Review: Baby Saga (DBGT episodes 23 - 40)

Toei's Dragon Ball anime staff finally landed on a story they wanted to tell once they introduced the Machine Mutant Baby. After trying their hand at making Dragon Ball GT a return to classic Dragon Ball, the Baby Saga takes a firm stance as a brand new Dragon Ball Z-inspired tale. You have the transforming baddie, the Earth-wide scope, a ton of characters are involved, and new training with a new form for our hero. But can Dragon Ball GT do DBZ better than it did DB?

Dragon Ball GT ep 40 - Earth Explodes!! Piccolo's Momentous Decision

Despite their best efforts to recover the Black Star Dragon Balls, the Earth has only two weeks left until the year is up and the planet explodes; All thanks to Baby, who used the Black Star Balls to wish Planet Tsufru into existence. Without enough time to gather them from the four galaxies that make up the universe again, our heroes turn to a strikingly familiar tactic.

BONUS CONTENT! Talkin' 'bout the big monkey man

Baby, you are precious.

Dragon Ball GT ep 39 - This is the End! Baby Eradicated At Last

The final, epic conclusion to the battle between Machine Mutants and the GTang takes place between Golden Oozaru Baby and Super Saiyan 4 Goku... and it's one of the worst animation jobs in the series. (Even by Uchiyama standards.)

Dragon Ball GT ep 38 - With Everyone Else's Power... Super Saiyan 4 Revived

 Oh hey, Obvious Christ Symbolism. It's been awhile.

Dragon Ball GT ep 37 - Valor!! Baby and Goku's Double-KO!!

Baby prepares to finally kill Goku with Vegeta's Super Gallic Ho--

--when he suddenly collapses from the wounds sustained by Goku's 10x Kamehameha.

Dragon Ball GT ep 36 - An Immortal Monster?! The Ferocious Great Ape Baby

Dragon Ball GT ep 35 - The Mightiest!! Goku Becomes Super Saiyan 4!!

Dragon Ball GT ep 34 - Transformation Blunder?! Goku's Great Ape Rampage!!

Planet Plant, Age 730.

Dragon Ball GT ep 33 - Take This, Baby! A Reborn Oob's Death Rays!!

Meanwhile, in the Kaioshin Realm... 

"Worst. Power up. Ever."

Dragon Ball GT ep 32 - Give Me Back Goku!! Oob, the Warrior of Fury

From the brink of death, Pan is rescued by Son Goku's pupil, Oob!!

"Who?"

Dragon Ball GT ep 31 - Ah, What a Surprise?! Sugoroku Space's Grand Collapse

At length, Son Goku discovers that the die used in his game of chance is alive.

Dragon Ball GT ep 30 - Goku Exterminated?! I've Gone and Died

Pan sobs gently for her Grandpa Goku as his ki passes away from this world. Now only she, her other grandpa Mr. Satan, and Mr. Boo are left to defend the Earth from Baby and his legion of Tsufurian slaves.

Elsewhere, Baby and his elite forces have gathered for the use of the Black Star Dragon Balls.

BONUS CONTENT! Big ole Baby

Dragon Ball GT eyecatch 2, episodes 27-64

Dragon Ball GT ep 29 - Ultra-Yikes?! Super Saiyan 3 is Beaten!!

It's Goku vs Baby Vegeta, as the whole world has been turned into Tsufruians through Baby's brain-eggs. And he doesn't intend to stop until the whole universe has been turned into the new Tsufruians with he, King Tsufurian's "Baby", at the top. And (seemingly randomly, considering) he has picked Son Goku to be the one Saiyan who dies by his hands to pay for the atrocities his people committed on Planet Plant all those years ago.

Dragon Ball GT ep 28 - Goku Returns... All of Earth Is My Enemy?!

Eleven or so months after leaving Earth, the gang of Son Goku, Trunks, and Pan return. And with them, all seven Black Star Dragon Balls, and their new friend, the Machine Mutant Giru. The Earth is saved as they hand the Dragon Balls back to Dende, so he may put them back in the same place the previous Kami kept them, and the Kami before him.

Dragon Ball GT ep 27 - The Scheme Completed?! Vegeta is Taken Over

"Papa, this is the first time you've ever taken me shopping!"

"I don't remember taking you. I just happened to have come on my own."
(Fandom's number one parent.)

Dragon Ball GT ep 26 - Gohan and Goten... The Worst of Fights Between Brothers?!

