Thread 282166209

What was the worst Namek you've ever had to endure?

Made in Abyss village

The Bog

>>282166209 (OP)
Namek.

>>282167139
this.

wasting a wish on piccolo

>>282167139
/thread

and it's not over yet....

>>282167217
KEKlin*

>>282166209 (OP)
I wonder when's the last time someone here actually rewatched all of OG DBZ (not Kai) without skipping an episode, because OG Namek is absolutely fucking brutal
>It's another "Bulma doing random fillershit" episode

Does the Bount arc count as a Namek?

>>282167370
No it's kino

>>282166209 (OP)
7 years and counting of detours literally within more detours

>>282167025
lel true

>>282167303
I did it recently with my brother since he had never seen the full series
for us the worse parts were when it cut back to Earth and you had to deal with Chi-Chi’s nagging ass for the next segment

>>282167303
I have as long as I skip fake Namek things go by quite quickly honestly, Bulma only has one filler episode because Toei knew she will do nothing the entire arc. But yeah, if we for example compare its filler to the Saiyan or Cell arc its quite lame, but far more enjoyable than anime Buu arc now that's a rought ride, and I have only wathed the anime version of it once.

Berserk boat probably

>>282166209 (OP)
>What was the worst Namek you've ever had to endure?
Watamote manga movie arc.

>>282167303
Was even worse back in the day when it was one episode a week and channels did constant reruns after running out/catching up with the batch of episodes they got

How about the best Nameks?

>>282166209 (OP)
The entire Wonder of U half of Jojolion on monthly schedule. Might not be THE worst I've endured, but it's up there and first to come to mind.

>>282166209 (OP)
Depends on your criteria. Does the series have to recover after the arc is over to count?
People called it Shirou Namek when we had a year of flashbacks around 2016 and everyone was excited to be done with it. But everything that followed was so shit and slow that the series pretty much died.

>>282167139
>>282167213
>>282167223
Retarded posts. Namek is a great arc in the manga

>>282170141
>Namek is a great arc in the manga
Lol

>>282170312
Last storytime made it incredibly obvious, yes. You don't know shit about Dragon Ball (which is fine)

>>282167741
>But yeah, if we for example compare its filler to the Saiyan or Cell arc its quite lame, but far more enjoyable than anime Buu arc now that's a rought ride, and I have only wathed the anime version of it once.
That's some extreme shit taste right here.

>>282170312
Retarded tourist.

Namek guerrilla warfare arc was peak DBZ
If anything dragged on too long in the anime it was the fight with Frieza. Yeah it was fantastic until it kept going on forever

>>282170389
Your mistake was considering the anime at all

>>282166209 (OP)
The one and only

>>282166209 (OP)
Thriller Bark

>>282170389
I hate to see people criticize early Namek, it's actually so good.

>people hate the three-episode fake Namek arc so much for dragging to the point people include the other space episodes as well
>real Namek is blander as a location and padded with unfunny Ginyu frog and Bulma scenes to the point it's used as a derogatory slang term for story stagnation in a single location
the irony.....

>>282174935
>unfunny Ginyu frog and Bulma scenes
Anime filler
>blander as a location
That's retarded, Namek didn't need to be filled with interesting wonders. It would actively take away from what it is, a battlefield.

>>282167303
Did it last year, and it's not so bad. Bulma has maybe four filler episodes. The longest actual stretch is Goku vs Freeza being padded out, like Freeza trapping Goku in a ki bubble.

>>282167741
>but far more enjoyable than anime Buu arc now that's a rought ride
Buu arc is the only time the pacebreakers/cutsaways are tolerable, retard.

>>282174976
>Anime filler
stroke? This is clearly a thread about said anime

>>282175049
It's about Namek arcs, that doesn't have to be the anime version.

Dressrosa

>>282175017
>it's n-n-not that bad
what the fuck does having Ginyu take over her body mid-freeza fight add? fuck off

>>282166209 (OP)
Towards the end of Xabungle where nearly every episode or half of it is trying to rescueElchi, and because of her brainwashing, she returns of caught, all really moot

>>282166209 (OP)
Dresrosa and one Piece in general
>>282167303
I have watched it with the spanish and castellano dub of DBZ. It never felt Boring even on those Boring fillers like Bulma searching for the dragon ball In that random ocean or those long flahbacks after Freezer death. DBZ has the worst original japanese acting in anime history, weak screms, problems with lypsinc, etc

>>282167452
I mean it's to be expected for gacha, they need to stretch it out as long as it's profitable
Hell, the game could've just ended after part 1 if they felt like it, it would've been an alright ending

>>282166209 (OP)
I think hitman's reborn future arc.
I barely remember anything about, but I have close to zero desire to reread it after following it week to week.
So I assume it's really boring

Namek was shorter than Androids and Buu.

