Dragon Ball GT

Picking up where Dragonball Z left off, Dragonball GT is considered by many as a poor final chapter to the Dragonball franchise. In some cases, they are right, as this is the only series not based off of Toriyama's manga and said manga-ka also had little to do with the series. However, judging it solely on that is unfair, so I'll try to do my best at giving GT a proper review.

The one major thing that Dragonball GT suffers from is an identity crisis. It starts off as a primarily comedy anime with action as a secondary, something that worked very well for Dragonball and ... occasionally worked here as well. Unfortunately, the series received poor ratings, mainly because everyone wanted more action and less goofing off. At about Episode 17, the focus shifted from comedy to action, and that's also when the plot started to suffer. It's difficult to be original when one uses plot devices that have been seen in so many other anime, not to mention done better. And as well all know, with a lack of originality comes boredom. At least this series is "only" 64 episodes in length, so it's not as much of a chore to sit through as, say, Dragonball Z.

On an more positive note, the art and animation received a nice upgrade. Some of the character designs are a bit iffy, but it's still passable. The music is also rather good, especially the opening, DAN DAN Kokoro Hikareteku, and all four endings. I can safely say that I enjoy listening to all five songs on a regular basis. The fights are enjoyable more often than not, though once again, I've seen better...much better.

It may be far from perfect, but Dragonball GT at least makes an attempt to be entertaining. If you still want to watch, then by all means, go for it. Just don't expect too much, and enjoy the opening and endings as they come.

People need to know, DBGT was created for advertising purposes in the mid 90s. Don't take it too seriously.

DB and DBZ where based on the mange, they had finished, along with the manga.
After the series ended, a new range of games in Japan where due to come out, his is the reason why this mediocre-at-best series was released, in order to keep the franchise frest in people's minds.

Breifing over...


DBGT focuses a lot on Goku's granddaughter Pan, a vaccant, needy teenager who freeloads on Trunks' spaceship as he prepares to go into search in serach of the dragonballs, universewide, with Goku.

The reason behind this ... adventure is... Goku has been turned into a child by old Dragonball villian Pilaf, the dragonballs are scattered throughout the universe for some reason I can't remember, the group must search for them in order to restore Goku to his adult form.

What is annoying about 'GT is that eveything you have come to love has changed:
-Goku was an innocent child in Dragonball and an immature adult in DBZ, yet in GT, he's fairly wise and not too charasmatic
- Characters that have been with us for a while, those we have come to like, such as; Gohan, Bulma, Vegeta, Roshi and Piccolo are a rare sightthroughout most of the series
- Trunks' becomes a main, yet his personality seems to have completly changed; future Trunks was cool, present Trunks was a loveable brat, GT Trunks is a stressed out yet mellow businessman with no particular personality or say in events


On the plus side, DBGT is better than DB evolution?

Dragon Ball Gt the 3rd db Series that came out some time after dbz

The first arc is a space jurney to find the dragon balls or rip earth oh and goku is now a child so in order to save the earth child goku, sakura of dragon ball (pan) and trunks (not future trunks) hop into a spaceship and head out on a jurney to find the dragon balls, after that we got 3 other arcs wich as ideas 2 of them could have been great but the execution wasn't good enough.

The animation is worse than the original series from the 80s and had a ... way too different tone from what all other dragon balls before and after it.

The 3 most important things for a dragon ball series are fights, narrative and characters, the narrative is meh and the fights are some of the worse in the series but they are still good.
The characters are suprisingly interesting:
Pan (sakura v2), small robot, Trunks with drip and goku with braincells are the main squad
Vegeta with no pride and almost no screentime (super vegeta would spit in his face)
playboy goten and gohan who isnt just a nerd and found a way to balance training and have a life, uub.

Overall: 6,7/10
Watch only if you are a dragon ball fan

story: they just needed some reason for it to keep going

art: same as earlier, might be slightly more dark/gritty, i dont know

sound: its like dbz

character: they had some different aliens, but most of them fought the same. i also would have rather had other people get stronger and not just goku/vegeta

enjoyment: it was alright cause it was just adventures going on to get the ballz. i did find some of the 'negative dragon' things cool.

