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A-07 What DB/DBZ related video games are there? A-07-a Nintendo Famicom (8) A-07-b Nintendo Gameboy/Super Gameboy (2) A-07-c Nintendo Super Famicom (7) A-07-d PC Engine CD-ROM (1) A-07-e Bandai Playdia (1) A-07-f Sega Megadrive (1) A-07-g Sega Saturn (2) A-07-h Sony PlayStation (2) A-07-i Arcade (3) A-08 How many DB/DBZ movies are out there, and what are their titles? (_) A-09 How do the movies relate to the anime/manga series? A-10 What kind of Dojinshi is out there? A-11 Where on the Internet can I find Dragon Ball related stuff? A-11-a USENET Newsgroups A-11-b File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Sites A-11-c World Wide Web (WWW) Sites A-11-d Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Channels B-0 SERIES QUESTIONS B-01 What happens in Dragon Ball? B-02 Who are these people? B-03 What do the names mean? B-04 What martial arts techniques do these characters have? B-05 Why does Goku have a tail? B-06 How can Goku turn into a were-monkey? B-07 What happened to Goku's tail? B-08 what were the results of the different Tenkaichi Budoukai(s)? B-09 What are the rules/restrictions of the Dragon Balls? B-10 What are the rules/restrictions of Namek's Dragon Balls? B-11 What does "Saiya" mean? B-12 What is a "Super Saiyajin"? B-13 What are the qualifications for a "Super Saiyajin"? B-14 How is Freeza defeated? B-15 How can Vegeta become a Super Saiyajin? B-16 How has time-travel affected the timeline(s)? B-17 What are the different forms of Piccolo? B-18 What are the new rules/restrictions of earth's Dragon Balls? B-19 How is Cell able to teleport back and be in Perfect form? B-20 How is Cell defeated? B-21 How can the kids become Super Saiyajin so easily? B-22 What is "Super Saiyajin 3"? (!) B-23 How did Mr. Satan win the Tenkaichi Budokai? B-24 What is the "Fusion-waza"? (*) B-25 What are the new rules/restrictions of Namek's Dragon Balls? B-26 How is Buu defeated? B-27 Why is Goku so happy to leave his family to train Ubuu? B-28 How many episodes are in DB/DBZ? (*) B-29 How come so many characters don't have mothers? B-30 How does "ki-detection" work? B-31 Who is the strongest in the entire series? B-32 When did Toriyama-sensei really intend to end Dragon Ball? B-33 Who has never died in the entire series? B-34 What's this I hear about the new "DBZZZ"/"DB-GT" series? C-O CREDITS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, MISC. C-01 Special Thanks/Credits C-02 Notes/Excuses from the Author C-03 Update Information (_) (*) New in this update. (_) Modified in this update. (!) Still unanswered in this update. ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((()))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) A-0 GENERAL QUESTIONS A-01 What is "Dragon Ball"? "Dragon Ball" was a manga (Japanese for "comics") series that started in 1984 by artist Akira Toriyama (who also did the art designs of video games such as "Dragon Warrior" and "Chrono Trigger"), published in the popular weekly manga phonebook "Shonen Jump." It was shortly afterwards slated to be turned into anime (Japanese for "cartoon"), and began airing on Japanese television on Feb 26, 1986. A US dubbed version began airing on syndicated television Fall, 1995. The story tells of a young boy, who was raised by a great martial artist, and strangely, has a tail. The young boy was named "Son Goku" by his adoptive grandfather (Son Gohan). Goku and his friends search for a set of pearls known as Dragon Balls, which can summon a wish-granting dragon (ShenLon) when gathered, Goku's original reason for helping Bulma was to see what ShenLon looked like. After ShenLon was summoned and a wish was made, the Dragon Balls scattered, so Goku had to go on a second quest to recover the Dragon Ball his grandfather left him. The manga has ended already, and there is a total of 42 volumes of tankoban, with a total of 519 episodes, and one Trunks special (Trunks: The Story). Dragon Ball was very loosely based on the Chinese novel "The Monkey King." A-02 What's the difference between "Dragon Ball" and "Dargon Ball Z"? While the manga series has always been called "Dragon Ball," the anime series took a turn in the naming. Six years after Goku first embarked on his quest, Goku had already saved the world with his martial arts ability. After Goku trained under Kami-sama (god) and defeated Piccolo Daimaoh's (grand demon king?) reincarnation at the Tenkaichi Budokai (World's Best Martial Arts Tournament), Kami-sama offered Goku to be his successor. Goku refused, and flew off on his Kinto-cloud (US dub--Flying Nimbus). This marked the end of the anime Dragon Ball series (note: the manga continued!). With the manga still continuing (and selling well), the anime studios decided to pick up Dragon Ball again, but since it (the anime) has ended, the new anime series was named "Dragon Ball Z." Please note that the manga should never be referred to as "Dragon Ball Z," since only the anime series took on the change in name. While you may find some color manga titled "Dragon Ball Z," they are not really manga, but pictures from anime movies and specials compiled into manga format. A-03 Why are there so many different spellings for the characters? Because the names were in Japanese, so there's not really any right or wrong spellings using the roman alphabet. There are four or five commonly accepted ways to romanize Japanese, so it's not really worthwhile to argue over spelling as long as we know who we're talking about. A-04 Where can I find synopsis/translations for DB/DBZ? ftp://venice.tcp.com/pub/anime-manga/sorted/Dragonball/manga http://cent1.lancs.ac.uk:8080/TB/dragonball.html http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mlvanbie/anime-list http://soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~jei/anipike http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dquonjr/dragonball/index2.html http://www.pixi.com/~shenlon/dblist.html http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~mar/ http://www.tcp.com:8000/pub/anime-manga/sorted/Dragonball/ http://www.umd.umich.edu/~roshi/DRAGONBALL_SUMMARIES.html http://www.whytel.com/USERS/hoffmanc So far "Anime Crisis" (gogeta@wizard.com) have sub'd the following: Dragon Ball movies 1-3 DBZ movies 1-12 (movie 13 is scripted, just waiting for the LD) DBZ Specials 1&2 (Bardok special and Trunks special) DBZ eps. 118-134 DBZ eps. 200-270 They will have done by con time this year the rest of the Cell saga and the rest of the Buu story line up to the end of DBZ. If you know of other sites, please e-mail me. A-05 Where can I find the FAQ for DB/DBZ? The FAQ will posted every month to alt.fan.dragonball rec.arts.anime.info rec.arts.anime.misc (sorry for not having posted for so long; I didn't post because there was nothing new, but from now on, I will post regularly even if there's no update). You can also get the FAQ from http://www.netcom.com/~brief/dbfaq/ Where you'll be able to view it in HTML format, or in plain ASCII. A-06 What CDs for DB/DBZ are currently available? Taken from the "Dragonball Z CD Listing" by Steph Graves, modified to fit this FAQ. Please send any additions, comments, or other translations to . Additional credits for this section (from Steph) goes to: Steve Pearl- The compiler of the Anime CD Cyclopedia. From him is taken some of the information and formatting. With out his effort, I wouldn't have the collection I do today. Derek Letterson- My translator. Nikaku Amimart and Asahiya Book Store (in Chicago)- The wonderful places where lots of my money goes. On with the list... ****** DBZ HIT COLLECTIONS ****** All DBZ Hit Collections are image albums. They feature original vocals and instrumentals based on the DB/DBZ concept. The only familiar songs feature on these CDs are: -CHA LA HEAD CHA LA (on CD's 1-15) -Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER (on almost every CD) -WE GOTTA POWER (on CD's 16-18) -ANGEL (on CD's 16-18) -Various Movie/OAV End Themes (randomly placed on CD's) *DBZ Hit Collection 1 (39.01 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-9202 (1991.10.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) Dragon World Eh Yokoso! Welcome to the Dragon World 3) Moma wa Shiawase Inotteru Mama is Wishing for Happiness 4) Aitsu wa Son Goku He's Son Goku 5) Eien no Chikyuu The Eternal World 6) 7) Moero! Dragon Soilders Blaze Dragon Soldiers 8) Trouble Surfing 9) Tenka Ichi Gohan Worlds Greatest Gohan (The Drunk Gohan Song) 10) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 2: Miracle Zenkai Power (41.54 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-4454 (1989.12.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) Johshiki Nante ~NA*I*SA What is Common Sense? 3) Omori Gohan Heaping Measures / Rice Boy 4) ~From the Home Planet Earth 5) Mirao Chizu Future Map 6) Worlds Undeafeatable Course 7) Fly High 8) All Alone 9) 1 Heart ~ Konen 1 Heart~Lightyear 10) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 3 (40.58 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-4713 (1990.4.1) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 9) Dragon ONDO 12) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 4 : Character Special (38.16 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-6830 (1990.10.1) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 10) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 5 (48.54 min, 13 tracks) Columbia COCC-7094 (1990.12.21) 2) Adventure! (New Remix Long Version) 5) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA (Space Version) 6) Planet to Planet 8) Margoto (New Remix Long Version) 13) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 6 (40.29 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-7319 (1991.3.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 11) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 7: Journey of the Seven Balls (52.24 min, 18 tracks) Columbia COCC-7706 (1991.7.1) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) The Journey of the Seven Balls 7th Ball (Overture) 3) Tobikkiri no Sargo Tai Saigo First Class Greatest vs. Greatest 4) The Journey of the Seven Balls 1st Ball 5) Power of Smile 6) The Journey of the Seven Balls 2nd Ball 7) Mo o Tojireba KANTAN Adrimation of the Closed Eyes 8) The Journey of the Seven Balls 3rd Ball 9) Like the Wind, Like the Stars (Version 1) 10) Like the Wind, Like the Stars (Version 1) 11) The Journey of the Seven Balls 4th Ball 12) Dare ka Santo Ii Tenki 13) The Journey of the Seven Balls 5th Ball 14) Toki to Hikori no Shita De Beneath Time and Light 15) The Journey of the Seven Balls 6th Ball 16) Dragon Magic Carnival 17) The Journey of the Seven Balls 7th Ball 18) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 8: Charcter Specail 2 (36.14 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-9067 (1991.9.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 10)Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 8 1/2 (46.21 min, 9 tracks) Columbia COCC-9247 (1991.11.1) 1) Overture between 8 and 9 2) koi no nazonazo 4) Bad Boy 5) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 6) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER ? CHA LA HEAD CHA LA (Extended Dance Version) ? Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER (Extended Dance Version) ? Dragon World he Youkoso (Extended House Version) *DBZ Hit Collection 9: Future Shock ( 47.41 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-9400 (1991.12.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) Mind Power 3) Message from the Future 4) Warning from the Future 5) Warning of Danger 6) Welcome Home, My Boy 7) It's a Small World 8) Sweet Lovely Midnight 9) White & World & True 10) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 10: Virtual Traingle (48.36 min, 12 tracks) Columbia COCC-9743 (1992.3.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) Triangle 2 3) Hero (Your a Hero) 4) In That Mood 5) Comet Love Rally 6) E na E (It's not there) 7) Suite: Virtyal Traingle 8) Keep My Way 9) Ho-To-Lu 10) Traingle 3 11) Low Energy 12) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 11: (47.56 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-10064 (1992.7.1) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) Mushi no shirase 3) Saimin Banana Hypnotic Banana 4) Grain Dance 5) GIRIGIRI~ * END Theme From Movie 7 6) Nejireta Spoon Twisted Spoon 7) Ohgon no Compass Golden Compass 8) VOICE 9) 10) Aquarium no yoru Aquarium Liquid 11) KOMA 12) Kuratta Ji Magnetic Madness 13) 100 Textbook Fantasy 14) Hoshi no Mita Yume Star of Dreams *DBZ Hit Collection 12: DBZ a GO GO (45 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-10189 (1992.9.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) Please Issho No Onegai 3) Delight to you. . . 4) Led Train Go! Go! Go! 5) space people DBZ 6) roller though 55 7) Cool Cool Dandy 8) 9) Heartbreak Melody 10) Super House Version: Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 13: Battle and Hope (60 min, 17 tracks) Columbia COCC-10538 (1992.12.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) The Sounds of Battles to Come: Scene 1 3) Day of Fate - Demon vs. Demon *Gohan's Power up Theme 4) The Sounds of Battles to Come: Scene 2 5) I'm a positive girl! 6)The Sounds of Battles to Come: Scene 3 7) Children of Day Break 8) The Sounds of Battles to Come: Scene 4 9) FOR EVER- 10) The Sounds of Battles to Come: Scene 5 11) Written Challange 12) The Sounds of Battles to Come: Scene 6 13) Don't Be Mean 14) The Sounds of Battles to Come: Scene 7 15) Blue Wind of Hope * END Theme From Trunks Special 16) Suite: Sounds of Battles to Come 17) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 14: Straight (35 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-10702 (1993.3.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) Burning fight * END Theme From Movie 8 3) Water Green Alien 4) Adventure About the Sky? 5) What is it? Strength of the Unknown 6) Love Jet 7) Trickster - Return from the Future 8) I'm Straight, Your Straight 9) Mother Universe 10) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 15: Sunlight and City Lights (41.52 min, 11 tracks) Columbia COCC-10939 (1993.7.21) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 2) Fly Away! Hero 3) My Magician 4) Star Triangle 5) Sunlight and City Lights 6) Sky and Rain 7) What I Said was a Joke 8) My Song For You 9) Rising High In the Galaxy 10) Reprize: Fly Away! Hero 11) Detekoi Yoikiri ZENKAI POWER *DBZ Hit Collection 16: WE GOTTA POWER (40.58 min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-11776 (1994.6.21) 1) WE GOTTA POWER 2) Hey You, Crasher 3) Jumpin' Jump!! 4) Time Stop -My Name is Father- 5) I am the Magician 6) Fight, Oh Fighting Road 7) Ke sera 8) Then Silence 9) Power Becomes Super 10) ANGEL~We Are Angles *DBZ Hit Collection 17: Hippy Hoppy Shake Columbia COCC-12417 (????) *DBZ Hit Collection 18 Columbia COCC-???? (????) *************************************************** ****** OTHER DBZ CD'S / DRAGONBALL ****** *Bukkun CD Dragonball Z (54.44 min, 14 tracks) Columbia COCC-???? (????) *DBZ 5 CD Music Collection Columbia COCC-???? (????) Collection of background music form the DB and DBZ TV series and Movies. One disc also has the end themes for movies 1-8 on it. *DragonBall: The World Synthesizer Music (? min, 10 tracks) Columbia COCC-11591 (????) Digital remasted version of background music and vocals. *Dragonball Complete Song Collection (65 min, 16 tracks) Columbia COCC-9202 (1991.10.21) 1) Maka Fushigi Adventure Mysterious Adventure 2) Romantic Ageru Yo Flying Romantic 3) Mezase Tenkaichi Aim for the Greatest thing on Earth 4) Dragonball Densetsu Dragonball Legend 5) Mr. Dream o Sagase Searching for Mr. Dream 6) Aoki Tabibitotachi The Blue Travelers 7) Fushigi Wonderland Wonderful Wonderland 8) Muten Roshi no Oshie Teachings of Master Roshi 9) Son Goku Song Son Goku Song 10) Wolf Hurricane Wolf Hurricane 11) Kaze o Kanjita Feel the Wind 12) Yumo o Oshiete Show the Dream 13) Red Ribbon Army Red Ribbon Army 14) Hakkoi wa Kumo ni notte Riding on a Cloud is my First Love 15) Moeru Heart De Blazing Heart: Beating Red Ribbon 16) Goku no GOKIGEN Jannie Goku's GOKIGEN Janny *************************************************** ****** DBZ MOVIE BGM ****** Each Dragonball Z movie released has two corresponding CD's : one is a BGM the other is a Drama CD. Below are the ones I personally know of. If anyone has any additions to these, please let me know. *MOVIE 8 BGM Columbia COCC-10788 (1993.5.1) (36.01 min, 22 tracks) 1) CHA LA HEAD CHA LA 22) Burning Fight *MOVIE 9 BGM Columbia COCC-???? (????) *MOVIE 10 BGM Columbia COCC-???? (????) *MOVIE 11 BGM Fort Music E. FCMC-5035 (1994.8.1) (? min, 26 tracks) 2) WE GOTTA POWER *MOVIE 12 BGM Columbia COCC-???? (????) (? min, 25 tracks) 2) WE GOTTA POWER *MOVIE 13 BGM Columbia COCC-???? (????) *************************************************** ****** DBZ GAME MUSIC ****** Just as the title says, these are CD's that feature the background music from the Video Games. Any additions are welcome. *DBZ Gaiden- Saiyajin Sentsu Metsu Keikaku (Plan to Eliminate the Saiyajin) (min, 11 tracks) Columbia COCC-???? (????) This one comes from a DBZ OAV by the same name as well as from it corresponding video cartrage (either Nintendo or Pladia, I not sure which). It is all digital music. 1) "Gaiden" Main Theme 2) Search for the Destron Gas 3) The Earth Field 4) Pacify a Storm 5) A Skirmish 6) Four Emperores 7) Grand Battle 8) Polluted Town 9) Planet Darkness 10) A One Eyed Old Doctor 11) Ephemeral Requiem *DBZ -Suupaa Butoden 1 -Super Battle History 1 Columbia COCC-???? (????) From the Super Nintendo fighting games it feature the game music from it's corresponding caritage. *DBZ -Suupaa Butoden 2 -Super Battle History 2 Columbia COCC-???? (????) From the Super Nintendo fighting games it feature the game music from it's corresponding caritage. *DBZ -Suupaa Butoden 3 -Super Battle History 3 Columbia COCC-???? (????) From the Super Nintendo fighting games it feature the game music from it's corresponding caritage. *************************************************** ****** CD SINGLES ****** *WE GOTTA POWER CD single (15 min, 4 tracks) Columbia CODC-273 (1993.11.21) 1) WE GOTTA POWER 2) ANGEL 3) WE GOTTA POWER (karaoke version) 4) ANGEL (karaoke version) *DRAGONBALL Z : Single +1 Series (? min, 3 tracks) Columbia COCC-9202 (1991.10.21) 1) Dragon Power Infinite 2) Chisana Senshi Little Warriors 3) Kung Fu Taiso Kung Fu Gymnastics A-07 What DB/DBZ related video games are there? A few of the games listed here have FAQs, available at ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/vi/vidgames/faqs. If you know of other sites, please e-mail me. From Matthew Sommer (modified to fit the format of this FAQ)-- A-07-a Nintendo Famicom (8-bit) [FC (Japan), NES (U.S.)] (1) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball--Shenron no Nazo TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball--Riddle of Shenron TYPE OF GAME: Action DATE OF RELEASE: November, 1986 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: * COMMENTS: The very first Dragon Ball video game, based very loosely on the earliest adventures of Son Goku. Most of the early cast shows up in cameos--Bulma, Oolong, Kame-sennin, Yamucha & Puaru, and Pilaf. This game was released in the U.S. under the title "DRAGON POWER", and having played that version, I can tell you that this is a REALLY weak game. Part sidescroller, part overhead action, but mostly Goku walking around punching things. For such a lame game, it's surprisingly difficult (for me anyway); it's really not worth the effort. For major DB otaku only. ----------- (2) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball--Daimao Fukatsu TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball--Return of the Demon King TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: August, 1988 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: ** COMMENTS: The first Dragon Ball RPG, this game deals with Goku's journey to his final confrontation with the demon king Piccolo-- fighting to overcome piccolo's henchmen, like Tambourine and Cymbal, along the way. Part RPG, part action game, the game follows a very linear course to the end. Combat is performed using a strange "battle card" system along the bottom of the screen--outcomes are determined by who's "card" has the better statistics. ----------- (3) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball--Goku Den TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball--The History of Goku TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: October, 1989 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: ** COMMENTS: A continuation of the previous game, this time Goku and friends (including Kuririn, Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and Chaozu) work towards the goal of facing off against Piccolo Jr. in the Tenkaichi Budokai. Same basic game engine, slightly better graphics, and the introduction of "item cards" into the fray. Same "battle card" combat system. ----------- (4) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Kyosho!! Saiyajin TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z--Attack Saiyajin!! TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: October, 1990 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: *** COMMENTS: Another RPG that picks up in the era of Raditz's appearance, deals with Garlick and his thugs in the middle somewhere, and ends up with a climax against Vegeta and Nappa. You can also make visits to Kaio-sama's planet to train yourself. The overall quality picks up starting here, better graphics & the ability to play with different characters and use their own special attacks (including Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Kuririn, Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and Chaozu...) ---------- (5) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z II--Gekishin Freeza TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z II--Freeza, The Planet Destroyer TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: August, 1991 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: *** COMMENTS: This game follows Goku and Company into space in search of the planet Namek and its Dragon Balls. But first you've got to take on the Ginyuu Team, and then finally face off with Freeza himself in the climax. New characters include Dende and Nail. Same basic "combat card" combat system, but a new "story mode" is included. ----------- (6) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z III--Resen ji Zo Ningen TITLE/ENGLISH: DBZ III--Fight to the Death Against the Cyborgs TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: August, 1992 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: *** COMMENTS: This chapter really takes on a lot of stuff! First, Goku's gotta get to Namek in time, fight off against Cyborg Freeza and his Dad, unite all the Dragon Balls, fight against Freeza's brother Coola, later confront Dr. Gero and #19, meet up with #16, 17, and 18, and finally Cell! Whew... that's a lotta action packed into one cart. Vegeta also comes under player control in this one. ----------- (7) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Tenkaichi Budokai TITLE/ENGLISH: DBZ--#1 Fighter in the World Tournament TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: December, 1992 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: *** COMMENTS: Anyone remember the "barcode wars" craze in Japan? This game was designed for use with a strange device called the "Datach" that plugged into the SFC and allowed for the swiping of barcodes into the FC games. To use the different players and different attacks, you have to pass the specific barcodes into the system. Each