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tigerlover16-uk · 7 years ago

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So, what do you think is going to happen in the next few chapters of the DBS manga?

God only knows at this point.

Like, we know Toriyama’s draft outlined the order in which the universe 7 characters were going to go out and the “Major events” of the story, whatever that accounts for.

As of the latest chapter, universe 9 is erased and Krillin, Frost and Tien are already eliminated, along with a bunch of other minor characters including fan favourite Katopesla.

So, if we assume that the manga will follow a similar direction until at least the halfway point of the tournament, I think the next few major events to take place will include Kale going berserk, the last stand of universe 10, Roshi’s elimination, the first fight between Goku and Jiren and Goku going incomplete Ultra Instinct, and then Jiren vs Hit.

Depending on how things go, Toyotaro could theoretically have all that take place in 5 or 6 chapters. One or two chapters of Kale hulking out, really it depends on whether Toyotaro wants to include a fight with Khaseral’s squadron of Pride Troopers, he could just have Kale and Caulifla disappear after Kale gets knocked out until later on in the tournament.

Then I assume we’ll get a chapter involving the last fight with universe 10, for all I know Toyotaro might have Roshi get eliminated here. If the character’s lucky Toyotaro might do a chapter dedicated to Roshi fighting Ganos and some other characters, but considering his shafting of Krillin, Tien and several other characters who were more prominent in the anime, I don’t expect a lot.

We could have two chapters of Goku fighting Jiren, both being similar to how things went down in the anime and then a chapter with Jiren fighting Hit. Or, who knows, Toyotaro might forego the first fight between Goku and Jiren completely and have Goku first tap into Ultra Instinct a different way.

I would be surprised if Ribrianne got to do much of anything in the first half of the tournament, I kind of get the feeling Toyotaro’s not going to do much with her until the chapter where she fights Android 18.

Heck, I kind of expect Toyotaro to have universe 2 eliminated as a result of her defeat and not have Zirloin’s trio be the last one’s standing. Both because Toyotaro seems dedicated to getting all of the minor characters out of the arena as fast as possible with absolutely zero fanfare, and also given how he refuses to do anything with Goku and Gohan together I doubt we’ll see the double Kamehameha where Gohan and Goku simultaneously take down the last fighters of universes 6 and 2. Nah, he’ll probably just keep the focus on Gohan working with Piccolo, his “Real” dad. (Grumbles).

Of course, who even knows if any of this will play out like I expect. For all I know, Toyotaro could just have everyone from universe 10 plus all the pride Troopers that aren’t Jiren, Dyspo and Toppo get eliminated in the crossfire of Kale attacking everything in the next chapter and have the Grand Priest go “Oh, hey look, universe 10′s fighters are all out. Bye bye time!” And they get erased as an afterthought. Frankly, after this latest chapter it wouldn’t even surprise me.

Also, expect Kefla to not be a thing as Toyotaro’s effort to pander to the power scalers and people who think lore is the only important thing that matters in dragon ball, and to have both Kale and Caulifla get shafted and put on a much less impressive showing than the anime, because as his handling of Bulma and Future Mai demonstrates, Toyotaro can not write proactive and competent female characters. Or he’d just rather have them be extras while he focuses on shilling Vegeta.

Then again, Toriyama said recently that we can expect to see some things play out differently in the manga than they did in the anime, so everything from here on out could be a wildly different story. All I can say for sure is that’s it’s bound to be just as rushed as the build up to the tournament in this version.

I apologise if I’m being overly cynical and whiny here, I don’t like to be and I’m usually one of the most forgiving and optimistic people when it comes to the Super anime. I WANT to like the manga and I want to believe Toyotaro can improve and do a great job, he’s the guy tasked with writing the officially licensed manga adaption of DBS and he’ll probably work on more Dragon Ball stories in the future, he designed some of the characters for this saga after all.

I want to have faith in Toyotaro and see him put out a good product. But honestly, I’ve been burned by his writing too many times.

I feel more forgiving to the anime writers and animators for their occasionally shaky output because they’re trying to cope with a rushed production that hasn’t fully stabilised due to Super being a weekly series that rarely takes breaks, and they’re working with a vague manuscript that they have to struggle to form into a cohesive and satisfying narrative while balancing a lot of characters and elements. And clearly having different priorities from Toriyama, and in some cases each other. And despite the various things working against them, they still usually put out a product that’s at least mostly enjoyable and feels like they were trying.

Toyotaro has the benefit of his manga being a monthly output, and being well behind the anime at this point so he can see how they did things, what worked and didn’t and naturally would have more time to plan out how he was going to handle this current saga, or at least revise his ideas after seeing how Toei handled things. And yet the manga version of this saga feels so ridiculously rushed and lazy at this point.

I feel like a nag for complaining as much as I do, but it’s only because I do care and I feel disappointed that Toyotaro’s not only not improving at a reasonable level, but he keeps coming out with more stupid stuff and chapters that feel more like a breezy check list of plot points with some action bits sprinkled in more than anything. And it sincerely weirds me out how there are still people insisting that his handling of this saga has been significantly better than the anime.

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