Dragon Ball Thread - RIP Akira Toriyama

Weird, I wonder why they'd ask him, it wouldn't be a canon answer anyway.
The melanin-rich individuals still asking about power levels in 2023 do not know what a manga is, much less Toriyama
In fact, I doubt even Toriyama keeps track of scaling these days, it even looked like he checked out of that by the end of Z, which was a bit of a mess in that regard.
It was a disaster in the buu saga but he's been pretty consistent with Super, in that ultimate gohan/blue goku post-zamasu were the high water marks until the ultra forms were introduced. I attribute this to bamco having better handlers for him and his son Sasuke helping to keep him on track.
 
because he does not seem to train and Goku is definitely stronger than him by this point.
In the manga I believe they show him doing stuff more (I don't read it but I've seen blips here and there), I just don't think they focus on it because he's just a side character. I mean Goku and pals will always win in the end anyway so it ultimately doesn't matter. I just like Beerus in general, even when he's being a dipshit somewhere.

If this turns out like the OG series then its a win for a lot of people
I would be very happy. I'm very much a Dragon Ball > DBZ type of fan. I like Super a tiny bit more than Z in general because it has more of the humor from the original vs Z. Though of course DBZ is nostalgic so a lot of its pitfalls (Buu saga imo) get a pass from me.
 
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Some races got off much better than the others, oof.
 
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In the manga I believe they show him doing stuff more (I don't read it but I've seen blips here and there), I just don't think they focus on it because he's just a side character. I mean Goku and pals will always win in the end anyway so it ultimately doesn't matter. I just like Beerus in general, even when he's being a dipshit somewhere.
Maybe, I'd have to read through it again, injustice remember him sleeping and eating. He killed Zamasu, but I don't remember him doing much else, though he did help train Vegeta now that I think about it, but don't recall what that entailed. As for Goku winning, he lost to Beerus but was spared, so the rematch should be interesting.

But yeah, I like Beerus too, he's funny. He's easily one of the best new characters they added, Whis is okay too, and Jaco ain't bad.

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Some races got off much better than the others, oof.
The Namekians and Beerus people look kinda bad, but the rest are fine. They're all a bit too derivative, but the Kais and Buus in particular seem cool.
 
The only problem now is the gap between the humans and...everyone else is insurmountable without some real ass pulpulls
The humans got an extended close up during the trailer for Meteor Mission, and Ozotto's gimmick is perfect mimicry of everyone in that arcade game, so don't write them off just yet.

Remember, Toriyama had Roshi become stronger than ss2 Cell solely by using a cat to masturbate for a week, so anything can happen.
 
I wish I could find that shitpost comic of Roshi lounging around for decades, only to become viable for this multiversal tournament with planet destroyers involved.
Imagine spending dozens of hours devising power level charts for some shitty video series, only to get publicly shit upon by the creator himself, continuously, and there isn't a single thing one could do about it due to autism addiction. I'm reminded of one of PlaugeofGripes' videos making fun of how some fuckers are so far gone with number inflation that they swear the characters open up sub-space dimensions so they can speak to one another while fighting at 456789089765 times the speed of light. That's the type of faggotry you are only supposed to see in the putrid bowels of the capeshit fandom and should never be anywhere near a story about a brain damaged monkey man.

Daima may end up having some flaws, but if it triggers malfunctioning retards into having seething fits by focusing on goofy kung fu instead of new super saiyan transformations then I welcome it with open arms.
 
I wish I could find that shitpost comic of Roshi lounging around for decades, only to become viable for this multiversal tournament with planet destroyers involved.
I swear there was another joke like this one by this artist, but close enough.

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Imagine spending dozens of hours devising power level charts for some shitty video series, only to get publicly shit upon by the creator himself, continuously, and there isn't a single thing one could do about it due to autism addiction. I'm reminded of one of PlaugeofGripes' videos making fun of how some fuckers are so far gone with number inflation that they swear the characters open up sub-space dimensions so they can speak to one another while fighting at 456789089765 times the speed of light. That's the type of faggotry you are only supposed to see in the putrid bowels of the capeshit fandom and should never be anywhere near a story about a brain damaged monkey man.

Daima may end up having some flaws, but if it triggers malfunctioning retards into having seething fits by focusing on goofy kung fu instead of new super saiyan transformations then I welcome it with open arms.
I can't remember the last time I took power level talk seriously. Like people really think Goku can just punch really hard and the entire universe will split in half and other bullshit like that.
 
Imagine spending dozens of hours devising power level charts for some shitty video series, only to get publicly shit upon by the creator himself, continuously, and there isn't a single thing one could do about it due to autism addiction. I'm reminded of one of PlaugeofGripes' videos making fun of how some fuckers are so far gone with number inflation that they swear the characters open up sub-space dimensions so they can speak to one another while fighting at 456789089765 times the speed of light. That's the type of faggotry you are only supposed to see in the putrid bowels of the capeshit fandom and should never be anywhere near a story about a brain damaged monkey man.

Daima may end up having some flaws, but if it triggers malfunctioning retards into having seething fits by focusing on goofy kung fu instead of new super saiyan transformations then I welcome it with open arms.
Their main concern seems to be precisely to get into pathetic slapfights with capeshit retards about which children's cartoon character is stronger. It's really just the autistic manchild version of 'my dad can beat up your dad'.
 
I have mixed feelings about Super. I don't hate it, but there were a lot of things that did piss me off.
Same. I think the movies have all been good at the very least (especially when compared to their respective arcs when retold in the anime/manga).

I hate everything about this franchise since the revival.
Even Beerus? It's illegal to hate Beerus.

Like people really think Goku can just punch really hard and the entire universe will split in half and other bullshit like that.
I mean, he could. Or at least, if there was consistency he could, which I'm not sure there is post-DBZ. I stopped trying to keep track of the power scaling as much, but even at a glance Goku should be able to destroy a universe pretty easily.
 
I can't remember the last time I took power level talk seriously. Like people really think Goku can just punch really hard and the entire universe will split in half and other bullshit like that.
It's because autistic people are autistic and take hyperbolic statements meant to get children excited at face value, such as SSG Goku and Beerus hitting each other hard enough to rock the universe when he was still weaker than ultimate Gohan at that point. Toriyama got his career started in the advertising world after all, hype is what sells and he's always known this.
Their main concern seems to be precisely to get into pathetic slapfights with capeshit retards about which children's cartoon character is stronger. It's really just the autistic manchild version of 'my dad can beat up your dad'.
Toriyama became a multi-millionaire by drawing a brain damaged monkey slap people, where as every single person involved in capeshit who isn't named Eastman, Laird, or McFarlane is on the verge of going homeless at this exact moment: dragon ball wins by default by virtue of not being contaminated by poorfags.

I'm totally serious by the way, Peter David was a celebrated comic writer for ages and he ended up so despicably poor that he had to crowdfun medical aid.
 
You can never be stronger than deus ex machina.
Goku trips and some falls out of his pocket mixed in with the candy wrappers.
 
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I'm totally serious by the way, Peter David was a celebrated comic writer for ages and he ended up so despicably poor that he had to crowdfun medical aid.
I wonder what's the cause. Do Western comics sell so poorly or are Western comic artists bound by slavish contracts that pay them barely enough to not starve?
 
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