card gives the characters different attacks. Characters include all of your favorites, plus Freeza, Cell, and the Cyborgs. ----------- (8) TITLE/JAPANESE: DBZ Gaiden--Saiyajin Setsu Metsu Keikaku TITLE/ENGLISH: DBZ Chronicles--Plan to Eliminate the Saiyajin TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: August, 1993 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: *** COMMENTS: The last DBZ game for the famicom, and the first to feature an original story designed just for the game. An animated version of the story, in 3 parts, was released at about the same time. In this adventure, the evil Dr. Raichi tries to conquer the world with an armada of genetically engineered robots. Characters include Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta, Trunks, and Gohan, and featuring the return of Freeza and Metal Coola, among others... A-07-b Nintendo Gameboy/Super Gameboy (8-bit?) (1) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Rival Tono Deai TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z--Encounter with the Rivals TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: November, 1994 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: *** COMMENTS: Released on the heels of the "super gameboy" adapter, this cart is an RPG that takes place in the time period between the final stages of the original DB series, and the first parts of DBZ--go up against Piccolo Jr. in the Budokai, and defend the world against Radditz, Nappa, and Vegeta. Characters under your control include Goku, Kuririn, Yamcha, and Tenshinhan... ----------- (2) The "Anime Video Game List" speaks of another Gameboy game with the title "GOKU HISHOUDEN". I don't have any listing of this game, so I don't know if this is the same as the one above, or completely different. Anyone? A-07-c Nintendo Super Famicom (16-bit) [SFC (Japan), SNES (U.S.)] (Note: All SFC games can be played on the SNES by making a few simple cosmetic changes i.e. snip/melt the little prongs out of the SNES cart slot) (1) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Suupaasaiyajin Densetsu TITLE/ENGLISH: DBZ--The Legendary Supersaiyajin TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: January, 1992 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: ***** COMMENTS: A combination of the storylines from the 4th and 5th Famicom games, this cart begins with the arrival of Raditz, and end with Super Saiyajin Son Goku's final battle with Freeza. The bump up to the SFC brings along an improvement in the graphics, and it still uses the familiar "combat card" system. You can supposedly control up to 12 different characters through the course of the game. ----------- (2) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Suupaa Butoden TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z--Super Battle History TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: March, 1993 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: *** COMMENTS: Inspired by the huge Street Fighter II craze, here begins the trend of the DBZ one on one fighting game. As the first DBZ game I ever played, I was pretty impressed by this--I guess it was seeing my fave characters on screen, rather than the actual game itself, that attracted me. While fun to play, the control is very stiff, and it plays a lot slower than the next 2 in this series. To recommend it, the game does offer special attacks with sampled speech, a huge playfield with split screen, and plenty of characters. Included is a story mode, along with the one on one battling, and a Budokai mode where up to 8 people can play in a tournament. Play as Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta, Freeza, #16, #18, #20, and Cell (when the title screen pops up, hold down the L, R, A, B, X, & Y buttons, and start twirling like crazy on the directional pad, the first chime allows two players to use the same character, and the second gives you extra characters). ----------- (3) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Suupaa Butoden 2 TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z--Super Battle History 2 TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: December, 1993 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: **** 1/2 COMMENTS: The second of the SFC fighting games is an almost 100% improvement over #1... the character and background graphics are better, the control feels a whole lot tighter, and basically it's just a heck of a lot more fun to play. Battles are improved as well--you can now generate your own Ki, have more varied and spectacular finishing attacks , and tons of sampled speech. To spice things up a little, a story mode is included, as is the Budokai mode. Characters include Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Trunks, Cell, Cell Jr., Bojack and Zangya (during the opening flight sequence, push these buttons on controller #1-- UP, X, DOWN, B, L, Y, R, A. If you do it right, you should hear Broli yell out "Kakarotto!". Hold down the L & R Buttons of controller 2 when turning the game on to get a 1.5x turbo mode--the music should change if you do it right). ----------- (4) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Suupaa Butoden 3 TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z--Super Battle History 3 TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: September, 1994 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: *** 1/2 COMMENTS: A lot of people have given this game a bad rap, but I think it's better than the critics have implied. Yes, basically we're back for more of the same one on one fighting, but this time with characters from the Majin Buu saga. The graphics are a little sharper this time around, and the split screen playing field is back. Improvement include faster Ki charging time, and the ability to fly/land while on the same screen as your opponent. Here's the bad--the game looks rushed. There is no story mode this time out, which does take away from the replay value a little bit. Also, it looks like the background designer went on holiday, as we only have about 9 different choices this time, as opposed to something like 17 in #2. BUT, like I said, it's a chance to play with new characters... and thats why it's worth buying. This time you can play Goku, Vegeta, chibi Trunks, Goten, Gohan, #18, Dabura, Majin Buu, and Kaioshin . Still a fun game. ----------- (5) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Supaa Son Goku Den TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z--History of Super Son Goku TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: March, 1995 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: COMMENTS: A return to the good old RPG days for the DBZ franchise after 3 beat-em-ups was a welcome change. Going all the way back to the beginning of the series, take on the role of Goku as he meets Bulma and begins on the adventure that started it all, then follow the course of the series until the final confrontation with Piccolo Daimao (I think this is where it ends, anyway...) From what I've seen, the graphics are pretty nice, and the whole thing has the 3/4 viewpoint, giving it a kind of pseudo 3-D look. Anyone play this game yet? Mail me with some details. ----------- (6) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z-Suupaa Son Goku Den 2 TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z-History of Super Son Goku 2 TYPE OF GAME: Role Playing Game DATE OF RELEASE: Fall of 1995 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: COMMENTS: This game's pretty much brand new, so I don't know much about it. I'm assuming it's a sequel to the RPG above, continuing the story from where the first one left off. Same graphics, I assume, same basic gameplay as the one above. More details anyone? ----------- (7) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: March, 1996 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: COMMENTS: Well, it's back to familiar territory for the DBZ franchize on the SFC... We get another in the series of one on one fighting games, this time covering characters from the final few chapters of the Majin Buu saga. There are a few changes though-- first, from what i hear the dividing line that we have grown used to isn't found in this game. Whether it scales when you get farther apart, like in the PSX version, I can't say, although from the commercials, it appears that you are now able to move into the foreground/background as well as ground/sky dimensions, which should offer more challenge to the game play. The graphics are nothing short of awesome, even better than those from Super Butonden #3, but i was hoping that this cart would take a clue from the Saturn and PSX versions and give us a larger range of characters to choose from... no dice. We get only 10 characters again, which include Goku, Vegeta, Gotenks, Gogeta, Piccolo, Fat Buu, Little Buu, Freeza (huh?), Cell (huh??), and Gohan. I don't know if the classic "secret code" from the Butoden games will work to give you extra characters in this game, but it's definitely worth trying. I also don't know if there is a Story mode or a Budokai mode, but i would almost guarantee the latter. A-07-d PC Engine CD-ROM (16-bit) [Turbo Duo (U.S.)] TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Son Goku Densetsu TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z--The Legend of Son Goku TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: August, 1994 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: ***** COMMENTS: This game aims to cover a broader range of the DB series--it starts out with chibi Goku fighting Tao Paipai, and finishes off with adult Super-Saiyajin Goku taking on Perfect Cell. Thanks to the CD technology, players are treated to supposedly near-actual anime quality cinema sequences during the story mode. There's also a one on one Vs. mode, of course, and you can pick from all the characters found in the story mode, including Tao Paipai, Piccolo Daimao, Piccolo Jr., Tenshinhan, Vegeta, Freeza, Perfect Cell, and 3 Gokus-- chibi, adult, and Super Saiyajin. While the graphics are better than the SFC versions, the game play is a bit slower, and a little less playable. It's prettier, but loses something of the gameplay ultimately. Geez, anyone in America even HAVE one of these systems anymore?! (^_^) A-07-e Bandai Playdia (???) TITLE/JAPANESE: DBZ Gaiden--Saiyajin Setsu Metsu Keikaku TITLE/ENGLISH: DBZ Chronicles--Plan to Eliminate the Saiyajin TYPE OF GAME: Interactive DATE OF RELEASE: December, 1994 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: ***** COMMENTS: Bandai's next generation system never really took off, but this was one of the first games made available when it was released in Japan. Using CD technology, this game uses a ton of footage from the three episode "Gaiden" storyline. The gimmick is that you watch the cool anime footage, and periodically, the motion freezes, and like a choose your own adventure book, you're given several options on what to do next--should Goku punch, kick, use Kamehameha, or go home and eat?? It's up to you to decide. I imagine it would be pretty cool to mess around with for a while, but good luck finding a Playdia in this country... I also imagine it would get old after a while, but who knows? A-07-f Sega Megadrive (16-bit) [Sega Genesis (U.S.)] TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Suupaa Butoden TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z--Super Battle History TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: March, 1994 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: **** COMMENTS: Coming out about the same time as the 2nd Butoden game for the SFC, this game does what it can to capture the same flavor on the Megadrive. Play as Goku, Kuririn, Gohan, Vegeta, Trunks, Cell, Cell Jr., Piccolo, Freeza, and Rikum. Anyone who has this game want to give a few more details? A-07-g Sega Saturn (32-bit) (1) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dragon Ball Z--Shinbutouden TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z--True Battle History TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: November 17, 1995 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: COMMENTS: Now it's the Saturn's turn for a new DBZ game, and it promisses to be every bit as good as the new Playstation version . Anyway, the graphics look pretty sharp, and the CD technology should allow great sounds, music, and character cinemas. The Saturn version has 25 total characters to choose from, coming in 2 shy of the PlayStation with the code . The characters you can choose from are: Son Goku, Shonensen Gohan, Kyousenshi Vegeta, Trunks, chibi Trunks, Gotenks, Piccolo, Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Kame-sennin, Zarbon, Rikum, Ginyuu taichou, Freeza, #16, #18, Cell, Kaioushin, Dabura, Majin Buu, Mr. Satan, Great Saiyaman, chibi Goku, and Gogeta. ----------- (2) TITLE/JAPANESE: DBZ: Idainaru Dragon Ball Densetsu TITLE/ENGLISH: DBZ: Great Dragon Ball Legends TYPE OF GAME: 3-D Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: Summer 1996 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: Comments: Wow, this game looks wild! I have only seen pics in issues of Shonen Jump, but from what I can tell, this game is the first attempt at a DBZ game using a totally 3-D environment similar to fighting games like Toh Shin Den. The backgrounds appear to be partially polygonal/partially rendered, and look kind of unimpressive from these shots I have, but I can imagine that playing it will be an interesting experience. The characters themselves are NOT polygons, and they too don't look as impressive as their cousins in Virtua Fighter. But, despite this apparent crudity, it also excites me... DBZ in a full 3-D world! It has a lot of posibilities for a new experience in the sort of tired fighting genre. From the limited screen shots I have, I can identify the following characters: Goku, Vegeta, Kuririn, Nappa, Saiba-man, and Piccolo... it also appears that more than two players can participate in the same battle. To be totally honest, I'm not sure if this IS a fighting game... it could also be an RPG as far as I know... I've heard different rumors about this game, so i guess we'll have to wait and see. A-07-h Sony PlayStation (32-bit) [PSX] (1) TITLE/JAPANESE: Dargon Ball Z Aruteimetsu Batoru 22 TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22 TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: Summer 1995 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: COMMENTS: Welcome to the REAL next level--Dragon Ball Z on the Sony Playstation. The biggest reason to buy this game is the sheer number of characters you can choose to play with--the 22 in the title refers to the number of characters! Some of the characters available are: SSJ Goku, Trunks, chibi Trunks, Goten, Gotenks, chibi Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Cell, Fat Buu, Mean Buu, Freeza, #16, and Zarbon... Actually, with the help of a secret code, you can access ANOTHER 5 characters, bringing the total count up to 27... I've been complaining for years that the SFC games leave out many of my favorite characters, but here they all are finally! I'm itching to take out Majin Buu with Kame-sennin (^_^)! Anyway, the play is similar to the SFC games, but here the splitscreen option has been replaced with scaling sprites ala Samurai Showdown, which supposedly allows faster gameplay. Once again, we get the standard Vs mode, a Budokai tournament mode, and something called a "build-up" mode, which allows you to build up your characters and save their progress on a memory card. Sony's CD technology allows tons of sampled speech, great music, detailed characters and polygon generated backgrounds, as well as opening character animation before each fight (At the Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22 screen, press UP, TRIANGLE, DOWN, X, LEFT, L1, RIGHT, R1). ----------- (2) TITLE/JAPANESE: DBZ: Idainaru Dragon Ball Densetsu TITLE/ENGLISH: DBZ: Great Dragon Ball Legends TYPE OF GAME: 3-D Fighter DATE OF RELEASE: Summer 1996 RELEASED BY: Bandai OVERALL RATING: Comments: This game is going to be identical to the Sega Saturn version talked about above. Like other multi-format games, I guess that the only differences will be in the hardware of the two systems. A-07-i Arcade (1) TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: Mid 1993 RELEASED BY: Banpresto OVERALL RATING: ** COMMENTS: Having played this game first hand in the arcades of Madrid, I come before you to testify that this game pretty much stinks. Well, lets back up a bit. This is another in the string of one on one fighting games, but this time you're popping in tokens. This first game is rather similar in style to the classic SFC Butoden games--Take on the computer as you slowly fight your way up the ladder of challengers, or fight against your friends in Vs. mode. You have 8 characters to choose from here, each with his own special moves performed by using certain joystick/button combinations. The characters are: Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, Freeza, Rikum, Baata & Ginyuu. In my personal opinion, the game control was really loose, and the special moves and combos were very difficult to figure out. Not only that, but certain characters are inherantly more powerful than others. A friend of mine, who'd never played a fighting game before, almost beat this game by picking Ginyuu and just hitting the kick button continuously. The graphics are OK, as are the character animation... but this game is just missing that certain something that makes it stand out. I mean, who sits around dreaming of being able to play RIKUM?? ----------- (2) TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z 2 TYPE OF GAME: Fighting DATE OF RELEASE: Early 1995 RELEASED BY: Banpresto OVERALL RATING: COMMENTS: Judging from screen shots alone, I can tell that the graphics are much improved over the last outing. The characters are big and well drawn, the backgrounds are very detailed. Once again we're back for more one on one fighting action, this time with a new group of characters to choose from. You can pick from 10 characters in total, some of which are: Goku, #16, Future Trunks, Mr. Satan, Cell, Vegeta, #19, #20, and possible Gohan and Piccolo. Each character has seven special attacks to master, and the gimmick is that they are exclusive to this game i.e. these new attacks arent used in the anime or manga. I guess that's OK, but isn't the attraction of these games that they offer you the chance to play your favorite character, with his special attacks you've come to love? If I can't pull off a kamehameha, then forget it . Anyway, This game's also chock full of digitized voice samples done by the original seiyuu, as well as uses authentic sound effects. I think that all in all, it shows some promise... but as always, the proof is in the playing. ----------- (3) TITLE/ENGLISH: Dragon Ball Z TYPE OF GAME: First Person Fighting RELEASED BY: Sega of Japan OVERALL RATING: COMMENTS: I know absolutely NOTHING about this game, just that it is a fighting game with a bit of a twist--it's supposed to be a fighting game from a first person perspective, sort of a pseudo "virtual reality" type deal... I can only imagine.. is it like a DOOM perspective, with your hands sticking out in front of you? Or like that old NEO GEO game SUPER SPY or whatever it was called...? Anyone see this yet? Let me know if you have any more details... A-08 How many DB/DBZ movies are out there, and what are their titles? This is actually Curtis Hoffmann's "Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z Movie Summaries List," the only modification from me is the margin settings of the intro section. As this was actually done by Curtis Hoffmann, all references of the first person singular pronoun (I/me) from this point on in this particular question shall refer to Curtis, and NOT Dr. Briefs. [Insert standard copyright and disclaimer statement here.] [ Curtis H. Hoffmann. July 10, 1995] [Version 1.1 -- Added description of movie 12: ] [ The Fusion of Revival! Gokuu and Vejiita] Below is a list of the Dragon Ball movies. Most of the information for the spelling of names, etc. came from the "Jump Anime Comics", although the theatrical release dates came from the Animedia "Anime Data Diary." And, Hitoshi Doi assisted on the title translations. After each movie description is a brief list of the one-shot characters that appeared in each movie, and a note concerning what happened to each of them. The movies have little to do with the continuity of the manga or the TV series. As such, they are ok mind-candy, but can not be assumed to add to the real Dragon Ball universe. The exceptions are the made-for-TV specials, which are a part of the canon. You may notice that there has been a DBZ movie released every March and every July since 1990. There were also three movies based on the earlier Dragon Ball characters, released before DBZ started. If anyone can add to this file, feel free to contact me via e-mail. Movie Summaries & Spoilers Dragon Ball: Shenron no Himitsu (12/20/86) The Secret of Shenlon or: Shenron no Densetsu The Legend of Shenlon Shenron no Himitsu is probably a misprint in the Anime Data Diary. The JAC book reprinted in January 1995 gives the title as "Shenron no Densetsu." Either way, the above two titles probably refer to the same movie. This is a retelling of how Gokuu began his adventures; from the first encounters with Buruma, Oolong, Puuaru, and Yamcha, up to his learning Kamehama-ha just by watching Kamesennin using the technique. This time, Gokuu's origins are tied in with the evil Emperor Gurumesu, who wants the Dragon Balls to wish for delicious food, and the Emperor's minions, Pasta and Bongo (these two are using the quest for the Dragon Balls to cover the fact that they are greedily raping the countryside to gather up valuable Richi Stones.) Buruma still wants to wish for a nice boyfriend (Yamcha wants the Dragon Balls to wish for a woman he can marry), and ends up summoning Shenlon before Gurumesu can, but the daughter of the local mayor, Pansy, shouts out her wish first -- for the countryside to be restored to its original state prior to the discovery of Richi Stones. Shenlon does this, and causes the stones to disappear. Gurumesu becomes a normal deformed human that likes to eat apples, and Gokuu zips off to find the #4 Ball again. [Gurumesu -- A gluttonous monster that NEEDS to eat delicious new food. ] [ Becomes a normal person eventually. ] [Pansy -- A young girl that searches for Kamesennin to ask him to help ] [ her village. Disappears from sight after this movie. ] [Pasta -- A greedy blond woman that co-heads Gurumesu's army. ] [Bongo -- A huge, mean man that works closely with Pasta. Both Bongo ] [ and Pasta disappear from sight after this movie. ] [Richi Stone -- "Rich Stone". The most valuable gem on Earth. ] # # # # # Dragon Ball: Majinjou no Nemuri Hime (07/18/87) The Sleeping Princess of Demon Castle Young Gokuu seeks out Kamesennin to ask to be accepted as a student, while the little runt priest, Kuririn, arrives for the same reason (and uses a sukebe magazine as a bribe.) Kamesennin sends them on a quest far to the east, where "five mountains stand, called the 'Devil's Hand'." In a castle there, is the legendary, and pretty, "Sleeping Princess." Whoever brings back the Sleeping Princess will become the old pervert's student. The two boys set out, and Kuririn uses all the standard tricks to trip up Gokuu. A little later, Buruma, Oolong, Yamcha, and Puuaru -- who are on summer vacation -- arrive at Kame House to find Gokuu. Kamesennin says that the two boys have gone far to the east for training, so the friends fly in Buruma's Capsule jet to the Devil's Hand. When they near the castle, the jet is attacked by demons, and Buruma is taken to the Castle. The owner of the castle, Lucifer, pretends to treat her as a guest, until it becomes time to awake the Sleeping Princess. In the meantime, Gokuu and Kuririn are fighting monsters, and they drop in on Buruma just before Shitsuji can drain Buruma of her blood through a giant syringe (Buruma's blood is to be used to toast the awakening of the Sleeping Princess.) Then, Ranchi arrives to steal the Sleeping Princess -- which is really a giant jewel. Everyone is captured and encased in a wall of rock. It is the night of a full moon, and the moonlight is used to power the jewel. The moonlight also turns Gokuu into a were-ape, and everyone escapes. They fight Lucifer, and Gokuu uses Kamehame-ha to destroy Lucifer's Princess-powered laser cannon (the full-moon-light is to be used to destroy the sun, and begin the Reign of Darkness), and kills Lucifer. The heroes escape, and Kuririn acts contrite, but doesn't actually apologize to Gokuu for his behavior. The two boys return to Kame House with Kushami, and Kamesennin takes them both on as students. Then, Kushami sneezes, turns into Ranchi, and shoots Kamesennin full of holes. [Lucifer -- A typical handsome demon who likes drinking blood, and killing ] [ people. