Spoiler:
Golden Freeza Arc:
Episode #5: “Blooma Dates Whis-san?! Vegeta’s Greatest of Pinches”
•Eight days have passed since Son Gokuu became a Super Saiyan God and did battle with Destruction God Beers. Gokuu has returned to training, via meditation, to better control his ki by doing image training. Gokuu visualizes himself battling Piccolo Daimaou, Freeza, Cell, and Majin Buu (Gohan-absorbed). Chichi, of course, wants Gokuu to get back to farming their daikon, but that seems a little far off at this rate.
•Opening:
•Meanwhile, Vegeta learns that Whis is visiting with Blooma on a date.
•Title Card
•A Part: Vegeta tries to convince Whis to train him, but Whis is more interested in trying new foods. Finally, Vegeta sets about showing off his own culinary skills. Impressed, Whis accepts Vegeta as his student. Vegeta and Whis return to Beers’ planet. Vegeta’s training begins immediately: he must clean their giant castle wearing weights that require his ki to be at its maximum simply to move a little. Meanwhile, Gokuu gains the momentum in his image training and uses Super Saiyan God to defeat his image foes.
•B Part: Gokuu completes his current round of training in the wilderness, prompting earthquakes and flooding throughout the planet. Some months have passed since the battle with Beers. Videl is due to deliver any day now. Later, Gokuu decides to visit Vegeta for some sparring…but according to Blooma, Vegeta is off training with Whis-san! “Eh?!” Gokuu desperately searches for Beers, Whis or Vegeta’s ki, but cannot find it. Vegeta hasn’t been home to visit in a month which is annoying Blooma: “I have needs, too!” Gokuu desperately asks Blooma if she has any way of getting in contact with Whis, to which she answers but one: presenting something delicious while yelling his name really loudly. It works! But before Gokuu can run off with the newly arrived Beers, Whis and Vegeta a phone call from Chichi cuts in: “Videl-san is goin’ into labor!” Chaos ensues as Gohan, Videl and Chichi try to find a parking spot at the hospital. Gokuu’s group tries to find the right hospital room, but doctors are in short supply due to recent natural disasters! Finally, Piccolo-san appears in scrubs and delivers the baby in the middle of a crowded hospital commissary (Beers and Whis love the food). Baby Pan-chan is born! “We should have another one, Vegeta!” comments Blooma. Vegeta shoots back with “I have training to finish!” “Whis-san, please train me, too!” Blooma laments her predicament, but supplies Vegeta with a new battle jacket and gray under suit to replace his currently shabby suit. “Ara, since Vegeta-san has new armor, perhaps Gokuu-san should, too?” Whis transforms Gokuu’s dougi into a new red one, too. Gokuu and Vegeta bid the others farewell and return to Beers’ planet.
•Ending:
•While the doctors are tending to Pan-chan Videl and Gohan are left alone for a moment. Videl flexes her abdomen and burns her stomach back into a six pack; Gohan breaths in deeply in response.
Episode #6: “The Machinations of Chief Advisor Sorbet”
•Gokuu and Vegeta train under Whis on Beers’ planet. Gokuu finds himself one step behind Vegeta at everything they do thanks to Vegeta’s head start. Nevertheless, Gokuu is Gokuu and quickly catches up.
•Opening
•Sixteen years earlier, news of Freeza’s death hits his empire. Chief Advisor Sorbet quickly takes command to try and maintain order.
•Title Card:
•A Part: In the following days it becomes clear that Freeza’s empire is doing poorly in quelling resistance groups on the worlds they have conquered. When news of Freeza’s death leaks the resistance groups become even harder to control. To help control the increasingly rowdy worlds under the command of the Freeza Empire, Sorbet assigns his right hand man and strongest warrior, Tagoma, to recruiting mercenaries to bolster their forces.
•B Part: Tagoma comes across a man named Shisami. The two eventually fight as a way of greetings and Shisami accepts the offer, for a high price. With Shisami’s help Sorbet retakes and maintains several worlds. Shisami and a reluctant Tagoma quiz Sorbet on what his long-term plan is. Maintaining the empire without an overwhelming force like Freeza is exceedingly difficult, to say nothing of trying to grow the empire. “It’ll also become hard for you to afford the fee for us mercenaries,” adds Shisami. Sorbet wants to stick to Freeza-sama’s plan to conquer the universe, but at the rate things are going…wait a second, wasn’t Freeza-sama after the wish-granting Dragon Balls? Perhaps they could restore Freeza-sama to life? But nobody knows where the new Namekian home world is! And Earth is protected by that damned Saiyan, Son Gokuu. “It can’t be helped,” Sorbet adds, “We’ll focus on developing and acquiring technologies to help increase our soldiers’ combat power. After that, we’ll go to Earth and use the Dragon Balls to revive Freeza-sama!”
