Well, considering he was named after his great-grandfather, who was fully human, I wouldn't expect so. That would have taken some real long term planning on Toriyama's part, and there hasn't been much evidence of that.
Spoiler: cursed sketches 1 buncha different horn styles for vegeta (plus one small vegeta, and yes that hair was reffed from actual animated small vegeta) and trunks with horns based on his baby hat
i'm Glad we are getting premium troll vegeta content...... thank Is the first one seadweller vegeta? I bet he would be even more of a jerk somehow,i love it
yep! hard to tell because Very Rough and the gills/fins blend in with his hair, lol, but that was the intent.
Third is probably my favorite too, and was my initial thought for "Vegeta horns". I kind of wanted them to follow the general shape of his hair and also use up some of the... generous forehead real estate available. But then I was having too much fun to stop. There will be more highly questionable troll content to follow, I promise.
Ch 472 but first, the regular nightly installment (The Zeta Sword/The Z Sword) No matter where/when you are, pulling swords out of stones is a big deal. In this case, you get power. Marvelous power. Tremendous power, even. Tremendous, unspecified power. Great! Does Gohan even know how to use a sword? Well, let's not worry too much about that. In any case, at first he has no luck with the sword. It won't budge. How do people get swords into stones, anyway? Who put this one here and why is there a legend about how it'll grant the person who pulls it out all these big ups? Mysterious. Although I tend to take swords-in-stones pretty much for granted whenever I come across them in literature, so I guess the Arthurian precedent really works for them. Anyway, Gohan stops to go super saiyan when it becomes clear his regular self isn't going to get anywhere with this thing. gotta say, not been super impressed by gods thus far Anyway, as I'm sure we all knew he would, Gohan manages to pull the sword out. Good job, Gohan! You did it! Kibito is dumbstruck by the whole thing. Shin seems pretty pleased that his guess turned out to be correct. give it to future trunks! he knows from swords (maybe. anyway, he has one and he's used one before, so he basically has to know more than you about them) Kibito scolds him: how dare he malign the greatest sword in the sanctuary. In any case, the sword will be useless in the hands of someone who doesn't know how to properly wield it. It must be an extension of Gohan's body, mind, and soul before he'll be able to make use of the power it offers. Gohan hands it off to Kibito ("Feel it for yourself!"). yep, that's a heavy sword Kibito struggles for a bit, trying to pick it up, and then gives up before repeating his earlier point: Gohan has to learn to wield it as though it were an extension of his arm!! Alright, alright, we get the picture, Kibito. Sheesh, lay off a bit. Enough of that. Fusion lessons await! Fusion has limitations beyond just the similar size/power requirements. It only lasts for a single half hour, and there's a cooldown too; you can't just immediately fuse again if you, say, haven't managed to best your foe in that time and want to try again. But that's fine, because the technique will make them powerful enough that the time limits won't matter. Goku turns to Trunks and Goten and tells them to turn super saiyan, but there seems to be some rebellion in the ranks. Goten and Trunks aren't budging, and apparently they have some questions before they'll consent to training, such as: where was Goku when Vegeta and Gohan were killed? The answer -- "unconscious" -- doesn't go over well. ahhh, a breath of fresh air! people not immediately going along with whatever harebrained scheme goku's come up with this time. good kids Piccolo gets super defensive of Goku, but Goku tells him it's alright, they have a point; he may not be a match for Boo, but at the very least he can teach them this trick that'll help them avenge Vegeta and Gohan. This trick that is the only way for them to get revenge for those who have died. Trunks and Goten consdier this, but are interrupted by Bobbidi, yet again. They've come to another city, which will be destroyed just like the first unless the three individuals who ruined his day present themselves. Goten and Trunks must have still been unconscious when the first broadcast went out, because they're surprised that they're being talked about. Goten discovers that if they close their eyes, they can see what's going on, and although Piccolo tells them not to, they do anyway. This time, the inhabitants get turned into chocolate (prompting a "Not chocolate!" from Goten, which is kind of sadly humorous) and Boo simply fires a beam into the center of the city to destroy it. The next target isn't even going to have the luxury of being turned into confectionery first; they'll just blow it up because Boo's full. I'm not sure if death by explosion is better or worse than being turned into a sugary snack and eaten. If the latter is fairly instantaneous, then there might not be the risk of suffering extreme but non-fatal damage? Trunks gets angry and calls out to Bobbidi. I guess because his thoughts are focused in that direction, Bobbidi picks it up. hell yeah!! whoops!! Anyway, this has provided the impetus needed for Trunks and Goten to agree to training.
