Showing something is definitely better than telling it. And the ending resolves the button without making it an easy fix to the solution or a joke.
I'm not saying it's worth the loss of Trunks' timeline, but from a writing perspective I can see why it was done.
How on Earth could you think the manga dragged on longer? There are less story beats, and the overall length is SO much shorter. Unless you're just going off release schedule which is ridiculous.
edit: The Saiyan arc is only longer in the anime because they shoved a huge block of filler in the middle.
edited 6th Jan '18 4:03:26 PM by Saiga
At least it gave us some pretty decent fights.
And Black is gonna be an amazing character to play as in Fighter Z.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I'm not saying it's worth the loss of Trunks' timeline, but from a writing perspective I can see why it was done.
Or it just didn't have to happen. There was always that option.
Not to the point you have to wait for each month for it to be release. The anime & manga roughly started the same, but manga still went on for half a year when the anime was done. It could've ended sooner than later.
And Black is gonna be an amazing character to play as in Fighter Z.
I would've liked this arc, but the ending just ruined it.
Compare to waiting every month. Yeah, poor them.
That 2nd fight didn't even make any god damn sense. How can show Goku & F-Trunks having enough coordination to fend off Black & Zamasu then have them get their ass kicked in the next fight. That 2nd time travel was unbelievably stupid that the only good thing that came out of it was SSJ Rage & they still found a way to ruin that with a crapstastic animation in the next episode.
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Release schedule is a silly thing to judge by. If it had ended any sooner it would have just been incomplete and rushed, and not work well on a re-read or in collected form. When read at once, the manga's pacing is far superior.
An option that fails to address what I outlined. If you just have that not happen, you have no pay-off for the events leading up to it and that's bad. I'm NOT saying the destruction needed to happen or the best result, I in fact argued the opposite, I'm just saying why there WAS a point to it that you seem to be completely ignoring. In figuring out how I'd prefer it to end, I'd want adequate coverage for what the ending did achieve instead of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
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Anime Black and Manga Black are the same personality.
The manga will always be better because it doesn't always take 20 minutes to read. You can't just compare the 2 mediums because there's some things that can't be adapted. Especially when the anime have fillers.
Except it still never needed to happen. Even if it didn't make sense how F-Trunks gained the Spirit Bomb Sword at least he still got to finish the main antagonist. There was no point having Zeno getting involve to begin with. A writer perspective doesn't validate any of that.
No, an anime can have better pacing in respect to the content it covers. Super's just... doesn't. Also it's not fair to say you can't compare the two mediums when you started comparing them.
I'm NOT invalidating that, and I'm not saying it needed to happen. At this point, you aren't responding to my argument at all, just repeating the same thing over and over.
edited 6th Jan '18 4:49:36 PM by Saiga
I'm NOT invalidating that, and I'm not saying it needed to happen. At this point, you aren't responding to my argument at all, just repeating the same thing over and over.
Not to the point when the arc is over in one medium & it isn't for the other. I haven't seen anything done better in terms of pacing for the Black arc that make it superior to the anime.
I'm not really sure what you're attributing to bad pacing here, but release schedule can't reasonably say that different schedules unilaterally equals better or worse pacing.
The anime got like four episodes out per month, to the manga's one. That alone doesn't mean the anime's pacing is better, because that says nothing about the pacing of the actual story or its content.
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As you have highlighted, it's a prime example of how pacing works - it's not how long it is it's how long it feels.
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