We don’t know how long the stage will last, but it seems that’Dragon Ball Super’ he is hitting a little twist to give more weight to other characters. The manga begins a new arc in December in which it seems that Goten and Trunks will have more prominence, but before that we already saw in ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ how gohan and piccolo they got almost all the attention.
The latest anime film in the franchise has served to temporarily change the main characters, and has given Piccolo a very powerful new transformation that he has already deserved. Orange Piccolo was not the only surprise in the film, which also served to reveal the shocking gohan beast.
releasing the beast within
Goku’s son has always been among the most powerful characters in the saga, and was even the first to reach the state of Super Saiyan 2 in his fight against Cell, but over time many characters have left him behind in terms of power.
During the plot of ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’, Pan is in danger and the events of the movie end up launching Gohan back into action and to unleash his full potential to save his daughter and Piccolo, with which he achieves a new transformation.
Own Akira Toriyama has baptized this new form as “gohan beast“, and actually gives it a very similar appearance to Goku’s perfected Ultra Instinct.
Physically, Gohan is still very muscular and his hair grows and stands on end, as well as turning silver in color. His eyes, on the other hand, are an intense red color, and his voice also becomes more serious and threatening. This form greatly increases your power and staminaso it can easily be measured with Cell Max during the climax of the movie.
And its origin?
Well, as for Orange Piccolo, we know that the origin of this transformation is related to Piccolo’s Namekian blood, but the official explanation for Beast Gohan’s origin is a bit more ambiguous.
As Toriyama has said, this new transformation for Gohan is the result of awakening the beast that slept inside him until now. Already in the ‘Dragon Ball Super’ anime, Gohan has mentioned that he would want to reach a new form that no one had seen before, and in the manga he also says that he wants to evolve as “his own person of him” from him, beyond be a saiyan
So perhaps we are facing a new scale of power that has nothing to do with the Saiyans, or Ultra Instinct or Ultra Ego, although there is still much to be determined about Gohan Beast.
What we do know is that this new transformation of Gohan is canon within the animesince the events of ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ They are within the continuity of the saga and have already appeared in official material, such as in the November 2022 issue of V-Jump magazine.
Perhaps with the return of the ‘Dragon Ball Super’ manga and this new arc we can see how the seeds for this new form of Gohan begin to be planted.