Dragon Ball Z Vol. 22
- ISBN
- 9781421500515
- Publisher
- VIZ
- English release
- Pages
- 192
Dragon Ball Z 22 follows the tournament volume with a request for help from the Lord of Lords. Continue here for the threat behind that intervention, with the preceding book supplying the tournament setting. VIZ's description makes the new conflict depend on what an enemy can obtain from the heroes' power. This changes the purpose of the confrontation beyond demonstrating who fights best. The spoiler discussion examines that objective without identifying the concealed enemy hinted at in the publisher's closing sentence.
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The enemy's objective makes combat more complicated than a contest with a winner. VIZ describes Bobbidi gathering energy to revive Boo and stocking a buried spaceship with opponents who can defeat the heroes and feed their power to the imprisoned being. Under that plan, the heroes are valuable as a resource as well as dangerous as opponents. Compared with the preceding volume's tournament premise, the distinction changes what success must prevent: stopping an individual adversary is only part of stopping the larger operation. This does not mean that every blow automatically strengthens Boo, or that refusing all combat would solve the problem. Those would require evidence beyond the publisher's account. The supported turn is narrower: the confrontation has an intended product outside the fighters' immediate victory or defeat.
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