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Essentially when Kai ended, it was when the franchise no longer released quality stuff on tv, the og manga had long been concluded 20 years ago, but guess what? the tumour that is dragon ball super started to grow because of the success of the movies and toei's greed and necessity to milk the brand like in the 90s with the dbz movies, making what was once a beloved franchise, into a meme, a joke.
even worse than in the late 90s-early-2010s when after the disaster that was GT, there wasn't anything new for dragon ball on tv aside from Kai (love it or hate it, it was pretty much the best db show because of grabbing the best of Z and making it better, yes, even with the questionable visuals) there were only videogames that ranged from great to quite awful during that time period.
and the following year after the start of dbs, another tumour called Xenoverse 2 started to grow, unlike the first Xenoverse which didn't overstood it's welcome, support for xenoverse 2 simply never ended (at least until the next xenoverse releases and they milk that one for another decade), good for any game with gameplay and content worthwile, which if you've played Xenoverse you know that it has neither of those qualities, not even the music is good, at least graphics are decent besides the overly shiny characters, and yes, the "next-gen" graphics option is practically useless.
and if you didn't realize it by now, dbs has been on the exact same publication time as the og dragon ball if not more, and the anime has been on the radar for about much time as the og anime trilogy, if not more if we count the previous 2 movies, but aside from really good art in the manga, the ost in the anime (much of it being recycled from Kai tfc) and animation in the ToP, there's nothing to the manga or anime of dbs to make it good, the most praised arc (moro) is full of bullshit, moro being literally forgiven even tough he was around millions of years in prison thinking of nothing but gaining more power, even at the cost of hurting others, similar to cell (even being similar in it's final form design) but as bad as the cell saga was with it's asspulleries, it did at least have a decent message of passing the torch, that despite what a lot of people think, it actually carries until the buu saga, specifically when goku goes to train uub, that and the cell saga despite having it's fans and being considered better than the buu one, it was never defended the same way the moro arc was, even people who like it recognize that it was there when dragon ball started to lost it's spark, and also, cell was a being with at most, a few years of living, moro was as old as the gods, yet unlike cell he is forgiven by goku, even when jaco tells goku to kill him, because the context of giving the senzu bean to the enemy is different in both cases.
ever since kai ended, we haven't gotten anything of real quality consistently releasing, aside from like...4 videogames in the last 11 years (extreme butouden, Fusions, FighterZ, Super Dragon Ball Heroes) and even the most hyped anime game of all time: Sparking Zero, couldn't reach expectations, i guess with the new expansions the game might be better, spike chunsfot is definitely trying (unlike dimps) but the gameplay still isn't as good as Tenkaichi 3 or tag team.
In hindsight: continuing dragon ball never worked and it never will, the story ended 4 times already (the manga, dbz, gt, kai) and we are getting pretty much the exact amount of versions of battle of gods right now in less than 15 years (the movie, dbs anime, dbs manga, the new dbs), it's just sad to see, even worse now since they might as well do something with toriyama's other works like sandland, which if you didn't know, it's multimedia management was done by the same guy who wants to keep dragon ball around, pretty much forever, quality be damned, i just hope they never touch kajika or do something awful with Dr. Slump, we already know how bad toei and bandai can fuck things up.
even worse than in the late 90s-early-2010s when after the disaster that was GT, there wasn't anything new for dragon ball on tv aside from Kai (love it or hate it, it was pretty much the best db show because of grabbing the best of Z and making it better, yes, even with the questionable visuals) there were only videogames that ranged from great to quite awful during that time period.
and the following year after the start of dbs, another tumour called Xenoverse 2 started to grow, unlike the first Xenoverse which didn't overstood it's welcome, support for xenoverse 2 simply never ended (at least until the next xenoverse releases and they milk that one for another decade), good for any game with gameplay and content worthwile, which if you've played Xenoverse you know that it has neither of those qualities, not even the music is good, at least graphics are decent besides the overly shiny characters, and yes, the "next-gen" graphics option is practically useless.
and if you didn't realize it by now, dbs has been on the exact same publication time as the og dragon ball if not more, and the anime has been on the radar for about much time as the og anime trilogy, if not more if we count the previous 2 movies, but aside from really good art in the manga, the ost in the anime (much of it being recycled from Kai tfc) and animation in the ToP, there's nothing to the manga or anime of dbs to make it good, the most praised arc (moro) is full of bullshit, moro being literally forgiven even tough he was around millions of years in prison thinking of nothing but gaining more power, even at the cost of hurting others, similar to cell (even being similar in it's final form design) but as bad as the cell saga was with it's asspulleries, it did at least have a decent message of passing the torch, that despite what a lot of people think, it actually carries until the buu saga, specifically when goku goes to train uub, that and the cell saga despite having it's fans and being considered better than the buu one, it was never defended the same way the moro arc was, even people who like it recognize that it was there when dragon ball started to lost it's spark, and also, cell was a being with at most, a few years of living, moro was as old as the gods, yet unlike cell he is forgiven by goku, even when jaco tells goku to kill him, because the context of giving the senzu bean to the enemy is different in both cases.
ever since kai ended, we haven't gotten anything of real quality consistently releasing, aside from like...4 videogames in the last 11 years (extreme butouden, Fusions, FighterZ, Super Dragon Ball Heroes) and even the most hyped anime game of all time: Sparking Zero, couldn't reach expectations, i guess with the new expansions the game might be better, spike chunsfot is definitely trying (unlike dimps) but the gameplay still isn't as good as Tenkaichi 3 or tag team.
In hindsight: continuing dragon ball never worked and it never will, the story ended 4 times already (the manga, dbz, gt, kai) and we are getting pretty much the exact amount of versions of battle of gods right now in less than 15 years (the movie, dbs anime, dbs manga, the new dbs), it's just sad to see, even worse now since they might as well do something with toriyama's other works like sandland, which if you didn't know, it's multimedia management was done by the same guy who wants to keep dragon ball around, pretty much forever, quality be damned, i just hope they never touch kajika or do something awful with Dr. Slump, we already know how bad toei and bandai can fuck things up.
