The Everlasting said:
Still not seeing what exactly could downgrade DBZ there.
It's another rendition of the "4 Galaxies" argument.
Basically, this guy tried to use the Jaco the Galactic Patrolman manga to calculate the size of the North Galaxy, and came out with it being the size of the Milky Way (or otherwise, an average galaxy). From there, he argues that the administrative units described in the Daizenshuu are in fact galaxy-size, and that since the East, West, and South galaxies can reasonably be expected to be of comparable size, the Dragon Ball universe is only the size of the sum total of four Milky Way-size galaxies, and thus is essentially a pocket universe, warrenting a downgrade of the God tiers to low 3-B at best.
When people attempted to bring up that screenshot of the North Galaxy in Super, he attempted to write it off as being "artistic license" based on the Saturn-like planet in the background and further bolstered by a post on the "Sci-fi writers have no sense of scale" trope by (wait for it...) Endless Mike.
Nevermind the fact that since the Daizenshuu explicitly states that the term "Galaxy" as used to describe the North, South, West, and East galaxies is not to be taken literally, the only way this argument could hold any water is if the galaxies that make up the North, West, South, and East galaxies are "micro galaxies", which would probably make each galaxy about the size of a solar system at best. Whis' projection of the twelve universes in the manga was not mentioned, although I can predict that he would probably write it off too as "artistic license" or worse, argue that it proves
every universe in Dragon Ball is the size of four galaxies based on the fact that only four galaxies were explicitly shown, and that the glowing dots in the background cannot be assumed to be galaxies based on (again) "artistic license".
