Ever beat a dead horse until it was no longer recognized for what it was? Allow me to reiterate. Have you ever watched a show for so long and watched it degrade into something so hideous you long for the good ol’ days? Dragon Ball Super is just that. This show is so disappointing to me that simple words cannot express how frustrated I was. Allow me to explain this well justified rage. First, just to start, I like Beerus (the supposed villain of the series). I like how unique his portrayal as the God of Destruction. I love his personality, his lines and his voice-acting. Although his design was a bit iffy, Beerus steals the show whenever he’s on screen.

However, despite the well crafted Beerus, the rest of the show falls short of Dragon Ball Z‘s set standard. First, there is no clear villain. Besides Beerus during his first appearance and Frieza’s return (one episode), most of Dragon Ball Super had been mostly training. This was explained to help both Goku and Vegeta gain the Super Sayain Super Sayain god form, and that there is it’s second strike. Super Sayain god Super Sayain just sounds off. Not only that, but it appears to be the least inspired out of all transformations. All of them. Frieza’s final transformation? Broly’s Legendary Super Sayain? What about Buu’s many absorption forms? Worse. Super Sayain 4? Even worse than that. Blue hair! No real change in appearance between Super Sayain and Super Sayain god other than the color of their hair. Although a similar point could be made with Super Sayain two, what with slightly spiky-er hair and lightning, but with that super sayain, they were sticking to a  theme within the forms whereas The god forms change the hair color, of all things.

Beyond transformation, the story is lackluster in the way that they present it. For example, in the Dragon Ball Super manga, Champa, Beerus’s brother and god of destruction from another universe, challenges Beerus and his universe to a tournament. The main problem with this is that there is no solid villain throughout this entire tourney yet. Neither Beerus nor Champa seem to be cheating, nor does the tourney  seem to have any real stakes at all. Yet again, the greatness of this point could be argued, my opinion is that training is shortened to cut out for a reason: It’s not fun to just see our heroes duke it out with the purpose of just fighting as they are doing now. Perhaps this tournament is just a set up to something greater. Perhaps they are getting ready to present a villain that is worth the wait. If so, they will have to compete with Dragon Ball Z‘s Cell, Frieza, and Majin Buu.

I don’t believe they can’t do it, just that if they put as much effort into the villain that they have the rest of the show fans will be disappointed. If they don’t present a villain, fans will be disappointed. It is one thing to make a character nasty like Vegeta post Namek. He may have claimed to be evil and may have acted as such, but we all knew he was on our side. The same goes for Champa. He might be intended as a villain, but all he appears as is nasty character. Disappointing.