Piccolo has a bad feeling about this episode.

Dragon Ball GT ep 25 - This Is Terrible!! Baby Appears On Earth

(Nice work, dipshit.)

Dragon Ball GT ep 24 - Baby Attacks!! Sought-After Saiyans!!

Thanks to Goku's quick thinking, the green boy and his nurse are rescued from the explosion which, unknown to anyone, the green boy caused.

Dragon Ball GT ep 23 - Hidden Crisis?! The Shipwreck and the Mysterious Young Boy

Thanks to Giru efforts, the SS Capsule Corp. is unfrozen from its metallic tomb, and Goku, Trunks, and Pan can resume their efforts to collect the seven Black Star Dragon Balls and save the Earth from impending doom - especially now that the pesky Dr. Myuu is out of the way.

Review: Black Star Dragon Balls Saga (DBGT episodes 1 - 22)

Dragon Ball Z ended its weekly run on Fuji TV on January 31st 1996. Dragon Ball GT began its run on the same channel, in the same time slot, with largely the same staff, on February 7th 1996. There was no break between the last episode of Z and the first episode of GT. And unlike DB and Z's long weekly runs on TV, there was no original manga from which to adapt story. Dragon Ball's staff was doing something they'd never been asked to do before... Sure, they'd come up with filler content, but even some of that (probably more than we'll ever know officially) had input from the original author. GT was a different beast. Toriyama gave them some concept sketches and then he was done. Dragon Ball's future was now in the hands of its anime staff, and with only a week between Z's end and GT's premiere.

Dragon Ball GT ep 22 - The Scheme is Revealed!! The Evil Life Form Baby

Dr. Myuu laments as his greatest Machine Mutant, known as Baby, dies before his eyes.

Dragon Ball GT ep 21 - How Can This Be!! Goku Has Become a Metal Slab!

Dude, spoilers.

In order to save Trunks from Dr. Myuu's clutches, Goku battles Myuu's top commander, General Rild, whose body is the Planet M2 itself. He's got his work cut out for him.

Dragon Ball GT ep 20 - I'm Astounded!! A Metal Tsunami Attacks Goku

It's Super Saiyan Goku vs Hyper Mega Rild on the Planet M2!

Dragon Ball GT ep 19 - To Battle!! The Mighty Mutant - Rild

Goku gathers with Trunks and Pan at the SS Capsule Corp. to warn them of an impending arrival; A villain who, according to Goku, has a ki stronger than Majin Boo. (Not joking. Last episode Goku fought a Happy Meal Toy, and this week GT is playing the "stronger than the last major villain" card already.) That ki belongs to none other than the Commander of Planet M2...

Dragon Ball GT ep 18 - This Isn't In The Data!! Goku, Super-Serious

At last, with Pan's power up, we'll finally see a heroine kick ass on Dragon Ball...!!

"I won't let you turn this into Fury Road!"

(Shit, they're not just evil robots, but they're MRA robots.)

Dragon Ball GT ep 17 - Leave It to Pan! Operation Rescue Goku!!

General Rild watches Goku and Trunks sleep. (Creepy.)

Dragon Ball GT ep 16 - Machine Planet M2... The Turncoat, Giru?!

Our episode begins with the SS Capsule Corp. in peril as it's chased through space by a fleet of enemy starships. Pan tries her best to outmaneuver and fire back at the horde of enemies, but it's simply too much for a ship that was never meant for combat to begin with.

50 episodes in 50 pictures! DBZ 251 - DBGT 9

Rude boy.

BONUS CONTENT! Dragon Ball... IN... SPACE!!!

 Step into the Grand Tour.

Dragon Ball GT eye catches, episodes 1 through 26.

Dragon Ball GT ep 15 - I'm Going Astray! Pan Runs Away?!

Our episode opens with the GTang flying through space toward the next Black Star Dragon Ball. Pan is trying to cook dinner when Giru comes over and examines the nutritional content. Pan finds that about as helpful as the above screencap suggests. But while she's beating on Giru (her usual pastime), she hears something curious coming from the cockpit.

Dragon Ball GT ep 14 - Flawless Rhythm?! Lood is Subdued!!

Thanks to the meddling of his creator, Dr. Myuu,

Lood has transformed!

Dragon Ball GT ep 13 - He's The Boss?! The Mysterious Scientist Myuu

It's the first truly well-animated episode of Dragon Ball GT.