Dragon Ball Super Chapter 28
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| The 12 Gods of Destruction | |||
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| Premiered | V-Jump, November 2017 | ||
| Sale Date | 21 September 2017 | ||
| Chapter Data | |||
| Pages | 01-45 (Black and White) | ||
| Episodes |
Dragon Ball Super Episode 77 Dragon Ball Super Episode 78 | ||
| Viz Publication | |||
| Title | The Gods of Destruction from All 12 Universes | ||
| Release | 21 September 2017 | ||
| Editor | Marlene First | ||
| Collected Volumes | |||
| Tankōbon |
Dragon Ball Super Volume 5 (print, digital, and digital color) | ||
"The 12 Gods of Destruction" is the twenty-eighth 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 November 2017 issue of Shueisha's V-Jump, with a sale date of 21 September 2017.
Summary
Goku has disappeared, off to visit with the Omni-King to discuss an inter-universal tournament. Beerus seemingly accepts responsibility for this horrible situation, with his and Champa's previous Universe 6 vs. 7 tournament being the cause for the Omni-King's notice.
The future and present Omni-Kings appear to be playing a sort of chess game against each other, but stop to inquire with the Great Priest about the mortal levels in the various universes. Universe 1 is in the lead as expected, with Universe 12 following. There has not been much change with the others, who in fact all may have actually decreased slightly. The Omni-Kings see no reason to keep all 12, and are losing interest in observing them. They collectively decide to keep just four universes and erase the other eight. The Great Priest agrees, and asks that the guide angels from those universes be withdrawn.
Just then, Goku arrives! The Great Priest can tell that Goku would like to ask a favor. Goku says that he does not remember which one he promised, but they had talked about the inter-universal tournament and wants to know how that planning is going. The respective Omni-King has apparently forgotten, but they should do that soon! The Great Priest says they should give the universes time to prepare; five "tiks" from now should be sufficient (roughly 40 hours in Earth time). Goku figures he should run off and get prepared as soon as possible, but the Great Priest informs Goku that he must wait while he informs the other Gods of Destruction. Using his staff, the Great Priest calls out to all of the guide angels.
Various Gods of Destruction tune in to the message, including Gowasu from Universe 10, who is in the process of being chewed out over the Zamasu situation by his God of Destruction. One God of Destruction in particular, Vermoud, is surrounded by a harem of ladies, noting that today marks 87,910,715 days since he became a God of Destruction. As his angel attempts to inform him of the Great Priest's call, one of the women get angry and pulls a knife on the angel. The woman is destroyed by Vermoud, who notes he was going to destroy the entire planet, anyway.
The Great Priest calls all of the angels, Gods of Destruction, and Kaiōshin of the respective universes to the Omni-King's palace. Other than the Kaiōshin from Universe 8 who has just entered the bathroom, the others are all ready to arrive. Each of the various gods appear, forming kneeling lines on either side of the room. Universe 11's God of Destruction, Vermoud, has brought an additional attendee with him: Toppo, a warrior that is also a candidate for God of Destruction upon Vermoud's upcoming retirement. Universe 8's group of gods arrive, completing the audience.
The Great Priest informs everyone that in five tiks (157 o'clock on day 3,135,500,603 of the king calendar), they shall hold a "Tournament of Power" with competitors from each universe. Universe 3's seemingly-robotic God of Destruction appears to be concerned over having such little time to prepare, but when one of the Omni-Kings question this being an issue, the universe's angel, Camparri, quickly fibs to say that Mosco, the God of Destruction, believes it is wonderful that they can participate so soon.
The present-day Omni-King points to the future Omni-King, saying that he does not know anything about what is going on. The Great Priest advises that they hold a "Zen Exhibition Match", and quickly creates a tournament arena, separating each universe onto individual floating platforms, and inviting all of the Gods of Destruction to enter the stage. As the Gods all showcase signs of shock and hesitation, one of the Omni-Kings bluntly tells them to hurry up. The Great Priest explains that all are to give it their all during the fight or face erasure at the hands of the Omni-Kings. Beerus gets into a spat with Quitela, the God of Destruction from Universe 4, who apparently beat him in an arm wrestling contest once before. Goku cheers on Beerus, who chastises him as the one responsible for this mess. Upon hearing this, the other Gods of Destruction all turn their attention to Beerus.
