Goku's relationship with his former friends

Thanos6 · Post by **Thanos6** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:38 pm

I'm pretty sure it was 5 years in the manga, too. And I think it was just Goku not keeping in touch; Chi-Chi, Gohan and Goten all seem more the staying in touch type.

StarrDust · Post by **StarrDust** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:04 pm

I just don't understand why Goku's friends don't make the effort as well. Yeah it's kind of a pain to go find Kame House in the middle of the ocean, but hey, they've all done it a bunch of times! (Although I do agree that Tenshinhan would fall out of the loop the easiest since he doesn't have a regular home as far as we know) Besides, how hard is it to pick up a phone!? Bulma could have called Goku/ChiChi.

saiyanprincess · Post by **saiyanprincess** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:56 pm

I remember on the Funi dub I believe.... Videl pulling out a cellphone telling the others they all really need to invest in phones.

We know Roshi has a phone, - and I'm sure his bill for adult lines is huge! Also Capsule Corp certainly has a phone; and Chichi has such a blagger mouth that it is hard to believe she wouldn't stay in touch with her best friend Bulma!

Also if you think about it, Kami lives on an island in the middle of the ocean, but the Son family do not fair much better by living in a forest in the middle of nowhere.
Piccolo unless he is at Goku's place being forced to learn to drive, does not really have a permanent home... He is a nature loving guy, and lives in mountains. Tien also does not have a permanent home and moves from place to place with his little friend Chauztou.

All these people CAN fly, and so have no excuse from not meeting up. Surely they must want to spar with different people every now and then?

The only true excuses they could have for not meeting up is if they were in space somewhere, or all deep in training to kill one another.

As this is not the case, with the exemption of Vegeta. I have no idea!

StarrDust · Post by **StarrDust** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:44 pm

saiyanprincess wrote:All these people CAN fly, and so have no excuse from not meeting up. Surely they must want to spar with different people every now and then?

The only true excuses they could have for not meeting up is if they were in space somewhere, or all deep in training to kill one another.

So true. I mean, in Dragonball when they were apart for long periods of time, it made sense because the guys were always doing some serious training during this time. But in Dragonball Z it's just "Oh, did I forget to call you for the past five years? My bad!"

But I feel like during the seven years Goku is dead (between Cell and Buu) they all do a better job keeping in contact. Why is that? Is the Son family just so wrapped up in having Goku around (when he is around) that they just forget about everything else? Yeah Goku's excuse is that he's laid back and doesn't put much thought into these things, what's everyone elses? Goten and Trunks are best friends. Bulma and Chichi seem to become tight once Bulma joined the motherhood club. How can they just not talk?

djkalteraphine · Post by **djkalteraphine** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:09 pm

StarrDust wrote:How can they just not talk?

We'll never know.

Thanos6 · Post by **Thanos6** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:19 am

I highly doubt they all stopped talking. At the very least Goten and Trunks kept in touch.

AnzuMazaki · Post by **AnzuMazaki** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:01 am

saiyanprincess wrote:I remember on the Funi dub I believe.... Videl pulling out a cellphone telling the others they all really need to invest in phones.

We know Roshi has a phone, - and I'm sure his bill for adult lines is huge! Also Capsule Corp certainly has a phone; and Chichi has such a blagger mouth that it is hard to believe she wouldn't stay in touch with her best friend Bulma!

Also if you think about it, Kami lives on an island in the middle of the ocean, but the Son family do not fair much better by living in a forest in the middle of nowhere.
Piccolo unless he is at Goku's place being forced to learn to drive, does not really have a permanent home... He is a nature loving guy, and lives in mountains. Tenshinhan also does not have a permanent home and moves from place to place with his little friend Chauztou.

All these people CAN fly, and so have no excuse from not meeting up. Surely they must want to spar with different people every now and then?

The only true excuses they could have for not meeting up is if they were in space somewhere, or all deep in training to kill one another.

As this is not the case, with the exemption of Vegeta. I have no idea!

Well "Who is this, I seem to remember this face and boy from when I was a little teenage boy, but I don't know where I saw the face of heard the voice" look on Yamcha, Tenshinhan and Chiaotzu's faces in GT don't help the fact that the only time they see a long lost friend happily is on Dragonball but in Z and GT they either get pissed off or forget the person.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:07 am

People scattered across the whole planet lose touch with each other.

Why is this surprising?

