I wonder what the hype around that episode was about. I wouldnt even call Luffy and Sanjis dispute a fight. It was emotional for sure but man it didn't live up. Plus I heard the ratings were way down for that episode.
I watched, it was one of the best episodes of Dragon Ball Super.
Dragon Ball as a whole has been completely revitalized especially now with its new Dragon Ball department, not that it ever fell off the map to begin with. From what I see, DBS's manga style is very close to the original Dragon Ball and Toriyama is also doing the story so you can basically experience the original Dragon Ball from 30 years ago to an extent. I think it can go up as high as 400k in sales looking at the current trend. Boruto though is an understandable drop as it only begins a new story at the end of Volume 3, specifically the final chapter. Otherwise its been a straight adaptation of the movie. At least DBS strays away from the anime's plot.
More of the same. Its pretty much casting on nostalgia at this point hence why they brought back Freiza and created new forms. The only reason people started caring again is because it had a really bad start so any sort of new content would have been acceptable.Dragon Ball Super is more of the same or it actually has something different? Meaning, there are fillers and the fillers are good?
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Yeah it didn't do well at all which was a surprise. The DBS special should do well though since as tedious as it was it, especially with that god awful Brianne fight, it was pretty good as a spectacle.
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Yeah I'm surprise how DBS exploded after the Goku Black arc and essentially brought DB to the limelight after Toei spent five years dicking around before Battle of Gods. I always thought that Boruto did well because it was the final canon story in the series and not because people were really interested in seeing the "next generation" so I'm not surprised that its performing the way it is now.
To be fair the last few minutes of the fight was actually well animated, including the first bit fight with Brianne at the beginning of the special, because Yuya Takahashi was at helm if it looks decisively average its only because its wedged between some uninspired choreography (including reusing animation from the opening sequence). So yeah it looking average by any standard but DBS standards.
Not really. The manga and the anime are created with Toriyama outline and character designs and because of it, both the anime and manga shares the same plot, characters and designs but how they reach to each point is slightly different. Toyotaro makes the story in the manga with Toriyama as a supervisor (since he's a mangaka and not part of anime industry) and Toei makes the anime utilizing Toriyama outlines too.
For me it's just a fun follow up to DBZ. It's not perfect, but i enjoy seeing the characters in new situations.
At least that difference in execution of the plot points serves as an incentive to buy the volumes. While DBS's manga has also been almost an adaption of the anime, the art is also more bearable in the beginning compared to the huge difference seen in Boruto from Naruto Gaiden. That takes a while to get fully used to. We'll have to see if Boruto is able to increase in sales now that the volumes finally begin a completely new, original story.
Just my personal opinion on this, but I think they should've eased people into this series before they gave it the cover. Like having the MC (It's suppose to be the dog right?) by having it appear as a background character on other covers first then once people get used to seeing it then give it its own cover page just so Jump doesn't have to always have the yes this is jump plastered on the cover page.
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Honestly i didn't hate it. It wasn't funny to me but it wasn't boring either. I didn't get the Japanese references but that didn't bother me at all and Viz put who they were on there so that helped out haha.
