Dragon Ball 24
December 24, 2007
I have five volumes each of Dragon Ball and RG Veda to go through, so I brought them home with me in order to read at my parents house. So look for big slugs of those series peppered with possibly a few random volumes I brought with me… and probably Iron Wok Jan, which just got delivered to the neighbor’s house.
I forgot about the Ginyu Force again. I think I’m just incapable of remembering they exist, because whatever context I see them in they shock me as a new and different enemy. The big event this volume is that Goku shows up, and of course he’s much more powerful than ANYone else is. He quickly dispatches most of the Ginyu force save for the white-haired hard rocker and heals Kuririn, Gohan, and Vegeta. Then he goes on to fight Captain Ginyu, who pulls out a trick that I of course forgot, but is still kind of cool after all these years.
Part of me is ashamed of reading Dragon Ball Z, part of me thinks it’s like reading “War and Peace,” and part of me loves the… template nature of it, the way it now reads like a basic version of every other Shounen Jump manga that came out in the 90s. It’s pretty rad and boring at the same time.
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