maybe a searing hot take but I take power-scaling to be more like, a metagame, rather than anything you're supposed to expect out of a coherent story bc after a certain point it becomes fundamentally anti-art
listening to dragon ball-specific youtubers talk about the show each time just makes me go "wait, you guys actually care about power scaling consistency. I thought it was all a joke."
Feb 4, 2026 06:02it's obvious after a certain point the power threshold being so high in Dragonball limits what exactly they can do in the story. Once blowing up planetary bodies is established very early on there's now very few ways to display how powerful a character is besides how they compare to other characters
