Ch 513 I keep checking this thread as though I might have secretly updated at some point behind my back (Vegeta's Plan) Oh boy oh boy Vegeta has a plan! And he's managed to get to his feet, although he's got a fucked-up arm. Which seems to be a pretty typical Vegeta injury. He's always getting one or other of his arms hurt. Has it ever been both at the same time? I could have sworn that happened at one point, but it's all lost in the mists of history. In any case, he's pissed at Goku because what the hell, man? Stop being normal Goku and deal with Boo already! Well, Goku would, but it seems that being SS3 while alive just takes way too much ki. Since he's not dead anymore, he can't sustain it. (I wonder, could you just shove a bunch of calories or something in him? Does that replenish ki? Feel like I've asked these questions before.) :/ N!Boo is still facing down A!Boo, despite the fact that he doesn't believe he can win. They charge each other, and A!Boo surprises the other by not attacking directly, but arcing over him and hitting him with an elbow drop. N!Boo slams into the ground and the other seizes him by the head appendage and wraps the other arm around his throat. I don't know if Boo needs to breathe or anything, but he doesn't seem to enjoy this treatment at all, and it makes it difficult for N!Boo to attack in any way. Mr. Satan runs up. the weird degree of extreme bravery mr. satan exhibits.... even if he still thinks this is all a dream, he's really willing to throw himself into some dangerous situations! i can't quite tell if it's just dumbassery or what, but, it kind of touches my heart A!Boo just slaps Mr. Satan with his head appendage. N!Boo hears his cry of pain and comes up with a way to get A!Boo off of his head: he pulls his head down and stretches the head appendage, then does what amounts to a shower hair flip ( where you fling all your hair forward over your face, seen often in shampoo commercials) to smack A!Boo into the ground. He uses his treat-transformation beam (chocolate again), but A!Boo easily evades and beams N!Boo from behind, destroying his head yet again. you little shit Goku and Vegeta watch as the battle transforms into a close-range, punch-heavy one. This is buying them a bit of breathing room, but ultimately, N!Boo isn't strong enough to defeat A!Boo, and so it's only a matter of time before he's overcome and then everyone's boned. Vegeta is making a thinking face. Suddenly and without warning, he calls out to Dende and the kaioushin. They're watching all of this, right?! If they can here him, pick up the damn (metaphorical) phone! The elder kaioushin responds in the affirmative, and Vegeta orders them to get to the new Planet Namek and round up their dragon balls. Dende asks why, but Vegeta has no time to explain, he just needs them to get going already! Of course, the elder kaioushin objects, but my best boy Dende fucking shuts him down. YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!! (can dende keep the dog please) The elderly kaioushin relents and grabs his crystal ball. Alright, all about the Shin/Kibito New Namek Express, which is basically as express as you can go, I imagine. hey man back the fuck off someone is thinking for once it's such a fun new sensation don't harsh my buzz Vegeta doesn't immediately answer Goku's question. Instead, he has one of his own: how many times has Goku saved the planet? Goku doesn't know exactly, just a bunch of times, why? How does that matter? y-yessir i'll do whatever The gods (and dog) arrive on Namek, only to find the Namekians already waiting for them. awwww family reunion I guess they've been paying attention to what's happening? Because they know what's going on, and thankfully for both the number of chapters remaining (not many) and N!Boo's failing strength, they've already rounded up the dragon balls. Good job Namekians! I guess they're amenable to helping. Vegeta gets the report and relays his wishes. is that gonna work? and who makes the determination about what counts as a "bad guy"? the person wishing? porunga? some impartial other judge? and is vegeta condemning himself to death by wishing that? Dende's a bit worried. Vegeta really wants this to happen now? Goku reassures him and tells him to go ahead. And what about the third wish? Vegeta doesn't give a shit. Dende or someone else can wish for whatever they want, he doesn't care. Goku wonders if it wouldn't be easier to wish to bring back "everyone killed by Boo", but there are multiple issues with that, namely that Boo killed Dabra and Bobbidi, and also that Vegeta himself killed some people. Oh yeah, that absolutely happened. Mmm. :I There's a momentary panic when Dende thinks the Namekian dragon balls can't do the multi-people rez, but no worries, they've been upgraded! Porunga's super cool now and he can do the AOE rez. Awesome! Time to get to work, then. The Namekian elder summons Porunga, who's just as spiky and beefy as usual. Dende gets the honor of making the wishes, as is 100% traditional by now, and the first one gets made: bring the Earth back, please. <3 Aaaaand bam, Earth back.
