"Dragon Ball Super (Manga)" Official Discussion Thread

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Post by Basako » Sat May 20, 2017 10:21 am

DBZGTKOSDH wrote:Shin: "I wish I wasn't a Kaioshin so I could have my restoration powers."
Gowasu: "If you weren't a Kaioshin, you wouldn't be able to use the Time Rings and come here in the first place."
Shin: "Nah, I could always kill my Kaioshin & steal his Potara and Time Rings."
Gowasu: "Silly me, just like Zamasu did, right?"

Man, what a plot-hole.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Now, seriously, his words point that it's not possible for a non Kaioshin to use the rings, but as we have evidence that it's possible with Black and Zamasu, maybe we could consider that he was talking more about allowance than impossibility. About rules, as it's been suggested.

The elder said that the Potaras fuse forever and master Roshi said that he was immortal. Well, if future evidence showed their words were wrong or incomplete, in the case of Gowasu previous events, there.

About a totally different matter, one thing about 'copying' Janenba's technique. As far as I know, nobody has the patent on that. There is a Spiderman character from the 80's called Spot that used the exact same vortex holes to fight, so Janenba wasn't inventing anything either. Probably there are older cases too. People is too hard on Toyo, who knows why.
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Post by LightBing » Sat May 20, 2017 10:29 am

Abra kadabra wrote:Nobodies calling the Goku's mastered ssb asspull an asspull. I'm shocked at the hypocrisy :roll:
It's very, very similar to the Kaioken in the anime. Both are Deus ex Machina. Is your "asspull" a reference to this?
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:Shin: "I wish I wasn't a Kaioshin so I could have my restoration powers."
Gowasu: "If you weren't a Kaioshin, you wouldn't be able to use the Time Rings and come here in the first place."
Shin: "Nah, I could always kill my Kaioshin & steal his Potara and Time Rings."
Gowasu: "Silly me, just like Zamasu did, right?"

Man, what a plot-hole.
Yup, I have to strongly agree here. It's not a plot hole, I believe people are taking the quote too literally. This point has been discussed previously in the manga and Gowasu's quote needs to be contextualized with that in mind.

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Post by Kanassa » Sat May 20, 2017 10:30 am

Lord Beerus wrote:Although, SSJB Goku holding his own against Merged Zamasu was definitely in the outline because it happens in both the anime and manga. And there is no fucking way in hell you can make sense of that kind of plot-point without killing the power scaling and/or retroactively making the previous events of the arc meaningless, contrived and stupid.
You keep saying this, but in the anime Goku only survives because Zamasu doesn't immediately go to kill them until he's finished experimenting with his new power; and even then Goku only barely survives through breaking his limbs and surprising Zamasu.
When Super apparently shoves Goku down our throats:

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Post by The gr » Sat May 20, 2017 10:31 am

Abra kadabra wrote:Nobodies calling the Goku's mastered ssb asspull an asspull. I'm shocked at the hypocrisy :roll:
What hypocrisy,no one displayed that, everyone here including myself criticized this,read the thread again, and research what hypocrisy is
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Post by Kanassa » Sat May 20, 2017 10:32 am

LightBing wrote: It's very, very similar to the Kaioken in the anime. Both are Deus ex Machina. Is your "asspull" a reference to this?
Do either really count as Deus ex Machina? Mastering a Super Saiyan form and Kaioken are established things in Dragon Ball that Goku has done and used before.
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Post by LightBing » Sat May 20, 2017 10:42 am

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LightBing wrote: It's very, very similar to the Kaioken in the anime. Both are Deus ex Machina. Is your "asspull" a reference to this?
Do either really count as Deus ex Machina? Mastering a Super Saiyan form and Kaioken are established things in Dragon Ball that Goku has done and used before.
The difference is that before we were given a preview that directly follow up to the event. There's talk about surpassing SSJ and Goku training with Kaio, it foreshadows the events. It's an interesting discussion to have, personally this difference is enough for me to call them Deus ex Machina.

At this point, we can retroactively justify a bunch of events because it was done previously, Dragon Ball is that long and did that much. The problem is the diminishing returns, I don't want to enter the mind set that nothing matters and needs set up.

