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DRAGON BALL SUPER CH. 103
I don’t know what’s going to happen with the manga now that Toriyama has left us. So this could be my last rambling about DBS manga.
I loved this whole chapter. That’s something I don’t normally say but it left me feeling a bit melancholy.
It does feel like a goodbye. And I could completely understand if DB ends here.
Gohan as the ultimate Earth’s defender was Toriyama’s goal. Goku’s story is way beyond that, he already is a multiverse fighter.
Hehe, yeah Goku. That improvement is def not thanks to you.
In this account we stan Granpa Piccolo
Broly is still such a sweetheart.
So glad he found a forever family and also reunited with other Saiyans 🫶🏼
Somebody please give Geets a Xanax or something.
The only thing I completely hate about DBS is that it treats Goten and Trunks as comedy relief.
In my mind I know Beerus is still rooting for Vegeta to be his successor.
AHHHHHHH ❤️✨
Toriyama really gave the whole Vegebul community one last gift.
The way I had to scream into my pillow.
And finally…
This ending made me tear up a little. RIP Toriyama. We will never forget you.
#dragon ball super#vegeta#dbz#dragon ball#goku#dragon ball z#vegebul#Broly#dragon ball super manga#we love Granpa piccolo
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Blind Gohan 👓
#mine: dragon ball#gohan#pan#krillin#dragon ball#dragon ball super#dragon ball super super hero#dragon ball super manga#dragon ball z#manga#son gohan#dbz#db#dbs#dbs manga#toyotaro
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i have a folder on my computer called "Hold Him Gently" and it's just vegeta
#someone bully me#goku#vegeta#kakarot#kakavege#dragon ball#dragon ball z#dragon ball super#dragon ball super broly#dragon ball movie#fusion reborn#return of cooler#goku black saga#dragon ball super manga#ressurection f#res f#buu saga#if anyone has more#please add them
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Amazing animation made by @DVINCHY_1
#Dragon ball super#Dragon ball Z#Dragon ball#dragon ball super manga#db#dbz goku#dbs#son goku#goku#dragon ball super broly#dragon ball sparking zero#anime#manga#dragon ball super#dragon ball#dragon ball z#Migatte no Goku'i#dragon ball super moro#Moro#Merus#merus#dragon ball super merus#akira toriyama#Toyotaro#toyotaro
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Oww..*sniff*
#doodle#my drawings#dragonball super#dragon ball#lord beerus#beerus#my art#my doodles#god of destruction#dragon ball super manga#akira toriyama#toyotaro#Ow#It hurted#bulma#bulma briefs#dbs#dbs beerus#dbs manga
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Gohan Beast 😼 💜
#cute#digital art#krita#kritaart#made with krita#digital artist#fanart#art#illustration#dragon ball#dragon ball super#dbz#dbz gohan#son gohan#gohan#gohan beast#dragon ball super super hero#dragon ball super fanart#dragon ball super manga
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Dragon Ball Super Manga ch.91-93
Last time, we covered the "prequel" story of Goten and Trunks adopting superhero identities and capturing Dr. Hedo. Now we get into the events of the DBS: Super Hero movie itself. I already liveblogged the movie extensively in September (here, here, here, here, and here), so for the manga adaptation I'll be focusing mainly on whatever changes Toyotaro made to the story.
First off, Chapter 91 opens with Piccolo picking up Pan from school, and when she talks about wanting to be a superhero like Goten and Trunks have been doing recently, Piccolo offers to train her just like he trained Gohan in Dragon Ball Z.
Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing we can expect from this adaptation. It's mostly a straight retelling of the movie, and the little extras that get added in don't really add much to the story. I mean, the movie established that Piccolo has picked up Pan from school in the past, but there was no need to show it. Also, the movie didn't really explain why Piccolo started training Pan, probably because it didn't need to. I think the manga pretty much proves my point, because it attempts to tackle the question, but only comes up with a fairly pat answer. She wanted to fly and shoot hand energy like Goten and Trunks, and so Piccolo offered to teach her and she said yes.
Then we get to this scene, where Krillin's boss in the West City P.D. holds a briefing on the Red Ribbon Army and their plans to recruit Dr. Hedo. This takes the place of the flashback montage that opened the movie, and it sucks.
