DRAGON BALL SUPER EPISODE 33

The tournament for the fate of planet Earth kicks off with a satisfying start as Goku takes on Botamo & bizarro Frieza!

By Daniel Kurland | September 17, 2017 | | Comments count:0

This Dragon Ball Super review contains spoilers.

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Dragon Ball Super Episode 33

“What about my final form?”

“Final khung, my ass!”

After much anticipation, this tournament between universes is finally ready to begin. A lot of time has been spent setting all of this into lớn motion over the past few installments & this official kiông chồng off does not disappoint. In fact, it’s one of more satisfying episodes of Dragon Ball Super in some time and a strong reminder of how fun this show can be when it really gets going.

While it might have been more interesting lớn build up lớn Goku kicking his way through Universe 6’s collective asses, I can also underst& the temptation of having hlặng be the first one to represent Universe 7. It’s a decision that also logistically means that he will be losing because why bother going through such an orgiảm giá khuyến mãi of assembling a team và figuring out its order if you’re only going khổng lồ have the first thành viên having any fun?

When the fight between Goku and Botamo begins, there’s some appropriate lameness and plot conveniences going on, lượt thích how someone such as Goku that should be way stronger than Botamo is initially showing signs of struggling during the early stages of the fight due to having “overeaten” on their trip over to lớn the Planet With No Name. Thankfully indigestion doesn’t cost Goku the match. Plot contrivances aside, anything that leads khổng lồ Goku và Botamo’s fight being more balanced ends up resulting in a match that’s a lot more engaging than if Goku just beat the guy in one blast. Let’s have some fun with this, right? This is also the first fight. Universe 7 has khổng lồ make a name for themselves, after all.

Last episode saw Majin Buu getting disqualified from the proceedings, but Botamo’s bouncy, rubber-lượt thích nature feels lượt thích it has much of the choreography of what one of these fights with Buu would look lượt thích. Only Goku gets to fight the guy. Unsurprisingly, Goku is much faster than this Winnie the Pooh reject, but in spite of superb tốc độ, Botamo’s mass seems to lớn be absorbing every attachồng that Goku throws at hlặng. It’s also all too cute that it’s Vegeta that gives Goku his winning strategy here (while still managing lớn be insulting) and inspires Goku lớn simply throw Botamo out of the ring. It’s that sort of thinking—that Goku is so often in capable of—that makes these tournaments so interesting. It’s not just strength; it’s strategy.

After Botamo’s rather quichồng defeat, Frost is the next one up from Universe 6 & it’s nice lớn see Dragon Ball Super not making us wait to lớn see this character in action. Of course we want lớn get to lớn that bizarro version of Frieza! Who cares about weird robots! Frost’s early appearance is a welcome surprise here, as well as getting his glorious backstory that he’s some sort of super philanthropist for Universe 6. The mini-montage he gets regarding his charity work (that’s right) is a fantastic gag and yet another reminder of why this multiverse concept is the most interesting thing that the Dragon Ball universe has done in a long time. Even decisions lượt thích making Frieza’s double ultra-nice instead of being a murderous tyrant are super obvious, but still deeply satisfying.

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The episode even goes as far as khổng lồ have Frost deliver a lengthy speech that’s the equivalent of, “Yo, sorry we’re all in this fight against one another because violence really isn’t the answer.” The whole reason the guy is even fighting in this tournament khổng lồ begin with is so he can rid his world of war, so, dude’s definitely on the glass half honorable side of things.

Once the battle between Goku & Frost gets underway, it’s pretty glorious to lớn see Goku & Vegeta obviously being well aware of Frost’s many transformations & forms due to their heavy experience with Frieza (the guys are the preeminent experts on Frieza extermination at this point). Goku tells Frost to lớn quit wasting time và lớn just transsize already và get it over with, a request that takes the wind out of the alien’s sails pretty quickly. Vegeta also straight up insults the laborious nature of “final forms” in a beautiful nod khổng lồ the audience over the wasteful, drawn out nature of the original battle with Frieza on Namek. This is the sort of self-aware Dragon Ball that I’m looking for. Play into lớn the meme culture. You know what you are.

It’s also a small touch, but it’s really satisfying lớn see Frost laying focus inlớn Frieza’s third transformation, which is not only the most Cronenberg looking one of the lot, but the one that’s been given the least amount of attention throughout the show’s run. A lot of this stuff may feel like rampant bạn fiction and wish fulfillment in some ways, but hey, when a property has been around for this long, it’s not surprising to lớn see the creator & staff building the same desires of the fanbase.

This all leads to lớn some pleasant, “You show me yours, & I’ll show you mine” between Goku & his opponent. Goku responds khổng lồ Frost’s third size by going Super Saiyan (yawn), to lớn which Frost finally goes to lớn his final form. Apparently this guy doesn’t know how lớn “go gold” yet. While Goku just going Super Saiyan here might be a little underwhelming, it does showcase a smart aspect of this tournament in which this is an endurance match. These guys need lớn conserve their strength. The series has spoken at length to which the ways in which Super Saiyan God & Super Saiyan Blue can drain the body toàn thân of its faculties. To see Goku playing it safe in these early stages rather than being arrogant and wasteful of his energy is encouraging (it’s also a strategy that Frost is slyly trying khổng lồ put into lớn practice, too). Besides, none of this power conservation talk ends up mattering anyway because even though a simple Super Saiyan makes swift work of Frost, Goku suddenly takes a turn for the worse & Frost is able khổng lồ knoông chồng hyên ổn out of bounds.