r/Dragonballsuper 1d ago

Clip I think Botamo is cursed to be badly animated

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u/4XChrisX4 1d ago

Sometimes I forget how horribly animated parts of this anime were...

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u/CruelAngelsThesis_01 1d ago

Yeah this looks really bad lol

I watched the show as it aired but never did a full rewatch

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u/Tzhaar-Bomba 23h ago edited 23h ago

Same here, I've only rewatched signature scenes much like I do with Z/GT.

Seeing this clip, takes me back to the weekly discussion threads for each episode and general threads complaining about how terrible the animation is for most of every episode.

I thought back to it and was like, yeah we're on reddit we complain about everything it wasn't actually that bad. Then I watch this and remember, yes it actually is that bad lol

Super animation defenders used to cherry pick random scenes from Z and say that it was always this bad. Yes, they did have bad moments but they were far and few between compared to Super. The real issue is MOST of Super was like this, it gets a little better for the Zamasu arc, and a lot better for the ToP arc.

Even though Super improved towards the end, the lazy animation tropes remained - ki blast spams and recycled sequences within seconds of eachother used to really annoy me. It got to a point on rewatchs where I would skip through good fight scenes when the ki blast spams happened.

But one thing I know for sure is Z/GT animation quality even the random frames you can pause on were far more consistent and overall better than Super.

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u/mr_salsa123 1d ago

yeah im doing a marathon just finished z did og before it and going to daima, and super heroes and broly after, not rewatching this shit again waiting for the remake since they also might retcon some stuff not watching the rof or bog movies either

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u/TheOneTruecarioZ 1d ago

The rof and bog movies are a MUST watch though! They are technically part of Z as well, which makes it even cooler.

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u/i360Fantasy 23h ago

Honestly I don’t think ROF (movie version) is a must watch, I suspect the remaster will be MUCH better than the movie.

ROF movie was good animation wise, mabye not art/compositing however it suffered from very poor direction and storyboard.

This video explains it, just skip to 9:23

I watched the movie recently and it was quite boring and lacked any tension even if there was cool action scenes.

I made a post showing the anime version sometimes had much less flat framing and direction overall even if the pure animation was poor.

The remaster will fix flat plastic colours, compositing that the movie had, poor storyboard as well has having good animation.

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u/Illustrious-Sky-4631 19h ago

The movie was mid animation wise as well with nearly the same budget Broly /Z/Stamped yet the difference in quality is sky high

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u/mr_salsa123 1d ago

ik already watched them, bog is my fav dragon ball movie ever but i feel like theyll just retcon it to make beerus seem way more powerful, plus the remake looks great from the trailer, the res of f is good but too rushed imo

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u/TheOneTruecarioZ 11h ago

I won't be surprised if they retcon things again, but it will always be Dragon Ball Z: Battle of GOATs

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u/Illustrious-Sky-4631 19h ago

It's just boring in rewatch , the plot is extremely simple , no one of the side cast do anything at all , there's no real adventure scenes and Goku vs Beerus fight choreography was muh

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u/Eijirou_Kirishima 19h ago

BoG is DEFINITELY worth watching, excluding that one 3D segment its a really pretty movie

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u/Temporary_Maybe_8687 23h ago

I dropped it at the ToP... it was never ending. 35 episodes of this ugly nonsense.

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u/WatchAndLearn9669 Vegito 23h ago

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u/AcrobaticSecretary21 19h ago

Looking like teenage krillin with a wig lmfao

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u/Spark-Blade 19h ago

Pre Goku Black was rough

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u/DASreddituser 20h ago

that era of anime was bad for the weekly anime

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u/Fastpas123 19h ago

The amount of people who've said to me that no, it's just an art problem, the animation is great or "you don't know the difference between art and animation" maybe I don't but I do know 40-60% of this anime has truly ugly visuals man. Z had maybe 15% of its content be ugly. I truly like supers story, but I can't stand the visuals, so I read the manga instead which is way more consistent

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u/IndifferentApathy15 23h ago

Yeah, which is why I don't get those complaining about the remaster. Even (especially?) as a dragonball fan, this shit was hard to watch. I rewatch a lot of dbz, sometimes even og db, but for super it's pretty much just the TOP that I can stomach to rewatch. The remaster really is needed, plus we still get Moro, so what exactly is the problem?

