It seems like Toriyama is taking this arc to fix DBZ's world-building problems. Think about it, Freeza was presented as the emperor of the universe in Z, but we never really saw how the universe functioned outside of the Freeza force. After Freeza's death, power levels skyrocketed to the point where aliens in space could no longer challenge the heroes unless they were ancient evils (ie. Moro, Buu), an isolated prodigy in the middle of nowhere (Broly) or come from another universe entirely where lore is different. Notice how every alien that has been introduced from the Namek arc onwards still follows Namek arc powerlevels - Tagoma and Shisami were compared to Zarbon and Dodoria, Jaco was compared to the Saiyans, Vegeta said Trunks could defeat the Saganbo gang all by himself and they only got that strong because of Moro's magic, Paragus had a power level in the 4000s, so on.
This arc instead functions as a soft reboot of sorts. Freeza is back as emperor of the universe, but now with a much, much higher power level in the God tiers, which gives some credibility to the idea that random aliens in the universe under his rule could get somewhere near as well. The lore is developed as well, as after Freeza's death we saw that competing factions (Goichi's army, Elec's gang) took different spots in the universe competing for power, meanwhile, bounty hunters (Granolah, Soshiru) came to be as the universe in chaos was now being taken advantage of by bandits (Saganbo gang) which the galactic patrol struggled to take down. At the same time, not only is it believable that the power scale of the universe has widened because Freeza got much stronger himself, but it's also believable because we can expect the universe to have moved on from Namek's power levels already just like Goku and the others have.
>JIRENJIRENJIRENJIREN out of nowhere J BRRRRRRROKE you.
Bentley Reyes
You are all so outrageously retarded, that without me these threads would easily be the least intelligent on the entire internet. Pray to all of the gods that I do not leave and doom this place to eternal damnation.
High God of Destruction Lady Nagatoro-sama? We humbly kneel.
Benjamin Sullivan
>Toriyama forgot that frieza died SOMEONE BLACKLIST THE SENILE BASTARD ALREADY.
Logan Wood
>Everyone I don't like is Belgian Ethered.
Mason Lee
The manga would be better without the half-assed retellings of BoG and RoF. They were bad enough in the TV anime, but as someone who picked up the manga right after reading Toriyama's original, with no knowledge of the films, I was really confused when Goku and Vegeta were gods out of nowhere.
Adam Price
now that the initial shock is gone from seeing skillet's art I get a boner when I see it
Fixed some things. The Dead Zone happened before Raditz The World Strongest After the Saiyan arc. Tree of Might After the Saiyan arc. Lord Slug movie Middle of the Namek arc. Both Cooler movies takes place after namek during the 3 years before the androids Super Android 13 Right after Goku wakes up after his heart attack. The first Broly movie Takes place during the wait for the Cell games. Bojack after the Cell games and when Trunks defeats the androids in his own time. Broly second coming. Its before the tournament. Bio Broly well Takes place in between the two days where Goten and Trunks are practicing fusion. Fusion Reborn After Goku's time on earth has run out. Hildegarn. After Buu.
Christian Sullivan
Kaioken Blue looks so disgusting compared to the original.
There's no character in the series with that name.
Elijah Evans
Based.
Josiah Scott
>Piccolo Cooler as he evolves >Vegeta Cooler as he evolves >Frieza Cooler as he evolves >Cell Shittier as he evolves >Buu Cooler as he evolves How does SMELL do it?
Anthony Anderson
I like the manga more than the anime so far. The art isn't bad - I think it looks more like Toriyama's manga than the Super anime looks like the Z anime. Of course, I'm still pretty early, so maybe it gets real bad later on. I hear that the most recent arcs are universally reviled.
