Gohan episode! Oh boy, I get to watch Gohan beat up Freeza! I
can’t wait. Surely I will not be disappointed!
Goku and Ribrianne are still going at it, love versus
fighting spirit and all that. Goku defends while she releases attacks like “pretty
cannon” and “pretty love machine gun”.
And as the fighting continues Freeza-- whose name is spelled
with an “I” in the subtitles for some reason--looks on with an arrogant smirk.
Gohan is also fighting. He’s making his way through several enemies
including the Jimeze: the Yardrat of Universe Two. They square up and the
Yardrat uses instant transmission to attack Gohan’s blind spots. Gohan
impresses Jimeze. He offers to teach him if they somehow both survive, but
plans to finish him off when Freeza steps in.
Freeza mocks Gohan for struggling against a warrior of
Jimeze’s level. But rather than helping he just stands there. Beerus and the
others quickly surmise that Freeza isn’t really on their side.
Freeza backs off to let Jimeze and Gohan finish their fight.
They start again and the Yardrat still seems to have the advantage, until
Freeza interrupts from behind. Unlike Gohan, Freeza has no trouble reading
Jimeze’s instant transmission, and beats him to a pulp in his usual sadistic
manner.
Gohan is quite pissed off after this display of sadism but
Freeza dismisses his concern. At that moment Frost steps in. Frost
announces that he is working with Freeza. The cat out of the bag Freeza confirms it and the two team up. It appears that Freeza is only interested
in the grand prize and has no intention of helping his own universe.
Gohan is drained from the last fight, so Freeza intends to
take him alone. After a beating Gohan finally uses his ultimate form and fights
back. Freeza responds by going Golden.
A kick puts Gohan down and Frost walks over to compliment
his friend. In return Freeza shows him how to buff up. Freeza tells him it
drains energy quickly so it’s best to use a quick overwhelming attack in that
form. He demonstrates its use by blasting Frost out of the ring.
Gohan stands up. He could tell Freeza was not attacking
seriously and decided to play along.
Frost is infuriated and attempts to attack Freeza from outside
the ring. As a result he is promptly erased from existence by Zen-oh, and discount Freeza is no more.
Why, after so many years is Funimation still using outdated Romanizations?
Seriously, DBZA mocked this years ago. Are we afraid that if we change a vowel
long time English speaking fans will be thrown into confusion?
Other than that this episode felt like a bait and switch. I
expected Gohan taking on and possibly beating Freeza and Frost at the same
time. But it was all a bluff and Freeza got all the glory. I guess it’s my
fault for putting too much faith in the preview, but damn it, Freeza vs Gohan
would have been cool even if it didn’t make a lick of sense for Freeza to
betray them at this point.
The animation was good, and while I am very disappointed
with how they treated Gohan it was not a bad episode, I just wanted a lot more
than was delivered.
The preview implies Goku is going to use the Spirit bomb against
Jiren. I’m not expecting it to work but maybe it will still look cool.
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