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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#85951: Aug 11th 2018 at 11:11:11 PM

I think thats what db abridged even went with

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#85953: Aug 11th 2018 at 11:15:31 PM

That is really good makeup.

Dedicated cosplay.

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
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#85954: Aug 11th 2018 at 11:41:41 PM

Indeed.

Speaking of Cell, I wonder why Cell needed to be complete in the future timeline? Goku was dead at that point and the androids were destroyed by Trunks.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#85955: Aug 11th 2018 at 11:44:09 PM

He didn't need to be complete he wanted to be complete. He had no greater plan, it was just what he was created for, and he wanted power for its own sake.

Edited by LSBK on Aug 11th 2018 at 1:43:45 PM

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#85956: Aug 11th 2018 at 11:44:22 PM

Well Gero designed him that way.

Nothing he could do about it, it was what he was programmed to do.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#85957: Aug 11th 2018 at 11:46:28 PM

I don't think it's that weird at all that Ten didn't immediately think of God's lookout just because Kuririn pointed in that direction.

Kuririn realized what Piccolo's motive was, so it's fairly easy for him to connect Piccolo's direction with that of God's lookout.

But unless God's lookout is really close - not necessary with how fast people can fly - Ten wouldn't immediately think that was where Piccolo is going because that wouldn't explain why Piccolo suddenly became so touchy.

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#85958: Aug 12th 2018 at 1:18:20 AM

So Cell is just another example of Dr Gero being an idiot when it comes to programming things and set goals? Makes sense, all his robots were either physically defective or had some issue with personality. The only definitive exceptions are 19 and 20...and the latter doesn't even count as without his brain Android 20 is just a shell

Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
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#85959: Aug 12th 2018 at 1:20:03 AM

Is it really right to call him an idiot when he created something as strong as he did? Especially compared to the rest of the Red Ribbon army.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#85960: Aug 12th 2018 at 1:21:06 AM

Eh there wasn’t really anything wrong with Cell, he just took too long to mature.

I guess if he does have a programming issue is that he was never that intent on killing Goku.

Even then Cell was a natural-born killer so he would have attacked him either way.

Edited by slimcoder on Aug 12th 2018 at 1:21:07 AM

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#85961: Aug 12th 2018 at 5:01:14 AM

I wouldn't call Gero an idiot because Cell took longer than anticipated. What he was doing simply hadn't been done in the 'verse before. How was he meant to expect that?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#85962: Aug 12th 2018 at 5:36:32 AM

Idiot is being used pretty heavily...

Especially in regards to things going wrong for "smart" fictional characters...

Edited by randomness4 on Aug 12th 2018 at 5:36:15 AM

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#85963: Aug 12th 2018 at 7:41:56 AM

I don't think it's that weird at all that Ten didn't immediately think of God's lookout just because Kuririn pointed in that direction.

Kuririn realized what Piccolo's motive was, so it's fairly easy for him to connect Piccolo's direction with that of God's lookout.

But unless God's lookout is really close - not necessary with how fast people can fly - Ten wouldn't immediately think that was where Piccolo is going because that wouldn't explain why Piccolo suddenly became so touchy.

Maybe, but I'd still argue Trunks was the better choice, as the newbie who wouldn't know these things.

I will say that ragging on Tien for saying he forgot Piccolo was an enemy once is a bit unfair. All of them were enemies once, and a lot happened in since that battle. I mean, it's kinda clear Piccolo himself forgot, as Mistare himself proposes due to the immediate situations that continually bombarded them.

That's kinda how it is when you're part of the DB gang.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#85964: Aug 12th 2018 at 1:48:47 PM

Eh, if you use Trunks than you're just taking away Ten's speaking role for the sake of pedantry. Trunks already had dialogue about Vegeta in that scene.

vicarious vicarious from NC, USA Since: Feb, 2013
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#85965: Aug 12th 2018 at 2:58:59 PM

Read Super manga vol.3 and I am not impressed

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#85966: Aug 12th 2018 at 3:26:15 PM

[up] I mean, it's Super. If you went in expecting to be impressed, you came to the wrong place.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#85967: Aug 12th 2018 at 3:31:24 PM

Yeah, Super's anime and manga aren't good. The anime can entertain you with background music, longer fanservice, and animation, but that's all it can do.

Edited by VeryMelon on Aug 12th 2018 at 6:37:23 AM

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#85968: Aug 12th 2018 at 3:50:02 PM

And even then the animation doesn't start looking decent till like over 30/40 episodes in.

Huh what did volume 3 cover?

Edited by slimcoder on Aug 12th 2018 at 3:51:54 AM

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#85969: Aug 12th 2018 at 4:11:11 PM

I'm going to guess it's the u 6 climax

Edit: nope, really overestimated its length. It's the first third of the Black arc.

Edited by Saiga on Aug 12th 2018 at 9:11:51 PM

vicarious vicarious from NC, USA Since: Feb, 2013
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#85970: Aug 12th 2018 at 7:01:56 PM

Yeah

I actually liked the U6 as shown in manga but the Goku Black/Zamasu arc so far feels lackluster as shown

Maybe the anime spoiled me

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
#85971: Aug 12th 2018 at 7:24:01 PM

I think the Goku Black arc in the manga improves by the end when it starts really doing its own thing.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#85972: Aug 12th 2018 at 7:36:39 PM

The manga and the anime sort of have opposite pacing - the anime spends a lot of time building up the beginning of the arc and then speeds through the midpoint/climax whereas the manga breezed through the beginning and then slowed down for the later parts.

I remember people being worried that the arc would be resolved in a single trip, which is a bit odd in hindsight.

Kamiccolo Since: May, 2018
#85973: Aug 13th 2018 at 4:55:26 PM

The Zamasu arc is the only story arc of the Super manga that doesn't feel very oddly paced. It's about as long as the original DB Saiyan arc in terms of page count. I'm glad that, given his limited time, the author just skipped over most of RF and BOG. But apparently even that wasn't enough as the TOP is being rushed too.

I prefer the comic version. I'm not a huge fan of either but the anime is just terrible.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#85974: Aug 13th 2018 at 5:04:29 PM

Is this a weird thing to think?

Despite being a monthly manga the art feels like a weekly manga.

Edited by slimcoder on Aug 13th 2018 at 5:04:00 AM

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#85975: Aug 13th 2018 at 5:04:34 PM

The last chapter with Kale's rampage felt really rushed with the elimination of the universes, but beyond that I think the pacing has worked well. The TOP doesn't have a lot of plot to it so I wouldn't expect it to be too long.

I think the prior chapter could have had some of Kale's rampage in it to break things up, and some universes could have been eliminated prior to that to improve pacing.

Currently we have just Kafla and 4 pride troopers to resolve, so I think the remaining chapters can handle that.

I agree with neither version being great, but preferring the manga over the (terrible) anime.


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