As you may dimly recall, a little while back I declared my intention to spend the rest of the year updating and expanding upon the Strength Checker so that it incorporates stuff from the anime, movies, guidebooks, and any other thing I feel like throwing in. Several nice people volunteered to help with this, but I got caught up with one thing or another, never got back to anybody, and now it's the start of February, my arbitrary deadline for beginning this project. But instead of pushing the start back, I figured I might as well just put up some kind of rough draft that I can improve on later. Thinking it over, I probably won't be able to finish this project within the year, but I do intend to post something new every Monday, so I can just chip away at it.
Anyways, today we begin at the beginning, with an overview of the "search for the dragon balls" story arc and...kinda the first half of the "training" mini-story arc. Basically, everything up until when Goku and Kuririn start getting really strong through their training. Then next time I'll take a look at their "post-training" strength and the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai. Actually, before moving on to that, I'll probably cover DB movies 1 and 2.
This idea here is to create something that sums up all the stuff said in the Strength Checker in a hopefully marginally less tedious to read format, and adds wordless "feats", fight results, and stuff from outside the manga. Commentary in brackets.
[PROG 1.1: SEARCH FOR THE DRAGON BALLS AND KAME-SENNIN'S TRAINING]
Strength Checker
I: Search for the Dragonballs; Chapters 1-23
Spoiler:
1. Chi-Chi [#DRA#CHI]
Chapter: 11, P8.1
Context: after Chi-Chi kills the dinosaur
Yamcha: “Wh…what is she?...”
Puar: “She went on quite a rampage for someone so scared…”
Chapter: 11, P9.1
Context: after knocking out Chi-Chi
Yamcha: “What a fearsome brat!”
2. Gyuumao [#DRA#GYU]
Chapter: 11, P2.2-4
Oolong: “You really don’t know about [Gyuumao]!? He’s an absurdly fearsome guy, so much so that he’s called the emperor of demons! At any rate, those who approach that mountain…aa~~aall end up like this…! [mimes cutting his throat]”
Chapter: 11, P3.5
Oolong: “D-do you guys want to die!? No matter how strong Goku is, Gyuumao’s on too much of a different level!”
Chapter: 12, P2.4
Gyuumao: “Your grampa was Lord Muten Roshi’s #1 disciple, and I was #2! Man, that takes me back!”
3. Kame-sennin [#DRA#KAM]
Chapter: 13, P4.2
Context: after Chi-Chi nails him with her helmet blade
Kame-sennin: “You dingbat! Even I can’t dodge that quickly!”
Chapter: 13, P9.3-4
Kame-sennin: “Alright! In that case, I’ll go myself and put out the fire!”
Goku: “Can you do that, gramps?”
Kame-sennin: “But of course! Nothing is impossible for Muten Roshi!”
Chapter: 14, P8.1-2
Gyuumao: “H-h-here it comes! Lord Muten Roshi’s ‘Kamehameha’!”
Puar: “In-incredible! Lord Yamcha, what the heck is the ‘Kamehameha’…?!”
Yamcha: “The ‘Kamehameha’…! It’s Muten Roshi’s grand technique, which is said to condense the latent energy within his b-body, and fire it out in one burst…! To think that I’d be able to see it with my own eyes…!”
Chapter: 14, P14.1-4
Gyuumao: “U-um, Lord Roshi…You really did extinguish the fire, but…[ ] …The castle, and the mo-mountain too…”
Bulma: “Ah! They’re gone!”
Kame-sennin: “…I guess I put too much force into that! Tee-he!”
Chapter: 15, P2.3-4
Goku: “That was an amazin’ technique! Gramps, teach it to me please!”
Kame-sennin: “That can’t be done. You have to train for 50 years to achieve the Kamehameha…”
4. Oolong [#DRA#OOL]
Chapter: 5, P13.1
Oolong: “Hey! I’m super-duper scary when mad! I’m strong!”
Chapter: 6, P6.5-6
Goku: “Hey, could it be that…you’re actually super-duper weak?...”
Oolong: “Don’t talk nonsense! My strength has been rated as the best in the world!”
Chapter: 6, P9.2
Sherman Priest: “To think that Oolong was weak…”
Granma Paozu: “We were all just fooled by his fearsome appearance and couldn’t oppose him…”
Chapter: 7, P10.1-2
Context: after Bulma squashes him in bike form
Oolong: “I can’t help it! I can only change my appearance; my power doesn’t change! To top it off, I can only stay transformed for 5 minutes. After that, I have to rest for 1 minute…”
5. Son Gohan, Grandpa [#DRA#GRA]
Chapter: 8, P6.5-6
Yamcha: “Son Gohan is such a master that he’s said to be unsurpassed in all the various forms of martial arts…”
Oolong: “E-even I’ve heard of him…[Goku's] grandpa is really famous!”
Chapter: 12, P2.4
Gyuumao: “Your grampa was Lord Muten Roshi’s #1 disciple, and I was #2!”
6. Son Goku [#DRA#GOK]
Chapter: 1, P12.6
Context: After being shot by Bulma and surviving
Goku: “Moron! You think I’d die from just that?!! My body is forged like stainless steel!!”
Chapter: 1, P15.1
Goku: “So this is a car, huh?! I’ve heard about them in stories. Hm-----mm, hm----mm, it’s incredible, but weak.”
Chapter: 1, P15.4
Bulma: “You’re really strong for a shrimp, aren’t you?”
Goku: “Hehe--, gramps toughened me up!”
Chapter: 1, P23.4
Context: talking about Bulma’s motorcycle
Goku: “Th-this is amazing!!! This is way faster than I can run!!!”
Chapter: 3, P10.2
Bear bandit: “You’re pretty agile, ain’t ya? I’m impressed that you dodged my sword.”
Chapter: 3, P12.2
Context: after Goku defeats the Bear bandit
Sea Turtle: “In…in…incredible…”
Bulma: “…H-he’s…that strong…”
Chapter: 5, P3.3
Context: after his axe breaks on Goku’s head
Sherman Priest: “S-so it didn’t work…”
Chapter: 6, P7.1-4
Oolong: “Well then, how about you? Are you strong? Eh?”
Goku: “I’m strong! Gramps taught me kung-fu, after all.”
Oolong: “W-well, you’re pretty confident, aren’t you? In that case, can you break these 3 bricks with your bare hands?”
Goku: “Bricks? I can break these with one finger!”
Chapter: 8, P6.1
Context: after Goku beats up on Yamcha
Oolong: “In-incredible! He really is strong!”
Chapter: 8, P7.1
Yamcha: “Looks like my first challenge in a long time…”
Chapter: 8, P12.3
Context: after Goku hits Yamcha with the Janken
Goku: “It’s no use. I’m hungry, so I couldn’t put any power behind that at all…”
Chapter: 10, P9.4-5
Yamcha: “Hahhahhaha! Do you want to get beat down with my Roga-FuFu-Ken again?”
Goku: “Yesterday I was hungry! Now I’ve got a full stomach!”
Chapter: 10, P12.3
Context: after Goku knocks Yamcha's tooth out.
Yamcha: “Da-damn it…that brat’s really good…”
Chapter: 12, P9.6
Goku: “Please don’t squeeze my tail…! I lose my power if my tails gets squeezed…”
Chapter: 15, P4.3-4
Context: after Goku fires his first Kamehameha
Goku: “It…it came out…But it didn’t hold a candle to that old timer Kame-sennin’s one…”
Gyuumao: “Ma…magnificent…Just what you’d expect of Gohan’s grandson…”
Chapter: 15, P5.1
Kame-sennin: “From the looks of it…It seems that [Gohan] really toughened him up.”
Chapter: 16, P14.3
Rabbit Gang member: “S-sorry boss, but would you please come into town?...Th-there’s a ridiculously strong guy here…”
Chapter: 19, P1.2
Context: trying to break the walls of Pilaf’s trap
Goku: “Even my punch can’t open up a hole”
Chapter: 19, P13.1
Context: after Goku blows a small hole in the wall with the Kamehameha
Goku: “It’s no good! I haven’t practiced it, so all I could open was this teensy-weensy hole!”
