English Dub Review: Dragon Ball Super “Don’t You Disgrace Saiyan Cells! Vegeta’s Fierce Battle Commences!”

“Hail to The Prince!”

Overview (Spoilers Below)

Now that Goku has learned an old-school technique from classic Dragonball lore that allows him to imprison evil beings in magical pottery, Vegeta returns from doing his own training and the two along with Bulma are set to return with Time Machine to save Future Trunks. When it cuts to the future, we not only see what he’s up to, which is recovering thanks to Yajirobe in a mildly comedic scene, but is informed from the rebel troops that Mai has located Black & Zamasu’s hideout with the intent of taking the two out from afar with a special sniper rifle bullet Golgo-13 style, with the confident claim that this specific bullet designed by Future Bulma before she died, should be enough to at least Kill Goku Black if not Zamasu. As this is happening, Future Trunks is flying to her hoping she doesn’t do anything rash. Of course, given that we’ve seen multiple examples of what happens when conventional weapons such as guns are often used against Saiyans, It goes about as well as you’d expect…

Luckily, Future Trunks comes to the rescue and saves them from being blasted. because unfortunately for Black and Zamasu, neither of them know that Senzu Beans exist. As Mai and the troops leave for safety, Trunks continues the battle which are excellent action scenes that elevate in terms of excitement, but Future Trunks proceeds to use all of his energy on Black Goku thinking that he has killed him, but things get pretty ugly as Black now enters the fight and straight-up stabs Future Trunks from behind. Thankfully, just as Future Trunks is down, Goku, Vegeta and Bulma return, but seconds after jumping out of the Time Machine, the stakes are raised as Blackout of nowhere destroys the Time Machine. There’s no way for the heroes to jump back to the present for the time being. Despite the disadvantage they’re in, it still manages to balance itself with levity and comedic moments such as an argument where they Ignore Goku Black’s speech in favor of arguing over Goku not knowing where the urn is, but Bulma takes her time to put the fire and retrieve what’s left of it in the time machine. But of course, before the battle even begins, Gowasu (from the present) uses a time ring to visit everyone, along with Universe-7’s Supreme Kai.

Given the zero fucks they gave about Gowasu since they both killed him ages ago in a splintered timeline, Gowasu is less than thrilled with what kind of monster his apprentice has become. As The evil pair try and kill off Gowasu again, Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta and Goku intercept their blast and Vegeta decides to take on Black, while Goku takes on Future Zamasu. During the proceedings, Bulma comes prepared and is working towards building a new Time Machine to return home. She is reunited with Future Trunks and Mai. She tells them that they need to fix the Urn’s remains, and seal the two murderous a-holes, and has Future Trunks glue the Urn pieces together, while the Supreme Kai and Gowasu stay to see how it ends. The-2-on-2 battle doesn’t disappoint as Vegeta has gained a lot of strength since the last fight, and Goku is also confident in beating the Future Zamasu despite the “God Mode” powers he attained, but the episode ends with Vegeta pummeling the shit out of Black in tandem with one of the most epic verbal put-down speeches ever spoken, and it’s fucking glorious!

Our Take

Quite an intense episode. I feel like DB Super knows how to top itself when it comes to specific character moments and this is one of the better examples of that. It was also a smartly-written twist to clear up the problem with Whis/Vados not interfering with Zamasu’s plans since it’s revealed that Whis, Vados and the rest of his blue-skinned species are supposed to be “Angels” who disappear when the Gods of destruction they’re assigned to serve, disappear (yet it’s never explained what Grand Zeno is doing while the cosmos is under attack).

It also excelled the most at giving Mai some decent screentime with that sniping scene, too bad they can’t even destroy the potara earring, let alone a genocidal douche who’s using Goku’s body to achieve his twisted goals. Vegeta’s scene near the end while short, was easily one of the best verbal beatdown/put-down speeches ever written, because during that speech of him calling out Black for never understanding the power of Saiyans, he does give some degree of respect to Goku for earning his power & skills rather than stealing them through under-handed means.

All Hail the Prince of all Saiyans!