•Ending:
•Shisami counts his gold in his quarters.
Episode #7: “Rumblings of a Storm! Emperor Freeza is Resurrected”
•One year after the battle with Beers, Sorbet and Tagoma go to Earth. The duo threatens the Pilaf Gang into giving them the Dragon Balls, just when they are about to make their wish they are interrupted by Sorbet and Tagoma. Sorbet asks Shen Long to revive Freeza, but Shen Long can only revive him to the form he was in last alive, a bunch of bits-and-pieces. Sorbet agrees and once Freeza’s tiny pieces rain from the sky on the group of five. Sorbet then revives Freeza’s Papa, Great King Cold, with the second wish and Shuu asks Shen Long for a bunch of money with the third. Sorbet and Tagoma then take their fallen kings back to the empire to be healed.
•Opening:
•Back in the empire, Freeza’s body is restored and he is reverted to his first form. Cold is also healed. Once finished, Freeza swears revenge on Son Gokuu and the Saiyan that killed him, but first he will train, something he has never done before. Although miffed about dying, Cold isn’t particularly interested in being subjected to the torture he experienced in Hell again, but Freeza isn’t having any of it. He will undergo training so Hellish it will make his time in Hell pale in comparison.
•Title Card:
•A Part: Freeza, wrapped up in a cocoon tied to a tree in Hell, is tortured by dancing and singing angels and stuff animals playing instruments. As the music grows more and more suffocating Freeza finally wakes from his nightmare after having been knocked unconscious by attacks by Tagoma, Shisami and Papa. Huffing and puffing, Freeza rushes forward at all three. Sometime later, Galaxy Patrolman Jako arrives at Capsule Corp. After admonishing Doctor Brief for calling him ‘Zako-kun’, Jako tells Blooma that the evil space emperor, Freeza, has somehow been revived!
•B Part: Jako tells Blooma of how Freeza’s forces have recently started re-growing their empire, now faster than ever! Word on the street is that now Freeza is coming to Earth with one thousand elite soldiers to extract revenge on the Saiyans. Blooma informs Whis-san of this, so he, Beers, Gokuu and Vegeta return to Earth. Beers is a little miffed to see that Freeza has been revived, considering how much of a “snotty brat” he was and tells Gokuu and Vegeta to hurry up and defeat him. Gokuu is excited to get a chance to fight Freeza again and wonders if he’s gotten any stronger since being revived. Gokuu recruits Kuririn—now a police officer—after Kuririn engages in a car chase with bank robbers. Reluctant at first, Kuririn remembers how useless he was when Beers was threatening the planet, and agrees to join up with Gokuu. Kuririn has Artificial Human #18 shave his head and dons his dougi once again. Last time, #18 got to show off how cool she was by protecting him and Marron-chan. This time he wants to do the same for her. As Kuririn flies off to join up with Gokuu and the others again, Artificial Human #18 says to herself: “How cool…”
•Ending:
•Freeza’s spaceship zooms through space. Inside, Freeza pours himself a bottle of wine and swirls it around as he peers out into the expanse of outer space.
Episode #8: “Ride of the Valkaries! Freeza’s Forces Descended”
•Gokuu, Vegeta, Piccolo, Gohan, Kuririn, Tenshinhan and the Muten Roushi await Freeza’s arrival at the outskirts of North City. Blooma, Jako, Whis and Beers also showed up to watch the battle.
•Opening:
•Beers has no intentions of involving himself in Gokuu’s mess, but the potential to see Freeza get slapped around is too good to pass up. When Kuririn asks where Goten, Trunks and Majin Buu are, Blooma explains that Majin Buu is in a deep sleep and Goten and Trunks aren’t the sort to take a fight seriously, so they’ll just get in the way. Gokuu finishes typing a text and tosses Blooma his smart phone and tells her to look after it. Tightening his belt, Gokuu turns and serenely says “He’s here.”