GT é o fundo do poço desse universo, é tão medíocre que os seus próprios criadores tentam ao máximo fingir que esse anime nunca aconteceu, como em todo Dragon Ball, a história não é o melhor, não é bem desenvolvida, e sem muito plot, a animação piorou depois do Z, estava boa e ficou pior, parece que foi feita de mau gosto, a trilha sonora é indiscutível, Dragon Ball sempre acertou nesse quesito, os personagens não são tão carismáticos quanto antes, não tem uma personalidade formada, ainda era criança quando assisti, mas hoje vejo o quão ruim é, e ainda tiveram a coragem de não ... explicar o final, quando você terminar, não vai entender nada e vai procurar ajuda na net para ver oq as outras pessoas acharam.

Before I'll start the review I must say that don't get me worng, I AM THE NUMBER 1 DRAGONBALL Z fan out there and I have no doubt about it. So you may ask: "how can a claimed number 1 fan can
give such low score to DBGT?" well here is the answer:

Am I the only one who noticed that goku is the ONLY fighter that still into fighting?? everyone continued with their lives and quit fighting. Ghoan is now studing and look nerd as ever, Goten is a teenage boy who only wants girls, nobody doesn't know where piccolo is witch is kinda sad if ... you ask me, they turend Trunks to some gay kid and not the badass trunks we saw from the future in DBZ, and the worst part of it is that EVEN VEGETA has quit fighting!! how vegeta can quit fighting when all his dream is to be a better warrior the Goku (or Kakarot as vegeta would have prefered)!
He doesn't even trying to achieve super saiyan 3 how he can be so calmed about this?!?!

In DBGT we see a new form of Goku, that's right SUPER SAIYAN 4! the scene where he's transforming is absolutely AMAZING but when he finally achieved the form he only uses super saiyan 4, the series neglected super saiyan 2 Completely.

Goku became very selfish and he doesn't fell the same person in DBGT. Every time one of the Z fighter is offering to help Goku he said Stupid stuff like "This is my fight", "I have to do this alone" and thinks the world depends on him.

Altough this series was REALLY BAD I have to admit that eventually the last episode was SO WORTH it!
that was the episode where they sum up all the story starting from "Dragonball" until nowdays.
it's been something like 100 years or somthing and everyone died exept Goku for some reason and hes looking at the tournament and smiling.
This episode was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! then Goku is hoping on his cloud Nimbus and he is saying "until we meet again guys" and the pair of words "THE END" is showing on the screen. I couldn't help it and I cried like a baby when I saw this damn pair words. It was one of the best moments of my life

---Dcm18's quick reviews---

Story: 7 (Starts really bad but later on turns out ok)
Art: 3 (Very poor, worse than it's prequel)
Sound: 8 (The music during the fights got a significant upgrade, more upbeat)
Character: 5 (Every good character gets worse...and pan is annoying as hell)
Enjoyment: 7 (Not much but watchable)

Overall: 6.0 (Fair ending to a great franchise, maybe this one shoul've never been done...)

As a massive franchise, Dragon Ball maintained its status as the father of shonen because of its uniqueness, single handedly creating the battle genre. Even with the occasional bumpy rides of Dragon Ball Z (mostly on the Buu Saga), it managed to have an interesting story with memorable moments, about interesting characters. And GT learned nothing from it.
Watching the show knowing beforehand that Akira Toriyama only managed the character designs, i was curious of how Toei would guide the story. Short answer; it had great potential, but failed hard in the execution. Leaving few redeeming qualities (one of them being the opening, the best in ... the series).

The story starts off showing everyone after the end of the original series, it's a great way to start, sure, but right after, the hunt for the black star dragon balls begins, and it's just a more mature morning kid's cartoon, almost as if capitalizing the name of Dragon Ball just so its relevance doesn't die out after the original ended, just so it could putt and sell as much merchandising as possible.
The Baby saga is where things start to kick it, it has an overarching plot, so the episode by episode ordeals are left out, but the rest of the story just feels like it wasn't planned out, with predictable writting and poor pacing.
In everyway it feels like a downgrade in terms of story; Goku being a child, feels like his progression was haulted with no believable purpose (a character that we are shown every step of his growth from the beginning), the rest of the cast are just a shadow of their former self, only for Goku to safe. Even the SS4 transformation is the least memorable one story wise, no build up like SS1 or SS2 Gohan. The action is pretty generic, with no interesting interactions between the characters.

