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by dbgtFO » Sat Jun 04, 2016 6:47 am
Now the thread has died down a bit, since the key visual was revealed and now that I am not occupied by work, I want to write down my thoughts.
1. Mai is accompanying Future Trunks, which is a negative, as I really don't like anyone from the Pilaf Gang and their annoying antics. I'd rather they just be written out the story and hoped their diminished role in the anime was due to Toei consulting Toriyama about it and being told, they weren't going to play a big role later on.
But apparently they didn't or Toriyama changed his mind or whatever.
Since this is fairly obviously the Mai of Future Trunks' timeline unless stated otherwise, this means the Pilaf Gang must have wished for youth in the 3 years between Freeza's death and the awakening of the androids in both Future Trunks' timeline and the Super timeline. Say they were turned into babies, they could be about as old as Trunks.
2. The summary speaks of a guy called Black, not Goku-Black, which seems like Black is his own being, stronger than Super Saiyan F Trunks, but probably nowhere near the level of cosmic beings like Buu and certainly nowhere near the level of the GoDs and their attendants. I imagine the scenario will have Trunks and Mai fleeing to the Super Timeline, but Black following them there, then realizing he's no match for Goku and Vegeta, he manages to take control of Goku, by merging with him via the Potara?
3. Of course this is the most interesting reveal from the key visual and the one thing, that people have posted most speculative theories about. Toriyama has established a couple of times, he likes to introduce characters in pairs, so one might wonder, if Black has a henchman or if Black is the henchman. This is where Demigra could be made part of this weird plot.
4. If Black does take control of Goku, then it means Vegeta along with Future Trunks and Mai apparently will be the heroes of the arc, perhaps with help from the others, but I'm thinking these 3 primarily. This will finally go back to Toriyama's 2014 comment, where he said he wanted Vegeta to take more of a main role, yeah yeah, he fought Freeza in RoF, but Goku got the kill. If this arc takes Goku completely out of the picture, then Vegeta might get to kill a main villain.
Though I'm also thinking that Goku-Black could just the beginning and he's the foil of someone else, so the main villain will not be Black.
5. Trunks' blue hair to be kept for the anime would be a surprise, given they kept it as purple in BoG and Super despite Toriyama drawing him with blue hair then too. As Shi_Neka(can't recall the name, sorry) points out Bulma has gone from being portrayed with teal hair throughout the entirety of the original anime trilogy and all the accompanying movies(except Path to Power), until RoF and Super and yes this was of course already pointed out by me last year and maybe someone before that.
I wonder why the change was made, as I thought Toriyama just designed both Bulma and Trunks with blue hair out of respect for the anime, which had Bulma with bluish hair, instead of the purple hair drew her with in the manga. On the other hand Toriyama could just gone back to his very early drawings and illustrations. The very first illustration he did with Goku, Bulma, Yamcha Puerh, Chi Chi & Oolong featuring had Bulma with blue hair, practically the same colour he drew her with for BoG and what her hair colour has looked like since RoF.
6. The intro. Are they still keeping the intro? Usually stuff like change of intro song gets announced a good deal before the relevant episode airs and we haven't heard anything yet. Of course there will be updated visuals, but who knows how much of the arc it will spoil? With RoF Arc it was already known Freeza would go Golden, so to us older fans it wasn't a spoiler. But I seem to recall from another Toei production, Digimon, that their openings tended to spoil the Digimon's evolutions, even though it would be a good while, before they debuted in the show. Who knows what has been decided for the updated intro.
7. And finally the hype should go into overdrive after the preview for episode 47 has aired. I would actually expect it to be longer than the standard preview and maybe not contain the same happy/optimistic music. This is supposed to be a big tonal shift, so I do think it seems appropriate to have the preview give off a sinister/dark vibe as well.