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Post by HeroR » Sat May 20, 2017 10:49 am

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That's precisely the thing here, neither of us is talking about facts, just subjective interpretations of a few sentences. And I'll say it again: neither of us.
And that is the problem. If Toyo was going to go this route, then it was obligation to explain how Black and Future Zamasu could used the Time Rings and not be true Supreme Kais when Gowasu said you can't used the Time Rings without being a Supreme Kai.

To be blunt, Toyo blew it.
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And the manga isn't confirming that Gowasu is talking about only rules. You just headcanon it.
I'm raising assumptions as long as you say this for sure, just to give more negatives to the chapter
It deserves the negativity if it can't be bother to explain its own plot point. This is Storytelling 101.
LightBing wrote: I don't know why they made him an apprentice. Why does it matter? I already said that's it's a problem that they didn't bother telling him about such an upside.

Why doesn't it work? Vegeta said he would handle Black and just told them to stop Zamasu from healing him. Goku trusted him, it's in-character. That's why he turned Blue to go and handle Zamasu. Only afterwards was Vegeta definitely proven to be weaker than Black.

With all due respect I won't continue this conversation. You have every right to criticize the manga and point out it's flaws, but that seems that's all you want to do. You aren't bashing it because, you're being respectful and justifying it, I appreciate you for that.
But, yeah. I'm not in the job of defending the manga from a persecution attorney(if I'm allowed the joke). Carry on.
You misread what I wrote. I don't have a problem with Trunks being an apprentice. My problem is Trunks getting healing power from it and no one bother to tell him and him not asking apparently why he needed to become an apprentice. It makes Trunks look stupid.

Again, Vegeta got his ass kicked by Black Rose. Goku could have gone in and taken over after Vegeta went down and let Trunks handled Future Zamasu. It makes no sense for Goku to hold this kind of power back at that moment, especially when they were forced to retreat and living Trunks to fend off Black and Zamasu.

All I want to do? I pointed out the things I liked about this chapter in my giant review like Goku mastering Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan and I will even give Toyo props for Vegeta's speech and him letting Vegeta get smashed by Merged Zamasu. I responded to the people who didn't like my criticism and gave them the reason why I think these things make no sense. I also pointed out why some of the explanation you gave for why things happened doesn't make much sense. I mean, if you like it fine, but there is a lot in this chapter that simply don't make sense when you think about it for any amount of time.

My biggest problem with this chapter is that it seems Toyo pulled stuff out of his butt, gave a half-hearted explanation, and didn't think about the longterm consequences of what he did. If this was the anime or Toriyama did this I would call attention to it, just like I still I am not happy about the plot hole regarding Cell's head being blown off.
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Post by Abra kadabra » Sat May 20, 2017 10:56 am

LightBing wrote:
Abra kadabra wrote:Nobodies calling the Goku's mastered ssb asspull an asspull. I'm shocked at the hypocrisy :roll:
It's very, very similar to the Kaioken in the anime. Both are Deus ex Machina. Is your "asspull" a reference to this?
DBZGTKOSDH wrote:Shin: "I wish I wasn't a Kaioshin so I could have my restoration powers."
Gowasu: "If you weren't a Kaioshin, you wouldn't be able to use the Time Rings and come here in the first place."
Shin: "Nah, I could always kill my Kaioshin & steal his Potara and Time Rings."
Gowasu: "Silly me, just like Zamasu did, right?"

Man, what a plot-hole.
Yup, I have to strongly agree here. It's not a plot hole, I believe people are taking the quote too literally. This point has been discussed previously in the manga and Gowasu's quote needs to be contextualized with that in mind.
This all of a sudden mastery asspull is Goku keeping his ki from leaking (ssb should be doing that anyway so that's a retcon) allowing him to fight at 100% for longer which somehow allows him to go 1 on 1 with Merged Zamasu. This asspull is fundamentally different from kaioken since it isn't a multiplier. How is he any different from the Goku that fought future zamasu. Now trunks sole purpose is to shine a spotlight on the infallible son Goku :sick:

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Post by Abra kadabra » Sat May 20, 2017 10:58 am

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Abra kadabra wrote:Nobodies calling the Goku's mastered ssb asspull an asspull. I'm shocked at the hypocrisy :roll:
What hypocrisy,no one displayed that, everyone here including myself criticized this,read the thread again, and research what hypocrisy is
Not necessarily on here but on YouTube and other forums. Why would I call out hypocrisy if I didn't see hypocrisy? :think:

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Post by HeroR » Sat May 20, 2017 11:04 am

Basako wrote:With the translated version, one more piece of information. Vegeta knows that Goku is stronger from the fusion. That probably means the mastered blue form is very recent, not from when they were training in the RoSaT or before.

I read more than once that Vegeta going to the RoSaT was pointless. This is false, he came out with an strategy that enabled him to defeat Black, he really did. What happened was that they fused, so he couldn't. It would be like saying that Gohan going ultimate was pointless in the Boo arc, it wasn't, he could have won too, although it didn't happen because Boo absorbed him.
It was pointless in the sense that Goku could have defeated Black after he went Rose for the first time and defeated Vegeta. Goku could have rushed over there and fought Black while Trunks handled Future Zamasu. Sealing him wasn't even necessary according to Goku since he was so pitifully weak that even Trunks could beat him up. Black was the main threat and Goku could have ended him early and saved the remaining humans on Earth by not retreating.
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precita wrote:Goku will still be around but take a Buu saga approach backseat.
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Post by Basako » Sat May 20, 2017 11:24 am

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Basako wrote:With the translated version, one more piece of information. Vegeta knows that Goku is stronger from the fusion. That probably means the mastered blue form is very recent, not from when they were training in the RoSaT or before.

I read more than once that Vegeta going to the RoSaT was pointless. This is false, he came out with an strategy that enabled him to defeat Black, he really did. What happened was that they fused, so he couldn't. It would be like saying that Gohan going ultimate was pointless in the Boo arc, it wasn't, he could have won too, although it didn't happen because Boo absorbed him.
It was pointless in the sense that Goku could have defeated Black after he went Rose for the first time and defeated Vegeta. Goku could have rushed over there and fought Black while Trunks handled Future Zamasu. Sealing him wasn't even necessary according to Goku since he was so pitifully weak that even Trunks could beat him up. Black was the main threat and Goku could have ended him early and saved the remaining humans on Earth by not retreating.
Ok, that's a fair point. Goku could have fought Black with his mastered blue in that moment, instead of retreating. For some reason he decided to go and learn the Mafuba to seal Zamasu instead. Anyway, bad decisions aren't plotholes in the end.
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Post by Lord Beerus » Sat May 20, 2017 11:27 am

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Lord Beerus wrote:Although, SSJB Goku holding his own against Merged Zamasu was definitely in the outline because it happens in both the anime and manga. And there is no fucking way in hell you can make sense of that kind of plot-point without killing the power scaling and/or retroactively making the previous events of the arc meaningless, contrived and stupid.
You keep saying this, but in the anime Goku only survives because Zamasu doesn't immediately go to kill them until he's finished experimenting with his new power; and even then Goku only barely survives through breaking his limbs and surprising Zamasu.
That doesn't ignore the fact that in the anime, SSJB Goku, albeit at supposed full power, pushed back an attack from Merged Zamasu, broke through it and injured Merged Zamasu.

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Post by FortuneSSJ » Sat May 20, 2017 11:36 am

-Chapter 24-

Cool chapter!
Great fighting choreography. SSB Goku vs Merged Zamasu became one of my favourites fights in the manga.

One of the best thing about this chapter is the battle damage. Love it so much!

FT Trunks can't do Galick Gun and Final Flash in the manga, but he can do Taiyoken (something he said he learnt from FT Gohan even though FT Gohan never used it) and heal like Kibito. Suddenly FT Trunks learning the Mafuba in the anime doesn't sound so bad...

I'm not fan of FT Trunks healer, but I like how Toyotaro tried to connected it to when Mai/Gowasu got hurt. I reread both parts and while FT Mai scenes don't give it away, Gowasu's scene does. I don't like it, but good job on bringing that to the plot.