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Shitsuji -- Lucifer's Igor-style henchman. Short, buckteeth, and one eye ] [ bigger than the other. Carries a syringe around a lot. ] [ Probably killed by Gokuu. ] [Sleeping Princess -- A huge, priceless gem that is "awakened" by the light ] [ of the Full Moon, and can be used as a power source for a ] [ laser cannon. ] # # # # # Dragon Ball: Maka Fushigi Daiboken (07/09/88) Mysterious "Maka" Adventure Another retelling of the Dragon Ball story. This time, young Gokuu and young Kuririn are training for a Budoukai to be held in the country of Miifan. The Emperor of Miifan, Chau-zu, is trying to find his lost "Ran Ran." "Duke" Tsuru-sennin stole a Dragon Radar from Pilaf, and is using it to locate the Dragon Balls. Duke Tsuru-sennin and Tao Pie Pie claim that they'll use the wish from Shenlon to locate Ran Ran, but are actually planning, with Tenshinhan's help, to kill Chau-zu and take over the country. Blue Commander announced that Ran Ran was being held in Tsuru-sennin's room, and was killed by Tao Pie Pie for it. Bora and Upa have located the final Dragon Ball and they take it to Miifan to use it to demand that Miifan's soldiers be forced to leave the land near Karin Tower. Bora is tricked into entering the Budoukai (the winner of the Budoukai will be granted one wish by Chau-zu), and is then killed by Tao Pie Pie. Buruma, Oolong, and Ranchi are looking for the other 6 Balls, so Buruma can wish for a boyfriend. But, when the Balls are located, they're accidently dropped to the bottom of the moat surrounding Chau-zu's castle. Tenshinhan realizes that he likes Chau-zu too much, and doesn't kill his friend; instead, Ten-chan blows away Tsuru-sennin. (The story of Blue and Gokuu entering Penguin village is included, but this time it is Tao Pie Pie and Gokuu that meet Arale-chan, and Gokuu kills Tao Pie Pie with Arale's help.) Gokuu throws the final Ball into the moat, and asks Shenlon to resurrect Bora. [No new characters. Nearly everybody from the first series shows up here.] [Ran Ran is the name of Chau-zu's favorite doll. ] # # # # # (Movie 1) (07/15/89) Doragon Booru zeto Dragon Ball Z An evil little Namek-jin, Garlic Jr., is gathering all of the Dragon Balls together to wish for immortality. Since young Gohan has the #4 Ball sewn to his cap, Gohan is kidnapped by Garlic's minions. This causes Gokuu to seek out Garlic (whose mansion is located on a black island to the south of Kame House). Garlic also wants to get rid of Kami-sama, so his minions attempt to kill Piccolo (if Piccolo dies, Kami-sama also dies, and vice versa.) So Kami-sama and Piccolo join in the battle, as does Kuririn. The minions are wasted, but Garlic, Jr. already made his wish, so he is unkillable. Garlic and Kami-sama fight it out, and Garlic wins (he wants to get rid of Kami-sama to make way for his own "reign of blood", but he doesn't kill Kami-sama right away.) Garlic, Jr. gets beaten up a bit by Gokuu and Piccolo, so he decides to create a "Dead Zone" (a black hole) which threatens to suck everyone in and kill them. But Gohan (who had eaten a hallucinagenic apple, and is still feeling a bit of a buzz) gets angry, and blasts Garlic into the Dead Zone. The Dead Zone closes, sticking Garlic into a form of eternal hell. [Garlic, Jr. -- Evil little immortal Namek, lost and forgotten. ] [Ginger -- Garlic's green-skinned, red-eyed demon minion. Killed by Gokuu.] [Nikki -- Garlic's blue-skinned, apple-eating minion. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Sansho -- Garlic's big, purple-skinned demon minion. Killed by Piccolo. ] # # # # # (Movie 2) (03/10/90) Kono yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu This World's Strongest Guy Oolong steals Buruma's Dragon Radar, and discovers that someone is gathering up the Dragon Balls. He and Gohan go into the northern glaciers in time to see Dr. Kouchin summoning Shenlon and wishing for Dr. Wheel's lab to be released from the ice. Piccolo arrives to save Gohan from Kouchin's bio-men, but the demon is overcome by Wheel's 3 androids (Gohan and Oolong escape). Later, Kouchin goes to Kame House, and kidnaps Buruma in order to force Kamesennin to go with him to the lab. Kamesennin is told to fight the three androids, and does well for a while, before being defeated by rubbery Minkattsun. Buruma learns that Kouchin and Wheel plan on turning the Earth into a desert and peopling it with androids. Dr. Wheel's brain is encased inside a robot, and he wants the body of the world's strongest man to house his brain. But, while Kamesennin was the winner of the Tenkai-ichi Budoukai 50 years ago, (when Wheel's lab was iced over) the strongest man is now Gokuu. Gokuu learns what happened to Kamesennin, and goes to the lab, where he destroys all three androids. Gohan and Kuririn also arrive, and end up battling the brain-controlled Piccolo until Gohan's shout of frustration causes the mind-control bands to shatter. Dr. Wheel decides to fight Gokuu, and as he pulls his robot body free of the wall, the resulting destruction hurls Kouchin down an energy shaft, and Kouchin's outer coating melts before his own robot body is destroyed. Wheel fights the heroes, and looks like he'll win, when Gokuu creates a Genki Dama and throws it at Wheel. Wheel flies up into space to get a breather, and he is destroyed up there. Afterwards, Kamesennin says that Wheel got one thing right -- Kamesennin is the world's #1 strong guy. Buruma corrects that to "the world's #1 dirty old man." [Dr. Kouchin -- The Christopher Lee of bio-tech scientists. A robot, he is ] [ accidently destroyed by Dr. Wheel. ] [Dr. Wheel -- A large brain housed in a robot. Was a deranged scientist ] [ until his lab was entombed in ice. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Kishiime -- Electrical android iguanaman. Destroyed by Gokuu. ] [Ebifuraiya -- "Fried shrimp." Hulking android with weather-control ] [ abilities. Destroyed by Gokuu. ] [Minkattsun -- Blobby, yellow rubberman android. Punctured by Gokuu. ] [Bio-man -- Mindless blue attack robot; like Vejiita's old cybermen. ] # # # # # (Movie 3) (07/07/90) Chikuu Marugoto Chou-kessen Earth's Ultimate Deciding Battle Oolong, Kuririn, Buruma, and young Gohan are on a camping trip, when a spy satellite crashes into the forest and starts a raging fire. Kuririn and Gohan battle to put out the blaze, then gather the Dragon Balls to wish for the forest to be restored. One of the animals they save is a Haiyaa Dragon (Higher Dragon) that follows Gohan home to become his pet. The two of them (and Gokuu) play together and have a lot of fun, but Chi Chi wants the dragon sent back to its mountain so it'll stop disrupting Gohan's studies. Meanwhile, a Saiya-jin fighter, Taurus, and his minions are scouting Earth to locate Kakarot. Taurus wants Kakarot and/or Gohan to join him to go trash planets. The minions plant a seed for an energy-eating tree near the restored forest -- Taurus plans on eating the fruit of the tree to get a "power up." The tree grows quickly and threatens to destroy Earth. Kaiou-sama alerts Gokuu to the danger, and everyone (Chi Chi prevents Gohan from joining in, but Haiyaa Dragon kidnaps the boy to take him to the battle) goes to fight Taurus. Piccolo joins in to save Gohan, but the demon still plans on killing Gokuu later on. Gokuu denies his Saiya-jin heritage, claiming that he's happy to have been hit on the head as a child, rather than growing up to be like Taurus. There's a major battle, and Gokuu uses a Genki Dama to kill Taurus and destroy the tree. Afterwards, the Genki Dama breaks up, and the lifeforce energy repairs the damage from the tree. [Shinseiju -- The energy-eating tree. ] [Taurus -- A Saiya-jin Warlord that looks like Gokuu. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Amond -- Taurus's big Indian minion. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Daiizu -- Taurus's muscular punk minion. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Kakao -- Taurus's ugly, silent lava-man minion. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Rezun & Rakasei -- Taurus's arrogant twin runt minions. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Haiyaa Dragon -- Gohan's cute little pet. Fiercely loyal; like Piccolo is.] # # # # # (Made-For-TV Special) (10/17/90) Tatta Hitori no Saishuu Kessen Lonely Final Battle Story of Bardock, Gokuu's father. When Gokuu was still a baby, on the Saiya planet, Freeza was using the Saiya-jin as mercenaries to wipe out all intelligent life on other planets. Bardock gets cursed with seeing the future, and confronts Freeza as Freeza is about to destroy the Saiya planet. The planet is wiped out, and the only surviving Saiya-jin are young Prince Vejiita, Nappa, and Kakarot (baby Gokuu.) Gokuu was sent Earth to destroy it, but is found and raised by Son Gohan. [Bardock -- Gokuu's father. Killed by Freeza. ] [Tooma -- Bardock's big, lean henchman. Killed by Dodoria. ] [Toteppo -- Bardock's grey-skinned, chrome-dome henchman. Killed by ] [ Dodoria's peons. ] [Pan Buukin -- Bardock's fat henchman. Killed by Dodoria's peons. ] [Seripa -- Bardock's female henchman. Killed by Dodoria's peons. ] [Tooro -- The fishman that gave Bardock the ability to see the future. ] [ Killed by Bardock. ] ] # # # # # (Movie 4) (03/19/91) Suupaa Saiya-jin da Son Gokuu This is the Super Saiya-jin, Son Gokuu. Young Gohan and the Haiyaa Dragon visit Piccolo to show the demon the new dance that Gohan taught the dragon. But, Piccolo, in pain, yells for Gohan to stop. A planetoid headed towards Earth causes a panic, and Kuririn and Gokuu go out to try to deflect the thing with their energy blasts. It still crashes into Earth, but it turns out to be a spaceship that needs to land for refueling. The ship is commanded by the imperious Emperor of the Universe -- Slag, who demands that they leave in 3 days. A weather satellite is launched to cause a cloud to cover the planet, and freeze it over. Earth is now more hospitable for the soldiers living in the ship, and they step outside to terrorize the Earthlings. Slag recognizes the Dragon Ball that is sewn into Gohan's cap, and reads Buruma's mind to learn about the Dragon Radar. The Dragon Balls are rounded up, and Slag wishes for his youth back. Gokuu and Kuririn receive Senzu seeds from Yajirobee, and they go to fight Slag. Piccolo shows up to save Gohan. Slag reveals himself to be a Super Namek-jin. Gokuu wastes Slag's minions, and even turns into a Super Saiya-jin for a while, but is trashed by Slag when the Super Namek-jin turns into a giant. Piccolo tears off his own ears, then yells for Gohan to whistle again; we now learn that Namek-jin hurt really bad when Earthlings whistle. Slag drops to his knees, and Piccolo imparts his energy to Gokuu. The Gokuu/Piccolo fusion beats up Slag, then Gokuu flies above the black cloud to get enough energy to create a Genki Dama that kills Slag. (Slag accidently trashed his own spaceship, so there's no bad guys left now.) The cloud dissipates, and Yajirobee reappears to give Senzu seeds to the heroes. Piccolo's ears grow back. Finally, Kamesennin, who'd been sleeping through all this, wakes up from his dreams of naked women, and exercises while saying that the weather is very nice today. [Slag -- A big, square-headed evil tyrrant Super Namek. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Kakuuja -- A Jawa that runs Slag's ship. Accidently killed by Slag. ] [Zeeun -- A Bull of a man who oversteps his authority and is killed by ] [ Slag. ] [Gyooshu -- A Jawa killed by Slag for saying that it would take 10 days to ] [ refuel the ship. ] [Angira -- The blond god that can burrow underground to trap people's feet.] [ Killed by Gokuu. ] [Dorodabo - The fat yellow winged demon. Killed by Piccolo. ] [Medametcha -- A big horned frog that can create energy-sucking copies of ] [ itself. Killed by Gokuu. ] [Slag's Soldiers -- Most were killed by Slag for running away from Gokuu ] [ and Kuririn. ] # # # # # (Movie 5) (07/20/91) Tobikkiri no Saikyou tai Saikyou Fantastic Ultimate Strength vs Ultimate Strength Back when Freeza destroyed Planet Vejiita, and killed Bardock, Freeza's older brother, Cooler had been watching from his own spaceship. Cooler had seen Kakarot's space capsule zipping off, but didn't interfere with it. 20 years later, Cooler receives a report stating that Freeza has been killed. Gokuu, Gohan, and Kuririn go on a camping trip, and are attacked by Cooler's henchmen. Cooler wants to fight Gokuu, and discover the true strength of the legendary "Super Saiya-jin." At the end, Cooler has been blown into the sun by a massive energy ball, and apparently dies. [Haiyaa Dragon -- Gohan's cute pet dragon. Reappears for this movie. ] [Cooler -- Freeza's older brother. Very arrogant and selfish. Not dead ] [ yet. ] [Sauzaa -- Cooler's blond, blue-faced pretty boy minion. Killed by Piccolo.] [Neizu -- Cooler's lizard minion. Killed by Piccolo. ] [Doore -- Cooler's green-skinned ugly minion. Killed by Piccolo. ] # # # # # (Movie 6) (03/07/92) Gekitotsu!! 100 Oku Pawaa no Senshi-Tachi Crash!! The 10 Billion-Power Fighters A giant metal planet lands on the new Namek planet, and begins eating it. The Namek elders call to Dende for help, and Dende relays the call. This is why Gokuu, Gohan, Kuririn, Kamesennin, Oolong, Yajirobee and Piccolo get into a spaceship and fly off. (Vejiita is in his own space capsule, and he arrives to ensure that Gokuu lives long enough for Vejiita to kill him himself.) Turns out that Cooler has pulled a V'ger trick, and has become part of the ship that is eating the Namek planet. Cooler's robot are sent out to round up all of the Namek-jin. Gokuu's ship arrives in time for the Z Fighters to also be picked up to be used to power the ship. Gokuu and Vejiita fight Cooler, and get trashed. They are wired into the ship to provide power for Big Geta Star. Gokuu and Vejiita push the limits of their Super Saiya-jin power, and cause Big Geta Star to overheat. Finally, Gokuu blows the real Cooler away, and Big Geta Star explodes. (First time that Vejiita shows up in the movies.) [Cooler -- Old Cooler merged with some space junk to become the ] [ core of a giant spaceship. Destroyed by Gokuu. ] [Big Geta Star -- The name of the planet-eating spaceship. ] [Metal Cooler -- Cooler-shaped robots, with self-repairing bodies. ] [ All were destroyed when Big Geta Star exploded. ] [Muuri -- One of the Namek-jin elders. Lost and forgotten. ] # # # # # (Movie 7) (07/11/92) Kyokugen Batoru!! Sandai Suupaa Saiya-jin Battle Limit!! The Three Super Saiya-Jin Right after Dr. Gero gets destroyed by his androids, #17 and #18, Gero's computer triggers his earlier creations -- #13, #14, and #15. The androids have orders to seek out and kill Gokuu (while Gokuu and company are on a shopping trip). The resulting combat involves Gokuu, Kuririn, Piccolo, young Gohan, Vejiita, and future Trunks. After #14 and #15 are destroyed, #13 uses parts of them to undergo a power up. The only way #13 can be destroyed is for Gokuu to create a large Genki Tama, and then use the energy from it as he switches to Super Saiya-jin. Afterwards, Gero's lab computer shuts down. [#13 -- Lean, white-haired android. Destroyed by Gokuu. ] [#14 -- Big, blue skinned barbarian android. Destroyed by Trunks.] [#15 -- Little, funky black android. Destroyed by Vejiita. ] # # # # # (TV Special) (02-24-93) Zebbo he no Hankou!! Nokosareta Chou-Senshi . Gohan to Torunkusu Resist Dispair!! The Ultimate Surviving Fighters: Gohan and Trunks A TV version of "Trunk's Story", from volume 33. #17 and #18 are tearing up the future Earth, and finally the Z fighters that we know and love are all dead. Only a one-armed Gohan, and a teenaged Trunks are left (Gyuu Maou and Chi Chi are still living out in the countryside, but with Gokuu's death, Chi Chi has been slowly wasting away.) Gohan trains Trunks to become a fighter, but the boy can't get angry enough to go to Super Saiya-jin level. Gohan faces the androids on his own and is killed. This pushes Trunks over the edge, but even in SSJ mode, when Trunks fights the androids, he gets trashed. Finally, Buruma completes work on the time machine that Trunks uses to visit the past to give Gokuu his heart medicine, and to warn the Z Fighters of the impending peril (also succeeding in creating the alternate timeline that allows Cell to travel to the past and start the Cell Game.) [ No new one-shot characters. ] # # # # # (Movie 8) (03/06/93) Moetsukiro!! Nessen . Ressen . Chou-gekisen Burn Your Spirits to the Max!! A Close Battle, Violent Battle, Super Bloody Battle. Gokuu and Chi Chi go to interview for a school that Chi Chi wants Gohan to attend, while everyone else is busy partying at a cherry blossom-viewing drinkfest. The party is disrupted when a ship lands. Paragasu steps out to invite Vejiita to travel with him to the planet New Vejiita, to fight the Legendary Super Saiya-jin. A drunk Kamesennin, Kuririn, Trunks, and Gohan fly off as well. Meanwhile, Kaiou-sama telepaths to Gokuu to alert the hero of the danger. Gokuu teleports out of the interview, leaving Chi Chi in the lurch. Paragasu introduces Vejiita to Paragasu's wimpy son, Burolii, and waffles over actually disclosing where the Legendary Super Saiya-jin is. Gokuu teleports in, and Burolii goes berzerk. After a lot of screwing around, we find out that Burolii and Gokuu had been born on the same day. King Vejiita had ordered Burolii (baby Burolii had already been determined to be a threat to the Saiya-jin) and Paragasu to be killed and dumped in the trash. But, baby Burolii's power saved them. Burolii grew up to be a maniacal killer, and had poked out one of Paragasu's eyes. Right after that, Paragasu had a headband created that effectively lobotomized Burolii. Burolii overcomes Paragasu's control and turns into a Super Saiya-jin; he trashes everyone. Vejiita loses his nerve at seeing the Legendary Super Saiya-jin, and can't fight anymore. Paragasu knows that the planet New Vejiita will explode soon, so he wants to fly away, killing two birds with one stone: revenge on the Vejiita family, and disposing of his troublesome child. But, Burolii crushes the space capsule, killing his father. Then, Gokuu summons the energy from his friends, including Vejiita, to become a Super Saiya-jin himself, and killing Burolii. Before the planet explodes, Gokuu teleports everyone to Piccolo's ship and they return to Earth. [Paragasu -- A one-eyed Saiya-jin killer with a hate against Vejiita's ] [ family. Killed by Burolii. ] [Burolii -- A mad Saiya-jin, barely controlled by his father. Born on ] [ the same day as Gokuu, and hence has an affinity for our hero.] [ Apparently killed by Gokuu. ] [Shamo-saijin -- Ugly little creatures that have been carried off their ] [ planet of Shamo to do Paragasu's bidding. Saved by Gokuu. ] # # # # # (Movie 9) (07/10/93) Ginga Girigiri!! Butchi-giri no Sugoi Yatsu The Strongest Guy in the Universe!! The Money Family is hosting a Tenkai-ichi Budoukai as a birthday present for 10-year old Dollar Money. Dollar is hoping for aliens to come from space and join in the tournament, so four of Mr. Satan's pro-wrestling students are in costume as the "aliens" in the final rounds of the competition. Kaiou-sama and Gokuu are on Kaiou planet (Kaiou is watching the game on TV, Gokuu is playing Go Fish against Bubbles the ape -- the deck has Uranai Baba and Pilaf's crew on the face cards. ) The elimination rounds are basically 8 batches of free-for-alls; the last person standing in each free-for-all goes on to a one-on-one round. The Final Four each get shot into one of four "Battle Stages" to face Satan's "aliens." The first person to emerge from the Battle Stage wins the 100,000,000 zenni prize money, a trip to a hot spa, and a chance to fight Satan. Kuririn, Future Trunks, teenaged Gohan, and Dosukoi make it to the Battle Zones, where they are attacked by real aliens (Satan's students have already been killed.) Kaiou-sama realizes that the aliens are Boujack's team. A LONG time ago, the four Kaiou's had battled Boujack, and imprisoned him far, far away. Boujack has escaped, and come to Earth to destroy it and kill Gohan as revenge on Kaiou-sama, knowing that Gokuu is Kaiou's student, Gohan is Gokuu's kid, and Earth is Gokuu's planet. There is a lot of fighting as all of the Z Fighters show up to attack Boujack's 5-man team. Eventually, the heroes are trashed, and Boujack is about to crush Gohan's throat. Gokuu can't take it any more, and the dead hero teleports in from heaven just long enough to kick Boujack in the face and save Gohan. With renewed anger, Gohan goes to Super Saiya-jin 2 (SSJ-2), and kills Boujack's remaining minions before killing Boujack. Satan had been trying to escape since seeing that the Z Fighters had entered the tournament, but was pushed into a sled and sent to the Battle Zone, where he succeeded in destroying the camera televising the fight with Boujack. At the end of the movie, Satan is again declared savior of Earth, and no one wins the prize money (Gohan, Trunks and Kuririn are recovering in a hospital for some reason, while Piccolo and Vejiita are already fully healed. This movie has lots of continuity flaws and plot holes. Definitely doesn't fit in with the manga or TV series. The best part of the movie is the shot of the Pilaf card deck.) [Gyousan Money -- Richest man on Earth. Short, fat, and balding. About 50.] [Okkanee Money -- "Money Money". Gyousan's prim, tall wife. ] [Dollar Money -- Spoiled 10-year-old brat in short-leg bib overalls. ] [Producer -- The handsome "suit" producing the Budoukai for Gyousan ] [ is never referred to by name. ] [Udou -- Huge, fat American cowboy wrestler defeated by Gohan. ] [Kanfuun -- Some martial artist defeated in the one-on-one by Dosukoi] [Dosukoi -- Huge sumo wrestler in the Final Four. Killed by Bidou. ] [Boujack -- Big Blue baddy dressed in a pirate's outfit. Is ] [ considered more evil than Demon King Piccolo ever was. ] [ Killed by Gohan. ] [Gokua -- Blue-skinned punk with a sword. Quickly killed by Trunks] [Bidou -- Kind of a Viking-Pirate mix. Is the most interesting of ] [ Boujack's team. Evilly handsome; killed by Gohan. ] [Puujin -- Small arrogant Blue-skinned baddy. Killed by Gohan. ] [Sangya -- Pretty, evil Blue woman with LONG golden hair. A good ] [ fighter; killed by Boujack. Boujack intentionally fired ] [ an energy blast at Gohan, through Sangya's back. ] # # # # # (Movie 10) (03/12/94) Kikenna