Category: Dragon Ball
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Dragon Ball Daima is Everything I Wanted
When the first teaser for ‘Dragon Ball Daima‘ came out, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. Maybe it just caught me at the wrong time, or maybe it was because seeing Goku shrink back into a child gave me some unfortunate ‘Dragon Ball GT‘ flashbacks. Once I got over the initial confusion –…
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Goku VS Vegeta: The Perfect Anime Battle
Fighting and anime go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Animated violence is just plain cool; the perfect combination of eye candy and narrative development. The closest thing we have to it in real life is the WWE. Which is somehow even more insane than anime, but that’s beside the point. Every shounen anime has…
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On Shounen and Transformations
*This article contains spoilers for Dragon Ball Z, Naruto: Shippuden, One Piece, and Hunter X Hunter. Got it? Good.* Transformation as a concept is all but synonomous with the shounen genre. Ever since Goku traded his black locks for gold, every series in the genre wanted a piece of that pie. Who could blame them?…
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A Tribute to Akira Toriyama
This one is going to hurt. On March 1st, 2024, Akira Toriyama passed away due to acute subdural hematoma. At 68, he’d put his pen to countless creative works, from his original gag manga Dr. Slump to providing artwork for iconic video games like Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger to, of course, his most famous…
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We Need to Talk About Dragon Ball Daima
Toriyama is taking the franchise to strange new places… Dragon Ball is a series of highs and lows. Z was amazing… up until the Buu saga kinda messed it all up. GT was one of the most disappointing anime I’ve ever seen. Super was a mixed bag; it had some great moments and the movies…
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