Ch 415 this is too much concentrated emotion for just a few chapters. i need it spread out a little bit more to be able to process it right (Father and Son) or (A Message from Son Goku) oh, vegeta's alive. cool Gohan mentally apologizes to his dad for being unable to protect everyone and the Earth. alert alert vegeta actually used the words "i'm" and "sorry" and it wasnt followed with something like "for the asskicking i'm about to give you" or "... NOT! * laughter *" Gohan is shocked by this as well, and thinks that Vegeta must have given up all hope as well to actually do something like apologize out loud, where people could perceive it and know that he felt regret about something. Piccolo curses their powerlessness, and man, I feel that. Cell boasts that he has enough ki to destroy the entire solar system. Don't do that! His ki is apparently strong enough to be affecting distant places on Earth, even before it's been released. you are dedicated (reporter to his job and mr. satan to his "everything is smoke and mirrors" narrative) Cell tells Gohan to make his final stand. Gohan says, "Just get it over with already." Cell agrees readily; he doesn't mind destroying everything! !! It's Goku, calling from the afterlife on the Kaiouphone. man you're cheery for someone who just got killed somehow i feel like there's been a one-handed kamehameha before, but i could be wrong. does the number of hands affect the damage output?? someone please tell me a simple yes/no Gohan says he'll try his best, and apologizes again for letting Goku die. kaiou's great it's true. he's blue, he has barbels and real long antennae, a car, a tiny planet, he likes puns, he's apparently some sort of god..... what more could you want Gohan sets up for his own kamehameha. not with that attitude he won't Cell fires his, and shortly after, Gohan follows suit. why does no one copy, say, vegeta's fucking garlic attack? oh right because it's fucking named after garlic and the kamehameha has a very nice ring to it aided by the spirit of dad
Ch 416 toriyama i swear if you make me cry again i'll... just sit here crying because that's all i can do. but i'll be angry about it (Kamehameha vs. Kamehameha) or (Kamehameha vs. Kamehameha: A Final Showdown) well this seems like a recipe for disaster and destruction Piccolo thinks so too and tells everyone to get the heck out of the area. Tien and Yamcha grab Trunks (are saiyans just heavier than average? it seems like either of them should be able to carry him alone) and Krillin takes Eighteen and presumably they hustle away from the epicenter. not quite fast enough though Where the two kamehamehas meet, they create a sphere of concentrated power that is, indeed, very destructive. Slowly but exonerably, Gohan is overpowered; Cell just had a chance to regenerate and is back at 100%, while Gohan's fighting with a badly damaged arm (thanks vegeta) and a hefty ki deficit. However, his dad's confident that he's got more power; he just has to be willing to use it. In other words, Gohan's artificially throttling his power. ......... hhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. mmm. at a certain point of earthly destruction, i don't know if they can Cell's not worried about any of that, because he wants to annihilate everything, and he's preparing to overwhelm Gohan, when just like getting whapped suddenly with a snowball when you're not expecting it "who the fuck" AWW HELL YEAH REDEEM YOURSELF Cell's momentary distraction provides just the opportunity Gohan needs, and he increases his power output and overwhelms Cell. haha fuck u And then there's a truly horrifying collection of blarg!cell faces. i feel like frieza made a few blarg!faces, but not nearly as many as cell. and vegeta barely had any that i can remember, just a few slightly exaggerated ones Gohan drops down to baseform and collapses. that must be a relief. not just that cell is gone (ihope), but to not... be super saiyan anymore. to just be able to be normal for a while
