Dragonball Super manga Volume 1 (Chapter 3)

By Mark Rodriguez

Lord Beerus has seen a premonition of the Super Saiyan God and wishes to fight him. He finds Goku training with Kaioh Sama. After transforming into Super Saiyan 3, Goku is easily taken down by Lord Beerus. Now the God of Destruction sets his sights on Earth and the other Saiyans living there.

Chapter 3- The Rage of Beerus

Kaioh Sama asks if Goku is alright and he says he is but is worried because Bulma is having her birthday party on Earth. Speaking of which, Beerus has already started attacking Gohan and Majin Buu at said birthday party. This places this scene right smack in the middle of the story, complete with an editor's note stating that if you want the full details of Bulma's party, watch The Battle of Gods movie.

Beerus tells them he wanted to know about the Super Saiyan God and they were rude. Gotenks says he was only mad because Majin Buu ate all the pudding and he never got to try any. Beerus says pudding might be common for them but he'd never tasted it before. Gotenks has enough and flies to attack him turning into Super Saiyan 3, but is easily taken down.

Piccolo is about to fight, but Vegeta tells him it's no use since Beerus is the God of Destruction. He remembers him visiting Planet Vegeta as a child and how he treated his father, the King. Bulma steps up to Beerus telling him to stop ruining her birthday party and slaps him. Beerus slaps her back. Vegeta loses it and powers up and starts fighting Beerus, actually smacking him back and hitting him with a huge energy blast.

As Kaioshin watches via his crystal ball on his planet, Elder Kaioshin notices that another planet has disappeared, even though Beerus is on Earth. They notice Lord Champa and Vados looking for 'giant wish granting orbs'. Champa notices that they were overheard and they instantly arrive on Kaioshinkai. Champa asks them what they heard, and the Kaiohshins pretend to have heard nothing. Champa glares at them and leaves. Elder Kaioshin thinks the 'giant wish granting orbs' must be the Namekian Dragonballs, so he decides they should head over there and get them before Champa does.

Beerus realizes that Vegeta is not the Super Saiyan God either and is ready to destroy the planet. Just then Goku arrives and tells him to hold on.

The bonus page shows Vegeta disappointed that he didn't get to show off the bingo dance in manga form.

My thoughts-

I knew they were trying to hurry things along, but I never expected them to just cut through an entire scene and just say 'go watch the movie'. From what I remember, Beerus arrived at Bulma's birthday party and Vegeta recognizes him and tries to keep the others from knowing he's the God of Destruction. Vegeta also tries to prevent anyone from angering him so he wouldn't destroy the planet. Some parts include the Pilaf gang showing up trying to steal the Dragonballs, though nobody takes them seriously. Also Vegeta does a Bingo Dance to distract Beerus when he was irritated, buying them more time.

Like the manga mentioned, Beerus comes across Buu who was eating pudding. Buu refused to share it so this finally angers Beerus enough to start a fight. Another scene the movie had was him challenging Oolong to a game of rock, paper, scissors. If he loses, Beerus will just take his leave. Thanks to Yamcha though, Oolong loses the game and Beerus is ready to blow things up. Of course Goku will show up just in time.

The Dragonball Super anime replaced the Vegeta dance with Vegeta trying to show off his cooking skills. I guess they had to leave something new for the anime so it wouldn't just be a beat-by-beat from the movie. Either way, Vegeta swallows his pride to distract Beerus.

Of course, the major part of this chapter, other than seeing the rest of the Dragonball crew, was seeing how much Vegeta has changed. He actually flips out over seeing Beerus slap Bulma and knock her out. This is a very far cry from the Vegeta in the Android saga that didn't care if Bulma and baby Trunks got blown up while he was busy looking for the Androids. Overall Dragonball Super is the story of how Vegeta became a family man and further character progression for him.

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