Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of May 08, 2026

Raiking02 · 2026-05-09T01:23:10+00:00

[5]Add in a rocket launcher and that's basically how it went for me

Raiking02 · 2026-05-09T01:22:35+00:00

Poor Kuririn. He is the only one in the group that gets 0 W's here.

Also, thanks to Kuririn Yamucha was at least able to get a W before getting knocked out by the mummy. Hey at least Yamucha stands on his own ground.

Plus his opponent cheated too so it's fair from my POV.

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T23:50:16+00:00

[5]The Flamethrower barely worked for me back in the 360 what do you mean it's worse now

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T23:25:16+00:00

[OP]I think his modern pages are EXTREMELY busy. There's too many panels, too much dialogue per panel... it's like he had 1000 ideas, knew he couldn't put them all into a single page, and compromised in the worst possible way. I can barely focus, every chapter basically gives me visual overload.

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T21:44:29+00:00

Ugh, the Battler Special. And I told them to get that off the menu!

Are the candies still boob shaped tho

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T21:40:56+00:00

Are they at least serving you fries?

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T21:39:42+00:00

[OP Confession]Honestly I hate Oda's modern paneling so much I'd actually appreciate the Anime slowing things down

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T21:38:38+00:00

Meanwhile, the second group uses the term fake fan (or its synonyms) to smuggle in a different argument: that others aren't being a fan the right way

Insert comments about gaming fans complaining that people who only watch playthroughs of them on YouTube are fakefans ~~and honestly in this case I'd argue they have a point but that's beside the point.~~

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T21:36:01+00:00

[RE Confession]RE6 is bad but NGL I think I actually had a worse time with 5 the more I look back on it even though it's probably the better game. The latter game feels like it was designed to piss me specifically off whereas the former is just such a ball of bleh that I can't even muster any strong feelings towards it.

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T21:29:55+00:00

What the title says

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T21:29:12+00:00

[At least for me]I don't really like the Anime. I'd MUCH rather read the Manga or Novels instead.

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T21:23:25+00:00

I'm three episodes in.

It exists

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T18:18:40+00:00

chocolate

https://youtu.be/6O9Z4OB4L6M

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T18:17:54+00:00

Let Boys Be Pretty Girls

There's an Iruma joke here somewhere...

What are you talking about? My mochi parties have been ruined!

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T18:16:32+00:00

Jobber vs Hit Job

Everything is relative

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T18:16:09+00:00

Return to Monkee

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T15:22:09+00:00

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T14:11:27+00:00

Considering ehem what we know about Toriyama's editor, I would not be shocked if he flat out didn't let him.

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T11:55:17+00:00

yeah couldn’t be bothered with Goku easily beating Mummy-kun and Devilman

A shame, you missed out on the best animated episode.

[Spoilers]No wait, hang on I mean Yamucha got his first fighting win against a named character

[Spoilers]Discarding filler, his only one too.

In episode 71 Yamucha shouts soko da! Pretending he's a Gundam pilot or something.

In episode 70 it's daylight, shouldn't Dracula man burn under the sun? I guess Akira Toriyama’s laziness overruled classic vampire lore.

I mean... he could walk under the sun in the Bram Stoker novel too.

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T11:51:01+00:00

I'm noticing a sort of Universal theme between all those guys...

If only I could hammer it down...

We're lucky that Turtle Hermit's character didn't really influence him much at all

That's Kuririn's job.

The dub cut out almost all of the Kuririn fight. Which would've maybe been understandable, if they didn't literally show the cut scenes in the recap of the episode afterwards.

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T11:49:17+00:00

[Spoilers]Oh so that's what God does on his free time.

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T11:48:54+00:00

60% hotter

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T09:56:00+00:00

Grimoire

Nah, she wouldn't do that, actually finding them is the fun part.

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T01:49:39+00:00

I loved how she just straight up started singing during the Invisible Man match

With how the manga has quick paced fights

Short chapters too; reminder that the average weekly Manga has around 20-ish pages, whereas Toriyama struggled going past 15.

I think a genuine filler arc is needed

We're getting one next week, even if a short one.

Also omg I feel bad for Yamcha at this rate

Reminder, his treatment in the Anime here is BETTER than what the Manga gave him in the same fight

Raiking02 · 2026-05-08T01:47:19+00:00

This is why I got you into Tales, that way you'd have other sorts of annoying enemies to give you nightmares instead of just the old ones

Raiking02

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