"Dragon Ball Super (Manga)" Official Discussion Thread

[Chelentano]

Somthing bugs me about the way F!Trunks talks about Bulma's death, he refers to the event as 'They' got to her, as in to imply that there is more then one person.

Maybe @TheDevilsCorpse could tell us if he really is talking in plural.

[VegettoEX]

I'm assuming this is the panel in question:



... ソーラーに溜まったホコリを払いに行って...
みつかってしまった...

Someone better than me should tackle this, but seems like the usual vagueness in Japanese with regard to subject and pluralization. Anyway, it's not talking about the person(s) that killed her, but rather the person(s) who found her body. I don't really see why it would matter one way or the other if one person or multiple people found her.

[Kanassa]

I'm assuming this is the panel in question:



... ソーラーに溜まったホコリを払いに行って...
みつかってしまった...

Someone better than me should tackle this, but seems like the usual vagueness in Japanese with regard to subject and pluralization. Anyway, it's not talking about the person(s) that killed her, but rather the person(s) who found her body. I don't really see why it would matter one way or the other if one person or multiple people found her.

Well, the entire dialouge seems to imply that 'they' were responcible for the deed. Before Turnks was merely alluding to Bulma's fate, but when Mai straight up asks if something happened, he simply saids that 'They' found her before he breaks down. Usually this type of line is used to imply that either a group inflicted the harm uponthe person, or there was a group activly searching for her and sent another to inflict the harm.

[Shin]

I'm assuming this is the panel in question:



... ソーラーに溜まったホコリを払いに行って...
みつかってしまった...

Someone better than me should tackle this, but seems like the usual vagueness in Japanese with regard to subject and pluralization. Anyway, it's not talking about the person(s) that killed her, but rather the person(s) who found her body. I don't really see why it would matter one way or the other if one person or multiple people found her.

Well, the entire dialouge seems to imply that 'they' were responcible for the deed. Before Turnks was merely alluding to Bulma's fate, but when Mai straight up asks if something happened, he simply saids that 'They' found her before he breaks down.

"They" can be used to refer to one person.

[Kanassa]

I'm assuming this is the panel in question:



... ソーラーに溜まったホコリを払いに行って...
みつかってしまった...

Someone better than me should tackle this, but seems like the usual vagueness in Japanese with regard to subject and pluralization. Anyway, it's not talking about the person(s) that killed her, but rather the person(s) who found her body. I don't really see why it would matter one way or the other if one person or multiple people found her.

Well, the entire dialouge seems to imply that 'they' were responcible for the deed. Before Turnks was merely alluding to Bulma's fate, but when Mai straight up asks if something happened, he simply saids that 'They' found her before he breaks down.

"They" can be used to refer to one person.

As I know little about the Japanese language, I don't know if it's different, but the sentence is not worded in a way that would make 'They' refer to one person. Though again, this could just be me misunerstanding japanese language.

[Chelentano]

I'm assuming this is the panel in question:



... ソーラーに溜まったホコリを払いに行って...
みつかってしまった...

Someone better than me should tackle this, but seems like the usual vagueness in Japanese with regard to subject and pluralization. Anyway, it's not talking about the person(s) that killed her, but rather the person(s) who found her body. I don't really see why it would matter one way or the other if one person or multiple people found her.

I see. Thank you very much for the clarification.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

You know, this is precisely what I fail to understand. In timeline A stuff happened. Cool. Great.
Then somebody goes back in time, changes something and we get timeline A'. So then there is a big butterfly effect. Let's say, Earth is blown up. But this is exclusive to A'.
If you would travel back in time from A' and prevent Earth from being blown up and then let other stuff happen, you end up in A''. And so on...

But in any case, in A things stay exactly the same. Same stuff as before happened. All the same.
In A' different things have happened that might possibly lead to a significantly different future, but in no way does this concern or change anything for A or A''. Etc. etc...


So unless they would provide us with a tidbit of information, like "If too many parallel universes exist, everything will blow up.", I fail to see the significance of any statement regarding meddling with time.

EDIT: Same would go for the time rings. Unless they do *not* create parallel timelines/universes, I do not see at this point, how anyone would even care, if a Kaioshin could travel to the past and by chance would decide to change anything there.
It would just create a copy universe, leaving the original one effectively untouched.

It hasn't been stated in the series yet (if ever), but in Dragon Ball Online & Dragon Ball XenoVerse, it is stated that if too many parallel worlds are created, they'll all blow up.

[Kanassa]

You know, this is precisely what I fail to understand. In timeline A stuff happened. Cool. Great.
Then somebody goes back in time, changes something and we get timeline A'. So then there is a big butterfly effect. Let's say, Earth is blown up. But this is exclusive to A'.
If you would travel back in time from A' and prevent Earth from being blown up and then let other stuff happen, you end up in A''. And so on...

But in any case, in A things stay exactly the same. Same stuff as before happened. All the same.
In A' different things have happened that might possibly lead to a significantly different future, but in no way does this concern or change anything for A or A''. Etc. etc...


So unless they would provide us with a tidbit of information, like "If too many parallel universes exist, everything will blow up.", I fail to see the significance of any statement regarding meddling with time.