That montage was awesome, and Toyotaro could have drawn his own version of it here, but instead he did this. We could be looking a Goku punching Tao Pai Pai, or 17 killing Dr. Gero, or Cell smirking like a boss, but instead we're in a boring conference room reading walls of text.
Look at this fucking page! It's awful! A lot of this one serves as a stand-in for Carmine's report to Magenta about Dr. Hedo. I get it, this is a lot of information to go through, and Toyotaro probably wanted to move on as quickly as possible, but part of what I loved about the movie was the way they showcased the characters and visuals during the infodumping. Carmine's report is pretty dry in the movie, but Magenta's office is interesting to look at, and Carmine and Magenta themselves are visually compelling characters. While they talk about Hedo, Carmine shows off his video editing skills and Magenta keeps screwing up his snacks
This police briefing, however, sucks all the fun out of it. This place looks like a hotel conference room with hardwood floors. All of the cops look exactly the same, and why the hell are they wearing helmets and sunglasses indoors, anyway? Krillin's boss, Sergeant Nutz, has some potential, but she has nothing to do with this story, so featuring her so prominently here is just a waste of time.
What really irks me is that the next scene shows Carmine and Magenta talking about Dr. Hedo, just like in the movie, except there's not much for them to say because Krillin and Nutz already covered it all! That's really dumb! We have two scenes designed to set up the plot of the movie, and one of them was in the movie, and actually features the main antagonists. But Toyotaro chose to emphasize the other scene instead.
So the idea here is that the police are already aware of Magenta's scheme to revive the Red Ribbon Army, and they know he plans to recruit Dr. Hedo once he gets out of prison. They also know that Hedo had that disc containing data on Dr. Gero's bioweapon, although I don't see how they could know that, since Trunks couldn't access the data on the disc and it was destroyed before anyone else could try. Hedo told Krillin in Chapter 90 that he memorized the contents of the disc, but he never said what it was that he memorized. This also goes against the storyline in the movie. In the film, Magenta had Gero's data on Cell, and the reason he wanted Hedo was because his own scientists couldn't do anything with it.
Anyway, the police seem to know everything about the Red Ribbon Army already. The only thing they don't know is where the Red Ribbon base is, so they send Krillin to follow Magenta's limo and spy on him. So we get the limo scene from the movie, except Krillin's clinging to the side of the car the whole trip, and then Hedo spots him and sends his cyborg bee, Hatchimaru, to attack him.
The gag here is that Magenta and Carmine don't even know Krillin is out there, and Hedo doesn't particularly care. The scene plays out almost exactly like it does in the movie, but with Krillin spliced in like Jabba the Hut in the Star Wars Special Edition.
Of course, Krillin gets shaken off so the base's location remains a secret, so this whole bit is completely pointless. It's just so dumb. I assume Toyotaro needed to pad out the story for one reason or another, or maybe he just wanted to add some new details so he wouldn't get bored retelling a movie like this. But if this is the best he can come up with, why bother? So far, this manga keeps "expanding" on the movie by answering questions nobody asked, like "Why did Piccolo start training Pan?" or "Why didn't the authorities stop the Red Ribbon Army?" or "Why is Gamma 1's cape red?"
From here, it's a pretty faithful retelling of the movie, which kind of makes the "filler" scenes even more conspicuous. It's refreshing to see the actual story move along without all these pointless diversions. On the other hand, it's kind of dull, because I already covered the movie and there's nothing else to talk about here.
There is some extra stuff in the Gamma 2 vs. Piccolo fight. Piccolo loses an arm, but then he grows a new one and makes it all long to catch Gamma 2 off guard. It doesn't slow him down much, but it's something we didn't get in the movie. I do find it a bit strange how Gamma 2 notes Piccolo's regeneration ability like it's this new data to add to his files. Shouldn't the Red Ribbon Army have all of this intel programmed into Gamma 2 by now?
Moving on, when Piccolo infiltrates the Red Ribbon base, he gets stopped by his superiors, who remind "94" that he isn't assigned to this area, but another soldier offers to switch assignments so "94" can gain some valuable experience watching Hedo eat cookies.
