Ch 461 alright let's do this chapter for real this time (Can This Be Boo?!) Well, despite everyone's best (?) efforts, Boo has been awakened. Time to start getting used to the idea of living in a world where a large, caped, pudgy... being is the biggest threat around. Although there haven't been any color pages yet, I feel it is my very important duty to say that Boo is pink. Pretty much bubblegum pink. So just keep that in mind as well. Bobbidi and Dabra are kind of at a loss. Is that thing really the famed Boo? He seems very... smiley for an entity that only cares for destruction and mayhem. And not really in a Cell or Frieza-like asshole smiley way. He seems to be kind of... enjoying the scenery? The fresh air? The not being asleep after God knows how long? Bobbidi looks to Shin for confirmation, as Shin is the only one who's actually seen him before and is alive to, y'know, tell the tale. Shin, trembling all over, says yes ("terrible face", etc.). there is something so funny to me about bobbidi's reaction here and i cannot describe it at all. also dabra being like "this is what we spent all this time and effort on. this pink blob. really" Boo is doing some calisthenics, working out all the stiffness that comes with being cooped up in a giant shell for millions of years (or whatever the actual number is). a good variety of reactions to boo Gohan thinks it might not be quite as bad as Shin is making it out to be. Sure, Boo's just bursting with ki, but if he can use all of his strength against him... maybe there's a chance. Switching gears and returning to the Goku/Vegeta fight, both of them seem pretty bloody now, although it's possible that Vegeta has it a bit worse... or that he's just been hit in the face more times. The super dark eye rings don't help, either. He just looks like he ain't doing so hot. The fight's paused for a second for some breath-catching, and just when Vegeta's ready to get back into it dangit goku stop stalling! But Vegeta pauses, lands, feels around for the ki... and laughs. Was that really the thing they were so worried about? Doesn't feel like much of anything. Speaking of, the whole kaioushin thing was kind of a letdown too -- he was hardly what one might call invincible! So this Boo is probably only a threat to the eyes of one who hasn't gained all this power. but the abnormal ki, vegeta! it's abnormal! don't you wanna go check it out?? huh??? Bobbidi approaches Boo and announces his parentage, his part in freeing Boo from the shell, and these combined mean that he is Boo's master. Boo ignores this and Bobbidi yells at him about manners and demands fealty and attention. Boo is unphased by the bluster and decides to have a little fun. :P!!! Boo has a good laugh about scaring Bobbidi. Dabra's had just about enough of this; despite all the hype, this Boo is nothing more than a fat, useless cretin. Boo overhears this and gets angry. He hops threateningly over towards Dabra, arms raised, making menacing noises. Or what I can only assume are meant to be menacing noises. To be quite honest, at first glance, very little is menacing about Boo. Dabra seems to feel this way too, and repeats his insults right to Boo's face after asking if he wants to fight. Gohan is heartened by all of this, but Shin's still extremely dour. There's no mistaking it; this is Boo. The same Boo of legendary destructive power. Boo starts releasing steam or smoke from those indentations in his head and arms like a large, pink, rubbery teakettle... and smiles in a new, nasty way. oh hey that is actually really menacing and i Do Not Like It. especially the teeth. where did he suddenly get those from Boo, with no warning, pokes both of Dabra's eyes viciously, drawing blood, and kicks him with a strength that sends him bouncing like a skipped stone across the landscape and straight through a rocky outcropping. He fetches up in the rubble of the shattered stone and Boo does a little hop of victory and gives himself a hand. yeah but... the whole tractability thing. could maybe be an issue. but what do i know. not much except that your eyes would make some pretty good targets, being so large and prominent
omg I love these villains, they are so faily and ridiculous-looking Boo clapping in the background I can't even
Ch 462 the whole "djinn" thing comes from (i think???) the word "majin" (literally "magic person"), which is used at lot more in the anime. wish they had kept it for the manga translation, "majin buu" has such a nice ring to it (The Menace of Boo) awww, that's sweet Boo's ki went way up with that last attack. Trunks and Goten pick up on it and spend a moment trying to decide: see the dadfight, or check out this weird spooky ki? It doesn't take long for them to make their choice. Dads? Boring, old news, who cares! The potential to see the genie they were told about? About a hundred times cooler than some dull old dads. They change course and speed towards the strange ki. The dads in question are still on fight hiatus, monitoring this "abnormal" ki that just cropped up. The power