Daos

But how are we gonna pad out 300 episodes that way?

He trained for 4 months with that underling after coming back to life. That's literally the only explanation they give for why he's so strong now.

Yeah but the issue here is Gohan making a huge deal out of Piccolo dying because he "forgot" they could go get the Namek balls to revive him 5 minutes after Freiza dies. It's like dude.. you were on Namek. You had a hat with a dragonball on it for years. Who better than you to understand how this works by now? And he's supposedly a genius. But he just had a Mihoshi from Tenchi Muyo bout of amnesia/ stupidity. It's just horrifically bad writing, trying to give some sort of weight to Piccolo's death by having a smart character suddenly become so stupid that they forget they can revive him and don't remember until someone literally tells them. "You know we have those Dragonballs that can bring people back from the dead right? We do it all the time. Hell... Freiza just did it like an hour ago." "Oh yeah!"

I think someone actually specifically mentioned reviving piccolo with the Namekian balls to which Gohan replied "Oh Yeah" Because he forgot about them. The guy that used to wear a hat made out of a dragonball when he was a kid.

This arc has been especially embarrassing. Gohan being a bitch who can barely fight underlings. He forgot his mystic form along with the writers eh? He was stronger than SS3 for the love of god. Freiza can train from being weaker than a SS to going past SS2, SS3, Mystic, SSGod and fighting on equal footing with SSblue because he trained with a random underling.... for 4 months. K? After decades of DBZ we still start fights in base form to needlessly prolong fights and create filler. Piccolo dies ... again. Gohan forgets that the dragonballs can revive him. And he's supposed to be super smart. Ginyu steals a new body, is able to use it's powers perfectly, the exact opposite of what happened when he took Goku's body. Underwhelming and poorly animated fights that have no real stakes because anything that goes wrong will just be fixed with the dragonballs or some other bs ability. In summation.... it's not great.

Bustin makes him feel good.

Lol yeah how much money has DBZ merchandise and the video games made over the last 20 years, like 80 billion dollars? Clearly they couldn't afford the dough for decent animation. Corners had to be cut!

Hmm Rita from Rage of Bahamut?

Zombie girl? The only zombie girl anime I can think of is Sankarea.

PFFT Jojo. Tanya will make Toonami great again AND build a wall.

JoJo is gonna get the same ratings as the old Jojo =P

It's Japan. They all know who Mikasa is. Saying Mikasa from AOT would be like saying ice is cold =P

Does anyone think that AOT couldn't outperform Super if they swapped spots? Also about the differences in taste between the Japanese and US http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2017/07/11-1/recreators-attacks-titan-in-newtype-character-rankings Top male character? Kirito. From SAO. in 2017.

The dub was the only thing about the show that was fine. Funimation has talented voice actors that deliver consistent quality. Not to mention the speed they crank them out at. One of the people he bashed in his video was Colleen Clinkenbeard, one of the most well known English VA's. So if you're bitching about a dub with Sabot, Collen, and Jamie Marchi I think maybe you just aren't into dubs. But yeah he nailed the rest of the vid. I can't think of a single problem he missed and there were LOADS.

First season of AOT did well. One Punch man did well. I'd call them hits for the US audience. The first run of Jack did great numbers. If you put stuff on that US audiences want to watch they'll still watch. But if you're going to sucker punch your block by leading with reruns of Jack or low quality stuff like Super then you can't expect anything good.

Yeah but are we counting reruns of 20 year old shows? It's a bad sign when your top show is coasting on nostalgia.

I'm sure people had a lot to say about GT as well =P

I used the qualifier "hit" for a reason =P DBZ was a mainstream hit... 20 years ago. Maybe GITS was also? But these are both basically reruns. Super and Naruto might be mainstream, but they're certainly not hits. Naruto may have been many years ago but people don't really care anymore. Ghoul might be mainstream, but it's certainly no hit in the US. HxH is riding the back of the block, not exactly a hit there. Lupin is niche. Top requested shows were what, MHA, One Punch man S2 and Fairy tail? Well none of that's happening any time soon if ever.

It's not just that. They're running an anime block without running any actual mainstream hits except for AOT. And in addition to AOT getting a bad timeslot, the second season has been pretty disappointing.

FMA 2003 "There's no such thing as god" -Mustang "We can't know that for sure. However devils do exist. They're the alchemists that dare to get in my way." -Bradley

If you weren't old enough in 99 to know....that song dominated the airwaves when it came out. It was everywhere and in every movie.

"Toriyama-san said: “Dragon Ball once became a thing of the past to me, but after that, I got angry about the live-action movie, re-wrote an entire movie script, and now I’m complaining about the quality of the new TV anime. It seems Dragon Ball has grown on me so much I can’t leave it alone“. Fans noticed the series looked very atrocious in the infamous episode 5 that featured the fight between Goku and Beerus. The frames of animation looked worse than a kid’s drawing. It spawned many memes and even a new character in the form of “bad animation Goku”. Dragon Ball Super’s animation has been better since then, but it is still not of a high quality. This might be the fault of the harsh working conditions that Japanese animators have. They are forced to work long hours and produce lots of content in a short amount of time."

So they let themselves get captured and this is all a diversion, yes?

Whoa tell Gon and Killua not to kill the hot ladies. Lets not get carried away here.