The fights have been less and less solid since the BuuHan exhibition matches. Those were great. Goku's matches were less so, and now everything else is falling back into giving me a meh impression. Though, Krillin vs Goku had surprisingly sick choreography. I feel kinda obnoxious being down on it like this in the face of your optimism, but I will say the general direction overall seems improved for this arc so far.
Krillin vs 18 was nice in this episode, did anyone bring that up yet?
Also, for the few people who thought Cabba might get SSB by the tournament, I guess this episode proves that ain't happening.
Hey you're not obnoxious at all. You have the right to be displeased, especially when it's said in a such an elaborated way.
That's my take on it :
Buu and Gohan = great
Goku fights = shit (I can't tell if it's because we've seen Goku fight the same way so much in Super that it became painfully boring or if that was a production issue, but I read they lacked time more than usual for those)
Trunks vs Goten = short but cute and well done
Krilin vs Gohan = bad
Krilin vs Goku = sick
Goku vs Buu = passable
Pride troopers shit = good
Goku vs 17 = I wouldn't call the 17 vs Goku fight "meh" even if you disliked the Tateisms, for it's ambitious storyboarding (it wasn't flat like a lot of fights) and its pacing that was easily one of the best in Super outside of maybe episode 13. We had an uninterrupted fight, it was just Goku and 17, nothing else in between, and I thought that was pretty satisfying ! And the use of the colors and detailed animations (water splash, lightnings, wind etc...) were only matched by 2 episodes I can think of.
Personally I loved it thanks to the characters, art direction and special effects. If Tate can correct the bluray version great, if not I'm ok with how it looks. There's not much to correct to be honest
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Poacher stuff = unambitious as they were weaklings, but the movements were fluid enough and had some nice shots.
Piccolo vs Gohan = Heh. Wasn't really impressive visually, I wouldn't call it "bad" because what is "bad" in Super is the legitimately awful crap, and that wasn't one of them.
18 vs Krilin = Great but short
And next week's Goku vs Roshi looks great from the NEP !
So all in all, it's not a bad average, considering they can't always be on top of their game
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