surge makes up Goku's mind. at least he seems to be considering it. i wonder if maybe the potential to fight someone stronger (? maybe?) than goku might override his desire to, y'know, fight goku. but maybe the pride thing might be getting in the way of that Vegeta returns to his previous assertion: he doesn't care about any of that. The only thing that matters is fighting Goku. But according to Shin, this means everything is doomed, and everything includes both Bulma and Trunks, the family Vegeta claimed to actually enjoy. Vegeta explodes at that. i'm dying. i'm dead. i love the idea so much of vegeta being grumpily happy with his family. plz Vegeta has a bit of a think about that, and then relents, since Goku's heart so obviously isn't in this battle while Boo's out there clapping for himself in victory rampaging around. Vegeta demands a senzu (of which there are... two, I think, because Videl got one and Karin had three old beans lying around in a pot somewhere), because their fight took a lot of energy and Goku, happy that Vegeta has finally seen sense, agrees. doo doo doo isn't it nice that vegeta didn't make too much of a fuss about the battle thing that's low, vegeta. Goku conks the fuck out. Vegeta stands over him for a moment, contemplating his handiwork and thinking that even Goku can be vulnerable when he's caught off-guard. Well duh! He can be naive as fuck! He took you at your goddamn word and you knocked him out from behind! Vegeta grabs the senzu and takes it. Back at full power he's looking a lot better. oh you bastard, you're gonna do that thing you do so well again Having seen a firsthand demonstration of Boo's skill, Bobbidi doubles down on the whole master thing. Boo's still not really feeling it, but Bobbidi reveals that he's read his dad's notes regarding Boo, and he knows a little spell that'll put Boo back in that shell. Which isn't something he wants, right? i don't know whether or not to feel bad for boo. on the one hand, he can't really help having been created a fiend without remorse or pity, capable of destroying hundreds of planets in a scant few years, and it also must suck to be put in a magical seal and left for god knows how many years. conscious? unconscious? in a weird half-dream state? in any case, it seems terrible. then immediately after getting released from that, you have some sheep-faced beskirted descendant of your creator ordering you around and threatening you with fresh imprisonment. ... ... well maybe i do feel bad for him. Gohan suggests that maybe if they get rid of Bobbidi, Boo might not be much of a threat; he kind of acts like a kid. (Gohan, have you seen the destruction your small brother has caused, how could you think he'd be harmless?! Even accidentally, he could be a terror.) Shin immediately objects. No Bobbidi means they have no means of controlling Boo, and their only hope is that Boo challenges Bobbidi so much that he has no choice but to put him in the shell again. From there he gets back into his "I fucked up so bad" spiel... but adds a new element: if only he'd known that there were such strong mortals, he could have used "the other way". What other way? But Shin just hangs his head. It's too late. There's no choice. Everything is doomed. I think Gohan and I might be feeling the same kind of annoyance with this line of reasoning, but there's not much time to try to get Shin to snap the hell out of it. awww shit c'mon can't we get a minute here to find out what the "other way" is??? Boo, motivated by the threat of sealing, moves to attack them. i would bet a lot that shin has not been dragged around like this... basically ever. he's having so many new and fun life experiences If nothing else, Gohan's confident in his speed. Boo watches them fly off, then sets himself up kind of like a runner at the starting line, before taking off at incredible speeds.
(continued) i don't know why everyone's always so confident in their speed. piccolo was too back on namek, and it's like, you're facing this crazy dude who's so insanely overleveled that you look like a novice in comparison, why would having slightly better speed than... average (with average here meaning the average of a very small portion of the population)... mean anything against them oh??? is this the first actual thing he's said?? i think it may be! Boo slaps Gohan down into the ground below, then goes for Shin, who hits him in the face with one of those invisible blasts. Boo's head gets knocked back, but he recovers quickly, and seems none too pleased with the experience. SERIOUSLY WHERE DO THOSE TEETH COME FROM Boo gets revenge in the nastiest way possible: by squashing Shin's head between his palms. Not fatally, I don't think, but very, very unpleasantly. Boo then bops him with a closed fist (although... does Boo even have fingers? His gloves don't seem to have separate finger pouches) and sends him spiraling down after Gohan, who's managed to drag himself out of the ground. Bobbidi is just having a field day watching this from the distance. Boo is great!
