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- Jun 1, 2020
I recently rewatched the Buu Saga, roughly starting from after Gohan finishes up Videl's flight training (mostly because I just wanted to skip all the high school shenanigans and get straight to where the action starts proper) and I have walked away with a few thoughts:
- The whole arc's almost like one giant shitpost when put into perspective.
- I forgot how much DBZ really loves its padding.
- Super Saiyan 3 is a hot wet fart of a transformation and we all must have been fairly retarded as kids to have found it cool.
- Gohan is the biggest jobber. Mystic was just as much of a hot, wet fart as SSJ3.
- Gotenks a shit and jobs almost half as hard.
- I can now clearly see one of the indicators where Toriyama changes canon on the fly (by virtue of the fact that it's emphasized so much during this arc, particularly with regards to Vegeta's sacrifice, that "evil" souls are "purified" and basically lose all sense of memory and identity when passing on, never to return to their former selves, but then later on in the arc, we see all the deceased villains watching the battle with Kid Buu on the Supreme Kai world from Hell, not to mention King Yemma sending Dabura to Heaven as his "punishment")
- "Innocent" Buu being "innocent" isn't exactly the case considering that, at least as far the JP dub/subs were concerned, Buu was very much aware that killing people is bad and enjoyed doing it anyway, and even shittalked Goku at one point for being too "goody-goody", and the only thing that really changed Buu was making friends with Mr. Satan and him requesting that Buu should stop killing people. He's literally just choosing not to kill people en masse because people like him more when he isn't. (That, and the whole wish to remove people's memories of being killed by Buu.)
- Vegito's great, but the plan to bait Super Buu into absorbing him was ultimately dumb considering that everyone they saved ends up dying anyway once he transforms into Kid Buu and blows up the Earth.
- I know Vegeta still hangs in there anyway because he has to despite the almighty asswhooping he continually gets during the finale, but it's just downright strange to me how, even at full stamina, he just gets beat down so much faster than Goku against Buu when he himself was kind of beating Goku's ass much earlier in the saga.
Still enjoyed it regardless, because my dumb monkey brain still enjoys some good old Dragonball even in my 30's, but it's definitely something I had to watch in the vein of not taking anything too seriously.
Be honest: How hard do you think Trunks got his Briefs busted in here?
- The whole arc's almost like one giant shitpost when put into perspective.
- I forgot how much DBZ really loves its padding.
- Super Saiyan 3 is a hot wet fart of a transformation and we all must have been fairly retarded as kids to have found it cool.
- Gohan is the biggest jobber. Mystic was just as much of a hot, wet fart as SSJ3.
- Gotenks a shit and jobs almost half as hard.
- I can now clearly see one of the indicators where Toriyama changes canon on the fly (by virtue of the fact that it's emphasized so much during this arc, particularly with regards to Vegeta's sacrifice, that "evil" souls are "purified" and basically lose all sense of memory and identity when passing on, never to return to their former selves, but then later on in the arc, we see all the deceased villains watching the battle with Kid Buu on the Supreme Kai world from Hell, not to mention King Yemma sending Dabura to Heaven as his "punishment")
- "Innocent" Buu being "innocent" isn't exactly the case considering that, at least as far the JP dub/subs were concerned, Buu was very much aware that killing people is bad and enjoyed doing it anyway, and even shittalked Goku at one point for being too "goody-goody", and the only thing that really changed Buu was making friends with Mr. Satan and him requesting that Buu should stop killing people. He's literally just choosing not to kill people en masse because people like him more when he isn't. (That, and the whole wish to remove people's memories of being killed by Buu.)
- Vegito's great, but the plan to bait Super Buu into absorbing him was ultimately dumb considering that everyone they saved ends up dying anyway once he transforms into Kid Buu and blows up the Earth.
- I know Vegeta still hangs in there anyway because he has to despite the almighty asswhooping he continually gets during the finale, but it's just downright strange to me how, even at full stamina, he just gets beat down so much faster than Goku against Buu when he himself was kind of beating Goku's ass much earlier in the saga.
Still enjoyed it regardless, because my dumb monkey brain still enjoys some good old Dragonball even in my 30's, but it's definitely something I had to watch in the vein of not taking anything too seriously.
Be honest: How hard do you think Trunks got his Briefs busted in here?