Again, what is the point of this? We're just derailing the story so Toyotaro can waste a page explaining how Piccolo managed to get this far into the base. In the movie, nobody notices or cares that "94" is in the command center instead of the hangar. That's because they're all faceless, interchangeable henchmen. They wear masks and refer to each other by numbers, for crying out loud! This is why Piccolo disguised himself in the first place! If Toyotaro wrote Star Wars, he'd do a whole scene where Luke Skywalker has to rewrite the Death Star's duty roster just so "TK-421" can get reassigned to prison detail. Nobody cares!
Okay now this is more like it. We get to the part where no one can reach Goku and Vegeta because they're training on Beerus' planet, and so Toyotaro gives us a little more of the sparring match Goku and Broly had in the movie. It's not a lot, but this is the sort of thing filler is good for. Toyo also does a whole montage recap of the DBS: Broly film, which is perfectly serviceable, but it annoys me because it demonstrates that he could have done the same thing with the Red Ribbon Army flashback in Chapter 91, but instead he did the briefing scene with Sgt. Nutz. Ugh.
We see the same scene where Vegeta explains the importance of mental training, although when he talks about all of their recent opponents, he adds manga-only characters like Moro, Gas, and Black Frieza. And that's fine, although it's strange when he talks about Jiren and Black Frieza in the same breath like this. In the manga, Vegeta has gotten pretty good at "Ultra Ego", his answer to Goku's Ultra Instinct. And Goku's learned to tap into UI at will. So I'm pretty sure Jiren and Moro aren't really an issue for either of them anymore. I mean, the only reason Goku couldn't defeat Jiren by himself at the Tournament of Power was because he lacked experience using UI, and now he's much better at it.
The point I'm getting at is that in the manga, Vegeta doesn't need to do "mental training" to defeat Jiren because he's already surpassed him. And he might need it to surpass Broly and Black Frieza, but he speaks as though that's their secret, and he needs to learn how to do it himself. I'm pretty sure Broly isn't "relaxed" between attacks when he's using his full power. He was kind of freaking the fuck out back then. Black Frieza might have been doing something like that, but he only hit Vegeta once, so I'm not sure how he could be certain.
So then we move on to the part where Piccolo wishes for a power-up from Shenron, and we just skip the part where Dende upgrades Shenron to do that. The implication here is that DBS-manga Shenron always had the ability to make Orange Piccolo, and no one bothered to ask before. Kind of annoying.
Anyway, while Piccolo and Bulma are getting their...ahem... enhancements, Trunks sees them and calls Goten. They make plans to sneak out and play superheroes again, even though Goten's grounded and he really doesn't need to run up a bigger bill with his mom. I guess this is the throughline for Goten and Trunks in Dragon Ball Super. No matter what happens, Dragon Team tries to keep the boys out of it. It's not just Chi-Chi wanting Goten to study. Back in Resurrection F, Bulma tells the others that she doesn't want them fucking around during the battle with Frieza. And Vegeta ices them out of the tournaments with the other universes because he doesn't want them turning into Gotenks and being dorks the whole time. The Saiyaman X-1 and X-2 caper probably didn't do much to convince anyone that Goten and Trunks have matured.
But they still crave the excitement of being in the thick of things. They know the adults are trying to keep them out of it, and that just makes it more exciting. I suppose this is the legacy of the Buu Saga, where they had to get involved because there was no other choice, and they've had the bug for DBZ mayhem ever since, but their parents said no.
And maybe that's why Goku and Vegeta were so determined to train the boys in the End of Z episodes. Sometime after Super Hero, they came back home, heard about the Saiyamen costumes and the battle with Cell Max, and decided that they needed to be toughened up. Like, okay, you want to go fight bad guys like we do? Stop doing the poses and quit relying on fusion and learn how to do it right. And if the sparring sessions are too hard for you, you can always go back to doing your homework like your mom wanted."
That's why Goten's so frustrated in DBZ 289. He just wants to go on dates or screw around, but his only options are a) homework and b) fight for-ev-er *clap clap clap-clap-clap*.
And now that I think about it, this is where GT dropped the ball with Goten, because he doesn't really seem to have gained anything from that. Hitting the books and getting hit by Goku should have made him a bit more serious about his life, but instead he's just constantly talking to girls on the phone, because that was the only thing GT's writers seemed to think of for him to do.
I mean, they kind of got it right with Trunks, who went into GT with a lot of responsibility and skills. He didn't enjoy his position, but you could tell he'd grown a lot as a person since the end of DBZ.
