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DBS Manga Return + New Arc Announced! Here's My Speculation:

Just yesterday, we were informed of the return of the Dragon Ball Super manga and the reveal of its next arc being an adaptation of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero set to start on December 20th. It’s speculated to start with prequel events that will lead up into the events we see take place in the film. While I don’t think anything that happens in the movie will change drastically in the manga, I think starting the arc with these prequel events is a fun way to adapt the arc!

The arc will feature Goten and Trunks becoming super heroes, and it’s nice seeing the two of them get something to do! I’m hoping we get to see other characters that appear in the movie like Android 18 and Krillin during these prequel events as well, as the Granolah arc really didn’t feature a whole lot of characters and it’s been a while since we’ve seen everyone else in the manga. I just wanted to take a second to theorize about what may happen during the “prequel” section of the arc as I think there’s a lot they could do there.

Videl

Videl hasn’t had very many moments to shine in DBS compared to other characters, so I think this could be a very good opportunity to show us more of her character. I’m not expecting her to fight Cell Max or anything, obviously something like that wouldn’t happen, I just think it’d be cool (and also pretty likely) that we’ll get to see a bit of her in this arc’s prequel events. We learn that she teaches martial arts at a school now during the movie, so maybe we’ll get a glimpse at the school? Who knows, I just think it’d be a neat addition to add in there.

Marron

Marron, like Videl, is another character who we haven’t seen a ton of in DBS, and I think we’ll see at least a brief appearance of her. If we do, it’s also very likely that she’ll have a new design similar to Goten and Trunks, as the last time we saw her was during the Tournament of Power if my memory serves me correctly, and at least 2 years have passed since then. If she does get a new design, it’s likely she’ll look similar to how she did during the End of Z, as the time when EoZ takes place is approaching in universe.

Gohan’s Makankosappo Training

Gohan states during the movie that he spent some of his spare time practicing the Makankosoppo in order to surprise Piccolo, but we never got to see him practice the technique. If the prequel events turn out to be more relaxed compared to the Granolah arc, it’s possible we could see him practicing the technique.

Gotenks

While Gotenks making an appearance in an arc that puts focus on Goten and Trunks makes sense, I doubt we’ll see him during the prequel events. The two of them messing up and merging into fat Gotenks during the movie tells me that the duo haven’t been practicing the technique much and have gotten rusty, so for them to pull it out during the prequel section, fuse into Gotenks perfectly, and then proceed to botch the technique during Cell Max would just be weird, at least in my opinion. The possibility of him appearing before the main events of Super Hero is still there though, so I figured I’d just bring it up. I’d definitely be nice to see a properly formed teenage Gotenks in action, though!

Final Thoughts

While I don’t think this arc is going to be anything mind blowing, I think doing a Super Hero arc instead of immediately diving into a “Black Frieza” arc is for the best. I’m hoping it’ll be a good mix of action and slice of life content without stretching on for too long like the Granolah arc did. Ultimately we’ll just have to wait until December when the arc starts to see how it goes, but regardless like I said originally, it’s nice to see Goten and Trunks getting something to do in the manga, it feels like it’s been way too long since they’ve been relevant.

If you read all this, thank you! I just wanted to spend some time speculating on this as I’m very excited to see the DBS manga finally return. I’m still planning on doing a Sonic Frontiers review like I stated previously and I’m still working on writing other Dragon Ball related things, I’m hoping to have at least one of those out soon!

I noticed that Caradoc’s and Arthur’s arms are similar: both feature crowns on an azure field, though Arthur has multiple crowns or and Caradoc just has one crown argent. Caradoc is married to one of Igraine’s daughters in the Vulgate Merlin, and he is the son of Arthur’s niece (but referred to as his nephew) in The Story of Caradoc. It’s quite possible that whoever designed Caradoc’s arms meant them to look like a humbler version of Arthur’s.

Coats of Arms of (some) Knights of the Round Table from a 16th century French manuscript, including most of our favourite Merlin knights.

From left to right:

Galahad, Percival, Lancelot du Lac, Bors

King Arthur, Gawain, Tristan, Lionel

(H)elyan the White, King Bagdemagus, King Edern, King Rience, 

King Carados, King Clariance, Duke Chaliens of Clarence and (H)ector de Maris.

A short analysis of the Chapter 3 culprit

I’m not going to fact check what I’m saying and this is mainly just speculation, but I noticed something’s that could make things more interesting.

spoilers for Chapter 3 of course

I think Dr. Yonekura was a neglectful mother towards her daughter Okazaki, and didn’t care about her and only worried about how Okazaki’s behavior reflected onto herself.

One thing that the video Regulation Review made clear about their relationship is that Yonekura doesn’t care about Okazaki. I think this is also shown in how Okazaki viewed her ‘rival’ Tsuno.

Okazaki stated that she wanted to kill Tsuno because Tsuno refused to acknowledge Okazaki and acted like she didn’t know her. She was dismissive and acted like she didn’t care about Okazaki until Okazaki started hurting Wada.

I think Okazaki was neglected by her mother, and now hates when people ignore her. Yonekura only cared about Okazaki when she said that Okazaki made a fool of herself.

Okazaki probably started to act out so her mother would acknowledge her and would give her attention, even if that attention was negative. When Tsuno, someone she thought she had a twisted connection with ignored Okazaki like how Yonekura did? Well Okazaki couldn’t just take this injustice.

I’m not saying this excuses Okazaki of all her actions. She’s a horrible person who doesn’t care about others unless it involves herself. But she is so interesting to me and I want to know why she acts like this. Or well, acted like that.

TLDR: Yonekura was a neglectful mother and ignored Okazaki. She would only give her daughter attention when Okazaki did something that made her look bad. Okazaki started doing bad stuff to get her mother’s attention, and then somehow got tangled up with Tsuno and got the idea that they were “rivals”. (Still don’t know about that). When Tsuno ignored Okazaki, she saw that as a personal attack and started acting out in a way that would get Tsuno’s attention, just like she did with her mother Yonekura.

I wonder if, after Azeroth's Second War, some of the humans running the internment camps for the orcs were frustrated by how placid the orcs had suddenly become... if, perhaps, their lack of aggression or hostility deprived them of their justification for keeping sapient beings in prison camps, and subjecting them to enslavement and abuse.

With the kamikou fes thing, I could see them pulling a Resonant Town where Toya is the focus for the event and the stuff with Mizuki and Ena happens kinda in the background, and that then leads into Mizuki5. So like i'm imagining Mafuyu5 = Kick it up a notch, Kamikou fes2 = resotown, and Mizuki5 = whip the wimp girl. So possibly something where you could skip reading the mixed event in the middle and still get the plot, but to REALLY get the plot you have to read the mixed event

Oh that’s true actually. Come to think of it Toya doesn’t know Mizuki’s secret yet, but it’s kind of an inevitability that he will find out with them being in the same class and all, like how An found out. And Toya’s much more honest and honestly is the type of person who would just take the information and just immediately accept it, like An in some ways even if they’re totally different. He’d be a very good support imo, and could probably give Mizuki some advice on opening up to Ena, like he did with An in wimp girl.

Honestly a kamikou fes event probably could work to bridge the gap. An and Rui already know Mizuki’s secret, Toya will find out eventually, and Akito might know through rumors (he mentions knowing about rumors going around in the original Kamikou fes). Maybe you could do something like Ena maybe hearing things from Mizuki’s classmates and then the other characters helping her out 🤔