Chapter: 20, P12.1-4
Goku: “What are you talking about? The roof’s open, ain’t it?”
Bulma: “It’s no use…It’s covered in super-strengthened glass.”
*Goku jumps up, hits head on glass*
Goku: “O-ow! Owowowow!”
Bulma: “I told you it was no use…”
---Oozaru--- [#DRA#GOK#OZA]
Chapter: 21, P1.2
Context: Goku and Yamcha try to escape Pilaf's prison
Pilaf: “No matter how they struggle, it’s no use! The walls of the prison are made of 300-millimeter thick steel! The roof is super-strengthened glass! Not even a cannon can break it!”
Note: Goku and Yamcha can’t dent the prison walls, but Oozaru Goku smashes them.
Chapter: 21, P3.7, P4.1
Goku: “It ain’t no lie! My grampa was crushed to death by it!”
Yamcha: “What?!! The martial arts master Son Gohan…!? Th-that monster must be absolutely incredible”
Goku: “Yeah! Even my house and the trees were smashed to bits!”
7. Yamcha [#DRA#YAM]
Chapter: 19, P11.2
Context: trying to break the walls of Pilaf’s trap
Yamcha: “It’s no use! This wall is too hard! I can’t break it at all!”
Goku: “Even my kicks don’t work.”
Chapter: 11, P8.1
Context: after Chi-Chi kills the dinosaur
Yamcha: “Wh…what is she?...”
Puar: “She went on quite a rampage for someone so scared…”
Chapter: 11, P9.1
Context: after knocking out Chi-Chi
Yamcha: “What a fearsome brat!”
2. Gyuumao [#DRA#GYU]
Chapter: 11, P2.2-4
Oolong: “You really don’t know about [Gyuumao]!? He’s an absurdly fearsome guy, so much so that he’s called the emperor of demons! At any rate, those who approach that mountain…aa~~aall end up like this…! [mimes cutting his throat]”
Chapter: 11, P3.5
Oolong: “D-do you guys want to die!? No matter how strong Goku is, Gyuumao’s on too much of a different level!”
Chapter: 12, P2.4
Gyuumao: “Your grampa was Lord Muten Roshi’s #1 disciple, and I was #2! Man, that takes me back!”
3. Kame-sennin [#DRA#KAM]
Chapter: 13, P4.2
Context: after Chi-Chi nails him with her helmet blade
Kame-sennin: “You dingbat! Even I can’t dodge that quickly!”
Chapter: 13, P9.3-4
Kame-sennin: “Alright! In that case, I’ll go myself and put out the fire!”
Goku: “Can you do that, gramps?”
Kame-sennin: “But of course! Nothing is impossible for Muten Roshi!”
Chapter: 14, P8.1-2
Gyuumao: “H-h-here it comes! Lord Muten Roshi’s ‘Kamehameha’!”
Puar: “In-incredible! Lord Yamcha, what the heck is the ‘Kamehameha’…?!”
Yamcha: “The ‘Kamehameha’…! It’s Muten Roshi’s grand technique, which is said to condense the latent energy within his b-body, and fire it out in one burst…! To think that I’d be able to see it with my own eyes…!”
Chapter: 14, P14.1-4
Gyuumao: “U-um, Lord Roshi…You really did extinguish the fire, but…[ ] …The castle, and the mo-mountain too…”
Bulma: “Ah! They’re gone!”
Kame-sennin: “…I guess I put too much force into that! Tee-he!”
Chapter: 15, P2.3-4
Goku: “That was an amazin’ technique! Gramps, teach it to me please!”
Kame-sennin: “That can’t be done. You have to train for 50 years to achieve the Kamehameha…”
4. Oolong [#DRA#OOL]
Chapter: 5, P13.1
Oolong: “Hey! I’m super-duper scary when mad! I’m strong!”
Chapter: 6, P6.5-6
Goku: “Hey, could it be that…you’re actually super-duper weak?...”
Oolong: “Don’t talk nonsense! My strength has been rated as the best in the world!”
Chapter: 6, P9.2
Sherman Priest: “To think that Oolong was weak…”
Granma Paozu: “We were all just fooled by his fearsome appearance and couldn’t oppose him…”
Chapter: 7, P10.1-2
Context: after Bulma squashes him in bike form
Oolong: “I can’t help it! I can only change my appearance; my power doesn’t change! To top it off, I can only stay transformed for 5 minutes. After that, I have to rest for 1 minute…”
5. Son Gohan, Grandpa [#DRA#GRA]
Chapter: 8, P6.5-6
Yamcha: “Son Gohan is such a master that he’s said to be unsurpassed in all the various forms of martial arts…”
Oolong: “E-even I’ve heard of him…[Goku's] grandpa is really famous!”
Chapter: 12, P2.4
Gyuumao: “Your grampa was Lord Muten Roshi’s #1 disciple, and I was #2!”
6. Son Goku [#DRA#GOK]
Chapter: 1, P12.6
Context: After being shot by Bulma and surviving
Goku: “Moron! You think I’d die from just that?!! My body is forged like stainless steel!!”
Chapter: 1, P15.1
Goku: “So this is a car, huh?! I’ve heard about them in stories. Hm-----mm, hm----mm, it’s incredible, but weak.”
Chapter: 1, P15.4
Bulma: “You’re really strong for a shrimp, aren’t you?”
Goku: “Hehe--, gramps toughened me up!”
Chapter: 1, P23.4
Context: talking about Bulma’s motorcycle
Goku: “Th-this is amazing!!! This is way faster than I can run!!!”
Chapter: 3, P10.2
Bear bandit: “You’re pretty agile, ain’t ya? I’m impressed that you dodged my sword.”
Chapter: 3, P12.2
Context: after Goku defeats the Bear bandit
Sea Turtle: “In…in…incredible…”
Bulma: “…H-he’s…that strong…”
Chapter: 5, P3.3
Context: after his axe breaks on Goku’s head
Sherman Priest: “S-so it didn’t work…”
Chapter: 6, P7.1-4
Oolong: “Well then, how about you? Are you strong? Eh?”
Goku: “I’m strong! Gramps taught me kung-fu, after all.”
Oolong: “W-well, you’re pretty confident, aren’t you? In that case, can you break these 3 bricks with your bare hands?”
Goku: “Bricks? I can break these with one finger!”
Chapter: 8, P6.1
Context: after Goku beats up on Yamcha
Oolong: “In-incredible! He really is strong!”
Chapter: 8, P7.1
Yamcha: “Looks like my first challenge in a long time…”
Chapter: 8, P12.3
Context: after Goku hits Yamcha with the Janken
Goku: “It’s no use. I’m hungry, so I couldn’t put any power behind that at all…”
Chapter: 10, P9.4-5
Yamcha: “Hahhahhaha! Do you want to get beat down with my Roga-FuFu-Ken again?”
Goku: “Yesterday I was hungry! Now I’ve got a full stomach!”
Chapter: 10, P12.3
Context: after Goku knocks Yamcha's tooth out.
Yamcha: “Da-damn it…that brat’s really good…”
Chapter: 12, P9.6
Goku: “Please don’t squeeze my tail…! I lose my power if my tails gets squeezed…”
Chapter: 15, P4.3-4
Context: after Goku fires his first Kamehameha
Goku: “It…it came out…But it didn’t hold a candle to that old timer Kame-sennin’s one…”
Gyuumao: “Ma…magnificent…Just what you’d expect of Gohan’s grandson…”
Chapter: 15, P5.1
Kame-sennin: “From the looks of it…It seems that [Gohan] really toughened him up.”
Chapter: 16, P14.3
Rabbit Gang member: “S-sorry boss, but would you please come into town?...Th-there’s a ridiculously strong guy here…”
Chapter: 19, P1.2
Context: trying to break the walls of Pilaf’s trap
Goku: “Even my punch can’t open up a hole”
Chapter: 19, P13.1
Context: after Goku blows a small hole in the wall with the Kamehameha
Goku: “It’s no good! I haven’t practiced it, so all I could open was this teensy-weensy hole!”
Chapter: 20, P12.1-4
Goku: “What are you talking about? The roof’s open, ain’t it?”
