Postby Upthorn » Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:36 am
Early this year, I subscribed to Crunchyroll and Funimation, and decided to try some of the current generation of anime.
I don't really know a lot of people who watch anime anymore. Or at least, I don't really know a lot of people who eat, drink, and bleed anime, think about it 24/7 and are always down for a conversation about what's new.
So, in the absence of anybody specific to talk to about them, I figured I might as well start inflicting my thoughts on the boards. So, I'm going to be posting mini-reviews in this thread until I get bored or run out of anime to review.
Let's kick things off with the reason I wound up buying subscriptions to anime streaming services:
Dragonball Super
I have a love-hate relationship with Dragonball. I loved DBZ when I was in high school. Then hated it for how dumb and slow it was. Then hated myself for ever liking it in the first place. But eventually I was like, "Y'know, I heard some people talking about this like they enjoy it, maybe I should check it out!"
And watching the first episode made me so happy that I decided to watch the franchise from the beginning, starting with OG Dragonball, slogging through the boxset of DBZ Kai, and then continuing on to DBS proper.
When I was a high school kid I was all caught up in how awesome the power levels in DBZ were, and how Goku could totally kick Superman's ass, and I missed all the fun stuff that actually makes it worthwhile.
Like all the comedy around Goku being a lovable moron who never has any idea what's going on.
And the fact that Boo is literally just "what if the DB crew had to fight an OG Looney Toons character?"
That said, watching the gradual evolution of Muten Roshi from a mostly-harmless voyeur to a molester who won't take "no" for an answer and literally chases a woman around a dojo for several minutes, trying to squeeze her boobs... Well, that part is not fun, or funny, or okay at all, really. There were episodes I could not watch, because of this.
Conclusion: Dragonball Super is Dragonball Z without the pacing issues. The fun parts are really fun, but the fact that some of the comedy is still "lol, look at this woman getting groped without consent" was a lot easier to write off as a product of a different era when it wasn't in something that came out in the goddamn 2010s.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.