It probably would have been an easy way to contrive a way that Goku couldn't just instant transmission some reinforcements in. A barrier of some kind or some property of the place they fought. Contrivance is easy.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI've always said that they probably could have found a way to both keep the Spirit Bomb part and have Gohan come in and finish things, but that's not what Toriyama wanted to do.
Goku was back in the drivers seat, and he was sticking with that, all other solutions be damned.
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Goku was still worried against Kid Buu, because he was burning through his stamina and energy with 3 while Buu didn't tire out at all. Even if Kid Buu was weaker, Goku didn't have enough power to straight up finish him off and the longer the fight dragged on, the worse it was for him.
Goku didn't even consider fighting super Buu without using fusion. He seemed pretty fine with not using it against Kid Buu despite getting a new set of earrings to use.
While I am pretty sure it was anime filler Gohan Buu took Goku and Vegeta to the cleaners without much of an effort.
"Shall I use you, or make you mine... I'm not so sure what I'll do." - DorthyBtw, Chapter 35 of Super is officially out.
I'm amused that the manga makes no attempt to hide that Hit is a jobber, in the purest sense of the word, not the meme it's turned into.
His only two fights are just to show off the strength of his opponents, whether it's Goku figuring out his time skip or showing how Jiren measures to Goku.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.So, it's less that they skipped Omen and more that they moved Goku vs Jiren Round 1 and Hit losing to Jiren to earlier in the tournament.
Hit used a move that trapped Jiren in time in both versions and Jiren overcame said move just by being stronger/faster, so I wonder if that was part of the outline. Interesting that Hit trained his body to a level comparable to Perfect Super Saiyan Blue in the time in-between the two tournaments, as he was far below Super Saiyan Blue last time we saw him. Unfortunately, that decision makes Hit much more boring of a fighter. Also interesting that Goku can do Perfect Super Saiyan Blue with no downsides, health-wise or stamina-wise.
Oh yeah, we also got that moment of Krillin saying that Goku should have more and Whis correcting him that Goku's already at maximum, though it makes less sense here because I don't think Krillin knows about Perfect Super Saiyan Blue, so instead of thinking he could use a higher level of Kaioken, we have Krillin oddly wondering whether Goku has another transformation or not.
Finally, this fight was, compared to the two fights in the anime it combined, really boring and plain. Say one thing about the manga: the artwork is usually on point, but not here. Goku looks fine, but after multiple chapters of Jiren looking like some kind of glorious muscle-god, he looks really off here. The fight itself is also a lot less dynamic and interesting than either of these fights in the anime, amounting to half a chapter of just Goku and/or Hit punching and kicking Jiren while he stands stock-still and blocks.
Like, the only high points in this chapter are directly stolen from the anime, which did them better. The only original thing that was even conceptually better was having Goku and Hit team up, which was so unbelievably boring in execution that it retroactively makes the idea seem worse. The art and action's not even good, which is the one thing you could always say the manga was doing well up until now.
I think some of Toyotaro's weaknesses as a fanart drawer are being brought out by it though, the actual images are fine but the compositions are a bit lacking, if that makes sense, which weakens the action in the manga.
"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"I don't care enough to read the manga, but I do always find the "competition" mindset with this kind of thing interesting. For example, more than just preferring the anime, it often comes off like Pushover looks for any opportunity to insult the manga, at least to me.
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Honestly, while I mostly prefer the anime, in this case, I like the manga's portrayal of Hit's trick on Jiren.
It's like how Zoom's powers work in the comics.
In the long run, I'm mostly interested in how the two stories portray the different situations.
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There's no reason for Kid Buu to be stronger though since Super Buu is a by product of Kid and Fat.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.