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by obiwan23s » Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:23 am
This is going to be a long post so just a fair warning to everyone. I went through Volumes 17 thru 21 of the manga to draft out an estimation for what events will correspond to each episode of Kai up until the battle with Vegeta is over. Someone suggested that it would take 17 episodes to get through the whole Vegeta saga and I ended up with 18. Granted this is omitting nothing from the manga, which Kai has already done, so chopping a few scenes here and there could reduce it by an episode. If anything, I had fun re-reading those four books. Planning on doing it for the rest of the series just to get an idea of how Kai should go, and to see if I can get through Vol 42 while keeping it at or close to the rumored 100 episode total.
Anyway, here's my list for the Vegeta saga:
Episode 4
Piccolo takes Gohan from Raditz's crash site. Kami takes Goku before Enma to get permission for him to train with Kaio, Goku starts off down the Serpent Road. Piccolo tells Gohan that Goku is dead and the Saiyans are coming, then leaves him to survive for six months. Episode should end with Gohan getting stuck on top of the pillar when he escapes the dinosaur and Piccolo dropping the two apples down to him.
Episode 5
Gohan sees the full moon and turns into the Great Ape. Piccolo destroys the moon, removes his tail and gives him the orange gi with sword. Bulma fixes Raditz's scouter so they can track down Yamcha and Tenshinhan. Yajirobei comes to tell them that Karin is going to train everyone. Chichi and Gyumao show up and find out that Piccolo stole Gohan and Goku is dead. Six months pass and Piccolo decides Gohan is ready for training.
Episode 6
Piccolo begins training Gohan. Goku reaches the end of the Serpent Road and lands on Kaio's planet. Kaio makes Goku tell him a joke before training him. The first part of Goku's training is to catch Bubbles. Gohan tells Piccolo that he doesn't think he's as bad a person as his mother and others make him out to be. Gohan and Goku both continue their training, with Kaio thinking that Goku will be the first to master Kaio Ken.
Episode 7
Goku perfects the Genki Dama at Kaio's planet. Kaio flips out because the Saiyans will arrive in one day and he forgot to factor in the time it would take for Goku to make the return trip down the Serpent Road. He has Goku speak to Kame Sennin with regard to bringing him back to life with the Dragon Balls. On Earth, they summon Shen Long and wish Goku back to life. Kaio gives Goku his new gi and sends him on his way. (Kai can pace itself as fast as it wants to but this is just one chapter's worth of material and I can't see it being reduced to less than one full episode)
Episode 8
Nappa and Vegeta land on Earth and Nappa wipes out the city surrounding their crash site. They pick up Piccolo's location on their scouters and head for him and Gohan. Kuririn and the rest head over there as well, but he gets there first. Vegeta and Nappa aren't far behind and quickly identify Piccolo as a Namekian. Vegeta tells Nappa not to rely on the scouter's readings because they can hide their real power. He has Nappa plant the Saibaiman seeds, and the six Saibaimen come out of the ground. Yamucha, Tenshinhan and Chaozu show up and Vegeta suggests they each fight a Saibaiman one on one.
Episode 9
Tenshinhan volunteers to go first and quickly beats down the Saibaiman. Vegeta explodes that Saibaiman's brains because he feels it had already lost. Yamucha goes next and is killed when the Saibaiman self-destructs. Kuririn kills three of the remaining four Saibaimen, and Piccolo gets the last one. Nappa steps in to take on Tenshinhan. Tenshinhan's arm is hacked off during his fight with Nappa. Chaozu self-destructs on Nappa's back but Nappa emerges unharmed to everyone's shock.
Episode 10
Nappa has Tenshinhan between the crosshairs. Piccolo comes up with a strategy for attacking Nappa, but Gohan chickens out when they execute it. Tenshinhan hits Nappa with the Kikoho and then dies. Piccolo says they have to change their strategy because Nappa is too good at fighting in the air. Kami senses that his and Piccolo's life is about to end. Nappa is about to kill off the rest of them when Vegeta stops him and opts to wait three hours for "Son Goku" to show up, because Piccolo and Kuririn keep saying he's going to turn the tables for them.
