Dragon Ball Super Chapter 14
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| An SOS From the Future | |||
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V-Jump  Tankōbon  Color  | |||
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| Premiered | V-Jump, September 2016 | ||
| Sale Date | 21 July 2016 | ||
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| Pages | 01-39 (Black and White) | ||
| Episodes | Dragon Ball Super Episode 47 | ||
| Viz Publication | |||
| Title | SOS from the Future | ||
| Release | 16 December 2016 | ||
| Translation | Toshikazu Aizawa | ||
| Editor | Marlene First | ||
| Collected Volumes | |||
| Tankōbon |
Dragon Ball Super Volume 2 (print, digital, and digital color) | ||
"An SOS From the Future" is the fourteenth chapter of the Dragon Ball Super manga series written and illustrated by Toyotarō, with supervision and guidance from original Dragon Ball author Akira Toriyama. It was first published in Japan in the September 2016 issue of Shueisha's V-Jump, with a sale date of 21 July 2016.
Summary
Trunks runs through a devastated cityscape. Papers litter the street with headlines about the anniversary of the war being over thanks to the defeat of No. 17 and No. 18.
Exhausted, Trunks stops running as something catches his attention. An explosion sends him hurtling through a building as a barrage of ki blasts follow him. Trunks fires back, but another explosion comes soon after, leaving a giant crater in its wake. Trunks manages to escape for now, but he must continue running.
Trunks makes his way to a basement where he is greeted by Mai. Trunks, unable to contain his emotions, explains that Bulma had been found. In total silence, Mai comforts Trunks on his loss. Mai shares some canned meat with Trunks, who explains that Bulma was able to charge up the time machine, though only enough for a one-way trip. Passing the remaining food to Mai, Trunks explains that he will go seventeen years into the alternate past where Goku and his father are still alive.
Back in our timeline, Jaco explains this "alternate past" concept to Bulma. Goku and Vegeta spar with each other while Beerus, Whis, and the others enjoy some good food. Jaco continues to berate Bulma, who claims to have no current expertise in this area. Bulma is eventually forced to explain things to Jaco and Tights. The present-day Trunks gets a crash-course of his own regarding alternate timelines… until the teacher realizes they should be covering arithmetic instead.
Bulma questions Whis regarding his time-rewind ability; Whis thinks of it more as being able to revisit choices rather than actual time travel. Beerus wonders why she even cares about this considering humans have no means of time travel. Bulma simply stammers in response.
Back in the future, Mai asks Trunks what makes seventeen years ago so special. Trunks theorizes that because these are the settings that are already in the time machine, if he adjusts them, he may not be able to return to the same timeline with the same people. With their help, the Artificial Humans were defeated in both timelines and there was peace… until "he" showed up. Trunks is not sure how that person was able to lock-on to his location, so it must be that he can sense ki now. Trunks hands Mai a shotgun, and the two prepare for departure.
As Goku and the others hunker down to eat, Whis compliments them on their masterful ki control. Goku asks about "Zen'ō" — the "Omni-King" — and why he could not feel any powerful energy emanating from him. Beerus and Whis explain that the Omni-King does not fight; with his authority, the Omni-King could destroy anything in the blink of an eye, from bad guys to even a complete universe. In fact, there were once 18 universes…! As Beerus eats the remaining food, he explains that this is why they were so uneasy when Goku was interacting with the Omni-King.
Trunks and Mai sneak through the sewers underground, making their way to Capsule Corporation. They appear to be alone, so Trunks blasts his way through a jammed lock on the door. A voice from behind them snickers, knowing they would return. Trunks fires a blast as a distraction, but their enemy is indeed now able to sense ki and returns the attack. Trunks draws his sword, screaming for Mai to hurry and get to the time machine. Trunks is easily smacked back down, prompting Mai to fire at the opponent with the shotgun. Before she can fire, Mai is also hit with a ki blast, knocking her down over a balcony. Trunks runs to grab a hold of her as the familiar-looking enemy promises to end Trunks' life.
Interstitial Page
The interstitial page features a scene with Future Bulma telling Trunks that even though they only have fuel for a one-way trip, as long they can get to the past, they will manage somehow. She also posits that the best solution might be for her, Trunks and Mai to just move to the past and live there.
Continuity
- The way Future Bulma dies is very different between the manga and the anime. In the anime, Black finds out where she and Trunks were hiding and Bulma sacrifices herself to let Trunks escape. In the manga, however, she was killed by Black when he found her cleaning up the dust on the solar panels. The events of the manga all happen off-screen.
- Jaco and Tights appear in this chapter. After the events of the God of Destruction Champa arc, Jaco won’t appear again in the anime until Episode 73, whereas Tights gets her only anime cameo in Episode 29.
- In the manga, the teacher gives Trunks, Pilaf, Mai and Shū a lecture on time travel and parallel worlds (due to having picked up a textbook from Kashikoi University’s Orikō College[a] by mistake). In the anime, however, she is just teaching a regular math lesson.
- The anime provides a reason for Pilaf, Shuu and Mai to be living in Capsule Corporation now: Trunks told them they could stay there if they had nowhere else to go (although it is heavily implied that he did so just so he could spend more time with Mai).
- In the manga, the conversation between Whis, Beerus, Vegeta and Goku takes place in the gardens of Capsule Corporation. In the anime, it takes place in Beerus’s planet.
- In the manga, the battle between Black, Trunks and Mai takes place inside Capsule Corporation. In the anime, it takes place just outside.
Notes
- For Future Trunks to go back to the main Dragon Ball timeline, he would need to go back 20 years, not 17. Toriyama is probably misremembering because Trunks was 17 years of age when he first appeared in the story. This inconsistency is also present in the anime.
- The teacher uses a Time-kun doll to represent a time machine. Time-kun is a character from Dr. Slump, one of Senbe Norimaki’s inventions, who, by using a specially designed slippery board, could slip through time and effectively function as a time machine, bringing with him anyone sitting on the slippery board at the time.
Cast
In order of appearance:
- Future Trunks
- Future Mai
- Bulma
- Jaco
- chef
- Beerus
- Whis
- Son Goku
- Vegeta
- Tights
- Capsule Corporation Teacher
- Trunks
- Mai
- Pilaf
- Shuu
- Goku Black
Items
Setting
Availability
This chapter has been released in numerous countries and languages around the world in both print and digital formats.
Japan
- V-Jump, September 2016 (21 July 2016)
- Dragon Ball Volume 2: The Winning Universe is Decided at Last!! (Tankōbon; 02 December 2016)
- Digital Monochrome Edition Volume 2 (04 January 2017)
- Digital Color Edition Volume 2 (03 April 2020)
North America (English)
- Viz Digital Monochrome Simulpub: Chapter 14 (16 December 2016)
- Dragon Ball Super Volume 2: The Winning Universe Is Decided! (05 December 2017)
- Digital Monochrome Edition Volume 2 (05 December 2017)
External Links
Page Notes
- ↑ A play on words. Kashikoi (賢い) means “smart”, or “clever”, and orikō (お利口) means “an obedient child”, or “a well-behaved child”. A possible translation would be something along the lines of “Braynee University’s Gudboizngarls College”.
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