Dragon Ball 28
Posted: December 27, 2007 Filed under: Dragon Ball 2 Comments »I’ve only got one more volume of this left in my backlog, hooray! After that, I’ll still have about 13 volumes of the series left, which is a lot, but at least I’ve cleared the Freeza story. I’m now into stuff I don’t know anything but the bare essentials about. Great, so now I can enjoy the battles a bit more instead of bracing myself for the long haul I can see coming.
The end of the battle with Freeza was in this volume, and I was actually kind of surprised. It appeared that Goku killed him, despite his best efforts not to. That would be a first for him, because Goku has never killed anyone before that. Thankfully, that turned out not to be the case, though I can’t agree with the way he was brought back.
They didn’t mention King Cold’s name at all save for on the title page in the back of the volume. I thought that was kind of odd.
After a bunch of between-story stuff (which I wound up not enjoying as much as usual… it just feels like humor’s out of place in this series now, especially since Vegeta’s now a regular character), we get right into the Android stuff. Like I said, I don’t know much about the android stuff other than they are numbered and that Trunks comes from the future to help them out. I’m kind of looking forward to reading about them, though. Well, for at least one more volume, anyway.
There’s much summoning of Dragons here, and time is condensed so that each of the dragons can be called. Well, actually, I don’t know if Shenlong is showed being summoned, but Porunga gets called twice. At one point, when the characters find out Goku isn’t immediately on his way back from Namek, the Turtle Hermit says that it’s because Chichi is worse than Freeza, and something to the effect that the strongest warrior in the universe was humbled by Chichi. Actually Piccolo may mention this a bit later too, but I thought it was kind of funny. Also notable is the fact that Kuririn points out that at one point all the characters in the main group (Goku, Kuririn, Yamcha, Tenshinhan and Chaozu, Piccolo, and Vegeta) were enemies, and that it would be scary if they didn’t have a common enemy to fight. Also true, and also very funny.
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