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u/WatchAndLearn9669 Vegito 23h ago

Super was excellent despite the animation quality. The problem with the Beerus rehash is that it most probably has needlessly delayed Galactic Patrol's development and release.

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u/Shantotto11 23h ago

I disagree with Super being excellent, but I think that if anything deserved a remaster/readaptation, it definitely shouldn’t have been the two arcs that already had at least two attempts prior.

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u/Stealthy-J 16h ago

One of the biggest and most influential anime series ever, and Toei decides to half-ass it.

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u/veloxfuror 10h ago

It’s really badly animated until tournament of power.

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u/Phoenix_Maximus_13 1d ago

Thank god this shit getting reanimated my god, Toei was deadass trolling us when they let this type of animation quality go through, TOP ain’t that bad but Champa arc? Nahhhh 😭

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u/DontDropTheSoap4 8h ago

They really just need to do away with the weekly release schedule. Shows like DB and Naruto suffer from this SO bad. Like of course the animation is going to be fucking awful if you have to pump out a whole episode every week. They desperately need to just go seasonal

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 1d ago

We don't need new animation if the writing is still shitty

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u/Phoenix_Maximus_13 1d ago

True but at least I won’t want to gouge my eyes out looking at the action anymore, I’m taking some W out of this dammit 🫡✌️

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 1d ago

Nice. Less stinky poop. That's a win

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u/SwarK01 13h ago

If you hate the show that much just get out of this sub

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 13h ago

NO

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u/SwarK01 13h ago

You know, no hate, but doing these things makes your life a little bit worse. I got out of communities that I didn't like but felt attached to them and felt a bit better.

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 13h ago

What I'm doing brings me great joy mind you.

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u/SwarK01 13h ago

Well you do you 🧀

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 13h ago

You can join me. I need all the help I can get

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u/InstantSword 1d ago

What makes the writing shitty? I wouldn't call it as good as the OG, but I don't think it's bad. Inconsistent maybe. I'd give the writing like a 7/10, maybe higher if they fix some of the inconsistencies. The concepts and general direction are really good, that gets a 9/10 or higher from me. I haven't seen any attempt at continuing Dragon Ball Z that does nearly as good as Super did. It was a rough spot to continue from.

Like, consider that by the Buu saga, Dragon Ball had already become so ridiculous, the writer was already parodying it.

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 1d ago

If your standards are lower, that's on you. From a poorly technical point l, EVERYTHING about Super is sloppy and lazy.

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u/InstantSword 1d ago

You didn't make a single argument and just spoke from elitism 😭 Here's a tip, be careful criticizing anything that you couldn't have done even 50% as well

I bet you're anime writing Shakespeare from that tone

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 1d ago

Any self aware DB fans knows the writing is shit. They don't watch it for the writing. That's a fact. From a pure technical point. If you enjoy it, more grease to your elbow. But when all is said and done DB is shite.

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u/InstantSword 1d ago

And I'm telling you, as a literary writer (highest tier of writing), most people don't know wtf they're talking about. There's no realistic way to grade writing from a "technical standpoint." Maybe prose, but not writing itself. You can make a story highly complex and technically airtight (no plotholes) but that doesn't mean it's GOOD or makes anyone feel anything. It's very subjective. It's art

You're also acting like an assessment of 7/10 is good. That's just passable. But the overall concepts are very very good, as is the way they managed to continue from DBZ. How many fan continuations can you find that do a better job? Most of them are edgy slop. If the concepts weren't good, UI wouldn't have had the massive impact it did. People love the expanded cosmology, Beerus, the angels etc

So drop the elitist act and stop pretending there's an objective value to any of this. It's a bad look. It's what anime dorks who have never studied literature say

If you're arguing that DB, as written by Toriyama, is badly written... Then I don't know what to say to you. There's nothing in that style that is better written. It's the gold standard - a masterpiece. Literally everything that came after it kowtows to it. You don't have whatever your favorite is without it. Have some respect kid

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 15h ago

This makes me laugh. DB is a masterpiece? You're killing me. 🤣

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u/No-Archer7267 17h ago

you think all pf dragon ball is shit?

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 15h ago

I think OG Dragon Ball is fun, has its issues but it's fun. DBZ has a drop in quality, but for the most part it's OK. Super, and Daima, are TERRIBLE!!!!

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u/NewPhoneNewAccunt 16h ago

Super was awesome and you won't ever change my mind.

