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A review by vimcenzo
Dragon Ball (3-in-1 Edition), Vol. 5: Includes vols. 13, 14 & 15 by Akira Toriyama
4.0
This had the most satisfying fight so far, with a final action panel smashing the baddie that feels absolutely iconic, you really feel the impact.
Piccolo is the scariest force they’ve taken on so far, but I don’t really buy his whole puppy-kicking plan. What’s the long term goal here? If he was gonna wipe out all 43 districts in the Dragonball universe, what’s to stop any survivors in other cities from scuttling over to the ruins of some old place, since they know that place is out of the running for every Piccolo Commemoration Day? Sure, I guess Piccolo can just change his mind on a whim and re-smite the place, but they treat it almost like a non-possibility, but it’s basically an annually predictable 9/11. Also I’m not sure I get the mentality behind abolishing law enforcement and allowing looting and killing. If it was explicitly a new world order of “might makes right”, I think it would be interesting if he were trying to establish a stable of powerful underlings to maybe even take on greater threats and go intergalactic with his empire. Maybe something like the demon endings in any Shin Megami Tensei game. I dunno, maybe I’m overthinking it, I don’t wanna be out here asking what Piccolo’s tax policy would have been and how he would have enforced something or other, but he’s been the most intimidating villain so far and it feels like a strangely simplistic motivation relative to his powers and eloquence.
I love seeing everyone’s new designs after the timeskip when they’re all allowed to be taller. There’s a passage of time, which I really appreciate. People grow up and get older. They physically age and change. Lunch always stays the same which is good, you can’t improve on perfection. Muten Rōshi/Kame-Sen’nin does too, but I guess he’s old already. You can’t really stack even more wrinkles on the guy or make him any balder.
It’s a little lame that Yam’cha reached a skill ceiling and he’s forever on a bottom rung. Since Toriyama takes (took…) the effort to always draw all the background characters, giving a very diverse crowd to react to all the shit happening in any battle, it almost feels crual to keep having Yam’cha participating and getting wiped each time. With Muten Rōshi/Kame-Sen’nin no longer in the proceedings it’s starting to get a little mean. I dunno. Maybe Bulma bullies him into it…
Piccolo is the scariest force they’ve taken on so far, but I don’t really buy his whole puppy-kicking plan. What’s the long term goal here? If he was gonna wipe out all 43 districts in the Dragonball universe, what’s to stop any survivors in other cities from scuttling over to the ruins of some old place, since they know that place is out of the running for every Piccolo Commemoration Day? Sure, I guess Piccolo can just change his mind on a whim and re-smite the place, but they treat it almost like a non-possibility, but it’s basically an annually predictable 9/11. Also I’m not sure I get the mentality behind abolishing law enforcement and allowing looting and killing. If it was explicitly a new world order of “might makes right”, I think it would be interesting if he were trying to establish a stable of powerful underlings to maybe even take on greater threats and go intergalactic with his empire. Maybe something like the demon endings in any Shin Megami Tensei game. I dunno, maybe I’m overthinking it, I don’t wanna be out here asking what Piccolo’s tax policy would have been and how he would have enforced something or other, but he’s been the most intimidating villain so far and it feels like a strangely simplistic motivation relative to his powers and eloquence.
I love seeing everyone’s new designs after the timeskip when they’re all allowed to be taller. There’s a passage of time, which I really appreciate. People grow up and get older. They physically age and change. Lunch always stays the same which is good, you can’t improve on perfection. Muten Rōshi/Kame-Sen’nin does too, but I guess he’s old already. You can’t really stack even more wrinkles on the guy or make him any balder.
It’s a little lame that Yam’cha reached a skill ceiling and he’s forever on a bottom rung. Since Toriyama takes (took…) the effort to always draw all the background characters, giving a very diverse crowd to react to all the shit happening in any battle, it almost feels crual to keep having Yam’cha participating and getting wiped each time. With Muten Rōshi/Kame-Sen’nin no longer in the proceedings it’s starting to get a little mean. I dunno. Maybe Bulma bullies him into it…