Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is an unimpressive creation that if you give much thought about it you will start to annoy yourself. First things first, you don't have to watch the whole Dragon Ball series to understand this, the narrator does a good enough job explaining what needs to be explained, so if you are going on a blank slate you will be able to understand if you pay attention to what is said and the flashback shown, so anyone can watch this and understand the message that it is trying to pass.
From the start, the Red Ribbon Army presence in the film is
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more about creating a connection with Androids through Dr Gero, so knowing the Androids Arc (Androids + Cell) is way more important than knowing what happened with the Red Ribbon Army back in the 1980's Dragon Ball. Another connection is the antagonist of this film, Dr Hedo, being the grandson of Dr Gero a self-entitled "super genius" that also creates androids like his grandfather.
This film is deeply flawed, from the get go, Piccolo is attacked by one of the new antagonists, Gamma #2, an android that is able to match up with Piccolo's skills, how exactly? It isn't really explained. There is also these annoying onomatopoeia going every time Gamma #2 attacks Piccolo, a bit later on it is implied those are holograms, and they are never used again in the film, so what's the point? Piccolo sneakingly follows Gamma #2 back to the Red Ribbon Army's secret base and disguised as a RRA grunt volunteers to kidnap Gohan's daughter, Pan, - which, despite being a 3 years old, seems way more intelligent than an average 3 years old, putting it in perspective, Kuririn and 18's daughter, Marron, was 3 years old in the Buu saga and was nowhere near Pan's speech level -, why would he do that? Because he wanted Gohan to release his full potential again. In the mean time, Piccolo contacts Bulma to get in touch with Goku and Vegeta so they can go back to Earth and save the day, Piccolo wants two characters with god-like power to deal with a human's company that might have strong enemies, seems overkill. However, Bulma can't get in touch with them because Beerus throw an ice-cream bucket on Whis' staff and Whis can't hear the call to their staff - to be fair, if fans weren't rabid, I'm sure they would have use Piccolo as the one to say "we don't need to call Goku and Vegeta to solve that, let us solve this issue ourselves", because some people might not know or forgot, but Piccolo is a leader as well and he wouldn't call Goku and Vegeta on a suspicion that there might be a problem, so not having the main duo back on Earth due to a "missed call" some people won't be able to blame that easily a character. After that we get, a meeting between Piccolo and Dende where Piccolo gets the idea to unlock his potential, which he does with Shenlong as one of three wishes, the other two? Bulma wishes for a tight butt and to get rid of chicken feet on her face, and those kind of aesthetical wishes are something that are done by Bulma often, this is probably one of the lowest points in Dragon Ball Super and the bar is quite low already. Then we get to a part of the film that we are basically watching a bad rip-off of the Imperfect Cell Saga, it is so bad they even copy Cell's self destruction, but somehow this new Cell explosion isn't enough to destroy Earth?
I would like to praise Piccolo's new transformation which puts him back in the ranks, Piccolo is one of the most amazing characters in Dragon Ball, his new transformation is well deserved, he was always shown training really hard and he is deserving of this new status. Gohan, though, feels unfair, for some reason he was set aside, and I don't know, bigger fans might know why, but I don't, and in Dragon Ball Super, Gohan is probably the one with the most wasted potential, for instance he had this new Potential Unleashed transformation that would make him as powerful as a Super Saiyan, but wouldn't spend as much power as if in that transformation, on Super he turn Super Saiyan, why? And now, this "Beast" transformation, as it is canonically called, feels undeserving because we never seen him training, even though the film tries to circumvent that by having Gohan say he was "training secretly".
This film feels like either a filler, or one of those side films that aren't considered canon, but it is just bad and unfulfilling, the only good thing we can take out of this is Piccolo's new transformation, maybe even Gohan's, to put two of the main character back in the game.
Aug 3, 2022
Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is an unimpressive creation that if you give much thought about it you will start to annoy yourself. First things first, you don't have to watch the whole Dragon Ball series to understand this, the narrator does a good enough job explaining what needs to be explained, so if you are going on a blank slate you will be able to understand if you pay attention to what is said and the flashback shown, so anyone can watch this and understand the message that it is trying to pass.
From the start, the Red Ribbon Army presence in the film is ... 
