Manga/Dragon Ball

Both can also regenerate....but I'm struggling to find more similarities...besides the fact that both are malevolent beings.

Also seems like Buu's absorption process is much more efficient than Cell's. All Buu has to do is tear a chunk off of himself and encompass someone to do it.

So Goku was Phoenix Wright and Vegeta was Kazuya Mishima this episode◊

Also why are Goten and Vegeta on other the other team? Okay, I can understand Vegeta but why Goten? It'd make more sense for father and son to stick together. Maybe Goku's thinking about making Trunks his own son after he witnessed Future Trunks' potential. Goten is too inconsequential to train up to be a good rival for him.

edited 3rd Dec '16 7:45:23 PM by MadSkillz

Goten's not on the other team. He doesn't show up in the preview at all.

Wait, I think I do see him, nevermind.

edited 3rd Dec '16 7:48:40 PM by LordVatek

Masako Nozawa is 80 and just went over an arc voicing both the protagonist and a major antagonist. IIRC she asked for some rest (hence the lack of Gohan and Goten in the last episode).

Also, as somebody who grew up with Dr.Slump and Dragon Ball, seeing Arale beat the crap out of Vegeta got a huge smile from my inner 4 year old self.

Though, apparently not even Arale can beat Beerus; he's so powerful that not even gag manga fighters can beat him.

Oh Vegeta, Vegeta, Vegeta. Don't you know?

You can't defeat Arale-Chan.

Because no matter how hard that you kick her she comes right back again.

And even though, you can knock her tiny head off

It's no use because will just put back on again.

And you can increase you ki

But she'll run up and give a headbutt that knocks you away again.

Fortunately your wife Bulma had a plan

She'll keep the God of destruction in reserve for as long as she can!

......

I deserve all the boos. I acknowledge this.

Anyway, this was fun. Beerus just destroying dead rival dude got a chuckle out of me. I actually wanted to see what would have happened if he'd tried to blast Arale. Which is stronger: his ability to destroy anything, or Arale....being Arale.

Vegeta quickly realizing that his power was helpless against a gag manga character was hilarious. You can't win against someone who doesn't even try to obey the laws of physics. Arale just does what she wants.

Lets be glad Senbei wasn't part of the Red Ribbon army. Cause they would have fucking won.

This week's episode might be Super's worst. I hate it.

Here's something better:

Oh don't play dumb. Buu's primordial origin is only an issue as relates to his origin story, which is a copy of Cell's origin.

Cell is weapon created by a mad scientist who may have been angry with the universe and definitely wanted someone dead. Majin Buu is a weapon created by a mad magician who may have had something against the universe and definitely wanted someone dead.

Buu being as old as time immemorial...that's taken directly from Sun Wukong The Monkey King from Journey To The West. Gaining his current form from human influence, also from Sun Wukong.

If fits perfectly. Goku has Wukong's name, (sort of)appearance, cloud, staff, escort(Blooma), and transformations. Daimo Piccolo has Wukong's army(in his own backstory anyway), Sealed Evil in a Can status, and redemption(sort of), chastity and place among the gods(well, one god as Jr). Majin Buu has red eyes(in some forms, which is even better because Wukong didn't have them at first), Wukong's time immemorial stone origin, only replace Taoism with Evil, and then replace his war on the heavens with the slaughtering/absorbing of the kaioshin. That's a lot more interesting than redoing the same origin story twice. The only problem is that they haven't done anything with it yet, but they haven't explored Bibidi either, and quite frankly I wouldn't want them too. Seeing Buu develop on his own sometime is a lot more appealing to me.

We still need a character with a restraining bolt though, to really cover all aspects of the monkey king. A restraining bolt, totally pitiful performance in bodies of water, an association with horses, Born as an Adult status and came make in animate objects come to life. Put all of those into one Dragon Ball character, maybe break it up in a similar manner to Daimo Piccolo to Piccolo Jr and Fat to Small Buu. Then you'd have four beings who together encompass all of the Sun Wukong's traits, and four seems appropriate.

Except Broly was the one with the restraining bolt. Broly was technically Wukong 2.0.

I wonder how this episode looks to someone who has no idea that Dr. Slump even exists because I imagine that it's a trip.

If they at least watched OG Dragon Ball: younger years, they'd be familiar.

This was just a big bout of fanservice for Dr. Slump fans, I think. I never read that manga, and... I guess I don't find the humor all that good.

Vegeta was the best thing in the episode though. The fact that he recognized that fighting a gag manga character was an exercise in futility actually made me chuckle. When did Veggie get so Genre Savvy?

@SSJ 3 Gojira: Arale never actually fights Beerus, because he got a stomach ache before hand, so we wouldn't know who would win.

@Cruherrx

Gotta love Imma Vegeta.

He pushes her down though and was about to destroy her if it wasn't for the stomachache; Arale wasn't going to win that fight.

edited 3rd Dec '16 9:05:35 PM by Ssj3Gojira

Maybe, maybe not.

Like I said, I would have loved to see them pit Beerus' pure Hax vs Arale's Rule of Funny. I'm guessing the reason it was indecisive is because they didn't want to put one over the other.

The real question is, if Zeno erased Arale, would that actually work?

Beerus got a stomachache and had to back out of a fight?

Sounds familiar...

Considering the fact that Dr. Mashirito doesn't exist in any timeline anymore, that should give you some hints.

This

Calling it now: Kid Buu will merge with the Three-Star Dark Dragon Ball.

edited 3rd Dec '16 9:55:43 PM by LLSmoothJ

What's with these dark dragon ball things?

They're E-Vile...oooo!

Kami made them.

That was a fun episode. I loved Vegeta realizing that as an archetypical character from an action series, he has no defense against toonforce. Also featured: the total destruction of what remained of Vegeta's dignity, which was also fun.

Also, the gang straight up poisons Beerus and nobody cares.

edited 3rd Dec '16 10:36:32 PM by KnownUnknown

This episode was so good. It might be the best episode in all of Super. It might be the best episode in Dragon Ball. It might be the best anything Toriyama's ever been involved in. It might be the best anything ever in all of fiction.

(By the way, Buu getting corrupted by the evils of humanity wasn't referring to Earthlings, it was referring to Humans, as in Mortals, as in Ningen.)

I had no interest in Arale or Dr. Slump so I didn't enjoy this episode.

My only contact with Dr.Slump is a glance here and there, but the series has enough similarities with other stuff from my childhood to make me feel right at home.

Vegeta vs Arale is now the best match in all of Dragon Ball. Vegeta getting flustered by silly things is just the best. Heck, the entire episode was genuinely funny. Goku dropping the bodyguard act after 3 seconds got some genuinely loud laughs from me.