Hugo Boss wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 11:08 am
The Undying wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:30 am[...] a phrase like "keeping his composure in a fight after overcoming a certain limit" is clearly something the manga wants to use for Ultra Instinct instead. I just think those traits are a bit more befitting for a form that doesn't belong to the Super Saiyan umbrella.
Hmmm
After reading it again, it really fits how Ultra Instinct has been portrayed in the manga, which makes me question why he came up with Super Saiyan Blue in such a way.
The first time we saw Super Saiyan Blue, in Resurrection F the movie, it was shown to have much better energy control than Golden Freeza. Goku transforms with a quick kiai and a cool crystal effect, while Freeza screams the house down. Goku is able to sustain the form easily while Freeza gets gassed. Even though we don't get a lot of info about it, that combined with Toriyama's design comments make it seem like that's what he was going for. That this was the calm, collected form. God had the same deal: one of the little touches I like in Battle of Gods is that Goku and Beerus fighting in the city caused no collateral damage. We're so used to battles in Dragon Ball being these big destructive affairs with just the wind coming off the characters being able to level mountains. So having them just flit about through the city fighting without causing more than some mild shockwaves made it feel like things were escalating.
It's a bummer that around the time the DBS manga introduced the stamina limit on Blue and the anime followed suit, Blue just became another screamy powerful form, even more of a recolour of Super Saiyan than it was accused of being. Again, compare Goku's cool, quick transformation in Res F to the scream-fest in Broly, which of course many fans said they prefer. It's nice that God seems to have kept its calm, and a lot of those aspects have been transferred to Ultra Instinct, but it speaks to a lack of consistency.
