An odd, but tender friendship is about to unfold.įurthermore, the fact that the episode toys with the idea that Future Trunks is an illegitimate child of Vegeta’s and therefore a long-lost brother of Trunks’ is also a lot of fun. These mischievous “villains” suddenly have a renewed purpose due to Future Trunks’ relationship with Future Mai. While Pilaf and company are usually used to occupy filler, they actually belong here this time. Additionally, the continued focus on these characters when other figures like Yamcha or Tien have fallen into obscurity can understandingly be frustrating to some viewers. Pilaf does add some humor to the episode though and he continues to prove that he can be the series’ equivalent to Aladdin’s Genie when he wants to be. He should not have to waste his time on long division and the periodic table. This guy is an Emperor who has tried to take over the world on multiple occasions. They all might be the same size, but the idea that they spend their days in class and do their homework with Trunks and Goten is sort of bonkers. The whole group is apparently in school with Trunks, but Pilaf is most certainly not a child. There are certainly more important matters to discus here, but the questions that the show leaves unanswered regarding Pilaf and his gang continue to amaze and confuse. This maneuver evades Goku Black for the time being, but it doesn’t seem like something as extravagant as time travel is beyond his abilities, which is deeply unnerving. It’s hard to begrudge the show against not indulging in this sort of “fan fiction” where two Goku voice actors could actually square off against each other, but the show literally did this exact thing a few episodes back.įuture Trunks is able to escape the onslaught from Goku Black and goes back 17 years in time, which evidently is the present timeline of Dragon Ball Super. The use of Peter Kelamis or Kirby Morrow as Goku Black would have been an ambitious, albeit fascinating direction.

The casting of Schemmel here is fine-and frankly it make sense-but it honestly feels like the show has spoiled its audience to some degree with its recent casting of Brian Drummond as Duplicate Vegeta. He taunts Trunks over the death of everyone he holds dear and Schemmel is able to bring out this side of the character just as well as he can hit the jovial highs and innocence of regular Goku. The voice actor seems to take this role quite seriously and is determined to make him as intimidating and vindictive as he needs to be. It helps to remember that Schemmel had no context for the character at this point (as well as his work in Xenoverse) other than “evil Goku.” Schemmel’s grasp on the character is now much stronger since he’s actually seen the storyline and read the scripts.

There his take on Goku Black leaves a little to be desired and Schemmel gives Goku Black an inexplicable British accent to some degree. Some early glimpses of Schemmel’s interpretation of the villain could be seen with his recent voice work in the freshly released Dragon Ball video game, Dragon Ball FighterZ. On the topic of Goku Black, it’s so encouraging to see how much Schemmel has upped his game in regards to his work with this character. It’s been a while since we’ve last seen him and such an increase in power wouldn’t be unbelievable. That being said, it would have been nice to see Future Trunks turn Super Saiyan 3 or throw out some sort of new tricks. The whole point of the scene is to illustrate that Trunks is vastly inferior to Goku Black’s tremendous strength. This fight does not disappoint and the rage that Future Trunks experiences turns this into an especially brutal fight. This battle is still merely a tease for what’s to come, but it’s at least some example of the power behind both of these characters. During this time Goku Black also faces off against Super Saiyan Future Trunks, which is a nice way to throw the audience a bone.

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