Bulma: “It’s no use…It’s covered in super-strengthened glass.”
*Goku jumps up, hits head on glass*
Goku: “O-ow! Owowowow!”
Bulma: “I told you it was no use…”
---Oozaru--- [#DRA#GOK#OZA]
Chapter: 21, P1.2
Context: Goku and Yamcha try to escape Pilaf's prison
Pilaf: “No matter how they struggle, it’s no use! The walls of the prison are made of 300-millimeter thick steel! The roof is super-strengthened glass! Not even a cannon can break it!”
Note: Goku and Yamcha can’t dent the prison walls, but Oozaru Goku smashes them.
Chapter: 21, P3.7, P4.1
Goku: “It ain’t no lie! My grampa was crushed to death by it!”
Yamcha: “What?!! The martial arts master Son Gohan…!? Th-that monster must be absolutely incredible”
Goku: “Yeah! Even my house and the trees were smashed to bits!”
7. Yamcha [#DRA#YAM]
Chapter: 19, P11.2
Context: trying to break the walls of Pilaf’s trap
Yamcha: “It’s no use! This wall is too hard! I can’t break it at all!”
Goku: “Even my kicks don’t work.”
Spoiler:
1. Kame-sennin [#TRA#KAM]
Chapter: 27, P10.1
Kuririn: “You’re incredibly lucky! There isn’t anyone in the world of martial arts who doesn’t know of Lord Muten Roshi here! Quite frankly, he’s the best in the world!”
Chapter: 28, P13.2-3
Context: after Kame-sennin runs 100 meters
Kame-sennin: “How many seconds?”
Goku: “So…so fast!”
Kuririn: “Fi…fi-fi…5.6…seconds…”
Kame-sennin: “5.6 seconds, huh? Well well, is that so?...This is what it means to overcome the human. You guys are young, so depending on your training you may even be able to break 5 seconds.”
2. Kame-sennin’s training principles [#TRA#TPR]
Chapter: 29, P3.4
Kame-sennin: “Searching for something might not seem like much, but it requires considerable willpower and concentration. To top it off, in this case it will require stamina too.”
Chapter: 31, P14.4-5
Kame-sennin: “Starting tomorrow, for the next few months you’ll do all the same training as today…While wearing these 20 kg shells on your back! See why I’m called Kame-sennin?”
Chapter: 32, P7.1-3
Kame-sennin: “I have practically nothing to teach you that could be called ‘kenpou’. [ ] All the basics of the Kame-sen School of martial arts has been included in the training which you’ve been doing every day these 7 months. It seems you haven’t realized it, but your eyes, fists, legs, your entire body, and even your mind have been toughened up. ‘Kenpou’ is nothing more than putting that into practice. You don’t strive in the martial arts to win, but rather to not lose to yourself. For that purpose, go study kenpou on your own, thinking on your own how to utilize the basics which you have learned.”
Chapter: 32, P8.1-2
Kame-sennin: “Which is to say that in the month before the tournament, I still won’t really teach you kenpou. I’ll just have you do the same things as you’ve done up to now. However, for a finishing touch you’ll wear these 40 kg shells, twice as heavy as the ones up until now.”
3. Kinto’un [#TRA#KIN]
Chapter: 32, P12.2
Context: flying on the propeller plane to the tournament
Goku: “Incredible! So something this huge can fly?! It’s way slower than Kinto’un, though!”
4. Kuririn [#TRA#KUR]
Chapter: 25, P12.4-5
Goku: “Haha…Your head’s like a pachinko ball!”
Kuririn: “What are you talking about?!! Those who aspire to the martial arts make their heads round to tighten their ki!”
Chapter: 26, P11.1
Context: talking about rescuing Lunch from the police
Kuririn: “It’d look pretty cool if we rescued her, but…W-we’re still not good enough…And they’ve got guns too…”
Chapter: 28, P6.1-2
Kame-sennin: “So then, let’s finally begin our special training…Kuririn, do you have any knowledge of the martial arts?”
Kuririn: “Yes sir! I spent 8 years at Oorin Temple.”
Kame-sennin: “I see. So then, both of you should be capable of the general basics.”
Chapter: 28, P6.5
Kuririn: “I’ll run first. I’ll show you legs good enough to even enter the Olympics.”
Chapter: 28, P8.1-2
Context: after running 100 meters
Kame-sennin: “Incredible! 10.4 seconds! That’s really something!”
Kuririn: “Oh, 10.4 huh? My personal best is 10.1 though.”
Chapter: 28, P12.1
Kame-sennin: “Hm—mm…that’s absurdly fast…You two are both really something. However, that’s entirely from a human level. In order to become a complete martial artist, you must overcome this wall called ‘human’. This is hard to do…”
Chapter: 28, P14.5
Context: as Lunch chases Kuririn with a butcher knife
Kame-sennin: “Mumu…! Kuririn’s drawn pretty close to the human wall…!”
Chapter: 28, P13.3
Context: after everyone runs 100 meters
Kame-sennin: “You guys are young, so depending on your training you may even be able to break 5 seconds.”
Chapter: 29, P10.3
Context: after Kuririn knocks out a sabertooth tiger.
Kuririn: “Th…that was close…!”
Chapter: 32, P2.3-4
Narrator: “Before they knew it, the two somehow became able to easily handle that harsh training.”
Kame-sennin: “Hmm…This is even better than I expected…”
Chapter: 34, P4.1
Context: 1 month before the tournament
Kuririn: “We’ve become able to move this rock!”
Chapter: 32, P5.3
Context: after Goku moves the super-big rock
Kuririn: “Now it’s my turn! Though I can’t move it as far as Goku.”
Chapter: 32, P6.4
Kame-sennin: “I was joking when I told them to move that rock…what kind of guys are these?...”
Chapter: 32, P9.4
Context: after removing their weighted shells
Kuririn: “Huh!?”
Goku: “My body’s gotten light! I can’t feel my own weight at all!”
Chapter: 32, P11.1
Context: still playing around without their shells
Goku: “Amazin’, amazin’! I can run super-duper fast!”
Kuririn: “I’m not gonna lose!”
5. Son Goku [#TRA#GOK]
Chapter: 26, P14.1
Context: after beating up the police
Goku: “What the? They’re weak.”
Chapter: 28, P6.2
Kame-sennin: “I see. So then, both of you should be capable of the general basics.”
Chapter: 28, P9.2
Context: after Goku runs 100 meters with worn-out shoes
Kame-sennin: “Exactly 11 seconds! That’s pretty fast, though no match for Kuririn”
Chapter: 28, P11.4-5
Context: after Goku runs 100 meters with new shoes
Kame-sennin: “Eigh…8.5 seconds…”
Goku: “Is that fast!?”
Kuririn: “What kind of training did you do…?”
Chapter: 28, P12.1
Kame-sennin: “Hm—mm…that’s absurdly fast…You two are both really something. However, that’s entirely from a human level. In order to become a complete martial artist, you must overcome this wall called ‘human’. This is hard to do…”
Chapter: 28, P13.3
Context: after everyone runs 100 meters
Kame-sennin: “You guys are young, so depending on your training you may even be able to break 5 seconds.”
Chapter: 29, P13.6
Context: after Goku beats Kuririn
Kuririn: “Your strength is ridiculous…Exactly where and for how long did you study?”
Chapter: 30, P4.2-3
Context: after being shot at by Lunch
Goku: “Ow…owwy…! You jerk…! I’m not gonna lose to the likes of you!”
Kame-sennin: “Y…you don’t even hold back against women…What a simple guy…”
Chapter: 31, P9.3
Context: after Goku moves the big rock
Kuririn: “H…he…he moved it further than Lord Muten Roshi…”
Chapter: 31, P10.3
Context: after Goku fails to move the super-big rock
Goku: “I-I knew it, it’s no use…! It won’t budge at all.”
Kame-sennin: “Of course not. You’re completely lacking in training.”
Chapter: 32, P2.3-4
Narrator: “Before they knew it, the two somehow became able to easily handle that harsh training.”
Kame-sennin: “Hmm…This is even better than I expected…”
Chapter: 34, P4.1
Context: 1 month before the tournament
Kuririn: “We’ve become able to move this rock!”