Ch 463 tbqh i would use "babidi" and "buu" but... i feel bad diverging too much from what's presented in the official manga translation. they're just visually more appealing to me (Terrifying Power) Shin's still alive, yaaay. But he might not stay that way for long. Although, how does death work for gods? Kaiou died just fine, I guess. Maybe Shin would too. Could a dragon rez him? Boo descends to finish his task. providing his own theme music. boo is the best Shin does some sort of ki attack with his eyes. Not lasereyes, but something destructive and forceful and damaging that makes his pupils and irises go blank for a moment. Unfortunately, Boo's fine, just a little ruffled, and besides that, he's learned a new trick and uses Shin's own attack against him. It's quite a bit more effective and Shin gets thrown. Boo does an expert air somersault and lands on Shin. Ouch, fuck, that looks not great. this is callous and flippant and i'm sorry but shin was never in any regard majestic, he was always cute and i will fite anyone about that. at most he was smug Gohan kicks Boo in the face and leaves a deep dent there that pops itself out after a moment, leaving Boo's cheek as round and puffy as it was beforehand. No sign of any injury. Bobbidi scuttles out of the immediate danger zone. Boo says two more full sentences to Gohan while making his "angry" face: "You bad. Go away." Then he casts a huge ki attack at Gohan, which catches him on it like a bug on a windshield and carries him far, far away, out of their sight. Despite this, Shin manages to sit up and destroy the blast, dropping Gohan into some forest somewhere. Bobbidi orders Boo to finish off Shin, but Boo seems distracted, and reveals he's hungry and wants to eat something. Bobbidi's trying to process this when Boo is suddenly pierced straight through the gut by a spear with a wickedly barbed tip. It's Dabra, who's survived the Boo attack and come back for revenge. It's now that Trunks and Goten finally arrive at the scene. They drop out of super saiyan form to hide and end up on the same cliffy area where everyone hid previously. goten no Goten notices something odd and gets distracted. Of course, they've found the "statues" of the petrified Piccolo and Krillin. TRUNKS NO (T⌓T) Unaware that they've not just broken a Piccolo statue but the actual Piccolo (and also my heart), Trunks and Goten sneak away from the scene of their heinous crime, just glad that they were unnoticed by the people down below. Dabra warns Bobbidi that Boo's not loyal and that at some point Bobbidi will lose control. Now is their best chance at stopping him. Bobbidi is frantic about Boo and doesn't listen. How could Dabra have done something like this?? Boo seems pretty unaffected by the whole spear thing, though. He pulls the spear the rest of the way through and casts it aside. The hole seals up and leaves no indication it ever existed. Boo also seems to have found a target for his hunger. Ch 464 (Vegeta vs. Boo/Vegeta's Final Deathmatch) WELL COOL OKAY TITLE! THANKS!! * big, insincere thumbs up * The spaceship aperture is still in the ground near where Goku and Vegeta were fighting, which should give Vegeta a way to get back to that area quickly. too little too fuckin late man. as usual Boo hops towards Dabra, singing about food, and uses his single head... appendage to fire a beam at Dabra, saying "Cookie!" as he does. Dabra turns into a Dabra-sized... cookie. i guess he does have teeth even when he's not upset. you just don't see them Boo shoves the entire thing in his mouth at once and spends a while sorting everything out. Goten and Trunks are not fans of this at all, but Bobbidi is 100% into it. On the plus side, Dabra being cookie-fied and then eaten means that Krillin's petrification has ended and he's right as rain. (....) Goten and Trunks see him and hop down to say hi, and Krillin explains that he got turned to stone when a big red guy with horns spit on him. Trunks says it must be because Dabra got eaten that Krillin's gone back to normal... and has a terrible, terrible realization. ;_; my main dude is just in pieces PSYCHE nah he's fine now. musta had a fuckin regeneration party up there after trunks turned away Piccolo notices the abnormal Boo ki and hits the deck. Has Boo really been awakened?! But the kids have other priorities. well there you have it, folks Piccolo asks the kids for more info, but they don't know anything; they only just got here themselves.