•Title Card:
•A Part: [“Ride of the Valkaries” by Richard Wagner plays throughout the remainder of the A Part] Freeza’s rather massive ship lands and he and one thousand soldiers exit the ship. With a single blast, Freeza obliterates North City before the Dragon Team can react. Gokuu and Freeza banter for a bit. Freeza tells his men to cause as much destruction as they please, but to leave Son Gokuu to him. Freeza transforms into his fourth form right off the bat, destroying his hover chair in the process. Nervous, Kuririn, the Muten Roushi, Piccolo, Gohan, Tenshinhan, Jako and Piccolo face down one thousand of Freeza’s elite soldiers. Meanwhile, Vegeta faces off with the Great King Cold.
•B Part: The Great King Cold laments to Vegeta how his son’s obsession is just going to get him into trouble again, “We’ve got much better things to do with our time.” [“Ride of the Valkaries” by Richard Wagner plays throughout the remainder of the B Part] Meanwhile, the others do battle with the top members of Freeza’s army, now refined by years of training and new weapons technologies. It’s a bit of a struggle, especially for the rusty Kuririn. Piccolo engages in battle with Shisami. Although Piccolo has the superior combat techniques his opponent boasts both experience and raw physical strength. The rusty Son Gohan, meanwhile, struggles against the technique-adept and dexterous Tagoma. Piccolo and Gohan are painfully made to recognize their faults.
•Ending:
•Cornered, Kuririn is about to be hacked in half by one of Freeza’s men!
Episode #9: “Shisami & Tagoma! The Mightiest Swords”
•Gokuu and Freeza clash. Freeza comments that he is surprised how powerful Gokuu has become without the need to transform into a Super Saiyan. Of course, he still has power in waiting, too.
•Opening:
•Meanwhile, Kuririn is saved from decapitation by Jako, who is quite surprised at the strength of the Earthlings.
•Title Card:
•A Part: The Muten Roushi’s techniques and command of ki give him an advantage over the less refine martial arts and weapons-based combat abilities of Freeza’s men, but eventually their greater numbers chip away at his stamina and focus and he begins to accumulate damage quicker. Meanwhile, Tenshinhan observes that nobody dares to attack Blooma because of how close she is to Beers and Whis. Just how infamous is Destruction God Beers? Vegeta and Cold continue their talk in between bursts of fighting. Vegeta comments on how both he and Freeza have become quite a bit stronger since they last came to Earth. “Speaking of which, where is that young man that greeted us last time?” “Oh, he returned to the future.” “What?!” Meanwhile, Freeza and Gokuu find themselves mostly even. Freeza’s ki control has improved since last time, definitely, but it’s his increased hand-to-hand ability that is definitely proving to be the biggest challenge to Gokuu. “I guess we’ll have to stop holding back and play our trump cards to see who the best is really!”
•B Part: Piccolo and Super Saiyan Gohan struggle against Shisami and Tagoma respectively. They’re both facing their worst possible type of opponent. Finally, backs together, Gohan and Piccolo realize they can just switch foes! Gohan, who specializes in raw power, faces off with the brutal crushing strength of Shisami, while the technique and speed-oriented Piccolo faces off with the tricky, dirty Tagoma. The fights become much more even after the switch, but Shisami and Tagoma are not slow to adapt to the sudden change in dance partners.
•Ending:
•Desperate for more power, Gohan attempts to transform into a Super Saiyan 2 but his body can’t bring the transformation forth fast enough and he takes a nasty right hook to the jaw, knocking him to the ground.
Episode #10: “Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan VS ‘Golden’”
•Kuririn, Jako, Tenshinhan and the Muten Roushi find themselves at the end of their ropes against the brutally numerous Freeza soldiers.
•Opening:
•Surrounded, Kuririn, Jako, Tenshinhan and the Muten Roushi apply an off-the-cuff combination play based on the Muten Roushi’s lead and are able to take out a large portion of Freeza’s forces at once.
•Title Card:
•A Part: Half a mile away, Freeza takes note of his soldiers’ failures and tells Shisami and Tagoma to back off. After the two lieutenants have gotten a safe distance away, Freeza explodes the ground beneath the others. Gokuu narrowly saves Kuririn, Jako, Tenshinhan and the Muten Roushi from death thanks to his Instantaneous Movement. “Useless trash,” Freeza comments with an exaggerated curling of his lips. Shisami, Tagoma and Sorbet look at each other, conflicted. “Now then, allow us to get back to it. Behold the form of your death!” Freeza erupts in a fiery golden aura and transforms into a gold and purple form: “The naming is a little tacky, but perhaps we can call this ‘Golden Freeza’?” Freeza’s ki places the others under a lot of pressure. Gokuu follows Freeza by transforming into a new transformation, too. It’s his usual Super Saiyan form, but with a blue hair and aura! “I suppose you can call this ‘Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan’,” Gokuu states. The A-Part ends with the two charging toward one another.
