impressive pieces of fight animation ever produced still to this day, and it ain't got a single word of dialogue.
The one with Aoko and Shiki comes to mind
I'm not really sure why you're watching the show when it's very clear you don't like what it does
I'm not saying you should like it, to each their own, but I'm not really sure what the draw is if you find its main strengths so offputting
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Tsukihime beach volleyball is also great
I actually thought that was one of the better arcs for Super, but man is Goku dumb as bricks for everything to happen the way it does
Yeah, I definitely think ufotable fights rely too much on "there's a lot of motion!" without actually making that motion interesting.
There's some cuts of theirs I really like (the first moments of Saber vs Lancer and Lancer vs Archer in UBW, basically anything with big impact clash frames), but few really come together as a full package imo.
I thought they walked that back and said those universes were going to get deleted anyways, and Goku actually saved them by suggesting the tournament?
Edit: Oh wait, the story arc before that one. I memory-holed that arc's ending because it was so awful.
You must like the ending of the story mode in Dragon Ball FighterZ.
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The obvious meta reason is that this is why she doesn't appear in any other Dragon Ball media, but I still thought it was pretty dumb.
Trunks should have been in the ToP, dammit. Just increase the limit to 12 fighters per universe instead of 11. Hell, make it 13 and put Buu back in.
I think it's better than making her another battle buddy who only shows up to support the main cast but mostly just react on the sidelines
Don't get me wrong this was a problem in Z too but Super ups that a alot. The two Dragon Ball tropes I like the least is Goku Defying Death and Everyone Becomes Friends.
They do need to let characters other than Goku or Vegeta shine more often, though. That's actually why I liked 17 in the Tournament of Power. He kicked ass there!
Was he technically a cyborg? I aways got the impression he was all robutt. I know he was based on a human but I though that was just aesthetics.
Yeah from what I remember the backstory on 16 was that after Dr. Gero's son died he made a robot in his image, but he didn't have human parts like the other androids.
No matter how much the power levels inflate, Krillin will always have "Goku's best friend" to fall back on.
Meanwhile Tien's "serious guy" niche has been replaced by other characters like three times.
1. Time travel affects all the universes at once, not just the universe it occurs in. This means one parallel timeline is suddenly 24. Or 36? I forget how many universes there are, point is it's a lot.
2. Time travel rings that spawn a new one for each parallel timeline when Trunks alone caused at least three branches in Z: he kills Androids and kills Cell (Future Trunks timeline), he kills Androids and gets killed by Cell (who then travels back in time and oh good that made more rings didn't it), he prevents the Androids from rampaging and kills Cell (Z timeline). The instant that box was opened both Kai's should have died from the resulting shrapnel explosion as infinity rings filled existence.
I liked it the more the developed on it but it felt a bit cheap with Resurrection F. Still, I enjoyed it more than I didn't but it was the start of fan service mode for Super. Very good in the Broly movie though.
I didn't like the Future Trunks aspect at all, better off going a completely different route. Give me alternate timeline Future Goten!
it's after Trunks tells them all about his bad future, and Bulma suggests they use the dragon balls to find Gero and stop him before he creates the androids in the first place. And you know what happens?
Goku wines that he doesn't want to do that, because he really wants to fight the androids. And Vegeta agrees and threatens to kill anyone who tries it.
And this pretty much breaks Dragon Ball forever for me. I know this series is pretty dumb and silly. But this (and a few other things, but especially this) just angered me on such a primal level that I can't really think of it being good in any sense of word, ever again. This is just so critically stupid. I hate these characters, I hate these stories, just hate it.
I watched a clip in a tweet. Like I said, I don't watch the show itself, and didn't make it past the initial Saber/Lancer fight of Zero, but when people talk things up, I get curious and look to see if things genuinely are different or better than my initial impressions, so I've seen a lot of the 'big' moments. Sometimes, like I said with Naruto, I am pretty impressed. Not enough to subject myself to the all the rest of the shounen package, but I can appreciate stuff like this scene. It's incredibly well animated and choreographed in a way that modern UFOTable stuff rarely is, even if lacking the kind of fun banter you get in something Spectacular Spiderman or Horizon.
It's also how I ended up watching all of Full Moon o Sagashite, because I found out about the big reveal and from what I recall at least, it's a hell of a scene, though the show is about terminally ill 14 year old girls and suicidal angles, so possibly not my most aware moment.
The premise of the movie is that Frieza achieved a new transformation that puts him on par with Super Saiyan God but then it turns out no he's still not an actual threat because he can't sustain it and also Goku could have gone Blue at any time to smoke him, which is basically what the ending did.