Futari! Suupaa Senshi wa Nemurenai The Dangerous Pair! The Super Fighter Can Not Sleep Goten, Trunks and Beederu are out gathering up the Dragon Balls (just for the heck of it. When asked, Trunks decides that he wants to ride cool things to have adventures (pirate ship, train), while Goten wants to eat delicious cake whenever he wants) and succeed in grabbing the 5th one. When they zip off to find the sixth one, they come upon a village terrorized by a monster dragon. The last girl in the village is about to be sacrificed to appease the monster, when Beederu volunteers to take her place. Goten, Trunks, and Beederu hide next to the supper set out for the monster, surprise it, and kill it (after much screwing around.) In return, Trunks receives the Dragon Ball attached to the village Shaman's necklace. Meanwhile, a Saiya-jin space capsule crashes to Earth nearby, and the sleeping Saiya-jin inside is aroused by vibrations caused by Goten when the boy wanted to eat the banquet set out for the monster. The Saiya-jin turns out to be Burolii. When Burolii stretches his muscles the next day, Beederu senses it, and goes to investigate. As do Goten and Trunks. Burolii thinks that Goten is Kakarot, and there is much fighting. The final Dragon Ball is located during the battle, but Goten doesn't know how to summon Shenlon, so Trunks gets trashed while trying to distract Burolii (Trunks also has to take a piss after hiding next to a bunch of waterfalls, and relieves himself on top of Burolii's head). Gohan senses Burolii's ki, and arrives to join in the battle. Gohan's blast causes lava to boil up, and Burolii is trapped in the magma. Gohan passes out as the magma inches near him. (Kuririn is dressed up like Piccolo as a joke when he saves Gohan.) But Burolii is a Super Saiya-jin, and the magma doesn't phase him. Gohan and Goten use Kamahame-ha on Burolii. (And, probably because of the Dragon Balls nearby, Gokuu is allowed to show up to perform Kamehame-ha as part of the trio.) Trunks manages to throw an energy ball that distracts Burolii, and the triple Kamehama-ha blows Burolii into space, and into the sun. Beederu recovers, and thinks that Gohan was masquerading as Burolii, and attacks him. Goten and Trunks go back to the village to get food, and Kuririn wonders why everyone has forgotten about him. (The Dragon Balls disperse as if Shenlon has fulfilled a wish.) [Koko -- Little Dutch girl, about to be sacrificed to the monster. ] [Chourou -- Leader of the forest village terrorize by the monster. ] [Kyouryuu -- The dragon terrorizing the village. Turned into cutlets by ] [ Trunks and Goten. Eaten by the village members. ] [Kitou-shi -- "Shaman." The village magician that wants to sacrifice Koko.] [Burolii -- The legendary Super Saiya-jin apparently wasn't quite ] [ completely killed by Gokuu, and he found a space capsule ] [ that took him to Earth. Killed by Gokuu, Gohan and Goten. ] # # # # # (Movie 11) (07/01/94) Suupaa Senshi Gekiha!! Katsu no Ore da Super Fighter Shootout!! I'm the One Who Will Win #18 has gone to Mr. Satan's house to collect on the 20 million zenni prize money from the Tenkai-ichi Budoukai that she let Satan win. Satan claims that the money hasn't been turned over to him yet. Then, a minion of a guy who was a classmate of Satan's, arrives to blackmail Satan into going with him to fight some bio-tech warriors. The minion, Menmen, threatens to tell the papers that Satan was a bed wetter in 6th Grade. Satan caves in, and #18 goes along to keep Satan from running away. Goten and Trunks hide in the back of the car to try to fight these "bio-tech thingies", and Kuririn is forced to take his daughter back to Kame House. Baron Jagaa Badda has created some pro-wrestler-strength warriors, and he wants them to fight Satan, just to put Satan back in his place. Satan pretends that #18 and the two boys are his students, and they easily destroy the bio-tech baddies. However, Goten recognizes the guy standing beside Jagaa as being the Shaman from the forest village in the last movie. Turns out that the Shaman collected some of Burolii's blood at the battle site, and sold it to Jagaa. Jagaa had his scientists use the blood to create the "Ultimate Bio-tech Warrior." Trunks and Goten try to use Kamehame-ha on Burolii's container before Burolii can awaken, but it is too late. However, the process isn't complete, and Burolii is badly misformed. There is much fighting, the chemicals used in the bio-tech process get loose and eat up all living things, and Burolii trashes Goten, Trunks, and #18. Kuririn arrives to protect his wife, and also gets trashed. Finally, the heroes rescue the scientists, and all of the people living on Jagaa's island escape onto ocean liners. The bio-tech chemicals try to eat Burolii, and are instead turned into an energy source for him. Ultimately, Goten discovers that the chemicals lose potency in sea water, so Kuririn, Goten, and Trunks use Kamehame-ha to create a tidal wave that cleanses the island. Burolii keeps trying to kill Goten, but is now vulnerable to Goten's and Trunk's energy blast. Burolii dies, and Mr. Satan tries to swim back home, rather than accepting #18's offer of saving him for a total of 1 Billion zenni. [Baron Jagaa Badda -- Short, fat, prissy former classmate of Mr. Satan's. ] [ Has lots of money, and is making bio-tech fighters because he ] [ can. Doesn't die, but his island does receive much costly ] [ damage. ] [Menmen -- Jagaa's tall, blond-haired minion. Is actually very inept, ] [ but pretends to arrogance. ] [Kitou-shi -- The Shaman is back, trying to make lots of money by selling ] [ Burolii's blood to Jagaa. Dies when the bio-tech chemicals ] [ eat him as he is trying to steal cash from Jagaa's office. ] [Dr. Korii -- The grey-haired scientist creating Jagaa's bio-tech fighters. ] [Nine -- Korii's chief assistant. A cute, but vacant-eyed woman. ] [Hei -- Jagaa's bio-tech wolf-dog. Eaten by the bio-tech chemicals. ] [Burolii -- A mis-formed bio-tech nightmare. Maybe stronger than the ] [ original. Remembers when Trunks had taunted him in the last ] [ movie. Destroyed by seawater, Goten and Trunks. ] # # # # # (Movie 12) (03/??/95) Fukkatsu no Fushion! Gokuu to Vejiita The Fusion of Revival! Gokuu and Vejiita We are back in heaven, during the Budoukai held by Dai-Kaiou to determine who the greatest dead heroic fighter is. The four Kaiou's quarrel over who has the best student, and the final round is about to start, between West Kaiou's Son Gokuu, and South Kaiou's Paikuu-han. Both fighters want to win cleanly, and they begin sparring. Meanwhile, Enma Daioh (Heaven's Gatekeeper) is being harsher than normal, sending many, many souls to hell for one reason or another (the ones going to heaven get to ride Ten Airlines, while the ones going to Hell get to pass through a "Spritz Cleaner" machine that removes all the evil from them. Once cleansed, the evil souls have their memories removed, and are reincarnated to try again.) Psych Oni, the demon tending the Spritz Cleaner, is too busy dancing to his walkman tape to notice that the Cleaner is running in the red. The Cleaner regulator explodes, and all of the concentrated evil escapes. Psych Oni tries to contain the mess before tearfully reporting to Enma Daioh. At this point, the concentrated evil covering Psych takes effect, turning the boy into a giant yellow squeeze toy named Janenba. Janenba immediately encases Enma's Gate House in a magic crystal, and it then amuses itself by twisting the fabric of space for a while. With Enma trapped, the dead residing in Hell can escape and roam around on Earth. Gohan and Beederu set out to combat the dead, while Goten and Trunks search for the Dragon Balls to set everything right again. Gohan gets to confront Freeza again, and very quickly destroys the monster. All of the other supporting villians from the previous DBZ movies also surface, only to be dispatched by the Great Saiya-man team. Shenlon is summoned, but the Dragon God has to admit that it has no jurisdiction over the dead, and it can't fix the problem involving Enma. So, Goten and Trunks spend the movie fighting the endless masses of Hitler's zombie armies. (Satan is also dispatching zombies easily, but he's upset that there's no TV crew around to broadcast his exploits; he plans on calling in a report to the TV station later.) Dai Kaiou suspends the Budoukai to let Paikuu-han and Gokuu run off to Enma's Gate House to resolve the problem. At first, they try to play with Janenba, until Gokuu starts getting mad. Unfortunately, Janenba can do transdimensional tricks, and it punches one way, only to have his fist appear elsewhere to blindside Gokuu. Paikuu-han is told by Dai-Kaiou to try to free Enma (eventually, Paikuu realizes that by swearing and insulting people, he can make the magic crystal crack and flake off.) Janenba can also make copies of itself, as well as warping Gokuu so that the hero will appear in front of his own Kamehame-ha. Gokuu switches up to SSJ-3 and pummels Janenba. The creature melts, only to turn into the next-stage version -- Changed Janenba. Janenba now uses a series of warp tricks ala "Total Recall", and trashes the SSJ-3 Gokuu. Gokuu escapes deeper into Hell, first hiding in the Pool of Blood; then he gets rescued by the dead Vejiita. (Vejiita reminds Gokuu that only Vejiita has the right to destroy Gokuu.) Vejiita attacks Janenba, and also gets trashed. Vejiita's body flies towards the Mountain of Needles, and is caught by Gokuu. Gokuu tries to get Vejiita to do Fusion with him, but the Saiya-jin Prince would rather die first (Gokuu points out that Vejiita IS dead.) Vejiita's pride is tearing him up, and Janenba attacks the mountain, causing Gokuu to grab Vejiita's shoulder and teleporting them both to a safe zone. Vejiita relents, and Gokuu shows him the Fusion pose. Vejiita is appalled at the idea of having to do something so stupid. But, there is no time left, so the two of them perform Fusion. Vejiita forgets to extend his right forefinger, and the resulting Fat Gojiita attracts Janenba's attention. The ensuing battle is plain slapstick (Gojiita's only successful attack is a series of foul-smelling farts.) At the last moment, just as Janenba is going to destroy Gojiita, the Fusion wears off (it took 30 minutes) and the two Saiya-jin run away again. Kaiou (West Kaiou was receiving a lot of abuse from his siblings for having such a useless student) telepaths out that Vejiita botched the pose. So, they try again. And are interrupted by Janenba. Paikuu-han succeeds in breaking the magic crystal, and he runs to confront Janenba to give Gokuu and Vejiita more time. Janenba apparently kills the dead Paikuu-han just as the Fusion takes hold. True Gojiita looks a lot like Super Saiya-jin Gokuu, with a Persian-style vest and baggy pants. On Earth, Goten and Trunks sense the energy levels of their fathers, and the two boys also do Fusion to become Gotenks (Gotenks uses Kamikaze Ghost Attack to create 100 exploding ghosts to destroy Hitler's armies.) Gojiita punches Janenba up a bit before hitting the monster with a special energy ball. The ball blows up in the monster's chest, and all of the evil within it dissipates. Psych returns to normal, takes one look at Gojiita, and runs away screaming. Enma is back in charge, and the dead all return to Hell (including Vejiita. Vejiita says that he never wants to Fuse again.) Goten and Trunks promise each other to not tell Goten and Beederu who it was that saved them all; Gohan and Beederu chase the boys to get answers from them. In the last panel, Shenlon asks if this means that no one is going to ask him for a wish. [Paikuu-han -- A "Frog". A good-guy fighter created for the TV series] [ to kill time. Ignorable. ] [Saiku Oni -- Probably means "Psychedelic", or "work". A teenaged ] [ red-skinned demon boy who tends the Spritz Cleaner. ] [ Wears a skull jacket, striped pants, and a walkman. ] [Janenba -- Probably means "a place of evil." At first, this is ] [ a big yellow goofball that hurts stuff for fun. After ] [ its transformation, it becomes a human-sized Lucifer- ] [ type Master of Hell. Uses magic, and a magical sword. ] [ Created when Psych was dowsed with concentrated evil. ] [ After Gojiita defeats it, Psych recovers, and runs ] [ away to disappear from sight forever. ] [Comment -- This is probably one of the more lame DBZ movies, where ] [ the set-up takes 55 minutes, and the final climax takes ] [ only 30 seconds. Note that the "Other World" Budoukai ] [ never happened in the manga, and was only created by some ] [ TV scriptwriter to let the manga story get a few months ] [ ahead of the TV series. ] # # # # # (Movie 13) (07/15/95) Ryuuken bakuhatsu!! Gokuu ga Yaraneba Dare ga Yaru "Dragon-Fist Explosion!! If Gokuu Can't Do it, Who Can?" A long time ago, a group of evil magicians brought a huge, skull-faced demon -- Hirudegarn -- to life to terrorize their planet. The demon could only be controlled by two gourd whistles and a legendary sword. Tapeon and his little brother, Minosha, had used the gourd whistles to play a song that calmed Hirudegarn long enough for the demon to be cut in two, and trapped within the bodies of the two brothers. Tapeon was sealed in a music box and shot out into space.... It's a busy day in Satan City for the crimefighting team Great Saiya-man (Gohan is Saiya-man 1, and Beederu is Saiya-man 2) when they get a call that a crazy old man is trying to commit suicide by jumping from a tower. The old man, Hoi, is rescued, and he shows Gohan a box that can't be opened. The boy tries to turn the crank, but can't. The box is given to Beederu, but her science toys can't see inside it. So, the Z Fighters round up the Dragon Balls and ask Shenlon to make the box open. This happens, and Tapeon steps out. Minosha, who used to look just like young Trunks, was killed long ago, and his half of the demon starts stalking Satan city and trashes it. Tapeon escapes to a deserted factory plant, and is followed by Trunks (Trunks keeps bringing food to Tapeon, but Tapeon keeps chasing him away.) When Tapeon falls asleep, his half of the demon tries to escape from his body, but is then recaptured when Tapeon wakes up again. Eventually, Tapeon is befriended, and he explains everything to Buruma. Buruma tries to make a demon-capturing bedroom, but Hoi is using his own magic to awaken Hirudedarn. Tapeon's half of the demon escapes Buruma's trap and becomes whole again. The Z Fighters help trash the city in their attempt to defeat the demon, and Goten and Trunks use Fusion to become Gotenks (but, Gotenks' energy attacks cause the demon to go into a cocoon phase before emerging as a giant WINGED demon.) The Z Fighters get mulched, Tapeon tries to use his whistle, but it shatters. Trunks tries to use Tapeon's sword on the demon, but Gokuu switches to Super Saiya-jin 3, and announces that Hirudegarn is HIS to defeat. Gokuu pulls out a Super Punch (Ryuuken) and destroys the demon. Afterwards, Buruma makes a time machine to return Tapeon to the time when the boy had been shot into space, and Tapeon gives the sword to Trunks (thereby explaining how future Trunks came by the sword that had been used to carve up Freeza and Freeza's Father in the manga.) [Tapeon -- A teenaged elf with a bright red mohawk and a gold band connected] [ to the back of his head. Carries a sword and a gourd whistle. ] [ Has one half of a demon trapped within his own body. ] [Minosha -- A smaller elf with an orange mohawk. He looked like Trunks. ] [ Carried a sword and a gourd whistle. Killed in a flashback at ] [ the beginning of the movie. ] [Hoi -- An evil little magic user that wants the energy gained from the ] [ demon when it destroys stuff. Pointed ears, red skin, long bushy] [ white hair, and catfish stickers on his cheeks. Stepped on by ] [ Hirudegarn. ] [Hirudegarn -- 1000 year old, VERY tall, fire-breathing skull-faced demon. ] [ Blown into dust by Gokuu's Dragon Punch. ] There's some VERY GOOD special effects here, and lots of death and destruction as the demon wastes Earth. Good mind candy. Recommended for small children. ;) ======== If you are tempted to buy the Jump Anime Comics, be aware that not all of the Jump Anime Comics are book versions of a movie or TV special. In some cases, the word "Famicom" can be found on the cover in katakana. The Famicom JAC books are half-entertainment for children, and half-promotions for some Nintendo Dragon Ball game cartridge. These books are pricey for their content (450 yen/100 pages of reprints, misc. stuff, etc.), and are to be avoided except by collectors and completists. The true JACs are comicbook versions of the movies, and usually cost about 650 yen. There is a small fold-out poster at the front, and a run-down on the characters that appear in the movie. At the end is a list of movie credits. Starting with the second DBZ movie, or so, the JAC's also include a lot of background data from the manga and the TV series (this is padding, to bring the page count up over 160 pages.) The movie books, or Mooks, are coffee table-sized collections of illustrations from the movie, and supporting data from the TV series. The Mooks are maybe 100 pages, and don't contain much dialog from the film. It's a nice bit of paraphenalia, if you like the movie, but otherwise is not worth the 1000 yen per Mook. ======== Notes based on the JAC books: Marron -- The daughter of #18 and Kuririn is not identified by name until the very final manga installments, when a lot of time has passed and she has gotten much older. She shows up in the later movies, but still doesn't have a name in them. Probably named in reference to Kuririn's old girlfriend, Maron. Gregory -- The insect friend of Bubbles, on Kaiou-sama's planet. Gregory shows up in the TV series and movies, but not in the manga. Kuririn -- The priest is used largely for comic material in the movies. He is the FIRST one to get beaten up by the baddies whenever there is a chance for it. (True, he is also used the same way in the manga, but he does still have his moments in the manga.) Yardrat-jin -- The creatures that teach Gokuu how to teleport are never shown in the manga. They apparently show up in the TV series, and they get their picture in one of the JACs. Yardrats have huge heads, round eyes that don't open far, and tiny mouths with no nose visible. Big, elf-like ears. Future Trunks -- While strong, he's easily embarrassed by many things. In the manga and TV series, he returns to the future right after alerting the Z Fighters to the danger of #17 and #18; and then again right after Cell was defeated. But, in the movies, he hangs around with the others and is largely just another fighter. Chi Chi -- Always talks with an Osaka dialect in the movies. "Gekitotsu!! 100 Oku Pawaa no Senshi-Tachi" includes a character encyclopedia at the end of the book. In it, Buruma's father is listed as Dr. Briefs. Buruma's mother still doesn't have a name, and is listed simply as "Buruma's Mother." A cute girl -- Maron -- is also listed, as Kuririn's girlfriend of the time. Note that Maron never shows up in the movies, and I don't remember her ever being in the manga. A-09 How do the movies relate to the anime/manga series? The movies have characters and certain backgrounds based on the anime/ manga series (anime, actually, but the anime is based on the manga), but should considered to be an alternate universe, since the movies are usually inconsistent with the timeline of the anime/manga. The DBZ movies are also usually just a 1 1/2 hour version of the same general Dragon Ball Z formula of new villain(s) who first show up more powerful than Goku and the gang, but eventually gets defeated. A-10 What kind of Dojinshi is out there? View some of them through the web at the following sites: Dojinshi Museum http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~mp5t-tkkw/museum23.htm Wei-Hwa's Dragonball Dojinshi page http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/anime/dj A-11 Where on the Internet can I find Dragon Ball related stuff? A-11-a USENET Newsgroups alt.binaries.pictures.anime alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime alt.fan.dragonball alt.manga bu.sa.anime fj.rec.anime \_ Japanese fj.rec.comics / fr.rec.anime (French) rec.arts.anime.creative rec.arts.anime.fandom rec.arts.anime.games rec.arts.anime.info rec.arts.anime.marketplace rec.arts.anime.misc rec.arts.anime.models rec.arts.anime.music rec.arts.manga A-11-b File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Sites brawl.mindlink.net /pub/dbz Dragon Ball Z Videogames sounds (.WAV) dragonfire.net /users/Wuken Dragon Ball (Z) Songs in MP2 format ftp.netaxs.com /people/willy Dragon Ball Z Images QuickTime Movies MPEG Video Files ftp.std.com /customers2/archives/anime-fan-works/Dragon-Ball Dragon Ball Fan Fiction ftp.sunet.se /pub/pictures/anime-manga/Dragonball Mirror of ftp.tcp.com ftp.tcp.com /pub/anime-manga/sorted/Dragonball/ Dragon Ball Images Manga script & summaries Anime script & summaries A-11-c World Wide Web (WWW) Sites 3 STEPS OVER THE EDGE http://www.whytel.com/USERS/hoffmanc ANIME IMAGES/SOUNDS ARCHIVES http://www.voicenet.com/~warden/archive/.html#DBZORIG ANIME WEB GUIDE : DRAGON BALL Z http://www.tcp.com/doi/alan/webguide/entry/tDRA.html ARCHIVE OF THE DRAGONBALL FAQ http://www.eden.com/~nickm/db.html C-Mann's DragonBall GT HomePage http://netvigator.com/~cmann/ CAPSULE CORP. http://reality.sgi.com/eugene Capsule Corporation Headquarters http://www.netcom.com/~brief/ DAIMAO'S HOMEPAGE http://www.cc.utah.edu/~sls4491/daimao.htm DBZ EPISODES LIST http://www.pixi.com/~shenlon/dbzlist.html Doorway to Destiny http://home.earthlink.net/~cgorgen/door.html DOUJINSHI http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~2ndunit/doujin.html#DRAGON Dr. DBZ's Corner http://home.earthlink.net/~cgorgen/drdbz.html DRAGON BALL / DRAGON BALL Z http://cent1.lancs.ac.uk/TB/dragonball.html Dragon Ball Belgium http://www.ping.be/~ping2026/ Dragon Ball CD Guide http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~csuos/CDGuide/dragonball.html Dragon Ball: French Connection (French) http://www.estp.fr/~4702k/dbz.html Dragon Ball GT http://haas.berkeley.edu/~chennav.dbgt/ Dragon Ball Resource Page http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~pypel/db.html DRAGON BALL SUMMARIES http://www.umd.umich.edu/~roshi/DRAGONBALL_SUMMARIES.html Dragon Ball Z (Catalan/Spanish?) http://www.abast.es/~carlosg/dragball/dragball.html Dragon Ball Z Headquarters http://www.anime.net/~goten/dragonball/ Dragon Ball Z items at Gennex Ent. http://www.gennex.com/gennex/anime/scroll/scroll.htm Dragon Ball Z Page http://www.bucknell.edu/~dajohnsn/dbz.html Dragon Ball Z Stuff http://www.ssnet.com/~fang/dbzcards.html Dragon World http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ikelley/DragonBall/ Gokou's Dragon Ball Page http://www.dragonfire.net/~gokou/gdbp.html Gokou's Wide World of Anime and Video Gaming http://www.umd.umich.edu/~gokou/ INDEX OF /PUB/ANIME-MANGA/SORTED/DRAGONBALL http://www.tcp.com:8000/pub/anime-manga/sorted/Dragonball/ KAME HOUSE http://minyos.xx.rmit.edu.au/~s9510571/kame.html KAMESENNIN'S PAGE (French) http://jupiter2.esstin.u-nancy.fr/~mathivet/dbz/page.html KEN'S DRAGON BALL PAGE http://www.uncg.edu/~kpcarty/dbz.html KIKI'S ANIME IMAGE SERVICE http://www.xmission.com/~matatabi/home.html KIMONO MY HOUSE: JAPANIMATION & SCI-FI TOYS http://www.slip.net/~kimono/ Mirai's World http://www.wam.umd.edu/~njemison/ MY DRAGON BALL PAGE http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/~quan-a/dragonball.html New Vejiitasei http://www.achilles.net/~sdesk/ Saiyan-Jin's Pride http://home.earthlink.net/~cgorgen/epg.html Son Gohan's page http://www.netaxs.com/~willy/index.html Son Gokou's Homepage http://www.bucknell.edu/~jgreene Son Goku's