Dragon Ball Super Episode 50

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Goku vs Black! The Path to the Sealed Future
Japanese English
悟空ＶＳブラック！閉ざされた未来への道 Gokū Tai Burakku! Tozasareta Mirai e no Michi
Air Date	03 July 2016 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!
Eyecatch	Part A: Goku Part B: Trunks & Mai
Ending	Yoka Yoka Dance
Episode Data
TV Rating	7.0%
Format	16:9 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Atsuhiro Tomioka
Art	Bun-sun Lee
Animation	Yūichi Karasawa Kaori Takamura Setsuko Nobuzane
Director	Ken'ichi Takeshita
Toei Simulcast Subs
Title	Goku vs Black! The Closed Path to the Future
Simulcast	22 October 2016
FUNimation English Dub
Title	Goku vs. Black! A Closed-Off Road to the Future!
Air Date	10 February, 2018 (Toonami)
FUNimation English Subs
Title	Goku vs. Black! A Closed-Off Road to the Future!
Subtitles	Steven J Simmons
Sub Debut	Dragon Ball Super Part 4
Release Date	19 June 2018

"Goku vs Black! The Path to the Sealed Future" is the fiftieth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Super. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 03 July 2016. It was written by Atsuhiro Tomioka and directed by Ken'ichi Takeshita.

Summary

Goku Black has arrived in the present through a strange portal. He realizes that Trunks had traveled through time to this point, and then greets Goku, while noting the presence of Vegeta and even the God of Destruction Beerus. Meanwhile, Beerus and Whis's attention is drawn to the strange ring Black wears on his right hand. Trunks demands to know how Black got here, and Black explains that he followed the path Trunks took through time and space. Black mockingly asks if Trunks had called for him wanting to die by his hands. Vegeta warns Trunks against fighting Black, as he is no match, but before Vegeta himself can challenge Black, Goku flies up to fight him. Goku has heard all about how strong Black is, and wants to see for himself!

Black likewise says this is an "honor", as he had wanted to try fighting Goku in "this body". Goku wonders what he means by that, but Black says he does not need to know. On the sidelines, Kuririn wonders who this Black is, and Bulma explains that he is her murderer! This naturally leaves Kuririn even more confused than before. Goku, still in his base form, trades blows with Black for a little while before finally becoming a Super Saiyan. Black is thrilled to see such power, and Goku can tell that Black is like him: they both get excited to fight against strong opponents. At this point, Black's ki rises, and he tells Goku to show him more of his power.

The fight continues, and on the sidelines Kuririn notes that Black's power keeps on rising. Trunks wonders why Goku is not using the same power as he did earlier in their sparring match. Vegeta explains that Goku has a bad habit of not fighting seriously at the start. In the battle itself, Goku and Black likewise both note that neither of them are using their full power. Elsewhere, Beerus and Whis say this Black is not half bad, but find it odd that his ki does not quite feel the same as Goku's.

At this point, Goku decides he needs to fight hard enough to force Black to use his full power. The fight recommences and Black takes a beating, but oddly he still seems happy about this, declaring that this pain will make him even stronger. Kuririn notes that Black's power has risen yet again, and as Goku and Black go at it some more, Trunks's time machine is knocked over from the impact. Black notices the device, and hearing Trunks refer to it as a time machine, he realizes this is how Trunks traveled through time.

Seizing the opportunity, Black blows up the time machine, but shortly thereafter gets pulled back through the portal he came from. The portal closes, and Black is gone, but the time machine is in flames. Whis explains that Black most likely did not vanish on his own. Rather, Black was able to come to this era when the power of his "Time Ring" reacted to the distortions in time created by Trunks's time machine's passage through time and space. However, these distortions try and return to their original state, similar to the way a wound heals, and so as a result Black's Time Ring forcibly pulled him back to the era he came from. In other words, Whis says, he basically just ran out of time here in the present.

Black has indeed returned to Trunks's future world. Lying on the ground in some degree of fatigue and pain, Black says that Super Saiyan Goku's fighting style has been "engraved" into his body, which will make his strength even more perfect. Though Black thinks he will not be able to return to that era (i.e. the present) again, Trunks likewise is stuck there now that his time machine is no more, meaning that in the future world none remain to oppose him.

