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What was happening in Dragon Ball on your birth week?

Post by KBABZ » Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:49 pm

This is a fun one: what was happening in the Dragon Ball franchise the week you were born?

On my birth week, the manga was up to the issue where Ginyu learns the hard way that he can't master the Ki in Goku's body and gets pummeled by Krillin and Gohan. On the anime side, my birthday happens to be the exact date the most infamous filler episode originally aired in Japan. Yep, I am as old as the Bulma and the Crabs episode! :P

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Post by emi_b7 » Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:13 pm

Manga: Freeza transforms for the first time and impales Kuririn
Anime: Recoome breaks Gohan's neck and Goku lands on Namek. This one happened on the same day I was born, so both Goku and I arrived on the same day :P .
Both of those moments are cool, I'm ok with this :lol:

It looks like I was born like a month after you or so

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Post by dragonballhero » Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:44 pm

I s*** you not, the Goku Jr. special first aired...on the VERY DAY I was born into this world. Again, I S*** YOU NOT. When I first found out that one of the very few things I TRULY enjoyed about GT happened on the day of my birth, it blew my mind like you wouldn't believe.

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Post by Boo Machine » Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:58 pm

In the manga, Vegeta had just made his entrance in the android saga and transformed into a Super Saiyan for the first time.

In the anime, they were in the Garlic Jr saga and Piccolo just got macked on and turned into a vampire or whatever the hell they turn into.

Good to know that in the week Vegeta makes an epic entrance, that I make mine. Pissed off and ready to go.
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Post by clutchins » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:05 pm

Unfortunately, Dragon Ball Z skipped my birth week (maybe for Golden Week?), otherwise episode 264 would have aired right on my birthday in Japan...
However, Chapter 517 (the antepenultimate chapter in the entire run) debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump #23 on May 9, one day before my birthday so I'll take that as a win.
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Post by KBABZ » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:35 pm

dragonballhero wrote:I s*** you not, the Goku Jr. special first aired...on the VERY DAY I was born into this world. Again, I S*** YOU NOT. When I first found out that one of the very few things I TRULY enjoyed about GT happened on the day of my birth, it blew my mind like you wouldn't believe.
I can relate! ...sort of. I find it very amusing that the entirety of of Kid Goku portion of Dragon Ball, by far my favourite portion of the series, had fully wrapped up over a year before I was born!

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Post by Grimlock » Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:41 pm

Anime: Goku and Vegeta were inside Super Buu; Vegeta discovered that Majin Buu was also there; Goku and Vegeta put up a fight with Super Buu.
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Post by sintzu » Tue Sep 12, 2017 11:44 pm

In the manga Vegeta told Goku how to defeat Kid Buu by using the genki dama in chapter 513.

Nothing in the anime cause there was a major gap between March 22nd's episode and April 26th's.
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Post by KBABZ » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:11 am

sintzu wrote:Nothing in the anime cause there was a major gap between March 22nd's episode and April 26th's.
That would have been around about the time Fusion Reborn came out!

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Post by TheZFighter » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:07 am

Manga: No Manga release, came between "The Ginyu Force" and "Goku vs. Ginyu".

Anime: Goku defeated Burter and Vegeta killed Burter and Recoome.
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Post by sangofe » Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:32 am

KBABZ wrote:This is a fun one: what was happening in the Dragon Ball franchise the week you were born?

On my birth week, the manga was up to the issue where Ginyu learns the hard way that he can't master the Ki in Goku's body and gets pummeled by Krillin and Gohan. On the anime side, my birthday happens to be the exact date the most infamous filler episode originally aired in Japan. Yep, I am as old as the Bulma and the Crabs episode! :P
Uh, that's a pretty good question. I was born on the 24th of October 1982. Was DB out at that point? Sorry, I'm on mobile data here so can't look around too much right now.

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Post by Boo Machine » Wed Sep 13, 2017 3:39 am

sangofe wrote: Uh, that's a pretty good question. I was born on the 24th of October 1982. Was DB out at that point? Sorry, I'm on mobile data here so can't look around too much right now.
Dragonball came out in 1984, November 20th according to the site.
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Re: What was happening in Dragon Ball on your birth week?

Post by KBABZ » Wed Sep 13, 2017 5:44 am

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sangofe wrote: Uh, that's a pretty good question. I was born on the 24th of October 1982. Was DB out at that point? Sorry, I'm on mobile data here so can't look around too much right now.
Dragonball came out in 1984, November 20th according to the site.
Hmm, well if we re-jigger the question a little bit...

Okay, so the closest I can get is the content of Dr. Slump that was covered in its 9th Tankobon release in December of 1982.

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Post by floofychan333 » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:49 am

Goku met Bulma on my birthday...but in Dragon Ball time.
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Post by Polyphase Avatron » Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:57 am

I think Goku first fought King Piccolo.
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Post by sangofe » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:15 pm

KBABZ wrote:
Boo Machine wrote:
sangofe wrote: Uh, that's a pretty good question. I was born on the 24th of October 1982. Was DB out at that point? Sorry, I'm on mobile data here so can't look around too much right now.
Dragonball came out in 1984, November 20th according to the site.
Hmm, well if we re-jigger the question a little bit...

Okay, so the closest I can get is the content of Dr. Slump that was covered in its 9th Tankobon release in December of 1982.
I had a feeling I was older than Dragon Ball :-P

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Post by Doctor. » Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:24 pm

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Post by SHINOBI-03 » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:06 pm

Was born on Sunday October 9th, 1988. Here's what happened within this week:

No chapter was released within the same week, but Chapter 196 (Kakarrot) was released a day earlier on October 8th, 1988. Anime-wise, Dragon Ball episode 129 (Time Traveling Goku) was aired on Wednesday, October 12th, 1988.
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Post by jrdemr » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:35 pm

So, manga-wise, the last chapter before I was born was number 167, just one day before I was born. It's the one detailing the preliminaries at the 23rd Tenkaichi Budoukai.

Anime-wise, episode 105 was the last one before I was born, where they first introduced Yajirobe.

Meaning, I was born before even the manga reached the "Z" portion!

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Re: What was happening in Dragon Ball on your birth week?

Post by Dbzfan94 » Wed Sep 13, 2017 1:37 pm

Manga: SSJ3 Gotenks vs Super Buu

Anime: Trunks flying to Capsule Corp to get the radar / Goku unveils SSJ3

No wonder I love SSJ3 so much

And if the official month/day dates for the events are correct, my birthday falls exactly on the day of Vegeta/Nappa's arrival in universe.

Also not really in my week, but this game came out 8 days after I was born
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