Dragonball Super Episode 2: Review

I’m going to try to do this as spoiler free as possible.

As I mentioned a few posts ago, Dragonball Super began airing on July 5th in Japan.  I was pretty pleased overall with the first episode and I mentioned that I was excited for the second episode since it centered around one of my favorite characters, Vegeta.

More specifically, the first half of the episode it focuses on Vegeta and family on a vacation.  That’s not a spoiler, that’s literally the episode description.  Anyone who is familiar with the character can imagine the hilarity that ensued during this “vacation.”  Even Trunks and Bulma were surprised how well Vegeta managed.

The second half of the episode focused on other characters for the most part, but I felt this episode was even stronger than the first.  It’s definitely starting to shape up to embrace the events of Battle of the Gods. I’m hoping this indicates a bit of a time jump or something that will bridge the gap between Battle of the Gods and Revival of F. They almost have to at this point.

It is still unclear as to if they intend to keep Dragonball GT as cannon or use this series to overwrite it, kind of like Days of Future Past did for X-Men III.  So far there isn’t time travel in this latest series that would change the course of events, but Toriyama is notorious for ignoring cannon and/or forgetting characters.  Technically, Toriyama didn’t have much to do with DBGT, so maybe that’s why they decided to build on to the end of Z instead. That and it’s not like GT was anywhere near as popular as Z, for good reason.

I’m very much looking forward to the next episode which, unfortunately, doesn’t air this weekend in Japan due to special broadcasts. Despite FUNimation claiming there are not currently working on or have anything to do with Dragonball Super, I’m really hoping that they will announce something soon and make it more readily available to the North American audience. Perhaps they are waiting to see how well it performs in its home country.   It took a little bit before Kai was brought over as well.  Let’s hope the partnership between FUNimation and Toei remains strong so we’ll get things even quicker this time.

What are you hoping to see from this series?

-Gretchen