Jul 30, 2022
Chainsaw Man
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Review considering Part 1 of the manga (Chapters 1 - 97)
Plot: Chainsawman is a manga about Denji, a 16 years old that never went to school and inherited his dead father's debts from the Yakuza, at that moment he meets his partner, Pochita, a devil mix of a dog and a chainsaw and to pay off "his" debts to the Yakuza (and other debts he had himself) he agrees to be a Devil Hunter with his friend Pochita for the Yakuza. From chapter 1, it is established that Denji is treated and live as a subhuman, he barely eats food, he lives in a shack with ... 
Jul 24, 2022
The first 6 episodes of the show are spent on, mostly, Rimuru's side preparing for the Demon Lords' meeting and the war against Demon Lord Clayman and by prepare it means 6 long episodes of talks that could have been done in three episodes considering how much information is repeated and useless talk is done.
The next 6 have more action on them, alongside some talking as well, following a more adventure like story, but those early 6 episodes that were spent talking too much would have made a difference here, 3 more episodes spent on the war, after getting some hype over Clayman's best men ... 
Jul 24, 2022
This series is overrated and this season managed to be worst than the first one.
Unlike the previous season, this one was divided into two courses and in this first course we have a lot of talk and less action. It seems like the story keeps building for this epic battle, but the outcome is not worth it. I do reckon that on episode 10 we do have an amazing action show, on the other hand the sacrifice for the battle scenes was the story sinking. It is a boring show, they propose something at first, but then it seems they forgot what was proposed. Not only, ... 
Feb 22, 2022
Enen no Shouboutai
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I'll keep this review short so maybe you can save yourself some time. Have you ever heard of Bleach? To summarise, Bleach was a great manga with a terrible ending arc, in essence it had great ideas to be an amazing ending but it wasn't and that's how crappy I felt back in 2016.
2022, 6 years later, and the same feeling, Enen no Shouboutai had a great story, it was a bit rushed, not gonna lie, but it had shown promise. Unfortunately, it doesn't deliver, skipping spoilers there is a moment where they go visit "China" if you reach that point, stop reading, make your ... 
Jan 5, 2022
Takt Op. Destiny
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I thought Madhouse would have some kind of positive influence on MAPPA, or that this time they could do a better job. This anime seemed like an improved version of Listeners, I had some good expectations early on, I legit thought they could have gone on a nicer route, but the story truly never develops, the whole anime as itself is pointless, they don't care about creating a nice story or give you nice characters, they were just setting ground for their game and used a senseless story for the anime. Such a shame, I really thought MAPPA could have done better this time with
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Aug 21, 2021
If you are watching this a decade later just as me, you probably had the opportunity to watch another work from the dearest Taketatsu Ayana, Dagashi Kashi Season 2.
This ONA has the EXACT same problem Dagashi Kashi had: "where is the protagonist?", we still have Kyousuke and the upgraded to main character Gokou "Kuroneko" Ruri, but honestly I don't get the hype over her, maybe it is yet another Hanakana character that people love for the seiyuu and not for itself. Anyway, the main issue is "where is the 'imo' of 'oreimo'?". Kirino doesn't show up until the second half of the last episode, and ... 
Aug 11, 2021
Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru
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Since this manga has zero reviews, I might as well post something to any future readers.
Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru is a collection of short stories, where an elderly couple managed to change their old appearance to when they were younger and how that affected their daily lives. How their friends and family react, some daily life stuff and at a point they will start off as showing how things were when they were an elderly couple and how those same things changed when they became an younger couple. There isn't a story here, we basically see daily life stuff and some cute/wholesome stuff from either side of ... 
Jan 31, 2021
Jujutsu Kaisen
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This manga is Shounen Jump's newest supernatural story promise, after great names like Yuu Yuu Hakusho, Shaman King and Bleach you would expect that JJK would be on pair with those great stories, newsflash: it isn't.
The story starts of okay, the author seems to be holding a bit info though, he could have shared more about the world as the arcs were passing, however, on the current arc, Shibuya Incident the author starts vomiting information on you, worldbuilding, characters (their names and faces), techniques, it is just too much, it is even worst when it tries to explain how a technique works and it makes ... 
Jan 16, 2021
I guess I am a huge simp, because the sole reason I started watching this series was because I saw this anime's poster and I find the blondie cute.
I have heard about DanMachi before, but the name sounded so off putting to me that I didn't want to give it a try, it seemed like teenager fuel to me, and I wasn't really looking forward to watch that - I know, it contradicts my simp wishes for the fox girl -, but after I gave it a try, I found it to be not so bad. However, DanMachi has the same issue that the first season ... |
