Ch 405 i want to see more "BLARG" cell faces (The Rage of Son Gohan?) In order to bring out Gohan's mythical angry berserker mode, Cell goes on the offensive. After a bit of attacking, Gohan gets sick of being hit and kicks Cell in the face, knocking him onto the ground in a very ungraceful manner. thank you krillin for existing Cell gets up, wipes blood from his mouth, and smiles. Goku, on the sidelines, cheers on Gohan getting angry. Cell stretches out his arm and extends a single finger. Gohan realizes slightly too late that Cell's shooting some sort of laser-like attack and has to bend backwards to avoid it. Krillin identifies it as Cell continues to fire: it's the same laser-type beam that Frieza used to do stuff like hurt Piccolo and kill Vegeta. While firing, Cell's managed to maneuver Gohan into position, and he wraps his arms around him very tightly. that sfx is dangerously close to "glomp" Unfortunately, Cell is not doing something as... friendly as grabbing Gohan for an affectionate hug: he's trying to squeeze either the life or anger out of Gohan. Either one's probably fine, although I assume Cell would prefer that the anger come first so that he can get that good ol' fighting fix. All he's getting so far are screams, though. Piccolo can't stand watching this anymore, and moves to jump in and try to help Gohan somehow. Goku stops him. pls dads don't fight Goku reveals to the watchers (who weren't able to hear Gohan and Cell's conversation) that he's pinned his hopes on Gohan getting angry and busting out into full-on rage berserker mode, and that's their only hope. Gohan's still caught in Cell's clutches. yes fucking thank you piccolo . . . piccolo's gonna get promoted to dad #1 at this rate yeah this is extremely unpleasant. extremely. Goku finally seems to get it and asks Krillin for a senzu, but before either Piccolo or he can jump in and do anything, Cell lets Gohan drop. Not because Cell's killed him, but because Cell seems to have decided that this method isn't going to get him what he wants. Just hurting Gohan himself isn't going to make him angry enough to snap. So he's going to do what he probably should have done right from the start, but ehhh, I guess just squeezing Gohan was probably less effort and only made sense to try first. Cell heads straight for the observers, breaking his own rules. so goku's plan might work out but i kind of hope it doesn't because he might actually learn something if it doesn't
No no, dont get me wrong Im not defending Goku. Just wondering why he is like this. Also Piccolo is forgiven for prior assholery. He learned to dad right. ETA: I wonder if meeging with Kami gave him more insight into huamns. Kamis been watching over them long enough.
Ch 406 my ability to tolerate cell diminishes drastically every time he does something to hurt gohan (#16's Secret Weapon) Cell's first move is to snag the senzu bag from Krillin. So, definitely defying expectations right off the bat, because I thought for sure he was gonna start to immediately put the hurt on some combination of the observers. (Once again, pretty fuzzy on the particulars of what happens here.) i'm not following. are you going to hurt the people gohan cares about in the hopes that you'll get to see him angry or are you not? because i get taking the senzus if you plan on hurting them later, but i'm not sure i really get it if you don't plan on doing that. are you just hoping the threat will be enough? i'm super lost right now SERIOUSLY WHAT? AM I BEING A COMPLETE IDIOT AND MISSING SOMETHING OBVIOUS OR WHAT??? i don't know what the fuck is going on Gohan begs him not to. It's not like he knows how to control the berserker mode; he can't summon it up on command. Cell explains that that's why he's going to make his friends suffer. (So... you are going to dirty your hands with them? Or are you just saying you're going to make them suffer at a distance? Hit them with Frieza's laser beam attack? Throw some explosive blast at them?) AHUH Gohan charges Cell, but just gets biffed away; Cell doesn't want to fight him in this half-baked, desperate state. He wants Gohan to get angry for real, so he can get the fight he wants. SURPRISE SIXTEEN OUTTA NOWHERE!! a reversal of fortunes! now it is cell who is hold How the hell did Sixteen manage to sneak in there? Well, he is an android, and capable of flying under the radar ki-wise, and I guess everyone was pretty preoccupied with Gohan and/or Cell. But he doesn't stand a chance against Cell; he couldn't even hold his own against Cell's semi-perfect form. Sixteen apologizes to the observers; he's going to self-destruct, and they won't survive at such a close range. He shuts his eyes and tries to explode... ...but... ...nothing happens. Why? Why didn't it work? Sixteen doesn't understand, but, surprisingly, Krillin has an explanation. When Bulma and Dr. Briefs were fixing him up, they found a bomb... and removed it. Because it was too dangerous to let Sixteen continue to have it. ooof ouch my heart, what a look of despair :( Cell smirks; it's not like some puny explosion would have killed him anyway. With a free arm (either Sixteen kind of let him go or Cell managed to get one arm free, or maybe he could