Ch 514 still upset that the dragons never hung out (unless they do all the time when they're not granting wishes) (A Message to Earth/A Message to the Revived People of Earth) Earth back, second wish time. Dende amends Vegeta's original wish phrasing slightly, so that the time is more accurate, and he changes "bad guys" to "very evil ones". This is kind of a big ask, and Porunga warns that it's gonna take a while. A!Boo is finding new and inventive ways to tune up on N!Boo. One of these involves tearing his own arm off, wadding it up into a ball, and using it like Wakka's blitzball to batter N!Boo around. Vegeta notices that N!Boo's power is decreasing and concludes that they can get hurt. He makes an inquiry into whether or not Porunga's managed to rez everyone yet. The elder kaioushin tells him to "quit nagging", because Porunga's doing his best, and like a second later his halo disappears. So I guess. Dragons, or at least, Porunga, can also resurrect gods. How does this all work. Porunga confirms: everyone who's gonna get revived, has been revived. even if you've forgiven him for hurting you i still haven't 100% >:[ awwwwww man i liked halo!vegeta. it was fun. wish he'd had wings though like that one title card art when goku died the... second time? i mean i guess i'm happy that he's alive again. kinda looks like he's having an existential crisis though ("who am i if i'm not a bad guy") !!! :D! Not just Gohan and sweet beloved Piccolo (... sweet? hmm. maybe not. beloved certainly) are alive again, but everyone on Earth (minus some very evil people) is back again, including the littler half-saiyans, Videl, Bulma and Chichi, Krillin and family, and... yeah, you get the idea. Goku guesses that Vegeta's gonna have all their kids transported to this place to help them fight. Nope, that's not the plan. The plan is for Goku to do the ol' standard, the genkidama, something we haven't seen for a million and a half years. I suppose Vegeta would probably have some pretty stark memories of the genkidama, considering it was what ended up mostly doing him in waaaaay back when. goku juuuust sidestepping calling vegeta's plan dumb Vegeta interrupts. He said the Earthlings should do some of the work sometimes. Goku's not going to take just a little energy from them, he's going to take a lot of energy from them. As much as they can spare. Dende breaks in here to ask Vegeta what the third wish should be, Porunga's getting antsy, and Vegeta just brushes him off. He doesn't care, they don't need it! What he needs is to talk to everyone on Earth. Can either Dende or the kaioushin do that? No, unfortunately they can't. i'm sorry he's just reminding me so much of a cross-eyed cat right now. specifically a cross-eyed pointed cat Vegeta doesn't know who's butted in on this private line, but Goku does. It's Kaiou! He's good at being a telephone. too susceptible to flattery! vegeta wasn't even trying to flatter either! Vegeta's not necessarily interested in talking to that many people, and tells Kaiou that as Mr. Satan flees the battlefield toward the relative safety (?) of the area near Goku and Vegeta. Vegeta doesn't even take a moment to prepare or anything. I guess he's had a lot of practice making speeches, so maybe this is just par for the course for him. He speaks to everyone on the planet, telling them that yes, they were killed by Boo, but now they've been resurrected by a magical power, along with the planet itself and everything on it (cities, towns, homes, ..., etc.). It was not a dream. (People have gotten back to their regular routines in like 5 microseconds, so, uh, don't know how much they're going to believe of this weird angry voice from nowhere.) "you're gonna get picked up by the PA!" Mr. Satan is affronted. This is a dream, 100%! He thinks Vegeta should stop talking and start doing something to help N!Boo. Vegeta's not done. There's someone trying to save everyone, but he needs help; specifically, help from the people on Earth. He needs them to raise their hands towards the sky and give up their energy. It's kind of like donating blood: you get tired afterwards and it takes a little while, but you recover. He privately tells Goku to get started, and Goku rips off his ruined outer shirt just for fun. He flies up a little ways to be able to have a heroic pose in the sky while he does the genkidama thing. look at that cute goten. awwww dang The genkidama seems to be going well, but Vegeta notices an issue. don't let them hear you say that!
