Dragon Ball Super Episode 128

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With Noble Pride to the End! Vegeta Falls!!
Japanese English
気高い誇り最後まで！ベジータ散る！！ Kedakai Hokori Saigo made! Bejīta Chiru!!
Air Date	18 February 2018 (Fuji TV)
Opening	Limit-Break x Survivor
Ending	Lagrima
Episode Data
TV Rating	4.9%
Format	16:9 (NTSC)
Main Staff Credits
Scenario	Toshio Yoshitaka
Art	Sei'ichiro Sugiura Shinji Saito
Animation	Osamu Ishikawa Yūji Hakamada
Storyboard	Tadayoshi Yamamuro
Director	Masanori Satō
FUNimation English Dub
Title	To the Noble, Proud End! Vegeta Falls!
Air Date	14 September 2019

"With Noble Pride to the End! Vegeta Falls!!" is the one hundred and twenty-eighth episode of the Japanese animated television series Dragon Ball Super. The episode first aired in Japan on Fuji TV on 18 February 2018, receiving a ratings share of 4.9%. It was written by Toshio Yoshitaka and directed by Masanori Satō.

Synopsis

Thanks to No. 17 sacrificing himself to assist them, Goku and Vegeta have evaded Jiren's attack. However, Goku collapses from exhaustion, leaving Vegeta to face Jiren alone. Vegeta is nearly at his physical limit and now fighting through sheer willpower, but he still attempts to face the invincible man, Jiren. While being hit by Jiren's fierce attacks, Vegeta still fights with Saiyan pride in his heart. Having been knocked down, Vegeta's consciousness was faint, and he began to hear Bulma's voice. Goku diligently observes Vegeta's do-or-die battle. What feelings well up inside him, and can he recover his stamina before he fights Jiren? Jiren closes in for the finishing blow. And so, only Universe 7's Goku and Universe 11's Jiren remain in the arena. Before long, a certain change comes over Goku's eyes.

Summary

No. 17 has sacrificed himself to rescue Goku and Vegeta, but Jiren remains unimpressed; he is fully confident that the two are far too weak to possibly defeat him. With Goku still on the ground, Vegeta challenges Jiren on his own, but he's no longer able to even become Super Saiyan. Undeterred, Vegeta still takes on Jiren in his regular form, but is clearly outmatched. Jiren even tells Vegeta to go drop out of the arena, but he refuses to give up.

Pummeled by Jiren's blows, Vegeta is knocked onto one of the floating pieces of rubble that surrounds the arena, but manages to hold on with one hand. Though he should be out of stamina, Vegeta remembers his family and his promise to Cabba, and manages to pull himself up and return to the arena. Though he claims Jiren's punches don't hurt, as he continues to be knocked around Vegeta feels as if his body is being pulverized. Still, even if he can't win, it's fine as long as Universe 7 does. He even tries to pull off one of Jiren's arms, with predictably unsuccessful results.

Jiren's attacks knock Vegeta out of the arena once again, but this time by sheer chance his boot catches on another floating piece of rubble. As Vegeta hangs there by his foot, Vermoud asks the Great Priest if this is a ring-out, but the Great Priest explains that the rubble counts as part of the arena, so Vegeta is still in the game. Before he can rest too much though, Vegeta hears Bulma's voice urging him on, and he once again returns to fight Jiren.

Jiren can't understand what it is that keeps driving Vegeta to fight, but Vegeta says an emotionless guy like Jiren could never understand what it means to fight for others. Hearing Bulma's voice one last time, Vegeta fires off a Final Flash, but it fails to harm Jiren, who is if nothing else impressed by Vegeta's pride. Jiren sends Vegeta flying out of the arena once more, and with no way out this time, Vegeta curses himself for being unable to keep his promise. Still, he donates his remaining energy to Goku before falling out of bounds. Revitalized, Goku gets back on his feet and becomes Super Saiyan Blue once more.

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As the Great Priest formally announces Vegeta's defeat, Vegeta materializes in the bleachers, where Kuririn feeds him a senzu. Beerus congratulates Vegeta for doing so well, and Whis is happy he is safe. In the arena, Jiren still can't understand the point of Vegeta leaving things up to Goku; what good is trusting others? Goku wonders if that's what Jiren really thinks and begins to fight, but even with Vegeta's energy, he is still quickly overwhelmed by Jiren. Jiren says Goku has reached his limit, but Goku knows he can't lose now that everyone has entrusted things to him.

While Jiren continues to beat up on the helpless Goku, the gods of the exempt universes can see that the gap between the two fighters' powers is obvious. At last, Goku is one punch away from defeat, but as Jiren closes in for the finishing blow, Vegeta yells his encouragement, and Goku reflects on how No. 17, Vegeta, and the others have put their faith in him. Suddenly, Goku dodges Jiren's punch. He has returned to the same silver-eyed form as when he fought Jiren and Kafla before. Not only does Goku effortlessly dodge Jiren's next few attacks, he even manages to land a heavy blow of his own.

Whis is amazed that Goku would show this form once more at the eleventh hour, while Beerus has been looking forward to seeing Ultra Instinct once more. On the flipside, Vermoud is annoyed at how Goku repeatedly breaks through his limits, while Cae thinks it might be troublesome for Ultra Instinct to have activated so close to the tournament's end. Even the Universe 1 Kaiōshin Anat thinks that Goku might have mastered Ultra Instinct this time around, while the Omni-Kings are happy to see this cool-looking form again.

Who will remain standing at the end? Goku? Or Jiren? Two minutes remain in the Tournament of Power.

