Dragon Ball Z's Majin Vegeta makes a rare appearance in a new piece of official art.
The new illustration of Vegeta's powerful but dangerous final transformation from Dragon Ball Z was created by Toyotarou, the protege of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama and the artist behind the visuals in the on-going Dragon Ball Super manga. The new illustration offers a detailed official portrait of the power-boosted form that the Saiyan Prince took on when he became a follower of the villainous Babidi during DBZ's final story arc, the Majin Buu saga. The image was shared online by Dragon Ball YouTuber @DbsHype on Twitter.
Majin Vegeta new illustration by Toyotaro for Dokkan Battle collab! pic.twitter.com/A4PaQlfrrk
— Hype (@DbsHype) March 16, 2022
The art will be featured in the Dokkan Battle game, which was released in iOS and Android devices in 2015. The free-to-play game combines elements of collectible card games with match-3 puzzle games and has been a massive hit for publisher Bandai Namco, having been downloaded over 350 million times. Dokkan Battle has remained popular in the years since its release, and in 2021 it was announced that the game had generated over $3 billion USD in worldwide revenue during its lifetime.
Fans looking to see Majin Vegeta in action should look to Crunchyroll, which recently added the entire Dragon Ball Z anime to its streaming library, alongside the original Dragon Ball TV show and its divisive sequel series, Dragon Ball GT. The franchise was previously distributed in North America under the Funimation brand, but parent company Sony now appears to be consolidating all of their anime offerings under the more internationally well-known Crunchyroll brand.
Toyotarou is something of an expert when it comes to Vegeta's transformations, as he revealed last December that he was the one who came up with the name and look for Vegeta's newest form, Ultra Ego. According to the artist, Ultra Ego is meant to be the dark antithesis to Goku's Ultra Instinct form; while the look of Goku's transformation is influenced by the angelic Whis, Vegeta's take on the form is instead inspired by Beerus, Universe 7's God of Destruction.
More of Toyotarou's artwork can be seen in the on-going Dragon Ball Super manga, which is currently nearing the end of its current Granolah the Survivor story arc. The series' latest movie, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, is scheduled to be released in North America sometime this summer.
Source: Twitter
