Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Dragon Ball Z ep 39 - Friends or Foes? Children of the Mysterious Giant Spaceship

 Seven days have passed since launch, and Bulma is bored out of her mind.
 So she spends her days complaining, making a mess, and sexually frustrating Kuririn by running around in her panties.
Gohan and Kuririn pass the time by "Image Training", which is a sort of meditative trance they do so they can practice their skills... I think?

Meanwhile, Muten Roshi has retaken his role as Son Goku's teacher.
Later a nurse comes in to chew them out for training, so Roshi grabs her butt. (Logical.) This earns him the nickname Grandpa Glad-hands, which he isn't too thrilled about.
(Why isn't Goku Image Training too? Wouldn't that make more sense than hurting his body?)

On the roof of W. Kong Hospital, Chichi watches the sky, wishing Gohan would write to her.
(A mother who loves her son, guys. Such a bitch.)

Aboard Kami-sama's spaceship, 20-odd days away from Planet Namek, Bulma wonders aloud about Vegeta. Where could he be going to have his injuries treated? She recalls Raditz mentioning that the Saiyans sold planets to other aliens. Perhaps one of those aliens' planets...?

 Out of nowhere, our heroes are attacked by a star fleet!!
 Luckily, Kami's ship is equipped with self defense mechanisms...
 ... which far outstrip the power of the space cruisers!
 But just as our heroes escape danger... another ship exactly like their own is headed for a collision course with Kami's ship!
 It turns out, however, to have been an entirely different space ship entirely, which used a reflective, mirror-like surface to trap potential enemy shuttles.
 Aboard the space station, our heroes search for life, and in the process escape many booby-traps.

And finally, they find life on the space station.
 Or it finds them...

A room full of armed children coming out of every corner, with their weapons drawn on our heroes. What is going on with this space station...??? 

Elsewhere, deep in space, Vegeta swears his revenge on Kakarotto!!

7 comments:

  1. It's interesting that Vegeta puts all the blame on Goku when it was a team effort that defeated him.

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  2. That's interesting, Rob! I can just imagine how the turn the show would've taken if Vegeta decided to pour out all of his frustration onto Yajirobe. :x

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  3. Really, it makes more sense. Yajirobe mutilated Vegeta for life. True, Vegeta clearly doesn't like using his Oozaru form, but Raditz seems to find it pretty shameful for a Saiyan to go without a tail.

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  4. Yeah, but Goku never thought much of it, and Vegeta sort of implies that it grows back in certain conditions. (maybe stress + full moon?). Maybe it is not that uncommon for Saiyan children to lose their tail and grow it back in their life. Radditz was also thinking of tricking Goku and was willing to cut off his own tail if Goku didn't let him go, so I'm not sure we can trust what he says on this matter as not just being "played up" to trick Goku.

    It makes more sense for Vegeta to focus on Goku, though. Sort of Galactical racism -- Goku is the only Saiyan and thus the only opponent worth focusing, even though he wasn't the sole contestant. Also we are seeing the show from Goku's POV -- we know Goku's KKx4 was a last ditch effort that destroyed his body -- Vegeta saw a low class Saiyan who could in a blink of an eye become more powerful than him. (compounded by how easily he gains strength in Namek after that).

    I personally never thought Vegeta has anything to be ashamed at losing 4 against 1, but his focus and arrogance ultimately make it harder for him to catch up with Goku after that.

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  5. Ah, there Vegeta goes. Already bitchin' about Goku :D

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  6. bulma looks so sexy

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