have just done it anyway, even with his arms kind of pinned) he shoots Sixteen right through the middle with a beam attack. Sixteen disintegrates; his head lands near Cell. (Man, he just got repaired! What the heck??) Cell boots it and it ricochets to land near the reporters and Mr. Satan, who are understandably pretty horrified to suddenly be faced with a disembodied head. Cell counts. Krillin, Tien, Yamcha, Vegeta, Trunks, Piccolo, Goku... seven people in all to hurt to try to get Gohan to go rage-mode. (I hate to break it to you, Cell, but some of those might not work very well. Like, I doubt very much Gohan has any affection for Vegeta; if anything, probably still some animosity.) Why the counting? hmmm i don't like this CORRECTION I HATE IT AND I GENUINELY DON'T KNOW IF PICCOLO SR HORKING UP EGGS WAS WORSE OR NOT MMMMMMMMMMMMMMOTHERFUCKER So this is what he meant by not having to dirty his own hands. Gotcha. Just created a bunch of little Cells. He tells his creations that their targets are the seven warriors watching, and off they go with a vengeance. Goku warns that "these guys are mean!" and Cell informs them that it's pointless to fight... because these little guys are his children, and therefore we must assume that they are very powerful. Anyway now I'm grossed out by Cell and I haven't even had dinner yet. Goddamnit.
I agree on the Dislike of their creation but the little ones are kinda cute. Shame they´re evil. Maybe if someone stole them and raised them right...
Ch 407 dinner eaten and mint tea acquired. sure do hope cell is done with the reproduction (The Little Cells) or (The Hell of the Cell Juniors) Off they go. Just born and already prepared to fight. man would it be fucked up or what if each one of them could grow up into a full-sized Cell? They are pretty cute, though. And very smiley. I'm in a weird spot where I don't really want them to hang around too long because good lord do I want Cell gone but I also don't really want to see them getting too hurt because they do hit that 'cute' button pretty hard. speaking of look at that one in the middle. fucker is just precious Their actions are significantly less precious, though. One kicks Krillin and then lands with one knee right in the back. Gohan watches, frozen. Everyone but Trunks has died before, and the new dragon balls can only bring someone back once. Only Trunks and Vegeta seem to be having any luck holding the mini-Cells off; the rest are just not up to snuff, or, in Goku's case, too worn-down to be effective. And even in the case of the non-Son family saiyans, it's not like they're necessarily winning, but more managing not to be beaten to a pulp, like Yamcha, whose arm gets very badly broken. :( :( :( The reporters and Mr. Satan are starting to realize that they have to GTFO, and sooner rather than later, but Sixteen's head speaks to them and scares the heck out of them. He wants one of them to deliver him (his head) to Gohan. Mr. Satan says he has to be kidding; Cell's right there, next to the kid! oh you are sly Sixteen's persuasion check works! Mr. Satan takes the bait and volunteers to take Sixteen's head to Gohan. sneaking mission: start Mood-lightening interlude over, we're back to the mini-Cells wrecking shop on most, if not all, of the once-observers, now-combatants. Once again, Gohan begs Cell to stop, with tears running down his face. Cell has his own persuasion check that he's trying to pass, and so he tells his offspring that it's fine to kill now, if they want. Gohan's just on this side of losing it, and Cell, sensing the change, tells the mini-Cells to kill. Just then, Mr. Satan chucks Sixteen's head onto the battlefield, where it rolls to finally come to a stop between Gohan and Cell. What exactly is Sixteen's plan? He tells Gohan that it's fine to fight for good; words can't always work, and he should let himself feel his rage and not hold back... and if Gohan would fight to protect the animals and forests for Sixteen, who can't, that would be good. Cell finally gets fed up with the talk and steps on Sixteen's head, crushing it. This is the last straw for Gohan. i wish it hadn't come to this Ch 408 (Gohan Unleashed!) or (Son Gohan Explodes!!) my... boy? Gohan grabs the senzu bag from Cell, completely ignoring him. He goes straight to Krillin and just obliterates the mini-Cell that was attacking him by destroying its head with a single chop (an eyeball pops out. Yuck). you shut up. just don't even right now Most if not all of the remaining mini-Cells abandon their other targets and converge on Gohan at once. Gohan makes sickeningly quick work of them, dispatching them with the same brutal efficiency as the first one he killed. The last one, having seen all of its siblings systematically destroyed, tries to flee... but Gohan does not let it. Cell, Vegeta, Trunks, and Piccolo look on in stunned silence. suck it in the flesh. the sparking, incredibly powerful flesh Gohan throws the pouch of senzus to Trunks and tells him to distribute them, then stares Cell down. Cell seems to actually be feeling something besides smug superiority and condescension. The chapter wraps up with Vegeta, as usual, being unable to accept what's happening in front of his eyes.