Ch 473 dare i start another chapter at midnight... fuck it why not (Goku Meets Boo!!) New volume, which leaves a grand total of 3. What the hell am I supposed to do with my evenings after I finish?? Man, that makes me sad to think about. Everyone's on the same page now, so let the training commence. First step: kids turning super saiyan, which they do with gusto. Next step: raising ki as high as they can. i doubt you could do that just by raising your ki; for one thing, goku's pretty good at going with the flow of whatever's happening, and for another thing, he was just fighting with a magically enhanced vegeta like an hour ago As expected, Goku is unfazed by their display of ki, and in fact is more interested in getting them to matching levels. This involves some micromanaging of ki levels on Trunks' part, because his is the larger of the two and they need to be matching for fusion to work. Okay, add that one to the list of requirements and rules as well: identical ki magnitudes. For now, though, Goku has them return to their normal forms. Fusing while super saiyan is more complicated, so they'll practice ki-matching while in their base states. But before anything can happen, Bobbidi interrupts again. Jesus Christ. Can barely get a moment's respite from him. What a terrible thing to have to deal with, too: someone forcibly speaking to you and showing you things whenever they please, and you just have to keep on hearing/seeing it, all while waiting to see if you're next. How could anyone work, or eat, or sleep? On a related note, what about all the people who are sleeping right now? Are they unaware of what's happening, or did they get awakened by the announcement? Considering Bobbidi said it would take 5 days to kill everyone, he's probably not "televising" every encounter. If he is, he'll have to significantly speed things up, because his rate is way too slow to finish everything in his proposed time frame. Well, I managed to get completely off-track there. damnit and also fuck Trunks wonders who snitched and Bulma comes rushing in, concerned about her parents and city. Goku brushes her off a bit, but eventually she tells him that the radar is in the lab. Since it's made with special parts, she can't easily just make another one if it gets destroyed, and that means that they might never be able to find the dragon balls and make things right again. Change of plans. oh, it became a bad one! Trunks flies off, full of doubt, and Goku teleports away. boo needs seatbelts Goku lets them know he's here to warn them. The ones that Bobbidi and Boo are looking for will make an appearance, but first they've gotta train. So, maybe they could stop the rampant destruction and hold off for just a little bit while they do their training? Hell nah, killing is just too much fun to stop! And it'll go on either till they show themselves or until everyone is dead. Well, it was worth a shot, but if that's how it's gonna be, then Goku's going to have to stall them. That's fine with Bobbidi, who orders Boo to show him his strength. i think bobbidi might need to get a few more badges, boo is clearly too high a level for him Boo finally decides to do it, but Goku has a question: why let him order you around like that, when you're so strong? Of course Boo follows his orders, Bobbidi interjects. He's Bobbidi's servant! i think my favorite boo expressions are the open-eyed ones Bobbidi brings up his usual threat: sealing. !! But Boo relents. He's against good guys on principle, so he'll kill this one. Darn. Well, it was a good attempt, anyway. Goku and Boo square off a bit, preparing for the upcoming fight. it kind of does feel like a weird pokemon battle would you guys just stop overcoming your limitations already i cannot keep up i literally do not even know how to tell super saiyan apart from beyond original super saiyan (unless it's the more electrified aura)
Ch 474 we're never going to get to fusion at this rate ): (Super Saiyan Level 3!!!) me Trunks, who has stopped to gawk at the proceedings, gets scolded by Goku. At first it's silent on Goku's end, but when Trunks is still just hanging around amazed at Goku's ki, Goku just yells at him. Get the damn radar already, Trunks! So chastised, Trunks resumes his mission and Bobbid and Boo are somewhat nonplussed at the sudden and unexpected shouting at no one. Goku drops back to normal form. Giving up already? glad someone realized that i have no clue and need to be walked through this whole process Alright, let's see what these different levels of super saiyan are all about. cool, got it. best form x100. i like the black hair and somewhat reasonable anatomy that one i know (also "boof" is possibly the worst transformation sfx) oookay, so there is the lightning aura thing going on, but also some definite face shape changes. disturbing! oh, and he lost his bangs somehow. where'd they go? bye bangs! So that's the progression from normal to regular super saiyan to what is now called, I guess, super saiyan 2. And this is the extent of what we've seen so far, the furthest anyone has gone. But there's more to come, according to Goku. The result of surpassing what's already surpassed ordinary super saiyan limitations. Super