The animation is good, receveing an upgrade, with a more defined line quality and animation. The quality manages to maintain the same throughout, and the characters design are passable, except for SS4, it has a great design, being the only way it stands out from the previous Super Saiyan transformations

Character wise, the main trio (Goku, Pan and Trunks) have an interesting dinamic, but nothing really hits home. Especialy Pan, she doesn't have any growth and only causes trouble, we are left expecting in many occasions her moment to shine but it never shows up. Trunks is no better, just forgettable throughout, and overshadowed in the end by literally everyone else.

Overall, it feels like a show trying to be and feel like Dragon Ball but not achieving it. Fights and transformations don't cut it, i was not invested because nothing really meant anything, there were no stakes involved in most of the fights, the few good scenes relied on nostalgia (the ending comes to mind), and don't get me wrong, it is a good ending and a fitting one, but the way it reached that point was forgettable and a chore to watch.

1) The Nail Equation is making the whole plot irrelevant because the fusion between Piccolo, Nail and Kami isn't the same as Piccolo (Daimao) and Kami so the Dragon Balls with black stars by that logic can't be used. And the fact is Goku had to take Dende in order to replace Kami because the fusion between Piccolo/Nail and Kami made the Dragon Balls with red stars useless.

2) You can't turn into an Oozaru if you're watching the Earth, the Moon has special waves which are transforming Saiyajins in Oozaru. If Moon = Earth then Radditz, Nappa and Vegeta would have died when they arrived ... on earth because they would have turned into Oozaru in their spaceships.

3) The staff forgot the ultimate state, Gohan was, is and always will be in his ultimate form. His ultimate form IS his base form since the end of the Buu saga. All of his powers were unlocked, he's always at his max, he could most likely turned into a SSJ again but he wouldn't be stronger, only his look would change but his power remain the exact same and on top of that it'll affect his life time. So it can make him weaker but there shouldn't be any reason for him to use SSJ because like I said he's suppose to be at his max already and all of his strenght is unlocked so even with a SSJ4 or 7 or 8 his power should be the exact same. And in GT nobody (old Kai, Gohan himself or whatever) is referring to this form again, nothing is explained and nobody is surprised... It's like "nothing happened".

4) The lack of SSj2 doesn't make sense, even for Goten and Trunks. They're clearly able to turn into SSJ like nothing and they mastered the SSJ3 in fusion (a fusion that GT forgot...again) and they can't use the SSJ2 20 years later? Ok...It seems the others forgot about that form too anyways.

5) Villains don't keep their bodies in hell, it's stated by Piccolo when Vegeta was against Fat Buu so Dr.Gero and Myu can't drink wine in hell, can't create a second android 17, can't bring villains on earth, can't connect two androids 17 and they can't keep their memories in hell.
This whole saga doesn't make sense.
And on top of that we can see Coola when the villains are coming back next to android 19 (which can't be here according to the book 'cause dolls have no soul).

6) Another thing, Shenron can't turn Goku into a kid again. He can't because Goku is stronger than he is, Shenron couldn't kill the Z-warriors ennemies or make changes on android 18's body for the exact same reason.

7) And in SSJ4 Goku's adult for no particular reason except for the look but other than that there is no explanation whatsoever.

8) The power levels don't make sense at all. It's creating inconsistencies everywhere. Goku losing to a regular child at the Tenkaichi Budokai doesn't make sense and was the most frustrating scene I ever witnessed. GT has inconsistencies and plotholes, and there are too many choices which are wrong and even when they're trying it's not funny, it was only done for marchandising and for money.

9) Plotholes and inconsistencies aside many are out of their characters, Tien and Yamcha at the very end when the Dragon Balls weren't here anymore did not help the people, Tien was taking a shower and Yamcha was reparing his bike (from the end of episode 64). Even if they are useless in the context it's pretty hard to argue or to prove that at such time they wouldn't show up at least to help the GT-warriors (give their strenght) or the regular peoples who were threatened by the fight against Li Shenron. Even in the Baby saga they didn't do a damn thing, even if it's hopeless Tien's character would help in vain (Buu saga for exemple, Fukkatsu no F) same goes for Krillin, Yamcha AND Piccolo.

