Slow clap... To standing ovation! The Cold's Frost Demon Reduction artwork in the bottom panel is simply a joy, I might even make it my wallpaper. I mean I wondered if Ginyu would try to swap with Gohan, but way underestimated his cunning in achieving this, I thought it would be 50/50 if Gohan got caught by it, as a surprise attack. And I find it interesting that 21's black smoke swaps with the soul and not the body. If our Namek friend here were to withdraw the boundaries of his time unstopper, would 4th reduction Coldhan just be pulverised to bits?

Woah, I thought the Kaioshin Hero ripped Elder Moori's head off for a second! Aggravated by the suggestion that Buu could control her.

This is a brilliant sequence, the 130 days later each time would be hilarious in an animated form. Poran is showing a little bit of that personality of will that Shenron has in the super era, especially in Daima when he refuses to grant Gomah an additional wish, as that's just for regulars! Haha.

Booooooo, Poran is no fun!

Ah, scenario two is playing out. The one I had preferred, just according to keikaku!

Ah, sweet release from this endless servitude and suffering. Conflict in her duties as 21's thrall may leave enough of a window of confusion for her to get fully stoned. Or, she takes out horn-bro in one decisive blast, keeping her calcification obscured from 21 long enough that it cannot be stopped before he realises and commands her to maim herself to keep it at bay.

Thought the divine warrior was about to get sneezed into stone for a second, now that's the dirt in the eye I would expect of the Demon Realm!

Boooooo, 21 is counting cards again! Get this demon to the back room, take his chips, and smash his knee caps!

The art on the last few pages has been on top form, I am glad however this chapter is drawing to a conclusion (pun intended), this has been one of the longest chapters evaaaaaaa.

I... have no idea what's going on XD;

Liking the art though! Well done Tanren_kun

Great action! Smooth direction. Looking forward to seeing Son Bra continue to learn her value throughout this final chapter. That she's more than just a ticking time bomb of raw, undisciplined power, but a true hero. This will lead no doubt to her mastering all her tranformations with a clear heart, and without needing to give into her rage to do so and finishing out her growth arc.

Bwahaha I'm Raditz! Here to save the day like in good old ARDBZ!

I forgot for a minute that U18 revealed SSJ3 against Cell in the tournament, U13 Vegeta sure is cocky...

Vegeta on Vegeta crime will be running rampant soon, this is just the first stone.

As much as it is an amusing comic book moment to have the gravity suddenly switch, I'm sure there would be a gradual shift to and from micro-gravity. And it brings up an interesting question that the 'camp asteroid' (ooh err) must have a gravity of approximately 1g for the spectators to be in comfort. Forgive me if this was noted when the gang first is awoken by Piccolo's bubble.

Goten and Trunks should teach the Gohans the fusion dance, just the basic one. That truly would be Ultimate Gohan (pun intended).

Calm down Gohan, you can do neither. He's definitely inherited the Karen spirit from Chichi, out of anyone in the DB cast those two are definitely the ones you'd want to complain to the manager for you.

Wait, I've seen this one, it's Ivan Ooze! XD;

Surely cyborg conversion that is reversible or modular seems like a more advanced and difficult measure of engineering prowess over methods that are completely permanent grafts?

It might even be more advisable to become human again as per(dbm) canon they need regular maintenance? to prevent reduced function. This 'android' civilisation might know a thing or two more about that themselves than 17/18 did in their timelines however.

I guess the absorption needle can be activated reflexively by the body like a insect's stinger when stimulus is provided, access to ki or no. 1 Resposta/e

A thorn in his Gast's no longer (actually he was always incredibly helpful but ya know, wordplay) our devilish little friend takes his leave in the middle of the night!

Can't wait to see what I assume to be the final chapter of their adventures against Gero's androids, and the final battle with Cell Min (as opposed to Cell Max geddit).

Of course, I was really into the main story but it's always like that when it goes to side story chapters....

Clackety clackety clack... It doesn't work!

There's hope for Gotenks saves the day after all!

Goku having a strangely moralistic pragmatic thought about the Ultras, for him anyway...

So do you think all Nameks work out the time freeze counter after witnessing it 3 times? I presume they'd all be able to learn it, but in my opinio only the Piccolos and Gast had the experience within them to figure out the counter like that.

Oh, I'm disappointed our Piccolo wasn't the only one to work out the time freeze counter, Cell probably encountered Vegetto's group and ran off after they turned on him.

10/10 dialogue there from Vegeta, about what motivates him vs Gohan in fights.

