And just like that, I'm glad it never happened.
But the point of that fight was to show that babidis magic really beefed up people and the guy was truly going to brutalize whoever he fought, it was just unfortunate that it was videl. It was just videl because they needed a side character that could realistically get their ass handed to them without much consequence to the overall plot.
It did tho. It started as a gag adventure manga. Hell, the move names are the best example to that. You go from Galick Gun to Hellzone Grenade. The show became more serious & lost the gag aspect for a while.
Most DB fans have this issue. They can't see the sheer brutality of that fight (the manga is even more gorey than this btw, (There's literally a dead kid in a panel in the Buu massacre).
There's an annoying trend of western anime viewers to bitch about lack of chicks fighting, only to bitch even louder when the chicks gets the level of brutalizing the male characters routinely get.
I 100% believe they would have gone into that rabbithole.
I think people often forget the Gohan fight because it was in the midst of the whole Ginyu Force Battle while with Videl it's basically the only memorable thing of the whole tournament section.
Lani looks like someone who pretentiously crunches the fuck out of his workers. Seriously, how does he look so cucky all of a sudden.
It's largely because Japan has different copyright & fair use laws than America does (let alone cultural differences regarding parody), thus TOEI sees through that lens.
Most of it is because Toei are petty, thin skinned fuckers who don't understand how the Internet works. And TFS makes their own DBZA merch.
because bad thing make me feel not good, ban bad thing so i only feel good.
The problem with this argument is that the Japanese studio had a flop on their hands domestically, so they basically said "here, see if you can do any better" when they made the deal for the English dub.
Ghost Stories is awesome, even if some of the jokes and humor is pretty dated.
It's been a long time since I've seen it but my issues with is it goes on too long (according to youtube the whole fight is almost 8 minutes out of a 22 minute episode and that's with the reaction shots edited out) and the tonal whiplash when compared to the rest of the saga. An episode or two before Krillin comically smacks a large fat dude out of the ring and an episode or two later Goku, Gohan and Vegeta are playing rock paper scissors to determine who goes first.
It's funny how the video done by the guy who has had almost no input on DBZA was the most heartfelt and well-elaborated out of all of them. Hearing Kirran or even Grant talk about DBZ and then hearing Kaiser or Lani talk about it, you get the sense the actual core group kind of resent the series for making them popular. In the Kakarot LP you could tell how annoyed Kaiser and Lani were while playing it and how much they just wanted to slog through the whole thing as fast as they could. But then there was a different stream like a week or two later that Kirran was on and there was a whole bit with him sperging out about how cool the game was and seeing that contrast made you feel that DBZA still might be thing if it was still a labor of love for the people actually involved..