Mar 31, 2018
**THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS**
My relationship with Dragon Ball : I had watched bits of Dragon Ball when I was a kid but I never knew the complete story. Then, in 2014 I binge watched DBKai and Final Chapters and realised that this was the greatest anime of all time. Then came Dragon Ball Super.
Summary of how I think I felt during the story :
First 28 episodes were retelling of the movies with shitty art and animation. Watch the movies instead.
Next came the Tournament arc with Universe 6. Finally, got new content. It was good. This arc introduced many new characters and new
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information like Universe 6 Saiyans, Multiple Universes, Super Dragon Balls and Zeno. It opened up infinite possibilities for the series and I was really excited to see the direction in which the series would have gone, only to be let down afterwards.
Then came the Future Trunks saga. This arc had its moments but overall it was a bad arc in my opinion. Trunks getting emotional was really sad to watch and you could feel his pain. The animation had improved slightly for the fights. The idea of Black Goku was intriguing and the villain was well written. He was not just another generic baddie. Beerus killing Zamasu was one of the best moments in the entire series. However, later the arc went downhill. We couldn't make any sense of the power levels(but that's a problem that plagued the whole of Super), and the fights were too fan fiction-ey. The ending didn't make any sense with Trunks somehow defeating the villian with a power up.
Next was the Universe Survival Saga. It was great until the last few episodes. They changed how the anime looked to give it the old feel and the art and animation got a lot better. I didn't mind the bad animation of Super until then since I was watching a version of the show where Goku was voiced by an old lady. This change in the look of the show gave a lot of fans including me, the hope that the series might be finally getting better. The animation and art was brilliant at some points and the episodes were really entertaining. There were many twists including the inclusion of Frieza which was unexpected. We even got a mysterious villian called Jiren who looked invincible who was then revealed at the end to be an uninteresting baddie with a shitty backstory. The final episodes were...different. Overall a 7/10 anime.
Pros:
-More Dragon Ball
-World building and new possibilities with the introduction of multiverse.
-Beerus and Whis
-Some epic moments, fight scenes, twists and some slice of life episodes.
Cons:
-Subpar art and animation for the majority of the show.
-No sense of power levels.
-Power ups without explanations and new forms just to sell toys.
-Turning Goku from a battle genius who didn't give a shit about anything else into an idiot whose good at fighting and achieving new asspull forms just like that because that's what Saiyans do.(according to Vegeta anyway).
-Turning Dragon Ball Z and all its characters kids friendly. (I know Dragon Ball was a kids show but still...).
-Turning the bulky characters to stick figures.
Music : Some tracks from Final Chapters were reused for this anime. I felt that the number of tracks were low. Same music was played throughout the anime with very few additions in the last arc.
Overall 7/10. Watch it if you want to.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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