Look, I get that this is an important request from Vegeta, and I don't blame him for being annoyed. On the other hand, they probably get messages like this twice a month. How often have the citizens of Japan been tricked into giving energy to Queen Beryl. Every time.
Ch 515 i'm so disappointed there hasn't been an opportunity for underwater video game music since... whenever the last time was. namek, maybe? (Just Not Enough/Energy Won't Gather for the Genki-Dama) People on Earth are just not cooperative. Goku's got energy basically just from the friends and family cohort. Certainly that's a healthy amount of energy! All those saiyan kids and strong fighters have quite a bit to give up. It's not enough to do anything about Boo, though. Vegeta tries again. Do you earthlings want to be killed by Boo again?! Do your part for yourselves, your planet, and the rest of the universe! Get those hands up in the air! Someone in a snowy place is like "Well okay then" and does it, only to have his energy taken. His friend, who advised him not to, is convinced it's the work of the devil. Probably other people try to0, with similar results (well, it is exactly what Vegeta said would happen....), get freaked out, and freak out those around them. Public opinion is definitely against Vegeta at this point. People are unwilling to listen to "that freak", and some even think it's another trick by Bobbidi. you are NOT one to talk, vegeta, you often disregard good advice and sensible plans of action in favor of just doing whatever the hell you want, you don't like being ordered around, it's not surprising that people aren't willing to just do whatever some rando voice in their heads tells them, no one knows who you are, and you probably sound angry and hostile, none of those things are going to make people particularly favorable to you A!Boo has been beating up on N!Boo this whole time, and N!Boo is pretty bloodied. Not physically bloodied, because they don't seem to bleed all that much, but certainly metaphorically. Vegeta says that the "fat one" is close to death, which is pretty bad news, because he's been buying them time to carry out this plan of Vegeta's. A!Boo drops him to the ground, where he lies flat on his back, limbs spread out, unmoving. A!Boo moves back a bit and then stretches out his hand toward N!Boo. Obviously planning on finishing him with a single beam. dumbass? or brave? vote now on your phones The rock connects with the side of A!Boo's head. Mr. Satan suddenly has a lot of regrets. Boo looks over in the direction the rock was hurled from, which is bad news, because Goku's over there with his unfinished genkidama and now A!Boo's more aware of what's up. Which is that someone's doing something that might actually be threatening to him. He immediately switches targets, leaving N!Boo still immobile on the ground. once again, it's time for Vegeta Buys Time! last time, he did okay! let's see how he does this time Goku protests; isn't Vegeta still worn out from before?! But Vegeta's already thrown himself into the mix. He is nothing if not persistent (sometimes, except when he's not and he just gives up. Vegeta suffers from depression and nothing can change my mind). For some reason, he's fighting in baseform? Which seems like a Real Bad Idea. Maybe he's just too weak to even transform at this point? And there may or may not be senzus on the returned Earth, but no one here has any. I'm so used to them just going super saiyan at the drop of a hat that it seems pretty odd that he'd be literally incapable of doing so, but I guess that's what I just have to assume is the case, because Vegeta may suffer from a lot of faults, but being stupid in this particular way isn't one of them, I don't think. A!Boo seems to realize that Vegeta's not much of a threat to him as he is right now. He laughs and sucker punches Vegeta right in the gut, then grabs him by the front of his hair. Well, I suppose buying time by getting utterly wrecked is still a valid tactic. Goku tries his hand at convincing people to give him energy, and has a bit more success than Vegeta. People (despite having not seen him for presumably many fucking years) recognize his voice. People that we haven't seen for many, many chapters. Like Upa and family. And Seventeen, who seems to be up in some mountains somewhere. But most importantly... hacchan! But still, it's not enough. Goku's only interacted with a very very small proportion of the Earth's population, and despite the fact that he sounds nicer than Vegeta (not that hard to pull off), people are still wary and unwilling. A!Boo pops Vegeta in the face, still holding on to his hair. Vegeta's trying his level best, but in baseform and still hurting from his previous Boo-stalling attempt, he is extremely ineffective. Mr. Satan watches as Vegeta just gets pummeled six ways from Sunday. Goku might be feeling a bit desperate. not what i expect from you! Calling them "fools" may have been a bit of a mistake. People get upset at the insult and decide that maybe the whole Boo thing itself didn't even happen. Just "mass hypnosis". Yeah, that's the most reasonable explanation, for sure. Mr. Satan gets fed up. i don't mean to