•B Part: [Insert Song: “F” by Maximum the Hormone] Vegeta battles Cold while Gokuu battles Freeza. The two intense battles shake the planet feverishly. Gokuu loses ground against a Freeza who is now completely charged with unrestrained mania. Nevertheless, even at a disadvantage, Gokuu is exceedingly calm. [Insert Song Ends] Meanwhile, Kuririn and the others heal their injuries with senzu as they view the battle. Freeza’s ki becomes increasingly erratic. Cold breaks from his battle with Vegeta and deals a little damage to Gokuu through a sneak attack blast through Gokuu’s left backside. Gokuu recovers enough to gain some distance from the father and son. Freeza is furious at Cold for intervening, but Cold admonishes him for playing around so much. Now he’s losing because he hasn’t learned to control his new form well enough. Cold unveils his own ‘Golden’ form and begins battling Gokuu in Freeza’s place. Vegeta transforms into Super Saiyan God and pours his god ki into the ground. A swarm of giant insects and worms burst forth and attack Freeza. Vegeta transforms into a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan and begins to battle Freeza along with his swarm of kaiju. Freeza’s rage reaches a boiling point and finally explodes: Freeza blasts Cold through his chest from behind and begins furiously pounding on him. Sorbet and the others are horrified. Finally, Freeza blows Cold to bits and returns his attention to the shocked Son Gokuu. Vegeta reluctantly offers to help Gokuu, but Gokuu just doesn’t like the idea of fighting together, especially not against Freeza. Vegeta calls him an idiot. The battle becomes worse and worse for Gokuu, who just doesn’t have Freeza’s raw power and genetic genius. Even Gohan and the others consider joining in to save the pummeled Gokuu. Finally, Freeza pins down Gokuu and prepares to obliterate him and the Earth with a close-range blast, but suddenly, a blast erupts through his side!
•Ending:
•In the foreground there is but a single flower, wobbling in the wind. In the background, Golden Freeza kneels, hacking up blood.
Episode #11: “W-why?!”
•Sorbet has shot Freeza with his ring weapon! Everyone is flabbergasted, especially Freeza!
•Opening
•Shisami and Tagoma double-team Freeza, pounding him and blasting him in his state of shock. Finally, Freeza reverts to his normal form. “W-why?!” he gasps.
•Title Card: “W-why?!” written in hiragana using Freeza’s blood splattered on the ground before him.
•A Part: Sorbet explains that Freeza-sama not only killed a thousand of their best men, but his own father, to say nothing of being about to destroy the Earth and them along with it! “You’ve lost your way, Freeza-sama! The empire is doomed to fall under your rule!!” Combining their attacks, Sorbet, Shisami and Tagoma return Freeza to Hell. Gokuu is none-too-pleased by Sorbet robbing him of his battle with Freeza, but in his current injured state cannot move very well. Vegeta considers attacking, but Beers stops him, displaying amusement at Freeza’s downfall. Sorbet and the others pick up their remnants and fly off into space, washing their hands of the curse of Son Gokuu. “Ah!” exclaims Jako suddenly, “This means the Galaxy Patrol doesn’t have to worry about Freeza now! I wonder if we’ll give them a medal or something…” but Blooma reminds him that those three will probably run Freeza’s empire on their own now.
•B Part: At the after party, Gokuu laments his unresolved battle with Freeza. Beers tells Gokuu that it’s his own fault for not accepting help, but Whis proposes that “Letting the others help him would have been even worse for a fellow like Son Gokuu-san”. Meanwhile, Kuririn reunites with his family and Mai reunites with Trunks, telling him of the scary affair with Freeza’s men.
•Ending
•In Hell, Freeza’s torture by the angels and stuffed animals resumes: “NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Episode #5: “Blooma Dates Whis-san?! Vegeta’s Greatest of Pinches”
•Eight days have passed since Son Gokuu became a Super Saiyan God and did battle with Destruction God Beers. Gokuu has returned to training, via meditation, to better control his ki by doing image training. Gokuu visualizes himself battling Piccolo Daimaou, Freeza, Cell, and Majin Buu (Gohan-absorbed). Chichi, of course, wants Gokuu to get back to farming their daikon, but that seems a little far off at this rate.
•Opening:
•Meanwhile, Vegeta learns that Whis is visiting with Blooma on a date.
