English Dub Review: Dragon Ball Super “Come, God of Dragons – And Pretty Please Grant My Wish!” / “Come Forth, Divine Dragon! And Grant My Wish, Peas and Carrots!”

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Overview (Spoilers Below)

As we saw last week, a short individual named “Grand Zen-Oh” appeared before everyone at the tournament much to the shock of Beerus & Champa. In a series of exposition dumps, Beerus explains that Grand-Zen-Oh means business as he’s primarily known to all Gods in all 12 Universes as “The Omni-King”. In a nutshell, he’s basically Dragonball’s equivalent to the Greek God “Zeus” which is why Beerus & Champa are scared shitless by his mere presence alone. The interesting part about Zen-Oh is his childlike mentality which adds a level of comedic irony to an individual whose Godlike powers are ridiculously even better than Beerus & Champa. At first, Zen-Oh expresses concern towards Beerus & Champa for not doing their jobs as they’ve mostly been slacking off & eating, Not to mention they were running a tournament with goals that were petty to the point that even Goku & Hit purposely lost just to stick it to them. But shockingly, Zen-Oh thought the tournament itself was entertaining. And in the future, wants to hold a tournament that features “all 12 universes” instead of limiting it to just Universe 6 & 7. (I’m very much looking forward to when that happens.)

As Goku freaks everyone out by taking the happy simple-minded approach to meeting him, Goku shakes Zen-Oh’s hand without facing deadly consequences much to the relief of everyone and simply leaves with his two guards. Afterwards, Bulma remains apprehensive about letting Beerus use the Super Dragonballs for fearing he’ll do something terrible, but Beerus assures her otherwise. With the help of Monaka & Whis, Bulma figures out that the nameless red planet they were fighting on was actually the seventh super dragon ball that she was searching for since episode 31. So in other words, all of 7 Super Dragon Balls were together the whole time. Much like the Namek Dragonballs of the Frieza saga from DBZ, a very specific language must be spoken to summon the Dragon tied with these planet-sized Dragonballs. And in this case, these require a God-type language to call it forth with the last two words hilariously being “Peas and Carrots”. In terms of effort, the episode’s animation quality outdoes itself but spends much of the show’s running time displaying the immense size of the Gold Dragon and it’s a wonder to behold as the creature is supposedly bigger than entire galaxies and calls itself “Super Shenron”.

At this point, we the audience along with our protagonists don’t know what Whis wished for in Beerus’s behalf, but it’s easy to assume this was done on purpose. When we cut Champa & Vados traveling back to Universe 6, It turns out what Beerus’s wish was something incredibly selfless. Beerus wished for Universe 6’s Earth & populace to be restored (In a past episode, It was established that Universe 6’s Earth along with its people destroyed themselves after a nuclear war). Now that their Earth is back, Champa can have his own food much in the same way Beerus enjoys the “culinary delights” of Universe 7’s Earth. What makes this scene also comedic is that Beerus doesn’t actually tell Bulma what he wished for, but It’s clear that he did it to maintain the scary reputation of his God-Status. Monaka, on the other hand, turns out to be just an alien delivery guy who’s rewarded with gold for winning the tournament but Goku not knowing Beerus’s real reasons for making Monaka a participant, is promised by Beerus that Monaka will fight Goku one day. And the episode ends on a positive note when everyone returns to earth after all that epicness.

Our Take

For a surprising twist, It was nice to see a side of Beerus he doesn’t always show to other characters. I also felt this episode had a happy resolution to the “Tournament of Destroyers” arc since nobody really died and there wasn’t any world-ending crisis that hung in the balance. Super Shenron’s design was huge and jokingly I almost made a Yu-Gi-Oh! reference by calling it “Red Eyes Gold Dragon” but I guess Dragonballs of that immense size would, in theory, make the Dragon tied to them just as epically large. With the tournament now over, we can expect the action to slow down a bit in favor of filler and plot-developments before picking itself back up because at this point, that’s pretty much how series creator Akira Toriyama structures his storylines and that isn’t always a bad thing.