(continued) don't eat shin!! Boo seems into the idea of eating Shin. Maybe he's still hungry? piccolo... you are awfully subservient towards and now protective of these gods, i think kami bequeathed some weird god issues to you along with power and knowledge and all the rest Krillin and Goten convince Piccolo not to go running out there and trying to (uselessly) save Shin. Meanwhile, Boo's trying to decide what to turn Shin into, because of course just eating someone straight up is no good. Chocolate? Jello? (I think that last one might be meant to be gummy candy, but I could be wrong.) :( Bobbidi crows about the pathetic finish to the kaioushin, but then his spaceship explodes. i'm gonna fucking explode goddamnit vegeta you're not allowed to say something so stupidly cool killed? oh. oh hey. that fucking sucks. poor piccolo. <:( Bobbidi explains the insult to Boo, who is surprisingly volatile about being called ugly. He lets off another burst of steam and wants to kill Vegeta, and Bobbidi says "Eh, whatever, go ahead, he's kind of a huge pain in the ass anyway." what a tableau :( Vegeta charges up and attacks.
I think? Either that or... I dunno. Could be that something else was planned initially and then that got scrapped, although given all the stories of how DB got made I tend to doubt there was all that much planning ahead
Ch 465 now i'm gonna be sad all over again (Boo Gets Mad) Vegeta whales on Boo for a while, until he's covered with those dents from various punches/kicks/hits. Once again, after a moment, they pop out, leaving him looking completely unharmed. Vegeta's got another attack queued up thought. that's a new look for boo! surprise This one is a very concentrated ki beam attack that passes straight through Boo. Right through his middle. Does he have organs? He seems kind of homogeneous, so maybe not. But if he did, he'd be big-timed screwed right about now and missing some very vital parts of digestive system/lungs/etc. In any case, it does seem to do some damage: Boo collapses and looks a little deflated, not as voluminous as usual. Vegeta sees this and smirks (and Trunks celebrates his dad's victory), but that victory is short-lived. Boo pushes himself up, gets on his feet, regards the hole through his middle and, with some effort, fills it back in with whatever flesh-stuff he's made out of. welp, vegeta's good'n fucked Boo does his own charging up, which sends up gusts of air and shakes the ground. Something's building up; everyone can sense it. this isn't about bobbidi's orders anymore, i think it's safe to say. this is something more personal. this could definitely be the first time since he got resurrected that he's actually been hurt by an attack? shin's seemed to kind of piss him off a bit, but obviously vegeta's focused beam attack did more damage than that hole that boo patched up Boo releases the energy in a huge explosion of sorts. Bobbidi throws up a defensive barrier; Piccolo tells the kids and Krillin to run; and Vegeta, having not many other options, throws his arms up in front of his face. Well, I guess protecting your eyes is better than nothing. They all get blown backwards anyway. that's boo in the center for reference (how many of these nicely hemispherical landscape features are there on earth at this point?) Bobbidi's fine because of his bubble shield. Trunks, Goten, Krillin, and Piccolo seem mostly unharmed, if a little rattled. i think piccolo just likes taking care of/watching over other people. gohan sure did a number on him (oh no, gohan t.t) There's at least one person who's hurt, and that's Vegeta, who didn't have the benefit of either a shield or distance; he was pretty much right there at the epicenter. He's got a pretty bad wound on his left arm. Vegeta seems to have the worst luck with arm injuries, he's always getting them broken or mashed or generally torn up. No word on Shin, who was lying kind of helpless on the ground somewhere during all of this. Ch 466 (The Mastermind's Demise) you got me, man Vegeta's tenacity and not-dead-ness impresses Bobbidi, who seems a bit regretful that he's too much of a handful to keep around. Piccolo's caught Shin's pessimistic mood, understandably. If Gohan is dead, Vegeta helpless, and Shin useless, what can anyone do? your dad has lost to all sorts of things over the years... admittedly boo might be the weirdest to date Boo approaches Vegeta. He waves and says, "You die now. Bye-bye." Vegeta's still trying to figure out what to do about this situation when Boo does something... odd. Potentially even odder than turning someone into a cookie and consuming them wholesale. in retrospect i shouldn't be surprised at all at this but... god i wish i could do this taffy? taffy. taffy?? is boo a taffy creature Boo seems pleased with his... uhh... whatever he just did, although Vegeta's not a fan and calls Boo "sickening". Boo fires some projectile blasts from his mouth, forcing Vegeta to dodge, and Boo throws lump of flesh he pulled off himself at him. It wraps around Vegeta completely and immobilizes him. He falls to the ground, completely bound, and Boo skips over with a little song. He gleefully kicks Vegeta, bounces on him, and then spends a while punching him in the face. All while Vegeta is being python-squeezed by this stretchy pink flesh rope, which is possibly the grossest combination of words I could have used for that and I apologize. Piccolo forbids Trunks from jumping in to try to help, because he'll only be killed uselessly and -- oh goddamnit And then of course Goten has to go too.
