Taking into account this is peak “try to redeem everyone” goku and this reaction to having to kill someone who rejected his offer twice, you see every emotion he’s feeling, anger pity disgust sadness and confusion this is the first time he met someone who’s just pure evil
Yoshihiro Togashi, mangaka of HUNTERxHUNTER, will be the next artist to participate in the DRAGON BALL Super Gallery Project in next month's Saikyo Jump Issue #9 2024.
Finished rewatching the Namek arc and although I get upset at them butchering some scenes in the manga it’s still too good. Toriyama was in his bag with that arc. Current Dragonball would really catch my attention if they gave a new adaptation to the original manga. I’m sure-
Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada has reached 55.000.000 copies worldwide.
The original manga series was published from 1986 to 1991 in Weekly Shonen Jump.
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I knew Dragon Ball discourse was cooked when an arc having multiple themes is now viewed as a criticism.
Like do people not understand how themes function?
Any prose/narrative/story will have multiple themes woven throughout. It's never just about a singular message
Mind you, Pre-Android Arc Vegeta who supposedly wants to “win no matter what” was willing to wait 3 entire hours for Goku to show up once he heard that Goku could pose a challenge to him.
I swear people were reading a different manga
DRAGON BALL Volume 42 by Eiichiro Oda (ONE PIECE).
This is part of the DRAGON BALL Super Gallery Project to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the series. The project is now finished.
Solid end to a pleasant tribute project
Seeing pretty much every big-name manga artist contribute was dope. I think only Furudate (Haikyu) and Hara (Hokuto no Ken) were the only significant mangaka not involved.