Kai Episode 39 (10 January 2010)

[Khalid Shahin]

新生ピッコロあらわる！激怒フリーザ第２の変身
Shinsei Pikkoro Arawaru! Gekido Furiiza Dai-Ni no Henshin
The Reborn Piccolo Arrives! A Furious Freeza's 2nd Transformation

[Son Wukong]

Damn good episode if you ask me. Reminds me of how much I like Piccolo as a character.

[Bura]

This episode wasn't really that special to me. I can't wait for next week! All sorts of favourite scenes will be passing by

[penguintruth]

Honestly, I find Piccolo's fight with Freeza to be boring. You know he isn't going to win, it's already been well established that the others weren't going to, and you're just waiting around for Piccolo to get his ass kicked, while you wait for Goku to heal up. At least when Vegeta goes at him again you realize that he's going to be killed because he thinks he's a Super Saiyan and he's not, so that's interesting. Here, I just wanted Piccolo to fall already. The fight itself isn't even that remarkable.

[Bura]

Honestly, I find Piccolo's fight with Freeza to be boring. You know he isn't going to win, it's already been well established that the others weren't going to, and you're just waiting around for Piccolo to get his ass kicked, while you wait for Goku to heal up. At least when Vegeta goes at him again you realize that he's going to be killed because he thinks he's a Super Saiyan and he's not, so that's interesting. Here, I just wanted Piccolo to fall already. The fight itself isn't even that remarkable.

I pretty much felt the same way. I'm mostly looking forward to the Freeza/Vegeta fight and the Goku/Freeza fight after that.

[fps_anth]

Some of the redrawn stuff in this episode looked awesome!

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[Metalwario64]

They forgot Frieza's lips? Even if it was in the original, that actually makes it worse since the new animation is supposed to correct errors.

Also, why do they always choose such absolutely horrendous colors for the traced scenes? It makes them stand out even more, and the colors don't even look good on their own. Frieza's eyes are darker than the white parts of his body on that image...

[LilKokuLink]

Honestly, I find Piccolo's fight with Freeza to be boring. You know he isn't going to win, it's already been well established that the others weren't going to, and you're just waiting around for Piccolo to get his ass kicked, while you wait for Goku to heal up. At least when Vegeta goes at him again you realize that he's going to be killed because he thinks he's a Super Saiyan and he's not, so that's interesting. Here, I just wanted Piccolo to fall already. The fight itself isn't even that remarkable.

You're kind of right with the Piccolo thing in a sense that we know how much Piccolo doesn't advance like Goku does later on in the series. But I think that at that point, viewers that are new to the show would have thought that Piccolo will have just as much chance as Goku would have done.

At the beginning of DBZ they were pretty much equal. Then Goku trained with King Kai and came back, after that... Goku also trained in 100x gravity, reaching to the stage in which he was fighting the Ginyu's. Then Piccolo comes back after training with King Kai whilst Goku is healing, then he fuses with Nail which is another power increase. Piccolo's confidence was immense after the fusion and we had no idea what this fusion was going to bring us. So in a sense they were pretty close in power.

Although, what's great is, Vegeta mentions that a Saiyan's power increases remarkably after healing from a close to death experience. So Goku's healing process is really in my viewpoint, how Goku was able to differentiate from what Piccolo was. However, I still think like you that the fight was boring... even though I think that they are close to equal in power.