be... rude? but. uh. you have absolutely had that kind of attitude before Now here's a voice that makes people sit up and take notice. Is that... Mr. Satan? It is, right? Could it be... that Mr. Satan is fighting with Boo? Y-yeah, that's right! Mr. Satan is squaring off against the ultimate threat to the whole world, but he needs help from "his people" to beat him once and for all! Goku just kinda stares down at him, and Mr. Satan sorta-kinda half apologizes for taking all the credit, but as long as they beat Boo, that's all that matters, right? Mr. Satan's call to arms gets hands in the air. He's the Champion of the World. He saved them all from Cell. Everyone loves Mr. Satan, the whole world over. Incredibly huge spheres of energy appear from the Earth (visible from space!), gather together, and fly off Goku-wards. Hope they travel quickly, because Vegeta's not gonna have his regained life for long if A!Boo keeps up his onslaught. All Goku can do is tell him to "hang on!!", because he's all tied up with the genkidama at the moment. Speaking of which.... big were you even paying attention? i don't know if he can even attain verticality, let alone move quickly, after the beating he took
Ch 516 there is no kaomoji capable of expressing the melancholy i feel (Battle's End/Conclusion) Goku tells Vegeta to "clear out"; he doesn't want to hurt him. "Hurt" in this context is probably closer to "kill", right? That's a serious genkidama and Vegeta's had a very bad day. He's been beat within an inch of his life, practically, and doesn't seem able to just "clear out". oh vegeta :( i admire your practical side when it comes out but you make me so sad sometimes A!Boo seems upset by what's happening. i have the suicidal impulse to stick my arm in his mouth, kind of like i have the impulse to stick my finger in a cat's mouth when it yawns so that it bites me when it closes its mouth (i'm sorry cats) A!Boo hurls a large ki ball, which almost hits Goku, I think, except something happens. I'm not 100% sure what. In any case, he manages to not get crisped up by the attack and to keep the genkidama around and intact and ready for tossing whenever an opportunity presents itself. Speaking of which.... oh man where'd he get off to this time * thumbs up * good job mr. satan! cart him off like a sack of potatoes and get him out of harm's way!! Goku echoes that sentiment (well, minus the sack of potatoes part), and says that Mr. Satan just might be guess everyone voted "brave" on their phones Goku tosses the genkidama, which is kind of a production, given how large it is. Boo shoots another ki ball at it, one that he was going to throw at Goku but didn't get a chance to, and it just splashes off. Doesn't destabilize or dent or detonate it. He puts his hands out and intercepts the genkidama. uh oh Well, hell. That can't be good. A!Boo's resisting the genkidama. Goku tries to push it further, but Boo digs in his heels, bends forward, and puts his whole will behind forcing it back. And it works. Goku keeps trying, but A!Boo seems to be prevailing. At least, his wild, excited smile certainly says that he thinks he is. Mr. Satan's taken Vegeta to a slightly safer point (not right in the middle of the battlefield, at least) and he's aware enough to identify what he thinks the problem is. Vegeta's not the only one who's been wrung dry by this battle; Goku's in a similar, although significantly less injured, boat, especially after the whole SS3 debacle. Goku received a lot of power from the people of Earth, but it all went to the genkidama, and he doesn't have enough of his own in reserve to pull off this attack. Heck, just like Vegeta earlier, he's not even super saiyan, just his regular ol' black-haired, dark-eyed self. oh! the namekians did give energy. as well as enma and all his oni assistants. i don't know if they're supposed to be oni or not but that's what the horn and the tiger pants make me think of. love how they're just keeping track of everything somehow on the big screen tv Dende asks Shin/Kibito to send him Goku-wards, but apparently the teleportation takes energy... energy which Shin/Kibito doesn't have after presumably giving it up to the genkidama. Porunga, grumbling, breaks into the conversation here and asks when they're going to make their third wish, because he's gonna split if they're not going to do it soon. Oh hey, magic dragon! Dende asks if Porunga could restore Goku's energy, and the answer is a yep, as long as they don't want him over-energized, and so Dende makes the wish. And just in time. Goku's almost at the end of his rope when he gets the sudden unexpected burst of power. Restored to normal levels! Dende tries to tell him that they've restored his energy, but he doesn't need the explanation. He knows. A!Boo seems to know that something's changed too. Goku goes super saiyan. goku And that's basically that. Goku salutes in A!Boo's general direction and forces the genkidama forward, breaking through A!Boo's defenses and completely obliterating him. Not a single trace of him left. Nothing but the dust churned up by the violent treatment of Shin's planet, which now has a stylish new hole in it from the genkidama's passage. camaraderie!!!!