•Title Card
•A Part: Vegeta tries to convince Whis to train him, but Whis is more interested in trying new foods. Finally, Vegeta sets about showing off his own culinary skills. Impressed, Whis accepts Vegeta as his student. Vegeta and Whis return to Beers’ planet. Vegeta’s training begins immediately: he must clean their giant castle wearing weights that require his ki to be at its maximum simply to move a little. Meanwhile, Gokuu gains the momentum in his image training and uses Super Saiyan God to defeat his image foes.
•B Part: Gokuu completes his current round of training in the wilderness, prompting earthquakes and flooding throughout the planet. Some months have passed since the battle with Beers. Videl is due to deliver any day now. Later, Gokuu decides to visit Vegeta for some sparring…but according to Blooma, Vegeta is off training with Whis-san! “Eh?!” Gokuu desperately searches for Beers, Whis or Vegeta’s ki, but cannot find it. Vegeta hasn’t been home to visit in a month which is annoying Blooma: “I have needs, too!” Gokuu desperately asks Blooma if she has any way of getting in contact with Whis, to which she answers but one: presenting something delicious while yelling his name really loudly. It works! But before Gokuu can run off with the newly arrived Beers, Whis and Vegeta a phone call from Chichi cuts in: “Videl-san is goin’ into labor!” Chaos ensues as Gohan, Videl and Chichi try to find a parking spot at the hospital. Gokuu’s group tries to find the right hospital room, but doctors are in short supply due to recent natural disasters! Finally, Piccolo-san appears in scrubs and delivers the baby in the middle of a crowded hospital commissary (Beers and Whis love the food). Baby Pan-chan is born! “We should have another one, Vegeta!” comments Blooma. Vegeta shoots back with “I have training to finish!” “Whis-san, please train me, too!” Blooma laments her predicament, but supplies Vegeta with a new battle jacket and gray under suit to replace his currently shabby suit. “Ara, since Vegeta-san has new armor, perhaps Gokuu-san should, too?” Whis transforms Gokuu’s dougi into a new red one, too. Gokuu and Vegeta bid the others farewell and return to Beers’ planet.
•Ending:
•While the doctors are tending to Pan-chan Videl and Gohan are left alone for a moment. Videl flexes her abdomen and burns her stomach back into a six pack; Gohan breaths in deeply in response.
Episode #6: “The Machinations of Chief Advisor Sorbet”
•Gokuu and Vegeta train under Whis on Beers’ planet. Gokuu finds himself one step behind Vegeta at everything they do thanks to Vegeta’s head start. Nevertheless, Gokuu is Gokuu and quickly catches up.
•Opening
•Sixteen years earlier, news of Freeza’s death hits his empire. Chief Advisor Sorbet quickly takes command to try and maintain order.
•Title Card:
•A Part: In the following days it becomes clear that Freeza’s empire is doing poorly in quelling resistance groups on the worlds they have conquered. When news of Freeza’s death leaks the resistance groups become even harder to control. To help control the increasingly rowdy worlds under the command of the Freeza Empire, Sorbet assigns his right hand man and strongest warrior, Tagoma, to recruiting mercenaries to bolster their forces.
•B Part: Tagoma comes across a man named Shisami. The two eventually fight as a way of greetings and Shisami accepts the offer, for a high price. With Shisami’s help Sorbet retakes and maintains several worlds. Shisami and a reluctant Tagoma quiz Sorbet on what his long-term plan is. Maintaining the empire without an overwhelming force like Freeza is exceedingly difficult, to say nothing of trying to grow the empire. “It’ll also become hard for you to afford the fee for us mercenaries,” adds Shisami. Sorbet wants to stick to Freeza-sama’s plan to conquer the universe, but at the rate things are going…wait a second, wasn’t Freeza-sama after the wish-granting Dragon Balls? Perhaps they could restore Freeza-sama to life? But nobody knows where the new Namekian home world is! And Earth is protected by that damned Saiyan, Son Gokuu. “It can’t be helped,” Sorbet adds, “We’ll focus on developing and acquiring technologies to help increase our soldiers’ combat power. After that, we’ll go to Earth and use the Dragon Balls to revive Freeza-sama!”
•Ending:
•Shisami counts his gold in his quarters.
