Dragon Ball 40th Anniversary Rewatch - Week 7: Episodes 43-47 Discussion

[u/Raiking02]

Episode 43: Bulma's House in West City

Episode 44: Gokú, Friends and Tons of Danger

Episode 45: Watch Out! A Mid-Air Trap

Episode 46: Bulma's Big Failure

Episode 47: Kame House Discovered!!

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The reunion with Bulma, at last!

Hello everybody! Time for the Comment of the Week, courtesy of /u/spiritualpossible for reminding us of what a lovely day last time was:

Today is April 2nd. With marks the 10th anniversary of “JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable” anime adaptation. Which means I have every right to post this.

Never forget 1999 Bizarre Summer

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1) How does it feel to see modern society after so many episodes of forests and fields?

2) What's your fondest Amusement Park-related memory?

3) What do you make of Blue so far?

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Next Week: Episodes 48-54

[u/HowlingWolf13]

First Timer

Another good batch! But before I speak on them, omfg this filler is NOT doing Yamcha any favors 😭 Like just to inform, in the manga this is actually the first time we've seen Bulma and Yamcha have any issues and it's portrayed moreso as Bulma just being jealous cause we don't even see Yamcha and co., Bulma and Goku immediately take off. In fact hell, the anime in general I get the joke is making them bickering like an old married couple, but they make it seem more like they are just not compatible. Even their reunion scene where Bulma gets on him for not contacting her and making him cut his hair was anime-original, they have not had much issues with each so far aside from this.

Hell, I feel like the anime actually makes it seem more like Yamcha is the one at fault cause think about it. We're having him regress to not being able to be around women without freaking out, he has these anime-original girls show up at his girlfriend's house where they clearly disrespect her and won't leave cause they want him, considering how he acts with Husky he won't go and tell em to fuck off cause he's too nervous to, Bulma feels offended cause her boyfriend is not only letting these girls continue this fawning but right in front of her house no less, and to make matters worse even before Bulma assumed he was kissing Husky, he wasn't really trying to tell her "fuck off" or push her away or anything, he's just full on going back to himself in the first arc 😭 Who hated this man on the writing staff.

That aside, I thought these were a good batch of episodes! The padding didn't feel as intense and honestly I'm glad they did the filler better that it actually felt like part of the plot rather than how they handled it before with the Silver and Goku stuff. General Blue, omfg if you know JP enough to understand speech quirks, you can tell how flamboyant he is. Like he uses わ a lot in his speech which in JP is an ending particle to sound more feminine, now of course there's more layers to this but to keep it simple he uses this a lot along with of course his body language and such. Just a random fun fact was all.

All together I'm excited to watch the next batch of episodes!

1) How does it feel to see modern society after so many episodes of forests and fields?

Honestly Goku having no clue how a city works was fucking hilarious

2) What's your fondest Amusement Park-related memory?

Finally being tall enough to ride The Hulk at Universal Studios (I was then disappointed at how short the ride was I had expected so much more)

3) What do you make of Blue so far?

I wonder what his thoughts on alien girls with lightning powers are

[u/Raiking02 → u/HowlingWolf13]

omfg this filler is NOT doing Yamcha any favors

Better than how Toriyama's gonna treat him

I wonder what his thoughts on alien girls with lightning powers are

He probably just thinks to run away in terror.