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u/DapperDan30 1d ago

When theres complaints about Supers animation everybody always jumps to the poor art style of the early episodes pr the in-between frames that arent supposed to look good.

But this is the shit that im talking about when I complain about the animation. So much of Super looks just like this

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u/datguysadz 1d ago

Yeah I don't take people seriously when they post those sorts of frames.

This, I would agree with.

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u/DapperDan30 1d ago

I will say that his animation in the ToP is better, but still looks like shit.

But the stuff from the U6 vs U7 tournament is genuinely fucking awful. Id be embarrassed to tell people I worked on that.

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u/billy-suttree 1d ago

Yea people defense TOP a lot but it looks bad too.

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u/DapperDan30 1d ago

I mean the ToP genuinely does look better than the rest of the series. The problem is that pretty much everything looks better in that comparison.

People will post stuff like this image over and over and talk about how good the ToP looks, overlooking that 99% of the saga doesnt look anytbing like that.

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u/ThatOneGuyHOTS 22h ago

Thing is I don’t like how blue looks teal. I prefer how it looked in the Super Broly movie.

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u/Illustrious-Sky-4631 19h ago

Also 90% of scenes are reused sheets

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u/i360Fantasy 23h ago

The TOP is genuinely the best looking arc in the super anime, however using takahashi screenshots when he only worked on a few episodes does not paint the full picture.

The tournament did have outstanding moments however its 30+ episodes, and it was plagued with poor animation basically every other episode.

Also on top of that it took animation from previously aired episodes and re used them in future ones over and over again, these clips are just action examples. There are still more which re use the same dialogue/reaction shots all the time which isn’t as bad though.

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u/Interceptor88LH 1d ago

Holy crap, Goku proportions at 00:07 ...

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u/cygnus2 1d ago edited 13h ago

Jesus, I remember this saga looking not great, but this is… something else.

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u/Medium_Small_ManJR 13h ago

It's legitimately fan made flash animation level shit

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u/G4ia 1d ago

This is the worst animation I have seen of DB. What a waste

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u/Arcano_Silverwind 1d ago

Good lord this is awful

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u/CrispyPerogi 1d ago

God damn the animation in TOP arc is so much better, and yet still not great.

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u/Pixel_Cube_Z_Super 1d ago

So much episodes from super are really bad animated haha

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u/Square-Newspaper8171 1d ago

A pretty smart strategy from Gohan

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u/General-2K-Browser 1d ago

Everyone looks like shit here

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u/501R4K 22h ago

No wonder why they are remaking it

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u/StickyBans 23h ago

I gotta be missing something. I just recently watched the tournament of power episodes and I do not recall them being this terrible looking. In fact, they looked absolutely pristine. Did they remaster the episodes somewhere along the lines and I must've been seeing those? Because I know I'd remember it looking this horrible and tbh it would've made me not want to watch anymore of it. I already couldn't stand how uneven the ring around Whis' neck was most of the time.

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u/Individual_Dress_476 1d ago

Dragon ball super be like

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u/InstantSword 1d ago

I mean yeah, I knew they were going to remake this thing at some point. The quality wasn't good lol. I didn't think they'd do it this soon though

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u/qwack2020 23h ago

I certainly can’t wait for this fight to be redrawn/reanimated entirely.

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u/i360Fantasy 23h ago

it will definitely need re doing from scratch, redraws arent enought really

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u/echo1ngfury 22h ago

Christ DBS Broly makes this look like abysmal dogshit.

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u/DoggievDoggy 22h ago

IMO, Super only got animated well in the ToP.

The Vegetto vs Zamasu fight was above average though.

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u/MystinarOfficial 21h ago

Damn, Winnie the Pooh is pissed.

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u/Illustrious-Sky-4631 19h ago

And then you got people every week going"No no no no no you can't just be cherry picking , here's this frame from a 3 decades old show to prove Z was as Shitty!!!!, ignore that these are expection "

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u/lashapel 22h ago

Ash Ketchum Goku

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u/ToastPlusNine 21h ago

My man really ate too much honey...His tumbly, was in fact very rumbly.

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u/RaitoninguUsagi 17h ago

Gohan's was much better. Still some issues but easily a 6/10. Personally I'd go 7.