Episode #7: “Rumblings of a Storm! Emperor Freeza is Resurrected”
•One year after the battle with Beers, Sorbet and Tagoma go to Earth. The duo threatens the Pilaf Gang into giving them the Dragon Balls, just when they are about to make their wish they are interrupted by Sorbet and Tagoma. Sorbet asks Shen Long to revive Freeza, but Shen Long can only revive him to the form he was in last alive, a bunch of bits-and-pieces. Sorbet agrees and once Freeza’s tiny pieces rain from the sky on the group of five. Sorbet then revives Freeza’s Papa, Great King Cold, with the second wish and Shuu asks Shen Long for a bunch of money with the third. Sorbet and Tagoma then take their fallen kings back to the empire to be healed.
•Opening:
•Back in the empire, Freeza’s body is restored and he is reverted to his first form. Cold is also healed. Once finished, Freeza swears revenge on Son Gokuu and the Saiyan that killed him, but first he will train, something he has never done before. Although miffed about dying, Cold isn’t particularly interested in being subjected to the torture he experienced in Hell again, but Freeza isn’t having any of it. He will undergo training so Hellish it will make his time in Hell pale in comparison.
•Title Card:
•A Part: Freeza, wrapped up in a cocoon tied to a tree in Hell, is tortured by dancing and singing angels and stuff animals playing instruments. As the music grows more and more suffocating Freeza finally wakes from his nightmare after having been knocked unconscious by attacks by Tagoma, Shisami and Papa. Huffing and puffing, Freeza rushes forward at all three. Sometime later, Galaxy Patrolman Jako arrives at Capsule Corp. After admonishing Doctor Brief for calling him ‘Zako-kun’, Jako tells Blooma that the evil space emperor, Freeza, has somehow been revived!
•B Part: Jako tells Blooma of how Freeza’s forces have recently started re-growing their empire, now faster than ever! Word on the street is that now Freeza is coming to Earth with one thousand elite soldiers to extract revenge on the Saiyans. Blooma informs Whis-san of this, so he, Beers, Gokuu and Vegeta return to Earth. Beers is a little miffed to see that Freeza has been revived, considering how much of a “snotty brat” he was and tells Gokuu and Vegeta to hurry up and defeat him. Gokuu is excited to get a chance to fight Freeza again and wonders if he’s gotten any stronger since being revived. Gokuu recruits Kuririn—now a police officer—after Kuririn engages in a car chase with bank robbers. Reluctant at first, Kuririn remembers how useless he was when Beers was threatening the planet, and agrees to join up with Gokuu. Kuririn has Artificial Human #18 shave his head and dons his dougi once again. Last time, #18 got to show off how cool she was by protecting him and Marron-chan. This time he wants to do the same for her. As Kuririn flies off to join up with Gokuu and the others again, Artificial Human #18 says to herself: “How cool…”
•Ending:
•Freeza’s spaceship zooms through space. Inside, Freeza pours himself a bottle of wine and swirls it around as he peers out into the expanse of outer space.
Episode #8: “Ride of the Valkaries! Freeza’s Forces Descended”
•Gokuu, Vegeta, Piccolo, Gohan, Kuririn, Tenshinhan and the Muten Roushi await Freeza’s arrival at the outskirts of North City. Blooma, Jako, Whis and Beers also showed up to watch the battle.
•Opening:
•Beers has no intentions of involving himself in Gokuu’s mess, but the potential to see Freeza get slapped around is too good to pass up. When Kuririn asks where Goten, Trunks and Majin Buu are, Blooma explains that Majin Buu is in a deep sleep and Goten and Trunks aren’t the sort to take a fight seriously, so they’ll just get in the way. Gokuu finishes typing a text and tosses Blooma his smart phone and tells her to look after it. Tightening his belt, Gokuu turns and serenely says “He’s here.”
•Title Card:
•A Part: [“Ride of the Valkaries” by Richard Wagner plays throughout the remainder of the A Part] Freeza’s rather massive ship lands and he and one thousand soldiers exit the ship. With a single blast, Freeza obliterates North City before the Dragon Team can react. Gokuu and Freeza banter for a bit. Freeza tells his men to cause as much destruction as they please, but to leave Son Gokuu to him. Freeza transforms into his fourth form right off the bat, destroying his hover chair in the process. Nervous, Kuririn, the Muten Roushi, Piccolo, Gohan, Tenshinhan, Jako and Piccolo face down one thousand of Freeza’s elite soldiers. Meanwhile, Vegeta faces off with the Great King Cold.
