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Volterra_90 on 06 October 2017
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Super_Boom said:
Volterra_90 said:
So I was watching some Dragon Ball Super these last weeks. I think there's probably an insane amount of backlash, I really enjoyed it. But I have a somewhat weird, and not popular opinion about the anime. For instance, I think that Dragon Ball is clearly superior to Dragon Ball Z, and that Z started to become enjoyable in the Buu Saga. Which I think is not a common thought, Buu is normally regarded as the worst Z saga. It's just that I feel that in the Buu Saga the show recover that sense of silly humour and magic which made me love the first show. Freeza/Cell saga were maybe too dark and grim, and humour was totally lost in the way. Super felt more similar to the first one than anything from Z (except for the Buu Saga), so I'm really happy about the result. Except from some animation issues, which were ironed out as the show advanced.

I wouldn't call myself the biggest fan of the series, but I can agree with this actually. The Buu arcs seem to get a lot of hate, and yet that's where I felt the most interested in it. The whole series required suspension of disbelief anyway, so dropping the sci-fi disguised fantasy helped make it feel more like the original series, which I also liked a lot more.

I think my favorite scene was when Goku was trying to use his Spirit Bomb but failing to get the level he needed, only for Mr. Satan to decide to join in and ask everyone in the world to help. It thought it was clever how everyone's least favorite character suddenly became the MVP.

Yeah, I'm also not the biggest fan, but it was my childhood so it has a very special place in my heart. Now, when I was younger I was fully fascinated with DBZ and thought that the original was boring. But when I rewatched it a few years ago, I thought that the original one was better. Because I enjoy more the adventure-comedic tone of the show, and DBZ was souless at times, because the focus were mostly fights, and they dragged out... a lot. Except for the Buu Saga, which felt like a mix between the darker tone of the beginning of Z and the original show. So when I took my nostalgia glasses off, I saw a better show in the original. And Super kind of reminds me of the original show at times. It's definitely more goofy, more comedic and though it doesn't reach the quality level of the first one, it feels like it has a quality jump. Also, arc resolutions were not as repetitive as DBZ. There were moments where I was genuninely surprised. And I saw more interesting fighting strategies too. I guess that some people might miss the epic tone of the Cell/Freeza saga, but I think it's fine as it is now.

And, yeah, I loved that arc resolution in the Buu saga. Some people were pissed because the Super Saiyan Goku and Gohan transformations were not definitive. But a whole world united to defeat a common enemy was earned, and beautiful. It was just not one OP person who defeated evil, it was several individuals, powerless, but united they won. 

Although, there's not denying that DBZ will always be the more popular show. But I still feel that it wasn't, generally speaking, the best DB had to offer. It felt like it was a flashy/epic DB, but hearthless.