Back in the present, Trunks is having the same thoughts: now that he is stuck here, there is nobody in the future world to stop Black from wiping out the remaining Earthlings. Vegeta asks Trunks how Black's power just now compares to when he fought Black on prior occasions, and Trunks says that Black was "a little stronger" when he fought him in the future. A little, not a lot... probably. In that case, Vegeta thinks they have got nothing to worry about, since Goku was not even using anywhere near his full power. Trunks wonders why Goku and Vegeta are both so much more powerful than before, but they say it is a long story. Still, Black's ki was also constantly rising as he fought Goku, so who knows what his limits are.

The Pilaf Gang steps in to extinguish the time machine's flames (hoping that they can get food in return). With the flames out, the time machine is now nothing but a burnt-out husk. Bulma laments that even with her future self's notes, she cannot rebuild the machine from scratch all on her own. Suddenly though, she has an idea and rushes off inside to find something. For his part, Beerus seems pleased that with the time machine gone humans can now no longer mess around with time, but Whis thinks they have another problem to worry about now: Black's "Time Ring" is something which only the Kaiōshin are permitted to use. However, Black is quite certainly not a Kaiōshin. Regardless, Time Rings can only take you to the future, and then back to the present, since even among the gods it is strictly forbidden to travel into the past.

Trunks asks Beerus and Whis to give him one of these Time Rings, but since Beerus is a God of Destruction (rather than a Kaiōshin), he does not have any. Trunks is still worried about what will happen to future Earth if he does not get back there, but Beerus stresses once again that people should not mess around with time; both Trunks and Black are troublesome in that regard. Whis thinks that Black most likely cannot travel through time at will, and so probably will not be back. Which means that if they want to defeat Black, they will have to go to the future. Kuririn asks if Whis can use his own time-manipulating powers to take them there, but Whis explains that his powers only allow him to rewind time a maximum of three minutes, and do not extend to traveling into the future.

Fuji TV broadcast sponsor screen.

Trunks is despondent, since everyone in the future was depending on him. However, Vegeta tells him not to give up; there is definitely a way to solve this! Beerus says that humans are always so quick to say "don't give up", but frankly sometimes there is nothing that can be done; giving up is important too! Bulma finally returns, having found what she was looking for. Bulma holds up a capsule, which she throws to reveal... the battered old time machine Cell arrived in! They have another time machine after all!

Cast

The following table provides the cast as credited in the original Japanese broadcast. Additional characters/cast members not originally credited, or with speaking roles exclusive to a specific dubbing, have been included at the bottom of the table.

Character	Cast
	Japanese	English (FUNimation)
Son Goku	Masako Nozawa	Sean Schemmel
Goku Black
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Monica Rial
Vegeta	Ryō Horikawa	Christopher R. Sabat
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Christopher R. Sabat
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Alexis Tipton
Pilaf	Shigeru Chiba	Chuck Huber
Mai	Eiko Yamada	Colleen Clinkenbeard
Shuu	Tesshō Genda	Chris Cason
Beerus	Kōichi Yamadera	Jason Douglas
Whis	Masakazu Morita	Ian Sinclair
Narration	Naoki Tatsuta	Doc Morgan
Future Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Eric Vale

Trunks is only credited once in the Japanese version because Takeshi Kusao voices both the child and adult characters. Colleen Clinkenbeard plays both versions of Mai for Funimation.

Main Staff

The following list provides the main staff responsible for the production of this episode as credited in this specific episode's ending credits.

• Scenario: Atsuhiro Tomioka
• Director: Ken'ichi Takeshita
• Animation Supervisor: Yūichi Karasawa, Kaori Takamura, Setsuko Nobuzane
• Art Director: Bun-sun Lee

• Key Animation: Mamoru Hoshino, Futoshi Higashide, Yūichi Karasawa, Masahiko Maruyama, Beom-seok Hong, Yoshitaka Katō, Kenji Fukazawa, Yuka Takemori, Rika Kan'no, Yasuko Chiba, Hiroshi Suzuki, Yusuke Satō, Tatsuhiro Nagaki, Mikio Fujiwara, Fumio Fukushima, Setsuko Nobuzane
  • Yong-ce Tu, Tamaki Ishii, Yōko Yasuda, Emi Tezuka, Yumiko Tomiki, Myū
• Assistant Animation Supervisor: Masahiro Shimanuki, Naoki Tate
• In-Between Animation, Digital Coloring: Toei Animation Philippines, Buyū, A-Line
• Digital Special Effects: Nobuhiro Shimokawa
• Assistant Director: Megumi Ishitani
• Assistant Production Manager: Takeshi Sawamori

Music

Main article: Dragon Ball Super Music

The following table is a scene-by-scene account of the musical tracks used in this episode. The background music is composed by Norihito Sumitomo, and our in-house catalogue numbers apply to tracks composed or arranged by him. The opening song "Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic" is performed by Kazuya Yoshii, and the ending song "Yoka Yoka Dance" is performed by Batten Showjo Tai.

