Author: Penguin Truth
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 87 Review
Audio: English – Good, Tolerable, and Terrible and the Tiers Game
With the Audio:English series, PenguinTruth takes a critical look at the English
dubs which grace some of anime’s most defining series in North America.
If you’ve ever been to 4chan, you know that they love tier charts. This is where they seperate things in categories of quality. Usually the top tier is "GOD TIER" and the lowest is "SHIT TIER", and I’ve done this myself, even here (my Gundam Tiers articles, for instance, which you can expect a follow up to sometime this or next year). However, unlike Anonymous at at 4chan, I’m actually capable and willing to explain and/or defend my choices as to what is truly "god" and what is "shit" in terms of the trival stuff I like.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Episode 33 ENGLISH DUB Review
Episode 33, " The Northern Wall Of Briggs"
*****SPOILERS*****
Synopsis: Kimbley continues to track Scar and Marcoh, leading him North. When he finds Scar, it’s not Marcoh with him, but Yoki: Marcoh and Mei aren’t with him. After a short fight, Kimbley is pinned to the back of a train car with a metal pipe, but Kimbley destroys the back of the train and gets away. Edward and Alphonse, meanwhile, have made their way to the Briggs mountains and encounter Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong, Alex Louis Armstrong’s sister, and the commander in charge of the Briggs fortress. Reluctantly, she bids them entry. In another part of the mountains, Marcoh and Mei reach the spot where Scar hid his brother’s notes and uncover them.
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 86 Review
Episode 86, "A New God! The Dragonballs are Finally Revived"
*****SPOILERS*****
Synopsis: Goku wakes Kaio from his nap. He explains the situation on Earth and asks for him to find the Namekians. Kaio searches and finds their general direction. Goku concentrates on the direction, detecting the Namekians’ ki, then teleports to their new planet. There he meets Mouri, now the new Saichoro. Goku requests one of them come back to Earth with him and Mouri suggests Dende. The two teleport back to Kami’s palace. At the Kame House, a martial artist named Mr. Satan declares his intention to beat Cell on television, insisting that Cell is just using tricks. Goku teleports in and teleports back to Kami’s palace with Gohan and Kuririn, who are happy to see Dende again. Dende says that it will take 100 days to make new Dragon Balls. Popo produces a model of Shenron so the Dragon Balls can be revived immediately. Dende revives the Dragon Balls, which shine again. Everybody wonders about Goku’s casual attitude. Goku visits Bulma to get the Dragon Radar, then goes off to gather the Dragon Balls. Time passes and the day of the Cell Games finally arrives (with Cell being bored). On the day of the fight, Goku teleports to Kami’s palace to get Gohan and the others (but Vegeta went off on his own). They all fly off to face Cell.
Dragon Ball Kai – Episode 85 Review
Episode 85, "An Interrupted Rest! The Self-Defense Army Launches a General Offensive Against Cell"
*****SPOILERS*****
Synopsis: Cell flies into space and destroys a giant meteor, causing meteorites to fall onto Earth. Goku, Gohan, and Kuririn relax by a stream in their Super Saiyan forms. Kuririn apologizes for not destroying Artificial Human 18, thus letting Cell reach his Perfect Form, but Goku is glad to be able to fight somebody powerful. Kuririn is amazed at how relaxed Goku is. Piccolo emerges from the Room of Spirit and Time and Vegeta goes in. The King of the World announces a military deployment to fight Cell as Bulma examines Artificial Human 16. Chi-Chi sets up a picnic lunch for Goku, Gohan, and Kuririn as Goku assures them everything will work out. The world military launches an attack on Cell, which is completely worthless. Cell easily destroys their forces. Goku teleports to Kami’s palace wanting to revive the Dragon Balls to bring the soldiers back to life. He figures that he can go find a new Kami among the Namekians, but he can’t detect any similar ki to Piccolo’s, so he decides he’ll go consult Kaio. The King of the World announces the failure of the military and hopes somebody will come and save them like the boy who saved them from Piccolo Daimao years earlier.