#buu arc

[danthepest]

The once fear inspiring Piccolo Daimao.

It's kind of endearing that Gotenks (and by extension Trunks & Goten) wanted their uncle Piccolo to be impressed by them. They just chose the absolute worst time to do it. I swear, if it weren't for Piccolo's wish for eternal youth, the whole ordeal with Gotenks would've aged him by at least 50 years.

[naharegokaikai]

Lock in

[belablaspheme]

Capsule Corp PR team absolutely shitting bricks during the Buu Arc

[majin--vegeta]

Ultimate Gohan vs. Super Buu

Dragon Ball Z - EP263 - 1995

Toei Animation | Fuji TV

[silverwoodwork]

A render of Android 17 in the Fighterz style - this time with his Buu arc/End of Z look

Shame we don't get to see this blue jacket often…

[blackarrow-bagels]

Dabura son of Abura

[nmcartoons]

I'm not sure what to call this dynamic other than "they would find each other in any universe"

[dragon-ball-meta]

What was better manga buu saga (saiyaman, tournament, babidi, Majin buu, fusion and kid buu) or the anime version. And for what reasons?

The manga, pretty easily I think. The biggest issue with the Buu saga in the anime was that, once again, the sheer amount of filler slapped in there slowed things way down, for one. For another, especially given it was happening while Buu was meant to be rampaging around, a constant threat, yet we'd get elongated gaps between him doing anything. They also played up his silliness quite a bit in there, whereas in the manga, even Mr. Buu is just genuinely scary at times. One thing about Toriyama's art style back then was just how well his panels flowed and conveyed emotion and tone, and the Buu stuff was no exception. The anime does have some positive additions though, to be honest. It's just that so many more are either just useless filler or, worse, things that added to or contradicted things Toriyama would later write about, which just cause confusion now. (Case in point, the scenes set in the anime filler version of "Hell", for example.)