saiyan 3. sudden kaiou out of nowhere... with an ominous warning (hey kaiou!! where's your halo, or did someone bring you back to life?) This transformation takes a while, and generates such a powerful ki that it somehow manages to make the whole planet vibrate. And this makes me wonder if hair has something to do with ki, because Goku's hair gets a hell of a lot longer. (I'm still working on this theory, but there might be something there! I mean, beyond just the easy visual differentiation between forms/coolness factor. But the hair is always changing from form to form, and it gets spikier with the higher-level forms, and now with this form and its massive ki, Goku's hair is similarly massive. But I digress.) also i absolutely hate it. please regrow your damn eyebrows. why did they have to go? why did the eyebrows have to be sacrificed in order for you to receive this power?? i haven't even taken off my mourning veil for vegeta yet and now i have to mourn something else, and that's the fact that your eyebrows are no more All the way over at Shin's place, Gohan picks up on his dad's ki, but how could that be possible? Big shrugs all around, but Shin confirms that it's him, all right. Boo says that Goku looks scary (yup! yuuup!) but that he's not scared. let bobbidi say ass Boo prepares to attack, but Goku moves first and grabs him by his head appendage, then proceeds to use it as a convenient tether while he punches Boo. It kind of reminds me of one of those water balloons on an elastic string that you can hook over one finger and then batter with your palm to your heart's content. Following this up, Goku does the next obvious thing: he whirls Boo around by the tentacle and hurls him into the ocean. Boo emerges, looking wet and angry, and retaliates with a barrage of ki blasts that Goku deflects. According to Goku, this is one of Vegeta's attacks that Boo has co-opted (I guess that kind of rapid-fire Gatling gun style attack he's so fond of that never fucking does a goddamn thing against any major enemy, except maybe annoy them and/or position them more favorably for Vegeta to punch.) None of Goku's attacks had any effect, either, even in this, the most powerful super saiyan form that has existed and will ever exist, obviously, because it would be patently ridiculous if there were more. you didn't even see piccolo do his stretch armstrong thing (i think he's forgotten that he can do that)!! stealing people's moves before you even see them isn't fair!! Boo's punch doesn't seem to have done much either, and despite everything Goku looks like he might be enjoying this. spoilsport.
Couldn't they have attacked Goku while he was standing there powering up (or explaining his power ups)? I mean, Bobbidi and Boo are villains, they don't have to play fair. I'd accept that all the ki he was generating had, I dunno, a protective forcefield effect or something, but still, you'd think they would've at least tried. Also, I agree that the no-eyebrows look is terrible and needs to stop. D:
Ch 475 i don't read for one day and i get startled when i see 3rd form goku (Boo Unbound/Majin Buu Begins to See His Own Worth) Boo and terrible 3rd form Goku trade a couple punches before Goku sets up for a kamehameha. Boo is impaled by a blast almost the same diameter as his body, but as we already know, that's not gonna do much. There's not an organ nor a body cavity to be seen inside of him, and he just does the same kind of popping gesture to fill in the hole as he used to fix the dents from punches earlier. As Goku noticed earlier, he's also a quick study. so how many people have used the kamehameha now? a bunch, right? well, at least... five, including boo? that's a lot. the kamehameha gets around oh no, he absolutely is Boo does, and Goku kind of volleys the blast back towards Boo with a sideways double axe handle, everyone's favorite double-handed attack. Boo hits it backwards, forcing Bobbidi to do a quick dodge to get out of the way, and it goes sailing off down the coast, creating a huge explosion that quite possibly rivals the damage done by Boo and Bobbidi so far. Whoops. This also shakes the Lookout (don't fall off, guys!). Bobbid scolds Boo for "almost" hitting him, but then quickly shifts gears and goads Goku about the damage caused by his own attack. Some hero, destroying (at Bobbidi's estimate) 1/10th of the planet. Jesus Fucking Christ. Goku gives Boo some probably sincere but distracting compliments, and Boo grows a nose (!!!!!!) just so it can be long and Tengu-like and show how proud he is. Goku notices that Trunks is on the move and assumes that that must mean that he got the radar and is on the way back, so he ditches the 3rd form and goes back to normal. Thank all the heavens for that. Eyebrows!!! boo is getting better at speech no but seriously where does all that hair come from/go??? Bobbidi orders Boo to off Goku before he can get away, but Goku says that the ones he (Bobbidi) is waiting for will make their appearance in three, no, make that two, days. So knock of the killing until then, okay?? Boo is intrigued. Are the ones who are supposed to show up... strong? (gotdamn why is everyone Like That) how. how are you gonna do that. are you implying