The biggest reason I love Super is the love it gives to Vegeta. It's also almost a celebration of why fans love the Dragon Ball series, from the old reoccurring characters (minus Launch) to gags in the fandom (the Yamcha hole). There was never a moment in Super where I felt the story was dragging on, like in the Namek part of Z, or where the filler was hard to sit through, like the Black Water Mist arc. Or you could find the chapters online through less legitimate means.ģ years Super isn't as good as the best of Z, but it's better than the worst of Z (which is honestly not that bad). Aside from chapter one, you'll have to buy the prior chapters in volumes 1-3 off Amazon or wherever.
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Some chapters unfortunately suffer from bad pacing though as he only puts out one chapter a month and can't keep up with the anime (he skipped the Resurrection F arc completely) but regardless, it's cool to see a different take on the story.Īnyway, chapters going back to March last year are available for free on the VIZ website. Toyotaro does really awesome stuff in some chapters and then not so great stuff in other chapters just like the anime has great episodes and rough ones, but generally speaking the powerscaling, Goku's character, and the artwork is all more consistent than the anime. The anime is written by writers at Toei Animation and the Manga is written by Toyotaro (Toriyama's understudy? Apprentice? Right hand man? I dunno) but both are based on the story outline provided by Toriyama so both versions are technically canon, yet different. I skimmed through the thread and didn't see it mentioned but I'd also highly recommend reading the manga version. They cleaned lots of that up for the DVD/Blu-ray releases and they of course used that footage for the dub versions too. The notoriously bad animation from some of the early episodes isn't as bad so long as you're not watching the original Japanese broadcast versions. Also, I'm not sure, but I think that some details of these episodes might be referenced later on the show.Īt first I was going to say watch the movies and skip those episodes, but then I remembered some of the fun stuff in the early episodes you'll miss out on if you do that (Vegeta taking Trunks out for a day like he promised him in the Buu saga, Goku and Vegeta training to use God ki, etc.) they fill in a few blanks from the movies and it's interesting to see the changes they made from the movies to the episodes. Satan, Goku and Vegeta's new training, etc. I say this because the story and animation on the movies are better than their versions of the show but I also included those episodes because they have funny stuff about the characters' lives that aren't part of the movies and most of that extra stuff is nice, like Vegeta going on a family trip, Goku going to the market and encountering Mr. If you really want to watch Super, then watch watch episodes 1,2,3 and 4. The best of Super are the "slice of life" episodes, the comedy, and the references to original Dragon Ball. The animation and artstyle are stiff and uncreative and even though there are really good ideas for the arcs with some nice concepts and plot points, the story itself is bland and the endings of each arc are anti-climatic, with very convenient and unnatural ass-pulls. Now that Super is over and I can look back to it, it's not that good. If you casually like Dragon Ball and you're curious to know what's next but don't really want to bother that much unless it's good, then just watch the movies and leave it like that. Having watched the movies and all of Super, here's my two suggestions: But Toriyama also changes things from the movies to the show, so if you're way into the lore, it's important to see both. The movies do get retold in the show, but the animation is significantly worse. He's not the only one to suffer that problem either.Īs for what to watch, I said all of it. He'll seem like he's making real personal growth one second, and then completely relapse the next. This is most infuriating if you like Vegeta. While Toriyama is still in charge of Dragon Ball, he's not as hands on on every single episode. The biggest flaw for me in Super is the inconsistent writing. With that public statement all stakes and tension went out the window. There are zero stakes to literally anything though because they've gone on record stating that Super takes place between the death of Buu and the World Martial Arts Tournament, keeping the very last scene in Z as canon. An important thing to remember is, "Power levels are bullshit."Īs for Super, it's kinda dumb fun. As absurd as the power level stuff has gotten, Uub is still referenced as being alive and growing in power during Super.
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