Every single co-author and person who has picked up and improved on his writing/universe/whatever you want to call it demonstrates that, objectively? Yes.

I’m gonna walk back this comment since I see enough people dog-piled you for it.

And now with that out of the way: hasn’t this been done multiple times by different publishers? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure folks over at Chaosium have been saying this for years, or at least that more recent products/tabletop rpgs have been putting this disclaimer in somewhere.

Oh, most definitely. The first two seasons of Digimon definitely pushed boundaries, but Tamers is where the franchise really succeeded in forming its own identity.

Digimon Tamers (the one with the card battling) was a self-contained story that made a ton of sense from beginning to end and requires no knowledge of season 1 or 2 to enjoy.

10-1 that Patamon is an egg or baby until the fight with Devimon, then WHAM Angemon comes out.

That’s Studio Deen + what happens when you bring in a new studio in the middle of production on a season anime for you.

We’re going to get into a subjective argument here, but I have a feeling that there are far more “good games” in the FF franchise than there are games that have been made using DB as their playground.

Holy shit guys, I’m not saying there aren’t any good games. And some of you straight up aren’t reading my comment.

This is why I used the word “largely”. As in: it is an uncommon event.

This is why I used the word “largely”. As in: it is an uncommon event.

bruh

Also entirely fuck the Demi-Fiend battle from Digital Devil Saga like

This. Asshole. Right. Here. Most unfair and punishing, long-winded fight in a Souls game I’ve ever had the absolute misfortune and fun in playing against.

we cool

Dragon Ball was literally the first anime I watched at the ripe age of 4, living in Puerto Rico circa 1993. I’ve watched it in three different languages and about seven different dubs. I owned the entire Namek/Frieza Saga on VHS.

Super Dragon Ball Z is one of the better games in the series, yeah. Probably the best fighter behind DBFZ.

Agree to disagree—I unironically love both Dragon Ball and a lot of parts of DBZ, and I think the Sonic games get maligned moreso because of people meme-ing the 3D games/fandom/Sonichu to death over anything else.

I liked the Budokai titles, don’t get me wrong. But they were exactly that—low effort, popcorn party game fighters. And the subset of people who enjoy that type of game either grew up with them or want to be competitive Smash players.

Honestly, I think the further we get away from Toriyama’s storytelling in DBZ, the better. DBZ is a great series to remember fondly, but it’s also a series that repeats the same two stories—Tournament Arc and training to beat the bad guy—over and over again ad nauseaum.