Ch 417 hey check out this ?????? title page art (Finale) or (The Grand Finale) wow there's a lot to unpack here. no one's ever had wings before. goku don't need 'em, presumably kaiou doesn't either. and yet, here they are! what does it mean??? is it meant to convey the idea that goku's 100% irrevocably (pfft) dead now, because he's been rezzed before and now earth's dragon balls can't rez the same person twice? did kaiou go godtier or something? why does he have mayfly wings??? is he part bug too? was he always supposed to be? will they shrivel up and fall off if/when he gets rezzed? in short: wtf yes, but it's not a particularly clean victory Yamcha's super psyched about everything. Cell is gone, Yamcha's feeling fine (he got one of the last senzus, so he's in pretty good shape), and even though the senzus are all gone, now that the Earth is safe they can head off to their priest's place and get some free healing. Yamcha picks up Gohan and he, Krillin with Eighteen, and Tien with Trunks depart for the Lookout. (One thing I'm not 100% on: is Trunks dead or not? It's hardly the end of the world if he is, because he had a spare life, but I just don't know. People have lasted for a while with worse....) he feels left out. everyone else is carrying someone i live for the day you have to ask someone for oh wait. you already did that in a big way. hm. well, i wait for the next day you have to ask someone for help Piccolo gets it, and flies off without protest. Vegeta's left alone to have a very typical Vegeta moment. sorry you missed the boat on taking him out yourself, but you should go and figure out what's up with your kid from the future. relax a bit, maybe get married or something. spend some time in your hypergravity chamber. fly off into space for a while good fucking christ vegeta you and your drama And he takes off for somewhere, doing the flying equivalent of limping. Mr. Satan, observing all of this, wonders who those guys could possibly be. The reporter comes to, looks around for Cell, and asks Mr. Satan what happened. .... sounds legit And of course, this goes out over the airwaves, and people (understandably) lose their goddamn minds about Mr. Satan. More so than they already were. He seemed pretty popular for a dude who popped out of nowhere (in a narrative sense). Up at the Lookout, Gohan's all healed up and Dende is tending to Eighteen. (Trunks is still lying around in the background, so I'm assuming at this moment that he actually was killed because otherwise I can only think that Dende would have healed him before Eighteen.) Yamcha warns him that Eighteen will murder him, but Krillin's confident she won't. He explains that Cell's been defeated by Gohan (Yamcha butts in with a "yeah, so don't try anything, you don't stand a chance!"). Piccolo reveals that it was Krillin who protected her after she was puked up, and Gohan comes to a sudden realization: Krillin must be in love with her! He gets bonked for his troubles and Yamcha and Tien react badly. Eighteen herself isn't too receptive to anything romantic at the moment and is very rude to Krillin before diving off the edge. Poor Krillin. :( Gohan says he's still his friend, but Krillin just isn't in the mood to be comforted by that. Piccolo doesn't have time for any of this nonsense. The first order of business is to work on getting things back to normal. Thanks to Goku, the dragon balls are ready and waiting and Shenlong gets summoned right away. For some reason it's Yamcha who makes the wish to bring back everyone killed by Cell. Eighteen hasn't gotten too far from the Lookout, and goes back to check out what's going on when she sees the sky go dark and a dragon appear from nowhere. welcome back trunks!! Goku's ki is nowhere to be sensed; as stated earlier, these dragon balls won't bring back someone who's been resurrected before. Everyone's trying to think of a solution, but once again Goku steps (well... figuratively) in, via Kaiou once again. I guess he's just paying attention to what people are doing on Earth? Goku's request: don't fucking rez me! Reasons to not rez: Danger to Earth (by proxy of being a magnet for dangerous types bent on destruction) Gets to keep body and not age Gets to meet dead martial artists Hanging out with Kaiou Gohan's more dependable than Goku Can have a good time in heaven when everyone dies And with that, he's off. Say sorry to Chichi, Gohan, and do a good job looking after the planet for your old man! yeah because it's nothing. it's not a punishment, it's barely even an inconvenience except that he's not in the mortal realm anymore! he can still be in contact, presumably, and he doesn't seem to fucking care that he's leaving people in the lurch! for example his goddamn family! needless to say this is not a decision i particularly approve of. hold your goddamn horses i have to complain about goku some more
