Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 94 - Official Discussion Thread

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Dragon Ball Super: Manga Chapter 94

目覚めよ！孫悟飯
Mezameyo! Son Gohan
Awaken! Son Gohan (or "Awaken, Son Gohan!")

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Release Information:

JAPAN:
Date: June 21, 2023
Publication: V-Jump, August 2023 Issue
Cost: ¥620



(V-Jump is forward-dated two months from its actual release window. Issues are generally released on the 21st of each month, barring a Sunday or a holiday, in which case the issue gets moved up a day appropriately.)

INTERNATIONAL:
Date: June 20, 2023 (timed to the JP midnight-on-June-21st release)
Publication: Digital (Viz/Shonen Jump + Manga Plus)
Cost: Free

FIRST OFFICIAL TEASE:
The "Weekly Dragon Ball News" segment posted on the Dragon Ball Official Website on 12 June 2023 featured Victory Uchida (Shueisha employee/mascot, and editor for the Dragon Ball Super manga working alongside Toyotaro and Akira Toriyama) displaying a tease for the upcoming drafts on screen, which will (tentatively) be shared on June 14.



STORYBOARDS/DRAFTS:
The first several pages of any given chapter's roughs/storyboards/drafts have been posted on the official Dragon Ball website for quite some time now (in all likelihood done in an attempt to combat piracy and control the narrative by releasing teases of specific information and context at their own discretion). The drafts for Dragon Ball Super manga chapter 94 were posted on June 14 (Japan time). As these specific articles are generally removed from the website upon the chapter's formal release, archived versions of these links (such as this) are generally shared by fandom.


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THREAD/DISCUSSION INFORMATION

This is the "official" discussion thread for Dragon Ball Super manga chapter 94. All content regarding this specific chapter would be great to include here in this thread, rather than the dedicated / larger / all-encompassing ongoing thread. Posts that are specific to the individual chapter in the gigantic thread with no relevance to the larger series will be reported and/or removed.

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Q: I want to learn more about what's going on with this manga's production!

A: Check out Episode #0489 of our podcast for an extreme deep-dive (with all the receipts you can eat!) into the production of the manga, including all of the ways that Toyotaro, Akira Toriyama, and Victory Uchida each individually contribute to it.

[Miracles]

We end with Piccolo going Orange this chapter or with Cell Max being awakened.

[Alkiser]

We end with Piccolo going Orange this chapter or with Cell Max being awakened.

Looking at the fact that the chapter will start with Pan's kidnapping, Toyotaro would really have to chop the threads from the film and shorten Gohan's fight to end up with an awakened Cell or Orange Piccolo. In my opinion, the chapter will end with Piccolo using a form of awakened potential.

[Cipher]

There's plenty of setup left to get through. Seems more likely to me this month will end in the middle of Gohan vs. Gamma 1, which could give us up to another four or five months of the arc. (Longer than I originally predicted, but that seems like the most reasonable prediction based on where we are now, giving space to the action scenes and looking for appropriate ending beats/cliffhangers. Cell Max is probably going to stick around for a few chapters in order to feel like a proper climax as well.)

I think this'll all read pretty well when it's finished, and on subsequent passes through Super. It's just rough in real time when it's pushing back new storylines we're all understandably anxious to see.

[GreatSaiyaman123]

I think this'll all read pretty well when it's finished, and on subsequent passes through Super. It's just rough in real time when it's pushing back new storylines we're all understandably anxious to see.

Agreed. It's a necessary step if they want to make everything more unified.

[OLKv3]

We end with Piccolo going Orange this chapter or with Cell Max being awakened.

Definitely gonna be Orange, unless Toyo surprises us with breakneck pacing

[Kazuya Mishima]

I think this'll all read pretty well when it's finished, and on subsequent passes through Super. It's just rough in real time when it's pushing back new storylines we're all understandably anxious to see.

Agreed. It's a necessary step if they want to make everything more unified.

This is why if the anime returns it needs to adapt the Broly arc whether it will be worse or not.

The anime is the only one that can tell the complete uninterrupted story from Beerus to Cell Max.

[BWri]

I think this'll all read pretty well when it's finished, and on subsequent passes through Super. It's just rough in real time when it's pushing back new storylines we're all understandably anxious to see.

Agreed. It's a necessary step if they want to make everything more unified.

This is why if the anime returns it needs to adapt the Broly arc whether it will be worse or not.

The anime is the only one that can tell the complete uninterrupted story from Beerus to Cell Max.

Thus is the fate of a promo manga with nothing to currently promote. Now its the main course, but unfortunately its incomplete as a standalone work.

[Kazuya Mishima]

Yep if you're a casual fan who has finished Dragon Ball Z and want more then you can't just read the manga because it skipped the movies but then you can't just go by the movies because it skipped but did reference events from the manga.

The anime though has the chance to tell the entire uninterrupted story.

[Gt91]

We end with Piccolo going Orange this chapter or with Cell Max being awakened.

Definitely gonna be Orange, unless Toyo surprises us with breakneck pacing

Unfortunately

Spoiler:

the chapter ends with Gohan becoming ultimate.

At least these are the first spoilers.

[Aizamasu]

As someone who hasn’t seen the Super hero movie, I really enjoyed this chapter.

[TobyS]

Good chapter, it's not Toyos fault he has to recap the movie, it'll read better on re-reads and we have Super Dragonball Heroes to keep us going in the mean time.

[Bardock God of Time]

Good chapter, it's not Toyos fault he has to recap the movie, it'll read better on re-reads and we have Super Dragonball Heroes to keep us going in the mean time.

If it leads to the next arc getting more time in the oven, I'm fine with it

[JulieYBM]

The fighting wasn't boring this chapter, although I still dislike the Ultimate form. I wish Gohan had simply transformed into Super Saiyan 2 or perhaps dealt a damaging blow using something he recalled from his training with Gokuu in the Room of Spirit and Time during the Artificial Humans arc.

My daughter, Pan, was, as always, cute, though.

[FortuneSSJ]

I liked this one. Something that Toyotaro is better than Toriyama is remembering past characters. The officer that appears in the beginning is the same that helped kid Goku find Bulma when he went to visit her the first time

Spoiler:

I also like how well Toyotaro is connecting the prequel to the movie. Hedo recognized SSJ from when Goten/Trunks used it and there's an outdoor advertising Clean God 2.

[Miracles]

I liked this one. Something that Toyotaro is better than Toriyama is remembering past characters. The officer that appears in the beginning is the same that helped kid Goku find Bulma when he went to visit her the first time

Spoiler:

I also like how well Toyotaro is connecting the prequel to the movie. Hedo recognized SSJ from when Goten/Trunks used it and there's an outdoor advertising Clean God 2.

Good catch.

[Omori]

I liked this one. Something that Toyotaro is better than Toriyama is remembering past characters. The officer that appears in the beginning is the same that helped kid Goku find Bulma when he went to visit her the first time

It's 30 years difference, but still not impossible that it's the same. Like even Dr. Brief still hasn't changed a bit
Really nice reference there, that's what I like to see from Toyotaro.

I also like how well Toyotaro is connecting the prequel to the movie. Hedo recognized SSJ from when Goten/Trunks used it and there's an outdoor advertising Clean God 2.

Agree, it will be a pretty good read if you see it as a whole.
Looking forward to Trunks and Gotens appearance in a few chapters

[TKA]

I was interested in seeing if he would substantially change this part of the story, considering the difference between the manga's version of Gohan and the anime's. Toyotaro's Gohan has never stopped training, fought evenly with Kefla, and fought 73.

Yet in the brief time since then, he's suddenly lost all that.

Funny stuff.