•B Part: The Great King Cold laments to Vegeta how his son’s obsession is just going to get him into trouble again, “We’ve got much better things to do with our time.” [“Ride of the Valkaries” by Richard Wagner plays throughout the remainder of the B Part] Meanwhile, the others do battle with the top members of Freeza’s army, now refined by years of training and new weapons technologies. It’s a bit of a struggle, especially for the rusty Kuririn. Piccolo engages in battle with Shisami. Although Piccolo has the superior combat techniques his opponent boasts both experience and raw physical strength. The rusty Son Gohan, meanwhile, struggles against the technique-adept and dexterous Tagoma. Piccolo and Gohan are painfully made to recognize their faults.
•Ending:
•Cornered, Kuririn is about to be hacked in half by one of Freeza’s men!
Episode #9: “Shisami & Tagoma! The Mightiest Swords”
•Gokuu and Freeza clash. Freeza comments that he is surprised how powerful Gokuu has become without the need to transform into a Super Saiyan. Of course, he still has power in waiting, too.
•Opening:
•Meanwhile, Kuririn is saved from decapitation by Jako, who is quite surprised at the strength of the Earthlings.
•Title Card:
•A Part: The Muten Roushi’s techniques and command of ki give him an advantage over the less refine martial arts and weapons-based combat abilities of Freeza’s men, but eventually their greater numbers chip away at his stamina and focus and he begins to accumulate damage quicker. Meanwhile, Tenshinhan observes that nobody dares to attack Blooma because of how close she is to Beers and Whis. Just how infamous is Destruction God Beers? Vegeta and Cold continue their talk in between bursts of fighting. Vegeta comments on how both he and Freeza have become quite a bit stronger since they last came to Earth. “Speaking of which, where is that young man that greeted us last time?” “Oh, he returned to the future.” “What?!” Meanwhile, Freeza and Gokuu find themselves mostly even. Freeza’s ki control has improved since last time, definitely, but it’s his increased hand-to-hand ability that is definitely proving to be the biggest challenge to Gokuu. “I guess we’ll have to stop holding back and play our trump cards to see who the best is really!”
•B Part: Piccolo and Super Saiyan Gohan struggle against Shisami and Tagoma respectively. They’re both facing their worst possible type of opponent. Finally, backs together, Gohan and Piccolo realize they can just switch foes! Gohan, who specializes in raw power, faces off with the brutal crushing strength of Shisami, while the technique and speed-oriented Piccolo faces off with the tricky, dirty Tagoma. The fights become much more even after the switch, but Shisami and Tagoma are not slow to adapt to the sudden change in dance partners.
•Ending:
•Desperate for more power, Gohan attempts to transform into a Super Saiyan 2 but his body can’t bring the transformation forth fast enough and he takes a nasty right hook to the jaw, knocking him to the ground.
Episode #10: “Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan VS ‘Golden’”
•Kuririn, Jako, Tenshinhan and the Muten Roushi find themselves at the end of their ropes against the brutally numerous Freeza soldiers.
•Opening:
•Surrounded, Kuririn, Jako, Tenshinhan and the Muten Roushi apply an off-the-cuff combination play based on the Muten Roushi’s lead and are able to take out a large portion of Freeza’s forces at once.
•Title Card:
•A Part: Half a mile away, Freeza takes note of his soldiers’ failures and tells Shisami and Tagoma to back off. After the two lieutenants have gotten a safe distance away, Freeza explodes the ground beneath the others. Gokuu narrowly saves Kuririn, Jako, Tenshinhan and the Muten Roushi from death thanks to his Instantaneous Movement. “Useless trash,” Freeza comments with an exaggerated curling of his lips. Shisami, Tagoma and Sorbet look at each other, conflicted. “Now then, allow us to get back to it. Behold the form of your death!” Freeza erupts in a fiery golden aura and transforms into a gold and purple form: “The naming is a little tacky, but perhaps we can call this ‘Golden Freeza’?” Freeza’s ki places the others under a lot of pressure. Gokuu follows Freeza by transforming into a new transformation, too. It’s his usual Super Saiyan form, but with a blue hair and aura! “I suppose you can call this ‘Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan’,” Gokuu states. The A-Part ends with the two charging toward one another.