Homepage http://weber.u.washington.edu/~songoku/dragonball.html The Definitive Dragonball Z Video Games Page http://www.chickasaw.com/~david/dbzhome.html THE DRAGON BALL Z HOMEPAGE http://www.dorsai.org/~mhsieh/paul3.htm The Last Warrior http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~pypel/warrior.html The Toriyama Akira Page http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~robinsjr/Anime/Toriyama.html#DBall TOEI http://www.inter.co.jp/WELCOME_TO_CINEMA/TOEI.html Trunks Terrace http://users.aol.com/trunks477/trunks.htm Trunks's Homepage http://siksik.learnnet.nt.ca/yk1/sjf/tbell/trunks.html UMIA: Vegeta's Homepage (Spanish) http://www.ualm.es/Universidad/UNIA/manga.htm Vegeta's Homepage http://caravan.nomad.net/~vegeta/ Wuken's Dragon Ball Listening Booth http://www.dragonfire.net/~Wuken/dbzmusic.html Wuken's Dragon Ball Z Image Gallery http://www.dragonfire.net/~Wuken/doorway.html A-11-d Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Channels anime.terratron.com, port 6667. B-0 SERIES QUESTIONS B-01 What happens in Dragon Ball? The Dragon Ball Timeline--this timeline only follows the events of the altered space-time continuum as shown to us in the manga and the anime, while the original and/or others may have been shown or mentioned, they are not shown in this one, and will be in the timeline covered in question B-16. Many things happen before the series even started, which we find out about much later in the story (through the characters' dialogue, and sometimes flashbacks and specials). This timeline will list all known major events in chronological order, but is not to scale. The number of the years are estimates, and by no means accurate. The estimate comes the only instance when a year number was mentioned--When Trunks finds out what year in the future Cell comes from. Pre-Dragon Ball: _______________________________________________________________ | (Unknown date)---------------| A witch takes a Kaioushin's | earring and puts it on--they | fuse into one person. | | |---(Unknown date) | The same Kaioushin gets sealed | in a sword by a villain. | | (Generations later) | Bibidi creates Majin Buu----| |---(Unknown date) (Unknown date)--------------| Majin Buu kills one of the Kai Majin Buu is sealed by | oushins, and absorbs two more. Bibidi, and Bibidi gets | killed by the remaining | Kaioushin. | | | (c. Year 100 something)-----| Weather problems occur | on Planet Namek | Katattsu sends his son to | earth promising to follow | shortly. (c. Year 150)---------------| Katattsu's son gives up | waiting, and explores the | earth. | (c. Year 160-180)-----------| Piccolo Daimaoh is created. | Katattsu's son finds earth's | Kami-sama, drives out his | evil self, and becomes the new (c. Year 180-200)-----------| Kami-sama. Kami-sama creates the | Dragon Balls. | | | |---(c. Year 200 something) | Mutaito-sama seals Piccolo | Daimaoh in a rice cooker, | sacrificing his own life. | | | (c. Year 300 something)-----| Kame-sennin climbs on top | the Karin Tower. Spends | three years there. | | | | (c. Year 734)---------------|---(c. Year 734) Freeza attempts to destroy |\ Kakarotto is sent from Planet planet Vegeta, though | | Vegeta to destroy earth. Bardock & team tried to | | Vegeta, Nappa, and Raditz also stop him, their resistance | | sent to different planets. was futile. | | | |-(c. Year 734) | | Son Gohan finds and adopts | | Goku. | | | `-(c. Year 734) (Unknown date)--------------| Goku fell off a ravine, and Son Gohan gets stomped on | becomes a well behaved child by a giant were-monkey, | after coming to. killing him instantly. | | ==============The Dragon Ball series begins=================== | (c. Year 746)---------------| Goku meets Bulma, Woolong, | Kame-sennin gives Goku the Yamcha & Pooaru, then stops | Kinto Cloud, and Bulma the 3- Pilaf from becoming world | star DB. ruler. Bulma gives Goku | the Dragon Radar so he can | Goku & the gang meets Gyuumaoh find Gohan's DB in a year. | and Chichi. Goku promises to | marry Chichi (though he thought Goku goes off to train | marriage was some kind of food). under Kame-sennin. Kuririn | and Lunch are introduced. | | (c. Year 747)---------------| 21st Annual Tenkaichi |-==THE RED RIBBON ARMY==- Budokai. Jackie Chun wins. | Goku goes off to find his (Moon got blown up when | grandfather's Dragon Ball. Goku turned into a were- | monkey.) | | Goku finds the 6-star DB, | Colonel Silver blows up the | Kinto Cloud with a small | Goku rides to Muscle Tower on rocket. | a Red Ribbon plane and crash- | lands. Goku defeats Sergeant | Metallic (robot). | Goku defeats Murasaki (the | Ninja) and the Buyon Monster. Goku and Hacchan (Cyborg #8 | defeat General White. | #8 give Goku the 2-star DB, | Goku gets Kinto Cloud back. Goku goes to the Western | City to let Bulma fix the | Goku and Kuririn battle Gen. Dragon Radar. | Blue in the pirates' cave. | Goku finds the 3-star DB | before the cave collapses. General Blue steals the | Dragon Balls, and runs off | (accidentally) crashing in | Penguin Village (where the | Arale sends Gen Blue to Egypt, cast of "Dr. Slump" all | but he gets the Radar, so Turbo make cameo appearances). | (Senbe's son) builds Goku a new | one. Goku arrives at the "Sacred | Karin Land" and saves Upa | from Colonel Yellow. | RR Army hires assassin Tao | Paipai. Goku finds the 4-star DB, | which Bora (Upa's father) | Gen. Blue returns to RRHQ with was holding. | the DB Radar, but is killed by | Tao Paipai. Tao Paipai kills Bora and | defeats Goku. | Goku climbs the Karin Tower. | Goku gets trained by Sen- | Tao Paipai gets his new suit pyou, who lives at the top | tailored and kills the tailor. of Karin Tower. | | Tao Paipai is killed by Goku. Colonel Violet finds the | 5-star DB. | Bulma, Lunch, and Kamesennin | finds Goku headed for RRHQ. Goku infiltrates RR Army's | HQ. | Bulma brings Yamcha up to | speed; they try to save Goku. Adjutant Black shoots Com- | mander Red and assumes his | Goku kills "Commander" Black. position. | | -==Pilaf's Return==- | | Goku & the gang return to | the Kame House, where Bulma | Kamesennin suggests asking tries to fix the DB Radar, | Uranai Obaba (fortune teller) but the last DB wouldn't | for location of final DB. appear on the radar. | | Yamcha gets Goku new clothes, Goku & the gang fights | while Goku picks up Upa. against Uranai Obaba's | fighters. | Goku defeats final fighter, | Son Gohan in disguise, who Goku gets the 1-star DB | gets a special day back from Pilaf & gang. Bora gets | the other world. resurrected. | |---(c. Year 750) -==22nd Tenkaichi Budokai==-| Kamesennin's arch-rival, Tsuru | sennin, and his disciples, Ten Tsurusennin is found out to | shinhan and Chaozu introduced. be Tao Paipai's older | brother. | Tenshinhan & Chaozu turns | against Tsurusennin's Tenshinhan wins the Budokai.| teachings. | Pilaf frees Piccolo. | |-==PICCOLO DAIMAOH==- Kuririn gets killed. | | Goku knocked down, Kinto Cloud Goku meets Yajirobe. | destroyed. | Yajirobe & Goku defeat | Piccolo defeats Goku. Piccolo's henchmen. | | Kamesennin & Chaozu die. Piccolo regains his youth, | and kills Shen Lon. | Yajirobe carries Goku up the | Karin Tower. Piccolo goes to the palace | and becomes the new world | Goku gets healed eating senzu, ruler. | then drinks the "Super God- | Water" Tenshinhan practices the | Mafuuha (Demon Seal Wave). | Piccolo announces world | domination on public TV. Goku awakens with new | power. | Tenshinhan arrives at the | palace to fight Piccolo, who | creates Drum to fight Ten. Goku saves Tenshinhan and | kills Drum. | Yamcha, Bulma, and Lunch fly | towards the palace, while Woo- | long and Pooaru look for Kame- | sennin and Chaozu's corpses. Goku kills Piccolo, but | Piccolo spits out his son | before he dies. | | Goku meets and trains under | Kami-sama and Mr. Popo. Kami-sama restores Shen | Long. | Shen Lon revives all those | killed by Piccolo & his hench- | men. | Kami-sama takes off Goku's | tail (permanently) to | restore the moon. | | (c. Year 753)---------------| -==23rd Tenkaichi Dudokai==-| Goku shows up in teen/adult | form. | Piccolo's son (also named | Piccolo) enters the tournament Grown-up Chichi appears | under alias "Ma Junior." before Goku (no one recog- | nized her). | Chaozu defeated by a cyborged | Tao Paipai in the pre-lims. Yajirobe (in disguise) is | defeated by Shen (Kami-sama | in disguise) in the final | pre-lim. | | --Quarter-Final Outcome-- | Tenshinhan defeats Tao Paipai. | Goku defeats Chichi. Goku & Chichi gets engaged | "Ma Jr" defeats Kuririn. (officially). | "Shen" defeats Yamcha. | --Semi-Final Outcome-- | Goku defeats Tenshinhan. | --Budokai Final Outcome-- "Ma Jr" defeats "Shen." | Goku defeats "Ma Jr." | Yajirobe gives Goku a senzu.| Goku is healed. | Goku gives one more senzu to | Piccolo. Piccolo retreats. Kami-sama offers Goku to be | his successor; Goku refuses,| and flies off with Chichi. | | Lunch leaves the Kame House | with Tenshinhan and Chaozu. |-==End of DB anime series==- | (c. Year 758)---------------| -==SAIYAJIN==- | Raditz arrive on earth and | encounters Piccolo. | Goku, Bulma, Kuririn, and | Kamesennin gather at the Kame | House. Goku introduces his | son, Son Gohan. Raditz shows up at the Kame | House, and kidnaps Gohan to | Piccolo and Goku team up to force Goku into helping him.| fight Raditz. | Goku sacrifices himself so | that Piccolo can kill Raditz| Vegeta and Nappa head for | earth. Kami-sama takes Goku to | train in the other world. | Piccolo takes Gohan to (Goku tries to reach Kaiou- | training. sama, and train under him) | | Goku starts running on the Gohan turns into a were- | snake path (to reach Kaiou- monkey; Piccolo destroys | sama). the moon and takes off | Gohan's tail. | Bulma successfully converts | the Scouter to earth language. Chichi finds out of Goku and| Gohan's conditions. | Yamcha, Kuririn, Tenshinhan, | Choazu, and Yajirobe begin to | train under Kami-sama. Goku reaches the end of the | snake path, gets on Kaiou's | little planetoid, and starts| training. | | | Goku contacts Kamesennin via | Kaiou-sama, a wish is made to | ShenLon to revive Goku. | Goku's halo disappears, and he | begins running back on the Vegeta and Nappa reach earth| Snake Path. and destroys the East City. | | Vegeta and Nappa finds Gohan Kuririn, Yamcha, Tenshinhan | and Piccolo. Nappa plants the and Chaozu arrive. | cybermen. | Tenshinhan defeats a cyber- | man. The same cyberman is | killed by Vegeta. | Yamcha gets killed by a | cyberman. | Kuririn kills 3 more cyber- | men, the last is killed by | Piccolo. | Chaozu and Tenshinhan die | while fighting Nappa. | Vegeta decides to wait 3 | hours for Goku to arrive. | 3 hours pass, Nappa begins to | fight Piccolo, Gohan and | Kuririn. Kuririn uses Kienzan against| Goku comes back to earth. Nappa. | | Piccolo dies protecting Gohan. Goku defeats Nappa. | | Nappa is killed by Vegeta. Goku and Vegeta begins to | fight. | | Vegeta explains how a Saiyajin | can turn into giant were- | monkeys, and creates an | artificial moon. Goku begins to gather ki for| Genki-dama. | Gohan and Kuririn goes back to | help Goku. Yajirobe (who's been hiding | nearby, watching) cuts off | Goku gives the partial Genki- Vegeta's tail. | dama to Kuririn. | Gohan volleyballs the Genki-| dama to hit Vegeta. | Gohan turns into a were- | monkey. Vegeta retreats. | | Goku, Gohan, and Kuririn | hospitalized. Kami-sama's past explained, | spaceship found. | | Kami-sama's spaceship is | modified, Bulma, Kuririn, and Vegeta arrives at Freeza's | Gohan leave for Namek. planet #79 (18 days after | his retreat). | After his wounds are healed, | Vegeta finds out Freeza is | already looking for Namek's | Dragon Balls, and takes off | for Namek. | Bulma, Kuririn, and Gohan | Dr. Briefs begins modifying reach Namek. | Goku's space capsule. | | Bulma's spaceship gets disabled | by Freeza's henchmen. Vegeta kills Kyuii (one of | Freeza's henchmen who was | about as strong as Vegeta | Goku gets healed by the new before he went to earth) | batch of senzu. | Goku takes off for Namek. | Gohan and Kuririn saves Dende | and escapes from Dodoria. | Vegeta fights Dodoria, in | an effort to escape, Dodoria| tells Vegeta how Freeza | destroyed planet Vegeta. | Vegeta kills Dodoria. | Vegeta destroys a Namek | village and hides the 4-star| Freeza acquires 5 dragon balls DB. | (2, 3, 5, 6, & 7-stars). | Dende takes Kuririn to | Saichourou (Grand Chief?). | Piccolo, Yamchu, Tenshinhan and | chaozu reach Kaiou-sama. Goku begins training under | 50 G. | Vegeta fights Zarbon. Zarbon | transforms and defeats Vegeta; Kuririn takes Dende to fly | Zarbon assumed Vegeta has died at top speed, trying to | but doesn't recover Vegeta's reach Saichourou. | body. | Freeza orders Zarbon to get | Vegeta alive, to find out | where he hid the Dragonball.| Zarbon finds Vegeta crawling, | and takes him to a healing tank. Kuririn and Dende reach | Saichourou. Nail introduced| Saichourou finds out about | Piccolo, give Kuririn the Bulma and Gohan notice the | 1-star DB, and a power-up 4-star DB on the radar, so | to Kuririn's full potential. Gohan goes to retrieve it. | | Vegeta steals Freeza's five | Dragon Balls. Vegeta finds Kuririn and | Bulma, with Zarbon following| Vegeta kills Zarbon, and takes | the 1-star DB from Kuririn. Gohan safely gets the 4-star| DB without Vegeta knowing. | Kuririn, Bulma, and Gohan finds | another hiding place, then Goku trains with 100 G. | Kuririn takes Gohan to | Saichourou. Vegeta senses Kuririn and | Gohan's ki just as they | reach Saichourou. | The Ginyuu Team arrives, forcing | Kuririn and Gohan to work | together with Vegeta. Ginyuu takes the Dragon | Balls to Freeza, while the | rest stays to fight. | Vegeta kills Gurudo. | Rikuum nearly kills Vegeta, | Kuririn and Gohan. | Goku arrives on Namek. | Goku gives Kuririn, Gohan, | Freeza couldn't get the Dragon and Vegeta each a senzu. | Balls to work so he tries to | find out (he detects Saichourou Goku defeats Rikuum with | and Nails ki with the new one blow. | Scouter); Ginyuu stays to guard | the Dragon Balls. Goku defeats Baata, Jiisu | flees. | Vegeta kills the heavily | injured Rikuum and Baata. | Saichourou sends Dende to | tell Kuririn how to summon | Ginyuu switches body with Namek's Shen Lon, and lets | Goku. Nail fight with Freeza to | stall time. | Vegeta kills Jiisu and defeats | Ginyuu (in Goku's body). Ginyuu tries to switch with | Vegeta, but Goku gets in the| Ginyuu tries to switch with way; Goku returns to his | Vegeta again, but Goku tosses body. | a Namek frog in the way. | (Ginyuu trapped in a frog's | body ;) Vegeta takes Goku to an old | healing tank (the new one | was damaged by Vegeta). | | Kuririn heads for Saichourou | to find out how to summon | Shen Lon. Freeza heads back to his | spaceship (to try and have | the wish for himself). | Kuririn finds Dende, they head | back to sneak the Dragon Balls | away while Vegeta takes a nap. First two wishes are made: | (1) Revive Piccolo, (2) | Transport Piccolo to Namek. | Vegeta realizes what's going on | and tries to get the third wish. Saichourou dies before the | third wish is made; Freeza | Piccolo finds Nail while on his arrives. | way to help Gohan, and merges | with Nail. Vegeta and Freeza fights a | bit, Freeza transforms. | Freeza nearly kills Kuririn. | Kuririn is healed as Freeza | beats up Gohan; Kuririn | Dende heals Gohan's wounds. throws multiple Kienzans to | Vegeta finds out of Dende's save Gohan. | healing abilities. | Piccolo arrives and begins | to fight Freeza. | Piccolo takes off his heavy | training garments. Freeza undergoes secong | transformation. | Gohan slows down Freeza | momentarily. Vegeta tries to convince | Kuririn to hit him so that | Vegeta will be close to | Freeza decides to undergo dead, since near-death | his final transformation. experiences upgrades a | Saiyajin's power greatly. | Kuririn blasts Vegeta. | Dende refuses to heal | Vegeta, and goes to heal | Piccolo. | Freeza finds out about Dende's | healing ability. | Freeza finishes his final | Dende heals Vegeta. transformation. | | Freeza kills Dende. Vegeta admits total defeat | by Freeza. | Goku's healing process is | complete. Goku arrives, and blocks | Freeza's attacks. | Freeza kills Vegeta. | Goku and Freeza fight. | Goku uses the Genki Dama | against Freeza. Freeza emerges, seriously | injures Piccolo, and kills | Kuririn. | Goku's hair changes blonde, | and his eyes turn green. | (Suupaa Saiyajin...!) Freeza tries to destroy the | planet; the core of the | planet is destroyed, but | planet itself will not blow | Freeza charges himself to use up for another 5 minutes. | 100% of his power. | A wish is made to earth's | Shen Lon (when Piccolo was | revived, Kami-sama revived | with him) to revive all | those on Namek who died | Almost all the Namek people because of Freeza and his | were revived; Vegeta is, henchmen. | and so is Saichourou. | A wish is made to transport | all that's on Namek, with | the exception of Goku and | Goku finishes Freeza with a Freeza, to earth. | Kamehameha. | Goku finds a space capsule | (the ones the Ginyuu team | used) and escapes, landing | Planet Namek explodes. eventually from planet | Yardrat. | | Saichourou explains the | situation to other Nameks, | and passes on. | The remaining Namek people | and Vegeta goes to live at | Capsule Corp. Headquarters | (Bulma's home). (130 days later) Bulma and | Dende makes wishes to the | Namek DB. | Kuririn's soul is brought to | earth, Kuririn is revived. Everyone finds out that | Goku did not die. | Goku refused to be transported | back through the Dragon Balls. Yamcha is revived. | | (130 days later) Chaozu and The Namek people, along with| Tenshinhan are revived. their DB, are transported to| a new, suitable planet. | | (c. Year 761)---------------| Cell arrives from the | future. | | |---(c. Year 762) -==Cyborgs==- | Freeza (cyborged) and his father | King Cold arrives on earth with | a few henchmen. The whole gang (including | Piccolo and Vegeta, while | Goku hasn't returned yet) | A mysterious teenager appears, gather nearby Freeza's | turns into Super Saiyajin, and landing site to decide what | kills Freeza's henchmen, Freeza, to do. | and King Cold. | Goku returns to earth in a | small space capsule. | The teenager explains everything | to Goku privately. His name is | Trunks, Vegeta's son from the | future. The main point of his | message is of the disturbing | appearance of 2 cyborgs, created | by Dr. Gero, a remnant of the | Red Ribbon Army, and medicine Goku finds out Bulma is | for a virual heart disease which Trunks' mother. | Goku would contract (and die of | without the medicine). Trunks leaves for the | future. | Piccolo explains Trunks' main | message to the others (he has | good hearing). Goku demonstrates the | Shukken Iddou (teleport) | technique he learned from | the Yardrat people. | Goku, Gohan, and Piccolo decide | to train together. Kuririn, | Yamcha and Vegeta will train on | their own, and Tenshinhan will Vegeta asks Dr. Briefs | train with Chaozu. (Bulma's father) to build | a 300 G training room. | | (c. Year 764)---------------| Cell re-hatches from his egg. Bulma and Yamcha have a big | argument, and broke up. | Bulma got together with Vegeta | for a short while, leading to | the birth of Trunks. (c. Year 765)---------------| Trunks is born. | Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Kuririn, | Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and Bulma | gather at the site Trunks said Yajirobe comes and give the | to find the cyborgs. gang some senzu. | | Yajirobe's flying vehical gets Gohan goes to get Yajirobe | blown-up by the cyborgs. while the rest look for the | cyborgs. | Yamcha almost gets killed by | cyborg #20, but gets a senzu Goku and the rest move to a | just in time. difference place to fight | the cyborgs. | Goku's heart disease takes | effect. Vegeta appears, and saves | Goku. | Yamcha takes Goku home for the | medicine. Vegeta becomes Super Saiya- | jin and destroys cyborg #19,| but loses much ki in the | #20 flees. Vegeta asks for a process. | senzu. | #20 hides among the rocks, | and sucks much of Piccolo's | Trunks arrives from the future. ki. | | Piccolo eats a senzu, and then Trunks senses Piccolo's ki | fights #20, taking off #20's and flies towards them. | right hand. | Bulma forces Yajirobe to | follow Trunks in her flying | Trunks sees #20, and asks the vehical. | gang who they're fighting with. | The gang becomes confused, | Bulma arrives. | #20 blows up Bulma's flying | vehical and tries to escape. Trunks saves Bulma and his | baby self. | Bulma recognizes #20 as Dr. | Gero. The gang tries to find Dr. | Gero's lab. | The gang learns of Trunks' | identity. Gohan takes Bulma and Yaji- | robe home (they can't fly). | | Dr. Gero activates #17 and | #18. | #17 kills Dr. Gero when #18 | tries to activate #16. Trunks blows up Dr. Gero's | lab. | Vegeta, Trunks, Piccolo, and | Tenshinhan fight with #17 and | #18. They get creamed. #17 tells Kuririn he should | give the others senzu | Goku is given his medicine. quickly if he doesn't want | them to die. #18 gives | Kuririn a goodbye-kiss. | Piccolo decides to re-merge | with Kami-sama. #17, #18, and #16 takes a | van to get to Goku's house, | but #18 wants to get new | Kuririn and Trunks arrive at clothes first. | Goku's house. They wait for | Gohan to get home, and then | takes Goku to the Kame House. Kuririn calls Bulma, and | Bulma tell them about broken| Trunks, Gohan, and Bulma decide time-machine that was found.| to go and check out the time- | machine. Trunks, Gohan, and Bulma | find Cell's egg in the time-| machine. | Gohan finds Cell's empty shell. | Kami-sama decides to re- | #18 gets new clothes (which she merge with Piccolo. | doesn't like. | Cell consumes 15000 people. | Piccolo and Kami-sama re-merges. | Piccolo fights Cell, and | finds out more about him. | Cell learns of Piccolo's re- | merging with Kami-sama (and the #16 senses Cell and Picclo's| fact that there are no longer ki (he is equipped with a | Dragon Balls because of this). power radar). | | Cell retreats to consume more Kuririn and Trunks goes to | people. Dr. Gero's underground lab | to destroy it (and baby | Cell), and finds #17's blue-| Goku awakens, and takes Vegeta, prints. | Trunks, and Gohan to the Room | of Spirit and Time. Cell consumes #17. | | Vegeta and Trunks comes out of | the Room of Spirit and Time. Vegeta defeats Cell, but | lets him go so that Cell can| become Perfect Cell. | Cell consumes #18, becoming | Perfect Cell. Cell defeats Vegeta; Trunks | powers up to fight Cell. | Cell defeats a powerful, but | slow Trunks, and decides to Gohan successfully becomes | hold a tournament, which he Super Saiyajin. Goku | calls the "Cell Game," to decides they should try to | commence 10 days later. stay in Super Saiyajin form | at all times as training. | | Kuririn takes #16 to Capsule| Corp. Headquarters for | Cell prepares the tournament repairs. | stage, and makes an announcement | on television. Goku and Gohan comes out of | the Room of Spirit and Time.