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So I finished watching GT like a week ago.

Now... For years I avoided it cause people talked trash about it and after seeing it... I don't get the hate AT ALL?

Now to be fair, I love everything Dragonball related, it's like my first or second favorite anime ever, for me all the series (minus heroes because I mean heroes is kinda bad it doesn't have comedy basically but I do like the mess they made 😭) are more or less on the same level. So they're genuinely good / great series with some absurdly peak moments.

Now, GT is no different (?) the complains I always heard just kinda fell flat:

GT is the Goku Show

That's one of the main critiques, people even mockingly said GT stands for Goku Time. Now how do I put it...

IT'S ALWAYS GOKU TIME IN DRAGONBALL.

Whenever anything happens is because either Goku is there, or the lack of Goku being there causes tension. And that's because Goku is the main protagonist! It's his show for God's sake.

And this point is also dumb. Because many characters, like Goten, shine here more than EVER before. I mean at least here Goten got used as a proxy by Baby, that's more than he ever did in Z and Super.

PAN IS Annoying AND A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS

That's something I heard SO much during the years. Now, even before seeing GT, I of course played games like Xenoverse 2, so I did know how Pan acted and she did seem fun.

After watching the series I can say that not only she's a fun character, but also, she's one of the few characters in the entire series with genuine psychological "issues" for lacks of better terms.

She has an inferiority complex compared to her dad and grandpa, she's super strong but feels like she isn't because she lives in their shadow, thus she boast to make up for it.

That's more than you could say for most Dragonball characters. And it's not a critique, Dragonball characters are great because they're simple and instantly memorable, but my point is that she ends up in the very limited pool of characters like Vegeta, Piccolo, Future Trunks, Zamasu... Although she's nowhere near them because at the end of the day this arc she has is kinda short and subtle.

Also she isn't a dick at all, she's a kid she acts like a kid would act she's actually pretty nice and decides she'd rather sacrifice herself instead of letting innocents die. Goated.

BAD WRITING

Now, this one is... Confusing.

The Black Star saga doesn't really have anything I'd call bad writing (?), it sets up the Baby Arc, but I do agree the first episodes are kinda slow and at the beginning it seems like they forgot how strong these characters are supposed to be, but I mean, Its an anime, you can forgive a bit of that just to stretch out the adventure a bit.

Then comes Baby, which is just... Like, one of the best Dragonball Villains ever? Like, easily? To me, it took 2nd place from Zamasu. Only Frieza is better than Baby imo.

Like what he does is genuinely creepy and he has a reason to be evil, which again is rare in this series where usually villains are either pure evil for the sake of it (aka Frieza clones) or mindless monsters.

The Super 17 arc is the only I'd call bad. Super 17 seems like a movie villain who somehow managed to get into the series, but his arc is super short 😭

The Dragons instead are super cool? Omega is a pretty decent /good final villain. Suu Shenron is wonderful he's my dude, the other Dragons are kinda lackluster, but also not really bad just yknow they're there.

So again you got a pretty good going towards great series. I don't get the hate. The only reason I'd put it below Super it's because it's shorter. But the quality is more or less the same. I do prefer Super also because I HATE 90s style animation (or to put it better, how low quality it looks, I like everything looking clean and without that granular effect I hate it so much lol) but that's another story, it's Dragonball so I'll accept it.

My genuine question is what's all this hate about?

I mean I loved Daima too, so clearly I simply love Dragonball, I've known that since I became a fan like 5 years ago now but still 😭

I feel kind of bad because I just modified my save file to get infinite tp medals 😭

I'm a guy who likes grinding but seriously it's just insane how hard it is to level up after level 80.

I'm level 85, I never cheated in the other runs before, but since I was going for the platinum this time, I thought it'd be nice to at least get to level 100, symbolically.

Well, that would take days if you're off-line 😭

No way that's happening.

Plus apparently this guy was created to cash out, since TP Medals were a thing you could buy.

I hope XV3 features a normal levelling system jeez.

So I just watched the Level-5 Vision... And jeez.

First off, the whole AI thing is not a big deal for me. Like, in the whole 257 issues they got at the moment, and given it's a small studio... Who cares right? If the game is good is fine.

Now-

I've played all the games IE related in all those years of being a fan, besides Strikers ig, and what I understood is that while IE is a PHENOMENAL anime, one of my favorites ever, the games were always, Imo, either subpar or just average.

Mostly cause they got killed by the absurd grind.

This isn't the case of another series Level-5 made, which is Yo-Kai Watch. Which interestingly enough got a pretty anonymous anime and WONDERFUL games. Yo-Kai Watch 2 is like, peak experience.

That being said, IE Victory Road was yet another confirmation that these guys should only stick to making IE anime, but how bad VR is it's beside rhe point.

This stream screams desperation.

THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO FOCUS ON

A bajillion games, horrible textures in some of them which is as far as we can judge at the moment and... No real sense of focus.

Now they've announced yet another game for the main Canon and... Honestly, what's the point? Unless they create SOMETHING ORIGINAL instead of copying from the OG like VR did (Cross at least has a more interesting plot, more in line with what I'd like IE to be, a sci-fi series) it'll be yet another forgettable game, which will fail since the novel wore off.

Then they announced the remake of Yo-Kai Watch 2 and now im In a pickle because YW2 was genuinely a goated game, the best of the series, but now Level-5 is going downhill and idk if I want to trust them with a game from my childhood.

I THINK HINO IS THE PROBLEM

He seems to be going the Ubisoft route mixed with a knock-off Rockstar.

