Week 152: Senor Weekly Journal Abridged

2 days ago

I love Dragon Ball Abridged, was so cool and is so sad to think that, at least for the time being, is over. The abridge format itself is a pretty interesting for a “what fans should be allowed to do with the art they like” and the limits of copyright and why copyright sucks, but I want only to talk about how great is by itself the whole DBA. Let’s be honest, the first seasons are a bit cringe in some parts, but once they hit Namek it gets crazy good, like legitimately good. Gonna say it: Team Four Starts is, for the most part, better at Dragon Ball than Toriyama. Not a shade to Toriyama, not much, love him as author for reasons I for sure will explain in a future journal, but he is not good at telling his own story. Team Four Starts did a fantastic work of characterization and contextualization that the original manga never even tried. Dragon Ball is pretty simple, raw lines instead of defined one, there’s character, but they are very idealized ones, that’s why their “human”