I remember being told that Japanese players had no problems with how the game Metroid: Other M portrayed Samus Aran. Then I learned that, no, that's not even close to being true. At least not on mk2, one of Japan's most popular video game review site. People there had the exact same criticisms as American gamers, they were just a bit more chill about them.
That's why I often distrust descriptions of what fandoms in Japan - or other countries with languages I can't read - tend to be like.
De Romanīs, lingua Latina gloriosa non fuī.The Power Level hate always seemed very misplaced to me. The numbers, or their equivalents, were just be used as one way to illustrate the difference in power, or to determine something else.
So many people seemed to think that if numerical power levels didn't exist than Frieza overwhelming everyone as much as he did somehow wouldn't be a ridiculous, and I've never got it. Numbers or not, those fights and scaling happened because Toriyama wanted them to happen.
Before this point, I was under the impression that they were augmented rather than altered, having extensive surgery and so on. But if this episode is any indication, the procedure was a lot more... all encompassing than it originally seemed. I wonder if that means if 17 or 18 were to lose a limb the same way 19 did they would be shown having flesh and such rather than wires and doodads like he did.
It's an interesting, if minor addition. The idea that they've been altered at the cellular level does make Cell both needing to and being able to absorb them the way he did make more sense.
Interestingly, using tech to alter people on that level also seems to be on the big cosmic no-no list, given that Shin seems unwilling to trust them simply because he thinks they're artificial and Beerus goes straight into "I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that" mode.
edited 25th Mar '17 11:36:45 PM by KnownUnknown
That's a good point. I guess there would be a point of contention there: is a fully artificial being a combatant, or a weapon being brought into the ring?
Depends on who you ask, and with Zeno those "depends" questions could end with someone getting erased.
edited 25th Mar '17 11:45:53 PM by KnownUnknown
That was a nice episode, very heartwarming.
28 planets though, that's some rough stuff. Doesn't help that Beerus destroyed a few planets at the beginning of DBS, and the Battle of Gods caused a few more to disintegrate. There could have been almost 40 planets with life before Beerus showed up, and even moreso before Frieza and his army took over the universe way back when. And don't even get me started with Buu's rampage eons before then.
Though I do wonder, does the 28 planets reside within the mortal part of the universe, or are the including the godly planets too? (AKA, the Kai Planets, Supreme Kai's Planet and Beerus' Planet)
edited 25th Mar '17 11:48:18 PM by Rinsankajugin

It's simple. If I know for a fact they're bullshitting about Western opinions, it makes sense to assume they're bullshitting about Japanese opinions, and I just can't call it out because of how difficult it is to look into myself. That's why I tune all that talk out.