Ch 409 gohan's hair got longer? (Cell vs. Son Gohan) Well, with Gohan all electrified and powered up, it's time for Cell to unleash his true power. He does, and the shockwave sends some people flying and bowls over others, but Gohan is singularly unimpressed. did anyone think to try to comfort the planet? maybe dende should try? that seems like it might be in his purview. hopefully when things calm down a bit piccolo can draw on the wealth of knowledge left to him by kami and help dende figure this shit out Cell asks Gohan what he thinks of this new, maximum power of his. complete annihilation Cell laughs, but obviously doesn't find it funny, because 0.2 seconds later he's punching Gohan in the face, which Gohan takes stoically and returns tenfold. good. Looks like Trunks has tended to anyone who desperately needed some healing, and they all stand around at a somewhat safe distance, watching Gohan pummel Cell. Just a few hits, and Cell's having a harder time than he's had this entire tournament. Ch 410 (The Ultimate Kamehameha) Gohan, silently, approaches Cell, who's still in disbelief that this could actually be happening. You and Vegeta both, Cell; the saiyan prince seems to be having a bit of a crisis over there on the sidelines. That little kid that you saved on Namek turned out to be super crazy powerful. Goku's kid. The hybrid child of a so-called "low class warrior". Maybe you should rethink your stance on that? But this isn't the time for that. Back to the matter at hand. Cell panics a bit as Gohan come closer, and tries to kick him, but Gohan just blocks it, and the several others that follow it. Gohan tries one of his own, which Cell does not block; he tumbles several dozen feet away and lands face-down. As he pushes himself up, he looks over his shoulder to see the implacable Gohan following. did you get cells from gohan or not? i know you didn't get any from trunks, but i don't know if gohan contributed at all. betcha wish you had some now though huh However... just because Gohan's stronger doesn't mean that Cell has to lose! He flies upwards and gets into a stance that we're all familiar with by now: heels of palms together, fingers curled, hands pointed away from his target. A kamehameha. you goddamn shit. follow your own rules And he fires it. there's that good ol' defeatist streak oh shit oh shiiit OH SHIIIT I was cheated out of another blarg!Cell face, but oh well. but isn't he just gonna regenerate? or maybe gohan can just keep beaming him until he runs out of juice to regenerate and then gohan can incinerate him and they can sweep up the ash and put it in a jar on the mantle
I was super bummed about Sixteen getting his head crushed. Had no reccolrecollof him at all from watching the anime as a kid but boy did I grow fond of him on my read through of the manga.
Ch 411 More color chapters. * mourns the loss of good-quality scanlations * (Cell, Brought to Bay) oh vegeta, you sure do walk into these, don't you first sensible thing you've said in god knows how long (and poor blotchy piccolo back there is not done any justice by the b&w rendition of the color chapter) uhhhhhhhhhhhhh oh goddamn motherfucking heck as much as i'm in despair about gohan.... now you know. now you know what it's like and i hope that that leaves an impression Cell tenses himself and, with a yell, regenerates his arm, legs, wings, and head flanges. Goku tries to reason with Gohan: he's the only one who can finish Cell, and he has to do it soon, now. None of them know what Cell's capable of, especially in a desperate state like this, driven to defend himself at all costs against a stronger foe. Gohan just smiles. Cell shakes off the regeneration slime, panting. He screams that Gohan is going to pay and... powers up. Again. That's the power of fury and desperation for you. He's still mostly the same Perfect Cell, but larger and not nearly so pretty. His mouth is extremely large; you could probably fit a whole watermelon in there without much trouble, and he'd just crush it into pulp. He tries to crush Gohan into the ground, but Gohan evades easily. analysis from mr. luxurious hair. look at how smooth and nice it is. oh. guess he went back to baseform? ohhhhhh there's that cell face i was waiting for OH MY FUCKING GOD. it's the source. the source for the cell ahegao cursed image. holy shit. good lord. they didn't even have to change it that much, did