Yay, so many awesome comments. Thank you, guys, for enjoying what I do. I wish my Batman series and Final Fantasy Memory series were getting as many hits as this, but it's always refreshing to put out a new DBD and see numbers, comments, and likes. It gives me the warm fuzzies. So let me see if I can address everything.
@JulieYBM: I suppose you could say that Lunch's, for lack of a better term, transformation, was already complete by the end of the RRA (or even the beginning, really), and I think someone might have commented to that effect earlier, but I always wanted to save it for this moment because it seemed to fit really well with this theme I wanted to follow of the cast coming together.
@Shinyonasan: Yeah, I expected someone to come in and say that because of Herms's Age Guide. But I think a lot of it ties back to the topic I opened the RRA arc on: the whole 8 months/year thing that doesn't exactly reconcile one way or the other. And if you do accept the alternate interpretation that a year has somehow passed, making Goku 13 by the TB, then he would be 16 here. But I decided to make it easy on myself and not get into that can of worms again.
@Herms: I love that you mention in passing that no one should logically know Goku's true birthday. I remember thinking about that when I had to do my big spiel on ages at the beginning of RRA, but I'd already put out the video. But I kept wondering if someone was going to bring that up as a possible rationalization for how the timeline doesn't quite gel. I know that's not exactly what you were getting at here, but it still makes me smile. ^_^
@Saiga: Welcome! So glad you're enjoying yourself, and thank you for your kind words. I certainly don't hold a monopoly on discussing Dragon Ball, as you could easily reason that my series is a visual, solo, restructured Manga Review of Awesomeness. So please don't think your own efforts would be redundant, as I'm sure you have your own unique take on the series. By all means feel free to reference me in your blog, and let me know how your series goes.
Now I had a bit of a... well, not really a question, but maybe some thinking out loud, if you will. As you know, I'm also covering the movies, and it's been my goal to release them at the same point in the manga's run that they were originally released. To that end, I'd been using Kanzenshuu to match up release dates and actually end the preceding DBD right at the chapter the movie would have been released, and I have this arc structured the same way. To my horror, though, I somehow missed
this entire thread's existence until just the other day, wherein Julian explains that there's a difference of a couple of weeks between Jump's official publication date and the date of its actual release. And I'm perfectly fine with continuing to use those dates in my title sequence for the beginnings and ends of arcs, but it does throw a bit of a monkey wrench into my plans to perfectly position the movies. In fact, I've already failed. So now I'm not sure what to do. Keep doing what I've been doing? Try to figure out the actual chapters the movies would have been released between and try to adjust myself accordingly from now on? Aaaaaaargh! Quandary!
