Dammit. I said I didn’t want to know. But I couldn’t stop myself reading it. And now I can’t unread it.
Although on the plus side, it makes that West Coast Avengers issue where Moon Knight got much stronger than Wonder Man just because... moons... seem like a wholly sound and cogent piece of writing.
Dragon Ball Super: That wasn't as bad as it could've been. But it wasn't great either.
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I like that Goku was still in control of the fight but giving Moro a senzu bean is just dumb and retreads past stupid decisions. So it's especially annoying this time.
I get that the set up is so that Vegeta's new move will be used again and feel like an important part of the plot instead of just filler before the actual final fight. But it is also similar to what we got in the Cell saga. So that together with the senzu bean thing just feels like they're re-doing that popular arc.
I think it would've been cooler if Moro fused with the planet even without the senzu bean.
Whis getting impatient with Goku was pretty great though, even if it was short.
The main problem with using the Ohtsutsuki as the primary antagonists is that we know all the details about the chakra fruit and everything about its creation, and that just demystifies that whole thing a bit too much for my liking. Similar to how Spider-verse (the comic) gave me more information that I really wanted about Morlun and his family.
Boruto the series generally feels unecessary. I was fine with the movie because it was just fun and had a cool final battle at the end, and while the anime has horrible pacing (much like the One Piece anime, yeah I said that) it does have some really cool action scenes and there are quite a few slice of life scenes that I enjoy (Sasuke being a super awkward dad and Kakashi ribbing him for it is comedy gold). But in general it doesn't add much as continuation to its much greater predecessor.
Two things.
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Why does She-Hulk need the Iron Fist, when she hits harder than the Iron Fist anyways. Two. Why is Blade even here?
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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It's kind of an anti-Dragonball situation, where the father is much more interesting than the son.
The best parts of Boruto are the Naruto scenes. When we see how much Naruto matters to Sasuke in the present. Naruto inspiring Sarada. Naruto giving Kawaki the first legitimate parental affection he's ever had.
The stuff with Boruto all feels perfunctory
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
Arx Inosaan
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Well this next one should be entertaining.
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Not quite perfect of course but least it's playable now!
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And if they want it to be a battle manga, they need to either bring in opponents that can throw down with Naruto and Sasuke, which will leave Boruto sitting on the sidelines while Naruto and Sasuke do the fighting unless he gets a ridiculous powerup. Or the writer finds a way to keep Naruto and Sasuke out of the fight, which requires the opponent to be even further beyond Boruto's level and requires even more ridiculous powerups.
Honestly, at this point, the manga either needs to be a slice of life manga or it needs to openly admit it's become Dragon Ball except our heroes call themselves ninja, because with its power scale the only way for it to still be a battle manga at this point is for it to basically be Dragon Ball.
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Glad that I didn't start reading the Dresden Files until after Battleground came out, hoo boy was that one to end on. Now I desperately want more to come out.