Arg wrote:Best form since the original SSJ in my opinion,they recaptured that vibe. Wonder how they can beat this, but hey, I thought the same after SSJ.
Hell yeah. I remember seeing Super Saiyan as a kid for the first time and I remembered how dominant it looked. More dominant than anything I had seen afterwards in Dragon Ball Z. The angry and serious vibe from Goku was quite a change for him. Not to mention, Super Saiyan was a complete surprise because even though it was alluded to prior to its introduction (just like Ultra Instinct), it still felt as if it came out of nowhere. There was also Super Saiyan 2 Gohan, who also looked dominant and angry as well, but we had already seen it before in his predecessor with Super Saiyan Goku. Super Saiyan 3, God and Blue never had that vibe, but Ultra Instinct re-captures the vibe of mystique, dominance and seriousness like Super Saiyan because it's completely different from the Super Saiyan line entirely, like how Super Saiyan was different from every transformation we saw before it.
Lord Beerus wrote:Ultra Instinct is the perfect embodiment of how Dragon Ball manages to take something simple on paper and make it into a meaningful spectacle that doesn't feel artificially thrown in. It's Dragon Ball's greatest example of less being more. Bonus points for it being foreshadowed so early in the show.
Agreed. The perfect paragon of "complexity of simplicity". The form has "simplicity" in the sense of how Goku physically changes the least in the form compared to all of his other transformations, because the form isn't even a mere hair recolor like Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue; it's a change in aura color, eye color and facial and bodily expression. The form also has "complexity" because of the form's roots in real-world martial arts, how the form branches out from the traditional Super Saiyan line, and how it alludes to Whis' explanation of having the body move on its own nearly 100 episodes back and how it justifies why Whis had Goku and Vegeta train without becoming Super Saiyan. Dragon Ball Z was filled with transformations from major enemies such as Freeza, Cell, and Majin Buu, thus Goku had to adapt by transforming as well. But Goku's most powerful opponents such as Hit, Beerus, Toppo, Jiren and Whis; neither of them transform to get stronger and are all very strong in their normal state. Thus, Goku had to adapt to that as well with Ultra Instinct. I hypothesize that once Goku masters the form, he won't have to deal with the initial symptoms of excessive body heat, physical strain and stamina drain, just like his normal state.
MKJ wrote:It will be interesting to see if the mastered form looks any different. That original photo we saw a couple of months back had goku without a shirt with a red aura. Also jirens aura being red leads me to believe that he has mastered it if he knows it at all. I would not be surprised if jirens meditation is significant to it on some level. Of course we still have more to learn of jirens abilities. By the way, I'm loving the form.
This is probably gonna be an unpopular opinion amongst those who still expect the form to be red, but I honestly think the poster we saw of Goku with red aura was a red herring. I justify this because they pulled the exact same thing with Super Saiyan God in the trailer for Battle of Gods: the aura was
blue in the trailer (
pics as well), but later shown to be orange in the movie onwards. I think with Ultra Instinct as it is right now, what you see is what you get. I could very well be wrong, but that's just what I think.
With that all being said, Toriyama truly outdid himself with Ultra Instinct. It's definitely my favorite form so far.