Cause he's making all these games with tne rhythm of a sweatshop, but wants to add A BAJILLION things to try and mask the fact the quality isn't there. And it's not there in the writing nor the gameplay, so he tries to hides it behind all these grinding and stupid mechanics like the whole synergy thing (which I completely ignored when making mu dream team in VR, and I'm so happy of that choice) and that's coming from someone who got the platinum on VR.

The only good thing out of that live is Maiden Beta. I love Maiden Beta. She's a Goddess Queen but it's not enough.

What do you think?

I think we can all agree that 1 month ago, the period of the live where they showed the same mission three times,we were at an all time low. And for good reason, since that was just bad marketing, and the guys were also really bad at playing the only mission they were supposed to play (like bro DODGE BROLY TF)

Then, they realized luckily and now I feel like people got back to being hyped.

Of course there are still issues like no demon race, UI etc... But I think finally most of us are satisfied.

I of course don't mean in parallel missions or when you go and fix a Timeline. And also we already know Bulma is in so whatever.

I mean, in the actual story. At the end of XV2, Goku shows up and saves the day. Trunks is around being badass etc...

That's easy. We all love it. But it's also age 1000.

Wouldn't it be... Repetitive, to have Goku come in and save the day AGAIN? When he's supposed to be ancient history?

You should of course have them around, which is what they did with mentors etc but maybe this game could manage to do what the Buu Saga kinda failed to do.

Passing the torch. The old heroes are dead, they're not coming to save the day. Deal with it.

Idk i think it's the right thing writing wise but let me know.

This will be a completely new level compared to XV2. I really trust them. Based on the 9 new videos it'll be goated.

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So, given his current strength, I imagine the only logical thing he could be doing is... Leaving U7.

He wants to overthrow the Gods, but if he isn't stupid, and we know he isn't, he won't start from Beerus, that'd be too risky.

What I imagine he'd do is going into another Universe , like U9 which has the weakest GoD, kill that GoD and become a GoD himself.

That would allow him to get an angel to train him AND get immortality.

About how he'd do that, well, he must know about Zuno, right? He could tell him a way to leave his universe.

Also it's not like someone can currently stop him from taking the dragon balls if needed.

Idk i think that's the most logical thing it can happen to him.

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Spira (Final Fantasy X)

The Continent (The Witcher)

These places all suck, but if I had to choose I'd definitely pick The Continent. At least it's somewhat normal.

In Euchronia racism it's shoved down your throat at any given moment by the church too, and Spira is just horrible and depressing.

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Spira (Final Fantasy X)

Euchronia (Metaphor:Refantazio)

The Continent (The Witcher)

These places all suck, but if I had to choose I'd definitely pick The Continent. At least it's somewhat normal.

In Euchronia racism it's shoved down your throat at any given moment by the church too, and Spira is just horrible and depressing.

Euchronia is from Metaphor: Refantazio

The Continent is from the Witcher

Honestly I think all these places sucks but I'd definitely hate living in Euchronia, people just suck too much until the ending. For the whole game racism is shoved down your throat at any given moment and the religion of state feeds of racism.

Spira is just depressing and horrible. Wouldn't want to live anywhere near a giant sea monster who might kill me at any given moment.

The Continent is at least somewhat normal.

Spira (Final Fantasy X)

Euchronia (Metaphor:Refantazio)

The Continent (The Witcher)

These places all suck, but if I had to choose I'd definitely pick The Continent. At least it's somewhat normal.

In Euchronia racism it's shoved down your throat at any given moment by the church too, and Spira is just horrible and depressing.

So, aren't Miguel's Canon rules bound to be just... tropes, at most?

So I just finished watching Across the Spider-Verse, after watching the first one yesterday and... WOW.

Anyway, something that got my attention is how Miguel talks about the Canon rules each Spidey person has to go trough.

Now, he talks about them like if they're 100% always happening in the same way... But:

Hes gotta know that can't be it.

Or

He's generalizing a much more complex issue.

Take Garfield's captain for example. Sure, he dies, but not by saving a child.

So is that enough for the universe? What if the captain saves a dog or an adult?

Does a Captain close to Spiderman always has to die?? Why specifically focus on the kid thing?

And also, if infinite universes exist, it means the Spider... Association,can't keep up with all of them. And thus there are infinite universes where these rules never apply in the first place.

I love Miguel I don't think he's a villain but he's trying to make a really good complex issue simple.

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So. If they were some REALLY cool guys, these would be extremely easy to handle.

Once you get your baseline transformation you gotta do one or two special quests to obtain the timerless transformation.

These could be done with the main representants of the species (Goku, Frieza, Piccolo, Crilin or Hercule for the meme, Buu)

It's similar to what happens in Kakarot. In Kakarot technically your transformations do have a timer since your aura just keeps going down but you can acquire special abilities to have them forever.

So I don't understand why people are freaking out.

"Oh but it'd be a bad marketing choice to show in the demo the timer" yes. Of course it is. They're making only bad marketing decisions.

How can you approve a live where you play the same mission thrice after publishing a video of the exact same thing earlier that day? The mission that videos showed a month ago?

Bandai has the worst marketing ever. But they know what fans want.

Like, one thing about Bulma is that she's extremely human even if absurdly rich, she cares a lot about her family and friends, never ignored her mother duties etc...

But apparently she decided to just become immortal? To outlive Vegeta, Trunks and Bulla?

It's so weird...

Like even if Vegeta became a GoD no parent wants to live more than their child. I wonder what the explanation will be.

Of all things I didn't expect it to be an Isekai