Episode 11
Three hours pass with no sign of Goku so the battle with Nappa resumes. Piccolo comes up with a plan to grab Nappa's tail, thinking it will weaken him like it did Raditz. Goku makes it back to Earth and starts flying to the battle site. The gang executes their plan to grab Nappa's tail but it backfires on Piccolo because Nappa and Vegeta have trained themselves past the point of the tail becoming a weak spot. Nappa tries to kill Gohan but Kuririn stops him and uses the Kienzan, but Nappa dodges it and beats down Kuririn. Piccolo gets in a good hit, which makes Nappa mad. Out of the blue they all sense Goku's ki heading their way.
Episode 12
Vegeta's scouter picks up Goku at a battle power of 5000 and fears that Goku is hiding even more power. He orders Nappa to kill all of them so they can't help Goku, saying that Piccolo is expendable because they can just go to Namek and use the Dragon Balls there. Nappa tries to kill Gohan but Piccolo sacrifices himself. Piccolo says that Gohan's kindness rubbed off on him too much and then dies along with Kami. Gohan's rage gives him a momentary power boost, but it does nothing to Nappa. Nappa goes in for the killshot but Goku shows up in time to save Gohan.
Episode 13 (the "over nine thousand" episode)
Goku examines the corpses of his dead friends while Nappa brags about how easily he killed them. He splits the last senzu with Gohan and Kuririn, then turns to Nappa and Vegeta saying they won't get any mercy from him. Goku hits Nappa four times, one for each of his dead friends. Goku continues owning Nappa until Vegeta calls him off. Nappa abides but goes after Gohan and Kurirn; Goku eliminates him with Kaio Ken.
Episode 14
Goku explains how Kaio Ken works. Vegeta kills Nappa. Goku sends Gohan and Kuririn back to Kame House, then relocates to the rocky area to fight Vegeta. Vegeta spews his "I'm an elite and you're just a peasant" thing and they start to fight. Goku can't hang and Vegeta tells him to do what he did when he defeated Nappa. Goku shows him Kaio Ken but it's not enough. Vegeta shows off some of his power and Goku has to go to Double Kaio Ken to escape the blast.
Episode 15
Goku uses Triple Kaio Ken and whoops some Saiyan elite ass. Vegeta decides he's going to blow up the Earth with his Galick Cannon. Goku fires back with a Kamehame-Ha, still using Triple Kaio Ken. The two blasts are deadlocked so Goku goes to Quadruple Kaio Ken and is beat Vegeta's beam. Yajirobei comes out thinking Goku has won, but Goku says its not over. In the sky, Vegeta says he'll just transform into an ape to beat Goku. Since there is no moon, he lands and explains the transformation to Goku, then uses the aritifcial power ball to start transforming.
Episode 16
Vegeta transforms into the Great Ape. Goku realizes that it was he himself who turned into the ape as a child and killed his grandfather. Ape Vegeta begins attacking Goku; Goku uses the Taiyo Ken to blind Vegeta and start making the Genki Dama. He gets enough energy to make the Genki Dama, but Vegeta gets his sight back and trashes Goku. Gohan and Kuririn go back and come up with a plan to turn Vegeta back into his normal form by cutting off his tail, along with Yajirobei. Gohan and Kuririn distract Vegeta while Yajirobei cuts off the tail, and Vegeta turns back to normal.
Episode 17
Vegeta beats down Gohan and Kuririn, then tries to deliver the killshot on Goku. Gohan gets back up and takes on Vegeta. Goku gives Kuririn the energy for the Genki Dama. Vegeta stays occupied fighting Gohan; Kaio tells Kuririn not to aim the Genki Dama with his eyes but to feel out Vegeta's ki instead. Kuririn shoots, Vegeta dodges and Gohan bounces it back to Vegeta. Everyone thinks they've won when Vegeta comes back down and gets up, threatening to kill all of them and destroy the Earth.
Episode 18
Vegeta notices Gohan's tail is back and tries to remove it so he can't transform. Yajirobei slices him in the back and the gets owned by Vegeta. By the time Vegeta gets back to Gohan, the transformation has already begun. Gohan turns into the Great Ape and Goku and Kuririn talk him into attacking Vegeta. Vegeta cuts off the tail but bad timing causes him to be crushed when Gohan falls on him. Vegeta calls his spacecraft back and Kuririn cuts him off as he tries to escape. Goku talks Kuririn into letting Vegeta go so that they can fight each other again.
