Episode 327 – Like a Dragon’s Balls
The Anime Addicts do a live viewing of Dragon Ball Super and make fun of how bad it is! We also review the anime Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash.
Review: Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
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June 8, 2016 @ 1:12 am
All of your questions about the Super Dragon Balls would have been answered in the next episode or two except why they can’t find a planet sized Dragon Ball which is towards the end of the arc. The actual tournament is about 10-12 episodes with some fluff at the end before it starts with new Future Trunks arc. Also the reason of the tournament is that Champa wants to use the Super Dragon Balls to exchange Earths since his Earth is a dead planet (assumed to be from nuclear war). Beerus would get all of the Super Dragon Balls that Champa had collected.
Jaco came from a one shot volume manga that Toriyama did a few years back which he came to Earth and had adventures with Bulma’s older sister, Tights ie the blonde girl that she talked to in episode 29. Yes Bulma has an older sister much like Vegeta has a younger brother. I do agree though Jaco should have been given an introduction to people who aren’t familiar with him.
Besides the animation problems, I don’t think Dragon Ball Super isn’t all that bad. I read around that people did like the Champa Tournament arc for the most part. I have faith with the Future Trunks arc will be good.
I initially thought Grimgar was more akin to a low level Dungeons and Dragons campaign since there’s a high chance of your character dying so quickly at level 1 compared to higher levels. I imagine how they came to the world would be a plot point later on but I don’t think that really matters in the grand scheme of the show. The fanservice moments was so few that you can’t call it a fanservice show.
I really think that Kazou has become more old man than Mitsugi is because he doesn’t really seem to like anything especially slow stuff.
June 25, 2016 @ 8:53 pm
The logical fallacy Mitsugi committed was called False Dichotomy. The choice is not only “game world” or “not game world”, it’s a myriad of choices as the chat chimed in. Mitsugi was stuck in his way of thinking because the characters in the show talked about gaining new skills and the visual implementation in the anime was very game like.
However, consider the following. Grimgar is based on a light novel. Light novels are not masterpieces of literature. The Japanese have a skewed view of fantasy. Most have not read Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, A Wizard of Earthsea, or any of the classics of fantasy genre. Instead, their understanding of fantasy comes from JPRGs like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest. If you understand this, of course it makes sense that fantasy worlds in light novels have game like characteristics.
July 7, 2016 @ 3:53 pm
Shocked to hear Mitsugi dismiss Pretty Cure! Doesn’t he know Smile Precure starts with a book falling from the sky striking the lead character, the characters reach other world’s through a bookcase, the team meets in a library and the villains seek to achieve their ends by defacing books? It’s so postmodern it’s only completely unreasonable to suggest it’s the anime ‘Name of the Rose’…