Chapter: 32, P6.4
Kame-sennin: “I was joking when I told them to move that rock…what kind of guys are these?...”
Chapter: 32, P9.4
Context: after removing their weighted shells
Kuririn: “Huh!?”
Goku: “My body’s gotten light! I can’t feel my own weight at all!”
Chapter: 32, P11.1
Context: still playing around without their shells
Goku: “Amazin’, amazin’! I can run super-duper fast!”
Kuririn: “I’m not gonna lose!”
Chapter: 27, P10.1
Kuririn: “You’re incredibly lucky! There isn’t anyone in the world of martial arts who doesn’t know of Lord Muten Roshi here! Quite frankly, he’s the best in the world!”
Chapter: 28, P13.2-3
Context: after Kame-sennin runs 100 meters
Kame-sennin: “How many seconds?”
Goku: “So…so fast!”
Kuririn: “Fi…fi-fi…5.6…seconds…”
Kame-sennin: “5.6 seconds, huh? Well well, is that so?...This is what it means to overcome the human. You guys are young, so depending on your training you may even be able to break 5 seconds.”
2. Kame-sennin’s training principles [#TRA#TPR]
Chapter: 29, P3.4
Kame-sennin: “Searching for something might not seem like much, but it requires considerable willpower and concentration. To top it off, in this case it will require stamina too.”
Chapter: 31, P14.4-5
Kame-sennin: “Starting tomorrow, for the next few months you’ll do all the same training as today…While wearing these 20 kg shells on your back! See why I’m called Kame-sennin?”
Chapter: 32, P7.1-3
Kame-sennin: “I have practically nothing to teach you that could be called ‘kenpou’. [ ] All the basics of the Kame-sen School of martial arts has been included in the training which you’ve been doing every day these 7 months. It seems you haven’t realized it, but your eyes, fists, legs, your entire body, and even your mind have been toughened up. ‘Kenpou’ is nothing more than putting that into practice. You don’t strive in the martial arts to win, but rather to not lose to yourself. For that purpose, go study kenpou on your own, thinking on your own how to utilize the basics which you have learned.”
Chapter: 32, P8.1-2
Kame-sennin: “Which is to say that in the month before the tournament, I still won’t really teach you kenpou. I’ll just have you do the same things as you’ve done up to now. However, for a finishing touch you’ll wear these 40 kg shells, twice as heavy as the ones up until now.”
3. Kinto’un [#TRA#KIN]
Chapter: 32, P12.2
Context: flying on the propeller plane to the tournament
Goku: “Incredible! So something this huge can fly?! It’s way slower than Kinto’un, though!”
4. Kuririn [#TRA#KUR]
Chapter: 25, P12.4-5
Goku: “Haha…Your head’s like a pachinko ball!”
Kuririn: “What are you talking about?!! Those who aspire to the martial arts make their heads round to tighten their ki!”
Chapter: 26, P11.1
Context: talking about rescuing Lunch from the police
Kuririn: “It’d look pretty cool if we rescued her, but…W-we’re still not good enough…And they’ve got guns too…”
Chapter: 28, P6.1-2
Kame-sennin: “So then, let’s finally begin our special training…Kuririn, do you have any knowledge of the martial arts?”
Kuririn: “Yes sir! I spent 8 years at Oorin Temple.”
Kame-sennin: “I see. So then, both of you should be capable of the general basics.”
Chapter: 28, P6.5
Kuririn: “I’ll run first. I’ll show you legs good enough to even enter the Olympics.”
Chapter: 28, P8.1-2
Context: after running 100 meters
Kame-sennin: “Incredible! 10.4 seconds! That’s really something!”
Kuririn: “Oh, 10.4 huh? My personal best is 10.1 though.”
Chapter: 28, P12.1
Kame-sennin: “Hm—mm…that’s absurdly fast…You two are both really something. However, that’s entirely from a human level. In order to become a complete martial artist, you must overcome this wall called ‘human’. This is hard to do…”
Chapter: 28, P14.5
Context: as Lunch chases Kuririn with a butcher knife
Kame-sennin: “Mumu…! Kuririn’s drawn pretty close to the human wall…!”
Chapter: 28, P13.3
Context: after everyone runs 100 meters
Kame-sennin: “You guys are young, so depending on your training you may even be able to break 5 seconds.”
Chapter: 29, P10.3
Context: after Kuririn knocks out a sabertooth tiger.
Kuririn: “Th…that was close…!”
Chapter: 32, P2.3-4
Narrator: “Before they knew it, the two somehow became able to easily handle that harsh training.”
Kame-sennin: “Hmm…This is even better than I expected…”
Chapter: 34, P4.1
Context: 1 month before the tournament
Kuririn: “We’ve become able to move this rock!”
Chapter: 32, P5.3
Context: after Goku moves the super-big rock
Kuririn: “Now it’s my turn! Though I can’t move it as far as Goku.”
Chapter: 32, P6.4
Kame-sennin: “I was joking when I told them to move that rock…what kind of guys are these?...”
Chapter: 32, P9.4
Context: after removing their weighted shells
Kuririn: “Huh!?”
Goku: “My body’s gotten light! I can’t feel my own weight at all!”
Chapter: 32, P11.1
Context: still playing around without their shells
Goku: “Amazin’, amazin’! I can run super-duper fast!”
Kuririn: “I’m not gonna lose!”
5. Son Goku [#TRA#GOK]
Chapter: 26, P14.1
Context: after beating up the police
Goku: “What the? They’re weak.”
Chapter: 28, P6.2
Kame-sennin: “I see. So then, both of you should be capable of the general basics.”
Chapter: 28, P9.2
Context: after Goku runs 100 meters with worn-out shoes
Kame-sennin: “Exactly 11 seconds! That’s pretty fast, though no match for Kuririn”
Chapter: 28, P11.4-5
Context: after Goku runs 100 meters with new shoes
Kame-sennin: “Eigh…8.5 seconds…”
Goku: “Is that fast!?”
Kuririn: “What kind of training did you do…?”
Chapter: 28, P12.1
Kame-sennin: “Hm—mm…that’s absurdly fast…You two are both really something. However, that’s entirely from a human level. In order to become a complete martial artist, you must overcome this wall called ‘human’. This is hard to do…”
Chapter: 28, P13.3
Context: after everyone runs 100 meters
Kame-sennin: “You guys are young, so depending on your training you may even be able to break 5 seconds.”
Chapter: 29, P13.6
Context: after Goku beats Kuririn
Kuririn: “Your strength is ridiculous…Exactly where and for how long did you study?”
Chapter: 30, P4.2-3
Context: after being shot at by Lunch
Goku: “Ow…owwy…! You jerk…! I’m not gonna lose to the likes of you!”
Kame-sennin: “Y…you don’t even hold back against women…What a simple guy…”
Chapter: 31, P9.3
Context: after Goku moves the big rock
Kuririn: “H…he…he moved it further than Lord Muten Roshi…”
Chapter: 31, P10.3
Context: after Goku fails to move the super-big rock
Goku: “I-I knew it, it’s no use…! It won’t budge at all.”
Kame-sennin: “Of course not. You’re completely lacking in training.”
Chapter: 32, P2.3-4
Narrator: “Before they knew it, the two somehow became able to easily handle that harsh training.”
Kame-sennin: “Hmm…This is even better than I expected…”
Chapter: 34, P4.1
Context: 1 month before the tournament
Kuririn: “We’ve become able to move this rock!”
Chapter: 32, P6.4
Kame-sennin: “I was joking when I told them to move that rock…what kind of guys are these?...”
Chapter: 32, P9.4
Context: after removing their weighted shells
Kuririn: “Huh!?”
Goku: “My body’s gotten light! I can’t feel my own weight at all!”
Chapter: 32, P11.1
Context: still playing around without their shells
Goku: “Amazin’, amazin’! I can run super-duper fast!”
Kuririn: “I’m not gonna lose!”