Whis explains to Goku and their Kaiōshin that, long ago, they once held an inter-universal game of hide and seek at the behest of the Omni-King. The game was unfortunately cancelled because Beerus fell asleep for 50 years after hiding. The Omni-King became furious, and the other universes all had to placate him to avoid his outrage and possible erasure. As such, they have all held a grudge against Beerus ever since.
As expected, all of the other Gods of Destruction attack Beerus as the fight begins. Beerus is able to dodge most of their attacks, with Whis commenting to Goku how his body can sense attacks and make the decision to dodge all on its own. Mosco ends up capturing Beerus between his hands, though Beerus breaks free before taking a kick from Quitela. Some of the other gods mistakenly attack Champa instead of Beerus, who takes the opportunity to fire a massive blast their way, though Sidra creates a barrier to protect them. Vermoud jumps in and quickly kicks Sidra away, noting how many openings there were to attack just then; after all, only one universe can be the winner! Both of the Omni-Kings, along with Goku, all appear more and more excited over the prospect of the tournament.
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Continuity
Anime
The events of the manga and the anime diverge significantly. Below are the main differences, along with the episodes where the events of this chapter occur or contrast.
- In this chapter, the Omni-Kings are playing a chess-like game, with each piece representing one of the 12 universes. During the course of the game, they realize that there might be too many universes, so they decide to reduce their number to just a total of four. In Episode 77 of the anime, the Omni-Kings are also playing a game, though this one is more similar to a 3D version of marbles, with each of the pieces representing a different planet. Unlike in the manga, they do not discuss the destruction of the lower-level universes before Goku arrives. The fact that they were already planning to do so is not mentioned until Episode 80, midway through the Zen Exhibition Match.
- The Omni-Kings have two attendants each in the anime, four in total. In the manga, however, they only have two between them. In both the manga and the anime, the Future Omni-King did not have any attendants with him when he answered Goku's call nor when Goku went to fetch him from the empty timeline. Later in the anime, just like in the manga, the Omni-Kings are seen with only two attendants.
- In the anime, there is a running gag of the Future Omni-King trying (and repeatedly failing) to mirror his counterpart's actions.
- In this chapter, the Great Priest immediately summons all the deities of all universes to the Omni-King’s Palace to inform them of the upcoming tournament. In the anime, however, he personally travels to each universe’s Kaiōshin Realm to inform them one by one. It is there that Goku, Beerus, Whis, Shin, Kibito and the Elder Kaiōshin hear about the details of the tournament.
- When summoning the deities of each universe, the manga displays a plethora of scenes featuring those deities that are not present in the anime:
- Arak meditating in his planet.
- Quitela playing video games.
- Helles bragging about being the most beautiful of all universes to her servants.
- Rumoosh scolding Gowasu for what happened with Zamasu.
- Rō and Sidra discussing whether to destroy a planet in ruins.
- Vermoud in his planet surrounded by a harem.
- The Zen Exhibition Match is significantly different between the anime and the manga. While in the manga there is first a battle royale between all 12 Gods of Destruction and later another one between Goku and Toppo, the anime instead features three matches between members of Universe 7 and Universe 9, the two lowest-ranked universes, with the winner being the first universe to reach two victories. Goku, Gohan and Boo represent Universe 7, while Basil, Lavenda and Bergamo represent Universe 9.
- The Gods of Destruction do not fight each other in the anime's version of the Zen Exhibition Match (in fact, they were never even considered potential participants), but Iwen, Arak, Liquir do have a short match to test out the durability of the main Tournament of Power arena in Episode 96.
- In the anime, the other universes hold Goku responsible for their (probable) impeding destruction. In the manga, however, Beerus and Whis remain the only ones knowledgeable of the fact that it was Goku who made the (present) Omni-King remember to have a tournament (though Champa has his suspicions when he sees Goku standing next to both Omni-Kings and the Great Priest).
- In the manga version of Zen Exhibition match, Beerus can be seen using an imperfect version of would later be called Ultra Instinct. In the anime, Whis mentions that Beerus could do it, but he is never seen actually using it.
- In the anime, Quitela is not named as the God of Destruction who beat Beerus at arm-wrestling. Instead, Whis mentions in Episode 93 that there is a universe with a mortal that his own God of Destruction cannot beat. Whis further states that this God of Destruction is even stronger than Beerus, but Beerus protests that he only lost at an arm-wrestling match. In Episode 110, Whis takes Jiren's strength as confirmation of this rumor, implying that Vermoud was the God of Destruction who beat Beerus at arm-wrestling. This chapter was released on 21 September 2017, whereas Episode 110 of the anime was released on 08 October 2017.