Although you don't need the body to revive since Namek saga, so... would that same motivation still apply? Gohan is smart enough to know that he's not preventing them from coming back, even he realised not to dispute poetic Vegeta. 1 Resposta/e

The quiet rage of the prince of all Saiya-jin.

I feel like it will be quiet, or at least carefully controlled, a mature & wise Vegeta in his 60s knows an outburst isn't the best route to revenge OR saving the universe.

Probably wrong though, cue Veggie losing his shid on the next page.

I'm crying ;_;

It looks like Trunks was trying to protect Bra from the spikes, but if time was frozen, was the positioning just coincidental?

I wonder if the other Piccolo is doing this also, or he became less ambitious with Vegetto around?

YAAAAAAAAS Go-go Piccolo-san!!

Anju was 'born' or 'conceived of' in a pocket dimension adjacent to universe 1. Does that mean she is capable of universal travel? Not that that would matter if the bad guy gets his wish, but... I was wondering if it was one of Buu's contingencies.

I'm impressed, Bear Hug is an even more advanced technique than Full Nelson.

Wasn't expecting a so far emotionless training program as Anju to suddenly be a zealot for Buu-sama-sensei-senpai-san-sama.

Must be a toasty spot to sleep, a bed of soft volanic ash and nearby magma veins.

I hope this dimension has good dental ^^;

This art is fantastic, quite distinct from Toriyama-esque illustrations but still feeling in the right universe.

And Mr. Satan is definitely the kind of guy to have a white saviour complex XD; 1 Resposta/e

BOOM! Called it! Here comes a big wave! Even a Cell raised by daddy Gero doesn't give two saibamen about him.

Here we go, Mutually assuredly destructive planet buster time. Shame this Cell doesn't have Freeza's cells, but he knows that neither him or Gast can survive the harsh vacuum of space.

It kinda looks like one of those fragments of the arena under Vegeta's bum is his Saiyan tail having suddenly grown back XD;

This Cell Variant is making a concerted effort in going all out to finish this, just as Gast is doing the same, but will Cell defy his master and engage the countdown on his self-destruct...? I'm assuming this Cell's biological self-destruct is more or less as powerful to destroy the Earth? Main timeline Cell never got to kill Gero, but I have never doubted that he would have. Why not now...? 2 Resposta/e

Ah, the beautiful dramatic irony of Tien's words, the audience knowing that this is still only the tip of the power iceberg.

I am loving the art of this chapter, well done to ...checks chapter cover Bunga!

The panelling is actually quite clever, once you understand it. And that drawing of Cell's variant getting disintegrated by papa Gast is haunting! 1 Resposta/e

I stand corrected! I had forgotten that Gast likes testing his opponents.

Sure, Gast.gif

Uh, guys, I don't think Gast is playing the long game here?! Eventually one of Gast's chapters has to end with a sad ending, doesn't it? With him the last ningen the Vargas would be interested in... Maybe Gast himself regenerates and manages to save humanity at large, but he loses everyone he has fought with this day ;_;

I guess we will find out eventually how Gast became so much stronger by the time of the Multiversal Tournament (training with Freeza for four months in Baba's palace? j/k) or why he is much weaker now. Because of the breaks in the side-story I don't even remember if he has had time to regain his stolen energy?

With Cell and Gast outside, Gero had a moment and saw his notifications popping off. And his soldiers dropping off, one by one. Thorn was easily able to hack Gero's tech, but Gero probably never considered the possible need for defences against advanced alien technology. He is a genius, so it may not have taken him long to reverse Thorn's reversal.

The two Androids fighting Gohan might be stronger than they appear, they seemed to be holding back to successfully steal Gohan's energy. Whereas 28 is being piloted remotely with lethal intent AND the element of surprise of course.

Or, as others have pointed out 28 stole Gast's energy before she was disabled by Hellboy Jr. sidekick buddy what's his name. Uh....... Thorn right?! 1 Resposta/e

A Gohan who never saw his full potential biting it to two Androids is such a sad sight to have to repeat after History of Trunks, even after 32 years. ;_;

I forgot the minicomic was coming back, that moment with South like STOP was so tense!
But nevertheless I'm interested to see the resolution of this Gast story, which I actually was enjoying before. The 'what if Gero and his Androids assumed power' and we just got Red Ribbon Earth is a great concept, and I liked all the different Android designs and their costumes.



I did the same thing haha! I was so disappointed in Cell for just allying with the villains out of spite, for a moment until I saw this Cell is clearly an inferior model!

