I was enjoying the previous bits with the side characters defending Earth, but this chapter solidified the issues I have with Toyo:
- His Goku sucks. Goku was never the most dynamic character, but he still showed very obvious growth from the start of Dragon Ball up until the end of the Cell saga. Even Buu saga Goku initially showed a slightly less naive side and an interest in being a mentor figure to the future generation. But Toyo's Goku is just an early DBZ abridged parody boiled down to his base traits of "dumb, bad father and likes to fight." It's boring and uninteresting.
- He's obsessed with recreating famous moments from the manga/movies/games. Look, homages/nods are fine if sparsely used, but he lifts entire moments/scenes without any self-awarness of what made those moments actually work in the first place. Who the hell wants to see the "side characters are getting creamed until Goku shows up" plot point, only with none of the drama or catharsis of the Nappa/Ginyu Force fights, for the 100th time?
- in the same vein, we all know how this fight is going to pan out: Goku overwhelms Moro, but Moro is going to power up and defeat him, Vegeta will make the save, and then in turn get beaten up before making some "you can do it, Kakarot!" speech that leads to Goku unleashing Mastered Ultra Instinct and saving the day.
- The only plot twist I can see coming is Goku failing to master Ultra Instinct and Vegeta winning instead, which would do nothing for me. I know this is probably an unpopular opinion, but post-Buu saga, static Vegeta is one of the most boring characters in the series. And that goes double for Toyo's pet favourite character version of Vegeta.
Seriously, can someone just give a better writer a Z-Warriors spin-off starring Gohan, Piccolo, the Androids, Krillian, Tien and Yamcha? Or a Universe 6 spin-off with Hit, Kale and Caulifla? I'll even take a post Tournament of Power good guy Jiren being bros with Toppo spin-off.