(continued) Trunks and Goten speed right past Bobbidi and Trunks hits Boo right in the face. Boo flies straight backwards through several small peaks. Meanwhile, Goten unwinds Vegeta, who's in a bad way. nope and there's a fair to middlin' chance that he'll be upset about being rescued by kids Bobbidi wonders who all these people are. How does Vegeta have so many friends?? Well, fuck it, Boo's invincible, it doesn't matter how many friends he has, Boo can take care of all of them. But just then he senses something looming over him: Piccolo, who of course had to go after the kids and, while he can't do much about Boo... he can certainly do something about this goat-faced excuse of a warlock. Bobbidi tries to reason with him. No Bobbidi, no Boo-sealing spell, yes universal destruction. How's that?? good point! fuck him up piccolo! i love it when we get good shots of his fangs And then Piccolo rips Bobbidi in half. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that's that. Piccolo spits on his corpse. That seems like a big statement for Piccolo, who strikes me as generally the more unemotional fighting type, but... I'm sure he's thinking about Gohan. Trunks, Goten, and Vegeta, who's gotten on his feet and recovered somewhat from his thrashing but hasn't managed to clean up his face, observe this. maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan :(
Aw man, I liked Bobbidi, weird little uglycute goblin villain that he was. Not that he didn't totally have that coming though. good work Piccolo you are possibly the best dad in this manga
Ch 467 press f to pay respects (Farewell, Proud Warrior) Vegeta tells the kids to get out of there. Trunks protests; if they all just fight together, then...! vegeta, stop channeling me, the person who uses way too many ellipses all the damn time "But we're the best!" Trunks says, and Goten agrees. Darn kids. They're awfully cute and awfully inexperienced in any actual fighting experience, like against a real foe. goddamnt vegeta could you at least make an effort to not? just... not. future trunks probably grew up more well-adjusted without a dad and with android annihilation going on all the time than current trunks. and that's terrible, man And so now is the perfect time for him to apparently hug his own kid for the first time in Trunks' life. (I mean, I guess better now than never at all, but.) Understandably, Trunks doesn't really know how to deal with this at all and tells his dad to stop, it's embarrassing. Poor kid. mmrrrrf i'm so upset at myself for being touched by this I don't get to stay emotionally affected for long because Vegeta hits Trunks in the back of the neck shortly thereafter, knocking him out cold. He's slightly less gentle with Goten, punching him in the gut instead. Piccolo, resident Official Babysitter, flies down, presumably to grab the kids and take them out of there. I feel he probably has at least some idea what Vegeta's thinking about doing. speaking of music the theme music that most often plays for boo in this part of the anime is just 100% ridiculous Boo asks who hit him. Vegeta tells Piccolo to take the kids and get the hell out of here, quickly. Piccolo grabs them and asks Vegeta if he plans on dying here. even now???? so do only the, uh, bad people get reincarnated? do new souls get made or is everyone the result of bad people getting reincarnated? at some point will there be no more people because everyone will have achieved some sort of state where they are good enough to not be reincarnated? i've never really had a good understanding of how all of that works anyway and this just feels like it makes things even more complicated What a pity. Oh well. Time to get the hell out of here, Piccolo. Boo's approaching and, at the very least, Vegeta seems to not want the kids (especially Trunks) to be hurt or killed. Piccolo takes off with a kid under each arm and Boo makes a move as if to shoot them down, but Vegeta distracts him with some choice insults, giving Piccolo a chance to round up Krillin as well and evacuate the area. Vegeta tells Boo he's finally figured out a way to deal with him. remember to get the head. heads are important i wish you had just wiped your damn face After delivering his final, unheard goodbyes, Vegeta explodes. bye bye, you dumb asshole that i like way too much.
rip in peace old weird angry dadman. you died as you lived, with really silly hair and obsessed with punching goku
If DBZ is as Buddhist as the main character allusion implies, then both good and bad people get reincarnated; it's just that there are different realms of existence based on how good or bad you are. The human realm is one of them. I don't think Goku actually escaped the cycle; he's just incarnated in one of the heavenly realms. Vegeta's probably going to hell. The only ones who escape the system entirely are those who have achieved enlightenment.
I was writing about Vegeta's whole 'deliberately power up the villain so it's more dramatic™ when you kick its ass' thing and I accidentally typed 'Vriska' instead, and while I could un-type it, I certainly can't un-think it.