>>282166209 (OP)
>What was the worst Namek you've ever had to endure?

Probably the boat arc from Berserk: 8 years and Kentaro Miura died shortly thereafter.

>>282172573
Thriller Bark ends fast enough and had all the Straw hats fighting. I'm personally going with the Oden flashback that inspired another terrible character Yamato. Oda tried so hard to make us like Oden while Rocks was instantly liked.
>>282177179
Miura should've cut this arc down drastically. I need to reread it because of forgetting a majority of it

>>282166209 (OP)
I don't speak Spanish so I don't know what a namek is or why hate readers keep calling Kanokari arcs that

>>282170312
You never read the manga, fuck off.

>>282166209 (OP)
Berserk boat you just had to be there waiting

>>282170141
Okay, and?
Most people here experienced it first in the anime.

>>282178130
Speak for yourself. If you had a brain (and your parents weren't dirt poor) you should have noticed how bad the anime is compared to the manga long before watching Namek in its entirety

>>282167025
This. I remember doing the math for it. It was worse than Namek no matter how you sliced it. It was longer in real life, it was longer in terms of chapters, it was longer in terms of proportion to the manga so far.

>>282177363
>Miura should've cut this arc down drastically.
It's not the actual length in pages of the arc so much as the agonizing hiatus-filled release schedule. If it had come out in regular monthly chapters without delays there'd be far less complaints about it.

A few
>Vermeil's Airship namek
>Mikadono's island namek
>Spy x Family bus namek
>Centuria's current arc namek
>Mato's election namek
>Iruma's Harvest Festival namek

>>282167303
even when I was in middle school and we watched dbz every day on TV we all laughed at Goku staying in the healing tank for ages

I invented using the term namek as a meme

100 chapters of MMO island in Usogui
and that's not counting Air Poker

The current arc of Sorry But I'm Not Into Yuri.
I usually don't like School Festival arcs bit having 8+ chapters of wannabe Phoenix Wright detective work in a monthly series about drugging dykes with love potions is harsh.

>>282166209 (OP)
4chan. More than 20 years and barely any progress.

>>282166209 (OP)
The chimera ants arc just made me look forward to being done with the entire thing.

>>282167078
Filtered.

>>282166209 (OP)
Grasshopper namek.

>>282167139
>>282170141
Based.

>>282166209 (OP)
Homework / xcom namek

>>282167139
>>282170312
Based FUCK SHITmek.
>>282174566
>I hate to see people criticize early Namek
You could remove the first half and nothing would have changed, waste of actual time.

>>282167025
Fpbp

>>282166209 (OP)
I've been enjoying it, but Prisma Illya 3rei has been back to back Nameks.

>>282167303
I rewatched it all a few years back and I remember being surprised at how fast the whole series moved along, honestly. When you don't have to wait for the next episode the pace is much more reasonable.

>>282166209 (OP)
Watamote's current school festival namek. I think it was 3-4 years, and it's finally ending. I didn't read all of it during that time, only checking in now and then to see if it was over.

>>282176545
I think OP is referring to the original anime pacing rather than the manga.

Didn't most of Needless take place in a single fight inside a single room?

>>282166209 (OP)
Wano was 4 years long.

>>282169938
Kuro died like 5 years ago

>>282180243
I like it way better than Dodgeball Namek.

>>282181645
Odd case since it was far more entertaining than the rest of the manga.

>>282169938
To me, Namek really started after Tanaka's arm sword amounted to nothing. We haven't been out yet, everything since then has been "Darius wins even if by all measures he should've lost".

>>282167370
>>282167376
Is it okay to say The Bount Arc wasn't all that bad yet? Not ashamed to say I watched the anime before reading the manga up until the beginning of the Arrancar Invasion Arc.