Spoiler:
Goku vs. Big Fish
Goku went to the river. Using his tail in place of a worm, with a single intense blow he took out the fish that tried to eat it. Despite its size, he easily KO’s it. (volume 1, chapter 1)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. pteranodon
When Bulma went to the toilet, she let out a big scream. Goku came running, and found that a hungry pteranodon had flown off with Bulma. Goku used the bike’s momentum to fly off a ridge. He flew up a long ways but fell short of the pteranodon. He then used his expandable Nyoibo to knock the pteranodon down. (volume 1, chapter 1)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. bandit bear
A bandit bear came aiming to eat turtle. Brandishing an Azure Dragon Sword, he threatened Goku and co., but Goku struck him in the forehead with a Janken and downed him. (volume 1, chapter 3)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. Oolong
Transforming into a monster, Oolong plundered money and goods from the village’s people. As he ran from Goku, he turned back into a piglet. (volume 1, chapter 6)
Oolong loses by having his true identity discovered
Goku vs. Yamcha
While on their way to Mt. Frypan, Goku and co. had to cross a desert. In this desert lived the scoundrel Yamcha, who plundered money and goods from travelers and those lost in the desert. He demanded money from Goku and co. as well, but his threats were brushed aside. He then tried to steal it by brute force. With Goku, the last ray of hope, unable to put out his full power due to being hungry, he ends up being knocked down by the Rouga Fuu-Fuu Ken. Goku had just begun to counterattack when Bulma, who had been taking an afternoon nap, woke up. Weak around women, Yamcha becomes extremely nervous and hastily retreats to his secret base. (volume 1, chapter 8)
Yamcha’s victory, for the moment
Goku vs. Yamcha
Yamcha next came aiming for the dragonballs. Being no match for Goku on a full stomach, he looses a tooth to Goku’s intense kick and runs away. (volume 1, chapter 10)
Goku’s victory
Chi Chi vs. dinosaur
While trying to get the Bashousen, Chi Chi was attacked by a dinosaur. Even while being frightened, she obliterates the dinosaur with the cutter on her head and a beam from her forehead. (volume 1, chapter 11)
Chi Chi’s one-sided victory
Chi Chi vs. Yamcha
After defeating the dinosaur, through a misunderstanding Chi Chi attacks Yamcha. The angered Yamcha deftly dodges her beam and knocks her unconscious. (volume 1, chapter 11)
Yamcha’s victory
Goku vs. two Rabbit Gang thugs
The mysterious Rabbit Gang continued to act outrageously in a quiet village. The two stylish-acting thugs made a pass at Bulma, but Goku quickly repelled them. (volume 2, chapter 16)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. Toninjinka
The boss of the Rabbit Gang turned Bulma into a carrot, but with the aid of Yamcha and Puar Goku gets rid of him.
Goku’s victory
Yamcha, Puar vs. Oozaru Goku
Looking at the full moon, Goku transformed into an Oozaru. It was a good thing that he smashed the jail that they were imprisoned in, but Goku was simply on a rampage and there seemed to be no way to stop him. Yamcha knew that Goku’s weakness was his tail, so Puar transformed into a pair of scissors and severed his tail. Goku all at once turned back into his old self, and the danger passed. (volume 2, chapter 22)
Goku loses consciousness
Goku vs. police
Goku mistakenly thought that Lunch, who was being pursued by the police, was being chased by some bad guys. Defeating the police, he protects Lunch. (volume 3, chapter 26)
Goku’s victory
Krillin vs. saber-tooth tiger
In the middle of Kame-sennin’s training, Krillin is attacked in the jungle by a saber-tooth tiger, but he quickly defeats it. (volume 3, chapter 29)
Krillin’s victory
Goku vs. Krillin
Krillin obtained the training stone. He tried to head off the pursuit of the tenacious Goku, but at Goku’s strength gave up. (volume 3, chapter 29)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. Lunch
When she sneezes, Lunch changes between a quiet personality and an evil personality. When she had to sleep in the same bed as Goku since there were only a few futons in Kame House, things got ugly when she woke up as evil Lunch. She shoots at Goku before he can explain, but Goku doesn’t hold back against girls and she passes out from his kick. (volume 3, chapter 30)
Goku’s victory
Goku went to the river. Using his tail in place of a worm, with a single intense blow he took out the fish that tried to eat it. Despite its size, he easily KO’s it. (volume 1, chapter 1)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. pteranodon
When Bulma went to the toilet, she let out a big scream. Goku came running, and found that a hungry pteranodon had flown off with Bulma. Goku used the bike’s momentum to fly off a ridge. He flew up a long ways but fell short of the pteranodon. He then used his expandable Nyoibo to knock the pteranodon down. (volume 1, chapter 1)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. bandit bear
A bandit bear came aiming to eat turtle. Brandishing an Azure Dragon Sword, he threatened Goku and co., but Goku struck him in the forehead with a Janken and downed him. (volume 1, chapter 3)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. Oolong
Transforming into a monster, Oolong plundered money and goods from the village’s people. As he ran from Goku, he turned back into a piglet. (volume 1, chapter 6)
Oolong loses by having his true identity discovered
Goku vs. Yamcha
While on their way to Mt. Frypan, Goku and co. had to cross a desert. In this desert lived the scoundrel Yamcha, who plundered money and goods from travelers and those lost in the desert. He demanded money from Goku and co. as well, but his threats were brushed aside. He then tried to steal it by brute force. With Goku, the last ray of hope, unable to put out his full power due to being hungry, he ends up being knocked down by the Rouga Fuu-Fuu Ken. Goku had just begun to counterattack when Bulma, who had been taking an afternoon nap, woke up. Weak around women, Yamcha becomes extremely nervous and hastily retreats to his secret base. (volume 1, chapter 8)
Yamcha’s victory, for the moment
Goku vs. Yamcha
Yamcha next came aiming for the dragonballs. Being no match for Goku on a full stomach, he looses a tooth to Goku’s intense kick and runs away. (volume 1, chapter 10)
Goku’s victory
Chi Chi vs. dinosaur
While trying to get the Bashousen, Chi Chi was attacked by a dinosaur. Even while being frightened, she obliterates the dinosaur with the cutter on her head and a beam from her forehead. (volume 1, chapter 11)
Chi Chi’s one-sided victory
Chi Chi vs. Yamcha
After defeating the dinosaur, through a misunderstanding Chi Chi attacks Yamcha. The angered Yamcha deftly dodges her beam and knocks her unconscious. (volume 1, chapter 11)
Yamcha’s victory
Goku vs. two Rabbit Gang thugs
The mysterious Rabbit Gang continued to act outrageously in a quiet village. The two stylish-acting thugs made a pass at Bulma, but Goku quickly repelled them. (volume 2, chapter 16)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. Toninjinka
The boss of the Rabbit Gang turned Bulma into a carrot, but with the aid of Yamcha and Puar Goku gets rid of him.
Goku’s victory
Yamcha, Puar vs. Oozaru Goku
Looking at the full moon, Goku transformed into an Oozaru. It was a good thing that he smashed the jail that they were imprisoned in, but Goku was simply on a rampage and there seemed to be no way to stop him. Yamcha knew that Goku’s weakness was his tail, so Puar transformed into a pair of scissors and severed his tail. Goku all at once turned back into his old self, and the danger passed. (volume 2, chapter 22)
Goku loses consciousness
Goku vs. police
Goku mistakenly thought that Lunch, who was being pursued by the police, was being chased by some bad guys. Defeating the police, he protects Lunch. (volume 3, chapter 26)
Goku’s victory
Krillin vs. saber-tooth tiger
In the middle of Kame-sennin’s training, Krillin is attacked in the jungle by a saber-tooth tiger, but he quickly defeats it. (volume 3, chapter 29)
Krillin’s victory
Goku vs. Krillin
Krillin obtained the training stone. He tried to head off the pursuit of the tenacious Goku, but at Goku’s strength gave up. (volume 3, chapter 29)
Goku’s victory
Goku vs. Lunch
When she sneezes, Lunch changes between a quiet personality and an evil personality. When she had to sleep in the same bed as Goku since there were only a few futons in Kame House, things got ugly when she woke up as evil Lunch. She shoots at Goku before he can explain, but Goku doesn’t hold back against girls and she passes out from his kick. (volume 3, chapter 30)
Goku’s victory
Chi-Chi
--Battle Record--
Spoiler:
oChi Chi vs. dinosaur
xChi Chi vs. Yamcha
xChi Chi vs. Yamcha
Spoiler:
The sweet and innocent daughter of the fearsome Gyumao, she makes her debut here fleeing in terror from a T-Rex [a habit her son inherits]. After running a bit though, she finally just throws the blade on her helmet at the beast boomerang-style, decapitating it on the spot. But the dino's corpse freaks her out more, so she disintegrates it with a laser beam she fires from her helmet. Watching this spectacle, Yamcha and Puar are taken aback at the contrast between her scaredy-cat personality and the powerful attacks she dishes out. When Chi-Chi attacks him next, Yamcha manages to dodge her laser beam, and knocks her out with one double-handed blow to the head [that helmet seems better at offense than defense]. Later she throws her helmet blade at Kame-sennin's back to test him out...and nails him square in the forehead after he spins around and makes a fancy-looking attempt to deflect it [so...is the blade-erang faster than the laser beam, or are Yamcha's reflexes faster than Kame-sennin's? Actually, the key difference is probably that Yamcha's facing her when she fires the beam, while she chocks the blade at Kame-sennin's back. Also, you know, gag scene.]