they? the eyes are already Doing That Cell... seems to be having a pretty bad time. He's screaming quite a bit and looking kind of... I'm not sure how to describe it. Like he can't really hold the form? Kind of... lopsided. please god no i am begging you do not make me witness whatever is about to happen ... ..... ............. well, god didn't heed my desperate prayers and i had to witness cell vomiting up eighteen wholesale. just covered in gunk. totally soaked. absolutely disgusting. why. and also how. how the hell do cell's insides work? apparently tail and mouth are connected somehow by some internal canal. or is it just a solid mass? or full of interstitial fluid? an amorphous undifferentiated mess? the only way i can deal with android eighteen just having been horked up like an especially terrible egg is to try to theorize about cellular (HAH) biology. anyway. anyway. let's move the fuck on. Having lost Eighteen, Cell reverts to his semi-perfect form. Oh man, there goes that nose. And the handsomeness. At least his eyes are pointing in the right direction again, though! There's that! But Cell doesn't appreciate the little things in life and instead is just fucking pissed and humiliated and desperate. Gohan scoffs at him; guess it's the end of the line for Cell, huh? But Cell isn't going to let things go that easily. He isn't just going to accept his fate so easily. a) gross b) i hate to say it but i can easily see db being responsible for the start of a looooooot of fetishes
Hmmm. Dragon Ball has a Celestial Bureaucracy kinda thing going on, the grim reaper is probably some pencil-pushing oni dude working under Lord Enma/King Yamma. Do different planets get different heavens? Different hells? Is it based on where you were born, or where you died? Would Raditz and Bardock be separated in the hereafter or would Lord Enma just toss them all into a Box o' Saiyans he keeps to the side? Once you've been revived by the Dragon, do you have to re-do all the paperwork for your next death, or do you get a stamp like at amusement parks? Either way I feel like someone should be in trouble for all these afterlife shenanigans, possibly Kami for making Earth's Dragon Balls and starting this nonsense. Maybe that's the real reason he fused with Piccolo, to dodge the blame. Dende can't be in trouble, look at his adorable face. Bulma. She invented the Dragon Radar. This entire franchise is her fault. Fearless genius temperamental billionaire. She'd absolutely start shit with Lord Enma. It would be amazing.
Ch 412 I had to take some time off and recover a little bit from that (The End of the Cell Game) Cell bloats up and balloons out to comically disgusting proportions. Even his head flanges get shorter, I guess because he's redistributing volume. Everyone is kind of perplexed, but Goku realizes something. Cell laughs and tells them all to say farewell, because he's gonna blow in 60 seconds... taking not just himself out, but the gathered warriors and the rest of the planet to boot. Not to mention that he's too far gone in the process to stop it now. Well, fuck. Gohan prepares to attack, but Cell warns him off: if he's hit, he'll explode immediately. Everyone stands around, wanting to something but unable to make a move, as the time ticks away. Gohan blames himself for letting this happen and not dealing with Cell properly when he had a chance. Which is very understandable and probably how I would feel too, but I can't help but feel that it's not all Gohan's fault. With 10 seconds left, Goku seems to come to some decision. uh i got distracted by how much chest piccolo is showing. feel like he used to have a higher neckline, but maybe it's just that he's always got his cloak on i know this is a serious moment but.... that's an unusually cute vegeta And he teleports, appearing next to Cell. With four seconds left, he tells Gohan he's proud and that he did well... and to tell his mom "sorry". and then vanishes. Only to pop out at Kaiou's place. It only makes sense; he has to focus on a person's (or... a god's) ki to teleport, and taking Cell to a place that's like a million miles from anywhere with hardly any life is probably the best bet. On the other hand... poor Kaiou. He did not sign up for any of this shit when he laughed at Goku's pun all those years ago. With a scream of rage, Cell explodes and makes a final incredible face. and that is that.
