Saturday, February 2, 2019

Dragon Ball Super Review

Six months after the defeat of Majin Boo, peace has returned to Earth. Son Goku has settled down and works as a radish farmer to support his family. His family and friends live peaceful lives.However, a new threat appears in the form of Beerus, the God of Destruction, who is considered to be the most terrifying and the second most powerful being in Universe 7. After awakening from several years of slumber, Beerus tells Whis, the Angel, that he is eager to fight the legendary warrior whom he had seen in a prophecy known as the Super Saiyan God (超スーパーサイヤ人ゴッド Sūpā Saiya-jin Goddo).To protect Earth, Goku transforms into the Super Saiyan God to fight Beerus. Despite losing, Goku's efforts appease the God of Destruction enough that he decides to spare the planet. This part of the series retells the events of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods.

While Goku and Vegeta leave with Beerus and Whis to train for a year, the remaining remnants of Freeza's army arrive on Earth in search for the Dragon Balls to revive the long gone Ruler. A few months after coming back to life and training, Freeza gathers his forces and returns to enact his revenge on Goku. Goku and Vegeta arrives to face him while Krillin, Gohan, Piccolo, Master Roshi, and Tien faced the remnants. Despite achieving a new transformation, he is defeated by not allowing time for his body to get used to his new form, losing to Vegeta before destroying the Earth. With Whis' do over ability, Goku was able to destoy Freeza. This part of the series retells the events of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'.

After Freeza's revenge, Champa, Beerus' twin brother and the God of Destruction of Universe 6, convinces Beerus to hold a tournament between the best fighters from each god's universe for the possession of Earth. Goku and some of his friends join the tournament, with each match showing different surprises and abilities, the tornament reached it's climax with Goku vs Hit, who defeated Vegeta who had eliminated most of Universe six's warriors. After a failed attempt to lift the rules to face Hit in his full power, Goku forfits the match. The tornament concludes with Universe seven as winners after Hit forfited, inspired by Goku, to the last fighter in the team.

Goku later meets and befriends Zenō, the king of all universes who is respected and feared by all Gods of Destruction. He promises to bring him a friend to play with. The Grand Priest, the father of the Angels, also appears as Zeno's assistant.

After the tournament is completed, Future Trunks reappears and brings news of a new and powerful enemy resembling Goku that is known as Goku Black. Goku and the others eventually discover that Goku Black is actually a Kaiō-shin from Universe 10 named Zamasu, who hijacked Goku's body from a different timeline as part of his plan to attain immortality and wipe out all mortals.

In the end, Zamasu is erased along with the entire future timeline by Zenō from the future, who accompanies Goku back to his timeline. Goku fulfills his promise to Zenō by introducing him to his future self.

Some time after Future Trunks returns home, Zenō and Future Zenō hold a new tournament called the Tournament of Power (力の大会 Chikara no Taikai). The multiverse tournament features teams of fighters from each universe by Goku's suggestion. However, it becomes a battle for survival when both kings declare that the universes defeated at the tournament will be erased. Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Krillin, Android 17, Android 18, Piccolo, Tien, Master Roshi, and a temporarily revived Frieza join the tournament as representatives for Universe 7 to protect it. Despite the fact that Zenō and Future Zenō already had the intention to destroy the weaker universes, most of the fighters from the other universes who are unaware of it view Goku as a villain for suggesting to hold the tournament in the first place. Goku, while fighting Jiren, a mortal stronger than gods, attains a new godly form, known as the Ultra Instinct.

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