Dragon Ball Super

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As a fan of the Dragon Ball franchise, I was excited to delve into Dragon Ball Super, hoping to experience more epic battles and thrilling adventures. While the manga did deliver on some fronts, it also left me with mixed feelings.

On the positive side, I appreciated the introduction of new characters and concepts, expanding the Dragon Ball universe in exciting ways. The new transformations and power-ups kept the battles visually engaging, and some fights were truly spectacular. Additionally, seeing familiar faces like Goku, Vegeta, and the others back in action was a treat, and their character development, albeit subtle, was satisfying.

However, there were some downsides. ... The pacing felt uneven at times, with certain arcs dragging on while others felt rushed. Some storylines seemed convoluted or unnecessary, detracting from the overall narrative. Additionally, while the art style was generally good, it occasionally felt inconsistent, particularly during action sequences.

Overall, Dragon Ball Super is an enjoyable read for fans of the franchise. It provides more of what we love - thrilling battles, powerful characters, and a sense of grand adventure. While it may not reach the same heights as its predecessors, it still offers an entertaining and action-packed continuation of the Dragon Ball saga.

Im writing this as someone who enjoyed dragonball super casually since the beginning. If you turn off your brain you might have a fun experience. However,lets be honest with ourselves Dragonball Super should be judged as what it is. It is not a serious manga that is made out of passion or love of the art or francise. It's a cashgrab rehashing a legendary manga series for profit alone. Giving them strange blue hair and a thousand transformations that become meaningless in the next arc, terrible antagonists that have overtly simplistic backstorys, weak plot threads, boring paneling.... But since the tournement of power arc ... something has changed. The pacing has gotten a lot better, Goku and Vegeta actually are starting to feel like actual characters and not action figures meant to sell merch, the newest antagonists actually are pretty average-solid, even the paneling and art is becoming less lazy. Especially the newest arc the "Granolah the Survivor Saga" is starting to be actually good. Like actually good not in dragonball super standards good like the moro arc but actually good. Im looking forward to that, but for now.... meh.

Dragon Ball Super perfectly shows why Dragon Ball should have ended with Z/KAI

Of course it being a manga review i can't speak about the awful anime art and animation that have hurt the series even more, but like i said this is a manga review so i won't talk about that.

The series as a whole lacks good writting and creativity like Z had, it looks like Dragon Ball Heroes where they just want to spam transformations to sell merchandise, this series just can't stop doing that, it's hilarious and pathetic at the same time.

Also, besides Ultra Instinct no form had any impact on Super, it's ... crazy if you think about it.
We are now in a point where the 2 main characters are so strong that they don't have any more ideas for stories and that's why they came up with with the worst arc in Dragon Ball History, yes, im talking about the Granolah arc. Where they need to put the "villains" using the Dragon Balls to wish to become the strongest in the universe, Goku and Vegeta are in a level where it's almost impossible to create credible villains without this kind of awful writting.

Vegeta Ultra Ego transformation can be perfectly explained with what i wrote, had 0 impact and was totally useless, only happened for the same reason as every transformation in Super, merch. And now Goku's new Ultra Instinct shown in chapter 85, like, the form was still new, credible and with a lot of things to show but they just decided to make him discover a new ultra instict form?

Sadly the nostalgia bait that is DBS works, but this pure excuse of a show/manga should have never seen the light of the day and ruined the image that the Dragon Ball Series left on us.

There's also a lot more problems in the series, like the fact that Goku is always acting like a 5 year old kid, but im not going to dive on that.