![]() The finale sequence (whilst spectacular in its grandeur) is absolute BS and not at all earned, and really feels like marketing ploys for Dokkan, figures etc. Two wrongs dont make a right, and the Broly film was still great, but this movie is getting hate for something it equally stumbled on. Regarding the final villain of this flick, he admittedly has little character and is a pure powerhouse, yet the same can pretty much be said for Broly, aside from a few lines and a pretty candid backstory, he is no different. There is definitely apparent nostalgia, but no worse is it than Dragon Ball Super BROLY, the movie that literally is about reusing a villain and was marketed around Gogeta fighting him. The most common criticism I hear of this film is that it is pure nostalgia pandering and nothing more. Addressing common criticism of this film, some are fair whilst others feel very contradictory for Dragon Ball SUPER. Goku and Vegeta's scenes were not needed and are purely here as they are of course the most popular characters, but, their fight is a highlight and its thrilling spectacle distracts the viewer from its non-importance. The movie never feels like it is missing the presence of Goku and Vegeta, however of course, they are still coerced in here. The change of Piccolo to leading man with the dynamic between him and Gohan works well albeit, a little Déjà vu. This is impressive as this movie takes a step back from the nonstop action of Dragon Ball Super: Broly, and presents with some character moments and nonchalant comedy. This films pacing is rocket fast never dragging, yet never feeling particularly rushed. It is not entirely perfect, and rough around the edges when major spectacle isn't taking place (ironically it looked the worst at the start where you would want to make a good impression), but 95% of the time looks great and is getting too much unfair bandwagon hate over freeze framing transition shots. Combined with this films booming soundtrack, the fight scenes leave a huge impact and are an absolute awe to watch. This movie's animation is spectacular when it counts, the fights have a real 3D sense that Director Tetsurô Kodama takes full advantage of, giving Dragon Ball new life and originality, with previous attempts of Dragon Ball CGI not even coming close. It cannot be stressed enough to actually watch this film in a cinema or bare minimum an actual HD screening not a camrip like so many have and only have. It doesn't affect me much personally because I like to watch anime in Japanese subbed, but it'd be nice for hard-of-hearing and deaf people to have the option of watching it dubbed.Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, whilst having probably the worst name of any Dragon Ball movie, is one of the most enjoyable Dragon Ball films ever put to screen. My only real complaint about the FUNi Dragon Boxes and their current DVD anime releases in general is they lack closed captioning and subtitles for their dubs. FUNi isn't even that versatile with captioning and subtitles nowadays. Oddly enough, (edit:) before then the home releases had closed captioning as well as dub subtitles (along with the translation subtitles). If memory serves, the driving school episode was the first one to be closed captioned. Related tidbit: FUNi didn't start captioning DBZ on Toonami till after Trunks arrived. America is far from ideal when it comes to disability rights, and there are some countries that approach it better than us, but it's way ahead of many, many countries as well-which is disturbing to me. I'm always fascinated by international disability rights. How is the disabled community in general regarded by mainstream Japanese society? Is there an effective disability rights movement? How much focus is there in creating accessibility and equality? So many questions. The main reason closed captioning has become prevalent here is because of deaf activism. This leads me to wonder how strong the political deaf community is in Japan. ![]() It's a weird thing to think that I might have been less familiar with Dragon Ball had I been born in Japan. Is that true for all the Dragon Ball home video releases in Japan? Is there closed captioning for the Dragon Ball/Z/GT/Kai series when they air in Japan? I can comprehend Dragon Ball and DBZ not having closed captioning in its original run, since in the US closed captioning first started in the '80s and it's a relatively recent thing that nearly all shows on television are closed captioned (about late '90s, early 2000s), but the possibility that even current airings are not accessible to the hearing-disabled is shocking to me. ![]() As a person who's been deaf (more difficulty hearing higher frequencies than lower, in my case) all his life, I'm kind of dismayed to find out that the JP Dragon Boxes don't have Japanese subtitles.
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