Dragon Ball Super – Part Three [Blu-ray]

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

art 3 of Dragon Ball Super picks up where Part 2 left off, which was right at the tail end of the battle with Golden Frieza. Fans have expressed frustration about the sets not including full “sagas,” a situation that could have been remedied by any one of the first three volumes having 14 episodes instead of 13. Regardless, Frieza is quickly defeated in the first episode, and that leads into the new material for Super.

Champa and Vados, the counterparts to Beerus and Whis, are properly introduced in this volume, after having been hinted at several episodes prior. Champa and Vados hail from “Universe 6,” a twin or parallel universe to our Universe 7, and one of the 12 Universes in the newly expanded world of Dragon Ball. There are a few introductory episodes (including one that has a lot of recycled animation serving as flashbacks) before we move into the main structure of this story. Once we get past that, Super’s new content starts with a classic shonen staple: a tournament arc.

The benefit of a tournament arc in anime and manga is that it allows for the relatively quick introduction of numerous characters, with some background on all of them, and it streamlines character development. In Dragon Ball Super’s “Universe 6 vs. Universe 7 Tournament,” we meet fighters from Universe 6 who offer striking parallels to characters with whom we are already familiar. This concept will be expanded upon during another major arc later in the series’ run, but for now, the character interactions are all interesting, and there is a fun subversion of expected character archetypes based on what we know about Universe 7’s characters from experience with Dragon Ball and DBZ.

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Sean Schemmel, Christopher R. Sabat, Jason Douglas
Directors: Rawly Pickens
Format: Animated, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: Japanese (Dolby TrueHD 2.0), English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 2
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: Funimation
DVD Release Date: February 20, 2018
Run Time: 325 minutes
ASIN: B077MT96BK