Dragon Ball Super Has Officially Made Super Saiyan Completely Useless
Recent developments in Dragon Ball Super suggest that the hit manga series may be looking to slowly phase out the multitude of Super Saiyan forms in favor of new techniques like Ultra Instinct. Dragon Ball is known for beinga series chock full of transformations, techniques and power ups. Of this myriad, the iconic Super Saiyan form stands out as one of the most popular and perhaps intrinsic to the story of Dragon Ball.
The Dragon Ball series penned by legendary mangaka Akira Toriyama first introduced the idea of Super Saiyans in chapter 204, titled “Farewell, Son Goku.” In a brief mention by Nappa that is almost treated as a throwaway line, the brutish Saiyan jokingly talks about how the mixing of Saiyan and Earthling blood could create a Super Saiyan. Though the origin of this term was meager, it certainly became a staple of the series soon after with the events of Dragon Ball’s Namek Saga culminating in Goku’s transformation into a Super Saiyan. Since then, the Super Saiyan transformation has spawned dozens of variants, including the various Super Saiyan grades, Super Saiyans 2 and 3 as well as Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue just to name a few.
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In an interview for the 2013 film Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, Akira Toriyama mentioned that he was resistant to the idea of Goku achieving an even more macho form or a new flashy transformation. This of course led to the final design of Super Saiyan God, which actually appears as if it condenses Goku’s muscle, and gives him a skinnier frame. Additionally instead of a drastic change in appearance, only his hair color and eyes transform. Later on in a 2014 interview with Naho Ooishi, when
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