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But I'm currently losing my shit about pre-Cell Games Gohan too, right after he and Goku left the time chamber.

Chapter 391:

Everyone's losing their shit, Karin and Yajirobe are almost blown off the tower and Gohan just stands there. To him Goku's display of power isn't more than a cough. He's utterly and completely unfazed. To him that's not much. Boy's spent a year with only his dad and has no idea anymore what power level is "normal", "high" and "out of this world".

And then Goku reveals that's only half:

Gohan hasn't even realized his own crazy power yet, but even so, if that was only HALF of Goku's strength, he can estimate what his full strength would be, and it's not impressive to him. In his current form he's already stronger than Goku, even without snapping.

And he can't imagine that. Idk how Goku did that during their training but somehow Gohan managed to spend an entire year with his father without ever realizing that he's so, so much stronger than him.

to me it seemed what Toriyama brought to the table was the satisfaction of clarity in martial arts

when you read his fight scenes, which may have become notorious when animated for dragging on, there's no question about what's happening in the action

a clear kick to the jaw

a clean line of action on Yajirobe's slice

I first noticed this clarity pretty quickly early on in the General Tao fights during the red ribbon arc, where entire fight scenes playing out with these clear motions on the pages

Even as it got more detailed later on, the clarity stayed

clear hits on clear fight scenes

and dirtier but still completely legible lines of action

And when he started introducing the big over the top special moves we got the same thing quite often in DB: that simple visual clarity amplifying the excitement

i'm not super coherent on it right now, i'm not the biggest shonen action fan all the time and maybe Toriyama didn't introduce the world to visually clear and interesting fights in manga.

but when I see any action manga showing off clean fight choreography or sick ass lazer beams that show off clear shockwaves of destruction, i'll always be thinking of the GOAT

Due to popular demand, I have played this level! Honestly it’s become something I watch over and over, the level aged like fine wine. Now that 2014 humor has looped back on itself, the song is hilarious again, and I don’t think you could make a better 1.9 level to go along with it.

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