>>282166209 (OP)
Judo namek

Festival Namek. First mentioned in chapter 40, arrival in town in chapter 47 after various preparations, festival begins in chapter 60 after a ton of setup and the introduction and reintroduction of new and old characters, then a lot, and I mean a lot of shit goes down and the arc finally ends in chapter 88. This is a monthly manga so the arc went on from volume 7 to volume 15 and took five out of its currently nine years of publication. It's like one of those huge final arcs in long-running shonen but smack-dab in the middle instead.

I'm still sad cavalry battle namek killed Prison School

>>282167139
But Namek is genuinely a great arc.

>>282182295
A Namek isn't just an arc that's too long, it has to feel too long in the context of when it originally came out. The golden city from Made in Abyss was torture to follow as it released but it's a masterpiece when read in one go after the fact.

>>282177363
I've read Boatserk in one go a few years ago, and it didn't feel long at all.

Also, I like Oden and his flashback, but Wano definately dragged.

Sumo Namek in Baki is the worst Namek I endzmured.

>>282179123
Bus Namek wasn't even dragged out, it was just an overarching story compared to SxF's regular one chapter plots.

Small Momo Namek. It's a fourth of Dandadan at this point.

The Idol arc in MGX. It was boring, ground progress to a halt, lasted over a year and had no payoff at all.

Of course you could argue the whole of the series ended up being a Namek, ending without even a fucking kiss.

>>282166209 (OP)
I haven't had to endure any Nameks. If it isn't enjoyable, I turn it off.

>>282174566
>I hate to see people criticize early Namek, it's actually so good.
Well except that filler where the gang went to fake Namek

>>282177363
>Thriller Bark ends fast enough and had all the Straw hats fighting
Not in meaningful one on ones like in Enies Lobby. While it's cool they all team up against Oars it kind of showed that EL's style of fighting was a lightning in a bottle case, which ended up killing Franky and Brook when it comes to making vidya with diverse movesets like the Unlimited games and the trainwreck that was Odyssey.

>>282167303
I've tried it a couple of years ago
I think I dropped it somewhere around Namek, kek

>>282181111
Why do all /dbs/tards have so much shit taste. It's honestly embarrassing.

>>282166209 (OP)
World's End Harem as a pregnancy fetishist. Needed to wait 61 chapters to see a pregnant belly in a series that was basically designed for it, while also being a bi-monthly that took constant breaks.

>kaiji still in namek
>every arc is a namek

>>282182946
>t.braindead NPC

>>282180851
Chimera Arc is the GameOfThrones of anime, it has a really strong start and middle but a third act so atrocious it muddles the whole experience.

>>282180851
Time has really been kind to the CA arc. Everybody remembers the climactic moments with Gon and Meruem. Nobody remembers how much of a slog it was 90% of the time.

>>282180851
its a shame that madhouse didnt make the character design more serious. the 90s anime was better animated and directed.

>>282166209 (OP)
>had to
Im still on namek

>>282167078
the bog was kino

>>282166209 (OP)
does endless eight count

>>282166209 (OP)
rape namek

>>282180851
I'll be honest, I didn't find anything wrong with it until my third rewatch where the fatigue for long drawn out dialogues set in.

>>282182357
It didn't feel long because it's not. The actual arc is normal but we had to wait months between chapters which is why it took so long

>>282181379
It's been definitely longer than 3 years

>>282183143
Opposite for me. A lot of the beginning and middle was annoying bullshit, but the ending managed to tie it all together.

Akagi vs Washizu. Simultaneously also the best Namek I've experienced.

>>282167139
This but only in the anime.

Manga Namek has good pacing and isn't too long

>>282180243
I’ve enjoyed it, but yeah the long arcs do tend to drag when it’s a monthly series and we’ve spent almost a year trying to get the band a gig at the festival just because some other girls were being bitches. At this point I just want to see the concert so we can move on.

>>282166209 (OP)
If you know, you know.

>>282167303
nobody watched Kai.

I liked the episode where she and Gohan+Krillin get abducted by the alien kids.

>>282167139
>>282167303
I rewatched all of DBZ and concerning the Namek arc, the most boring parts are the beginning of Frieza fight before SSJ coming. Everything before this was actually fine.

Reminder we also don't know about Vegeta being the saiyan prince, this is introduced later in the arc.

>>282176545
the issue is the show originally only aired up to the Ginyu Force in the US, so for like a year early Namek was on constant reruns until the dub started making new episodes. So everybody remembers it, especially the early part before Frieza shows up, lasting way longer than it actually did.
also, the meme of "Five Minutes" lasting 15+ episodes.