| | Piccolo enters the Room of Goku, Gohan, and Chichi go | Spirit and Time. on a picnic. | | An army attacks Cell, and gets Goku teleports to Namek to | wiped out. have someone revive the | Dragon Balls (and be the new| Goku brings back Dende, and Kami-sama). | leaves Gohan with him (to play | together). Introduction of Mr. Satan. | | Goku finds all seven Dragon | Balls. --Cell Game Starts-- | Mr. Satan fights Cell. Cell| A reporter and camera man films stands still and tolerates | the Cell Game. many punches and kicks from | Mr. Satan, and then wiped | Mr. Satan off the stage (to | a nearby mountain). | Goku fights Cell. Cell finds | out Goku can teleport. Goku surrenders, and calls | Gohan as the next fighter. | Goku gives Cell a senzu. | Cell tries to get Gohan mad | so Gohan can be more power- | ful. | Cell takes all the senzu from | Kuririn. #16 grabs Cell and tries to | self-destruct, but finds out| that the bomb inside him was| disabled when Dr. Briefs | Cell destroys #16; #16's head repaired him. | rolls near Mr. Satan and the | reporter. | Cell generates seven Cell | Juniors to fight with the | #16 asks Mr. Satan to toss him other fighters. | next to Gohan. | #16 tries to convince Gohan | to use his full power; Cell | steps on #16's head as #16 | asks Gohan to protect the | trees and animals (which #16| likes so much). | Gohan goes beserk, takes the | bag of senzu from Cell, and | kills all seven Cell Juniors. Gohan defeats Cell, but | doesn't kill him yet because| he wants Cell to suffer. | Cell spits out #18, and is no | longer in "Perfect" form. Cell sets himself to self- | (#18 is unconscious) destruct, and begins to | expand like a balloon. | Goku says goodbye to everyone, | tells Gohan to say sorry to | Chichi for him, and teleports | Cell and himself to Kaiou-sama's Cell explodes, destroying | little planetoid. the planetoid, Goku, Kaiou- | sama, and Bubbles, Kaiou- | sama's pet ape. | | Kuririn picks up #18. | Kaiou-sama and Goku find out | that Cell didn't die. Cell teleports back (in | Perfect form) to earth, and | Vegeta goes beserk and shoots kills Trunks with one blast.| ki-blasts like crazy at Cell; | Cell takes no damage, punches | Vegeta to the ground, and Gohan tries to protect | throws a fireball at Vegeta. Vegeta, and his left arm | becomes seriously injured | as a result. | Cell prepares for a full- | strength Kamehameha. Vegeta apologizes to Gohan | for being a burden. | Gohan gives up, but gets | encouraged by Goku (speaking | to him through Kaiou-sama), and | also powers up for a Kamehameha. Gohan's Kamehameha seems | weaker than Cells; as Cell | is about to go for the kill,| he is destracted by a ki- | blast from Vegeta. | | Gohan finally uses his full- Tenshinhan picks up Trunks, | strength, and kills Cell. Kuririn is still holding | #18, Yamcha picks up Gohan, | and they head back to Kami- | sama's temple. | Piccolo offers to help Vegeta, | who refuses. Piccolo also heads | for the temple. Vegeta leaves, saying he | won't fight anymore. | Mr. Satan (who saw everything) | is still confused about what The reporter and camera man | happened. wake up, and ask Mr. Satan | what happened. | Mr. Satan tell them that HE | defeated Cell, and everyone left Dende heals everyone, #18 | after thanking him. being the last one he heals.| | Gohan figures out that Kuririn | likes #18, and shouts it out. #18 flies off, mocking | Kuririn. | Shen Lon is summoned. | #18 hides behind a post to | see what's going on. | Everyone who died because of | Cell are resurrected (except | for the ones who've been revived Goku tells everyone (through| before, lik Goku). Kaiou-sama) not to try and | revive him, and that Kaiou- | sama also refused | resurrection to accompany | Kuririn makes a wish to make #18 Goku. | and #17 normal humans; the wish | is rejected (beyond Shen Lon's | power), so Kuririn wishes for the | bomb in their bodies to be de- Tenshinhan asks why Kuririn | activated. included #17, Kuririn says | #18 and #17 seem to be more | suited for each other (since| #18 doesn't seem to take | interest in Kuririn). | #18 jumps out, saying that she | and #17 are twins, and that she | won't thank Kuririn for de- | activating the bombs. However, | she says "See ya" instead of a Tenshinhan leaves, saying | regular "Goodbye." Chaozu might be worried, and| that they probably won't | meet again. | Everyone goes home, Yamcha tells | Trunks what Vegeta did when | Trunks got killed. Trunks leaves for his own | time the next morning. | | | The people renamed the city Mr. | Satan lives at to "Satan City." (c. Year 766)---------------| Goten is born. | | (Unknown year) | Vegeta and Bulma are | Kuririn and #18 are married, married (or at least living | living at the Kame House, and together). | have a daughter. | (c. Year 770)---------------| -==Great Saiyaman/The Majin Archive==- Gohan goes to Orange Star | High School in Satan City | to register and pick-up info| twice (and foils two | Word spreads of a new super robberies). | hero in Satan City. | Gohan's first day at Orange | Star High School, stops | another robbery on his way | to school, meets Videl, Mr. | Gohan asks Bulma to make him Satan's daughter in class. | a disguise device. | Gohan becomes the Great | Saiyaman. | Gohan save Videl from a criminal | who was about to shoot her; | Videl figures out Gohan's Videl asks Gohan to teach | "secret identity" and forces him her to fly. | to join the next Tenkaichi | Budokai. | Gohan goes to Bulma for a | new disguise to use at the | Vegeta decides to enter the Budokai, since helmets are | Budokai; Goku decides to use his forbidden. | one day back for it, too. | Gohan tells Kuririn, #18, | Kamesennin, Piccolo, and | Kuririn introduced with HAIR!! Dende about the Budokai; | Kuririn and #18's daughter, Kuririn, #18, and Piccolo | Marron (name unknown at the decide to enter the Budokai | time) is introduce. as well. | | Gohan informs Chichi about | the prize money offered for | Gohan begins training with the champion of the Budokai | Goten. We find out both Goten and Chichi allows him to | and Trunks can turn into Super enter. | Saiyajin. Goten, however, | can't fly. Videl shows up at Gohan's | house for Gohan to teach | Gohan teaches Goten and Videl her to fly. | to fly. | Gohan suggests for Videl to | Introduction of the South cut her hair (easier for | Kaiou-sama. fighting purposes); Videl | cuts her hair. | Goten calls Trunks, saying that | he'll enter the Budokai, too, Trunks begins training in | so Trunks decides to also enter. Vegeta's artificial gravity | room. | | --25th Tenkaichi Budokai-- | There is now a children's | tournament for those under | Preliminaries are now decided 15. | by punching machines--the 15 | highest scores and the champion | from the last tournament become Trunks wins the children's | contestants for the new title section, and gets to fight | of champion. the adult champion from the | last tournament. Mr. Satan | "pretends to be knocked out | by a kid." | | | Trunks and Goten get in disguise | and join the adults' tournament. Goku and gang encounter | (As Mighty Mask) Kaiou-shin and Kibit. | | Kuririn wins the first fight. Piccolo forfeits to Kaiou- | shin. | | Supopo-bitchi beats up Videl. Gohan changes into Super | Saiyajin at the request of | Kibit and Kaiou-shin, and | gets his energy sucked by | Kaioushin asks for Goku's help. Yamuu and Supopo-bitchi. | | Despite Vegeta's complaint, Goku Yamuu and Supopo-bitchi fly | decides to help Kaiou-shin. off, Kaioushin follows | without them knowing. | Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, and | Kuririn follows Kaiou-shin. | Kibit restores Gohan's ki, | both Gohan and Videl fly | Kaiou-shin explains the Majin off with him to find Kaiou- | Buu situation to Goku & gang, shin and the others. | while Kibit explains it to Gohan | and Videl. Videl realizes how incom- | petent her father is. | | Introduction of Babidi and | Darbura. Darbura kills Kibit and | turns Piccolo & Kuririn to | stone. | Mr. Satan suggest to let all | the contestants to fight on Vegeta and Goku defeat the | stage at once, whoever remaning opponents that Babidi threw | becoming the new champion. at them. | | #18 gets rid of Jewel (a Gohan fights Darbura, but | contestant) while "Mighty Mask" can't seem to defeat him. | gets rid of Killer. | Vegeta gets impatient, and | #18 gets Goten and Trunks dis- gets used by Babidi. | qualified, then makes a deal with | Mr. Satan to fake defeat in | exchange for money. Videl informs Trunks and | Goten the situation, and | they fly off to join their | Vegeta kills a section of the fathers. | Budokai audience to get Goku to | fight with him. Goku and Vegeta fight, and | the energy of Goku's wounds,| in addition to the energy | from Gohan, helps to release| Vegeta sucker punches Goku Majin Buu. | and goes off to fight Buu. | Buu defeats Kaiou-shin and | sends Gohan flying. | Darbura tries to kill Buu | (knowing that it won't obey | Babidi for long), and gets Piccolo and Kuririn turn | turned into a cookie and eaten back into flesh. | by Buu. | Vegeta appears as Buu is | about to turn Kaiou-shin | into food, and sacrifices | himself trying to destroy | Buu. | Majin Buu regenerates, as if | nothing happened. Goku mentions the fusion | technique. | Bulma and Yamcha summon Shen | Lon and asks for everyone who Goku tries to stop Yamcha | died today, with the exception and Bulma from making the | of the bad guys, to be revived. wish, but is too late. | | The revived Kibit finds Kaiou- Kaioushin and Kibit find | shin, and restores his power. Gohan, and takes him to | the Kaioushin Realm. | Babidi introduces himself and | Majin Buu to the rest of the Kibit restores Gohan's | world, and asks for Goten, strength, gives him new | Trunks, and Piccolo. He clothing, and takes him to | demonstrates Buu's powers by the Zeta Sword at Kaiou- | having him turn the people of shin's request. | an entire city into candy drops, | eating them, and then wiping out Gohan pulls out the Zeta | the entire city. Sword, and begins to train | with it. | Trunks and Goten decide to learn | the fusion technique. Babidi finds out where | Trunks lives, and decides to| Goku sends Trunks to retrieve go there and destroy it if | the Dragon Radar while he tries Trunks doesn't show. | to delay Babidi (and Buu). | Goku fights Buu as Super | Saiyajin 3; he teleports | back after he senses Trunks | going back to the tower. | Majin Buu kills Babidi, then | creates more havoc on earth. Goku teaches Trunks and | Goten the movements required| for fusion, then goes back | Majin Buu creates his own house to the other world. | from people that he turned into | clay. Goku finds out that Gohan is| still alive, and then senses| Goku and Gohan trains with the his ki, so he teleports to | Zeta Sword, and accidentally Gohan. | breaks it. An old Kaioushin | appears. After Goku strikes | a deal with him, he begins a | procedure to upgrade Gohan's Goku decides to go take a | power (the ritual dance procedure nap. | takes 5 hours, and the actual | upgrade takes another 20). | After two failed attempts, | Trunks and Goten fuse into | a power Gotenks, though he's| not in Super Saiyajin mode, | and is very arrogant. He | Earth sends Mr. Satan as their tries to fight Buu and gets | final line of defense against his butt kicked. | Buu. | Mr. Satan becomes a servant/| Trunks and Goten fuse in SSJ friend to Buu. | mode, but flies around the earth | in a show of his power, and A man and his servant starts| wasted the available time in shooting unsuspecting people| one fusion. from far away. | | Majin Buu heals a puppy, and it Mr. Satan offers to go buy | becomes Buu's pet. some dog food. | | Mr. Satan convinces Buu to not The man and his servant | kill and demolish again. arrive at Buu's house and | shoots the puppy. | Mr. Satan beats up the two guys, | and then finds that the puppy is The man shoots Mr. Satan in | still barely alive. Buu heals the back and runs away; Buu | the puppy. heals Mr. Satan and tells | him to run... and begins to | The skinny and angry Buu kills emit smoke, which forms into| the man and then fights with a skinny version of Buu. | fat Buu. It turns fat Buu into | chocolate and eats it, becoming The servant awakens, fires | a slim and somewhat muscular multiple rounds at Buu with | Buu. a machine gun, and gets | killed (rather MK2 like). | Buu notices Mr. Satan, and is | about to kill him, too, but stops | when he sees that it is Mr. | Satan (indicating that Buu still Buu flies to Kami-sama's | has the memories of fat Buu). temple, and asks to fight | the fighter Goku promised. | In an effort to stall for more | time, Piccolo offers for Buu to | kill off everyone on earth before | fighting the promised warrior; | Buu walks around the floating | temple, and then shoots out Piccolo asks Buu to wait for| multiple ki-blasts, killing off an hour before fighting, and| everyone on earth except for the sets down an hourglass. | people at the temple, Mr. Satan, | and the puppy; Tenshinhan and Chichi screams at Buu for | Chaozu dodged the attack just in killing Gohan, and gets | time. turned into an egg and | stepped on. | Goten and Trunks enter the Room | of Spirit and Time for more Buu gets impatient after | training. waiting for about half an | hour, so Piccolo leads him | around in corners slowly | before going into the Room | Gotenks fights Buu with a series of Spirit and Time (so if | of different attacks, but doesn't Gotenks loses, Piccolo can | appear to be winning. Piccolo destroy the exit, and Buu | destroys the exit as Gotenks will be trapped. | decides to turn into SSJ3. | Buu breaks free of the | dimension that the Room of | Spirit and Time is in. | The hole Buu created disappears. | Mr. Popo drops Dende off | the temple. | | Buu turns everyone into Gotenks turns into SSJ3 and | chocolate and eats them. creates another hole; he and| Piccolo both get out. | Just as Gotenks is about to | obliterate Buu, he changes back | into a normal Saiyajin. Gohan shows up and beats | up Majin Buu; Buu causes | himself to explode and | Gohan and gang pick up Mr. Satan, disappears. | the dog, and Dende. | An hour pass, and Majin Buu | reappears, and challenges | Gotenks. | | Buu absorbs Super Gotenks and Vegeta is allowed his one | Piccolo. day back to the living. | | Old Kaioushin gives up his life Old Kaioushin shows Goku | so Goku can live again. the earring fusion. | | Goku goes back, and tosses one | earring to Gohan, who misses it. Gotenks' SSJ3 fusion runs | out of time, and Buu absorbs| Goku fuses with Vegeta, forming Gohan. | Vegeto. | Buu tries to absorb Vegeto, | but Vegeto creates a small | force field, and separate | back into Goku and Vegeta | after they drop the shield | Vegeta destroys his earring. while inside Buu. | | Goku and Vegeta separate | Piccolo, Gohan, Trunks, and | Vegeta separates Fat Buu from Goten from Buu. | Buu. | Goku and Vegeta escape from | Buu's body with Piccolo, | Gohan, Trunks, and Goten. | Buu reverts back to his true | original form (as Kaioushin Buu tries to blow up the | explains). entire planet, Goku barely | has enough time to pick up | Mr. Satan, Dende, and the | dog before they (and Vegeta)| teleport to Kaioushin realm | Buu learns Kaioushin's teleport with Kaioushin. | and appears in the Kaioushi realm. | Goku tries to fight Buu in | SSJ3 form. | Vegeta tries to keep Buu busy | as Goku tries to power-up to Buu tries to hit Mr. Satan, | full SSJ3 to defeat Buu. but stops abruptly, and | spits out Fat Buu, who | fights with Buu for picking | on Mr. Satan. | Goku drops out of SSJ form. | Vegeta gets the Namek DBs to| restore the earth, and | revive everyone who died | since Babidi's arrival (with| the exception of the bad | Goku tries to gather ki for guys). | a super Genki-dama, with the | help of the people of earth; | but pleas from Vegeta and Goku Mr. Satan convinces the | aren't enough (even though the people of earth to give Goku| Namek people all gave part of a part of their ki. | their ki to Goku). | Goku throws the Genki-dama, | but has a hard time main- | taining it; Dende wishes to | Puronga to restore Goku's | strength. | Buu is destroyed. | Enmadaiou reincarnates Buu | as Ubuu, according to Goku's| wish, to have Buu's power, | but be a good guy. | |---(Year unknown) | Gohan marries Videl.. they have | a daughter named Pan. | Vegeta and Bulma get a daughter | named Bra. | | (c. Year 780)---------------| Goku finds out that Ubuu is | entering the tournament, and| decides to join. | Goku decides to train Ubuu. ____________________________|_________________________________ B-02 Who are these people? From Gautama Buddha's DBZ family tree (a small update seems to be in order): _____________________________________________________________________________ Arrows flow UPWARDS towards authority, ie: Red Ribbon Army <--- Cmdr. Blue or towards the logical relationship. Kamisama ---> SonGoku (trained) Friends have double-headed arrows: SonGoku <--> Kaiou-sama |- Bubbles And companions ... (companions)`- Gregory ... and relatives have none. SonGoku + Chichi | SonGoten _____________________________________________________________________________ Goku and Chichi's family: ======================== Bardock's Team (destroyed) ^ (members of)| |------------ Bardock (dead) + ??? |- Toma (dead) | |- Celipa (dead) | `- two others (dead) | Kamesennin _________| ^ | |(student of) Kamesennin __|__ | ^ | | (aka Bull Demon Lord) |(student of) | Radits (dead) Gyuumaoh + ??? | | | | SonGohan (Human, dead) | `------> Vejita (dead) | | | (underling of) ____________________| |(adoptive f.) | | `-------------> SonGoku (dead) + ChiChi (aka Tokumei Kibou, 3rd (aka Kakarotto) | Tenkaichi Budoukai) Kami-sama <--------------| _____|___ (trained with)| | | Kaiou-sama <--------------| | SonGoten <------------> Trunks (trained with)| | ^ (friends) ^ Kamesennin <--------------| | |_____________________| (trained with)| | | (friends) Karin-sama <--------------' | | ^ | (companion?) | | Mr. Satan + ??? / Yajirobe | | | / | `---------------. | |(worship) (friends) | v | | .-------> SonGohan (aka Great Saiyaman!) +? Biideru |- Bora + ??? | ^ | (aka Kiniro Senshi) ^ ^ | | | | | | | `----- Upa | | `--------------------------------' | v | (mentor) | Haiya Dragon |____________________________________| [movies only] | (schoolmates) |-> Sharpener |-> Eraser `-> Angela (Angle?) Piccolo's family (if you can say that about Namek-sei-jin): ========================================================== Katattsu | (parent of) (aka Shen) (trained) `-------------------- Kami-sama ------------> SonGoku (created) | | | | ^ Shen Long, Earth's Dragon God <-------------' | | | (companion) | (trained) ^ (split off) | | `-------------- Mr. Popo (killed) | .------------------------' | | v `-------------------. Demon Lord Piccolo (dead) (fused with)| _______________|____________________________________________ | | | | | | | Piano (dead) Tambourine (dead) Cymbal (dead) Drum (dead) | | | v Piccolo Jr. (aka Ma Jr.) (bodyguard) .---> (aka Kameccolo) Saichourou <----------- Nail ----' (aka Kameccolo-Nail) (Namekkian Leader of Leaders) (fused with) | _________| | | (created) | |(friends, gave power to) | v |----------------> Kuririn | Cho Long, Namek's Dragon God |----------------> SonGohan <---------| `--------------------. (mentor)| v | Cargo (dead) <---------> Dende <------------| (friends) (mentor)| Gotenkusu <--------' (mentor) The Turtle Elder's family: ========================= Gamera (a very small one) ^ (transp.) | | (aka Turtle Hermit, aka Jackie Chung) .- Dracula-man Kamesennin <----------------> Uranai-Obaba <--|- The Invisible Man (friends) | | ^ ^ ^ (brother/sister) (fighters)|- The Mummy .--------' | | | | |- Akku-man (devil) | | | | | `- SonGohan (ghost) Umigame + ??? | | | `---------------- SonGohan (dead) (Turtle) | | | | (students of) `- Bull Demon Lord Taro | | | | | `---------------- Lanfan [yep, the contestant from the | | (love interest)| 1st Tenkaichi Budoukai] (dead) | | | Mutaito-sama <-| | (prime enemy) v | `---------------> Tsurusennin <--------> Taopaipai (cyborged) (students of)| | (brothers) `------------------------' (Note: the Crane Elder is NOT related by blood to the Turtle Elder!) Kuririn/#18's family: ==================== Red Ribbon Army (destroyed) <--- Red Leader (dead) <-----. (kills) ^ ^ ^ ^ | .---------------------' | | `-- Colonel Black (dead) |(pet) .------' | ^ That nasty killer cat-thing | | |- Cmdr. Silver (dead) | Taopaipai |- Cmdr. White (dead) | (cyborged) | ^^^ | | |||- Purple Ninja 1 (dead) Huskie | ||`- Purple Ninja 2-5 (dead) (aka The Genius Thief) | || | |`-- The Blob (dead) | | | | (created) [anime only!] | `--- Dr. Frappe -> Cyborg #8 | (aka Hacchan) | |- Cmdr. Blue (dead) |- Cmdr. Yellow (dead) (note: she lived!) |- Cmdr. Violet |- Cmdr. Copper | (unclear who created him) |- Cyborg Metallic (dead) | `- Dr. Gero (dead) (ARTIFICIAL HUMANS) | .-------------------------------' v (rebuilt himself as) Cyborg #20 - Machine-based (dead) | (created) |-----------------------> Cell (dead) <- All the other v Z Fighters Cyborg #19 - Machine-based (dead) Twins .- Cyborg #18 - Human-based ---------. (brother/sister)`- Cyborg #17 - Human-based | Cyborg #16 - Machine-based (dead) | [movie only] Cyborg #15 - Machine-based (dead) | [movie only] Cyborg #14 - Machine-based (dead) | Oorinji-Temple Monks [movie only] Cyborg #13 - Machine-based (dead) | ^ Cyborg #8 - Human/Frankenstein | (brothers)| | | `-- + Kuririn <---' | Daughter (unnamed as yet) Vejita's family: =============== King Cold (dead) |(father of) |-------------- Cooler (dead) | | (also named Vejita) | King of the Saiyajin (dead) + ??? | | | Briefs + Bulma's mother (never named) | (exiled) | | | | v | | (companion) .---- Pooaru | Paragas (dead) + ??? | | | ^ | | | | Yamucha | | Burori (dead) | | ^ | | | | (early bf/gf)| (frnds)| Freeza (dead) -------------> Vejita (dead) + Bulma <------------' v | | (underling) ^ | | | Oolong | | | | | | (fusion-waza) | `-> Dodoria (dead) / | \ Trunks >------+------< SonGoten | (lieutenant) / | \ | | / | \ Gotenkusu `----> Zarbon (dead) / \ \ (assistant) / \ \ (underling) / \ `---> Radits (dead) (early rival) / \ Kyuii (dead) <---------' `------> Nappa (dead) (underling/early caretaker) Tenshinhan's family: =================== Kamesennin .- Chaozu (companion) ^ (students of)| | |(lived with) Tsurusennin <--------------- Tenshinhan +? - Lunch <----| ^ ^ `- Blond Lunch <----' | (brothers) | v | Taopaipai (cyborged) -----------' (early mentor) Pilaf's entourage: ================= Lord Pilaf | (faithful servants) |-> Mai `-> Shu (aka Soba in manga 2, renamed later) The Ginyuu Team: =============== Freeza (dead) (hired goons) ^ | The Ginyuu Team (destroyed) ^ (members of) |- Ginyuu (dead) [body-switcher] |- Rikuum (dead) [muscleman] |- Baata (dead) [lizard] |- Jiisu (dead) `- Gurudo (dead) [time-control] The Kaious: ========== Kaiou-shin 1 (dead) -------. Kaiou-shin 2 (dead) -------| <--------------------. (GODS OF THE KAIOUS) Kaiou-shin 3 (dead) -------| (killed)| |---------. | .---------------- Kaiou-shin 4 (imprisoned) -| | | |(gave power to) | |(killed) | v Kaiou-shin 5 --------------' v | SonGohan ^ | Bibidi Buu (assistant)| | Kibit (dead, but revived) | (underling) ^ v |(killed) Dai-Kaiou (Lord of the Kaious) Dabura (dead) | | (underlings) _____________________|____________________________________ | | | | v v v v Kaiou-sama (dead) Kaiou of the South Kaiou of the East Kaiou of the West (Kaiou of the North) | | | | (fighter)`-> Paikuhan | (fighter)`-> Papoi | (assist.)|-> Bubbles (dead) `-> Gregory (dead) [anime only] The Maijins: =========== The 5 Kaiou-shins | Bibidi (dead) <----------------' | | (killed by) Kibit (revived) | | 3 of the 5 Kaiou-shins ^ (parent of)| `-----------. ^ |(killed) | |(created) | | (henchman) | (revived) | | (killed) Dabura (dead) <---------- Babidi (dead) -----. | .----------------' (aka King of Hell) | | | | ^ | | | | | | | `------. | | | (gave ki to) Vejita (dead) <---------' | | | (killed)| v v | .- SonGohan | (corrupted) | | | Buu (dead) <----|- SonGoku (dead) | | | | | `- Vejita (dead) | SonGoku --.