Ch 418 "...and another thing!!" (Farewell, Warriors) Well, we don't need Goku. Did without him just fine while he was training for a year after Namek. At least this time, everyone knows where he is. Shenron wants to know if they're gonna make a second wish, or if one was enough to satisfy them. The dragons always seem so impatient, as if they've always getting summoned in the middle of their favorite cooking shows or something. .... Where the hell do they go when they're unsummoned? Where are they when they're not granting wishes? No one can think of a wish immediately, until Krillin pipes up with a rather unusual wish: Could Seventeen and Eighteen be turned back into humans? No, Shenlong doesn't have the power to do that; it would require their consent, which he doesn't have. (Seventeen? Isn't he dead? But he should have been brought back by the "rez everyone cell killed" wish, which is why Krillin included him.) Eighteen is watching all of this, by the way, and seeing Krillin trying to do something for her/their sake. He has another idea: could the bombs be removed instead? At least then they'd never have to face the possibility of being detonated by someone. Yep! That's something Shenlong can do, and does. It disappears and the dragon balls shoot off in all directions. Another year until they regain their power. yeah!! yeah!!! glad someone realizes it! Why remove the bomb from Seventeen if Eighteen is the one he likes? (Tien asks this and I'm just... Dude. Krillin had to do nothing but say the words. Like, there was no reason not to. Gohan's strong enough to take him out so he's not really a threat. Krillin's just being a good dude! Why would you not take it out???) Apparently Krillin decided it should be removed because Seventeen is just perfect for Eighteen. * pats * you're fine, don't worry about it Eighteen can't take any more of this Seventeen talk and reveals herself. ..... oh! oh!!!! Well. That's a question answered then. Don't get the wrong idea, though! Eighteen isn't grateful for the bomb-removal! She makes as if to leave, but turns around and says, "Later." Krillin might have a chance after all! Eighteen seems kind of mean, though. Well, it'll get figured out. like i said.... don't worry 'bout it. you're fine just as you are There's an awkward pause, and then it's time for people to start going their separate ways. Tien's gonna go find Chiaotzu and for some reason thinks that he's not gonna see any of them ever again. Geez, guys, you need to get some phones or something and make plans to hang out when the world is not about to end. Well, Tien seems to like trekking around the mountains, so he might not get a good signal anyway. Off he goes. Trunks is going back home to his time (and timeline?) tomorrow, where he should be more than a match for those versions of Seventeen and Eighteen. Piccolo's going to live at the Lookout, which is nice because did he just spend all his time brooding on windy rock formations before this? Like, I'm sure he's a robust lad, but at least there's something resembling a building here. Maybe he can have his own room and hang out with Dende. you guys always making me get all teary Gohan, Krillin, Trunks, and Yamcha all leave in a group. still think yajirobe must keep catnip in his pockets or something They split up. Trunks hears about how his dad went after Cell after he got killed, and is happy (and surprised). So maybe there wasn't too much bonding going on in the HTC. hey yeah this fucking sucks. >:( The next day, everyone gathers to say "goodbye!" to Trunks. With mourning armbands/mourning clothes. on the other hand.... here is some Good Shit
Tbh I cant blame Goku. Like hes Dead, without the option of rez. If a guy cant quit then when can he? Hes mostly just telling them not to spend time on a quest for something that might not be possible.
On the other hand, rez'ing him wouldn't be that hard. All they'd need to is use Shenron's second wish to teleport to New Namek, use their Dragon Balls to bring Goku's soul over and resurrect him, then use Porunga's remaining wish to get back home. With all the experience they have with this stuff, it would take like, two or three hours tops.