Still feels like an asspull though.

FT Trunks: Father, I will get you healed right now.
Vegeta: What are you talking about?
FT Trunks: Guess what, looks like I have healing powers!
Vegeta: Neat. Heal Kakarrot!

Vegeta getting tortured to buy time to Goku is just like the Buu arc, which is like when Piccolo bought time to Goku in Freeza arc, which is like when Goku bought time to Piccolo in Saiyan arc.

Main Complaints:

Super Saiyan Blue - It's lame. It has the same stamina problems than SSJ3 and even after Goku/Vegeta training 3 years in the Time Chamber for Champa's tournament, they still hadn't mastered it.
The anime wins because both mastered it and Goku came out with a new combination: SSB + Kaioken.
Both lose because Vegeta didn't come out with anything new.

Merged Zamasu - Still nothing impressive about this guy. The self-acclaimed Supreme God first spamned Katchin blocks and now he's attacking like Janemba.
While the anime gave him original godly attacks, Toyotaro keeps stuck on his safe zone. Get out of it!

It's funny how some people (and this not only for this site) are so worried if FT Trunks gets SSIkari or uses the Genki Sword because they didn't like it, that they ignore worse stuff Toyotaro is doing and simply say Manga > Anime. How convenient.

Despite everything, I have to say I really enjoyed this chapter. I would enjoy Toyotaro's version much more if I wasn't constantly comparing it to the anime which is much better.

I don't mind that the arc still didn't ended. Let him do his thing. The chapters should have had this size since the beginning.
It's hard to guess when this arc will end because he's going in a totally different route. I'm expecting Merged Zamasu to diffuse next chapter, at least.

Toyotaro needs to work on his panel composition though. It keeps being subpar most of time.
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Post by TheSaiyanGod » Sat May 20, 2017 11:40 am

I can not read on Viz's website, but I saw some parts of the translation. So Vegeta realized the control of Ki of Goku after merging? I liked it, it is interesting this mutual understanding after the joining of the bodies.

So the only reason Vegeta would prefer Goku to fight Zamasu was because Kakarotto was the only one who had imagined controlling the SSB Ki inside the body?
If he only said that after seeing Goku accomplish this, then it was not because he was stronger / had more ability, but because Vegeta did not think of that possibility? It's the same thing in the Android Saga. Vegeta did not imagine in the possibility of mastering the SSJ Is that it? At least it's something that Vegeta with more training time and calmer, can achieve

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Post by Kanassa » Sat May 20, 2017 12:06 pm

Lord Beerus wrote:
Kanassa wrote:
Lord Beerus wrote:Although, SSJB Goku holding his own against Merged Zamasu was definitely in the outline because it happens in both the anime and manga. And there is no fucking way in hell you can make sense of that kind of plot-point without killing the power scaling and/or retroactively making the previous events of the arc meaningless, contrived and stupid.
You keep saying this, but in the anime Goku only survives because Zamasu doesn't immediately go to kill them until he's finished experimenting with his new power; and even then Goku only barely survives through breaking his limbs and surprising Zamasu.
That doesn't ignore the fact that in the anime, SSJB Goku, albeit at supposed full power, pushed back an attack from Merged Zamasu, broke through it and injured Merged Zamasu.
He pierced Zamasu's attack, which caught Zamasu off guard and left him unprepared against Goku's kahmehameha. I'm not seeing the problem.
When Super apparently shoves Goku down our throats:

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Post by TheSaiyanGod » Sat May 20, 2017 12:07 pm

FortuneSSJ wrote: Main Complaints:

Super Saiyan Blue - It's lame. It has the same stamina problems than SSJ3 and even after Goku/Vegeta training 3 years in the Time Chamber for Champa's tournament, they still hadn't mastered it.
The anime wins because both mastered it and Goku came out with a new combination: SSB + Kaioken.
Both lose because Vegeta didn't come out with anything new.
Goku, Piccolo and Gohan trained together for 3 years and none of them imagined dominating the form of SSJ, not counting the time that Goku stayed on the planet Yadrat. Just by spending months in the hall with Gohan and seeing the weaknesses of SSJ Dai San Dankai is that he thought about it.