[We know that Chi-Chi learns martial arts by the 23rd TB, but it's not clear if she's started yet, since all her attacks here rely on the remarkably powerful weapons in her helmet.]
[We know that Chi-Chi learns martial arts by the 23rd TB, but it's not clear if she's started yet, since all her attacks here rely on the remarkably powerful weapons in her helmet.]
--Profile--
Spoiler:
Kame-sennin's former #2 pupil, second only to Son Gohan. A giant of a man, he's so fearsomely strong that people call him the "emperor of devils". Has the bad habit of killing everyone who comes after his treasure, probably with the giant axe he tosses around. Oolong believes he's on a far different level than Goku, and even Goku says the guy "really looks strong". Still, Gyumao humbly kowtows to his old master Kame-sennin.
In his Adventure Special interview, Toriyama responds to a question about why Gyumao can’t use the Kamehameha. He says this deficiency is because “Gyumao is the type who relies on power more than techniques, and also perhaps because he wasn’t quite good enough [to master it]”.
In his Adventure Special interview, Toriyama responds to a question about why Gyumao can’t use the Kamehameha. He says this deficiency is because “Gyumao is the type who relies on power more than techniques, and also perhaps because he wasn’t quite good enough [to master it]”.
--Profile--
Spoiler:
The crazy old guy who Goku and Bulma meet at the beach doesn't seem like anything special at first, but he soon turns out to be the "Muten Roshi", a legendary figure known to all martial artists worldwide, who Kuririn declares to be the best in the world. He rarely takes pupils, but long ago he trained the famous martial artist Son Gohan, and the infamous ne'er-do-well Gyumao.
His grand technique is the "Kamehameha", where he condenses the "latent energy" within his body and fires it out in one burst ["ki" as such isn't mentioned yet at this point]. When firing the blast, he first bulks up from his regular scrawny form and becomes a hulking muscleman [he does the same when firing his "Max Power" Kamehameha during the 21st TB, but never again. This musclebound transformation is intriguingly similar to the Super Saiyan "Grade" forms; perhaps it shares SSj Grade III's slowness, which may explain why he never uses it against, say, Piccolo]. He uses the technique to put out Mt. Frypan's fire, but puts too much force into it and so also blows away Gyumao's castle and the entire mountain right along with it. He tells Goku that it takes 50 years of training to learn the Kamehameha [so presumably that's how long it took him].
He normally goes around wearing a silly-looking turtle shell, but he takes this off to sprint 100 meters [so it's probably weighted like the ones he gives Goku and Kuririn]. He runs 100 meters in 5.6 seconds, which he says is a result of "overcoming the human" [ie regular human limitations]. Despite the fast feet, he still comically fails to dodge or deflect Chi-Chi's helmet blade, angrily telling her "even I can't dodge that fast!" Undaunted, he still claims that "nothing is impossible for Muten Roshi!" [what a dope]
His grand technique is the "Kamehameha", where he condenses the "latent energy" within his body and fires it out in one burst ["ki" as such isn't mentioned yet at this point]. When firing the blast, he first bulks up from his regular scrawny form and becomes a hulking muscleman [he does the same when firing his "Max Power" Kamehameha during the 21st TB, but never again. This musclebound transformation is intriguingly similar to the Super Saiyan "Grade" forms; perhaps it shares SSj Grade III's slowness, which may explain why he never uses it against, say, Piccolo]. He uses the technique to put out Mt. Frypan's fire, but puts too much force into it and so also blows away Gyumao's castle and the entire mountain right along with it. He tells Goku that it takes 50 years of training to learn the Kamehameha [so presumably that's how long it took him].
He normally goes around wearing a silly-looking turtle shell, but he takes this off to sprint 100 meters [so it's probably weighted like the ones he gives Goku and Kuririn]. He runs 100 meters in 5.6 seconds, which he says is a result of "overcoming the human" [ie regular human limitations]. Despite the fast feet, he still comically fails to dodge or deflect Chi-Chi's helmet blade, angrily telling her "even I can't dodge that fast!" Undaunted, he still claims that "nothing is impossible for Muten Roshi!" [what a dope]
--Battle Record--
Spoiler:
oKuririn vs. saber-tooth tiger
xGoku vs. Kuririn
xGoku vs. Kuririn
Spoiler:
A young boy who started learning martial arts to become popular with girls, he's spent the last 8 years studying at Oorin Temple [and he's only 13!], an obvious parody of China's famous Shaolin Temple. Besides wearing stereotypical Shaolin-style robes at this point, he shaves his head in order to "tighten" his ki, a common practice among martial artists [Tenshinhan presumably does this too]. Hearing about his prior training, Kame-sennin says Kuririn should be "capable of the general basics" in regards to martial arts.
Still, Kuririn doesn't consider himself good enough to take on two armed policemen, and is terrified when a saber-tooth tiger comes after him...yet he still dodges the tiger's attack and knocks it out with an elbow drop [so he's obviously skilled, but confidence issues seem to be holding him back]. He's absolutely no match for Goku in a fight, though he seems to do better than the random thugs Goku has fought up to now [most of the fight is just depicted as a cartoonish cloud with arms and legs sticking out though, so it's hard to tell].
Kuririn seems to have more confidence in his running skills than his fighting skills. He brags that he has "legs good enough for the Olympics", and that his personal best time for the 100 meter sprint is 10.1 seconds, though he just manages 10.4 seconds here. Kame-sennin tells him he still needs to overcome "the human wall" to become a "complete martial artist", but since he's still young he might eventually be able to break 5 seconds "depending on [his] training". According to Kame-sennin, Kuririn draws "pretty close" to the human wall later when Lunch is chasing him around with a knife [in other words, he runs faster when properly motivated].
Still, Kuririn doesn't consider himself good enough to take on two armed policemen, and is terrified when a saber-tooth tiger comes after him...yet he still dodges the tiger's attack and knocks it out with an elbow drop [so he's obviously skilled, but confidence issues seem to be holding him back]. He's absolutely no match for Goku in a fight, though he seems to do better than the random thugs Goku has fought up to now [most of the fight is just depicted as a cartoonish cloud with arms and legs sticking out though, so it's hard to tell].
Kuririn seems to have more confidence in his running skills than his fighting skills. He brags that he has "legs good enough for the Olympics", and that his personal best time for the 100 meter sprint is 10.1 seconds, though he just manages 10.4 seconds here. Kame-sennin tells him he still needs to overcome "the human wall" to become a "complete martial artist", but since he's still young he might eventually be able to break 5 seconds "depending on [his] training". According to Kame-sennin, Kuririn draws "pretty close" to the human wall later when Lunch is chasing him around with a knife [in other words, he runs faster when properly motivated].
