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Might be better for me to hold off on a detailed response until I jump back in soon (have 40 eps stocked up) and get back into the flow. I last watched in December 2020. Obviously the director has been doing a great job as we knew he would. But this arc has been really up and down for me. I thoroughly enjoyed part 1 and the character combinations. But then part 2 ended up being one of my least favorite portions in the series thus far. Especially everything with Luffy and where he's at. Just feels endless and don't care about those supporting characters at all. I couldn't get into ANYTHING involving him. I'm so tired of that voice actor playing these types of obnoxious roles in OP as well. So all of that was a massive eye roll. Scenes I was supposed to care about fell completely flat. A few of the new characters have been very good. I like Otama, Okiku, and everything with Komurasaki has been great. Characters from her past and all that too. But yeah, I'm far from LOVING this arc. A few crucial things come into play. I don't really enjoy historical Japanese stuff much. Even though I'm a historical buff, the Japanese side of thing rarely does anything for me. Also, I fucking loathe transformations of this type. Whenever a normal looking character turns into a big animal... or giant form of themselves, I just shake my head. There is so much of that going on here.

It seemed like things were about to pick up where I left off. I know there is some awesome backstory right around the corner for me. So hopefully the remainder of the arc can be much improved. But even if that stuff is awesome, I'm not going to be able to rank the totality of this arc that high since there is stuff I'll literally be skipping and skimming during a rewatch.

The director just said that the quality for Wano is only gonna go up too lmao. Sounds crazy based on the things I've been hearing.

I watched Naruto weekly back in the day up until the two year filler started. I think I watched the first arc of that and heard the news that it wouldn't be ending any time soon and that's when I dropped it. Original Naruto wasn't a bad weekly watch, except when it got really flashback heavy.

But after watching Fishman Island weekly, I retire from watching shounen weekly. That shit is fucking painful. I really don't like watching stuff weekly in general though, unless it's an hour long episode non-anime series. Waiting to watch 22 minutes of content weekly just tests my patience too much.

I should finally watch HnK. Crazy I haven't yet...

Shounen isn't as good as it should be lol. The great ones you can even consider rarities. Even ones with issues like Naruto and Bleach are a lot better than most *laughs*

I think I might be in the middle ground on Naruto when I get around to it. I saw the entire canon part of the first series but didn't get to Shippudden. Sasuke (and Sakura's obsession with him) was a bit unbearable but I got through it lol.

Never parting with my GOLD boxes heh.

I'm still biased for Namek in ways but all the arcs have their own strengths. That's how I tend to view Buu as well. It brings back the lighter tone and air of DB with a bit more zaniness and adventure again, but still with the heavy battle focus of Z. That said, always amusing to remember how Buu literally kills everyone on Earth without just blowing it up initially like Freeza would. The show doesn't dwell on it much but it's funny to think about, kind of post apocalyptic there despite that arc generally being a little more upbeat haha. I used to hate armor-less Vegeta but it grew on me. I guess my only nitpick for that arc is that I still don't like the Gotenks stuff at all. And I wish Gohan wore those Piccolo colors as he does in the OP... lol. But Gohan was a wash post Cell anyways. Pacing wise I think the Trunks/Android arrival up to Cell is one of the best portions ever, so addicting and intriguing. Toriyama going crazy with those Terminator/Alien influences haha.

"I went to a Zelda full on live orchestra concert a few years back and it blew my mind."

Same here lol. I don't even really play Zelda much and it was more for my girlfriend but I obviously know a lot of the music and it was fucking amazing.

I'd love to go to a DB/Z and One Piece concert. I'd probably legit cry at a One Piece one lol...

Also yeah the source of that audio is from people's tapes of the original airings. Shame there will never be anything perfect for every episode but you take what you can get.

I did grab those DB/Z downloads by the way. Been worth it?

In my experience the Kikuchi style and music just keeps growing on you and never stops, lol. I think I'm just going to keep loving DB/Z even MORE when I revisit them because the music will keep leveling up. That style is like, you'll hear and discover new parts in the tracks the more you listen to them. Always catchy and with so many layers to pinpoint and focus on. From the little I've heard of some tracks, his score for Daimos seems damn good too.

I still kind of wish the Buu arc had some insert songs like the few rare ones in previous arcs, but on the flip side the endless onslaught of new tracks and Kikuchi going SSJ at that point is such a feast. Yet again no wonder dub viewers hated Buu haha, they didn't get that awesome music.

One of the best around. Bombastic, a real orchestra, instantly classic. Kikuchi is a damn good composer but DB/Z is easily his best work by far. Nothing else he did in the past ever even came close in my opinion. But there sure is a lot to choose from. The 70s super robot OST king heh.

And you're watching with broadcast audio which is just the cherry on top.

They were gonna finally bring that live orchestra DBZ concert to the US and do a show in Chicago last year until the pandemic ruined that. I hope when things start approaching normalcy again they will try again. The hope was that if it was successful that they would tour it elsewhere in the country. I would have 100% gone if it came around my area.

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Well... I did buy a 10TB WD Gold for one of my new PC's... might grab them. lol