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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- And that's the end of muscle tower. It wasn't really an interesting arc, felt like fillers. |
vizhmaster_vizhu said: And that's the end of muscle tower. It wasn't really an interesting arc, felt like fillers. Well considering what happens in DBZ, not really lol |
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vizhmaster_vizhu said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- And that's the end of muscle tower. It wasn't really an interesting arc, felt like fillers. None of the characters were really all that compelling in this arc. I hope the next arc is more interesting. |
| The ark wasn't so bad, to be honest I liked it better than the pre-Tenkaichi episodes, but way less than the Tenkaichi arc itself. But this episode(41) was really getting on my nerves -.- |
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| Cyborg #8 finally stands up to General White and the Muscle Tower is finally destroyed! :D I'll agree with you guys that this saga wasn't too great, but it was okay. |
| great arc !!! )) |
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| Good that this arc is finally over got a bit on my nerves as it was taking to long but well the ending was quite nice! Lets see what's next! |
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| Finally, it's over. |
| Yeah, another guy that is glad this arc is over. I also echo that there were no compelling characters this arc, which really hurt the experience. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
insan3Spectre said: Yeah, another guy that is glad this arc is over. I also echo that there were no compelling characters this arc, which really hurt the experience. The "Red Ribbon army" saga is actually broken up into 3 sub saga groups. The first one being the "The red Ribbon army" 2nd is "General Blue" and lastly is "Commander Red" I like to group all of these together as they are all part of the Red Ribbon army saga. With the entire saga ending on episode 67 and part of 68. This being the first. Episode 42 marks the end of the whole muscle tower fiasco. Yeah i have to agree as well i think this part of the series was severely lacking in comparison to the remaining sub saga's how ever one interesting character was introduced called Android 8 which if you remember is a throwback to how General Gero created the androids in the android saga of DBZ. Something interesting to note here is that it was said that Dr. Flappe was the creator of Andriod 8, when in fact this is not true. This was filler in the anime only and never was part of the manga. Dr Gero is the true creator of all of these androids, which you won't see until 17 years later in Dbz. |
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link9us said: insan3Spectre said: Yeah, another guy that is glad this arc is over. I also echo that there were no compelling characters this arc, which really hurt the experience. The "Red Ribbon army" saga is actually broken up into 3 sub saga groups. The first one being the "The red Ribbon army" 2nd is "General Blue" and lastly is "Commander Red" I like to group all of these together as they are all part of the Red Ribbon army saga. With the entire saga ending on episode 67 and part of 68. This being the first. Episode 42 marks the end of the whole muscle tower fiasco. Yeah i have to agree as well i think this part of the series was severely lacking in comparison to the remaining sub saga's how ever one interesting character was introduced called Android 8 which if you remember is a throwback to how General Gero created the androids in the android saga of DBZ. Something interesting to note here is that it was said that Dr. Flappe was the creator of Andriod 8, when in fact this is not true. This was filler in the anime only and never was part of the manga. Dr Gero is the true creator of all of these androids, which you won't see until 17 years later in Dbz. Yeah, I was scratching my head about the Flappe paart because I was indeed under the impression Dr. Gero created all the androids. Btw, the Android 8 is called "Cyborg 8" in my subs, I wonder if that is what they are really supposed to be or perhaps my subs just got it wrong? |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| Ahahaha... "Is that your mother?" :') Eighter is such a sweetheart. He conquered his cowardice this episode...he's almost a bit of a tsundere, tbh! Hilarious how Goku was excited about the food, not Suno. I was a little tired of this arc as well, as many people have noted. I thought the Murasaki fight dragged on and on, and it just wasn't enjoyable. But still, the arc as a whole wasn't too bad. |
| And that's the end of muscle tower arc. I liked how 8ter just knocked general white into oblivion. A lot of time would have been saved if they just done that in the first place. |
brucescrews said: vizhmaster_vizhu said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- And that's the end of muscle tower. It wasn't really an interesting arc, felt like fillers. None of the characters were really all that compelling in this arc. I hope the next arc is more interesting. In first place the bad guys were kinda boring |
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| The fall of muscle tower, not my favorite part of this arc but it's still pretty fun. |
| Android #8, the original One Punch Man. |
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| Alright, my opinion on this Muscle Tower story is that it was by far the worst part of Dragon Ball so far, but that it wasn't necessarily bad. More so, it had the world building we all love with this snowy village being well explored, we see how the soldiers interact with the villagers when Goku is on his way to muscle tower, we see Goku's first experience with snow and him needing warmer clothing, some of our main supporting characters were the innocent family of Suno to show us how these people live, as well as the shots of Red Ribbon since episode 30 showing them raiding homes from the Dragon Ball and Goku. All of this gives us a great idea of the state Red Ribbon is putting the areas with Dragon Balls in them in, as well as what life is like this snowy village. The cast for the major story however was Goku, Ha-Chan, Suno, Murasaki, and General White. I would not count the terminator robot of course. Suno's parents played some brief parts and the village chief was in the anime for very little until the end. The only real relationship Goku had, apart from some cute moments with Suno's family, was with Ha-Chan. What this means is that the only two characters that grow a worth while relationship and develop together are Goku and Ha-chan for the entirety of Muscle Tower. Ha-Chan is adorable even if he is simple, but his character arc is there, he grows to trust and care for Goku and then later learns a version of the saying "To protect a life, you must be prepared to take a life". Murasaki was charming, but his episodes went on too long for me, his whole character was that of a bumbling idiot who was good at playing ninja. I especially did like the moment where he briefly taught Goku to count though. General White was a boring generic villain, what we can expect so far from Red Ribbon, his whole character revolving around being arrogant, evil and cowardly. He did however show us three tactics to defeating Goku, 1. holding his tail, 2. using his gullibility to get an advantage(asking him to turn around) and 3. using other people against him(in the form of a hostage). This is three of the five ways we currently know to beat Goku, the other two being his hunger and being actually stronger than him(as in just Roshi so far, but even that's debatable). So, even if he was a boring villain he still had some interesting moments come from his presence. I think because of the lack of static characters this arc, and the process of fighting boring baddie after baddie in the tower, it made this arc feel filler, and would argue that because the lack of synergy with the cast throughout it makes it much less impressive than what's come before it. |
| Another good ending. White is mean. But Eighter taught him a good lesson. Whoa! The punch seemed more powerful than Gokus' punches. However He did a good thing by destroying the tower. Sunos father to her mother: Is that your mom? Haha... that was good entertainment for the day.... haahahaha!!!  |
| So.. I enjoyed it :). |
| I really liked Ha chan's arc and Goku immediately diving for the food made me laugh. |
| Back to watching 1.00x speed, I honestly regret watching 2 episodes with 1.25x… Goku was super cute this episode. I’m glad that this mini arc is over |
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