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Chapter 59 of the Dragon Ball Super manga demonstrated something I really really like about Dragon Ball Super, specifically the anime (but now seemingly the manga, starting with the end of the ToP) - it brought back technique into the fights.

Not so much BoG or RoF, but the U6 tournament was a great start for that.

Most of the Z portion of the story became about just punching really hard with maybe lone exceptions here and there, but however simple, the U6 fights introduced strategy back into the fights.

In the anime version Goku ringing out Botamo, Vegeta dealing with inconvinient conditions in the Mageta fight, Piccolo using his techniques against Frost and Frost using trickery himself and Hit having to be figured out before he can be beaten showed that.

The Future Trunks arc stepped back from that a little, but we still at the very least had the Mafuba brought up and the ToP went in there full force with ultimately teamwork (the team-up between Freeza, 17 and Goku) and technique (Ultra Instinct) being the main players that won it all.

Krillin's couple of victories came from smarts and teamwork. Roshi's contributions were almost entirely technique-based. Gohan and Piccolo were excellent team strategists. Caulifla and Kale/Kefla literally lost because Goku was so much more experienced and skilled and Jiren almost lost to Krillin's Destructo Disc. This goes for several other fights.

This not only fixes much of the monotony of the fights, it also brings the story back on track thematically.

It already does this by making the weaker members' progress worth something more than it was for a long time (making it so hard work pays off for everyone, not just the saiyans) - even Tenshinhan eliminated someone when he was ringed out (in the anime at least).

I think it still could be better in terms of side character contribution, but that's much much better to me than most of the Z portion of the story to me.

In addition to that, though, this says power isn't everything, which is a massively important part of what the story is actually about: self-improvement and also martial arts. You can grow in many ways: to be a better person (Vegeta and Piccolo), to be a more confident or braver person (Gohan) or to gain direction, patience and skill (Goku).

The Broly movie follows that principle in fun show-don't-tell ways: Goku's fighting being much more technical than Vegeta's and Gogeta's delibrate and skillful fighting being a strong contrast to Broly's mindless power.

The story has slowly been moving back into where it started and this fight with Moro is a further return to that: after several fights that were power vs. skill, this is now a fight of skill vs. skill.

Moro's magical technique that blocked Goku's hands, his illusion technique and his telekinesis with which he pulled Goku towards him offered some great ideas in this fight to counter UI.

UI's weaknesses and effectiveness are also appropriate and smart to me.

I have wondered how UI could counter Moro's energy absorption for a while now, but it being speedy enough so that Moro can't lock on Goku's energy is logical and smart.

It needing a lot of energy is a typical handicap, but not necessarily a bad one.

What I do like is that it sets up Goku for a natural loss, not a forced one to possibly just set Vegeta on a pedestal.

Him possibly winning still reeks of Toyotaro's favoritism of Vegeta and I personally don't see anything that would add to Vegeta's character - a character's value is always in what substance their moments have rather than the scale of their moments or whether they win or lose in my eyes, so I don't particularly care for that, but as said, I 100% appreciate to return to more technique-based fighting and this whole chapter is exactly that.

I wish the art backed the ideas much better, but I think it's still just a really good fight.

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I’ve been steaming this over in my head for the longest time and figured this is the best place to just let it all out since I have no IRL Dragon Ball friends to rant to.

I love Frost. I love him in the manga AND the anime. However, I do not love what’s been done with his character in the anime specifically.

In the manga, yes, he still cheats, but it’s not because he’s a greedy pirate who starts and ends wars for any personal gain. He doesn’t even enjoy fighting.

When he’s outed as a cheater, he doesn’t give an evil smile or proudly announce what a terrible person he is. He simply tries to make an excuse, it fails, and he basically goes, “Well, shit… Eh, at least I’m not dead.”

He even openly admits he just wanted to end the tournament as quickly as possible, his god of destruction’s anger be damned.

And then Vegeta gets super mad and wants to kick Frost’s ass just for cheating in general, which makes the vegetable man look a lot more like an asshole than if he were to wanna kick the ass of a horrible pirate who’s been making profits from his own wars for years.

But ANYWAYS, my biggest gripe is how anime Frost was disappointingly just another evil icejin in the series. It would have been refreshing to see a morally gray member of Freeza’s race who wasn’t villainous, but he’d sooner resort to cheating than to fight fairly just to get it over with. That makes him more complex, makes the general moral dynamic around these characters less black and white.

Also, I’ve seen people calling anime Frost a “Freeza clone” and while I don’t agree with that totally, I do see where it comes from. And I really hate that I do. When I first saw Frost, I was really hoping that he wouldn’t just be “weaker, alternate universe Freeza”, and I did get my wish! In the manga. But for some reason, they seemed to just give up on Frost being his own character in the anime by making him evil too. Similar to Freeza but with slight differences in regards to appearance, power level, universe, and the use of poison needles.

I’m not a fan of how anime Frost was treated in the Tournament of Power either, but that’s another rant altogether.

To tie this up, I’m frustrated that anime Frost didn’t get the more complex and unique characterization he deserved. I wish he ended up being a character the viewers couldn’t get a good read on because of his shady but nonchalant stance on fighting. Reading the manga, he felt like a true neutral character or at least somewhere around that area. Seeing his anime counterpart just being straight up wicked, while entertaining to a point, made me feel wanting for more in the end.

I guess we’ll see what happens after the Tournament of Power in the anime, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

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