Any strong warrior could blow up XXI's host body, like Zen Buu did. But isn't XXI's gaseous form sort of impervious to physical damage? Vegetto is a demi-god who came up with the technique that can vaporise Buu, but his entrance in this scene isn't exactly giving 'Brilliant Scientist' (haha ocean dub ref).



I think it's a reference to Woke Up This Morning by Alabama 3, which is also the theme song to The Sopranos, which is why I recognised it.

Yeah baby! I called it (I'm sure many others did too) XXI would definitely know the Namekian for his chosen wish, if not the whole language. That's small fry problem solving for him ^^;

Idk why but I thought 17 and 18 went home after the I'K'L kerfuffle...? Either I totally imagined, or 18 wanted to go home, I will reread.

I wonder if they go through with the wish opening multiversal travel to not only the prime Vargas, how long will it take Zen Buu to notice? He could even sense it immediately, and just burst through as everything is kicking off! (with Uub) He had that whole montage about trying to crack the formula, but that turned out to be a hard rule.

If the Namekian refuses to ask Porunga for this with South piping up in the background, I'm sure XXI knows enough Namekian to simply utter the phrase himself, gagging everyone. It's a fairly basic contingency & if he hadn't learned the language from consuming his universe's Namekians, his dragon could obviously teach him the required phrases.

That's assuming Porunga even can perform the wish, maybe if this is the prime universe Porunga?

Is that a Zamasu Vargas? Cheeky! 1 Resposta/e

The comments of the spectators in the stands are sounding very similar to some of the comments in this thread! This twist may have been planned from the start, not a very shonen ending, but maybe consistent with the creative style of the fan comic?

And just because it's the end of the first multiversal tournament, I hope it doesn't mean the end of DBM yet, as most of the characters expressed a desire to do another tournament without complex magical abilities, just physical fighting and energy projection. Hopefully once the whole XXI debacle is put to bed, we get to see that. Of course conditional upon the universes bringing their own food, and a share of ingredients for the feasts! So they don't apparently causing famine in Vargas world lol.

So are they going to want to break for lunch, and XXI will suddenly get all impatient and throw a bit of a fit, because of how hungry he is? And always having to sit around and wait for everyone else to eat! He will insist that he just gets his 2 wishes, and goes home. And that could lead to the final confrontation? It's just he'll look to all his co-conspirators in the boxes, many of them with predictable Saiyan hunger in their eyes, no one making a peep. And then he'll just kick off, signalling to them all that it now begins, and you to have to fight hungry and mad.

The timestop is so brutal, just turns organic matter into porcelain to be smashed, which is ironic because it doesn't affect the living dolls, inorganic and cyber-organic Jinzoningen. In retrospect of the Gast backstory where the Earth is overrun by Gero's 'Androids', it stands to reason that there might be a universe out there where Gast and his travelling companion were taken out suddenly before they had a chance to find the rest of the gang, and that restored Red Ribbon army is now the dominant group of powerful beings in that universe. The Vargas definitely would have invited them, had they found it. Think of all the distinct uniforms, and little personalities they had. I know the obvious explanation to their absence is that this Gast backstory was not fleshed out when DBM was started and all the universes were decided upon, so my headcanon would be that they were too militant when approached by the Vargas and the Namekians they travelled with. And too well coordinated. But if they had been around when I.K.L was born they could have swarmed him fairly easily, wouldn't you agree? Although they'd probably have been eliminated from the competition by that point.

I was sooo wrong, I'K'L you pre-born abomination!!!!!

Edit: XXI's abilities do feel a bit similar in practice to Raichi's... But through a totally different route.

Goku is the perfect example of sportsmanlike cunning in martial arts. He would assume that XXI has done his research, knows that Goku likes to play fair and draw a fight out, trading blows and gradually escalating power output. And he would subvert that expectation, tactically, by appearing to hesitate... Most readers assume XXI will interrupt Goku's sentence, but personally I hope it's just a setup for Goku to use his first unexpected 'trick', a simple after-image feint perhaps? To remind XXI that everyone in the stadium knows he has no combat ability of his own. So he better hurry up and bring out whatever fighter he's going to summon, because that's the only move he's got that has a chance of victory.

Sage Mode Activate!

Go Goku! You got this!

Uncle Barry's off his bloody rocker!

Is Bra not corruptible now...? Did she learn her lesson from the possession, scaring her straight, and fundamentally purifying her intentions? Crazier things have happened.