you're going to hell at some point? or will you just send a message? is there an afterlife postal system? please tell me there's an afterlife postal system Then Goku teleports away. Pop! Boo looks around in confusion. Bobbidi wonders what the hell just happened, but then goes into Berate Boo mode and lays into him about how stupid, slow, and fat he is. * ominous violins * But he turns around with his usual smile. dude could you lay off for a single solitary second? you have cheated death once today already, you probably aren't going to get another shot at that Boo's hand snakes out, lightning-quick, and grabs Bobbidi by the throat, choking him and preventing him from performing the sealing spell. Bobbidi has gotten on Boo's last nerve, and Boo punches him right in the head, exploding it. Bye bye, Bobbidi, this time for real. Ch 476 (Goku's Time/Son Goku's Remaining Time) Now that change I really don't get, because "Goku's Time" is highly uninformative title, and just adding that "remaining" would have made it a lot more clear. No need to keep the "Son" if they don't want, but why drop the "remaining"???? Anyway. Boo tosses away the headless corpse of Bobbidi and disintegrates it with a beam attack. Bobbidi-ash rains down as Boo laughs and enjoys his newly emancipated status. ヾ(ﾟ∀ﾟ○)ﾂ三ヾ(●ﾟ∀ﾟ)ﾉ Goku, now back on the Lookout, notices that Boo has killed his master. look at those ears There's some hope that now, without Bobbidi ordering him around, Boo might not ravage the planet and kill obscene numbers of people before Trunks and Goten can master fusion and beat his ass into oblivion. But who fucking knows what Boo might or might not do? Boo knows what Boo's gonna do, and that's use a blast of breath to level parts of a city, land in said city, dash through it in a straight line regardless of people/buildings/cars/anything, and then laugh about it. Well, this has gone downhill fast. A young woman is cowering near where he stops, and she begs him not to kill her. Boo inquires if she thinks he's cool, and when she says yes, asks for a kiss. Dude. Not cool. DUDE SOMEONE CAN THINK YOU'RE COOL AND NOT WANT TO KISS YOU Boo notices a magazine that the woman had in her bag, flopped open to a picture of a Generic Handsome Man. Who kind of looks like that one dude from the RRA? The one who apparently was supposed to be gay? I dunno, it's been ages, he probably wouldn't be so young-looking still, but that's what this guy reminds me of. Generic Handsome Toriyama Dude.
(continued) horrible. Naturally, the woman still doesn't want to kiss him, so Boo gets upset and turns her into taffy, which comes in a wrapper and he eats it with the wrapper still on. Maybe it's actually supposed to be one of those botan candies with the rice paper wrappers? read a fucking book or play hopscotch or sit on the bottom of the ocean fishwatching! don't kill people! But instead of doing any of those things, Boo generates what looks to be an atomic blast (just... you know, lights up and things explode around him somehow). Standing in the middle of a now-featureless plain, he states that he wants to play "Kill The Humans". Well fuck. It was probably too much to hope for anyway. Goku feels bad for all the people down below, who are now subject to the whims of a childish, gluttonous, completely uninhibited bubblegum maniac with a cape who makes steam when he's mad. But there's at least this: he doesn't believe that Boo will completely destroy the planet, at least for a few days... because he was happy to hear that there will be someone strong to fight. okay so maybe the title isn't completely uninformative because it at least alludes to the fact that there might be something going on with time and goku, but i still think they should have left the "remaining" in. maybe it was too much of a giveaway and they wanted this to be more of a shock? iiii okay whatever i'll accept anything at this point GET TO FUCKING WORK Trunks still isn't back yet, though, so Piccolo has time to ask Goku why he didn't just defeat Boo himself in his super saiyan 3 form. (I accidentally typed "super saiyan 33" there and gave myself a heart attack imagining what that would be like.) Ehh, he didn't think he could. Boo seemed pretty darn strong.... but people. dying. needlessly? even if you can bring them back? mmmmmmm. don't like it. Besides, he believes in Trunks and Goten. don't you fucking encourage him piccolo goddamnit "A PITY ABOUT GOHAN"????? "A PITY"?????? (but i'm gonna cry @ that last speech bubble) Okay, but not a pity after all because Gohan's still alive and kicking! Well, actually right now he's alive and swinging a sword. He's improved a lot with the Z Sword in a pretty short amount of time. Well, he does have the power of determination on his side. And earnestness. What a good young man. Brief Gohan interlude over, Trunks is back and now it's time to train! The kids seem a lot more willing to go along with stuff now. one word: coolness factor. whoops that's two words (what a cute piccolo)
The hair comes and goes because it's not hair. As I said earlier, it's part of his head that happens to be a particular color, and so like Frieza's horns can change in size and shape when he changes forms.