10) Gohan one shoted Piccolo but come on, Piccolo unlike Gohan is still training and it doesn't take weeks for someone like Piccolo to regenerate himself and to help the non-Baby elements (what was he doing the whole time?).

That's the problems I had with GT, then Dragon Ball Super came out and did a worst job in many aspects. Now I look at GT and I'm like, was it really "that bad?". Maybe but the animation was outstanding, the musics were "ok" and many fights were entertaining, the series had a different approach and moral than the earlier works and manages to deliver it through an impactful and emotional ending. Its conclusion was probably better than the original one and despite its flaws it brought something new to the series.

When I first started Dragon Ball GT I had hopes that it wouldn't be as bad as people said it was. I was just coming off the back of DBZ and Super and I actually thought Super was much better than I had been led to believe, so with that in mind, I kept my mind open when it came to taking in Dragon Ball GT.

What I witnessed in the first 17 episodes of the show was by far the WORST Dragon Ball content I ever had to sit through. There were moments, specifically involving the para-para brothers, where I was worried this ... would lower my opinion of the entire franchise. As I mentioned in my DBZ review, I think it's a masterpiece. This however, is far from it.

However the show has one saving grace, one thing, character, that stops it from being complete trash unworthy of being seen by the human eye. Baby.

The Baby Arc in Dragon Ball GT, spanning from episodes 17 to 40, is probably one of the most enjoyable arcs to come out of Dragon Ball since the end of Z. I enjoyed seeing the familiar faces come back, Baby Vegeta had a cool design, and SSJ4 Goku I think is just really cool. The Baby Arc is at least at the same level as a Super arc.

Sadly, once we get past the Baby Arc, we are once again thrown to the gutters as we have to sit through the Super Android 17 arc. The best part about the arc is that it's the shortest one only being 7 episodes. And I must say, I don't think I hate this arc as much as other people do. It was still better than the Dark Star Dragon Ball arc the show started with. However, that isn't really much of an accomplishment.

So once again, for the next 20 episodes, the show is extremely boring. The only time that GT picked up again for me was the last 4 episodes, 60-64. These episodes were very enjoyable to me and the end of the show was definitely something to think about.

Besides the Baby Arc, GT has one more thing going for it, the last episode. In my opinion, the last episode of Dragon Ball GT is a great send off to the series as a whole. Of course, the main problem with the ending is that it doesn't really have anything to do with Dragon Ball GT. The only reason I felt emotional watching it was because it was showing me clips from Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, shows I actually DID care about. Plus Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku is an amazing song.

That's another thing that I will give GT credit for, the music is amazing. Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku is a great opening for the series, invoking a sense of adventure and nostalgia, as if to let the audience know that this is the end of the Dragon Ball story right from the beginning. Meanwhile once you've finished sitting through another boring episode, you get the treat of watching the credits which ALSO have great music behind them. Hitori Janai caught me immediately, and Blue Velvet is just as good.

Overall, Dragon Ball GT was the worst entry in the Dragon Ball Franchise. The Baby Arc and final episode were not enough to save the show for me. I don't think they ever could be. With the first arc of the show being the most boring schlock I ever had to sit through, and the Android 17 arc being shoved in right when the show would've maybe got good... it's just a trainwreck. Not to mention the Shadow Dragon arc isn't even good until Omega Shenron appears.

So yeah, Dragon Ball GT. If you aren't a hardcore Dragon Ball fan, or trying to binge watch the Franchise like I was. Just skip it. You don't need to watch it at all since Super retcons it. Peace!

Eh I watched this before finishing Dragon Ball Super and honestly I enjoyed it more. I'm not a particularly critical person but I know about GT's reputation, it's hard to miss.

While the overall story is lacking, trying to look for a direction to go in and failing most of the time, there are some very good components especially in the Baby Saga. This saga is a huge step up from the black star dragon ball saga and manages to remain tense throughout as you watch Baby become what he swore to destroy (something that the Goku Black arc did later on). The shadow dragons in ... the following arc introduced an interesting concept that makes you question the morals of the events of the entire franchise, but is ultimately inconsistent in fighting sequences towards the end. The ending of GT feels undeserved and more like pandering to fans of Z rather than fans of GT, but despite this the ending is admittedly a good one.

