Reviews for Dragon Ball Redux
RWIW chapter 1 . 7/23
"portable, self-powered computer with all the knowledge in the universe and an easy-to-use search interface"
'Easy-to-use' doesn't mean that it actually loads the answer in any reasonable amount of time. It could just abruptly hang for a thousand years you input a query, then spit the answer out as though nothing was amiss afterwards.

That said, it's a brilliant wish for the Dragon Balls and I firmly approve. I'm just traumatized by some bad experiences with Windows 10. :P

You picked some really good wishes for this fic in general. I enjoyed the optimization aspect, but the domestic-life stuff isn't my thing, so that's where I stop. Well, good luck with the writing.
RWIW chapter 3 . 7/23
The description of the Corruption Correction doesn't make sense. It "restores [the target] to goodness", but they can "dirty [their heart] up" again if they want to. But if they've been purged of "evil" (whatever definition you're using), why would they WANT to turn evil again?

I mean, on the one hand, it makes sense because this is the DBZ universe, where Kami split off his evil half, the Dragon Balls can screen good and evil souls, and Kid Buu is the purified evil form of Buu, so clearly the "evil" side is a distinct component of the soul as opposed to a nebulous philosophical concept. But, in just about every instance I can think of, evil characters turn good, but good characters don't turn evil. (Majin Buu is a possible exception, but that again took the form of 'splitting off' an evil half.) I guess Majin Vegeta is an exception, but that was magically-caused rather than a personal degeneration.

I guess you're trying to explain that this isn't Sanctify the Wicked from The Book of Exalted Deeds, but it doesn't quite work. If you purge people of all that makes them WANT to be evil, why would they want to go back to wanting to be evil? It doesn't get around the issue of it being an involuntary brain rewrite in the first place...
Guest chapter 5 . 7/21
Blehg! What's next are you gonna have master roshi also come in for some fun and start banging his wives. It's already bad enough to make it a harem but to make it a harem and involve another dude. This is clearly and quite literally a wish fulfillment story so I guess you want to have multiple wives but still have some other dude nail them?
Guest chapter 4 . 7/21
The whole yearly wish thing is seriously irksome. It takes the "let's solve everything with wishes" trope in dbz to a whole new level. Then there's the whole let's make a utopia thing that would be unrealistic even with wishes involved or more like all of his wishes except the data base and extinction level protection ones are just pretentious. This peace lord goku thing has got to be toned down a little bit. Just to clarify I'm not saying make him more apathetic towards other people's problems but to at least acknowledge the some things aren't in our control and that okay. Diversity of any kind is what brings change and that is what has helped humanity evolve as a species.
resurrectio of f chapter 1 . 7/21
you do know that golden freeza who is a lot weaker than beerus has a power level of one hundred Quintilian. So i don't think a hundred times multiplier works remember that sjj3 has an official multiplier of 400 and that still got destroyed by beerus.
ChronoMitsurugi chapter 8 . 7/12
Tiny mistake. King Kai is the North Kai.

Its been really fun so far. I cant wait till Goku meets Jiren and Broly. The two strongest mortals we know about. Neither one uses god ki and both are far more powerful than Goku even in Super Saiyan Blue. So how will this Goku react to meeting them i wonder.
ChronoMitsurugi chapter 4 . 7/11
Im going to keep reading this cause its so fun, but i just cant picture Piccolo as anything but a man. Christopher Sabat was my childhood.

Anyways, loving the fic so far. Cant wait to read more.
Voltrasin chapter 8 . 7/10
I always felt bad for Zen-chan. So lonely. Even when it has others with it, they are too afraid to be close. I'm glad this story gave it so many new friends.
shypunk chapter 8 . 7/1
well this fic kicksass hope you keep writing it
Tony McNucklz chapter 8 . 7/1
It really is a pity. this story could have been great. As it is, i think the label of story type should be 'Parody'.
Tony McNucklz chapter 8 . 7/1
Do you have some kind of sex talk fetish? a compulsion to actually inflict sex ed on your story for absolutely no reason? jt feels like you put more effort into writing sex education than you have for the entire rest of this story. literally comes off as an authors fetish.
Tony McNucklz chapter 4 . 6/30
I'm bored. Bored beyond belief. this story is the definition of a tropey cliched mess. the MC is OP from chapter 1. there is absolutely no conflict. you destroyed civilization. instead of a utopia, you made what would certainly have been an apocalyptic disaster without authorial disregard for logic. the hetero relationship is the most mundane of cliched subservient male worships flawless Mary Sue. oh no wait, Mary Sues. Plural. No wait! actually it's 2 Mary Sue's and a green Gary Stu. Well, not a Gary... maybe a MaGary Stu-et? with the expectation of more. maybe they'll start fucking rocks. and water. maybe next is doing doggystyle with an actual dog? where's the line in the relationships? at what point do you say "that's enough"? you can't even explore the relationships now without bringing time and plot progression to a grinding halt because there are too many to write about, which means all we'll see is the superficial romcom recycled bumfluff! and why should i care about the plot anyways? there's no confrontation. no stakes. no threat. absolutely no reason for character conflict without defying the rules YOU have established. in a world that was built around struggles and combat, you have erased both with the delusional expectation that your story will still be interesting. this is one long training montage without a side of bad chick flick romance and absolutely no payoff.
A stories quality is derived and defined by the quality of the adversaries and obstacles to be overcome. The hardship and even failure. The risk of defeat. You don't have adversaries. you have ants to be stepped on. you don't write obstacles, you LITERALLY wish them away. With absolutely nothing overcome. With nothing ever having been a challenge outside of 'oh hey more gravity makes this repetitive thing fractionally more difficult temporarily and no he has relearn being calm with a new hairstyle. AGAIN!
At this point I'm reading more out of sheer morbid curiosity as to how much more aweful this will get.
This isn't a flame. Flames are pointless hateful drivel absent anything an author could use to improve their past, ongoing, and future works. the single biggest help i hope you take is that you. NEED. challenges. reading about someone walking up a crowded beach over a hill and down the road is not something that people enjoy. Thousands of men storming into blazing hellfire at Normandy. rounds tearing their bodies to shreds. artillery tossing screaming men through the air. being forced to run and crawl through entrails and screaming meat. cutting wire, clearing machine gun nests, roasting pillboxes and the humans inside. and all of it a moment from death. constantly forced to watch men around you go down and know it was pure fortune that spared you the same fate. shooting, stabbing, blasting and even stangling the enemy in a desperate bid to stay alive for one more breath.
Your story is the MC walking on a crowded beach over a hill. a mild mannered breezy walk because nobody can touch him. even scratch him. What you should aspire to is D-day. The landings at Normandy. Conflict. Look to a beloved character and seek to inspire in your reader the following words when they consider reading your storyCertainty of death. 'Small' chance of success... What are we waiting for?"
shypunk chapter 4 . 6/30
dude i lost it when you said piccolo was just a masculine futa LOL
JacobID2002 chapter 8 . 6/30
Plz update
shypunk chapter 1 . 6/29
you know what this is my new fave dragon ball fic thanks author dude
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