Dragon Ball (TV Series) Budôkai shûryô! Soshite...!! (1988) User Reviews

The kind of stuff that makes you grab your seat.

[markodcomet · 8/10 · 3 February 2022]

Visuals: 7 - The action was done very well and even after the fact everything looks great.

Audio: 7 - A range of emotions are in this episode and the voice actors do a great job at conveying them. The music does its job exceedingly well too.

Plot: 10 - This episode has you guessing at every step. Will Goku win or why is Goku acting like this will plague your mind until the answer is revealed and your heart will stop. Extremely good stuuf here.

This episode has so much good will in it it could drive you to tears! Tien's growth and his relationship with Goku is very satisfying to watch. The twists and turns this episode has makes it one of the greatest out there including the very big twist at the end. This episode is a must watch which makes the next episode a must watch too!

A fight for the ages! And a...TWIST!

[DuskShadow · 9/10 · 6 May 2017]

At least as far as most earthlings are concerned. Long would the memory of this specific Budokai last in the minds of many peoples, even years later when the Cell games occur and folks wonder at the similarity between adult Goku and his younger self.

Even in the original DBZ series, where battles were needlessly drawn out with useless banter and time wasting, most fights when summed up, as in the kai series that keep things very brief, the fights were not as fun to watch , imaginative and impressive as those in this, the original Dragonball show.

So here at last we come down to yet another last ditch effort by Tenshinhan to win at all costs. The main fighters in the tournament pulled out all the stops, but only those skills demonstrated by Roshi in his Jackie Chun guise, and Goku and Ten were of the highest caliber. Having never seen more than a few episodes of the original show, I have been fortunate to watch it from episode 1 up till the end of this tournament. With one more great saga and few arcs left till the apex of the franchises early emergence of battle energy, with the soon to be emergence of a certain green skinned antagonist, I can hardly contain by excitement at seeing precisely how one of the worlds greatest anime shall unfold piece by piece. DRAMA TWIST! CIAO ^~^