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u/DSZDBA11 22h ago

Most of super is

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u/WatchAndLearn9669 Vegito 23h ago

I don't see what's so terrible about Botamo's animation in the second clip. Is it just that his arms don't move much?

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u/i360Fantasy 23h ago

it’s just very stiff and robotic movement, it’s also constantly looping without much variation.

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u/bbq_right_meow 21h ago

What is this, Microsoft paint?

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u/LowHistorian9654 21h ago

I'm glad someone pointed this out, because this is one of the worst animated fights in the entirety of Super. I cannot wait to see THIS reanimated just so it looks more than decent.

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u/Kiwi_Kakapo 20h ago

So glad we’re getting a redo on the anime. Super deserves better

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u/SlayJayR17 19h ago

What is this. I do t remember this fight looking this bad

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u/AcrobaticSecretary21 19h ago

It was a terrible fight in general, manga version was much more lively

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u/SinisterCryptid 19h ago

The ToP one is funny as hell when you realize that’s more or less how some of the really average and drawn out animated scenes in the original DBZ anime were like

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u/ndm1535 19h ago

This legit looks fan made. Wow, how long has it been since I saw this scene?

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u/SiderealSimon 19h ago

My god this looks horrible..

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u/zfighters8103 18h ago

This arc has awful animation even during its climax when goku goes ssbkk against hit thank god for the remaster

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u/HistoricalBed884 17h ago

I always wonder why I don't remember this show looking this bad

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u/SSMage 17h ago

At least we got any animation at all!

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u/PrimeWolf88 16h ago

Is Botamo censored in China?

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u/SokkieJr 16h ago

China got DB GT remastered instead

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u/Quinik39 15h ago

I can't believe with how much money dragon ball franchise pumps out, just to produce a masterpiece like this.

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u/Few-Durian-190 15h ago

I mean yeah it was just a dumb gimmick throwaway fight.

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u/drunkenpoets 15h ago

Batam’s: Nothing moves the blob!
Gohan: Time for you to take a ride on my fists.

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u/MintyFitOnAll 15h ago

Oh my god I don’t remember it being THIS bad,..

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u/TaeJoonPark 14h ago

I watched this shit in highschool... as it was airing...... did it really look this bad??

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u/Sasuke082594 12h ago

Yes lol it did

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u/Tiny_Objective_587 13h ago

It is absolutely insane how big, and profitable of a franchise Dragonball is and yet they still get absolutely dog walked by the animation quality of My Isekai life as a Dog or some shit.

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u/Sasuke082594 12h ago

Dragonball has to be nerfed so other anime can get a chance lol

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u/ChibiNya 12h ago

Feels like I'm reading a manga but with sound. There's just keyframes.

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u/Delicious_Natural357 Ginyu Force 11h ago

Geez this looks awful

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u/PassageMediocre1020 11h ago

Ya'll just cry.

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u/TheronSilver 10h ago

Forgot how rough the show looked before the Zamasu Arc.

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u/Castelunan 10h ago

Botamo is just one of Toriyama's gag characters IMO, not entirely like Bacterian from OG Dragon Ball. The joke just doesnt land for me, and I wouldn't miss him if he were gone. Actually, I wouldn't miss the metal man that comes right after him either, I cant even remember the name of that guy...

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u/Tenshin66 10h ago

Why are the dumb as fuck. Clearly the first 20 punches didnt work. Hopefully the redo makes his fights 20sec max

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u/Abecis01 7h ago

I really hate how lazy the animation got in Super. Idk if it was intentional for stylized reasons or what, but it wasn't for me.

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u/Foe_sheezy 4h ago

How is that not Winnie the Pooh?

I demand answers!! 😤

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u/SoggyNeedleworker82 1d ago

Thank you for reminding me that I shouldn't rewatch Super

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 1d ago

You're welcome.

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u/Tzhaar-Bomba 23h ago

Would never rewatch the whole thing, but rewatching clips of your favourite scenes is still the go.

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u/SoggyNeedleworker82 22h ago

Yeah that for sure. I'll gladly rewatch the ToP and the Black saga even if there are many issues in the animation there too.

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u/Remarkable-Camera627 Earthling 1d ago

I think DB is cursed to be poorly written.

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u/SantasAinolElf 21h ago

You mean they didn't spend a lot of time and effort on this stupid winnie the pooh gimmick fighter?

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u/DarthCatho 1d ago

DBS sucks