HandsomeKamiAlive · @Hakaishin8000
13th Feb 2017 from TwitLonger
Goku Black: Anime vs. Manga
I may be in the minority here as opposed to the many people that prefer the manga rendition of Dragon Ball Super over anime, but I find the anime as of now to be a much superior product than the mediocrity that is the manga. One of the reasons is because of how the anime portrays the antagonists, namely Goku Black.
In the anime, Goku Black is introduced as this villainous Goku look-a-like with a sinister soft spoken voice/tone that adds up to how sadistic he is and a mystery hinging on the identity of this character which was the rouge god being Zamasu who found Goku's ability to achieve godhood and rival gods quite intriguing. Adding to the fact the Saiyan trait to grow stronger from near death experiences and the trait to improve in strength in the heat of battle. We see the dynamic between Goku and Zamasu and how much Zamasu has changed upon learning about Goku and taking his body. We saw how learning about Goku got Zamasu off the deep end and how his derogatory views towards mortals drastically amplified as a mortal (beings he so despised due to how they are prone to such violent behavior) has reached the realms of the gods. Upon taking his body, Zamasu starts to become increasingly disturbing and sadistic. Goku Black is seen to be aroused and at times influenced by his body's instincts such as when he once stated that his body wants to slaughter Goku in EP 57 and how he stabbed through Future Zamasu through Goku and told him how he killed Goku's family. Black is also know to have developed a masochistic side to his character as whenever he's been dealt pain or overwhelmed by characters like Goku, Trunks, and Vegeta, he relishes in it and grows stronger from it. This is also accentuated when he laughed manically at the humiliation Vegeta's causing him and even going as far as stabbing his other hand in order to manifest his anger and humiliation into a large scythe. All of this just adds up to how much of a well written villain Goku Black truly is.
Unfortunately in the manga, almost all of those traits are nonexistent. The aura of mystery surrounding the character of Goku Black doesn't last as long and how Black mentions how he killed Goku was just some random throwaway line that isn't even expanded on like the anime. The influence Goku's body had on Black like his masochistic side and how disturbingly aroused he was by Goku body's instincts are all gone. His dynamic with Goku isn't as present as the anime as the only time Zamasu met Goku was when he stole Goku's body and never had any prior meeting beforehand. When he gets humiliated by Vegeta in the anime, his masochism pops up and laughs manically at his own humiliation and stabs himself in order to grow stronger from his anger. That successfully shows how creepy and insanely psychopathic Black truly is. Whereas in the manga when he gets humiliated by Vegeta , he throws a giant bitchbest about how he's the epitome of justice and he could've died at the hands of Vegeta if it weren't for Future Zamasu. In the manga, he's just nothing but a generic egotistical rambling villain with dark outliners on his eyes drawn by Toyotaro in order to look "badass" when he's nowhere near as compelling as his anime counterpart.