(killed) | | | |(split into) [post-corruption] | v | | | ___|__________________ | Yakon (dead) <----| | | | | | (monster) | | \ Angry Buu ----------> Gentle Buu (dead) |(killed) | | \ (killed) | ^ v | | \ | | Pipi (dead) <------------' | \ (pet) v |(friends?) | (assistant) | \ Dog | |(killed) / \ \ (killed) v v / \ v Mr. Satan Yamuu (dead) <-----------' `-> Supopobitchi (dead) (henchmen) 21ST TENKAICHI BUDOUKAI: (Goku age 12) ======================= Jackie Chung ___________________|____________________ | | Jackie Chung SonGoku ___________|_____________ ________|_______ | | | | Kuririn Jackie Chung Namu SonGoku ____|____ _____|____ __|___ ___|___ | | | | | | | | Kuririn Bacterian Jackie Chung Yamucha Namu Lanfan SonGoku Giran (aka Kamesennin) 22ND TENKAICHI BUDOUKAI: (Goku age 15) ======================= Tenshinhan ___________________|___________________ | | Tenshinhan SonGoku ___________|___________ ________|_______ | | | | Tenshinhan Jackie Chung Kuririn SonGoku _____|____ _____|____ ____|___ ___|____ | | | | | | | | Yamucha Tenshinhan Jackie Chung Wolfman Kuririn Chaozu Pamputto SonGoku (aka Kamesennin) 23RD TENKAICHI BUDOUKAI: (Goku age 18) ======================= SonGoku ___________________|____________________ | | SonGoku Ma Jr. ___________|_____________ ________|______ | | | | Tenshinhan SonGoku Ma Jr. Shen _____|_____ _____|____ ___|___ __|___ | | | | | | | | Taopaipai Tenshinhan Tokumei Kibou SonGoku Kuririn Ma Jr. Yamucha Shen (aka Chichi) (aka Piccolo)(aka Kamisama) B-03 What do the names mean? From Rika Takahashi's DBZ Name Puns (slightly modified): Bulma's family -------------- Briefs \__ self-explanatory Trunks / Bulma = Bloomers (there is a motif of "undergarments"...) The Saiyajin ------------ Saiyajin -> Yasaijin = Vegetable people Kakarotto (Gokou) = (Ka)Carrot Raditz = radish Vegita -> Vegeta = Vegeta[ble] (hense the name of royalty of veggie people) Nappa = type of cabbage Bardack -> ??? Celipa -> paceli = parseley Toma = toma[to] -- what were the names of the other henchmen of Barcack? -- Paragas = [as]paragas Broli = bro[cco]li (yes, all the names are "vegetables". It's another motif!) Pilaf's troupe -------------- Pilaf = fried rice Shu \__ add them to get shumai, a Chimese dumpling-like Mai / finger food Red Ribbon Army --------------- self-explanatory. Silver, White, Metallic, Murasaki (Purple), Blue, Yellow, Taopaipai (well, he wasn't exactly in the army--he was hired--but his name is spelled peach-white-white!), Brown, Violet (funny... Blue said to Bulma something like, "We don't need [or was it want?] women in the Red Ribbon Army"...), Copper (appears only by name in the manga), Black, and Red. (there was a "color" motif...) The Nammekku planet's inhabitants and vegetation ------------------------------------------------ Nammekku -> nameku = nameku[ji] = slug Katattsu -> katatsu = katatsu[muri] = snail Dende = dende[nmushi] =snail (slang) Cargo = [es]cargo Nail = [s]nail Ajissa (tree) -> ajisa = ajisa[i] = hydeangea (or however you spell that thing) (note that the motif was "slugs & snails"...) Anyone for dim sum? ------------------- Yamcha = dim sum (it's called yamcha in different places) Oolong \__ two types of Chinese tea Pooalu / Chaozu -> Gyouza (read the kanji differently) = pot stickers Tenshinhan -> Tensienhan = Tenshien rice Gohan = rice or meal The Ginyu Tokusentai -------------------- Ginyu -> gyunyu = milk Rikum -> kurim = cream Gurudo -> guruto = [yo]guruto -> yogurt Baata -> bataa = butter Jiisu -> chiisu = cheese ("dairy products"...) While we are on the subject of food... -------------------------------------- Karin-tou (karin tower) -> karinto = crunchy, cookie-like snack food Lunch = self-explanatory Zarbon = Zabon (an exotic fruit. No. Really!) Dodoria = Dorian? (there is a really exotic fruit with a name like that...) Kuririn = Chestnut Marron = French for "chestnut" Freeza's family -- a self-explanatory bunch of aliens? ------------------------------------------------------ Freeza = freezer Cold = COLD! (what did you think it would be?) Coola = ku-u-ra = eating (Japanese dialect) (also can be interpreted as "cooler") The guys at Uranai-Baba's castle -------------------------------- Uranai-baba = fortune teller (self-explanatory if you know Japanese) Miira-kun = mummy (also self-explanatory if you know Japanese) Dracula-man = self-expalanatory. Suke-san = "invisible" man (there is no direct translation, but transparent, in Japanese slang, is "suke-suke".) Akkuman = akuman = akuma(n) = devil Piccolo and gang -- also self-explanatory ----------------------------------------- Cymbal Piano Tambarin = tambourine Drum Piccolo (motif is "musical instruments") Miscellaneous characters ------------------------ Cell = self-explanatory (if you don't get it.. he's made up from the CELLS of all the Z warriors!) Mr. Satan = also self-explanatory (I laughed every time the crowd chanted "Satan! Satan!", thinking, "The whole world has turned into one HUGE satanic cult... It's worse than seeing Sailor Moon or DB on Fox after the crap all the producers will do on them...) Videl = devil (of course Satan's daughter would be the DEVIL!) Shapner = sharpener Iresa = eraser (Videl's schoolmates have "stationery" motif) Bacterian = bacteria(n) Nam = nam[uamidabutsu] (Buddist? prayer -- I know it's something religious) Yajirobe -> yajirobee = little balance-toy in Japan To Ninjinka (The boss of the Usagi gang) = rabbit morph-to- carrot (remember that this guy can turn you into a carrot by touching you.) Chichi = father, boobs (slang) (well, I think this was for Kamesennin's "So, Gyumaou's daughter's boobs are Chichi's chichi..." comment...) Buyon (the monster in the 5th floor of White's building) = blubber (Japanese slang for "blubbery" is "buyo-buyo") The magicians Bibity and Babity and their creation Buu = say the three names in a row, and you got "Bibbity Bobboty Boo" -- remember Cinderella by Disney?) B-04 What martial arts techniques do these characters have? Taken directly from Curtis Hoffman's "Dragon Ball Attacks." Notes: Ki Means 'energy'. It is the internal energy you generate when you attack something (as in Karate.) Ki-ai The shout made when focussing the 'ki'. Ha In the following attacks, 'ha' appears in the name occasionally. While 'ha' can translate to 'wave', it is also the ki-ai people make when focussing their bodies on an attack. Usually, 'ha' doesn't really have meaning, it's just a loud sound made when you're fighting. Ken This can mean either 'fist', or 'technique.' As in Hokuto no Ken: It can mean "Fist of the Northstar," or "Northstar Techniques." Fighting Styles and attacks: From the Characters Guide, Part 1 Janken -- Actually the Japanese name for "scissors/paper/stone." Gokuu punches (stone) and the proper counter is a block (paper.) Scissors is a poke in the eyes. Kamehame-ha -- A power blast. Originally, Kamesennin was the only one that could do this, after 50 years of training. Gokuu picked it up just by watching. (Kame means "turtle".) Jackie Chun is the third person to have been seen using this attack. Later on, a number of other characters start using it. Can translate to "Wave Attack of the Turtle Sect/School," or simply "Turtle sect" + ki-ai. (For those who missed it: Jackie Chun is actually Kamesennin in disguise, for those times when he wants to fight in the Budoukai. Further, Kamehameha is the name of a very famous Hawaiian King.) Sansouken -- "One Pattern". A fake, where the attacker moves so fast that an after-image is left behind. Gokuu has been able to leave three images of himself. First used by Jackie Chun. Dodon-Pa -- This actually a mimetic adjective used to describe something that is very powerful (eg. -- That bull is dodon strong.) This is the name Tao-pie Pie uses for his finger-blast, which initally is more powerful than Gokuu's Kamehame-ha. Dodon can also be used as a sound effect for an explosion (kind of like calling your bomb a "ka-whump".) Rouga Fuufuu Ken -- Yamcha's "Wolf Wind Attack." In volume 10, this is replaced by Shin-Rouga Fuufuu Ken, or "New" Wolf Wind Attack. Shiyou Ken -- Four Arms. This allows Tenshinhan to grow an extra pair of arms from his back. Not used after his first Budoukai. Haikyou Ken -- Tenshinhan's "Volleyball" attack. Basically, Gokuu is tossed into the air, received, and then spiked into the ground. Shin-tsurusen-ryuu Taiyou-ken -- This is a blinding attack used by Tenshinhan during the Tenkaichi-budoukai. His entire body can glow with a very intense light. Translates to "New Crane School Sun Fist," or "Sun Technique." Kikouhou -- "Energy cannon/bomb/shot." Another of Tenshinhan's techniques. Requires a lot of concentration, and can be very devastating. But, continued use of it can kill the caster, as it uses up a lot of the person's energy each time. Chou-nou-ryoku: "Ultimate Ability" aka -- ESP. Chau-zu can cause people to freeze in place, levitate, etc. If he freezes someone long enough, either their heart will stop, or they'll suffocate. From the Characters Guide, Part 2 Makousen: "Magic (Demon) Light Beam." Demon King Piccolo's answer to Kamehame-ha. Mafuu-ha: "Demon Seal." Kamesennin tries to use this spell to re-capture Demon King Piccolo. If you have a container (like a rice cooker), you can use Mafuu-ha to force Piccolo into it, and keep him there. The trade off is that regardless of whether you succeed, the spell will kill its caster. Kami-sama tries to use it on Ma, Jr., but Ma, Jr. uses Mafuu-ha Gaeshi (Mafuu-ha Return/Rebound) and Kami-sama is captured, instead. Mafuu-fa was originally used by Kamesennin's teacher, Mutaito, to seal up Piccolo. Sou Ki Dan: "Energy Bomb." Yamcha's remote-controlled energy ball. Later, Gokuu learns to remote-control his Kamehame-ha bolts. Super Dodon-pa: A cannon blast that Tao-pie Pie uses against Tenshinhan. Stronger than the regular Dodon attack. Zanzou-ken: After-Image Attack. This is a technique that Ma Jr. uses, which is basically the same thing as One Pattern. Souki-Dan: Big inner-energy ball. Yamcha uses it against Shen. Me no 12: Twelve Eyes. Tenshin has the ability to create 3 exact clones of himself (actual creations, not just images.) Chou-Kamehame-ha: "Ultimate" Kamehame-ha. Gokuu uses it for the first time while facing Ma Junior in volume 16. Bukuujutsu: "No Air" This is name of the technique used when people fly around. (Used from volume 16 on up.) Makankousappou: Piccolo's screw blast. Very powerful, but requires some time to build up the energy, first. Translates to "Devil's penetrating energy killing attack", but can also be treated as "Industrial Light Magic Attack." (Used in vol. 17) Kaiou Ken: Kaiou-sama had taught Gokuu a series of techniques ('ken') that can raise his power, but cuts his endurance by the same factor. There are a series of Kaiou Ken levels, that are geometric. Genki Dama: "Life Force Sphere." Gokuu needs lots of time to gather the energy from the living things on the planet around him. The more energy available, the bigger the sphere. This can only be performed in normal mode -- Super Saiya-jin can't create a Genki Dama, but they can use the energy from it if it already exists. It's not so much an energy attack, as it is a matter of throwing a small star at someone. In the final battle against Majin Buu, Gokuu receives the life energy of people from distant solar systems, over the course of several minutes. In this case, the people have to raise one arm, and voluntarily give the energy to him. From the Characters Guide, Parts 3 and 4 Ki En Zan: Kuririn's "slashing energy disc", developed to combat Nappa and Vejiita. Rikuum Eraser Gun: A mouth blast more powerful than most large bombs. Crusher Ball: Jiisu's super powerful energy sphere. Daichi Retsuzan: Freeza's Earth Cutter. A slashing energy attack. Body Change: Ginyuu's ability to switch bodies with whoever he wants. Shunkan-idou: The teleport ability that Gokuu learns on Yardrat. But, he can only jump to a place where someone he knows is located (he has to feel that person's energy to teleport to that place.) Enerugii Kyuushuu: #19 and #20's Energy Sucking ability. Both androids have receptors in their hands that allow them to drain the power from humans. Hell's Flash: #16's energy blast attack, fired from his forearms. Shin-Kikou-hou: Tenshinhan's self-killing energy attack, with 'shin' in front of it (shin == new.) It's argued that the new version is not as suicidal as the old version. I say that Tenshinhan has gained more control over how to use his power (when he uses this against Cell as a delaying tactic, it still drains him pretty completely.) Shi Baku: Cell's self-destructing world killing blast. Cell bloats up, explodes, and wipes out the planet. Seru Junia Umi Dashi: "Spitting out Junior Cells." Cell not only uses his stinger tail to consume people -- he can spit out small, mindless, vicious versions of himself. From the Characters Guide, Part 5 Papparapa: (Nonsense syllables) The magic word Babi-Di uses to casts spells. Ankokusei: The spell Babi-Di uses to teleport people to various places for combat. Seki Ka Tsuha: "Turn to Stone Spit." Darbura's ability to turn people into statues by spitting on them. This is a form of magic that is dispelled when Darbura dies. xxxxxx Ni Natchae: "Become xxxxx." Buu uses this to turn people into food, which he then eats. He uses this magic to turn Darbura into a cookie, and Chi Chi into an egg (which he steps on.) Kamekame-ha: Goten's version of Kamehame-ha. Satsujin Punch -- Ikousa's "Assassin's/Kill Person" punch. Totsugeki -- Goten's diving bombing attack. Rolling Attack -- Mr. Satan's rolling attack. Satan Punch!!! -- What else? Satan Miracle Special Ultra Super Megaton Punch -- Mr. Satan's best punch. Used on #18, it has no effect. Later on, when asked to repeat the full name for the Press, Satan has forgotten it. Fusion: A process that allows two people to become one. It's not a permanent condition. It requires that the two be of near-equal power, and that they both have a certain amount of prepping. Includes having to go through a stupid-looking set of dance steps. Super Saiya-jin 1: The new name for what has always been called "Super Saiya-jin." Super Saiya-jin 2: The new name for Chou Super Saiya-jin, or the level beyond SSJ. Super Saiya-jin 3: Gokuu's name for "beyond the beyond the Super Saiya-jin." By powering up well past the "Saiya-jin level," Gokuu's face becomes leaner, his hair grows down to his waist and he gets very strong. But, he's still about even with Vejiita (when Vejiita was controlled by Babi-di,) and it's still not enough to defeat Buu. Dynamite Kick -- These are all standards punches and Rolling Thunder Punch kicks, with new names devised by Inoshishi (wild boar) Attack Gotenks Power Tackle Miracle Super Punch Great Kick Special Magnum Thunder Ultra Miracle Parfait Hyper Plasma Short Cake Galactica Donut -- Gotenks' encircling, crushing energy ring. Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack - Gotenks spits out a ghost of himself. The ghosts explode on impact, which can then do damage and drain you of energy. Renzoku Super Donuts -- (Continuous Super Donuts.) This is like Galactica Donut, with four contracting energy rings being shot out, instead of just one. B-05 Why does Goku have a tail? As far as the DB anime series goes, it is a mystery why Goku has a tail. Later on, in DBZ, we find out that Goku is an alien, of the warrior race known as "Saiya." All Saiyajin have tails, which is one of the requirements for turning into a were-monkey. More on the subject of "Saiya" will be covered in question B-11. B-06 How can Goku turn into a were-monkey? Goku is a Saiyajin, and all Saiyajins have the ability to turn into a were-monkey, provides that the said Saiyajin has a tail, and that there is a full moon. We were lucky enough to get Prince Vegeta to give us the official and scientific explaination: "Moonlight is sunlight reflected by the moon... but only the light reflected by the moon contail 'Buruz' wave... The amount of Buruz wave surpasses 17,000,000 units. When a Saiyajin receives over 17,000,000 units of Buruz wave, it interacts with the tail, and the transformation begins. There are many planets in the universe that have moons, but for some unknown reason, regardless of the size of the moon, only a full moon can produce more than 17,000,000 unites of Buruz wave." B-07 What happened to Goku's tail? Goku's tail was cut off by Pooaru early on in the series. It later grew back during a Tenkaichi Budokai. This newly grown tail also came off when Son Gohan (Goku's grandfather) tugged it too hard on the one day he was able to come back to earth. It grew back once again, during his own training between then and the next Tenkaichi Budokai. When Goku went to train under Kami-sama, Kami-sama wanted to restore earth's moon, so he permanently removed Goku's tail to avoid any more problems. B-08 what were the results of the different Tenkaichi Budoukai(s)? First, an explaination of the name "Tenkaichi Budoukai." "Tenkaichi Budoukai" is written completely in kanji; if we separate the romaji according to each kanji, it would look like this: "Ten Ka Ichi Bu Dou Kai" For those with even rudimentry Japanese, you should be able to recognize that "Ichi" means "one." Here's a word-by-word translation: Ten - Sky, Heaven Ka - Beneath, under Ichi - [Number] One Bu - Martial Arts, fighting technique Dou - Way of Kai - Meeting "Tenka" (Under heaven) is used to refer to "the world," as everything in this world is beneath the skies / under heaven. "Budou" means martial arts, or "the way (art) of fighting." Putting the rest together, a fairly concise translation of "Tenkaichi Budoukai" would be "The World's Best Martial Artist Tournament." Results of the first three Tenkaichi Budoukai's that appeared in the manga/anime can also be in section B-02. The 21nd Tenkaichi Budoukai: Champion: Jackie Chung (Kamesennin) Runner-up: Son Gokuu The 22nd Tenkaichi Budoukai: Champion: Tenshinhan Runner-up: Son Gokuu The 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai: Champion: Son Gokuu Runner-up: Ma Junior (Piccolo) The Cell Game: Champion: Son Gohan The 24th Tenkaichi Budoukai: Champion: Mr. Satan The 25th Tenkaichi Budoukai: Adult Division Champion: Mr. Satan Adult Division Runner-up: No. 18 Children Division Champion: Chibi Trunks Children Division Runner-up: Son Goten In all the tournaments to follow, Mr. Satan is the champion, while Mr. Buu is the runner-up.. Basically Mr. Satan cheats in letting Mr. Buu fight with everyone else first, and then to throw the match to Mr. Satan. B-09 What are the rules/restrictions of the Dragon Balls? 1. Must gather all seven Dragon Balls. 2. Chant required (Come out, Shen Lon, and grant my wish!). 3. Only one wish per summoning of Shen Lon. 4. After the wish is made, Shen Lon will disappear, the Dragon Balls will turn to stone and scatter themselves; they will remain stone for one year. 5. The Shen Lon cannot grant any wishes that are beyond the powers of the creator of the Dragon Balls. 6. You can revive anyone or any group of people who fit a certain criteria, if they did not die of natural causes. 7. If a person has been revived by Shen Lon before, the person cannot be revived again. B-10 What are the rules/restrictions of Namek's Dragon Balls? 1. Must gather all seven Dragon Balls. 2. Chant required in the Namek language. 3. Wishes must be said in the Namek language. 4. Only three wishes per summoning of Puronga. 5. After the wishes are made, Puronga will disappear, the Dragon Balls will turn to stone and scatter themselves; they will remain stone for 130 days. 6. Puronga cannot grant any wishes that are beyond the powers of the creator of the Dragon Balls. 7. You can revive anyone multiple times, as long as he/she did not die of natural causes. 8. You can only revive one person per wish. B-11 What does "Saiya" mean? In Japanese, "Yasai" means "vegetables." In the manga and anime, however, the characters are somehow oblivious to that fact, and "Saiya" is just a name, without any real meanings, aside from the fact that the "Saiyajin" ("jin" means "person" or "people"; "Saiyajin" can also be referred to as "Saiyan," which is the Englishlized version) is a warrior race, because they are a warrior race, they stay much longer in their prime years, and that when they receive the reflected light from a full moon, it interacts with their tail (if they have their tails), allowing them to transform into giant were-monkeys. Another interesting fact is that a pure Saiyajin's hair stays at a fixed length (and style) since birth. There is also the legend of a "Super Saiyajin"... Another note about Saiya is that it is NOT the name of the planet Saiyajins come from. Saiya is the name of the race, and presumably the region of land the Saiyajin originally inhabited on Planet Vegeta. Just like the fact that I'm a Chinese, but I am not from a planet called China. B-12 What is a "Super Saiyajin"? "Super Saiyajin" is a legend passed down among the Saiyajin, of a genius fighter among the Saiyajin, who comes along only once in every thousand years. It is said that the Super Saiyajin is cruel and powerful; so powerful, in fact, that there can be no one stronger in the universe. B-13 What are the qualifications for a "Super Saiyajin"? After a Saiyajin becomes a Super Saiyajin, he becomes aware of how he reached such a state of being, and so this is how we know the qualifications of a Super Saiyajin... 1. Must be at least partly Saiyajin. 2. Must possess at least enough power to potentially surpass the limits of a common Saiyajin. 3. Must be pure/have a pure heart. 4. Extreme rage triggers the realization of being a Super Saiyajin. 5. After the first transformation into a Super Saiyajin, the trans- formation becomes relatively easier each additional time. B-14 How is Freeza defeated? In becoming a Super Saiyajin, Goku becomes much more powerful than Freeza. After a fist-fight, Goku decides the fight is getting boring. Freeza throws two homing Kienzans, one eventually slices himself in half. However, Freeza survives the ordeal, and comes back as a cyborg. He rushes to earth with his father to kill off everyone there before Goku reaches earth. In the original timeline, Goku teleports off his space capsule and kills Freeza. In the timeline that we follow, however, Trunks shows up and dices Freeza, and then kills King Cold, Freeza's father. (Trunks is a Super Saiyajin from the future, BTW.) B-15 How can Vegeta become a Super Saiyajin? Referring back to question B-13, Vegeta satisfies both the first and second qualifications easily. As for the third and fourth rule: Vegeta: "I _am_ pure... Pure EVIL!!" (or "I _do_ have a pure heart... It's just pure evil!!") After seeing Trunks and Goku in Super Saiyajin mode, Vegeta not only realizes the level of power of a Super Saiyajin, but also the fact that there can be more than one Super Saiyajin at one time. Vegeta's been trying to reach (and surpass) the power level of a Super Saiyajin ever since. However, while he was training in the artificial gravity room, he realized that he has reached his limit, yet is still signifigantly weaker than a Super Saiyajin. Vegeta became enraged with himself, which in turns triggers his change into a Super Saiyajin. B-16 How has time-travel affected the timeline(s)? Each time someone travels to the past and interacts with others, the timeline is altered, creating a new timeline. However, when you return to the future, you will end up back at the timeline where you started, as if all the changes you've made in history never happened. There is, however, another strange discrepancy about time-travel in the Dragon World, and that is you may not always arrive at the same timeline that you got to on a previous attempt. Hopefully, the chart below will show the different timelines more accurately. ______________________________________________________________________ | (c. Year 761)----------------------------------------| Cell arrives from the future; althernate timeline| | created. Although what he did to cause the | O change is unknown, somehow this changed the way | r Dr. Gero controlled the cyborgs, his numbering | i of them, and the time when Goku gets afflicted | g by his heart disease. | i | n (c. Year 762)------------------------------------+---a Freeza arrives _| l / | |--Goku teleports Trunks shows up and kills Freeza; alternate- | T to earth and timeline created. Because he gave | | i kills Freeza. medicine to Goku, Goku doesn't die. And | | m because now Vegeta knows that there can | | e be more than one Super Saiyajin at a | | l--Goku dies of time, in addition to what Super Saiyajin | | i heart disease. looks like, he has something to strive | | n for, and does become a Super Saiyajin. | | e | | | (c. Year 763 ~ 765)--------------------------+---| |--(Same) | | | #17 and #18 became disobedient to Dr. Gero | | Dr. Gero is and got deactivated. | | | killed by #19 | | | and #20. (c. Year 765)--------------------------------| | | | | | #19 and #20 shows up, looking for Goku.