Guide to what causes the Size,Color, and Shape of a Ki blast

[TheGmGoken]

In Dragonball-Dragonballz-Dragonball GT we've seen many ki changes. From a round ball to a rectangle or Cylinder(The Kamehameha). We also see many colors. From Purple to yellow. The sizes varies from smaller than a baseball to larger than some planets. This is my cup of tea of it. Feel free to create your own theory. Let's begin shall we.

Color: The color of the ki. I based it off of this topic. http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... =8&t=23504. I believe the ki color is chosen by their mood(credit to Insertclevername), their alliance(Pure, Good, Middle, Bad), and intentions of attacks. For example Freeza's attacks are mostly dark colors. Purple, Dark yellow-orange, black, and dark red. His alliance is purely evil. Generic attacks are mostly yellow. I think this is because of their intentions can be used for both ways. A simple ki blast are used to distract, basic damage, or randomly used(Vegeta ect.). I notice most of Goku attacks are blueish white. This is to show his pure of heart. His main attack the kamehameha is whitish-blue and sometimes even his basic ki blast are blue. When he gets angry his attacks change to yellow. This might be cause of his change of mood and now he's alliance is in the middle. Looking at Piccolo however his ki blast are purple and yellow. I think this is because he was once evil and now he's good. Mixing himself into the middle causing yellow ki blast. Yamcha, Krillin, and Tien all have yellow ki mostly. Each was once evil but now is good. I hold Cell as an exception of this rule as he's a mix.

Size: The size doesn't effect the power of ki. As we've seen many times. Sometimes it's more of the aura that surrounds the ki then the actual ki. This videos talks about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz2iorS15BE. Yes he's using Tenkaichi 3 auras for example but I think it applies. A lot of times the aura is what causes the size of ki to the eye. So it's possible that the aura of Boo's planet burst made it seem bigger than it actually is. However it's still big as the aura is just bigger. The Revenge Death Ball isn't as big as you think. It's quite a medium size. The aura however is HUGE.

Shape: Now this is a challenge for me. What exactly causes the shape of ki blast? Is it random? The way you charge it? It seems like all ki blast starts off as some form of ball shaped object even the Makankōsappō . Maybe the way you fire it or charge it affects the shape of the ki. I notice that all long length ki attacks(Kamehameha and Garlic Gun ect) are condensed into their hands controlling the ki. This is like the atoms in solids. However once fired the ki itself properties change into something similar to emulsion. The atoms are more free like liquid but is both solid and liquid(Similar to Ketchup). Making the attack becoming a beam due to the amount of energy charge. The ball style attacks(Big Bang attack ect) can still be strong but take less time to charge up. Making it stay a solid allowing the atoms to stay condense and proceeds to hit the target. The straight line attacks like Dodonpa and Makankōsappō are a mixture. They don't take as long as the beams(Unless you want more power like Piccolo needs for his attack) but not as fast as the balls.

Thanks for reading my thoughts and theories about ki. Hope this somewhat makes sense. Through I doubt it's 100% accurate or helpful. But I at least hope it was higher than 40%.

[Kamiccolo9]

I'll go more in depth into this later, but for now, where is that first picture from? I don't remember Piccolo ever using that attack while wearing his turban.

[TheGmGoken]

I'll go more in depth into this later, but for now, where is that first picture from? I don't remember Piccolo ever using that attack while wearing his turban.

Filler I think. Here's from the first time he uses it.

[Kamiccolo9]

I'll go more in depth into this later, but for now, where is that first picture from? I don't remember Piccolo ever using that attack while wearing his turban.

Filler I think.

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It looks like it's from early on in the series too. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that it's in the year spent training for the Saiyans, but I can't remember exactly when. This is bugging me know

[RandomGuy96]

I think that's when Piccolo blew up the ship during the Saiyan Saga filler while Oozaru Gohan was rampaging.

[SaiyanZ]

I think that's when Piccolo blew up the ship during the Saiyan Saga filler while Oozaru Gohan was rampaging.

Yup you got it . IIRC he destroys the moon some time around that

[TheGmGoken]

So what y'all think about my guide?

[Cold Skin]

Interesting interpretation of things, but don't forget it can only apply to the anime.

- In Toriyama's original vision, energy seems to be pure white pretty much all the time, except for the Kaioken (which leaves a red trail) and the Genki Dama (which is blue - likely to be a symbol of Earth, despite the attack later gathering energy from other places than Earth).

- In the now-colored manga, energy from humanoids is constantly yellow/golden (for both blasts and auras), with the only exceptions being the Genki Dama (blue as always - likely for the same reason, it's symbolically borrowed from Earth) and the Kaioken (symbolizing the overheat process by turning it red).
Alien morphologies (such as Piccolo and Freezer) may display very special form of blasts (or auras) that have other colors - often purple, but Freezer is also shown blasting red energy.
Finally, Super Saiyan energy is purified to immaculate white when it's in direct contact with them (auras), but I don't know if it remains white when they blast energy away or if once detached from their body the energy turns to yellow/golden again.

[TheGmGoken]

Interesting interpretation of things, but don't forget it can only apply to the anime.

- In Toriyama's original vision, energy seems to be pure white pretty much all the time, except for the Kaioken (which leaves a red trail) and the Genki Dama (which is blue - likely to be a symbol of Earth, despite the attack later gathering energy from other places than Earth).

- In the now-colored manga, energy from humanoids is constantly yellow/golden (for both blasts and auras), with the only exceptions being the Genki Dama (blue as always - likely for the same reason, it's symbolically borrowed from Earth) and the Kaioken (symbolizing the overheat process by turning it red).
Alien morphologies (such as Piccolo and Freezer) may display very special form of blasts (or auras) that have other colors - often purple, but Freezer is also shown blasting red energy.
Finally, Super Saiyan energy is purified to immaculate white when it's in direct contact with them (auras), but I don't know if it remains white when they blast energy away or if once detached from their body the energy turns to yellow/golden again.

I was going by the anime lol. I've never seen the full color manga. Genki Dami is blue cause it's pure. That's the only time I can apply my guide to the manga.