Dragonball Super manga Volume 2 (Chapter 13)

 By Mark Rodriguez

The tournament between universe 6 and universe 7 is about to end as Goku is facing off against Hit. Hit uses some sort of split second time freeze ability to make it appear that he's moving incredibly fast. Goku thinks he's found a way to defeat him. 

Chapter 13- The Winning Universe is Decided!

Hit says Goku is bluffing and he'll never be able to see through his movements. Goku leaps into battle again and gets socked in the face. As Hit is about to put his hand back into his pocket, Goku leaps right back at him. Hit just barely dodge Goku's rapid punches and even gets grazed on the side of the face. Goku says he managed to make a little bit of contact that time, and Hit wipes the blood off his cheek saying it won't happen again. 

Goku moves in to attack Hit again. Hit is able to phase through Goku's kick. Goku raises his fist behind him and clocks Hit in the jaw as he makes his appearance. Hit is surprised. Goku says he can go .01 seconds into the future, so he just needs to predict where he will move to during that time. Hit asks why Goku told him that since he can move in ways that can't be predicted. Goku says he puts his hands in his pockets to mask his movements because once he does something he can't change his movement. Piccolo says Goku is an idiot for revealing his strategy. 

Goku turns Super Saiyan and says the fun begins now. Hit asks if Goku will turn Super Saiyan Blue, but he says he will save that for later. Hit takes his hands out of his pockets and finally adopts a proper fighting stance, saying Goku is underestimating him. 

Goku and Hit start fighting, each of them phasing out of the way of each others' attacks. Goku finally lands a kick that Hit manages to block. Hit says that if Goku can predict his movements then he will have to travel further into the future then. Goku says he will just have predict his moves even faster then.

Both fighters clash at intense speeds all over the arena, including the air. At this point Roshi can't even tell what's happening anymore. Champa is worried this isn't going anywhere but Vados points out that Hit's time skip doesn't take a lot out of him but Goku is starting to look tired. As they stop for a bit, Hit states that Goku is slowing down a little and asks where all his energy has gone. 

Goku admits he's getting too worn out so he has no choice but to transform. Goten calls the form Super Saiyan Red, and Trunks tells him it's Super Saiyan God. Hit tells him it doesn't matter how many forms or colors he has, he still won't be able to defeat him. Vegeta is saying Goku should skip straight to Super Saiyan Blue already. 

The fight resumes and Hit is unable to attack Goku, and gets socked in the face. Hit is surprised as his time skip was less than the .01 seconds. Goku comes in and manages to smash Hit over the head with a double-axehandle. This time his time skip was even shorter. Whis tells Beerus that Hit's ability only works on people at his skill level or lower, Goku has finally surpassed him. The Super Saiyan Blue can only be used a few times a day since it consumes a lot of energy and at this point Goku can perform better at Super Saiyan God than Vegeta could in Super Saiyan Blue. Hit overhears this and notices how the difference in skill has grown.

Hit braces himself and then lets out a yell. Hit's ki raises immensely as he's now fighting at his full power. He never had to do this before since his time skip would usually end fights quickly. At this point Hit would barely be able to last a minute and can only use the time skip once, but he says it will be enough to end this. Hit puts his hands back into his pockets and is ready to finish the fight. 

Goku flies towards Hit and it seems like the assassin was able to use his time skip moments before Goku's fist could hit him. However, Goku appears right beside him, this time finally using Super Saiyan Blue. Goku says he broke through his time skip and kicks him into the air. The Saiyan powers up and puts everything into a KameHame Ha that actually blasts through the dome. However, Hit managed to dodge to the side. 

The vacuum of space starts sucking up everyone and Vados quickly fixes the hole in the dome. Hit lands and is very impressed. Goku says Hit's an assassin so he probably has some killing techniques he's not allowed to use. Hit asks what if that's true. Goku starts walking backwards and says they should fight again at another time. Goku steps out of the ring, making Hit the winner.