The Cell animation holds up pretty well, and character designs are actually nice! But at times the character's eyes look distant and.... weird. As much as I love Trunks I really didn't love his vacant expressions and lack of that classic Vegeta Forehead. Goku's face is also pretty inconsistently animated.

Pan is pretty annoying to start with, but I think she gets less so as the series progresses. Her relationship with Giru is very sweet. I spent most of the time feeling sorry for Trunks as he had to put up with a little girl trying to prove her worth, and a literal manchild who only thinks of food. He was pretty entertaining but he's been done better. Goku has a pretty distinct disconnect between child form and SSJ4, going from dumbass to serious just from the transformation; the playfulness of Goku is lost in this transformation (but I have to admit when he ate the dragon ball I was laughing). Vegeta was ignored until the end, and I feel like this version of his character is a believable rpogression of his character shown in the Z ending (if a bit too nice, for him I mean). I also feel like Goten and Gohan got skimmed over, though I can understand why as Trunks is a fan favourite and Pan is a younger character to pass the mantle onto.

While this series had some pretty low lows, it was enjoyable to watch when everything was taken with a pinch of salt. I kept in mind that it wasn't canon and just enjoyed it for what it was. It's not amazing, but I wouldn't say it's as bad as people say. I'd recommend it to people who are into DB and have nothing better to do. The opening is a bop and some of the ending songs are bangers.

TL;DR: I thought it was fine with some boring parts, but I'd say don't watch it with a serious look at it.

DBGT in a word: Unfortunate

(If you can't tell by my username) DBZ is very close to my heart. It's the anime that got me into anime, I've been lucky enough to meet 5 of the voice actors for it, I cosplay as DBZ character frequently, and DBZ merchandise is my weakness.

What went wrong with GT? Well I've heard that Akira Toriyama didn't write the story, but after some research I've learned that he outlined the story, designed SS4, drew out designs for all the villains and was in fact very involved. There are even quotes from him saying that he enjoys GT. Check out: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_GT ... for more on that.

The ideas in GT did have potential (SS4, relationship bonding between Goku and Pan, etc.) However, it just wasn't executed well.

So here is what went wrong in my opinion:

1. Goku becoming a kid: I think Goku never should have been reduced down to a child. All throughout DB and DBZ we watch Goku grow. He gets older, stronger, slightly smarter ;P , and he is always moving forward as an individual. He needs keep climbing higher and faster. That's just who he is as a person. So when he gets turned into a kid, that's a huge step back, and it didn't make any one happy.

2. Losing the competitive relationship with Vegeta: The friendly/not-friendly relationship between these two Sayain warriors is one of the most iconic relationships in all of anime. Their competition is what drives them to become stronger, faster. The DBZ community loves Goku and Vegeta whether they are fighting together or with one another. So it was a huge mistake to reduce Vegeta down to the level of a supportive character rather than a lead.

3. Losing the DBZ family. In addition to hardly any Vegeta, there was very little of the other beloved DBZ characters. Some of them had a few moments, but nothing really worth watching. I know the huge reason I love this anime is for the Z fighter interactions and relationships. I want to be a part of their family. Without them all being together, there is no family for me to want to be a part of.

4. Lame fighting. We all know there is nothing like a DBZ fight sequence! They are awesome! GT.....not so awesome. I guess the coolest thing that happened was the SS4 fusion, but it was out of character for Vegeta to transform not by his own power and the fight itself drug on for so long that it almost became boring. Every other fight in the show was predicable and repetitive.

I could go on, but these 4 points are what I believed killed the show. If you are watching Dragon Ball Super now you can see that all of these have been corrected which would be the reason for it's success as well as the success of Battle of the God and Resurrection F.

GT is not exactly impressive... but also not the absolute worst anime to ever exist, which is probably what you heard about it if you were a Dragon Ball fan in the early 2000s. It's been a goal of mine for a while to finally go back and watch it all the way through as an adult, form as unbiased an opinion of it as possible.

Long story short, GT was a tale with a lot of good ideas but poor execution.

The universe has an established afterlife where people retain their memories, consciousness, and the ability to continue to grow stronger. So the idea ... of all the past villains breaking out of hell, stronger than ever, to fight heroes who've gotten older and stagnated a bit in an era of peace? That could be a really great storyline. (It's generally a good thing when writers are able to manipulate the flaws in their own universe to their advantage.) Unfortunately, here it was delegated to what was essentially a 10-episode filler arc before the main event.

