James Crean's Reviews > Dragon Ball, Vol. 5: The Red Ribbon Army

** spoiler alert ** The final fight of the Tenkaichi Budokai is electrifying and hilarious, never relenting with the twists, special moves and absolutely insane action I expected. It’s a great end to a great arc, and it thoroughly satisfied me.
That said, there’s also a whole other part of this book where Goku fights a robot for a Dragon Ball to save the mayor because a girl saved him and then told him about the mayor so he has to save him, and then he fights a ninja and- It’s just a bit much, and a bit too little at the same time. The momentum of the plot is now gone because Goku isn’t really doing this for any reason. The comedy isn’t as present, so it’s less entertaining, and when they bring it back it feels jarring. Something about this new arc doesn’t quite work, and the feeling sticks into the next volume.
That being said, I still really enjoyed this, and it’s great for the final fight alone.