oh the stuff the manga is doing with Buu is so good
For the first time in Super (and I think since he went good in general), he’s actually plot-relevant and an active character participating and it rules, he has such a weird and fun powerset now
oh the stuff the manga is doing with Buu is so good
For the first time in Super (and I think since he went good in general), he’s actually plot-relevant and an active character participating and it rules, he has such a weird and fun powerset now
I was Super (ha ha!) disappointed that the idea of using him in the tournament of power was a fakeout so that's good to hear
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
oh the stuff the manga is doing with Buu is so good
For the first time in Super (and I think since he went good in general), he’s actually plot-relevant and an active character participating and it rules, he has such a weird and fun powerset now
I was Super (ha ha!) disappointed that the idea of using him in the tournament of power was a fakeout so that's good to hear
I dunno, that fake-out gave us Frieza having to work with the good guys, probably the highlight of the tournament
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
The 10-man cap was also arbitrary though, they could have given us an 11-man cap and had both Freiza and Buu. Or 12-man and throw in Future Trunks or something.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
The 10-man cap was also arbitrary though, they could have given us an 11-man cap and had both Freiza and Buu. Or 12-man and throw in Future Trunks or something.
10 is a nice round number and lets you easily exclude yamcha
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Yamcha's last two canonical fights ended with him being
A: Impaled through the chest and
B: blown up by a cabbage monster
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
oh the stuff the manga is doing with Buu is so good
For the first time in Super (and I think since he went good in general), he’s actually plot-relevant and an active character participating and it rules, he has such a weird and fun powerset now
I was Super (ha ha!) disappointed that the idea of using him in the tournament of power was a fakeout so that's good to hear
I dunno, that fake-out gave us Frieza having to work with the good guys, probably the highlight of the tournament
They easily could have done both imo. What did Tien even fucking add?
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
oh the stuff the manga is doing with Buu is so good
For the first time in Super (and I think since he went good in general), he’s actually plot-relevant and an active character participating and it rules, he has such a weird and fun powerset now
I was Super (ha ha!) disappointed that the idea of using him in the tournament of power was a fakeout so that's good to hear
I dunno, that fake-out gave us Frieza having to work with the good guys, probably the highlight of the tournament
They easily could have done both imo. What did Tien even fucking add?
Checks notes
A signature move that was called trash way back in dragon ball.
Waiiiiiit
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
oh the stuff the manga is doing with Buu is so good
For the first time in Super (and I think since he went good in general), he’s actually plot-relevant and an active character participating and it rules, he has such a weird and fun powerset now
I was Super (ha ha!) disappointed that the idea of using him in the tournament of power was a fakeout so that's good to hear
I dunno, that fake-out gave us Frieza having to work with the good guys, probably the highlight of the tournament
Yeah not like they could have cut someone else like *checks notes*
Master roshi?
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Roshi had a good moment in the manga, they didn't really do anything with him in the anime though
If you want your legacy characters to participate in later shonen battles, that's fine. Say their training is keeping them somewhere in the neighborhood of relevancy. What you should NOT do is explicitly call them out as being too weak to even CONSIDER helping (as they very explicitly did with Roshi right when Raditz shows up) and then later when every enemy is EXPONENTIALLY stronger than back then, be like "actually, he's useful somehow!" Because that's just stupid to the level where I can't really handle it.
If you want your legacy characters to participate in later shonen battles, that's fine. Say their training is keeping them somewhere in the neighborhood of relevancy. What you should NOT do is explicitly call them out as being too weak to even CONSIDER helping (as they very explicitly did with Roshi right when Raditz shows up) and then later when every enemy is EXPONENTIALLY stronger than back then, be like "actually, he's useful somehow!" Because that's just stupid to the level where I can't really handle it.
I consider Super to have soft rebooted how power is handled in the DB universe and I’m happy to just roll with it. The ever increasing power levels was a bad idea.
Anyway I think every single character could theoretically have had value in the tournament but they just don’t manage to do any real character work during the ToP.
If you want your legacy characters to participate in later shonen battles, that's fine. Say their training is keeping them somewhere in the neighborhood of relevancy. What you should NOT do is explicitly call them out as being too weak to even CONSIDER helping (as they very explicitly did with Roshi right when Raditz shows up) and then later when every enemy is EXPONENTIALLY stronger than back then, be like "actually, he's useful somehow!" Because that's just stupid to the level where I can't really handle it.
I consider Super to have soft rebooted how power is handled in the DB universe and I’m happy to just roll with it. The ever increasing power levels was a bad idea.
Anyway I think every single character could theoretically have had value in the tournament but they just don’t manage to do any real character work during the ToP.
This soft reboot would make more sense if they didn't spotlight Gohan having lost a ton of ground by not training enough. So the idea that Roshi would have been viable what with... never training or doing anything physical at all since training Goku and Krillin as kids doesn't work at all even just within Super!
oh the stuff the manga is doing with Buu is so good
For the first time in Super (and I think since he went good in general), he’s actually plot-relevant and an active character participating and it rules, he has such a weird and fun powerset now
I was Super (ha ha!) disappointed that the idea of using him in the tournament of power was a fakeout so that's good to hear
I dunno, that fake-out gave us Frieza having to work with the good guys, probably the highlight of the tournament
If you ever watch the EP 131 live reactions on Youtube with the huge crowds in Mexico, it'll give you chills. It's like watching Batman and the Joker work together to take down Superman.
oh the stuff the manga is doing with Buu is so good
For the first time in Super (and I think since he went good in general), he’s actually plot-relevant and an active character participating and it rules, he has such a weird and fun powerset now
I was Super (ha ha!) disappointed that the idea of using him in the tournament of power was a fakeout so that's good to hear
I dunno, that fake-out gave us Frieza having to work with the good guys, probably the highlight of the tournament
If you ever watch the EP 131 live reactions on Youtube with the huge crowds in Mexico, it'll give you chills. It's like watching Batman and the Joker work together to take down Superman.
If you want your legacy characters to participate in later shonen battles, that's fine. Say their training is keeping them somewhere in the neighborhood of relevancy. What you should NOT do is explicitly call them out as being too weak to even CONSIDER helping (as they very explicitly did with Roshi right when Raditz shows up) and then later when every enemy is EXPONENTIALLY stronger than back then, be like "actually, he's useful somehow!" Because that's just stupid to the level where I can't really handle it.
I consider Super to have soft rebooted how power is handled in the DB universe and I’m happy to just roll with it. The ever increasing power levels was a bad idea.
Anyway I think every single character could theoretically have had value in the tournament but they just don’t manage to do any real character work during the ToP.
This soft reboot would make more sense if they didn't spotlight Gohan having lost a ton of ground by not training enough. So the idea that Roshi would have been viable what with... never training or doing anything physical at all since training Goku and Krillin as kids doesn't work at all even just within Super!
They actually do hand wave it away with "oh Roshi you've been doing a bunch of secret training, huh?"
If you want your legacy characters to participate in later shonen battles, that's fine. Say their training is keeping them somewhere in the neighborhood of relevancy. What you should NOT do is explicitly call them out as being too weak to even CONSIDER helping (as they very explicitly did with Roshi right when Raditz shows up) and then later when every enemy is EXPONENTIALLY stronger than back then, be like "actually, he's useful somehow!" Because that's just stupid to the level where I can't really handle it.
I consider Super to have soft rebooted how power is handled in the DB universe and I’m happy to just roll with it. The ever increasing power levels was a bad idea.
Anyway I think every single character could theoretically have had value in the tournament but they just don’t manage to do any real character work during the ToP.
This soft reboot would make more sense if they didn't spotlight Gohan having lost a ton of ground by not training enough. So the idea that Roshi would have been viable what with... never training or doing anything physical at all since training Goku and Krillin as kids doesn't work at all even just within Super!
They actually do hand wave it away with "oh Roshi you've been doing a bunch of secret training, huh?"
What else is he going to do on his private secluded island?
Well, sure, that. Obviously. But also training.
Starting to have some fun running the randomized Hyperbolic Time Chamber Arcade mode. By which I mean, I've started knowing how to better trip the AI up. Turns out spamming rushes followed by square-forward special works a lot of the time.
I have probably watched that clip 50 times and I will always laugh at "What? was Krillin busy?"
Coran Attack!
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Prior to Super having Goku take it up again, I thought Tien would have been a good candidate for learning Kaioken and having that be his thing. He did train with King Kai longer than all the others.
I reaaaaally hope Goku doesn't learn whatever new Yardrat stuff Vegeta is training for right now, it would be extremely cool to have their styles finally diverge rather than just "Goku gets a new thing and Vegeta plays catchup"
I watched the last dubbed episode and while I almost universally prefer the subbed dialogue, that little 'boop!' Whis gives when he pops Frieza back to life is very good.
I watched the last dubbed episode and while I almost universally prefer the subbed dialogue, that little 'boop!' Whis gives when he pops Frieza back to life is very good.
Dub Whis is very good.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
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Between that and the one from Metal Cooler movie
For the first time in Super (and I think since he went good in general), he’s actually plot-relevant and an active character participating and it rules, he has such a weird and fun powerset now
We really need a new season or movie announcement
I was Super (ha ha!) disappointed that the idea of using him in the tournament of power was a fakeout so that's good to hear
I dunno, that fake-out gave us Frieza having to work with the good guys, probably the highlight of the tournament
10 is a nice round number and lets you easily exclude yamcha
A: Impaled through the chest and
B: blown up by a cabbage monster
They easily could have done both imo. What did Tien even fucking add?
Checks notes
A signature move that was called trash way back in dragon ball.
Waiiiiiit
Yeah not like they could have cut someone else like *checks notes*
Master roshi?
Roshi gets that one cool and interesting scene, in the manga at least, which is more than you can say for a lot of the participants.
Tien is cool but he'd be my first choice to drop.
As a bonus, by cutting Roshi we also don’t have his recruitment episode or his “training” with Puar.
Or maybe Chiaozu, give him something to do
I consider Super to have soft rebooted how power is handled in the DB universe and I’m happy to just roll with it. The ever increasing power levels was a bad idea.
Anyway I think every single character could theoretically have had value in the tournament but they just don’t manage to do any real character work during the ToP.
This soft reboot would make more sense if they didn't spotlight Gohan having lost a ton of ground by not training enough. So the idea that Roshi would have been viable what with... never training or doing anything physical at all since training Goku and Krillin as kids doesn't work at all even just within Super!
If you ever watch the EP 131 live reactions on Youtube with the huge crowds in Mexico, it'll give you chills. It's like watching Batman and the Joker work together to take down Superman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9xBKizQntU
They actually do hand wave it away with "oh Roshi you've been doing a bunch of secret training, huh?"
What else is he going to do on his private secluded island?
Well, sure, that. Obviously. But also training.
DBZA once again spotlighted how great a "not relevant" character is and I hope Tien gets more to do later in Super.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7uD-cyJsp4
I have probably watched that clip 50 times and I will always laugh at "What? was Krillin busy?"
Coran Attack!
For me it’s
“Oh that’s a adoraSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT”
which doesn't seem his style at all but I'm curious to see that needle get threaded
Dub Whis is very good.
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