And I really love the concept of the final plotline. Evil dragons spawned from the abuse of the Dragon Balls over the years? If they ever decide to end DB for real... I would love to see that idea revamped with more emotion and just taken a bit more seriously. Because most of the dark dragons were jokes, but what sparked their creation is such a valid complaint. And accidentally abusing a power out of a desire to explore it, always needing to be even more powerful, is such a Dragon Ball thing...

I feel like this series could have been done well. Releasing it as a direct follow-up to DBZ may have just not been the right time for it.

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Horrible beginning, the best ending.

Dragon Ball GT, the official sequel to the original Dragon Ball Z anime is, in a nutshell, terrible.
Full of inconsistencies, conveniences, repetitive scenes, poorly placed songs that kill the mood.
And even with that, the last arc of the evil dragons is one of the best of DB because it compiles the essence of the original story, the ridiculousness and fun along with the drama and other feelings.

6 out of 10 is an approximate value for what this series conveys. It's okay, it has good moments apart, lots of bad, boring, soporific and somniferous ones, but it holds ... its own with the last arc.

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Horrible inicio, el mejor final.

Dragon Ball GT, secuela oficial del anime original Dragon Ball Z es, en pocas palabras, terrible.
Llena de incoherencias, conveniencias, escenas repetitivas, canciones mal puestas que matan el ambiente.
Y aun con eso, el ultimo arco de los dragones malignos es uno de los mejores de DB porque recopila la esencia de la historia original, la ridiculez y diversión junto al drama y demás sentimientos.

6 de 10 es un valor aproximado a lo que transmite esta serie. Está bien, tiene buenos momentos separados, muchisimos malos, aburridos, soporiferos y somniferos, pero se mantiene con el ultimo arco.

Dragon Ball GT is an anime that will divide fans; I recommend it especially for those who watched Goku's adventures since childhood. Those who only watched Z might be disappointed.

Dragon Ball GT tries to bring back the nostalgia from the time when Goku was a child, introducing classic elements such as adventures in search of the Dragon Balls, a group, new places, and of course, the child Goku. The child Goku is already a disappointment because you would think that when Goku becomes a child, he becomes weaker, but he still transforms into SSJ without any problem, which is unrealistic.

I liked Trunks' personality, but I ... didn't like his outfit, which looks like that of a rich playboy. His outfit from the end of Z would have been better.

Goku maintains the same personality, with obvious differences in his physique.

Pan, Goku's granddaughter, is the most irritating and annoying character in the work. She is unbearable and spoiled, ruining several good moments in the series and hindering the tension of the fights. Pan could have been a much better character; being Goku's granddaughter and having the blood of the warrior race, I think if Goku trained her while venturing in space, she could have turned out better with moments that could be used for a SSJ transformation.

Secondly, there are those space dancers who don't pose any threat to the group.

The anime's soundtrack is beautiful and emotional; I highlight "DAN DAN Kokoro Hikarete ku" and "Hitori Ja Nai," not to mention the music when he uses the Genki-dama.

The iconic transformation of SSJ4 is a beautiful transformation that shows the true natural and controlled form of a Saiyan. The way it emerged is beautiful and emotional because Goku cries upon seeing the state of the planet he protected for many years, which was vital for the transformation to occur.

Regarding some villains, Baby is sometimes a bit annoying, but the fights are exciting and destructive, with well-made scenarios and a well-crafted context.

Android 17 is a weak villain, but the fight is good, and the anime brings back the same move that defeated an iconic villain from the past.

Omega Shenlong is a powerful villain with a cool design, but part of the fight with the fusion is disappointing. I expected a much more serious and destructive battle.

The fusion design is quite ugly, and the worst part is how she fights in the battle. It seemed more like a weak comedy show than a serious fight to save the world. It doesn't resemble the serious fusion from the movie at all.

Despite the excellent villain conclusion, the ending can be confusing for many.

But I like Goku reminiscing about everything he went through and saying goodbye.

In conclusion, the main flaw of the anime is the lack of development in some fights, story development, and especially character development.