Ch 413 (´;︵;`) (Gohan's Pain) For me, this is basically the embodiment of "unsurprising development, genuine distress". Which I guess is appropriate, given the chapter number. gohan......... hey maybe one of you assholes could do something?? like i don't expect shit from vegeta but i do expect things from the rest of you Krillin does approach Gohan (thank you Krillin; as usual, I can count on you to be a fairly decent guy) and tells him that it's over, and that Gohan shouldn't beat himself up about it too much, because without him, the Earth wouldn't have been saved. He helps Gohan up, then grabs the unconscious... or maybe dead... Eighteen. He tells Gohan that Goku was proud of him. Scene change. Get lost, somber mood! Now it's comedic relief with those who just died in the Cell explosion, because while death has some slight consequences, it in no way means you're gone forever! Kaiou's kind of pissed at Goku. yup. hey, speaking of which, presumably you haven't died before, right? you should be good Goku just kind of rolls his eyes: he apologized already, right? Kaiou, you should just get over it already! Kaiou is not prepared to "just get over it", but Goku's distracted by something weird: where is Cell, anyway? Shouldn't he be flying with them, presumably towards Enma-sama for processing? Kaiou searches around for it, but can't find it anywhere. Which can only mean one thing. ffffffffffuck Back on Earth, Vegeta is being Vegeta and telling Krillin to destroy Eighteen (Krillin responds "But she's a person...", like that would stop Vegeta), and there's a sudden blast of air behind Gohan. i can't even say they should have checked the body. there was no body. there was no reason to believe that anything would happen but dealing with the fact that goku's dead now and the aftermath of cell. i can't blame any of them. mostly i just feel... defeated. in their own ways, everyone's done so much, and it feels so pointless oh i don't like this OH HEY FUCK NO DON'T DO THAT C'MON i think maybe vegeta might just agree with me a little hey quick question why the fuck are you perfect when you expelled eighteen earlier Why and how the hell is Cell still alive? Well, it's all due to luck, really! Even Cell didn't know that this would be the outcome. Cell has a "core', much like any self-respecting boss character, that you have to destroy to stop him regenerating. Cell (kind of... stupidly?) reveals that it's in his head. The self-destruction left the "core" unharmed, and he was able to regenerate a new body for himself. \o/ cell-ebration! Not only that, but now he can teleport too. So. The upshot of all of this? Not only did Goku sacrifice himself uselessly, he also made Cell more powerful by doing so.
(continued) you're getting dangerously close to making me feel things again vegeta gohan... you're determined, but i'm just... will that be enough?
Ch 414 go gohan! go gohan!! defeat the bugman!!! (The Tables Turn) * squints * I can't quite tell if that title's supposed to make me hopeful or full of despair. In whose favor are they turning? Should I assume that they're turning in Gohan's favor because Cell's obviously on top now? Gohan gets back up to his sparking, longer- and spikier-haired form. I wonder if he can just do it now whenever he wants or if he still has to have some anger to draw on to get there? Is this a Gohan-only super saiyan form? Can anyone get the lightning aura? In any case, I stand by my previous statements regarding saiyan hair and upness, because Gohan's is now basically shorter Vegeta's plus one stubborn floppy bunch in the front and minus his world-class widow's peak. Gohan laughs (wryly?) and Cell inquires what he thinks is quite so funny. * aggressively cheers on gohan * Cell thinks that this all seems a little familiar, but the outcome's not gonna be in Gohan's favor this time. Meanwhile. guys vegeta's doing the thing again the thing where he makes me feel bad for him hey um can i suggest maybe expressing affection for your kid sometime when he's, y'know, alive? like it's good to know that you actually do care but... talk about shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted. of course, maybe he did. they did have a year to hang out after all. vegeta: * gingerly putting his palm on trunks' head once * ... g.... good job Vegeta throws himself at Cell. like ultimately i think this is going to do roughly jack shit but... honestly after the hot mess you've been this arc, it's nice. it's just nice to know that apparently you do care about something besides strength and beating goku. i'm glad. i'm sorry that you're probably just gonna get beat up and tossed aside for your troubles. you deserve to have the chance to avenge your kid He follows up the initial attack with some rapid-fire blasts and tears up the landscape quite a bit. Vegeta pauses, breathing heavily, and Cell springs out of the dust cloud at him and then just backhands him. Vegeta crashes into the ground in an ungainly heap, and I think he might have gotten one of his arms broken again? Cell is apparently completely done with Vegeta in general and sends a concentrated blast his direction, telling him to die. Gohan moves to protect him (A GOOD KID! HE'S A GOOD KID!) and takes the blast meant for Vegeta right to the shoulder. Gohan pulls himself upright, his left arm looking pretty useless. Cell's delighted that he managed to get such a good hit on Gohan and seems fairly unconcerned that he didn't finish Vegeta off. Piccolo's very concerned about Gohan (;.;). oh, okay, krillin, let's see you watch your only kid (well... i guess technically when both current!trunks and future!trunks are in the same time, he might have... two kids?) get shot through the chest without reacting like that. let's just see you do that Cell announces that he's let these shenanigans go on long enough. It's time to get down to business. some needs to fucking get a factory farm going for those things oh not again i knew dende shouldn't have taken this job right now. i knew it. my poor kid, he doesn't deserve to have this happen to him the second week on the job