Ch 419 Putting all of that aside let's see Trunks save his future! (The Other Outcome) Sorry, my usual reading time was taken up with God of War last night. Trunks gets back home and his mom is happy to see him. <3 benefits of not being killed by androids: opportunity for character growth and positive change. it may be incremental but it's there There's an announcement over the radio that the androids are attacking somewhere in Parsley City. Minor detour: what is with the naming schemes for towns and cities in this world? Either they're named after cardinal directions or they're named after condiments/seasonings/spices/garnishes! What the heck is up with that? Is there a Ketchup City somewhere? Worcestershire Town? Smoked Paprika Village? I should stop. Anyway, Trunks heads out to take care of them. was it dark souls? because dark souls makes me want to destroy stuff An old dude in an upturned car shoots Seventeen in the face, which doe nothing but attract Seventeen's attention and killing intent. :/ One final casualty. Trunks arrives and suffers a little bit of mockery, but the joke's really on the androids because when Eighteen goes to kill him, Trunks responds with blowing eighteen up completely Pieces of Eighteen rain down around Trunks, and Seventeen is incredulous. The Trunks they know doesn't have nearly enough power to take out Eighteen. What gives?! Trunks ain't finished. bad. ass. And Seventeen goes the way of Eighteen, i.e., complete annihilation. Trunks can finally relax for the first time in god knows how long, but there's still something left to take care of. Fortunately, there are still a couple of years left before he has to deal with it. Three years, in fact; a good amount of time for the reconstruction of society to get on its way. Three years for there to be enough energy for the time machine to make another trip back to share the good news of android defeat. Trunks is preparing to go back, but there's that one last detail to iron out first. heyyyyyy i'd recognize that spotty pattern and tail anywhere! Ch 420 (heh heh blaze it) (Peace to the Future) Cell (imperfect form) doesn't think Trunks has any idea what he's talking about. Hah, joke's on him; because he's already been to the past, Trunks knows about Cell's future. Ahhh, time travel. What a wondrous thing. I hate it! Anyway. Even after hearing about Trunks' experience in the past/future, Cell's still dubious. There's just no way! The spy robots have been watching him, and he can't even beat Seventeen and Eighteen, much less Cell himself, the mightiest of all! Trunks reveals that yeah, actually, Seventeen and Eighteen? Destroyed. Gone. Obliterated in a single blast. He doesn't want to fight here, because they've done so much rebuilding in this city, and he scares Cell off with a threat of blasting. Cell flies off and Trunks follows. faceoff!!! Cell attacks, still full of bravado, and gets socked in the face, hard enough to draw blood from his weird beak-mouth. He tries a distance attack with his tail instead, which might have been a dumb choice because Trunks grabs the tail (so many villains with tails have this problem) and flings him into the sky. okay i realize this is "hot" in a "hot shit at fighting" kind of sense and not a "wow pretty" kind of sense but it makes it 80% funnier for me if i imagine it in that way A kamehameha from imperfect Cell is basically nothing to Trunks at this point, and he's fed up with all of these shenanigans. He uses his own (unnamed!) beam attack and Cell is disintegrated with a final pissy "Curse you....!" Bye again, Cell! * waves * aaand that's that. future saved, everyone is safe forever now!
Ch 421 HECK YEAH GOOD QUALITY SCANS AGAIN! Woohoo! (Herculopolis High/Satan City's High School) So you thought you'd signed up for an action/adventure fantasy/sci fi fight manga, right? Aliens, magic dragon balls, gods, androids ((cyborgs)), time travel, evil galactic overlords, slug people, strange bugmen that change forms every five minutes, lots and lots and LOTS of punching.... HAHAHA! YOU'VE FALLEN INTO MY TRAP! Because now... now the REAL Dragon Ball starts, and it's time for... HIGH SCHOOL SLICE OF LIFE FEAT. EVERYONE'S FAVORITE* ALIEN HYBRID GOHAN!! where did my tiny gohan go ;.; this one is too big! and teenaged! naw, he's fine, i'm just having some minorly parental feelings of "my little boy's all grown up * sniff *" But before we get into that, some background. The Earth has been safe for seven years! Or at least, nothing real big has happened. No one has tried to destroy the Earth/destroy all life on it/destroy all human life on it. Mr. Satan has a whole freakin' city named after him, which is kind of crazy! Not quite sure if it was named in his honor after "defeating" Cell, but anyway, it's the town he calls home. Our high school slice of life starts off with a bank robbery. Well, uh, that's a bit unusual! The robbers demand everything in the bank, and then say they'll be back when they've spent everything they've stolen today. (Kind of a dumb thing to announce, but whatever guys.) Scene change! Big-sized Gohan is not flying on his own, but riding Kinto'un, whose existence I had completely forgotten for the past, oh, 100+ chapters. school. is it just me or is it kind of weird to imagine gohan in school? not just because i don't believe he's ever... been