The focus of Goku and Vegeta on the RoSaT, before the tournament, could be another. And we saw how difficult it is to be able to use The SSB more than once. Goku said Vegeta trained a lot for that, and it was a year on RoSaT. What are the chances Vegeta learns the Kaioken in the anime? It is very difficult, whereas in the manga, after learning that it was possible to control the Ki of the SSB inside the body, it is most likely that he will try and perfect the SSB to the maximum, At the level of its rival, and the manga would win in that case

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Basako wrote:
Ok, that's a fair point. Goku could have fought Black with his mastered blue in that moment, instead of retreating. For some reason he decided to go and learn the Mafuba to seal Zamasu instead. Anyway, bad decisions aren't plotholes in the end.
I agree, that isn't a plot hole. But it is odd that Goku never tied to used this mastered form until now. I mean, why didn't he used it when Vegeta and him were taking turns fighting Merged Zamasu and he was getting knocked around by blocks. The way it's presented, it seems Toyo just came up with this idea for this chapter.
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precita wrote:Goku will still be around but take a Buu saga approach backseat.
Goku barely took a backseat in the Buu saga, at best he took a leisurely stroll round back while everyone else cried for him to come back.

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Post by Basako » Sat May 20, 2017 12:36 pm

HeroR wrote:
Basako wrote:
Ok, that's a fair point. Goku could have fought Black with his mastered blue in that moment, instead of retreating. For some reason he decided to go and learn the Mafuba to seal Zamasu instead. Anyway, bad decisions aren't plotholes in the end.
I agree, that isn't a plot hole. But it is odd that Goku never tied to used this mastered form until now. I mean, why didn't he used it when Vegeta and him were taking turns fighting Merged Zamasu and he was getting knocked around by blocks. The way it's presented, it seems Toyo just came up with this idea for this chapter.
I don't know, maybe because his body was not in full, as he had used a big amount of stamina for the Mafuba. I'm not so sure this idea came right now, we can see Goku training with Whis in chapter 16 meditating over a pond. That's exactly the type of training to do this, by the look of his calm expression and pose when he absorbes the blue ki into his body.
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Post by HeroR » Sat May 20, 2017 12:50 pm

Basako wrote: I don't know, maybe because his body was not in full, as he had used a big amount of stamina for the Mafuba. I'm not so sure this idea came right now, we can see Goku training with Whis in chapter 16 meditating over a pond. That's exactly the type of training to do this, by the look of his calm expression and pose when he absorbes the blue ki into his body.
Then he should have been more insistance that Vegeta fused with him or at least eat the last Senzu so he can go full power and not die.

Meditation is common in Dragon Ball. If that was foreshadowing, Toyo should have shown it more.

But I will end here. I don't mind this plot point. I do like it. It's the implications, how it was revealed, and the giant power jump I have severe issues with.
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Goku barely took a backseat in the Buu saga, at best he took a leisurely stroll round back while everyone else cried for him to come back.

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Post by TheSaiyanGod » Sat May 20, 2017 12:58 pm

HeroR wrote:
Basako wrote:
Ok, that's a fair point. Goku could have fought Black with his mastered blue in that moment, instead of retreating. For some reason he decided to go and learn the Mafuba to seal Zamasu instead. Anyway, bad decisions aren't plotholes in the end.
I agree, that isn't a plot hole. But it is odd that Goku never tied to used this mastered form until now. I mean, why didn't he used it when Vegeta and him were taking turns fighting Merged Zamasu and he was getting knocked around by blocks. The way it's presented, it seems Toyo just came up with this idea for this chapter.
Goku during the MT Saga only once used the Kaioken, even almost dying and with the future of Trunks in danger. He was not shown perfecting the Kaioken once, but he used it smoothly against Merged Zamasu. Black could get stronger, but there came a time when he was on the edge, so much so that he took a beating of Trunks and Vegeta and had to resort to rage to get the scythe. This is not just in the manga

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