--Battle Record--
Spoiler:
xGoku vs. Lunch
Spoiler:
While this female Jekyll-and-Hyde seems no stronger than a typical young lady while in her “nice” form, in her blonde form she’s able to keep up with (Olympic-caliber sprinter) Kuririn, and later on in the RR arc she beats up macho-men soldiers with relative ease. She’s good with guns, knives, and various other weapons, and can keep a pair of policemen at bay. According to the anime, she has a bounty of 2 million zenny [say, what’s the zenny-beri conversion rate these days?]. Sadly, Goku doesn’t hold back against women, and knocks her out with one kick when she shoots at him [most of the time though, Kame-sennin/Kuririn/Goku act terrified of Lunch in her “mean form”, even though Kame-sennin and Goku at least ought to be immune to such mundane threats as knives and bullets. It’s classic gag scene logic].
--Battle Record--
Spoiler:
xGoku vs Oolong
xOolong vs Puar
xOolong vs Puar
Spoiler:
A young piglet who formally attended the Southern Shape-Shifting Kindergarten, but was expelled after stealing one of his teacher's panties. As a result, he has incomplete shape-shifting powers: though he can change into seemingly anything, he can only stay transformed for 5 minutes at a time, after which he must rest for 1 minute. Worse yet, only his form ever changes, rather than his power. So even if he turns into a giant ogre or a bad-ass robot, he's still no stronger than your average pig, and becoming a motorcycle doesn't make him able to hold up Bulma's weight. Still, turning into a bat or a rocket gives him the ability to fly, and his rocket form seems pretty fast. He uses his limited talents to keep several villages under his thumb, by turning into various powerful-looking monsters so that everyone's too scared to try and oppose him. As part of the act he claims to be the strongest in the world, but even a little kid's slingshot and hot soup causes him considerable pain.
--Profile--
Spoiler:
Goku's adopted grandfather just so happens to be a world-famous martial arts master, said to be unsurpassed in every form of martial arts. Even Oolong (presumably no martial arts buff) has heard of him. Back in the day he was Kame-sennin's #1 disciple, and trained alongside Gyumao. He received the Nyoibo staff from Kame-sennin, and apparently used it quite a lot, since Yamcha and Gyumao both quickly realize Goku's connection to Gohan when they see he has the Nyoibo.
Sometime before the series began, he warned Goku never to look at the full moon, knowing that this caused the boy to turn into a giant monkey monster. But sadly, he was killed by Oozaru Goku after Goku slipped up and looked at the full moon one night [so presumably at the time of his death he was weaker than Oozaru Goku, though it's possible he couldn't emotionally bring himself to fight Goku at full power and died as a result of pulling his punches too much]. Yamcha is amazed that any monster could kill a master like Son Gohan.
Sometime before the series began, he warned Goku never to look at the full moon, knowing that this caused the boy to turn into a giant monkey monster. But sadly, he was killed by Oozaru Goku after Goku slipped up and looked at the full moon one night [so presumably at the time of his death he was weaker than Oozaru Goku, though it's possible he couldn't emotionally bring himself to fight Goku at full power and died as a result of pulling his punches too much]. Yamcha is amazed that any monster could kill a master like Son Gohan.
--Battle Record--
Spoiler:
oGoku vs. Big Fish
oGoku vs. Bulma
oGoku vs. pteranodon
oGoku vs. bandit bear
oGoku vs. Oolong
xGoku vs. Yamcha I
oGoku vs. Yamcha II
oGoku vs. two Rabbit Gang thugs
oGoku vs. Toninjinka
xYamcha, Puar vs. Oozaru Goku
oGoku vs. police
oGoku vs. Kuririn
oGoku vs. Lunch
oGoku vs. Bulma
oGoku vs. pteranodon
oGoku vs. bandit bear
oGoku vs. Oolong
xGoku vs. Yamcha I
oGoku vs. Yamcha II
oGoku vs. two Rabbit Gang thugs
oGoku vs. Toninjinka
xYamcha, Puar vs. Oozaru Goku
oGoku vs. police
oGoku vs. Kuririn
oGoku vs. Lunch
Spoiler:
An idiot monkey-butted freak Bulma finds out in the mountains. He was "toughened up" and taught kung-fu by his adopted grandfather, famous martial artist Son Gohan. With one mighty kick he can smash big chunks of wood into conveniently-sized logs, or take down giant carnivorous fish. His kung-fu training allows him to smash 3 bricks with just one finger, and with a bear hug he can break a boulder several times his size into pieces (his idea of morning exercise). Still, his punches don't dent the stone walls of Pilaf's castle, and he can't jump through the "super-strengthened" glass roof of Pilaf's prison cell. After seeing a bit of what Goku's capable of, Kame-sennin says it looks like Gohan "really toughened him up", and later says Goku and Kuririn "should be capable of the general basics" in regards to martial arts.
Goku is accustomed to hunting bears and tigers for his daily bread (so to speak). He's pretty good fighting with his Nyoibo staff, using its long range to kill a big pteranodon. His trademark attack at this point is the "Jan-Ken" [Rock-Paper-Scissors Attack], which he uses to take out the giant bear bandit guy in one hit, after agilely dodging the bandit's swinging sword. He easily defeats armed men like the Rabbit Gang thugs or the policemen chasing Lunch by dodging their shots, knocking the guns from their hands, and just generally beating the crap out of them with a hit or two. Bad Lunch manages to shoot him a few times, but undeterred he takes her out with a kick (as Kame-sennin notes, Goku is too simple-minded to hold back against woman).
Though it's taken for granted that Kame-sennin (and probably Gyumao) are stronger than Goku at this point, he never fights them, and so his only formidable opponent in this story arc is Yamcha. After getting hit with the Nyoibo and learning of Goku's connection to Son Gohan, Yamcha declares him to be his "first challenge in a long time" and nails him with his patented Roga-FuFu-Ken attack, which sends him crashing straight through several rock formations. Goku gets back up after a little while though and returns fire with his Jan-Ken, which likewise sends Yamcha flying but doesn't take him out, and the fight is interrupted by Bulma. Though the two seem fairly even during this first fight, Goku says it's simply because he was hungry, meaning he couldn't put much power into his Jan-Ken. For his rematch his Yamcha the next day he has a full stomach, and manages to block or dodge all Yamcha's attacks before knocking one of his teeth out with a kick. After this, Yamcha decides Goku is too strong to fight directly. Goku also gets Kuririn to say "uncle" without much effort.
After seeing Kame-sennin's Kamehameha, Goku is able to imitate it on the spot, producing a small blast that smashes up Bulma's car. This despite the fact that Kame-sennin says it takes 50 years of training to acquire the technique [and people think Gotenks reaching SSj3 is bad]. The Daizenshuu 7 entry on the Kamehameha says this fast pickup is possibly due to him having done ki training with his grandpa Gohan. Besides car-busting, he also uses the Kamehameha to blow open a small hole in the stone walls of Pilaf's castle after his punches prove ineffective. But as Goku himself says, he still doesn't have much practice with the technique, and so his version still doesn't hold a candle to Kame-sennin's. It can't even scratch the steel walls of Pilaf's prison cell.
Getting shot in the head by Bulma's gun causes Goku a lot of pain, but he's quickly back on his feet and seems to suffer no long-term damage, claiming that his body is forged like stainless steel [Bulma fires this gun with one hand, so it's probably not all that powerful, gun-wise; as late as the RR arc it’s taken for granted that Goku can’t survive a shotgun blast at point blank range]. Lunch's bullets likewise merely hurt him, causing no real injury. An axe wielded by an adult man simply breaks on Goku's head, though this also causes him a bit of pain [Goku seems to spend a lot of these early chapters clutching his head in pain].
He's able to pick up and toss Bulma's small-ish car with some effort, smashing it up, and considers the car "weak" as a result. He can even push a giant rock farther than Kame-sennin, but is unable to budge the even more gigantic rock Kame-sennin selects next (Kame-sennin claims this is because he's "completely lacking in training").
Goku at first sprints 100 meters in 11 seconds, but it turns out his shoes were extremely worn out. Wearing proper shoes, he makes it in 8.5 seconds. Kame-sennin considers this "absurdly" fast, but only from a "human level", and says that Goku will have to overcome the human wall to become a "complete martial artist". Since they're young, Kame-sennin believes Goku and Kuririn might be able to break 5 seconds "depending on [their] training". Unsurprising in light of this, Goku says Bulma's motorcycle goes much faster than he can run [100 meters in 8.5 seconds is about 26 mph, so not much compared to a motorcycle going full tilt].