Goku says he didn't want to miss the chance to see Monaka in action. Beerus calls Goku an idiot. Vegeta asks Goku why he did that if he could have won the fight. Goku says Vegeta might have won as well had he saved energy for the Super Saiyan Blue form. He asks why he turned Super Saiyan against Cabba. Vegeta says he couldn't help set him on the right path.

Monaka bravely steps up to face Hit, even though he is literally shaking in his boots. Beerus yells that he's done for, and Hit understands the situation. Monaka runs at Hit and meekly punches him in the knee. Hit throws himself out of bounds, throwing the fight. Everyone is shocked and only Goku thinks that Monaka is truly amazing. Monaka is officially the winner of the Universal Tournament. 

Hit thinks to himself that this makes him even with Son Goku. Champa is furious and Hit says he doesn't want the cube spaceship anymore, he just wants to go home. Beerus calls over to Champa who thinks he's just rubbing it in, but he points out that Zeno, the Lord of Everything himself has arrived. Beerus, Champa, Whis, Vados and the Kaioshins quickly go to bow and show their respect.

Zeno says that this tournament was held without his permission. However, he was entertained and decided he might want to run his own tournament eventually but with all the universes. Goku is excited and offers him a handshake as a way to promise this event. Everyone is shocked, including Zeno's bodyguards, but Zeno shakes his hand happily and promises to hold this event. Zeno and his bodyguards leave while everyone is relieved. Beerus tells Goku that Zeno can wipe an entire universe from existence in the blink of an eye if he felt like it.

The Super Dragonballs are gathered, the last one being the planet they were actually on, and Super Sheng Long is as huge as a planetitmself. Beerus made his wish but kept it secret from the others. As Champa's crew head back home, Vados notices that the Earth in their universe has returned and the humans there are also able to create delicious dishes. Champa says Beerus is always annoying him. Whis comments on how nice that was of Beerus to make that wish and the God of Destruction says he only did it so Champa would owe him a favor later. 

Goku is excited about the multiverse tournament coming up and also wants to fight Monaka. Beerus says to stay away as Monaka is their most prized warrior. As the heroes fly home in their own ship, their fight is far from over. 

The bonus gag page has Goku shake one of the Galactic King's tentacles and thanks him for telling him about Hit's technique. The Galactic King tells him that's not his tentacle. No comment there.

My opinions- 

This was a pretty action-packed chapter with great fighting scenes. I'm surprised the entire fight with Hit as well as the appearance of Zeno and the wish with the Super Dragonballs was all done in a single chapter. When compared to the anime, the fight between Goku and Hit played out very differently.

In the manga Goku focused more on conserving power, fighting mostly in Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan God forms. He only used his Super Saiyan Blue until the very end. The anime went in the other direction; rather than conserve energy, Goku probably overexerted himself when he used the Kaioh Ken on top of Super Saiyan Blue. I still remember the jokes about 'you know you're in trouble when your opponent's aura has its own aura'.

Sadly this will be the last time we will see Goku and Vegeta in their new outfits, which I consider the 'Dragonball Super' outfits. It's a shame because as I mentioned before, it would make the series stand out more on its own. In the anime version they got to wear these outfits during the Resurrection F and Universe 6 arcs, but since the manga skipped the Freeza part, they've become an even smaller footnote than they were already. Oh well, we'll always have the figures and statues of them.

Overall the tournament 6 arc was a lot of fun and introduced a lot of cool characters that we get see again in the second tournament arc. In the anime we also get a few filler episodes where Goten and Trunks hang out with Monaka and one where Hit was sent after Goku. In the second arc it turns out Goku actually put the hit out on himself since he knew Hit would only use his assassination techniques during an actual assignment, and Goku wanted to fight him at his best. Then we also got the baseball episode, which actually gave Yamcha a chance to shine. 

I still say we should have gotten a filler episode where Cabba took Vegeta to visit planet Sadla though.