Dragon Ball Discussion Thread

Originally posted by ares834
The ratings are fine. Better than most other anime. Plus, it's doing very well outside of Japan. By far better than any other anime currently airing. No need to panic.

Which part? One needs only look at Crunchyroll to see that it's currently the most popular anime on the site. Hell, the site frequently crashes when a new episode is released.

As for Japan, that's just hearsay.

Crunchyroll is also pretty regularly a target of ddos attacks, and has shit servers.

Only when an episode of DBS come out. That's when it crashes.

The one hour special was the only time I ever saw it crash when it came to Super tbh.

Crunchyroll..? Srsly..? There are WAY better alternatives out there, brehs -- alternatives that don't play ridiculously annoying ads/commercials during the f*cking stream... Do y'all still use Ask Jeeves for web searches, too? 😂

Regardless, I don't think a series' popularity on pirating sites is the best way to gauge its *actual* ratings/success, but that's just me. /shrug

On another note, I stopped watching DBS at episode #27(which is the final ep. of the RoF arc.) Even then I felt that Akira was placing almost ALL emphasis on gratuitous displays of power(ie. feat-mongering), and pretty much NO emphasis on *quality* story-telling. I found this very disheartening because the original series was ALL ABOUT *quality* storytelling, and it is STILL the best material Akira has EVER produced, but I digress...

That said, I have always been a fan of the DB franchise and wanted to give DBS another chance, so I recently went ahead and DL'd episodes #28-110 for shits and gigs. I plan on binging all of those over the next week or so, and am trying to stay optimistic(I really do want to like it, so hopefully Akira's storytelling methods have changed a bit in the time since I last watched.)

Wish. Me. Luck. ermmnone

You'll enjoy it. Also, glad to have you back here.

If it helps, the english dub is now somewhere in the middle of the first tournament arc if you want to watch some of it that way. On that note, I like Frost's dub voice, whose unironically the brother of Frieza's current dub VA.

I think I'll still rewatch the Black/Zamasu arc (or most of it) when it gets fully dubbed. Kinda curious how Sean Schemmel will pull off an evil/sinister sounding Goku.

Crunchyroll's the only "legal" way to watch it for free, afaik.

Plenty of better alternatives, but all involve paying money or indulging in an eyepatch and peg leg.

Personally, I don't judge, since it seems like "official" routes half ass everything, and I include streaming services, cable, and game emulation with this. My paid for and owned Metal Slug and Sonics Ultimate Genesis Collection is full of issues like slow down, sound bugs and such, while I can pull up M.A.M.E. or Kega Fusion and play them perfectly. That should not be.

Oh yeah, didn't know about it until MasakoX brought it up in a recent video, but apparently the crunchyroll version of the one hour special (or last couple episodes) took out a notable and sort of important scene; after Goku went Ultra Instinct against Jiren, you saw the Grand Priest start to look worried and say "This is not good" or something while placing a barrier around himself and the Zeno's.

Not sure why crunchyroll would cut that part out, but is interesting nonetheless.

I didn't watch the Crunchyroll version and don't remember that part.

Originally posted by Galan007
On another note, I stopped watching DBS at episode #27(which is the final ep. of the RoF arc.) Even then I felt that Akira was placing almost ALL emphasis on gratuitous displays of power(ie. feat-mongering), and pretty much NO emphasis on *quality* story-telling. I found this very disheartening because the original series was ALL ABOUT *quality* storytelling, and it is STILL the best material Akira has EVER produced, but I digress...

That said, I have always been a fan of the DB franchise and wanted to give DBS another chance, so I recently went ahead and DL'd episodes #28-110 for shits and gigs. I plan on binging all of those over the next week or so, and am trying to stay optimistic(I really do want to like it, so hopefully Akira's storytelling methods have changed a bit in the time since I last watched.)

Wish. Me. Luck. ermmnone

That's when the series becomes good IMO.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Oh yeah, didn't know about it until MasakoX brought it up in a recent video, but apparently the crunchyroll version of the one hour special (or last couple episodes) took out a notable and sort of important scene; after Goku went Ultra Instinct against Jiren, you saw the Grand Priest start to look worried and say "This is not good" or something while placing a barrier around himself and the Zeno's.

Not sure why crunchyroll would cut that part out, but is interesting nonetheless.

Now that's insane.

Originally posted by Galan007
Crunchyroll..? Srsly..? There are WAY better alternatives out there, brehs -- alternatives that don't play ridiculously annoying ads/commercials during the f*cking stream... Do y'all still use Ask Jeeves for web searches, too? 😂

Regardless, I don't think a series' popularity on pirating sites is the best way to gauge its *actual* ratings/success, but that's just me. /shrug

On another note, I stopped watching DBS at episode #27(which is the final ep. of the RoF arc.) Even then I felt that Akira was placing almost ALL emphasis on gratuitous displays of power(ie. feat-mongering), and pretty much NO emphasis on *quality* story-telling. I found this very disheartening because the original series was ALL ABOUT *quality* storytelling, and it is STILL the best material Akira has EVER produced, but I digress...

That said, I have always been a fan of the DB franchise and wanted to give DBS another chance, so I recently went ahead and DL'd episodes #28-110 for shits and gigs. I plan on binging all of those over the next week or so, and am trying to stay optimistic(I really do want to like it, so hopefully Akira's storytelling methods have changed a bit in the time since I last watched.)

Wish. Me. Luck. ermmnone

I wouldn't recommend wasting your time on it. Super hasn't gotten any better, it's been a death spiral ever since.

That you watch every Saturday.

Originally posted by Kento
I didn't watch the Crunchyroll version and don't remember that part.

Originally posted by carver9
Now that's insane.

@ 3:44
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OPGMeOpOfZ8

Originally posted by Galan007
Crunchyroll..? Srsly..? There are WAY better alternatives out there, brehs -- alternatives that don't play ridiculously annoying ads/commercials during the f*cking stream... Do y'all still use Ask Jeeves for web searches, too? 😂

Regardless, I don't think a series' popularity on pirating sites is the best way to gauge its *actual* ratings/success, but that's just me. /shrug

On another note, I stopped watching DBS at episode #27(which is the final ep. of the RoF arc.) Even then I felt that Akira was placing almost ALL emphasis on gratuitous displays of power(ie. feat-mongering), and pretty much NO emphasis on *quality* story-telling. I found this very disheartening because the original series was ALL ABOUT *quality* storytelling, and it is STILL the best material Akira has EVER produced, but I digress...

That said, I have always been a fan of the DB franchise and wanted to give DBS another chance, so I recently went ahead and DL'd episodes #28-110 for shits and gigs. I plan on binging all of those over the next week or so, and am trying to stay optimistic(I really do want to like it, so hopefully Akira's storytelling methods have changed a bit in the time since I last watched.)

Wish. Me. Luck. ermmnone

Once you get to Hit vs Goku, things pick up pretty well, both animation wise and story wise.

Have fun 👆

Before that is still trash though honestly.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
After looking at it again, realized my memory was a bit off. The GP had a paranoid look and put a barrier up in reaction to the Spirit Bomb, not Ultra Instinct.
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Originally posted by Kento
It's because Zeno is pure evil, even worse than Buu.