Terra-jin · Post by **Terra-jin** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:20 am

That shouldn't be a problem in this day and age; this forum is composed of people from all over the world. And if my friends could fly around the world in seconds, I'd be pretty pissed off if they didn't get off their butts and stop by every once and a while, even if I lived on the north pole or something

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:41 pm

Terra-jin wrote:That shouldn't be a problem in this day and age

Hold it there. Dragonball isn't in this day and age. There doesn't seem to be an Internet at all, actually.

StarrDust · Post by **StarrDust** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:10 pm

Rocketman wrote:
Terra-jin wrote:That shouldn't be a problem in this day and age
Hold it there. Dragonball isn't in this day and age. There doesn't seem to be an Internet at all, actually.

But at the same time their technology is ahead of ours when it comes to travel. Afterall, they have hover cars and planes that can come from little capsules. And since everyone is fairly tight with Bulma, shouldn't they be able to get them for cheap if not free?

Jackal puFF · Post by **Jackal puFF** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:31 am

there all pretty careless to me..

Pan doesnt even keep in touch with trunks or bulla..

just look what happened cause of that, vegeta jr's mom didnt even know who that goku kid was or who pan was. They could've been great friends, you know!?

Darknat · Post by **Darknat** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:03 am

Jackal puFF wrote:there all pretty careless to me..

Pan doesnt even keep in touch with trunks or bulla..

just look what happened cause of that, vegeta jr's mom didnt even know who that goku kid was or who pan was. They could've been great friends, you know!?

They live on opposite sides of the planet...... even being able to fly to each others houses, it's normal the lose contact with each other with time.

I don't get why people think goku didn't care about them.

I don't see some of my friends for years and that doesn't mean I don't care about them. It just means we took different paths and we don't see each other that often.

StarrDust · Post by **StarrDust** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:36 pm

Jackal puFF wrote:there all pretty careless to me..

Pan doesnt even keep in touch with trunks or bulla..

just look what happened cause of that, vegeta jr's mom didnt even know who that goku kid was or who pan was. They could've been great friends, you know!?

Yeah, I didn't like that either, but I guess this (and the five years between DB and DBZ) set the presidence for that 100 years of no contact.

Kid Trunks · Post by **Kid Trunks** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:30 am

I always got the impression that while Goku cares for his family and friends and doesn't want any harm to come of them, it just seemed like they were only a marginal step up from any regular person he wanted to protect.

And in the dub of the final episode of Z, after Goku leaves with Uub, Piccolo says "He looked happy to me. More so than in a long time". That seems to say a lot about how Goku feels about his friends or family. He loves fighting more than them. Does he say anything like that in the original?

mrkaizoku · Post by **mrkaizoku** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:12 pm

Kid Trunks wrote:And in the dub of the final episode of Z, after Goku leaves with Uub, Piccolo says "He looked happy to me. More so than in a long time". That seems to say a lot about how Goku feels about his friends or family. He loves fighting more than them. Does he say anything like that in the original?

On page 228 Kanzenban, and 242 of the original volumes:

Piccolo says:

Bubble One:
Hisashiburi ni Mitana

Bubble Two:
Anna Ureshisou na Goku wa

Which basically translates to "It's been along time since Goku has been so happy". As far as the anime goes I'm not sure, but I imagine the line was kept in there. I really like this line because Piccolo calls him Goku, which happens very rarely. So to answer your question Kid Trunks, yes he does.

Kid Trunks · Post by **Kid Trunks** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:39 pm

mrkaizoku wrote:
Kid Trunks wrote:And in the dub of the final episode of Z, after Goku leaves with Uub, Piccolo says "He looked happy to me. More so than in a long time". That seems to say a lot about how Goku feels about his friends or family. He loves fighting more than them. Does he say anything like that in the original?
On page 228 Kanzenban, and 242 of the original volumes:

Piccolo says:

Bubble One:
Hisashiburi ni Mitana

Bubble Two:
Anna Ureshisou na Goku wa

Which basically translates to "It's been along time since Goku has been so happy". As far as the anime goes I'm not sure, but I imagine the line was kept in there. I really like this line because Piccolo calls him Goku, which happens very rarely. So to answer your question Kid Trunks, yes he does.

Wow. I wasn't expecting such a thorough answer. Thank you sir

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mrkaizoku · Post by **mrkaizoku** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:13 pm

You're very welcome.