"Jaco the Galactic Patrolman" discussion (incl. "DB Minus")

[UpFromTheSkies]

Joining the Galactic Patrol would be a good opportunity for Goku and company to get in some training while waiting for Beers to wake up again....

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Something else to note. While most of us seem to think Jaco is tracking baby Goku, at the very least, this series would seem to take place sometime before the Saiyan Arc at the latest (though not between the 21st Budokai and the 23rd). Jaco bounces his ship off the moon, and we all know that's been destroyed a couple of times in the series, and fails to return after Piccolo's crack at it.

Not saying Toriyama couldn't pull a BOG-Kaio's planet though.

[Jackal puFF]

Is it just me or does that old man look a lot like Dr. Gero? Give him a hair cut and he looks just like him. And he hates humans you say?

[Avenged]

Is it just me or does that old man look a lot like Dr. Gero? Give him a hair cut and he looks just like him. And he hates humans you say?

No, a lot of people have come to that conclusion as well.

[Chuquita]

Re: Officer Son

It'd be a job though, wouldn't it? Goku with a job, as a police officer...I don't know if I could see him taking the offer. (But then Chi-Chi might pressure him into taking it because he'll get paid, but then it turns out the galaxy police pay their officers in a currency that isn't worth anything on Earth....)


Slightly-related, I noticed that while not completely identical, the Galaxy Police logo in Sachie-chan looks somewhat similar to the one in Jaco.

[UpFromTheSkies]

Re: Officer Son

It'd be a job though, wouldn't it? Goku with a job, as a police officer...I don't know if I could see him taking the offer. (But then Chi-Chi might pressure him into taking it because he'll get paid, but then it turns out the galaxy police pay their officers in a currency that isn't worth anything on Earth....)


Slightly-related, I noticed that while not completely identical, the Galaxy Police logo in Sachie-chan looks somewhat similar to the one in Jaco.

I think he would take the job if it came with the promise of getting to fight really strong opponents, and if they just happen to pay their patrolman with food

[UpFromTheSkies]

I bet Jaco would be very impressed with Gohan's Great Saiyaman poses. You need a good pose to be a Galactic Patrolman. ::waits for Galactic Patrol DB fan art::

[kenisu3000]

I have to say, I've never been a big fan of whenever these "peripheral" series pop up (wasn't crazy about Neko Majin Z, for instance), but after reading that first chapter (and fan speculation that the alien Jaco mentions could be baby Goku), I can't wait for the next installment! I'm hooked already!

[SilverPlaqueVII]

I believe they are going to meet with goku in the next chapter, since at the bottom it says Jako and Ommari meet an unexpected person.

I think the "unexpected person" is the blonde girl shown on promo. She hasn't appeared yet, but her appearance on promo implies she's an important character, so she'll probably appear early in the series (chapter 2). Also, the trio old man, hero, girl seems to fit Toriyama's recent choices for a group of a main protagonists.

And the old man, he looks like a fusion between the Sand Land characters Thief and Rao:

Odd, I seen a Buu-esque guy in pink. But that's a slight coincidence.

[Kakarot88]

I'd love for it to actually be a back story on Tien and his alien heritage based on whichever daizenshuu through threw that out there!

[Marco Polo]

He looks nothing like Dr. Gero IMO, and I really don't think that for his last manga ever Toriyama is making this benevolent old man turn into the cold-blooded, evil mass murderer from one of DB's darkest sagas.

[enjyu123]

I just found chapter 2 in chinese...

...except i don't know what's happening...

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Guess work:

Spoiler:

Seems like Omori is visited by the government. Probably tracked the foreign object that was Jaco's ship to his location. On the way off the island, the new guy spots Jaco with a telescope. After talking with Omori about their visitors, Jaco sinks their ship with a rock and forces them to use a life raft to return, possibly in an attempt to buy time for Jaco's ship to be fixed before the rest of the government is alerted.

Alternatively, it might have something to do with his old time travel research too. The noticing of Jaco might be a coincidence, and he just wants to prevent them from alerting everyone else before his ship is ready as a precaution.

[JeffJarrett]

We are for from Dragon Ball here.

[Tanooki Kuribo]

We are far from Dragon Ball here.

As of right now, yes. We're still looking for the connection between the two. This mini-series just began, so we don't have much to work with.

[kei17]

A leak from 2ch:

http://ikura.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/wcomic/1372255758/49

Spoiler:

2話は島に警察が来て会話して警察が帰って行くだけ
話数表記は2/10＋1、DB-10

In chapter two, police come to the island, speak, and then they go back. That's all.
The chapter number is 2/10+1 DB-10.

[Chuquita]

A leak from 2ch:

http://ikura.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/wcomic/1372255758/49

Spoiler:

2話は島に警察が来て会話して警察が帰って行くだけ
話数表記は2/10＋1、DB-10

In chapter two, police come to the island, speak, and then they go back. That's all.
The chapter number is 2/10+1 DB-10.

This makes it seem more like it's a math puzzle, or a countdown, than a "maybe it takes place 11 years before DB's plot starts" kind of thing. (Or maybe it's both.)
Chapter 1's is 1/10+1 DB-11...

If the entire manga is 11 chapters long (and fills a single volume), and Chapter 1 is 34 pages, then the remaining chapters should be 18 or 19 pages on average which is pretty normal for Weekly Jump chapters....

I guess that would make the final chapter of this 11/10+1, which calculated out, is 1 (the whole any number divided by itself is 1 thing) with the other part of it also coming out to DB-1.

Interesting math puzzle, but I still don't get where it's going. ^^; It might just be a clever way of counting down to the very last solo chapter of manga Toriyama will draw/write.

[hleV]

So the only thing that didn't change is (10+1). I don't think that's something we can figure out on our own.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

From what I understood, there will be 11 chapters, and the whole DB-11, DB-10 is like a countdown to the final chapter, which will have something special (probably Dragon Ball).

[dodonpa]

Reading the first chapter and mainly seeing Omori, i thought the visual style for the chracters was the super-deformed one that Toriyama likes to use nowadays. However, the second chapter have characters with what you could call normal proportions, so i suppose its just that Omori is short, lol.