Dragon Ball Super

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As of now I can say that dragon ball super is well worth the read. Please give it a chancel if you like the concept of ultra instinct and dont mind the forcefulness of Super Saiyan God (SSG) and Super Saiyan Blue (SSB). Something I should mention, do not buy the physical copies even if you nostalgic about DB and DBZ. The colored version on Colored Manga is the best way to read it and contains 90% of the chapters to date in full color.

The hype peaks in the Moro arc (which was perfectly executed) and even the following arc is it still very good ... even though it felt a little drawn out. The latest arc starts out in a really ugly way and feels totally pointless but seems like it is going in a good direction as of now.

Story: 8.4

Enjoyment: 8.8

Dragon Ball Super is a part of dragon ball as the name indicates, it takes place before the end of z and 2 years after buu saga.

The plot is almost unexistant they are just looking for reasons to fight, the arcs are mostly decent exept RoF everything else isnt bad, plot wise its mediocare to decent and the fights are most of the time good

The art is inferior to the original dragon ball manga but its still good

The characters are.. Goku got butchered he is now an idiot (not as much as the super anime and movies but still an idiot) and frieza was brought ... back in 3 arcs to be butchered as well but thankfully vegeta is doing fine and the rest of the characters are mostly intact.
Suprisingly Goku and Vegeta arent the main focus in every arc the side characters get some shine as well

its not a great story by any means but its not bad either

Overall: 7/10
The 7/10 is mostly for the side characters shining for once since the cell jr fight
Conclusion: Read only if you are a dragon ball fan

Dragon Ball Super perfectly shows why Dragon Ball should have ended with Z/KAI

Of course it being a manga review i can't speak about the awful anime art and animation that have hurt the series even more, but like i said this is a manga review so i won't talk about that.

The series as a whole lacks good writting and creativity like Z had, it looks like Dragon Ball Heroes where they just want to spam transformations to sell merchandise, this series just can't stop doing that, it's hilarious and pathetic at the same time.

Also, besides Ultra Instinct no form had any impact on Super, it's ... crazy if you think about it.
We are now in a point where the 2 main characters are so strong that they don't have any more ideas for stories and that's why they came up with with the worst arc in Dragon Ball History, yes, im talking about the Granolah arc. Where they need to put the "villains" using the Dragon Balls to wish to become the strongest in the universe, Goku and Vegeta are in a level where it's almost impossible to create credible villains without this kind of awful writting.

Vegeta Ultra Ego transformation can be perfectly explained with what i wrote, had 0 impact and was totally useless, only happened for the same reason as every transformation in Super, merch. And now Goku's new Ultra Instinct shown in chapter 85, like, the form was still new, credible and with a lot of things to show but they just decided to make him discover a new ultra instict form?

Sadly the nostalgia bait that is DBS works, but this pure excuse of a show/manga should have never seen the light of the day and ruined the image that the Dragon Ball Series left on us.

There's also a lot more problems in the series, like the fact that Goku is always acting like a 5 year old kid, but im not going to dive on that.