| | | #19 and #20 _| | / shows up, Trunks arrive from the future once / | / / killed most of again. Alternate timeline created,-- / / / the Z fighters, though it is unknown what is different. / / with Gohan as the No more alterations in/ / / / only surviving Z this timeline.-------- / / / fighter. / ____________________/ / / / / / / / / / / / / (Source of timeline / / / / alteration unknown)/ / / / / | | / / / | | / / / | | / / / | |--(c. Year 778) / / / | | Gohan gets killed by the / / / | | cyborgs (Trunks Special). / / / | | / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |--(c. Year 782) | |--(c. Year 782) | | | Trunks leaves for | | Trunks leave for Year 762. | | | Year 762, and | | Upon returning, he finds | | | arrives at a time- | | that nothing has changed. | | | line unknown to us. | | | | | He returns to find | | | | | out that nothing has| | | | | changed. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |--(c. Year 785) | |--(c. Year 785) | | | Trunks head back for| | Trunks heads back for Year | | | Year 765. Returns | | 765, arrives at a timeline | | | with a great power- | | unknown to us, returns with | | | up and kills #17 and| | some way to get rid of the | | | #18. | | cyborgs (probably their | | | | | control mechanism). | | | | | | | |--(c. Year 788) | |--(c. Year 788) | | | Cell is born, finds | | Cell is born, finds out | | | out that the cyborgs| | that the cyborgs have | | | have somehow been | | somehow been destroyed, so | | | destroyed, so tries | | he kills Trunks for his | | | to kill Trunks for | | time machine, and goes back | | | the time machine, | | to Year 761. | | | but gets killed by | | | | | Trunks instead. | | _____|__|_______|______________________|__|___________________________ End of all Time-Travelling Activities. B-17 What are the different forms of Piccolo? The original Piccolo Daimaoh comes from the Namekseijin who wanted to become earth's Kami-sama. To be eligible as earth's Kami-sama, he had to be pure goodness, so he cast the small evil part of himself out, which became Piccolo Daimaoh. "Piccolo" in Namekgo means "separate worlds." For this form, we can refer to him as "Piccolo Daimaoh." After Goku defeated the original Piccolo Daimaoh, Piccolo summoned up his final strength and spat out an egg.. an egg which soon hatched a minuature version of himself, with all his memories, thoughts, know- ledge, personality, and physical likeness. This, the son of Piccolo, was essentially Piccolo himself, but in his mind he knew he was not the same person as the original Piccolo, and after fighting with Goku, his personality has been affected by Goku as well. This form can be called Piccolo Jr. or Ma Jr., or simply, Piccolo. After sacrificing his own life for Gohan's life, Piccolo was resurrected and placed on his home planet, where he meets a dying Namek warrior, Nail. Nail is surprised at the level of power Piccolo has reached, but knows that even at that level, he is no match for the powerful Freeza, so he offers to be merged with Piccolo. Piccolo reluctantly agrees; although Nail promised to let Piccolo have total control over the body's personality, inevitably Nail's personality still has a strong influence on Piccolo's decisions. For references' sake, if you need to state the specific stage Piccolo is in, you can call this form "Picconailo," but he is still, for the most part, Piccolo, and will go by that name. During his fight against the cyborgs, Piccolo realized that he will not be able to defeat the cyborgs by training alone, and the only real way to be close in terms of power is to re-merge with Kami-sama, and in doing so, he has gained the wisdom and knowledge of Kami-sama, as well as some of the personality aspects of Kami-sama. Again, for reference, you may call this form "Kamiconailo" or even "Kamicolo," but he is still essentially Piccolo, as still goes by that name. B-18 What are the new rules/restrictions of earth's Dragon Balls? After Kami-sama re-merged with Piccolo, ShenLon became no more and the Dragon Balls turned into stone. To revive the Dragon Balls, Goku invited Dende from Namek to be the new Kami-sama. Dende was able to revise the rules and restrictions of ShenLon's power in the revival process. 1. Must gather all seven Dragon Balls. 2. Chant required (Come out, Shen Lon, and grant my wish!). 3. Only two wishes per summoning of Shen Lon. 4. After the wishes are made, Shen Lon will disappear, the Dragon Balls will turn to stone and scatter themselves; they will remain stone for one year. 4.a) If only one wish is made during the summon and the Dragon Balls turn to stone, they will remain stone for four months, and then Shen Lon may be summoned again. 5. The Shen Lon cannot grant any wishes that are beyond the powers of the creator of the Dragon Balls. 6. You can revive anyone or any group of people who fit a certain criteria, if they did not die of natural causes. 7. If a person has been revived by Shen Lon before, the person cannot be revived again. B-19 How is Cell able to teleport back and be in Perfect form? First, the official explaination from Cell: "Hehehehe........... You all seem to be very startled... "Very well, I shall tell you... The outcome of the event is also a very fortunate miscalculation for me! "Inside my head, there is a small, hard object; it is my 'core'; as long as the core is not damaged, my body will be able to regenerate. Luckily, during self-destruction, the core was not damaged. "Truthfully, I never thought I would be able to regenerate... I was very lucky... What made me even happier was, although I no longer had Number 18 inside of me, I could still regenerate to Perfect form... And not just the normal Perfect form, but like Son Gohan, my power was significantly upgraded. This might be attributed to the Saiyajin cell, which provides a great upgrade in power after surviving a near- death experience! "Plus, I also learned Son Goku's Shukken Iddou (teleport) technique! In other words, I'm back even more perfect than ever! Not only did Son Goku not defeat me, he became a great help to me!" So, how was Cell able to learn the Shukken Iddou? He had seen it performed many times before, but never experienced what it felt like until he teleported with Goku. Therefore, all we can conclude is that he learned by experiencing (not by seeing, as it has been suggested). Next, how can he be in Perfect form without #18? Does this mean that if he had been blown to bits with only his core intact before he had the chance to absorbe #17 and #18, he would be able to regenerate into Perfect form? Not likely. My personal belief is that after he absorbed #17 and #18, the genetic coding was somehow registered to his core. The core was not working when he spat out #18, but was working during the total regeneration, and that is why he could regenerate back to Perfect form. B-20 How is Cell defeated? A galactic-powered Kamehameha fight between Gohan and Cell, with the help from Goku and Vegeta. Yes, I'm being vague.. I want you to read/ watch for yourself! ;) B-21 How can the kids become Super Saiyajin so easily? (This answer is from Alexander Chen) Nobody really knows how the kids were able to achieve SSJ with apparently so little ease. All we know is that they did. This being the case, there have been various theories thrown around. I can't say which is right or wrong, but I will include the two which in my opinion seem most plausible. These may be entirely wrong, of course, but as yet, I have found no better theories: One theory suggests that it is due to genetics. We know that hybrids (i.e. crosses between different species ) often produce stronger strains when done with plants. We can extend the argument and propose that it has had a similar effect here, in other words, a half-human and half-saiyajin hybrid is much stronger than a pure human or a pure saiyajin. Obviously, this is a lot more complicated than plants, as strength and power in warriors are increased by training. However, this may explain why the kids were able to attain a higher power level much earlier than the other warriors were able to. Remember that Gohan also attained a much higher level than Gokuu did when he was Gohan's age. Another theory may be that once a saiyajin has managed to become a SSJ, their genes also change in some way and they can then pass these on. Both Goku and Vegita had become SSJ before Goten and Trunks were born, whereas Goku had still not attained this level when Gohan was born. This may explain why Goten and Trunks were able to become SSJ much more easily than Goku, Vegita and Gohan (Bardock and King Vegita, the respective fathers of Goku and Vegita, were not SSJ). These are just two of the many theories that have been proposed. In my opinion they are the most plausible two. The _real_ answer to the question "How can the kids become Super Saiyajin so easily?" is that nobody really knows! Apart from, perhaps, Akira Toriyama himself! (There may even be no rational reason for it--it was just something that he decided on! =) ) B-22 What is "Super Saiyajin 3"? B-23 How did Mr. Satan win the Tenkaichi Budokai? In the first one that he won, none of the competition had strength even close to that of Chichi's. In the one that Gohan, Goku, Vegeta, Kuririn, Piccolo, and #18 entered, Gohan's ki was sucked by Babidi's pawns, while the rest mentioned above, with the exception of #18, left the tournament to help Kaioushin (Piccolo forfeited the fight to Kaioushin). Trunks and Goten were disqualified, and all the other opponents were knocked out by #18 and Trunks/Goten (or lost in an earlier match). #18 offered to throw the match if Mr. Satan would pay her 200,000,000 zeni (the typical monetary units used in the Dragon World). After the Buu storyline, the Champion of the Budokai is the last guy the winning contestant get to fight, and since no one could defeat Mr. Buu (Goku and the others didn't join the tournament), it would always be Mr. Buu against Mr. Satan, and Mr. Buu would always throw the match (being the naive good friend of Mr. Satan). B-24 What is the "Fusion-waza"? Basically, the fusuion technique. There are two kinds, and no specific name given to distinguish the two, so I will arbitrarily name them "Dance Fusion" and "Earring Fusion" for easier distinction. Dance Fusion Gokuu learned this during the five years of inactivity between the end of the Cell Game and before Gohan started school at Orange Star High School. As the name suggests, the major requirement for this type of fusion is to have the two people involved in the fusion perform a dance, which are mirror images of each other, resulting in a new warrior, who has the attributes of the two warriors who formed the new one. When performed successfully, the newly formed warrior will be significantly stronger. There are other requirements and conditions, of course. Requirements/Conditions: o The two fighters must be similar in size, build, and power (especially power; they have to be almost exactly the same, but this isn't a major problem, since most of the Gokuu-tachi can control their power levels, so the stronger fighter just needs to lower his/her power to match that of the weaker). o The dance must be performed correctly for a successful fusion. Any minor mistake in the dance can result in a defective fusion. o The fusion will last for 30 minutes, by which time both fighters will return to their normal selves, but there doesn't appear to be a way to end a fusion before this 30 minute time limit. o After a fusion ends, the two fighters must have a waiting/resting time of one hour before the fusion dance can be performed again. Earring Fusion The fusion technique of choice for Kaioushins which time forgot, this technique is allegedly hundreds of times better than the Dance Fusion. For fusion to happen, two people only need to wear the ear- rings of a Kaioushin. As always, there are some conditions... Requirements/Conditions: o A set of Kaioushin earrings. o The two fighters involved in the fusion must wear the earrings on opposing ears. o Each person can only have one such fusion in a lifetime. o The effects of the fusion is (supposed to be) permanent. (Note that while this fusion was supposed to have been permanent, its properties seem to wear off under unexpected conditions, like being inside the body of a magical being...) B-25 What are the new rules/restrictions of Namek's Dragon Balls? After the Namekseijins have settled on their new planet, the new Saichourou decides that their Dragon Balls have been a bit too restrictive, so he revised some of the rules/restrictions.. Since not all the changes were mentioned, the list below may be a bit inaccurate. 1. Must gather all seven Dragon Balls. 2. Chant required in the Namek language. 3. Wishes must be said in the Namek language. 4. Only three wishes per summoning of Puronga. 5. After the wishes are made, Puronga will disappear, the Dragon Balls will turn to stone and scatter themselves; they will remain stone for 130 days. 6. Puronga cannot grant any wishes that are beyond the powers of the creator of the Dragon Balls. 7. You can revive anyone or any group of people who fit a certain criteria multiple times, if they did not die of natural causes. B-26 How is Buu defeated? Goku gathers ki for a super Genki Dama from the people of Namek and the people of earth. However, most of the people on earth were un- willing to give part of their ki to Goku, so it took persuasion from Mr. Satan for Goku to finally gather enough ki from the people of earth. Even though there was enough power in the Genki Dama, Goku lacked physical strength to make it destroy Buu, so a wish was made to Porunga to restore Goku's strength, and finally, Buu was destroyed. B-27 Why is Goku so happy to leave his family to train Ubuu? Ubuu is the good reincarnation of Original Buu (this was set up by Enmaou-sama), but didn't really know how to use his power to the fullest. Goku's obvious goal is to help Ubuu to learn to use such power, so that eventually Goku can get a good, friendly fight with Ubuu (Goku just loves a good fight). B-28 How many episodes are in DB/DBZ? Manga Dragon Ball: 519 (plus one special) Anime Dragon Ball (Japan): 153 Dragon Ball Z (Japan): 291 Dragon Ball (US): 13 (Aired; there may be more on VHS eventually) Dragon Ball Z (US): Still running. B-29 How come so many characters don't have mothers? Because they are not essential to the story. Bulma's mother was introduced as comic relief, and to help explain minor details of Bulma and Yamcha's relationship in the early part of DB to Goku. Meanwhile, all the second generation DB/DBZ characters have mothers, because they come from the first generation cahracters. B-30 How does "ki-detection" work? "Ki-detection" started off not being very specific, but as the series went on, it became more fine-tuned, partly for the development of the story, and of course it is logical to expect its practioners to get better at the art. It is somehow a given in oriental cultures that if someone is good at martial arts, he/she must possess a good ability of sensing where his/ her enemies are. (When someone has the intent to kill, they give off certain kinds of 'energy') Near the end of the series, ki-detection is pretty well defined, one not only senses the level of power someone else possesses, they can only get a hint of that person's personality (i.e. good, evil, etc.), and by that personality, they can also get somewhat of a "signature" from that ki. We see evidence of this after Piccolo re-merges with Kami-sama. Cell powers up, so his ki can be sensed by the Z Warriors, and because Cell has the cells of the other fighters, their ki- signatures can be sensed from his ki. Later, Trunks notices the new Piccolo's ki, but doesn't recognize it (Trunks didn't know Piccolo very well, so he was going more by ki-level), while Kuririn quickly recognizes it as Piccolo's ki. Another example is when Goku tried to teleport to Namek. He needed to look for ki-signatures that were similar to that of Piccolo's in order to teleport to the new Namek. B-31 Who is the strongest in the entire series? This is a highly debatable topic, and at different times in the story, there are different people who are strongest. However, ultimately, I have to say that Goku is the strongest (afterall, he is the hero of the story.. so he has to be), though the true measure of one's power is not only in physical strength, but a factor of many things combined, including luck, and ability to get help from others (and to properly use that help). At the end of the entire series, if you weigh all the different factors of each character, I think we can all agree that Goku is the strongest... Next to Akira Toriyama, of course. B-32 When did Toriyama-sensei really intend to end Dragon Ball? According to some interviews (I think), the original intended ending for the series was at the end of the Freeza storyline. B-33 Who has never died in the entire series? The following people have (AFAIK) survived through the entire series; listed in the order they were introduced. Uranai Obaba. Furtune Teller, also Kamesennin's older sister. She can travel safely between earth (the living universe) and the gates to heaven & hell (the spirits realm). Apparently, she was at the spirits realm during dangerous times, as we see that when she brings Vegeta back for one day, she doesn't have a halo (a sign that one is dead). Enma-daiou. Gateskeeper and judge of the dead, he was never involved in any of the fights, nor was he close enough to any of the battles to get hurt. The only question is--can we truly consider this guy "alive"? Well, if Kaiou-sama can *die*... Mr. Satan. Surprisingly, this arrogant (but lukcy) fool survived through many amazingly powerful opponents. He nearly died when he was shot once, but was healed by Buu just in time. South Kaiou. The only other Kaiou who was introduced in the series, he only showed up once, and has never seen battle in the power of magnitude of the Goku-tachi. Kaiou-shin. The only Kaiou-shin who survived an encounter with Majin Buu, he just got lucky. He also nearly died once, but was found and by the resurrected Kibit. Mr. Buu. The fat Buu that we were introduced to, he was absorbed by Super Buu, and later was almost killed by True Buu. Pan, Bra, and Ubuu (and all the others who were born AFTER the Buu saga). Because they were not born yet during these fights, they never got killed. B-34 What's this I hear about the new "DBZZZ"/"DB-GT" series? DB-GT stands for "Dragon Ball Grand Tour," which is what some have mistakenly called "DBZZZ." It is an anime-only continuation of Dragon Ball Z (meaning it is not written by Toriyama-sensei, and there is no corresponding manga in any manga phonebooks). The new series has already begun airing on Japanese TV, it involves the return of Emperor Pilaf, who used a different set of Dragon Balls presumebly created by Piccolo Daimaoh, and accidently wished Goku to be a kid again. Goku then sets out for intergalatic adventures involving this new set of Dragon Balls (and Pilaf) with his grand- daughter, Pan, and a grown-up Trunks. C-O CREDITS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, MISC. C-01 Special Thanks/Credits Here's a list of nice people who have, in one way or another, helped in the creation of the FAQ. You should NOT be e-mailing them about trading anime just because their names are listed here.. That's what rec.arts.anime.marketplace is for. (In alphabetical order by e-mail address) Andrea Paulinski Ken Arromdee Rika Takahashi Carles Garcia Curtis Hoffman Terry Bogard Matt Collins Brian @ The Kame House (Anime Crisis) Steph Graves Jean-Philippe "Albator" Morin Adam Marshall Matt Sommer Nick Ryoohki WuKeN Katrina Spencer Sea Wasp Steven Simmons Gautama Buddha Wei-Hwa Huang Fran Kan Alex Chen And all the ppl. who's ever talked about DB/DBZ on alt.manga, rec.arts.anime, and/or rec.arts.manga. C-02 Notes/Excuses from the Author Remember, many of the answers in this FAQ may be from my own opinion, and could be incorrect, so if you see an answer you think is incorrect, don't hesitate to e-mail me! I've only taken part of an afternoon for this update (have to go to work soon), so I couldn't do too much. Hopefully I'll have time to answer all the unanswered question next time. My e-mail address is , plese send any comments, suggestions, corrections, and/or questions about this FAQ here. If you have any comments, suggestions, corrections, and/or questions about this FAQ, send them to me, "Dr. Briefs" at . C-03 Update Information v0.01 A preliminary version with just a list of questions (12/11/95). v0.04 Still preliminary, answered a few questions, changed the format of the Index and added a rather crude ASCII art (12/18/95). v0.10 Re-formatted the margins to fit the posting limits set by Netcom, modifications and additions are coming along slowly because my right hand is still recovering from injury (12/25/95). v0.25 Added DB/DBZ games list. Modifications to the events timeline. Checked spelling with Microsoft Word. Added the DBZ Family Tree, the DBZ Name Puns, and some CD Information (1/1/96). v0.35 Modifications to the timeline, and answered a few more questions (1/8/96). v0.40 The modification symbols for the Mokuji has taken effect, modified sections A-2, A-11, and B-01 (1/15/96). v0.43 Continuing updates to the timeline (1/22/96)... v0.50 Finished updating the timeline. Now beginning to answer the shorter questions (1/29/96). v0.60 Modified margins again. Minor trimmings of some questions on the suggestion of Gautama Buddha, and answered a few more questions (2/05/96). v0.65 Answering more questions, though not in order.. (2/19/96) v0.75 Actually answered much less than what would make a 0.05 upgrade to the version number, but there aren't that many more un- answered questions (3/04/96). v0.90 Looking over the Mokuji, it seems that almost all major questions have been answered, so with the semi-long section of the Time-travel Timeline completed, this FAQ got a signifigant version jump (3/18/96). v1.00 Finally!! Version 1.00!! Actually, there are still a few questions that are not answered yet, but I'm expecting some submissions for the answers soon (4/01/96). v1.25 Answered a few more questions, and now the FAQ is available at my own web site. Most majorly, the "Dragonball Z CD Listing" was integrated into the FAQ, and more internet sites were added; a few more questions will be added in the next version (5/06/96). v1.30 Updated WWW section (some time ago) and the newsgroup section to reflect the various new divisions (and that was quite some time ago, so you know how long it's been ^^;). Answered the question regarding tournament results, and slightly modified the credits section (7/27/97). v1.40 Provided the answer to the question of how many episodes are in the anime series, incorporated Curtis Hoffmann's list of movies into the FAQ instead of just providing a dead link, and added info about fusion techniques (10/13/97).