I was at first glad that that my childhood franchise series returned, now i'm disappointed. It feels like watching some other anime series with dragon ball universe. This is even weaker than GT. I do love the intro song though, they got that right. Other than that it fails at every single step. Here is why:
1. The obvious one. The animation quality.. Everyone is drawn very strangely, the style resembles fairy tail in my opinion, definitely not dragon ball. Some episodes have horrible animations and the effects are cheap. I mean there aren't that much fights you can really enjoy watching. I mean this is dragon ball for Christ sake, just look at one punch man and it's fights... Can't they produce something like that? I mean how the hell the animation of late 80s be better then 2016... It's because they expect the fame to carry it on i suppose.
2. Everything is recycled. I mean first 2 arcs are movie recycles, which are stretched out and done even more poorly. The other one is tournament again and the newest one is meh, future trunks back with grim news, AGAIN.
3. Characters are messed up. I mean every character is basically held for gasp and observations other then Goku and Vegeta. Goku is for some reason more of an idiot than he was (remember the dragon ball z cell games, Buu saga, the way he acted as a mentor) and seems to be a kid again even though he is an adult and cares only about getting stronger above all. Vegeta is also comic relief. By the end of Buu saga, you could see him showing respect for Goku. Here he is a Tsundere. who is always behind. Gohan is somehow had anorexia or was held up in some kind of concentration camp, is skinny and useless (how could that happen in such short span), Krillin is turned into a coward for "character development" even though in the movie he isn't. Videl, a bad ass fighter chick is now a boring mom and her personality is completely wiped, she is a empty shell now. Where is feminism on that one?
4. The tone of the show is changed to some kind of comedy, and a not very good one. And it's not that there is no blood or gore, just there is no danger no tension. Even when they try to show dramatic moments, you realize there are dragon balls and you just simply don't care because it's not presented in a way you should care. For example Piccolo sacrifices himself for Gohan. I mean it has been done before and he is an adult now, and it feels pathetic and rehashed. Or the future trunks arc, where future earth is destroyed. It doesn't feel grim at all and it's suppose to. You don't feel anything there is now danger and all the characters are wacky. Dragonball was wacky too, but it had those serious moments, the feeling of the fight to the death, the moment of sacrifice and stuff and now it's just plain wacky. Even in the black Goku arc , Mai sacrifices appears to be killed yet you barely feel anything, because of the tone of the show and because the viewer haven't build any attachment to her yet. Remember all those deaths in Dragon ball and Z? Even though everyone could get revived with dragon ball characters dying felt SOMETHING. They fail to produce that feeling with these series. Is it specifically made for children? Cuz Fairytail is for children too yet somehow feels more mature and there are some stakes. Also what is with Kpop at the ending of episodes that kills the the dragon ball vibe?
5. The forms and fights are lazy and stupid. I mean characters could destroy planets in Frieza arc. Even though there are super saiyan gods now, they don't really look that powerful. The fights feel the same.When Goku in god form fight golden Frieza, it doesn't look different than the fight in dragon ball z on namek. When goku fought beerus in space, they could have destroyed the universe with their power, and now even though enemies are stronger it barely differs than the fight on namek with Frieza. I mean when Goku transformed into super Saiyan 3, the whole earth shivered. Now it's just *poof* blue form is stronger. And the new forms are lazy as hell. I mean golden frieza? super saiyan blue? I mean what's next super saiyan green? They look effortless and bland. They change the hair color and expect everyone to gasp? I mean there so many fan arts by now, you could picked something... No let's do it cheaply and just change the hair color and dumb fans will love it anyway, sigh.. I mean saiyans are primal monkey race. Shouldn't their god would be some god ape, something similar to Super Saiyan 4 and not just blue hair and aura?
6. The story is dumb and the villain reasoning is weak. Beerus tries to destroy planet because of pudding, black goku is killing all humans because they conflict with each other (also if he is so strong, how the hell he didn't wipe them out yet, when majin buu did it in one episode, and you can see humans fighting him with what , guns??).
7. Who is this aimed at? I mean even anime aimed at children have better story and fights these days. This for those kind of fans who will buy anything with dragon ball on it and attack you if you say anything bad about it.
This is what i call milking the franchise dry. Go watch movies instead and ignore these series.
1. The obvious one. The animation quality.. Everyone is drawn very strangely, the style resembles fairy tail in my opinion, definitely not dragon ball. Some episodes have horrible animations and the effects are cheap. I mean there aren't that much fights you can really enjoy watching. I mean this is dragon ball for Christ sake, just look at one punch man and it's fights... Can't they produce something like that? I mean how the hell the animation of late 80s be better then 2016... It's because they expect the fame to carry it on i suppose.
2. Everything is recycled. I mean first 2 arcs are movie recycles, which are stretched out and done even more poorly. The other one is tournament again and the newest one is meh, future trunks back with grim news, AGAIN.
3. Characters are messed up. I mean every character is basically held for gasp and observations other then Goku and Vegeta. Goku is for some reason more of an idiot than he was (remember the dragon ball z cell games, Buu saga, the way he acted as a mentor) and seems to be a kid again even though he is an adult and cares only about getting stronger above all. Vegeta is also comic relief. By the end of Buu saga, you could see him showing respect for Goku. Here he is a Tsundere. who is always behind. Gohan is somehow had anorexia or was held up in some kind of concentration camp, is skinny and useless (how could that happen in such short span), Krillin is turned into a coward for "character development" even though in the movie he isn't. Videl, a bad ass fighter chick is now a boring mom and her personality is completely wiped, she is a empty shell now. Where is feminism on that one?
4. The tone of the show is changed to some kind of comedy, and a not very good one. And it's not that there is no blood or gore, just there is no danger no tension. Even when they try to show dramatic moments, you realize there are dragon balls and you just simply don't care because it's not presented in a way you should care. For example Piccolo sacrifices himself for Gohan. I mean it has been done before and he is an adult now, and it feels pathetic and rehashed. Or the future trunks arc, where future earth is destroyed. It doesn't feel grim at all and it's suppose to. You don't feel anything there is now danger and all the characters are wacky. Dragonball was wacky too, but it had those serious moments, the feeling of the fight to the death, the moment of sacrifice and stuff and now it's just plain wacky. Even in the black Goku arc , Mai sacrifices appears to be killed yet you barely feel anything, because of the tone of the show and because the viewer haven't build any attachment to her yet. Remember all those deaths in Dragon ball and Z? Even though everyone could get revived with dragon ball characters dying felt SOMETHING. They fail to produce that feeling with these series. Is it specifically made for children? Cuz Fairytail is for children too yet somehow feels more mature and there are some stakes. Also what is with Kpop at the ending of episodes that kills the the dragon ball vibe?
5. The forms and fights are lazy and stupid. I mean characters could destroy planets in Frieza arc. Even though there are super saiyan gods now, they don't really look that powerful. The fights feel the same.When Goku in god form fight golden Frieza, it doesn't look different than the fight in dragon ball z on namek. When goku fought beerus in space, they could have destroyed the universe with their power, and now even though enemies are stronger it barely differs than the fight on namek with Frieza. I mean when Goku transformed into super Saiyan 3, the whole earth shivered. Now it's just *poof* blue form is stronger. And the new forms are lazy as hell. I mean golden frieza? super saiyan blue? I mean what's next super saiyan green? They look effortless and bland. They change the hair color and expect everyone to gasp? I mean there so many fan arts by now, you could picked something... No let's do it cheaply and just change the hair color and dumb fans will love it anyway, sigh.. I mean saiyans are primal monkey race. Shouldn't their god would be some god ape, something similar to Super Saiyan 4 and not just blue hair and aura?
6. The story is dumb and the villain reasoning is weak. Beerus tries to destroy planet because of pudding, black goku is killing all humans because they conflict with each other (also if he is so strong, how the hell he didn't wipe them out yet, when majin buu did it in one episode, and you can see humans fighting him with what , guns??).
7. Who is this aimed at? I mean even anime aimed at children have better story and fights these days. This for those kind of fans who will buy anything with dragon ball on it and attack you if you say anything bad about it.
This is what i call milking the franchise dry. Go watch movies instead and ignore these series.