I was initially wondering why we couldn't see the burning bike in the wide shot? ^^;
And then after looking at it for the third time, properly this time, I do see it smouldering behind the bushes and pillar of the main pavillion! This art style, while not as dynamic as some of the other main series art, cannot be faulted on its attention to detail :]

It seems Elder Kai also increased ol' Pineapple-Head's Speech Skill by about 50x, he just hasn't noticed that one yet.

This is a goddamn coup!

South's reaction line is sending me XD

The way that eg. the dragon, or the spirit bomb knows how someone is pure hearted, or evil in such a grey world, is already a suspension of disbelief... But Raditz's entire ki essence being able to auto-draw/withdraw is just abusing the mechanics. The only way to redeem this concept, that I can think of is that Raditz could be fighting someone who is tempted by the dark side, and as the fight continues the opponent gives into their darker urges, which ironically for them causes Raditz to gain the upper hand and stomp. Because remember kids, only a sith deals in absolutes. 1 Resposta/e

Elder Kai clicking done on the mysticification dialogue box in 3...2...1...

Raditz forgot to do the obligatory power-up Kiai, duh!

It's kind of adorable that this universe lets Nappa believe he is one of da boys, even though he's basically irrelevant as a fighter and in this case a pawn!

Edit: Also, the fact that Vegeta and Kakarotto see different sides of XXI leads me to think that XXI isn't giving any of them the truth (the whole truth, and nothing but the truth) he's just tailoring what memories he shares with them in the way that will best manipulate them.

The Queen of all Revive Bugs, definitely not cursed.

As everyone else says, Gast could have told the organisers that XXI was intending on knowingly killing and consuming him after he had forfeited. Maybe because he was unable to finish the job, due to the Namekian in the control centre and their stupid strange hearing abilities, he technically didn't kill his opponent after forfeiture, loopholing him into the clear despite intent. I wonder if the Namekian heard XXI's words too, or was it at least in part Namekian telepathy. 1 Resposta/e

Damn, this Almost-perfect Cell (clearly half way between semi and perfect by the colouration) is polite as all hfil. Maybe it's because he doesn't have Freeza's machiavellian genes?

He has a similar ending to the variant of Stephen Strange, from Marvel's What If? Season 1 Episode 4 "What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?" known as Strange Supreme. Well worth watching that episode, even if you don't watch the others.

Hilarious, I like detail of the anime girls shirt.

Also I had a Broly nightmare (not my first) last night, which I definitely think is the result of reading him coming back from the Soul Punisher after being absorbed by Buu leading to the destruction of the known universe. Though that's not what happened in the dream ^^;

Good to have these comic relief pages to pacify his character in my psyche.

Videl has Pan energy, well we know that that apple didn't fall very far from its tree.

And that's what we think about the worst arc in GT, decapitated, boom!

Based on the sequence of panels we can only assume that this is a Super Satan Kamikaze Technique. But if so, why bother with the dummy? Just have it in his armor and when he gets his, job done. But then again, this is only a mini-comic, the whole thing could have been choreographed with Krillin swooping in at the last second. We do all know how good Krillin is at navigating through maze-like rocky cliff environments XD



Maybe the Androids are so used to honing in on powerful ki, that detecting a smaller ki like Mr. Satan is a lot harder?

Woah it's ripped Shenron! Or the jacked lovechild of Shenron and Porunga, hmm.

Not sure why the Vargas are unaware of what occurred during IKL's attack, surely they have technology as basic as a CCTV camera? 2 Resposta/e

Maybe XXI needs a break to trade some of that energy he just consumed from Gast with his genie, for advice on the one surefire way to defeat Goku (there isn't one, that's what makes him the main character).

So if XXI is disqualified, only after having won his match, will Gast be declared the winner of this round instead? Or will his forfeiture hold firm even after his opponent's disqualification. But XXI was technically declared the winner already, so will Goku now just win the whole thing instantly without a final match? That would be enough to ruin even Vegito's mood! ;]

It's Yakon's grandaddy, coming to achieve his revenge the way that will torment Son Goku the most... Defeating him in the final of a multiversal tournament. Oh the shame!

If he can absorb energy and matter, surely he could have tanked even Vegito's attacks? I'm not sure why he needs to employ all this subterfuge and asking his djinn the simplest way to defeat everyone. Unless it is only physical damage that he is vulnerable to? But if you touch his non-corporeal form you might also be consumed. Maybe we need Hélior technology to dice his gaseous form into atoms from a distance.

Edit: Oh and for anyone who has watched MCU's 'What If?' XXI's ability reminds me of that version of Dr Strange that absorbs creatures summoned from the dark dimension to grow stronger. 1 Resposta/e