#magenta dbssh

[silverwoodwork]

18, 17 and Violet have a surprise reunion with Red Ribbon member Magenta, and then a surprise couple shows up with some surprising revelations...! (10/15)

Longer manga than usual, this time with a chapter-long standard of 15 pages

[sephioux]

I'm still very much alive, infact- take these Gammas from the new chapter

[duhragonball]

Akira Toriyama is known to never look over his own manga and thus is known to forget a lot of stuff, so there is bound to be some inconsistencies in his own work as it goes on.

See this is what I’m talking about.  Okay, he forgot the name of the series was “Dragon Ball Super”, so when he wanted the movie to be called “Super Hero”, he didn’t realize the name of the movie would have “super super” in it.  And he forgot about Super Saiyan 2 one time, like 20 years after he came up with it.   And he couldn’t remember 18′s hair color. 

Fine. 

I don’t have a beef with people poking fun at Toriyama’s foibles.  What does annoy me is when fans act like Toriyama is some drooling idiot who isn’t worthy of his reputation as a master storyteller, all because he didn’t memorize his own work. 

In the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fandom, it’s a meme called “Araki Forgot”.   It’s also been debunked in a series of YouTube videos, which carefully examines most of the so-called lapses in Hirohiko Araki’s memory, and addresses them.   Nine times out of ten, it’s the reader who wasn’t paying attention to the details.

Meanwhile, Araki was putting Part 1-7 references in JoJolion, and DBS: Super Hero is chock full of callbacks to Dragon Ball lore from 30-35 years ago.  Colonel Violet was referenced in the movie.  The thing where Guru awakened Gohan and Krillin’s hidden power was referenced in the movie.  Trunks killing Frieza was referenced in the movie.  The tree symbol that appears when Piccolo accesses his new Orange Piccolo form?  That’s an Ajisa tree, which the Namekians cultivated for purpose of beautifying their environment. 

My point is that, sure, there’s probably a lot of things Toriyama has lost track of over the years, but what deserves our attention are the details he does remember, either because he knows what’s important, or because he has a reliable staff to help him with these things.   The dude has forgotten more about storytelling than most fans will ever know.

[jebtruther]

Feel like this should be here

[m-0-ths]

i want to bite his cheek (affectionate)

[silverwoodwork]

Red Ribbon Reunion dub just dropped!! Original comic can be found here

[jebtruther]

Movie has me on a chokehold sorry not sorry

[m-0-ths]

☆ '’Hachimaru!’‘