Review: Dragon Ball Super Episode 51

In the previous episode we got to see pretty satisfying fight between Goku and Goku Black, that ended with Black being dragged to the future by his Time Ring, to help correct the timeline. He did, however, manage to destroy Trunks' time machine before leaving, to keep Trunks stranded in the past while he continues to lay waste to the rest of mankind. Hope isn't lost though (literally), when Bulma finds the capsule containing the time machine used by Cell years ago. The first question you might ask yourself is: If Bulma has had that capsule for all these years how has she not yet reverse engineered it or fixed it? Then the next question is: If she couldn't fix it before, then why now? Basically the technology used to create the time machine was too advanced for Bulma to understand and it frustrated her, but now that she has personal notes, written by her future self, about the time machine, she will have a better chance of fixing this one. So once she explains that she will be able to fix the time machine, Goku and Vegeta agree to go to the future with Trunks, then go their separate ways to train (Vegeta was pissed with Goku, probably for saying that Vegeta was too shaken up to train with him). On his way into the gravity chamber Vegeta says that he will never forgive him (very melodramatic). 

Now we get to the focus of the episode, which is the relationship between Mai and Trunks. So far we've only seen small glimpses of it in the form of awkward, but cute, hand holding, where Trunks gets really excited and grabs Mai's hand and drags her somewhere, and all the while she is grinning and blushing, and since the start of the Goku Black saga we have seen Mai and Trunks fight along side each other in future, but until now have yet see how they met. 

After Goku and Vegeta leave to train separately, Trunks notices Mai and, much like his younger self, gets really excited and grabs her by the hands and tells her about her future self. I'm still really confused by the timeline in Dragon Ball, because future trunks had never seen Mai as a young girl, but at this point you have to assume that he knows nothing about the past that is somehow supposed to change his future, so I digress. Trunks goes on to tell Mai about how in the future she leads the resistance against Black, and we even get a flash-back(forward?) scene of one of her plans to stop Black. She lured him into the middle of a city, using gunfire and was he was at the center she detonated bombs that would cause the entire city to fall on Black. The plan of course didn't work (I don't even think that would hurt Pan) and just as Black was getting ready to attack and kill Mai Trunks comes to save her, but is wounded in the process. After escaping, Mai tends to Trunks' wounds and explains to him that he is the reason everyone fights. He is their hope. 

During the episode we also see a short scene where Black tests out the new abilities and strength that he gained from fighting Goku, and says that he now must learn more about Goku, because apparently the more he knows the more powerful he becomes.

Dragon Ball Super Episode 49 Review: History Of Future Trunks Explained

Future Trunks actually exists in an alternate future, that for some reason exists along the same timeline as a past that cannot explain the future Trunks returned to the first time. The last time we saw Future Trunks was during the Cell Games, and Goku sacrifices himself to save the world from Cell’s self destruct attack. According to Trunks he then returned to his future, where somehow all the Z-Fighters are still dead, even though they defeated both Cell and the Androids, who were the reasons for their death. He also goes on to tell us that he defeated Babadi and Dabura, to keep Majin Buu from awakening. Then, “Goku Black,” appeared and within a year almost killed every person on the planet. So, if Trunks kept everyone from dying by the hands of the Androids, in the past, why are they, along with the androids and cell, still dead in the future? Because, if Trunks’ actions in the past do in fact change his future (evidence of this is that the world is still in tact, everyone on Earth is till alive, and Babadi is able to surface), then everyone should still be alive in his future (except for Launch). My guess is that Trunks, because he has traveled through time, exists outside of time and created an alternate future that is only slightly affected by his actions in the past. Trunks does remember that Goku sacrifices himself in the Cell Gmaes, but does not know that he is brought back during the Buu Saga, because this is not his past. He exists on another timeline entirely, that is only somewhat affected by the events from the current timeline. This still does not explain why he is still the only Z-Fighter left in his future, or why Mai is his age. The only explanation is that his alternate timeline is broken and Bulma's time machine allows him to travel through time and to different timelines. 

I'm confused too buddy...

Honestly, the laws of space and time do not apply here, Trunks is from an alternate timeline, but can still travel along the current time, because... Dragon Ball. But the story is still cool at least! Next episode will see a show down between Goku and Goku Black, hopefully, seeing as Black finds a way to follow Trunks back in time, at the end of the episode.