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Numerically, #61 is not the ending of the series, but tonally, and in terms of the short, prematurely cancelled stories that follow it, it kind of is. It is wonderfully bonkers, indistinguishable from a Mirage issue, and among the best in the Turtles’ library.
Was asked by @AnimeAjay if the theater pamphlet for DBS: SH clarified anything about animation director Chikashi Kubota's role in the process/any blending of 2D artwork into final shots. Summary of production-explainer pages below. Kubota is only involved in Step 5.
I just downloaded a bunch of screenshots from recent reading, so here's just to say that I like that the DBS colorized edition went with a darker purple for Ultra Ego, but that I still would have chosen black personally, and that it clashes a bit with the Cerealian trees.
I still think Goku vs. Frost is up there for me. Compact, enjoyable, feels speedy, memorable bits of movement.
Really good page communicating that Goku is dodging Granolah's blasts with Ultra Instinct while Vegeta brute-forces his way through dodging them as a Super Saiyan. (In general all the action this arc has been really good.)
From the kiss marks in this interstitial, Maki probably got around thirty questions, canonically. (And was offered the chance for yet another ten.) (Giving this the #dbsreread tag just in case.)
DBS: I actually hadn’t read Vol. 16 collected until now, but Maki’s interest in “grub rolls” was regrettably changed to the less colorful “macarons” in collected releases. V-Jump, print tankobon, digital color: