Recaps

Krillin led Goku, Vegeta, Bardock, and Gohan across desolate Planet Vampa to find Broly, whose power could keep growing without an observed limit. They reached Broly’s crude shelter and found him staring at the five Saiyans, leaving their first meeting poised to begin.

• Goku, Vegeta, Bardock, Gohan, and Krillin arrived on Planet Vampa and discovered signs of huge beasts and a crater likely made by Broly.
• Krillin sensed two Saiyan ki signatures seven kilometers to the southeast and led the group there by flying so Broly would have time to sense their approach.
• Gohan asked about Broly’s power, and Krillin explained that it continued to grow as long as a fight went on, with no ceiling yet observed.
• The group reached Broly’s shelter, where Broly stood beside his wrecked spaceship wearing a metal control collar and recognized the visitors as his kind.
• Goku greeted Broly with eager fighting spirit, while Krillin called him another monster.

Goku and the others met Broly on Planet Vampa, where Paragus used a shock collar to force his son to fight. Krillin destroyed the controller and collar, then threatened Paragus, leaving him trembling before the group.

• Goku greeted Broly, who responded shyly and showed no hostility, while Vegeta sensed the immense, volatile power restrained inside him.
• Paragus ordered Broly to take a fighting stance and shocked him through the collar, forcing him to face Goku and the others.
• Krillin crushed Paragus's controller and broke Broly's collar, ending the electrical shocks.
• Paragus accused Krillin of endangering everyone by removing the collar, but Krillin's glare forced him to his knees.
• Krillin warned Paragus to stop treating Broly as a tool or he would silence him forever.

Paragus explained how King Vegeta exiled infant Broly and how the two became stranded on Planet Vampa. Krillin ordered them to return to Earth, while Goku befriended Broly and Vegeta recognized the depth of his untapped strength.

• Paragus recognized Vegeta and Bardock, then explained that King Vegeta exiled Broly because his birth power threatened the royal family.
• Paragus said he stole a spaceship to follow Broly, but a storm wrecked it and left them stranded on Planet Vampa for decades.
• Goku introduced himself to Broly and offered friendship, and Broly cautiously accepted his hand.
• Krillin told Paragus and Broly to pack and come back to Earth, and Paragus swallowed his objection.
• Vegeta asked Broly about his fighting experience and realized Broly had immense untapped power despite never fighting warriors or learning to use Ki.

Gohan began a training fight with Broly on Planet Vampa to help him overcome his fear of his own power and learn control. After Broly’s first attacks failed, Gohan explained how to improve his technique and invited him to try again.

• Krillin asked Gohan to fight Broly, explaining that Broly feared his power because Paragus had punished him whenever it erupted.
• Gohan agreed to guide Broly, and Krillin warned him not to hold back because Broly might overpower him.
• Broly looked to Paragus for permission, but Krillin’s pressure silenced Paragus, so Broly joined Gohan in the open wasteland.
• Broly charged and threw punches, while Gohan dodged and redirected his attacks with minimal movement.
• Gohan told Broly that he was relying on his arms instead of coordinating the strength of his whole body, then offered to let Broly attack again without dodging.

Gohan fought Broly to help him unleash and adapt to his power, but Broly's strength kept growing throughout their battle. The chapter ended as Broly's green aura erupted and his power awakened fully.

• Gohan blocked Broly's attacks in his base form and watched him rapidly improve his fighting technique.
• Gohan transformed into Mystic Gohan and urged Broly to unleash his full power.
• Broly broke free of his restraints, struck Gohan with a powerful blow, and then fought him in a fierce hand-to-hand battle.
• Gohan suppressed Broly's rampaging momentum while Broly's strength and fighting skill continued to grow.
• Broly's green aura erupted, shaking Planet Vampa as his power awakened fully.
• Krillin watched Broly's awakening and remarked that it had happened faster than expected.

Broly’s shattered control collar triggered his transformation into the Legendary Super Saiyan, whose power kept rising as he fought Gohan. After Broly overwhelmed Gohan with increasingly adaptive attacks, Gohan realized he had to get serious.

• Broly transformed into the Legendary Super Saiyan, and the system reported that his battle power exceeded early Super Saiyan 4 levels and continued to rise.
• Paragus despaired as Broly’s uncontrolled power surged, while Krillin and the others watched the transformation.
• Broly struck Gohan through several mountains, but Gohan climbed out of the crater with only a bruise and a cut.
• Gohan noticed that Broly was rapidly improving his combat instincts and techniques during their fight.
• Broly’s heavy punches forced Gohan backward until Gohan decided he had to get serious.

Gohan transformed into Beast Super Saiyan 4 and initially overwhelmed Broly, but Broly’s power kept rising until he matched Gohan’s speed and unleashed another surge of Legendary Super Saiyan strength. The chapter ended with Broly’s ki tearing through Planet Vampa’s clouds as Bardock and Krillin watched in awe.

• Gohan transformed into Beast Super Saiyan 4 and knocked Broly back with a series of powerful attacks.
• Broly recovered from his injuries, grew stronger, and charged back into the fight.
• Gohan used his combat skill to target Broly’s vital points, but Broly’s attacks grew heavier as his power rose.
• Broly caught Gohan’s fist and headbutted him, leaving Gohan bleeding and forcing them apart.
• Broly roared and unleashed a massive green ki pillar that tore through Planet Vampa’s clouds while Paragus trembled on the ground and Bardock and Krillin watched.

Gohan fought Broly on Planet Vampa as Broly's strength and healing continued to grow, pushing Gohan toward defeat. By uniting his Saiyan instincts, Mystic Realm divinity, and Beast Factor under his resolve to protect his loved ones, Gohan broke through his bottleneck and awakened a new power.

• Broly's rapidly increasing strength overwhelmed Gohan in close combat, leaving him injured as Vegeta and Goku watched.
• Gohan chose to guide Broly rather than simply overpower him, but their clashing fists sent him flying and broke his fingers.
• Gohan reflected on his past and realized that his deepest power came from his resolve to protect his family and friends.
• Gohan's three inner forces united, breaking the barrier that had held back his power.
• Gohan caught Broly's killing blow in his palm, then released a dazzling new pressure across Planet Vampa.

Gohan transformed into Beast Form and fought Broly in a prolonged battle across the wasteland. Though Gohan landed powerful attacks, Broly kept evolving and his growing strength pushed Gohan to his limits.

• Gohan awakened Beast Form, which the System Panel identified as his unique evolutionary endpoint driven by the will to protect.
• Gohan struck Broly hard enough to send him crashing through rocks, while Goku, Vegeta, and Bardock watched in shock.
• Broly's power surged, and he traded increasingly destructive blows with Gohan across the battlefield.
• Broly seized Gohan and slammed him into the ground, but Gohan countered with an uppercut and a barrage of punches.
• Broly bit at Gohan during their close-range struggle, so Gohan blasted him away with an Energy Blast.
• Broly continued growing stronger as the fight wore on, forcing the wounded Gohan to focus on every attack and wonder where Broly's limit lay.

Gohan and Broly’s battle threatened to destroy Planet Vampa until Krillin stopped them and ended the spar. Watching the three Saiyans’ different paths of evolution, Vegeta sensed the beginning of a power uniquely his own.

• Gohan struck Broly hard enough to bury him beneath the mountain rubble, but Broly emerged and grew stronger, shaking Planet Vampa.
• As Gohan and Broly prepared to collide with their full strength, Krillin appeared between them and absorbed their energy into a ball, then sent it through a spatial rift.
• Krillin called off the spar, and Broly returned to normal before his stomach growled; Goku laughed, and Krillin returned Broly’s glasses.
• Vegeta compared Gohan’s Beast branch, Broly’s primal power, and Goku’s Super Saiyan 5, then sensed the outline of a power belonging to the Saiyan Prince.

After Broly lost control during his fight with Gohan, Krillin reassured him that Gohan and Goku would help him train on Earth and surprised him by promising to introduce him to a girlfriend. Krillin then took the group from Planet Vampa to New Namek, where he planned to ask Porunga to resolve some troublesome matters.

• Broly admitted that he remembered little from the fight, and Gohan offered to teach him to control his power during future training.
• Goku reassured Broly that he was not angry about nearly hurting Gohan, while Krillin told Broly to train hard on Earth.
• Krillin said he would introduce Broly to a girlfriend, leaving Broly embarrassed and prompting Goku to laugh and Vegeta to mock the idea.
• Krillin announced that they would stop at Namek so he could ask Porunga to handle some troublesome matters.
• Krillin used his power to transport Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Bardock, Broly, and Paragus from Planet Vampa to New Namek.

Krillin brought Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Bardock, and Broly to New Namek to borrow Porunga, where Piccolo and Grand Elder Mori had already prepared the Dragon Balls. After the Namekians recognized Piccolo’s Dragon God aura and welcomed their visitors, Krillin announced they were ready to summon Porunga.

• Piccolo arrived ahead of Krillin and worked with Grand Elder Mori to gather all seven Dragon Balls.
• Krillin and six others arrived on New Namek, and Piccolo met Broly and sensed the ancient power within him.
• Grand Elder Mori welcomed Krillin and Goku, then learned that Bardock was Goku’s father.
• Piccolo revealed his Golden Divine Mark, prompting Mori and the other Namekians to kneel before his Dragon God aura.
• Namekians gathered to see their former benefactors, while Broly marveled at the crowded, green world.
• Krillin confirmed with Mori that they could summon Porunga and told the group to begin.

Krillin used the Namekian Dragon Balls to resurrect Frieza and make him permanently five centimeters taller in every form. Frieza and Vegeta traded threats, then Frieza and Bardock faced off as Krillin intervened to make the final wish.

• Grand Elder Mori summoned Porunga, and Krillin wished for Frieza to be resurrected with his body fully restored.
• Porunga brought Frieza back to life, and Frieza inspected his restored fourth-form body.
• Krillin's second wish made Frieza five centimeters taller permanently, delighting Frieza and drawing mockery from Goku and Vegeta.
• Frieza answered Vegeta's taunts with a reminder that King Vegeta had knelt before him, and Vegeta warned Frieza not to mistake resurrection for power.
• Frieza and Bardock faced each other as Bardock's anger over Planet Vegeta's destruction surged into golden energy.
• Krillin stepped between Frieza and Bardock and reminded everyone that one wish remained.

Krillin used Porunga to revive Gine and Raditz, reuniting Bardock’s family on the planet. He then proposed awakening Bardock as a Super Saiyan God and said he could adjust the ritual’s requirements.

• Piccolo modified Porunga’s rules, allowing the dragon to revive Gine and Raditz at the same time.
• Gine reunited with Bardock and Goku, learned that Goku had a son, and met her grandson Gohan.
• Raditz revived and found himself surrounded by powerful fighters; Gine comforted him as Bardock, Goku, and Gohan gathered around.
• Frieza mocked the Saiyan family, and Vegeta threatened him before Krillin redirected everyone to the next task.
• Krillin told Bardock to prepare for the Super Saiyan God awakening ritual, which required six Saiyans with hearts of justice, then said he could adjust the requirements.

Krillin led six Saiyans in a modified Super Saiyan God ritual that transformed Bardock into a god. Bardock then fixed his gaze on Frieza, whose contemptuous taunt set the stage for their battle.

• Krillin explained the bloodline-based ritual and gathered Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Paragus, Broly, and Raditz around Bardock.
• The six Saiyans transformed or released their bloodline ki and poured their power into Bardock.
• Bardock experienced visions of Yamoshi and ancient Saiyans, then awakened as a Super Saiyan God with red hair and a red aura.
• Krillin assessed Bardock's new form as Fifth Dimension, while Goku asked whether he could turn his hair red too.
• Bardock stared down Frieza, who mocked his transformation, and Bardock's hatred flared as he prepared to fight.

Bardock initially overwhelmed Frieza in his crimson form, but Frieza transformed into Golden Frieza and revealed power greater than Bardock’s. The two clashed in a fierce, evenly matched fight, ending with Frieza forced back and furious that Bardock could stand against him.

• Bardock battered Frieza with a barrage of punches, driving him through the grassland and into a boulder.
• Frieza escaped Bardock’s close-range assault and transformed into Golden Frieza, shaking New Namek with his power.
• Krillin’s System Panel assessed Golden Frieza’s battle power as 7-dimensional, higher than Bardock’s Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form.
• Goku watched without joining the fight, while Krillin considered how each fighter’s strengths and weaknesses might decide the battle.
• Frieza and Bardock exchanged rapid attacks, countering each other’s punches, knees, elbows, and tail strikes.
• Bardock met Frieza’s punch head-on and forced him back half a step, leaving Frieza humiliated and enraged.

Golden Frieza brutally overwhelmed Bardock and taunted him over the Saiyans’ destruction, while Goku and the others watched without intervening. Frieza gave Bardock one more chance to stand, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Frieza battered Bardock across the battlefield, breaking his left shoulder and wrenching his right wrist until both arms were useless.
• Frieza pinned Bardock face-down in the dirt and ordered him to stay on his knees, while Gine and Raditz watched helplessly.
• Goku asked Krillin to let him join the fight, but Krillin refused because Bardock wanted to win on his own.
• Vegeta told Goku to respect Bardock as a warrior and not interfere.
• Frieza lifted his foot from Bardock’s back and challenged him to stand up again.

Bardock awakened a nascent Super Saiyan Blue form on New Namek, healing his injuries and confronting Frieza with newly overwhelming power. The chapter ended with Bardock landing a punch that made Golden Frieza cough up blood.

• Bardock forced himself to stand despite his shattered body and remembered Gine, Kakarot, and the destruction of Planet Vegeta.
• Bardock compressed his crimson divine flames until icy-blue energy emerged and deflected Frieza's Death Beam.
• Goku, Gine, Vegeta, Raditz, Broly, Gohan, and Krillin reacted as Bardock's aura awakened across New Namek.
• Krillin's System Panel identified Bardock as a nascent Super Saiyan Blue at the seventh dimension.
• Bardock's blue light healed his injuries and transformed his hair and eyes, prompting Frieza to retreat half a step.
• Bardock vanished and struck Frieza in the abdomen, making Golden Frieza cough up purple blood.

Bardock fought Frieza in his newly awakened Super Blue form, using brutal tactics and enough power to withstand Frieza’s attacks. As the battle continued, Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Krillin, Raditz, and Broly watched, while Krillin warned that Bardock’s body might soon reach its limit.

• Bardock struck Frieza with a series of ruthless attacks, exploiting his opponent’s blind spots and injuring him.
• Frieza unleashed a huge sphere of golden energy, but Bardock resisted it and tore it apart from within.
• Frieza dropped his contempt and recognized that Bardock’s battle power had caught up to his own.
• Goku praised his father’s strength, while Vegeta analyzed Bardock’s form and felt his own ambition stir.
• Gohan and Krillin assessed Bardock’s energy control, and Krillin warned that the strain of Super Blue could soon overwhelm him.
• Raditz marveled at Bardock’s strength, while Broly watched with growing intensity.

Bardock and Frieza continued their battle on New Namek as Frieza’s Golden Frieza form began to falter, but both fighters pushed themselves toward their limits. After Frieza’s golden energy blast swallowed Bardock, Krillin urged Goku to believe in him.

• Bardock noticed Frieza’s slowing movements and struck him, while Frieza countered and both fighters were badly injured in their next clash.
• Frieza acknowledged Bardock as a warrior worth taking seriously, and Bardock refused to yield as Gine silently urged him to win.
• Frieza’s Golden Frieza form continued to weaken, but he attacked Bardock with lethal force while Bardock fought on despite his worsening injuries.
• Frieza formed a gigantic golden Energy Ball and fired a pillar of light that shattered Bardock’s barrier and swallowed him in dust.
• Goku began to move toward the battlefield, but Krillin stopped him and told him to believe in Bardock.

Bardock exhausted his blue transformation to land a decisive punch on Golden Frieza, and Krillin stopped the fight and treated Bardock while restraining Frieza. After Frieza accepted that he had been used as Bardock’s test, Krillin laid out the conditions for Frieza’s freedom, including a ban on rebuilding the Frieza Force.

