Dragon Ball 31
March 12, 2008
The time travel stuff is becoming less and less clear to me for each volume that mentions it lately, but it seems like it will become a moot point story-wise after this since things seem to be moving exclusively to Cell. So… Trunks isn’t from the future, but from the future of an alternate reality? Is time-traveling Cell from the same reality as Trunks? How about our reality? Or is it a different reality? Why does 16 only exist here? And, maybe it was because I just couldn’t wrap my brain around this (or was unwilling to sit and ponder a minor plot point of Dragon Ball for too long), but how would killing the proto-Cell in the present not make him cease to exist? Because he time-traveled? Or because
NO. No. I’m going to stop thinking about this now.
My roommate had to explain to me that Cell has many forms, and that I was in for a long haul if he had not absorbed anyone yet. Goku and Vegeta also discussed going “beyond” super saiyan, which I know is a big thing in Dragon Ball. I was under the impression this coincided with fusion, but I’m not even sure that’s something that happens in the manga. If it does, it seems like it won’t happen until after this story is over.
Well, basically all that happens is that Piccolo fights Cell briefly, the good guys look for Cell and the Androids while Vegeta and Trunks train in the… room where 1 day equals one year, Piccolo fights Cell again, and then various androids fight Cell. I’m sure this is a trend for at least the next three volumes, but maybe something more interesting will happen.
Well, I can’t say I’m not impressed with Cell’s power to absorb people. That’s pretty cool. I like Cell a lot, actually.
One wonders how the characters will get the Dragon Balls back. People just don’t stay dead in this series, after all.
March 13, 2008 at 11:21 am
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March 13, 2008 at 5:54 pm
No fusion until Majin Buu, who is, if you haven’t figured it out already, not only stronger than Cell and Frieza put togather, but can also absorb anything and anybody (and does). I could go into the whole time travel explanation but I don’t want to spoil the story or confuse you any more than you already are. And I’m not 100% on the whole thing either. Just keep one thing in mind always and that is: We read Dragon Ball for the fighting. Fighting so absurd that there is an enveloping beauty about it. If we read it for the science we would have given up way back when Master Roshii blew up the moon to stop Goku’s giant gorilla transformations.
March 14, 2008 at 1:56 am
“If we read it for the science we would have given up way back when Master Roshii blew up the moon to stop Goku’s giant gorilla transformations.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
I’m glad to hear that the time anomalies will be somewhat cleared up in the end. I was having some sort of logic crisis that I could not stop, no matter how much I kept telling myself that half the characters are aliens at this point and that things like that just don’t matter.
I’m also very excited about fusion now. I think I probably read about it 10 years ago, and I was willing to believe that whatever site I’d seen it on had made it up.