…could they not have just wished Angry Boo into the cornfield away, or was that not allowed somehow? (Well, Goku being Goku would've been pissed about not getting to finish the fight, but still.) Also that thumbs-up + Vegeta's little smile is very cute. THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
Oh right, I forgot. That's an interesting limitation, hmm. (I mean, also probably necessary for obvious plot reasons, but the in-universe ramifications are potentially fascinating :o)
Ch 517 and that was that (A Happy Ending... And Then.../A Grand Finale, And Then...) this is so fucking adorable to me. looking to piccolo for confirmation even tho presumably any of them could tell that boo's ki isn't around anymore Woohoo! Goku sits down on a rock, worn out, and Mr. Satan makes an announcement to the people of Earth, stating that he's defeated the great evil with their help and now everyone is safe forever. People go nuts. If Mr. Satan wasn't the hero of the world already, he certainly would be now. And in some sense, he is the hero, even if it's a weird circular recursive way; he helped to save the universe because people think he helped save the Earth, so even though Goku did the heavy lifting, he still played an integral part. (When I watched the anime I yelled at the computer monitor several times for them to get Mr. Satan to talk to the people, because it took a long ass time and he was right there. The guy everyone loves. The guy that people believe in, oh my god, hurry up and use this incredible asset that you have!) oh no, poor videl * gives comforting pats * hey hey hey what happened to not being able to teleport??? Dende drops the dog and rushes over to Goku (the dog goes to Mr. Satan, so I'm maybe feeling like Dende won't keep the dog). Goku sends Dende to heal Vegeta first, because he's "pretty tired". No fucking shit, and maybe tack some other adjectives on there, like bruised. Injured. Internally bleeding. That's not an adjective. Oh well. The dog runs away from Mr. Satan, and so he follows, and finds the original (not original-original, but our original) Boo, lying unconscious where the other Boo left him. Holy shit! Of course, Vegeta, Goku, and Dende hurry over to see what's up. Mr. Satan begs Dende to heal him. Vegeta is Not A Fan of this plan of action and tells Mr. Satan to get out of the way, he's going to end this. i'm still stupidly touched! Vegeta's like "fuck you he's too dangerous to have around", and Mr. Satan offers to keep an eye on him and let him live at his house. Vegeta's even more "fuck you" than ever after that offer, because what could Mr. Satan possibly do if Boo decided to basically anything? Goku steps in and tells Dende to heal him. Both Mr. Satan and Boo stepped in to help in their battle against the other Boo, so he deserves a chance. Besides, all they have to do is train to be sure that they can beat him if he tries anything. Shin/Kibito brings up the issue that people on Earth are going to be frightened of him, and Goku suggests that he "hide inside" for six months until Earth's dragon can be summoned and people can be made to forget the whole thing. Which, mmmmm, if the dragons can't move people around without their consent, how can they erase billions of people's memories??? Well, let's just put that under the rug where it belongs. Vegeta grumbles about not being the one to blame if something goes south, and Mr. Satan is very happy to have a new bubblegum pink houseguest. Time to go home! And then there's a bunch of touching reunions that make me all teary-eyed. Some highlights: my boy!! fuck i cry background son family gathering oh dear, lol (presumably an explanation of why boo is there followed this) could you pout any more, jesus christ Six months are conveniently skipped and people have their memories of Boo removed. So that's good (?). And then a further ten years are conveniently skipped. Trunks has his driver's license! but what's the point when you can fucking fly He jumps out (it's a flying car, of course, kind of round and sporty-looking), capsulizes the vehicle, and then goes flying off. He arrives... somewhere, looking for Goten. GLASSES GOHAN
