story, 6: dragon ball super's story, while it never tries to go out of it's boundaries too much, it's entertaining for the most part, but it's probably not what you're reading dragon ball for, it's probably more for the world, or universe, building and the classic characters. the story spares nothing to the readers when it comes to movie content, it completely gets written out and just leaves a page that says something like "this event happened btw" and skips straight past it. there are also a lot of "convenient" things that happen but i wont complain about that because it seems kinda nitpicky. there are moments where the dragon ball z toriyama feel comes back, most recently in the tournament arc a few times, and in the newest arc of writing this, the granolah arc, which has a very very promising start. speaking of the tournament arc, i have to note, while shorter, feels like a downgrade from the anime from around the end of the tournament, what i mean by that is, a LOT of the classic scenes from the anime are completely missing in the manga, while i didn't really mind it TOO much as i've watched the anime, it was a little disappointing not being able to see these scenes in the manga's art style. speaking of the art style..
art, 6: toyotarou's art style is scarily accurate to toriyama's, however it never really tries anything special, there's very very very few spread panels in the entire manga, which i was looking forward to seeing while reading (i did a little research while writing this and it seems there aren't many spreads in all of the dragon ball manga which is kinda sad because i could imagine some that would be very cool [refer back to me missing the some anime scenes]). the fight scenes are a little basic and a little hard to follow, (but that last part could just be me) most of the fights feel like punch, slam down, kick into a rock, ki blast, mixup and repeat, then big cool moment at the end, there are a few dynamic fight scenes but theyre few and far between, what i WILL say about the art is that it looks very consistently good, there are no panels i had to double check to make sure i was looking at it right or anything, there were a few i thought were really cool and worth screenshotting actually
character, 8: dragon ball super's characters are what i think it shines the most in, introducing amazing new characters and bringing back great old ones, all of the villains felt like a breath of fresh air, even the ones i cared for the least were still pretty interesting (jiren), the new allies were pretty great as well, my personal favorite dragon ball character being beerus, and this is all of dragon ball i'm talking about, not just super, others include merus and of course whis. toriyama's character writing shines pretty heavily for the non-fodder characters, such as dbz-esque character development in a few of our main characters recently
enjoyment, 8: i was pretty entertained reading dragon ball super, watching our main characters grow to even greater heights never gets boring to me, and with the addition of some new great characters, you're likely not gunna get bored if you're a fan of dragon ball
overall, 7: a pretty decent manga, good for a quick few day read if you're looking for something not too serious to hop into, all with the classic feel of dragon ball