EDIT: Same would go for the time rings. Unless they do *not* create parallel timelines/universes, I do not see at this point, how anyone would even care, if a Kaioshin could travel to the past and by chance would decide to change anything there.
It would just create a copy universe, leaving the original one effectively untouched.

It hasn't been stated in the series yet (if ever), but in Dragon Ball Online & Dragon Ball XenoVerse, it is stated that if too many parallel worlds are created, they'll all blow up.

I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up revealing that if you have too many parrallel worlds, the original timelines will start to dissappear to maintain balance.

[Herms]

Anyway, it's not talking about the person(s) that killed her, but rather the person(s) who found her body. I don't really see why it would matter one way or the other if one person or multiple people found her.

No, it's saying that she was "spotted" when she went out to clean dust off the solar panel, and (implicitly) killed. Nothing about people finding her body or anything like that. Though it's not clear from the panel, we know from the greater context of the chapter that Trunks is talking about Black, a single person who goes around killed whoever he finds, so in that context using "they" is wrong, or at best misleading.

[VegettoEX]

Ya know, originally I just left the scan without commentary. Shoulda left it that way!

[Snow_Lilies]

So unless they would provide us with a tidbit of information, like "If too many parallel universes exist, everything will blow up.", I fail to see the significance of any statement regarding meddling with time.

EDIT: Same would go for the time rings. Unless they do *not* create parallel timelines/universes, I do not see at this point, how anyone would even care, if a Kaioshin could travel to the past and by chance would decide to change anything there.
It would just create a copy universe, leaving the original one effectively untouched.

That could be a possibility too, but I personally think creating the events for Goku and Vegeta to hit SSB levels is itself a huge deal towards potentially threatening the natural balance of the universe. In other words, someone violated the ban on Time Travel and the consequence was spawning super-powered wanton battle freaks whose untrained punches sent ripples throughout the universe (at least in one adaptation anyhow). Beerus is having fun now but if Goku ever got seriously close to surpassing him, I don't know if he'd care to sit by on that too much.

But all of this may be less impactful depending on where Hit (whose strength is currently debated) and the future Zen'o tournament contenders truly fall on the power scale.

[Meshack]

I personally believe that Black is NOT Zamasu because that wouldn't be good writing if it was. I'm pretty sure there's someone else behind this Goku Black mystery, maybe Zamasu is part of it but I don't think it's him.

It would be bad writing if it was a totally random person, so they'd have to establish that it could be some specific person who's not Zamasu, however subtly, first.

By not good writing, I mean it's too predictable.

[Chelentano]

Anyway, it's not talking about the person(s) that killed her, but rather the person(s) who found her body. I don't really see why it would matter one way or the other if one person or multiple people found her.

No, it's saying that she was "spotted" when she went out to clean dust off the solar panel, and (implicitly) killed. Nothing about people finding her body or anything like that. Though it's not clear from the panel, we know from the greater context of the chapter that Trunks is talking about Black, a single person who goes around killed whoever he finds, so in that context using "they" is wrong, or at best misleading.

Good to know, thanks!

[Mazingerdestro]

I thought that it said that Bulma's body was found next to the panels.
So in the manga it is not very clear that she is dead?
Obviously she is but why imply and not show it?
False hope?
Either Toyotaro will use that twist or the limited pages made him cut a lot of stuff.
It's funny how in Super's case a whole arc can be summarized in a single manga volume. (if we didn't have the Beerus arc, Toyotaro could summarize the whole tournament in a volume)
Basically in the future Super manga might be like 5+++ volumes and contain 5++ arcs.

Personally, I don't like it that much since I always prefer to read the manga in any series and as I get older I lose interest in the animated form of a manga. There are series for example like one piece that the manga sometimes is quite complicated and the anime makes the story easier to understand but in general manga>anime.

Toyotaro's art is perfect for db and he could really be a star in weekly shonen jump. I do not know if he is adapted in the whole "work all the time on a manga" but I guess that a monthly manga takes as much time as a weekly.
Do we have any reports about the first volume's sales? Were the sale good?

[Chelentano]

I have another question for translators. When present Bulma talks about "beauty research" is she talking about cosmetics and so or is it an expression that I don't understand?

[FTW395]

So did Whis create a parallel world of not?

[Mazingerdestro]

So did Whis create a parallel world of not?

No. His version of reversing time rewrites history completely. No new parallel timelines with Frieza been alive

[Meshack]

So did Whis create a parallel world of not?

I'm pretty sure Whis explained that. He said no.

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

By not good writing, I mean it's too predictable.

How something being predictable equals not good writing?

[kinisking]

Personally I was not content with a certain page of the latest chapter... when Bulma started asking Whis whether his time rewind would have created a parallel universe, I found this question to be very interesting.
Especially since Whis stated in the anime, how altering the past could affect the future. (But if it would create alternative universes anyways, then what would be the problem of doing so?)

But then the next panels completely evaded any answer to this question and instead, Whis talked about the "cooldown time" on this technique... this was a bit disappointing to me.

Yeah, that's my only issue with this chapter too.

I thought he said that he basically reversed time and thus didn't create a new parallel world?