Daizenshuu 7 puts his battle power at 10, saying he has “twice the power of an ordinary person” [an obvious reference to Farmer with a Shotgun and his BP of 5]. It adds that “what’s more, his body is tough enough to repel a gun bullet” [implying that battle power is distinct from general body toughness, I suppose].
His big weakness: he loses his power whenever anyone squeezes his tail. Speaking of which...
--Oozaru Goku--
For some ridiculous reason, Goku transforms into a giant monkey monster whenever he looks at the full moon, losing control of himself and rampaging around indiscriminately. Even the martial arts master Son Gohan was crushed to death by Goku in this state. Goku also smashed up Gohan's house and some trees at the time. Transforming into an Oozaru inside Pilaf's prison cell, Goku smashes through the prison's 300-mm steel walls and super-strengthened glass ceiling, even though Goku's Kamehameha couldn't dent the walls earlier, and the glass roof is supposedly impervious to cannon fire. Goku proceeds to tear Pilaf's entire castle apart King Kong-style, but he freezes up when Yamcha grabs his tail. Puar is then able to turn into a pair of scissors and cut his tail off, returning him to normal.
According to Vegeta later on, a Saiyan's battle power increases ten-fold when they become Oozaru. Going by that, Daizenshuu 7 pegs Goku's BP in this form as 100, and notes that he has the “destructive power of a battleship’s main gun”.
Goku is accustomed to hunting bears and tigers for his daily bread (so to speak). He's pretty good fighting with his Nyoibo staff, using its long range to kill a big pteranodon. His trademark attack at this point is the "Jan-Ken" [Rock-Paper-Scissors Attack], which he uses to take out the giant bear bandit guy in one hit, after agilely dodging the bandit's swinging sword. He easily defeats armed men like the Rabbit Gang thugs or the policemen chasing Lunch by dodging their shots, knocking the guns from their hands, and just generally beating the crap out of them with a hit or two. Bad Lunch manages to shoot him a few times, but undeterred he takes her out with a kick (as Kame-sennin notes, Goku is too simple-minded to hold back against woman).
Though it's taken for granted that Kame-sennin (and probably Gyumao) are stronger than Goku at this point, he never fights them, and so his only formidable opponent in this story arc is Yamcha. After getting hit with the Nyoibo and learning of Goku's connection to Son Gohan, Yamcha declares him to be his "first challenge in a long time" and nails him with his patented Roga-FuFu-Ken attack, which sends him crashing straight through several rock formations. Goku gets back up after a little while though and returns fire with his Jan-Ken, which likewise sends Yamcha flying but doesn't take him out, and the fight is interrupted by Bulma. Though the two seem fairly even during this first fight, Goku says it's simply because he was hungry, meaning he couldn't put much power into his Jan-Ken. For his rematch his Yamcha the next day he has a full stomach, and manages to block or dodge all Yamcha's attacks before knocking one of his teeth out with a kick. After this, Yamcha decides Goku is too strong to fight directly. Goku also gets Kuririn to say "uncle" without much effort.
After seeing Kame-sennin's Kamehameha, Goku is able to imitate it on the spot, producing a small blast that smashes up Bulma's car. This despite the fact that Kame-sennin says it takes 50 years of training to acquire the technique [and people think Gotenks reaching SSj3 is bad]. The Daizenshuu 7 entry on the Kamehameha says this fast pickup is possibly due to him having done ki training with his grandpa Gohan. Besides car-busting, he also uses the Kamehameha to blow open a small hole in the stone walls of Pilaf's castle after his punches prove ineffective. But as Goku himself says, he still doesn't have much practice with the technique, and so his version still doesn't hold a candle to Kame-sennin's. It can't even scratch the steel walls of Pilaf's prison cell.
Getting shot in the head by Bulma's gun causes Goku a lot of pain, but he's quickly back on his feet and seems to suffer no long-term damage, claiming that his body is forged like stainless steel [Bulma fires this gun with one hand, so it's probably not all that powerful, gun-wise; as late as the RR arc it’s taken for granted that Goku can’t survive a shotgun blast at point blank range]. Lunch's bullets likewise merely hurt him, causing no real injury. An axe wielded by an adult man simply breaks on Goku's head, though this also causes him a bit of pain [Goku seems to spend a lot of these early chapters clutching his head in pain].
He's able to pick up and toss Bulma's small-ish car with some effort, smashing it up, and considers the car "weak" as a result. He can even push a giant rock farther than Kame-sennin, but is unable to budge the even more gigantic rock Kame-sennin selects next (Kame-sennin claims this is because he's "completely lacking in training").
Goku at first sprints 100 meters in 11 seconds, but it turns out his shoes were extremely worn out. Wearing proper shoes, he makes it in 8.5 seconds. Kame-sennin considers this "absurdly" fast, but only from a "human level", and says that Goku will have to overcome the human wall to become a "complete martial artist". Since they're young, Kame-sennin believes Goku and Kuririn might be able to break 5 seconds "depending on [their] training". Unsurprising in light of this, Goku says Bulma's motorcycle goes much faster than he can run [100 meters in 8.5 seconds is about 26 mph, so not much compared to a motorcycle going full tilt].
Daizenshuu 7 puts his battle power at 10, saying he has “twice the power of an ordinary person” [an obvious reference to Farmer with a Shotgun and his BP of 5]. It adds that “what’s more, his body is tough enough to repel a gun bullet” [implying that battle power is distinct from general body toughness, I suppose].
His big weakness: he loses his power whenever anyone squeezes his tail. Speaking of which...
--Oozaru Goku--
For some ridiculous reason, Goku transforms into a giant monkey monster whenever he looks at the full moon, losing control of himself and rampaging around indiscriminately. Even the martial arts master Son Gohan was crushed to death by Goku in this state. Goku also smashed up Gohan's house and some trees at the time. Transforming into an Oozaru inside Pilaf's prison cell, Goku smashes through the prison's 300-mm steel walls and super-strengthened glass ceiling, even though Goku's Kamehameha couldn't dent the walls earlier, and the glass roof is supposedly impervious to cannon fire. Goku proceeds to tear Pilaf's entire castle apart King Kong-style, but he freezes up when Yamcha grabs his tail. Puar is then able to turn into a pair of scissors and cut his tail off, returning him to normal.
According to Vegeta later on, a Saiyan's battle power increases ten-fold when they become Oozaru. Going by that, Daizenshuu 7 pegs Goku's BP in this form as 100, and notes that he has the “destructive power of a battleship’s main gun”.
--Battle Record--
Spoiler:
oGoku vs. Yamcha
xGoku vs. Yamcha
oChi Chi vs. Yamcha
oYamcha vs Rabbit Gang thugs
oYamcha, Puar vs. Oozaru Goku
xGoku vs. Yamcha
oChi Chi vs. Yamcha
oYamcha vs Rabbit Gang thugs
oYamcha, Puar vs. Oozaru Goku
Spoiler:
At the height of his power and glory here, Yamcha is the only character to give Goku a particularly tough fight during these first few chapters, though even then it's only when Goku is hungry and so not at full power. During their first fight he sends Goku flying with his trademark Roga-FuFu-Ken attack, but for the rematch Goku has a full stomach and blocks the attack. Getting kicked in the face by Goku, Yamcha loses a tooth and decides he better lay low for the rest of the series. Still, later at the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai, Goku describes Yamcha as "super-duper strong", saying that when they fought he "moved so fast I couldn’t see him!" He has better luck against non-Goku people, taking down the Rabbit Gang thugs with one hit each (though Goku had already roughed them up earlier as well).
Yamcha's Roga-Fufu-Ken is powerful enough to send Goku crashing through some stone formations out in the desert, but his punches have no effect on the stone walls of Pilaf's castle, or the steel walls of his prison cell.
Yamcha's Roga-Fufu-Ken is powerful enough to send Goku crashing through some stone formations out in the desert, but his punches have no effect on the stone walls of Pilaf's castle, or the steel walls of his prison cell.
". Thought that was amusing to note.
