Suupaa Gohan 2 wrote:That's actually similar to an (extremely minor) aspect of my fic universe as well; since it takes place a few months after Goku leaves at the end of Z, Bulma - so insulted by Goku's remarks on her looking like an old lady, considering this is Bulma we're talking about - finds some opportunity to gather the Dragonballs offscreen (or y'know, maybe force her husband and children to do the dirty work for her), and wish herself young (Cell-Buu age, be a little more on par with Vegeta's appearance) again. This is mostly just because A) I despise her end-of-DBZ design and B) it feels like such an in-character thing for Bulma to do, IMO.
I always thought Chi-Chi looks remarkably younger in that one filler episode, too, especially since she seemed to look pretty much the same (very slightly older in the Buu arc) for all of the Z series. I thought it was just to suit her 'housewife' persona, and it makes sense since she seems to 'let loose' a lot more in that party episode...because...it's a party. So Chi-Chi probably isn't really as...homely, for lack of a better word...as she usually looks, it's just the style she chooses, especially since her husband is the last guy in the world who cares about appearance. Her outfits probably just work in the same way to de-emphasize her breasts (ironic, given the name), so Bulma is always assumed to be the 'larger' of the two, but the party episode might actually be realis...
Yeah, I agree. I think Bulma would've gotten Trunks to search for the Dragon Balls, then wished to make herself look younger, or even better than that, never age. I don't like her end-of-Z design either, and it does feel like a in-character thing for Bulma to do. Doesn't Bulma even say in the manga that the next time she finds the Dragon Balls, she's going to ask Shenlong to make her look younger?
Anyway, if you want to know what Chi-Chi looks like before the end of Z, look at her 23rd Tenka'ichi Budokai self. She certainly wasn't a housewife then. I don't think her outfits de-emphasize her breasts though, since Goku says that she's flat-chested, and, being her husband and all, he's most likely seen her naked more than once. I think that party episode is actually what Chi-Chi looks like after Boo was destroyed.
Hellspawn28 wrote:I still think Tenshinhan is the strongest human IMO. Seeing that he was able to blast Buu in half and hold off Semi-Perfect Cell then I don't see how Krillin is stated to be stronger then him?
Well, those aren't really good arguments. He didn't blast Majin Boo in half; that was Son Goku, who cut him in half with a Kienzan. Tenshinhan eradicated the attack he was using to destroy Earth with a Ki-Kô-Hô, but Kuririn has likely stopped training by then (he'd stopped shaving his head after the fighting stopped, a martial arts discipline that he had upheld ever since his first appearance, hinting that he'd retired from martial arts altogether). And he was only able to hold off Cell using a technique: the Shin Ki-Kô-Hô, which is much more powerful than himself (and it even baffles me now that Tenshinhan can generate an attack of that power, enough to hold off someone even #16 couldn't beat).
I believe that Kuririn is stronger than Tenshinhan post-Saiyan arc because he had his potential drawn out by the Great Elder, which I think keeps him ahead of Tenshinhan until he stops training and settles down by the Boo arc, whereas Tenshinhan is still training fiercely with Chaozu out in the mountains. Also, it's
partly because of Yamcha's comment in the Boo arc that Kuririn is the strongest "among humans". The only thing he'd have to base his opinion on is from the last time they all fought, in the Cell Games, since no-one knows where Tenshinhan has been for the last seven years and Yamcha doesn't even know what either of them are doing anyway. Tenshinhan is definitely stronger than Kuririn before the Saiyan arc, though.
Suupaa Gohan 2 wrote:That being said, I don't think Goku would have ever taught it to him. Best point in the series for him to have done so would have been the 3 years preparing for the Androids, and he obviously didn't know it then. After that point the technique faded out of use for the most part, replaced by endless stages of Super Saiyajin taking over the series. It's not that it wouldn't have still been useful, but since Toriyama-Sensei (and by extension, the characters) had largely forgotten about it, I find it really unlikely that Goku would have randomly taught it to his son near the end portion of the series. If anyone else were to have learned the Kaiouken it would have been Tenshinhan, Yamcha and co. from Kaioh himself, but once again, because Toriyama-Sensei stopped giving a shit about anything that wasn't a Super Saiyajin, that was sadly potential that never came about in the series.
Yeah, and besides, I don't think Goku would've even considered it useful, since his main focus now was Super Saiyan, and teaching Gohan Kaiô-Ken would've been a waste, especially since it's an inherently flawed technique itself. For all we know, Goku could've been training Gohan to become a Super Saiyan, just not in the same focused way he did in the Room of Spirit and Time (standing there telling Gohan to "get mad").
Rocketman wrote:ChiChi and Yamcha couldn't have had an affair because Yamcha has no dick.
Yamcha sure does have a dick. How do you think he scored with Bulma and got so much female attention?