>>282167078
I read The Bog when I was in college with a thermo exam the next day. I started the first attempt at like 8 PM thinking I was just going to read a chapter or two and stop and I ended up reading all the way to Endou drugging Kaiji, finishing at like 4 AM.
I aced the exam.

>>282181562
For the anime? Yeah. For the manga? Not most of it, but I do believe it was still the longest fight in the series.

Does Murata's take on the Monster Association Arc count as a Namek? This shit is over twenty volumes long whereas I believe I read the webcomic version in one night.

>>282187114
You're literally me

>>282166209 (OP)
It broke me

>>282187246
Absolutely. What's worse is that we know how the arc should have ended and had to watch in horror as it bloats and degenerates into the abomination as it ended, filled with cosmic radiation, fart, and GODBLAST.
At least we only had to read it once.
Then Murata outdid himself, after fucking up the psychic sisters, he drew the ninja arc. Then he drew it again, And then? He drew it again! Impressively none the three versions is remotely readable, ruined by more GODBLAST filth of course.
Man, fuck Murata.

>>282180851
This. It was advertised as the best arc, but I fucking hated it. The finale was pretty cool, but not worth it.

>>282187923
Is it shit? I won't read it till it's done.

>>282188992
It is done and it was the worst part of the entire Jojo series.

>>282188992
It finished years ago and it's better than all odd-numbered Parts except for SBR.
Anon got filtered by reading Wonder of U over a span of years

>>282182002
>five out of its currently nine years of publication
jeeez that really put things in perspective. I thought the current arc was like a third or something. Hopefully things pick up from here

Match Namek in Frieren

Why don't you die already Match?

And I binge It I can even image the slog of reading It as It came put?

>>282166209 (OP)
Boat Arc.

Namek was pretty grim in the UK as Toonami only had DBZ up until Goku starts his fight with Recoome then it looped back to Raditz arriving. This happened 3 times then they randomly started showing new episodes halfway through the Vegeta/Goku fight so I missed it.

>>282177179
>Kentaro Miura died shortly thereafter.
...6 years?

Chimera Ant arc. The middle stretch is so fucking boring. Moments like Netero vs Meruem or the final gungi game in the warehouse are nice but you have to deal with so much shit before you get to that and not all of it is worth it

>>282176480
OH.
MY.
REAL.
SIX.

>>282166209 (OP)
At least the Namek arc was overall fun and actually pretty straightforward, it's just that the anime stretched everything out with unbearable filler content. So "namek" should describe a shitty adaptation that becomes unbearable thanks to filler, not a bad, dragging arc per se.
>>282177363
>>282182357
>>282184144
It wasn't months, YEARS sometimes. The boat arc was actually pretty nice and fun, but it felt dragging with the infrequent chapter releases.
Thriller Bark is fine if you don't have to wait for new chapters.
Oden flashback (and Wano in general) is definitely bad.
One Piece anime after the timeskip also feels like a neverending namek.

>>282168101
The school festival in general has been long, meandering, and full of fluff about side characters that no one gives a shit about. I know far more about Tomoki's would-be harem than I ever cared to.

>>282177363
Yamato was a trash character that came in way too late into the story after all the groundwork was laid and who's best contribution was to delay Kaido a bit.
That is it.
I personally loved all of Wano until they got to the Beat Pirates base and all the fighting started, chopping up the story of such a scale in to short barely over 10 page chapters is not a good fit for the story Oda is telling.

>>282180243
It is actually insane.
The entire premise and draw of the show is a dumb scumbag dyke getting herself raped but the author decided to turn it into their fantasy perfect high school life.
Literally unreadable at this point.

>>282178130
VHS was expensive and watching anime episodes for 25 mins was a waste of time comparing to reading an equivalent chapter in less than 5 mins.

And to be on topic, Water 7, Thriller Bark, Fishmen, Punk Hazard, Whole Cake and Egghead.

>>282182002
This one was brutal.
The author put too many plotlines in this at once and every time one of them looked like it was finally getting tied off, she'd loop back around to another one of them and keep everything going.
I read it in bulk after it was completed and even I felt like it was dragged out and exhausting.
The finale was strong, but goddamn I have no idea how she let that storyline slip away from her so badly that it just kept going and going.

>>282182386
The entire way through, it was awful.
The sumo vs jobbers fights sucked, and then there was only one funny or interesting moment in the entire sumo vs baki avengers fight, the condom joke.