- Episode 77 ends with a teaser montage of the ten warriors who had already been promoted as the Universe 7 representatives in the Tournament of Power (in the same V-Jump where Chapter 19 was published):[1][2] Piccolo, Tenshinhan (who is with Chiaotzu), the Turtle Hermit (who is with Umigame), Gohan (who is with Videl and Pan), Vegeta (still in the gazebo where Goku left him), No. 17, Kuririn and No. 18 (who is with Marron), and finally, Majin Boo (who is with Mister Satan). These names are not revealed in the manga itself until Chapter 30.
Adaptation
Important notes on the Viz English adaptation of this chapter:
- After Vermoud destroys the jester woman who threatened Markarita, he says that she was a resident of a planet that was already slated to be destroyed in the first place (もともと破壊する予定の星の住人だ). The Viz translation reads: "I was going to destroy this planet anyway." However, this scene actually takes place on Vermoud's planet. In Chapter 30, the exterior of the planet is shown, and Vermoud is still with Markarita in the same room where the woman was destroyed. Toppo and Cae are there, but the jester women are nowhere to be seen.
Notes
- This chapter's official release came seven months after the (very roughly) corresponding TV episode, significantly deviating from the television series's events.
- In conjunction with Jump Festa 2017, Shueisha and Toei Animation released a promotional trailer for the Universe Survival arc in December 2016.[3] The trailer showed off what appeared to be scenes from upcoming manga chapters, though very little — if any — of what is seen in the video actually appeared as-is in the chapter itself some nine months later.
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- In particular, the closest approximation of the shot displaying all of the Gods of Destruction is very different, with no cloaked figures and Goku present in the foreground. This may have been an early composition, a compromise due to perhaps unfinished character designs or any other number of reasons.
- Other than Beerus, Whis, Shin, Champa, Vados, Huwa and Gowasu, all of the various Gods of Destruction, Kaiōshin, and Angel names debut in this chapter of the manga for the first time.
Cast
In order of appearance:
- Beerus
- Whis
- Oracle Fish
- Great Priest
- Omni-King
- Omni-King's attendants
- Son Goku
- Kucatail
- Arak
- Quitela
- Conic
- Souwa
- Helles
- Helles' attendants
- Gowasu
- Rumoosh
- Kusu
- Rou
- Sidra
- Mohito
- Vermoud
- Vermoud's attendants
- Markarita
- Martine
- Camparri
- Vados
- Ea
- Peru
- Awamo
- Iwen
- Anat
- Giin
- Ag
- Cae
- Champa
- Huwa
- Ogma
- Kur
- Mosco
- Toppo
- Shin
- Korn
- Liquir
- Il
Items
Setting
- Beerus' planet
- Omni-King's Palace
- Arak's planet
- Quitela's planet
- Helles' planet
- Universe 10 Kaiōshin Realm
- Universe 9
- Universe 11
Availability
This chapter has been released in numerous countries and languages around the world in both print and digital formats. Viz simulpub chapters and the collected volumes (including the Japanese, print and digital) are inconsistently cropped from the original, wider V-Jump pages. Viz digital editions (simulpub and tankōbon) are often the least-cropped.
Japan
- V-Jump, November 2017 (21 September 2017)
- Dragon Ball Volume 5: The Decisive Battle! Farewell, Trunks (Tankōbon; 02 March 2018)
- Digital Monochrome Edition Volume 5 (02 March 2018)
- Digital Color Edition Volume 5 (04 June 2020)
North America (English)
- Viz Digital Monochrome Simulpub: Chapter 28 (21 September 2017)
- Dragon Ball Super Volume 5: The Decisive Battle! Farewell, Trunks! (07 May 2019)
- Digital Monochrome Edition Volume 5 (07 May 2019)
External Links
References
- ↑ Announcement poster. V-Jump, February 2017. Japan: Shueisha, 17 December 2016. (pp. 55-57)
- ↑ "New 'Dragon Ball Super' Storyline Revealed as 'Universe Survival Arc'" (14 December 2016). Kanzenshuu.
- ↑ "'Dragon Ball Super' Upcoming 'Universe Survival Arc' Jump Festa '17 Promotional Video" (20 December 2016). Kanzenshuu.
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