Totally Not Mark — searchable YouTube transcripts & AI Q&A

Vegeta vs Beerus has one VERY Controversial Change

The remastered Dragon Ball Super episode cuts Vegeta's humiliating attempts to entertain Beerus, such as the bingo dance, to focus on his fear and eventual confrontation, which the speaker argues sacrifices key character development. The episode re-frames Vegeta's interactions with Beerus to build tension around the 'My Bulma' scene, but the speaker contends this makes the adaptation less effective than the original, despite some improved animation and storytelling choices.

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is about to BE PEAK!

The Beerus remaster of Dragon Ball Super has the potential to turn the series' worst animated moments into highlights, argues Totally Not Mark. He identifies the most egregious animation failures, such as episode 5's Goku versus Beerus and the Goku versus Frieza fight, and suggests that with redraws, new animation, and trimming, these scenes could surpass the original movie versions. He also proposes borrowing ideas from the manga, like Goku using Super Saiyan God to counter Hit's time-skip, to improve the fights.

THEY DID IT! They FIXED Goku vs Beerus!

The remastered episode 5 of Dragon Ball Super Beerus successfully fixes the infamous Goku vs. Beerus fight by reimagining the choreography and improving the artwork, compositing, and lighting while retaining much of the original animation where it was already effective. The speaker argues that the selective approach—replacing broken action sequences and polishing existing ones—makes the fight communicate its story more clearly, with Beerus's observational behavior and the dramatic silent Super Saiyan 3 transformation standing out as highlights. However, the speaker criticizes the low music mixing and notes that some visual choices, like Beerus's eyes, are less preferred.

Better Animation Won't Save Dragon Ball Super

The remaster of Dragon Ball Super risks failing to fix its most infamous episode, the Goku versus Beerus fight, because merely polishing the artwork won't address the underlying poor choreography and storyboard, the speaker argues. He points to the new image training sequence as a model for how reimagining the perspective can improve a scene without changing the story, but he worries that the production's selective investment and lack of new dialogue may leave deeper issues untouched. Ultimately, he tempers expectations, noting that the project is a compilation-style remaster with limited resources, and that the true test will be whether the new episode 5 can deliver a genuinely reimagined fight.

The Episodes That Ruined Dragon Ball Super's Reputation

The speaker argues that Dragon Ball Super's reputation was damaged less by its animation issues and more by moments where the story betrayed its established characters, such as Piccolo's elimination by a tiny bug in the Tournament of Power. He uses the lowest-rated episode, Goku vs. Arale, to illustrate how Super's repeated undermining of its cast made even faithful Toriyama-style gags feel like slaps in the face. Ultimately, he concludes that fans care most about how the series treats its own history and characters.