Mini Review, Episode 253: Union of Rivals

Summary:

Starting off where we let off in the last episode we see that Goku is trying to find a suitable fusing partner. Buu gives him 5 seconds to find the partner or get blown to oblivion. The only choices he sees are Dende and Mr. Satan. Dende’s size might actually hurt the combined result and he can’t fuse with him anyway because they need the dragonballs. Satan seems to be the only remaining choice but right when Goku is about to the throw the Potara earring at him he senses Vegeta and teleports to him immediately. Fusing with Vegeta would most likely create an unstoppable warrior. But all is not well… Buu is flying at a high speed towards them and Vegeta doesn’t want to fuse.

It is later revealed that Vegeta is pissed at him because he determined that he gave up his life for no reason. Because he didn’t know that Goku could go SSJ 3, Vegeta thought he might be equal to if not stronger then Goku. So he falsely believed that the only way to defeat Buu was for him to use his suicide attack. He only found out after his death that Goku could transcend SSJ 2. This along with his pride is preventing the highly emotional Vegeta from fusing with Goku. They argue and fight Buu who seems to be entertained by their little feud. Vegeta realizes that the only way to defeat Buu now is to fuse and he overcomes his issues with the help of some scolding from Goku. Their bodies combine and Vegitto is born!

Review:

I was definitely entertained by this episode. It didn’t have too much of the staring and wasting of time that many DBZ episodes have (it was real bad in the Cell saga). It also had little bits of humor in it whether the writers wanted it in there or not. My favorite line in this episode is by Buu when he is about to go after Goku. “I’ll hunt him down no matter how far he goes; after all I have nothing else to do.” It was very funny because it was also very true...

The music in this episode was pretty good… It had the Buu music I always liked (I hated everything related to Fat Buu, music, voice, everything) and the Vegita/Vegito music was also pretty damn good. Animation was also top notch for a DBZ episode. All in all, I thought this episode was definitely a good one not to miss.

-Nazmune