• Frieza fired a Death Beam that pierced Bardock’s shoulder, but Bardock used his remaining strength to punch Frieza and knock him down as his blue aura faded.
• Krillin healed Bardock and pinned Frieza with an invisible force, ending the fight despite both warriors insisting they could continue.
• Goku supported Bardock, and Gine joined them as Bardock recovered from the battle.
• Frieza accused Krillin of arranging the fight to use him as a whetstone, and Krillin pointed out that Frieza had regained his body, grown taller, and tested his Golden Frieza form.
• Krillin told Frieza he could move and train freely and challenge the Saiyans, but forbade him from massacring people, destroying civilizations or inhabited planets, and rebuilding the Frieza Force.

Krillin forced Frieza to obey his rules by threatening to undo the wish that had made him taller, then healed him and Bardock. After Frieza left, Goku asked Bardock to teach him Super Blue, and Krillin outlined the next plans, including finding Broly a girlfriend.

• Krillin warned Frieza that he would send him back to Hell and undo the second wish if he broke the rules, and Frieza reluctantly agreed to behave.
• Krillin healed Bardock and Frieza, and Frieza walked away across New Namek.
• Goku asked Bardock to teach him the blue form, and Bardock said they would talk about it later.
• Vegeta and Gohan pointed out that Bardock needed steadier control of divine ki to master Super Blue.
• Krillin said the group would discuss Super Space-Time Training on Earth and announced he would find Broly a girlfriend.

After bringing Bardock, Gine, and Broly to Earth, Krillin arranged their stay at Mount Paozu and prepared a team to travel to Universe 12 for advanced technology. The group crossed a spatial rift and entered the universe, leaving their research mission about to begin.

• Krillin returned to Earth with Bardock, Gine, and Broly, and Bulma gave them key cards and arranged supplies.
• Krillin set up houses and chef robots at Mount Paozu, where Broly explored the grass and clear night sky.
• Krillin teleported Broly, Paragus, and Goku's family to Mount Paozu, while Raditz remained withdrawn at Capsule Corporation.
• Krillin told Bulma, Vomi, Ailins, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, and Yamcha that they needed Universe 12's technology to upgrade the Purple-Gold Martial God Core and other systems.
• After the group packed their equipment, Krillin opened a spatial rift and led them into Universe 12.

Krillin’s group visited Universe 12’s Orbital Academy of Sciences for a technical exchange, where Bulma and Vomi exposed flaws in its Dimensional Engine and Ailins introduced demon realm laws into its scientific model. The researchers were left scrambling to reassess their work as Krillin and Yamcha watched.

• Taks greeted the visitors from Universe 7 and accepted Krillin’s Zeno’s Palace Direct Access Pass, then led them to the academy after Bulma pressed him for technical details.
• Researchers at the Orbital Academy of Sciences made disparaging remarks about Universe 7’s technology, prompting Yamcha to object while Tien Shinhan restrained him.
• Valg welcomed the visitors but warned that the technological gap would make an exchange difficult.
• Bulma identified phase, cooling, and energy-input problems in the Dimensional Engine, and the academy’s monitoring panel confirmed her diagnosis.
• Vomi presented an Adaptive Neural Interface prototype with lower signal delay than the engine’s hard-coded control system.
• Ailins added demon realm laws to the academy’s model, causing the star map to recalculate and reveal high-energy activity in regions labeled energy dead zones.

Bulma, Vomi, and Ailins demonstrated how their knowledge surpassed Universe 12’s established science, earning the Earth team access to the Orbital Academy of Sciences’ restricted archives. As the three women headed there, Tien Shinhan set his sights on the Higher-Dimensional Simulation Battlefield.

• Valg verified Bulma’s three criticisms of the dimensional engine and began the technical exchange with cautious respect.
• Bulma demonstrated Universal Capsule technology and improved Universe 12’s Space Fold algorithm by challenging its outdated safety factor.
• Vomi explained how ki could work alongside machinery and had Tien Shinhan release enough ki to overwhelm the laboratory’s instruments.
• Ailins used a Demon Realm rune to explain anomalous energy-model data, resolving a flaw that had troubled Universe 12 researchers for three hundred years.
• The Supreme Committee granted the Earth team full access to restricted archives, and Valg secured an exchange of knowledge in return.
• As Bulma, Vomi, and Ailins left for the restricted area, Tien Shinhan decided to enter the Higher-Dimensional Simulation Battlefield.