Dragon Ball 11
Posted: December 24, 2006 Filed under: Dragon Ball Leave a comment »To celebrate my getting this volume and being able to FINALLY read the rest of my volumes of this series, I’m… reading the rest of my volumes of this series.
I’m a little sad to pick this series back up in the middle of the Budokai. I’m sure I was pretty pumped about this when I finished 10, but that was several months ago. We get three fights here: the end of Kuririn v. Chaozu, Kuririn v. Goku, and Goku v. Tenshinhan. We also get a taste of Ten v. Jackie Chun, but that battle was kind of anticlimactic. Now that I think about it, plenty DID happen in this volume.
The fights are still all really varied for, literally, a tournament in the middle of a tournament-style manga. Usually I get bored with this sort of thing, and it seems like the series is getting ready to turn serious so I still may, but the one thing I like about Dragon Ball at this point is that there’s still a lot of tricks and jokes going on and it’s not all man versus man yet. Really, all the worst examples of manly fights that I can think of are also in Dragon Ball, but I haven’t quite gotten that far yet.
I don’t like Chaozu that much at all after his fight. I know he was being told what to do by the Crane Master (who was avenging his dead brother… who I don’t remember dying? should I?), but he still came off as pretty evil and a jerk. I’ll see if future events make me favor him more.
Tenshinhan is also kind of a jerk, and the fight between Jackie Chun and he is annoying too because you don’t just tell a bad guy they should be good. Bad guys don’t convert that easily. Tenshinhan’s slightly annoying for the aftermath of said conversation (I mean, REALLY, is he actually that big a baby?), but he was less of a jerk than Chaozu.
On to 12!