Ch 518 I wonder how many words I've written about dragon ball (Ten Years After) So apparently saiyans get to a point where the look... adult, let's say, because I can't judge ages at all, especially in manga, and then they don't change. Which makes for some kind of odd visuals. Anyway, the title page is everyone ten years on. Due to said saiyan nonsense, Goku and Vegeta look the same as they did before. Piccolo does too, and I guess it'll probably take a bit longer for him to get all wrinkly like Kami. Krillin and Eighteen's daughter finally gets a goddamn name (Marron). Bulma and Vegeta have another kid (!), and Bulma obviously took the reigns on naming this time too, because she's named Bra. (Bulma, no!) Gohan and Videl are married and have a kid named (drumroll) Pan (= bread). Goten is very shaggy and somehow managed to get rid of the Goku-esque hair. Gohan, as previously shown, is very studious-looking with the glasses. Roshi got new glasses. Anyway. a) goten going with the popular style of having one's name on one's shirt; b) that vegeta outfit tho; c) goku is a bad friend Goku protests. Didn't he just vist them five years ago? (Jesus H. Christ, Goku.) And then goes on to tell Bulma how much she's aged. C'mon, man. Vegeta steps in at this point to divert the conversation towards something else, namely yet another fucking tournament that apparently Goku is going to enter because there's a "great fighter" who's going to be there. Vegeta's a bit disconcerted, because he hasn't felt anything, but Goku's confident that he's just holding back for now. Goku's also making poor Goten enter, even though he had a date scheduled. C'mon, man. cute She's gonna enter too! Jesus. Presented with all of this, Vegeta decides that he's going to enter too, and then he follows Goku's bad example and threatens Trunks with allowance reduction unless he enters too. Leave your goddamn kids alone, people. Just let them do whatever. Next day, tournament day! Apparently Mr. Satan is still the champion, because he's been throwing matches. dog got big! mr. satan lost some hair! Goku stops by with Pan to see the other granddad. Well, not only to see him. there's a lot to take in here. specifically "uncle vegeta" and also trunks and goten Mr. Satan procures seating for the spectating friends and family of the saiyans. At first they get seated right next to the ring, which is apparently just too much for them, so they get moved to somewhere a bit more private and out from under the curious gaze of the rest of the audience. Looks like most people showed up, minus Tien and Chiaotzu who usually don't. Time for lot drawing! Goku asks Boo to change the numbers drawn with his magic, presumably so that Goku can face this mysterious powerful fighter he sensed. The finalists are all the saiyans minus Gohan, "Mr. Boo" (I guess Boo got a new title), Killerno, Mo Kekko, Oob, Captain Chicken, Knock, and (big sigh) Otokosuki. Drawing happens; Goku has Boo give him the third slot, and then gets all excited when Oob approaches to draw (HMMM) and has Boo make him the fourth. Vegeta is like "him?! that's who you wanted to fight?!" and then tells Goku he'd better explain all of this, as though there'd be a delay between the ask and the answer, but Goku just launches into the explanation right then and there. Basically he was super into fighting Boo and wished for him to be reborn as something not-evil (but still strong, I guess), and that reborn Boo is this ten-year-old kid. "oob" is a really unfortunate name Ch 519 (Farewell, Dragon World!/Bye Bye Dragon World) Matchups! Not that they really matter because, uh, last chapter and all, but here they are. Pan vs. Mo Kekko Goku vs. Oob Captain Chicken (he is wearing a chicken suit) vs. Killerno Mr. Boo vs. Goten (sorry Goten) Trunks vs. Otokosuki and finally Knock vs. Vegeta Mo Kekko is disappointed that his opponent in the first round is a little girl, and Pan sticks her tongue out at him. Mo Kekko wonders how this could possibly be allowed. Well, she did get through the prelims, so, uh, she certainly deserves to be there. Otokosuki, who is an extremely unfortunate parody of a certain gay stereotype character, hits