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Happy to announce that I have a shop update!
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Iāve been steaming this over in my head for the longest time and figured this is the best place to just let it all out since I have no IRL Dragon Ball friends to rant to.
I love Frost. I love him in the manga AND the anime. However, I do not love whatās been done with his character in the anime specifically.
In the manga, yes, he still cheats, but itās not because heās a greedy pirate who starts and ends wars for any personal gain. He doesnāt even enjoy fighting.
When heās outed as a cheater, he doesnāt give an evil smile or proudly announce what a terrible person he is. He simply tries to make an excuse, it fails, and he basically goes, āWell, shit⦠Eh, at least Iām not dead.ā
He even openly admits he just wanted to end the tournament as quickly as possible, his god of destructionās anger be damned.
And then Vegeta gets super mad and wants to kick Frostās ass just for cheating in general, which makes the vegetable man look a lot more like an asshole than if he were to wanna kick the ass of a horrible pirate whoās been making profits from his own wars for years.
But ANYWAYS, my biggest gripe is how anime Frost was disappointingly just another evil icejin in the series. It would have been refreshing to see a morally gray member of Freezaās race who wasnāt villainous, but heād sooner resort to cheating than to fight fairly just to get it over with. That makes him more complex, makes the general moral dynamic around these characters less black and white.
Also, Iāve seen people calling anime Frost a āFreeza cloneā and while I donāt agree with that totally, I do see where it comes from. And I really hate that I do. When I first saw Frost, I was really hoping that he wouldnāt just be āweaker, alternate universe Freezaā, and I did get my wish! In the manga. But for some reason, they seemed to just give up on Frost being his own character in the anime by making him evil too. Similar to Freeza but with slight differences in regards to appearance, power level, universe, and the use of poison needles.
Iām not a fan of how anime Frost was treated in the Tournament of Power either, but thatās another rant altogether.
To tie this up, Iām frustrated that anime Frost didnāt get the more complex and unique characterization he deserved. I wish he ended up being a character the viewers couldnāt get a good read on because of his shady but nonchalant stance on fighting. Reading the manga, he felt like a true neutral character or at least somewhere around that area. Seeing his anime counterpart just being straight up wicked, while entertaining to a point, made me feel wanting for more in the end.
I guess weāll see what happens after the Tournament of Power in the anime, but Iām not getting my hopes up.
Sooooo...Black Frieza.... ooookay......?
Don't get me wrong. I love Frieza. He's my all time favorite villain in Dragon ball, he is a very interesting character of course I would always say yes to more Frieza. And I absolutely LOVE how he's back to being LORD Frieza, once again a real threat in the recent DBS chapter. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR IT
But... but can we get a different design now? Really toyotaro..? Just color changes again?? Did you really just-
I know I'll eventually grow fond of this form like I did with Ultra ego, but come on, Black is a real good color on him he could've had a much cooler threatening design. Remember when Frieza had 4 different looks every time he powered up in the good old Namek saga
At this rate we'll run out of every color on the palette soon- who knows maybe in chapter 149 we'll get Flower patterened Frieza fighting SSJ Ultimate Vegetable or whatever
....Okay I'll actually watch the hell out of that, but you know what I mean something new other than color schemes will be nice
So Iām actually Very Attached to the default Frieza Race/Frost Demon character you can choose as Trunkās partner in Xenoverse 2. Canāt really spoil anything but like.. damn, theyāre really close in-game?