JazzMazz wrote:Hell, even that entire idea doesn't make any sense, because by the time we're introduced to Zamasu, his base form is already capable of owning SS2 Trunks easily, which really shouldn't happen if Zenkai's don't work on Goku and Vegeta at all.
The manga went out of its way to explain that Black's power-ups were specifically due to Zamasu being in Goku's body, as it more and more closely aligned with his spirit/energy when it recovered. Basically re-activating the Saiyan near-death power-ups, as it were.
So the power-ups don't work on Goku and Vegeta at all, but do for Black. He basically got to go through "Saiyan near-death power-ups, round two" starting from modern Goku's current strength, or maybe a bit higher due to Kaioshin-spirit shenanigans.
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Re: A conversation a few pages back about Toyotaro over-inbetweening his fights (citing an example of Hit winding up a kick in the most recent chapter), I absolutely agree. Toyotaro's pages not only contain twice as many panels as Toriyama's (to the point that you could cut most in half horizontally and basically get two things with the general panel-count and layout of a Toriyama page), but he dedicates more panels to inbetween action that Toriyama would have implied solely through posing and action lines. Toriyama was a master of selecting the right poses on either side of an action, as well as impact shots, to imply a sense of speed, power, and continuity, while actually showing very little on the page. Toyotaro frequently attempts to show a lot of movement, and it has the effect of slowing some of his fights. His impact is also rather dull.
It's all serviceable, and a lot of the art is lively and fun, but it's not a series you come to for the visual craftsmanship. The Hit-Jiren fight last chapter was rather underwhelming from a storyboarding perspective, and that's a shame. But the art is still communicative and--to agree with other sentiments a few pages back--his character-scripting is spot on, and that's what I'm here for. Much like the two recent Toriyama movies, if there's going to be sequel
Dragon Ball, all I ask is that the characters feel sincere and feel like themselves, and that's something the manga has consistently offered even when its action has been, if not bad, pretty far removed from Toriyama.