So yeah, maybe I'm beginning to appreciate Big Goten more than I did before, but this newfound perspective still doesn't do much for this part of the manga. There's just a lot of nothing happening here, and throwing more Krillin, Goten, and Trunks at it doesn't help matters.
#2023dbapocryphaliveblog#dragon ball#dragon ball super manga#goku#vegeta#piccolo#pan#son pan#krillin#goten#trunks#whis#broly#gamma 2#dr hedo#carmine#magenta#sergeant nutz#chi chi#dr gero#commander red#staff officer black#vomi#gevo
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Hedo and 21 enjoying the start of the summer~
Original meme is here
#dragon ball#hedo#android 21#dr hedo#dr. hedo#vomi#a21#dragon ball super#dragon ball doujin#dragon ball z#dbz#dbs#dragon ball super super hero#dbssh#dragonball#dragonball z#dragonball super#king of the hill#dragon ball super mange#dragon ball super manga
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The Debut of Black Freeza- Full Color scans
#dragonball super#dragon ball super#dragonball super manga#dragon ball super manga#toyotaro#freeza#frieza#black freeza#black frieza#via Hype in Twitter#It’s so beautiful!!!!!!
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Redraw of Super Saiyan Broly from the recent DBS manga chapter
Y'all have no idea how genuinely hyped I got when this was revealed lol
#my art#art#digital art#dragon ball#dragon ball z#dragon ball fanart#dragon ball super#dragon ball super broly#dragon ball super manga#dbz#dbz fanart#dbs manga#broly#dbs broly#redraw#dbredraw#anime#anime art#anime fanart#Topkick Drawz
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Karma’s a bitch, eh Vegeta?
#dragon ball super#dragon ball z abridged#TFS#team four star#Vegeta#Frieza#black frieza#dragon ball super manga#my art#ace artworks
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He really went 1-50 and is so hyped about it this is so real
#dbz#dbs#dragon ball super manga#dragon ball#dragon ball z#dragon ball super#vegeta#goku#son goku#whis#lemo
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Dragon Ball Super Super Hero Moods 😃
#mine: dragon ball#piccolo#gohan#son gohan#bulma#krillin#goten#son goten#trunks#dragon ball#dragon ball super#dragon ball super super hero#dragon ball super manga#dragon ball z#dbs manga#manga#anime icons#dragon ball icons#dbz#db#dbs#toyotaro
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what makes me sad when it comes to gokū and dragon ball is that no matter how many new movies, series or mangas come out, i will never see the character i grew up with again. he's gone now and i can see him only in the manga dragon ball, and the series/movies dragon ball and dragon ball z (and even gt actually). gokū's personality and character design changed a lot in the last decades, he doesn't look or act like he used to in the new movies, series and mangas. he's not exactly the same character i met so long ago, and i sort of miss him. i wish he'd stayed the same so i could see him going on new adventures, instead of that new gokū that isn’t really gokū.
#dragon ball#gokū#dbz#dragon ball z#db#dragon ball daima#son goku#son gokū#goku#dragon ball goku#dbz goku#dragon ball gt#dragon ball super#dbgt#dbs#db daima#dbs goku#dragon ball z goku#dragonball#dragon ball super manga#dragon ball super anime#dragon ball manga#dragon ball anime
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#dragon ball super manga#dbs manga#manga#ultra instinct goku#dragon ball super#dbs#anime and manga#manga panel#goku#beast gohan#gohan#trunks
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#PrinceOfAllCraters 🕳️
In dedicated to the man who's been in a crater more than any other character in Dragon Ball...
A lil update to this post here. A friend made the smart suggestion that I change it to #PrinceOfAllCraters instead of #VegetaPose. That was a good call.
(I would do an anime version of all the times Vegeta was in a crater, but that's WAY too much footage to scroll through.)
#Prince of all Craters#Vegeta#DB#DBZ#DBS#Dragon Ball#Dragon Ball Z#Dragon Ball Super#manga#Dragon Ball Super manga#I'd add the scene in Super Hero where Goku punched Vegeta into that giant tree on Beerus' planet & put him into another crater BUT...#the DBS manga version of Super Hero made Vegeta punch Goku into a tree instead#the battle was also heavily in Vegeta's favor... Toyotaro showing his Vegeta bias yet again
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