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	Seán Schemmel
Son Gohan		Kyle Hebert
Bulma	Hiromi Tsuru	Monica Rial
Turtle Hermit	Masaharu Satō	Mike McFarland
Vegeta	Ryō Horikawa	Christopher R. Sabat
Kuririn	Mayumi Tanaka	Sonny Strait
Piccolo	Toshio Furukawa	Christopher R. Sabat
Tenshinhan	Hikaru Midorikawa	John Burgmeier
Freeza	Ryūsei Nakao	Christopher Ayres
Trunks	Takeshi Kusao	Alexis Tipton
No. 17	Shigeru Nakahara
No. 18	Miki Itō	Meredith McCoy
Kaiōshin	Shin'ichirō Ōta	Kent Williams
Beerus	Kōichi Yamadera	Jason Douglas
Whis	Masakazu Morita	Ian Sinclair
Omni-King	Satomi Kōrogi	Sarah Wiedenheft
Great Priest	Masaya Takatsuka	Josh Grelle
Anat	Yūsei Oda	Chris Burnett
Iwen	Yasuhiro Mamiya	Josh Martin
Liquir	Daisuke Kishio	Dallas Reid
Cae	Taishi Murata	Aaron Roberts
Vermoud	Masami Kikuchi	Markus Lloyd
Jiren	Eiji Hanawa	Patrick Seitz
Narration	Naoki Tatsuta	Doc Morgan
Elder Kaiōshin		Kent Williams
Cabba		Clifford Chapin
Arak		Orion Pitts
Bra		Jeannie Tirado

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: Toshio Yoshitaka
• Storyboard: Tadayoshi Yamamuro
• Director: Masanori Satō
• Animation Supervisor: Osamu Ishikawa, Yūji Hakamada
• Art Director: Sei'ichiro Sugiura, Shinji Saito

• Key Animation: Yukihiro Kitano, Nobuyoshi Sasakado, Kenji Miuma, Yoshitaka Katō, Osamu Ishikawa, Tatsuhiro Nagaki, Yong-ce Tu, Tetsuya Saeki, Setsuko Nobuzane, Yūji Hakamada, Miyuki Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Itai, Toei Animation Philippines, Asahi Production
• Digital Special Effects: Nobuhiro Shimokawa
• Assistant Director: Megumi Ishitani
• Assistant Production Manager: Shō Inuzuka

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 "Limit-Break × Survivor" is performed by Kiyoshi Hikawa, and the ending song "Lagrima" is performed by OnePixcel.

Dragon Ball Super Episode 128: Norihito Sumitomo Original Soundtrack
Catalogue	Scene	Title	Tonality	Release
OP	Opening	Limit-Break × Survivor (TV Size)	B Minor	Super OST 2.1 #01
S-401	Recap	CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA (Days of Battle)	B♭ Major	Super OST 1.1 #34
S-515	Episode Title Card	Sub-Title (Limit-Break × Survivor)	A Minor	Unreleased
S-244	Vegeta is all tuckered out	S-244	G♯ Minor	Unreleased (Kai)
S-511	Vegeta remembers Cabba	Trunks and Mai	F Major	Super OST 2.1 #05
S-531	Vegeta's determination	Limit-Break × Survivor (Instrumental Type B)	B Minor	Super OST 2.1 #29
S-545	Vegeta hears Bulma's voice	A Secret Plan with One's Life on the Line	D Minor	Super OST 2.2 #21
S-238	Vegeta's power passes to Goku	S-238	A Minor	Unreleased (Kai)
S-517	Eyecatch A	Eyecatch A (Limit-Break × Survivor)	C Minor	Unreleased
S-518	Eyecatch B	Eyecatch B (Limit-Break × Survivor)	B Minor
S-549	Goku vs Jiren	A Fearsome Foe	C Minor	Super OST 2.2 #19
S-552	Goku vs Jiren	Unwinnable Battle	E Minor	Super OST 2.2 #22
S-510	Goku hears everyone in his head	Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic (Sorrowful Ver.)	B Minor	Super OST 2.1 #20
S-557	Goku's power awakens	The Final Death-Match	A Minor	Super OST 2.2 #23
ED	Ending	Lagrima (TV Size)	A♭ Major	LAGRIMA
S-519	Next Episode Preview	Limit-Break x Survivor (Preview)	B Minor	Super OST 2.2 #16

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.

Streaming debut dates only apply to the subtitled simulcast. Dubbed episodes were to Funimation's streaming service a few weeks after the dub broadcast, and to AnimeLab around the time of the Madman home video release. Simulcast dates reflect regional time zones.

Japan

• Dragon Ball Super Box 11 Blu-ray (Toei) 03 July 2018
• Toei Channel On-Demand

North America

• Dragon Ball Super Part 11 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation) 14 January 2020
• Crunchyroll Simulcast (multi-region, sub only) 17 February 2018
• Funimation Now Simulcast (sub or dub) 17 February 2018
• VRV Simulcast (sub only) 17 February 2018
• 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

• Dragon Ball Super Part 10 DVD or Blu-ray (Funimation-MangaUK) 24 February 2020
• Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 18 February 2018

Australia and New Zealand

• Dragon Ball Super Part 10 (Funimation-Madman) 04 March 2020
• AnimeLab Streaming (sub or dub) 18 February 2018
• Crunchyroll Streaming (multi-region, sub only) 18 February 2018
• Digital purchase: iTunes (dub)

External Links

• Kanzenshuu Episode Guide - Dragon Ball Super Episode 128