to school before? but also because i feel like he won't get much out of it academically. but maybe he'll make some friends Gohan notices he's late, checks around to make sure no one's watching, and then takes off at what we can only assume is a "faster than normally achievable by humans" speed. Unfortunately... he's distracted by the sound of gunshots. The robbers are having a shootout with the police. i... huh? what? you're wearing the exact same cloooooooothes Gohan jumps straight in to the middle of the action and takes out all of the robbers, catching some bullets from one and flipping the vehicle of another pair who are trying to escape. After incapacitating them, he skedaddles, leaving the cops at a loss to explain what just happened. After returning to normal, he is accosted by a girl (who has the same "H" badge on her shirt as Gohan does). What caused all the commotion? Gohan lies through his teeth and says he has no idea. man i am all about that look, a+ style An older gentleman recognizes the girl, and calls her "Videl". Not sure what that's supposed to be referencing right off the top of my head, although I'm pretty confident it probably is meant to mean something. He tells her that it was some dude with golden hair, and that he's from her high school - same badge and everything. aaaah here we go. the slice of life begins! Videl is questioning a student named Shapner, who seems to have blondish hair, if he's the one who was fighting this morning. (No, he was busy training.) A girl to Videl's left suggests that it's possible that whoever this dude is, he's stronger than her dad, to which a rather nerdy-looking fellow scoffs and says that's impossible, Videl's dad is the savior of the world, which, uhhhhhhh, strongly suggests that Videl must be the daughter of Mr. Satan. Yow. Happily she seems to not have inherited much of her father's facial structure. The teacher enters, leading a new student who's going to join the class. The new student? None other than Gohan, of course, who just so happens to be sitting next to the girl on Videl's left. Aaaaand... we get confirmation that yep, Videl is absolutely Mr. Satan's daughter. Ch 422 (Undercover/Gohan, Very Tired) I feel that, Gohan. I feel that right down to my bones. Anyway! Gohan's already popular! Well, at least, the guy with gold hair who's appeared in the city a few times is. Videl recognizes Gohan from this morning, and tells him that the description of the guy's clothes matches Gohan's current outfit (SEE. WHAT DID I SAY.) Shapner laughs and says that Gohan doesn't look much like a fighter. uhoh Then there's a diversion where Gohan reveals that his home is over 1000 km from the school and people wonder how the hell he does his commute. Luckily for Gohan, the teacher shuts down that conversation. Hoooo boy, looks like gym class is going to be baseball, which Gohan has a passing acquaintance with (from Yamcha, maybe?), but has never actually played. this is shapner and he is literally always making a face like this and i can't deal with it at all. like, please, i give up my joke, let me get back to the punching and stuff. i will even describe a tournament if it means that i don't have to talk about high school slice of life anymore Gohan is sent into the outfield. you should get piccolo to give you "normal teenager" training Videl pitches, Shapner hits the ball, and Gohan reveals a 15 foot+ vertical leap. Whoops. So much for acting normal. He "gently" throws the ball and knocks over the player who catches it, because once again, saiyan gentle is not quite human gentle. Or at least ordinary human gentle; any of the usual warriors probably wouldn't have had such a tough time. Gohan's happy because his team got three outs! But all the other players are in shock. Apparently Gohan jumped over 8 m, which is over 26 feet. Yowza. Gohan says he just... got lucky, somehow. A freak wind? A sudden geyser blast? Anyway, it's time for him to bat! This should go just about as well. He's holding the bat backwards for the side he's hitting from. Shapner's pitching this time, and seems to have something up his sleeve. Gohan gets hit right in the face with the ball, which does absolutely no damage. Having been hit with the ball, Gohan I guess gets a walk? Don't ask me, I have very little idea how baseball works, despite living in a house with an avid baseball fan for 18 years of my life. Shapner is confused and Videl is very, very suspicious. After school, Gohan tries to slip away to get home, but is tailed by Videl, who hasn't let go of her suspicion. However, he manages to lose her by turning a corner... and flying up to the top of the building. From here, he can finally make a clean escape on his "single-seater car", AKA flying cloud. Pretending to be normal is exhausting, and there's the whole golden-haired guy thing to worry about. hmmmm... well, if the translation continues to be wonky, i may switch back to the en version, but i'd prefer not to if possible.... everything is a struggle for both gohan and me * forgot my damn endnote again.... but i meant to say that yes, i acknowledge the possibility of other hybrids being people's favorite hybrids
Oh wow that's very straightforward and I completely missed it. I was thinking onions for some reason, not quite sure why, but didn't bother to look into it b/c late.