on Trunks. Knock decides that he's gonna smacktalk his future opponent, Vegeta, who has enough after about 1.5 seconds and lays him out with a single backarmed hit. That seems like it should 100% be against the rules, but... First match: Pan vs. Mo Kekko! People assume Pan's just there because of nepotism, but she proves them wrong. good job! Pan bows to the audience. Mr. Satan rushes over as she returns to the waiting area to ask if she's okay, and she says she's fine. Next up is the Goku-Oob match. The announcer tells us that Oob is from a tropical island (who isn't, around here), that he's the oldest of five who entered for the prize money. Bulma feels bad for him, having traveled all this way only to get stuck fighting Goku in his first match, but Piccolo thinks that this'll be a match to watch. (Hey, Piccolo! Dende's there too, looking even more of a responsible young green alien god.) Oob and Goku enter the ring, and the poor kid is too nervous to fight properly, which is not surprising. He's from a probably-small island and he's only ten, and now here he is, supposed to be fighting in front of all these people. Goku tells him to relax, and he says "Yes sir!!" and doesn't relax at all. Goku doesn't think he'll be able to fight to the full extent of his abilities if he's all nervous like this, so he decides that provoking him is the only option. he's really bad at it when he's actually trying Like, just suuuuuper bad at it, but when he insults Oob's parents in the most kindergarten way possible, Oob gets pissed. yeah, getting kicked in the wrist fucking hurts! Goku moves back after evading what probably would have been a nasty hit to the face, then moves in close. They exchange a series of swift blows, and Oob is definitely managing to hold his ground. He yells at Goku and knocks him over, then is shocked when Goku floats. Goku apologizes for the insults, but he just had to get Oob to let loose and fight him. Goku tells him he's incredible, but that he doesn't know how to use his power, so Goku's gonna go live with him and train him! Oob objects, because he needs the prize money, and Goku's like "I got you, don't worry, I'm tight with Mr. Satan, money's no issue" and then he flies off to mention to his family that he's gonna go off and train this kid. ᕦ( ᐛ )ᕡ Off he goes, with Oob hanging on to his back because he can't fly yet. Piccolo thinks he looks the happiest he has in a long time, and Vegeta sees through his little "oh I wanna protect the planet!" act. He just wants to fight Oob once he gets to a point where he's mastered his power. Yep, I'm with Vegeta on this one. * pretends super never happened * And there you have it, folks. The whole 519 (somehow I thought it was 520) chapters of the original Dragon Ball manga. What a thing. An enjoyable, frustrating, surprisingly poignant at times, ridiculous thing. I'm sad that it's over, for a whole bunch of reasons, and for the moment that's about all I can say, except that the ending for me is a strange combination of exactly the kind of nonsense I would expect Dragon Ball to give me for an ending and also extremely disappointing.
(are Trunks and Goten dancing in that panel, omg that's adorable) This has been an amazing ride and I'm glad to have gotten on it. Thanks for this whole thread, it's a thing of beauty and a joy forever. :D
Goku visit your friends you can teleport (I feel like Bulma, at least, would be keeping in touch with everyone becuase a wealthy family like hers knows the importance of ~networking~ and if you can't bring your weird alien friends to crash socialite parties what's the friggin' point?) Spoiler: Furthermore I have a lot of weird headcanon about how much time Bulma and Vegeta spend fucking with paparazzi. Vegeta is known as 'mystery boytoy' for several years, at least. Nobody has dirt on this man, not a birth certificate, not a prison record, not even a high school grad photo. It is as though he fell out of the very sky!
* bows * thank you everyone The only think that might heal my heartbreak over no more Dragon Ball is... more Dragon Ball (which is a very silly way of saying I probably will end up also doing Super, lol)
