Dragon Ball 27
December 26, 2007
Akira Toriyama mentions in the front of the volume he doesn’t think of the blurbs that go in the front of Weekly Jump himself, because he can never think of what to say about the most recent chapters of Dragon Ball. After reading through this volume, I believe him. I finished one chapter, then flipped back to the beginning of it and flipped through it again in disbelief. A fan of Dragon Ball, someone who faithfully followed the series on a weekly basis and who waits eagerly all week to see what would happen next, was treated to a chapter which was nothing more than Goku powering up the Genki Dama. Though Dragon Ball seems particularly bad, this is also the reason I don’t follow One Piece on a weekly basis anymore - because with this kind of series, when you get mired in a battle things move painfully slow.
Once we get past the boring first couple chapters, things move impressively fast. Goku does make Super Saiyan in this volume, which makes the fight between he and Freeza much more interesting. The catalyst for this is another character’s death, and this death is still hard for me to take because the character is fairly innocent and also one of my favorites… the kind of guy who doesn’t ever seem to be in league with the other characters, and I always feel bad for him. The plot moves elsewhere too. After Piccolo was brought back to life, Kami was also brought back and the Dragon Balls were gathered on Earth. They use the one wish in a tricky manner so that Porunga was brought back and a lot of things were undone.
Also, Freeza blows up Namek. Or will shortly. I always kind of liked that insane element, too.
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