>>282190679
Macht is the peak of the series.
The lamest stretched out arc was the return to the past one, because it was just a bunch of lame fights. The only good moment was Himmel fighting through the illusion.

wtf is a namek>>282192088

>>282166209 (OP)
The Waking the Dragons arc from the original Yu-Gi-Oh series. God-awful arc, filled with shit-tier duels, plagued with some of the dumbest moments in the series, and a cast of villains that feel like something straight out of later series in the franchise, both in design and personality. It lasts like 40+ episodes and it has a single good scene in it.

>>282187923
>>282188992
>>282189045
>>282189187
It's fine, except for the really fucking weird way he introduces Wonder Of U's power which reads like more time travel and not the reality warp it is.

although the King family and that fucking detour into trifles is fucking mindboggling.

Lately I feel like every One Piece arc feels like a new flavor of Namek. At this point I’m finally ready for it to end

>get to new island
>introduce 20+ new characters
>LONG flashbacks. Sometimes multiple flashbacks per arc. This was always a thing but it’s felt like they’re starting to drag on and on
>the Strawhats outside of Luffy, Zoro and sometimes Sanji barely get to do anything

Truly I tuned out halfway through the Kuma flashback on Egghead and told myself I’d go back and read it in bulk later but I’ve had zero interest

Cell Namek

>>282182002
I need to resume this one. I stopped reading it in chapter 70 if I remember correctly, and I forgot a lot of shit so might as well start from zero again.
Has Coco gone to the other side?

Negima's Magic world
I don't even think I finished that arc I was so upset by the axing

>>282181913
I never kept up with the manga, but after I watched season 1 I remember seeing Nagatoro threads on the front page and for months and months it was nothing but Judo. I was so confused.

>>282166209 (OP)
I thought Buu was a much worse slog when I was kid. I almost considered not watching it anymore because it felt like the Buu saga was taking way too long

>>282170389
>Namek guerrilla warfare arc was peak DBZ
Yeah, it was actually really interesting seeing the main leads have to engage in stealth tactics since they're weak as fuck compared to the Frieza Force. Even when they get forced into a partnership with Vegeta, it still feels tense since Vegeta isn't the strongest on the planet either until he gets strong enough to take out Zarbon and that doesn't last long since the Ginyu Force shows up soon after. Vegeta having to do his own maneuvering around Frieza and managing to steal the Dragon Balls from right under his nose was great.

>>282166209 (OP)
Hueco Mundo in the manga.

>>282166209 (OP)
Rape Namek from Wolfguy and boat Namek from Berserk

>>282199142
And the wararc from Naruto.

>>282183568
Anime only problem desu
So many in this thread are anime only problems

>>282197058
>>282196860
>>282192070
>>282188466
True.
hello, your posts were good reads! Thanks. Off topic but I made a group chat for anime and vidya since 4chan can get tiring and I was hoping to find some more people to chat with about manga. If you have any interest please see pastebin.com/HQy6Antb and sorry for the interruption.

>>282193073
Namek refers to any arc that's way too long and most of it is boring.

It refers to the anime version of DB's Namek arc which has a ton of filler and every single panel from the manga is stretched as much as possible

>>282181111
You mean the midsection with the several forms of Freeza.

>>282199714
The anime version of both Buu and Cell are far more obnoxious. The only part of Namek that is torturous is Goku's fight with Freeza before he becomes a Super Saiyan.

>>282199481
>pastebin link to google doc link
what the fuck

>>282179123
I mean, yeah, Iruma's Harvest Festival was a Namek but Iruma-kun is one of those series where everything is enjoyable so it didn't really matter

>>282200750
Sorry it's a bit autistic

>>282197058
>>282196860
>>282192070
>>282188466
Good posts.
Off topic but I made a group chat for anime and vidya since 4chan can get tiring and I was hoping to find some more people to chat with about manga. If you have any interest and are cool with being nice, please see pastebin.com/HQy6Antb and sorry for the interruption feel free to report.

>>282197360
>spoiler
No, but a couple other characters have and she's had enough of both sides' shit.

>>282177363
I liked the Sea God battle but honestly the whole mini-arc could've been cut. It wasn't particularly good. It wasn't bad, but it was just kind of alright. Just get on the boat, shut up, we have Bubbles of Futility, maybe a few chapters of the Moon Boy visiting, and then Elfhelm where we meet Isma

>>282167078
More like The Bore