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Top Review: Baby Saga (DBGT episodes 23 - 40) by Top Blogger
Toei's Dragon Ball anime staff finally landed on a story they wanted to tell once they introduced the Machine Mutant Baby. After trying their hand at making Dragon Ball GT a return to classic Dragon Ball, the Baby Saga takes a firm stance as a brand new Dragon Ball Z-inspired tale. You have the transforming baddie, the Earth-wide scope, a ton of characters are involved, and new training with a new form for our hero. But can Dragon Ball GT do DBZ better than it did DB?
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My rating system works 1 through 3, with 1 being "Poor", 2 being "Good", and 3 being "Great". Keep in mind I'm grading the story against itself, not other things; Dragon Ball is still my favorite, even when I'm critical of it.
Baby Saga
Rating: Poor (1 out of 3)
Story
Nearly a year has come and gone since Goku, Trunks, and Pan left on their journey to gather up the Black Star Dragon Balls. They return to Earth with all seven collected and the planet safe from exploding; But the Earth they've returned to is now under the thrall of the Tsufruian Machine Mutant, Baby, who is bent on getting revenge on the Saiyans by killing Goku. Everyone is now Goku's enemy as he returns to Earth to face off against Baby, who has taken the body and strength of Vegeta and added it to his own. With Mr. Satan, Pan, Oob, Boo, and the Kaioshins as his only remaining allies, Goku must regrow his tail and become Super Saiyan 4 if he hopes to put a stop to Baby's Tsufruian revenge!
For the most part, episode by episode, this is a significant improvement on the last Black Star Dragon Ball storyline. It feels more focused and relies way less on nerfing the main characters in order to tell its story. That said, I can't exactly say it's ever good. Baby's revenge plot is moronic, and completely wastes the potential for a sympathetic villain by instead making him the most over-the-top baddie in the entire DB franchise. (Even Freeza would be telling Baby to chill out on his foppish mannerisms.) He's cartoonishly evil, and while it makes him super fun to watch, it makes the whole storyline seem tragically out of place at best, and totally stupid at worst. The story also manages to make every single fighter irrelevant except Goku, and at a startlingly remarkable pace, for the first time since Piccolo Daimao. Only it doesn't feel earned like Piccolo Daimao, where we get to see everyone showcase themselves in the arc right before it; Instead it feels like Dragon Ball GT doesn't know what to do with anyone except Goku.
So, it is better than the Black Star Saga, but it still isn't very good.
Animation
Akihito Tokunaga is still not great at composing music for Dragon Ball. Admittedly, he has a few new bits that start cropping up in these episodes that aren't all that bad (most notably, the reggae theme for the Kaioshin Realm), but the damage is already done from the first arc. Everything feels kiddy-fied, making the show aimed at kids and teens (but mostly watched by 20-somethings writing about it on the internet) feel more like a show made for babies. Get your own show, babies!
The Baby Saga of GT isn't good, but it's at least more fun and less frustrating than what GT has given us before. If you can make it through the 22 episodes before it, it's worth the watch just to see SSJ4 Goku and Baby throw fisticuffs.
GT continues to be pretty well animated. Last House Studio's episodes are the only ones that are noticeably terrible, but it's every single Last House episode. That's only four episodes in the bunch though, so overwhelmingly the Baby Saga looks good. The stand out episode is Toei's in-house animator Akira Inagami's work on episode 35, which is hands down the best looking episode of not just this block, but the whole of GT. So at least in this department, GT does a good job.
Music
Zard's "Don't You See" is amazing. Izumi Sakai continues to be amazing, sandwiching the show between her two songs. Have a listen to her band's version of Dan Dan is you want it even better than what you get in the show. That is all.
Conclusion
And here's more pictures of Baby looking wonderfully ridiculous.
I'm truly going to miss you, Baby. They just don't make 'em like you anymore.
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