•B Part: [Insert Song: “F” by Maximum the Hormone] Vegeta battles Cold while Gokuu battles Freeza. The two intense battles shake the planet feverishly. Gokuu loses ground against a Freeza who is now completely charged with unrestrained mania. Nevertheless, even at a disadvantage, Gokuu is exceedingly calm. [Insert Song Ends] Meanwhile, Kuririn and the others heal their injuries with senzu as they view the battle. Freeza’s ki becomes increasingly erratic. Cold breaks from his battle with Vegeta and deals a little damage to Gokuu through a sneak attack blast through Gokuu’s left backside. Gokuu recovers enough to gain some distance from the father and son. Freeza is furious at Cold for intervening, but Cold admonishes him for playing around so much. Now he’s losing because he hasn’t learned to control his new form well enough. Cold unveils his own ‘Golden’ form and begins battling Gokuu in Freeza’s place. Vegeta transforms into Super Saiyan God and pours his god ki into the ground. A swarm of giant insects and worms burst forth and attack Freeza. Vegeta transforms into a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan and begins to battle Freeza along with his swarm of kaiju. Freeza’s rage reaches a boiling point and finally explodes: Freeza blasts Cold through his chest from behind and begins furiously pounding on him. Sorbet and the others are horrified. Finally, Freeza blows Cold to bits and returns his attention to the shocked Son Gokuu. Vegeta reluctantly offers to help Gokuu, but Gokuu just doesn’t like the idea of fighting together, especially not against Freeza. Vegeta calls him an idiot. The battle becomes worse and worse for Gokuu, who just doesn’t have Freeza’s raw power and genetic genius. Even Gohan and the others consider joining in to save the pummeled Gokuu. Finally, Freeza pins down Gokuu and prepares to obliterate him and the Earth with a close-range blast, but suddenly, a blast erupts through his side!
•Ending:
•In the foreground there is but a single flower, wobbling in the wind. In the background, Golden Freeza kneels, hacking up blood.
Episode #11: “W-why?!”
•Sorbet has shot Freeza with his ring weapon! Everyone is flabbergasted, especially Freeza!
•Opening
•Shisami and Tagoma double-team Freeza, pounding him and blasting him in his state of shock. Finally, Freeza reverts to his normal form. “W-why?!” he gasps.
•Title Card: “W-why?!” written in hiragana using Freeza’s blood splattered on the ground before him.
•A Part: Sorbet explains that Freeza-sama not only killed a thousand of their best men, but his own father, to say nothing of being about to destroy the Earth and them along with it! “You’ve lost your way, Freeza-sama! The empire is doomed to fall under your rule!!” Combining their attacks, Sorbet, Shisami and Tagoma return Freeza to Hell. Gokuu is none-too-pleased by Sorbet robbing him of his battle with Freeza, but in his current injured state cannot move very well. Vegeta considers attacking, but Beers stops him, displaying amusement at Freeza’s downfall. Sorbet and the others pick up their remnants and fly off into space, washing their hands of the curse of Son Gokuu. “Ah!” exclaims Jako suddenly, “This means the Galaxy Patrol doesn’t have to worry about Freeza now! I wonder if we’ll give them a medal or something…” but Blooma reminds him that those three will probably run Freeza’s empire on their own now.
•B Part: At the after party, Gokuu laments his unresolved battle with Freeza. Beers tells Gokuu that it’s his own fault for not accepting help, but Whis proposes that “Letting the others help him would have been even worse for a fellow like Son Gokuu-san”. Meanwhile, Kuririn reunites with his family and Mai reunites with Trunks, telling him of the scary affair with Freeza’s men.
•Ending
•In Hell, Freeza’s torture by the angels and stuffed animals resumes: “NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The Namek arc isn't even about Gokuu, though. Like, Gokuu doesn't even try to be a Super Saiyan, it's just a thing that happens because Toriyama needs it to.ABED wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 10:18 pm I'm honestly less interested in how the other characters can contribute to the plot than how they change and grow, or maybe regress.
That's just awful, awful writing. It's too damn easy. The reason the Super Saiyan transformation doesn't come off as a complete deus ex machina is because Goku goes through hell to get to that point, and when his friends are picked off and threatened, he's there powerless to stop it. He doesn't see it after the fact.They kind of drive me nuts and I find them boring to the point of nausea. Personally, I think Gokuu should have just not arrived on Namek until the battle with Freeza. Having Gokuu show up with Vegeta on his deathbed and Gohan's neck broken. Angered by the near death of his son, Gokuu transforms into a Super Saiyan right then and there.
feeling watching Gohan and Kuririn's story just sort of fizzle out. It feels like their story is supplanted by the need to have Gokuu show up and defeat Freeza. It's weird because it contrasts so much how it feels like Gokuu and Freeza's relationship is also this big, grand thing that hangs over the franchise, even before Dragon Ball Super. Basically, I wish there had been a a sense of resolution for Gohan and Kuririn and then a building of Gokuu's own story to more clearly definite a new arc beginning.