^†First usage in the Dragon Ball franchise.

Dragon Ball Super Episode 50: Norihito Sumitomo Original Soundtrack
Catalogue	Scene	Title	Tonality	Release
OP	Opening	Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic! (TV Size)	D Major	DBS 1.1 #01
S-505	Recap	Death-Match with Goku Black	A Minor	DBS 2.1 #07
S-402	Episode Title Card	Sub-Title (Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!)	D Major	DBS 1.1 #40
S-501	Enter Goku Black	Humiliating Defeat	B Minor	DBS 2.1 #11
S-451	Black attacks	Time to Strike Back	A Minor	DBS 1.2 #16
S-508	Super Saiyan Goku	Fistfight Battle	D Minor	DBS 2.1 #09
S-431	Black attacks again	Believe in Yourself (String Version)	A Minor	DBS 1.1 #04
S-434	Goku and Black have a chat	A Strong Enemy Appears		DBS 1.1 #05
S-507	Black powers up	The Birth of Merged Zamasu		DBS 2.1 #12
S-409	Eyecatch A	Eyecatch A (Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!)	D Major	DBS 1.1 #38
S-410	Eyecatch B	Eyecatch B (Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!)		DBS 1.1 #39
S-502	Black gets distracted	Zamasu's Overwhelming Power	G Minor	DBS 2.1 #10
S-503	Black to the future	Zero Mortal Plan	D Minor	DBS 2.1 #04
S-407	Pilaf's Firefighter Gang	The Pilaf Gang's Plan	G Minor	DBS 1.1 #26
S-509	The Time Ring	Solving the Mysterious Puzzle†	A Minor	DBS 2.1 #08
S-510	Trunks mourns	Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic! (Sorrowful Ver.)†	B Minor	DBS 2.1 #20
S-432	Bulma's discovery	Omen of Victory	D Major	DBS 1.1 #08
ED	Ending	Yoka Yoka Dance (TV Size)†	E Minor	Theme Songs #06
S-508	Next Episode Preview	Fistfight Battle	D Minor	DBS 2.1 #09

Availability

This episode has been released in numerous countries and languages around the world in both streaming and physical formats. "Simulcast" streaming services (even Funimation) use the Toei Animation subtitles rather than the Funimation subtitles by Steven J. Simmons, while digital purchase platforms use the Simmons subtitles that are provided on the Funimation DVDs and Blu-rays. Simulcast dates reflect regional time zones.

Japan

• Dragon Ball Super Box 5 Blu-ray (Toei) 06 January 2017
• Toei Channel On-Demand

North America

Streaming debut dates only apply to the subtitled simulcast. Dubbed episodes were added to Funimation's streaming service a few weeks after the Toonami broadcast.

• Dragon Ball Super Part 4 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation) 19 June 2018
• Crunchyroll Simulcast (multi-region, sub only) 22 October 2016
• Funimation Now Simulcast (sub or dub) 22 October 2016
• VRV Simulcast (sub only) 30 March 2017
• Adult Swim On-Demand (dub only)
• Digital purchase (Simmons subtitles)
  • Amazon (dub and sub sold separately)
  • Microsoft (dub and sub sold separately)
  • Google Play (dub)

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom was originally covered by the now-defunct Daisuki streaming service until Crunchyroll added the UK to their Dragon Ball Super coverage area on 30 May 2017.

• Dragon Ball Super Part 4 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation-MangaUK) 06 August 2018
• Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 23 October 2016

Australia and New Zealand

Streaming debut dates only apply to the subtitled simulcast. Dubbed episodes were added to AnimeLab's streaming service around the time of the Madman home video release.

• Dragon Ball Super Part 4 (Funimation-Madman) 15 August 2018
• Dragon Ball Super Collection 1 (Madman) 05 December 2018
• AnimeLab Streaming (sub or dub) 23 October 2016
• Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 23 October 2016
• Digital purchase: iTunes (dub)

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Super Episode 50