Daizenshuu 4: World Guide
And here we are on the first of the two really information-heavy, non-plot recap daizenshuu. I actually have more notes on this one than any other, partially because I kind of gave up before the sheer massiveness of Daizenshuu 7. This post is so long I’m going to short it by category/section. You might want to get a snack or something while reading it.
Miscellaneous/Stuff in the Front
Pretty much the first thing in here in the model of the Dragon Ball cosmos, on pp.16-17. DBGT Network has a scan of this image
here, (the reference numbers aren’t part of the original image, though). This model for the Dragon Ball cosmos was originally designed by Toriyama, and his rough sketch of it is reproduced in the pullout for this daizenshuu, along with his rough sketches for some of the characters that Daizenshuu EX has
here.
Skipping ahead a little, on pp.72-73 there’s another drawing of the Dragon Ball cosmos with everything labeled and explained (it’s presumably from this second image that DBGT Network got their information from, but they then added it to the prettier-looking first image). Since Daizenshuu 4 uses only the manga as a source, it only includes a general description of hell, leaving out everything from the anime.
However, it also includes the airport to heaven, which appeared in the anime but wasn’t even mentioned in the anime. Apparently, the heavenly airport was one of the bits of information that Toriyama supplied the anime staff with, like I mentioned in my post for Daizenshuu 5 (remember that Toriyama drew the original image of the cosmos given here, so the airport was undoubtedly his idea). This makes sense when you consider that the Anoyo-Ichi Budoukai story-arc of the anime featured the same layout of the cosmos given here, even though it came out before the daizenshuu. So it seems Toriyama made the sketch of the cosmos at some point while working on the series, but didn’t incorporate all of it into the manga storyline.
Getting back to the front of the book, on p. 35 in the middle of a long article explaining everything about the Dragon Balls themselves, there’s a little sidebar showing that Polunga is about five times the size of Shenlong. They got this figure by comparing the size of both dragons in relation to the Capsule Corp. building, since they were both shown right by it in the series.
There’s also a chart listing every time the Dragon Balls were used, which set was used, the number of wishes, and what the wishes were. According to this, the Dragon Balls were used 14 times in the course of the series, with a total of 22 wishes. Looking at this chart, it seems that 4 of those 14 times were with Namek’s Dragon Balls, but it doesn’t specifically say so.
On pp.38-38, there is a kind of Q & A with Toriyama. They ask him which character lives the longest (Kame Sen’nin) and the shortest (Vegeta). They ask him which of his characters he would like to be reincarnated as, and he says Trunks, because he’s rich and strong. Makes sense. He also reveals that if he were to make another manga with Dragon Ball characters, he would make a gag manga starring Mr. Satan and Buu.
Saiyans
Next we have the guides for the different racial groups. In the section for special abilities of individual Saiyans (p.44), it has a paragraph on Goku’s telepathy. It links together Goku’s ability to telepathically communicate with Gohan during the fight with Vegeta, his ability to read Kuririn’s memories on Namek, and his ability to ‘hear’ what everyone was saying in his dreams while he was struggling with the heart virus as all being different manifestations of the same ability. It says that these telepathic abilities are a result of Goku’s training his spirit.
Nameccians (I love that spelling)
All of the sections for the different racial groups have a diagram of some kind. There’s a Saiyan family tree, a diagram of the hierarchy of gods, a diagram of Freeza’s organization, and the same thing for the Red Ribbon Army hierarchy. For the Namekians there’s a really neat diagram connecting all the different villages, Saichourou and Neil, Kami, Piccolo Daimaou and his various offspring, and Piccolo’s different mergings. This chart lists the population for each Namekian village, and separates them into Dragon Clan and Warrior Type (p.51). Here are the numbers it gives:
Muuri’s village: 5 Dragon Clan Namekians, 3 Warrior Types
Tsuuno’s village: 16 Dragon Clan, 3 Warrior Types
Village: 15 Dragon Clan, 2 Warrior Types
Village: 18 Dragon Clan, 2 Warrior Types
Village: 19 Dragon Clan, 3 Warrior Types
Village: 12 Dragon Clan, 2 Warrior Types
Adding those up (which the daizenshuu doesn’t do) I got exactly 100 Namekains total, with 85 Dragon Clan Namekians and 15 Warrior Types. Then of course there’s Saichourou and Neil as well, so the total comes to 102 on Namek itself, with 104 in the universe when we add in Piccolo and Kami. This all just applies for the Freeza arc of course, since Tsuuno’s village was never revived, and who knows how the population changed on New Namek.
edit: OK, so this is kind of a late correction, but I
just realized that I forgot to count the elders for each village, since looking back at the chart its clear they're not intended to be included in the person count for their respective villages. So adding 7 to 102 gets you 109. Trivial? Not as much as it may seem. Take out Saichourou from the equation and you get 108, and in the manga Dende does tell Gohan and Kuririn that he is the 108st child of Saichourou. So that's what all these seemingly arbitrary numbers add up to. Which also means that Dende was the youngest person on Planet Namek, though that may have also been said in the manga and I just forgot.
Daizenshuu 7 (p.43) gives the percentage of Dragon Clan Namekians to Warrior Type Namekians as 86% and 14%, which seems to match what we see here.
The racial guide for Namekians also notes the existence of Piccolo Daimaou’s Demon Clan offspring. On p.50, it says that Piccolo Daimaou’s natural ability as a Dragon Clan Namekian to lay eggs was changed due to his evil nature, leading him to produce demons. On p.46 it says that the Demon Clan were Namekians whose hearts were stained with evil. So, despite what some people say, Piccolo Daimaou and his offspring really were demons, and not just claiming to be. You can be both a Namekian and a demon.
People of the Cosmos (otherwise known as gods)
On p.53 it goes over the gods’ duties. Each god has a zone (区域) that they guard over. You know how this goes: North Kaiou watches over the northern galaxy, South Kaiou has the southern galaxy, etc. Each god can’t interfere in the zone of another god. As an example of this, the daizenshuu shows the panel where Kaiou is explaining how he’s powerless to help them bring Kuririn back to life, since it’s outside his zone. This implies that Namek wasn’t in the northern galaxy.
It also explains here that a competent god can potentially be promoted to a higher position. So presumably if North Kaiou stopped making lame jokes all the time and put his nose to the grindstone, he could make North Kaioushin.
On p.55, it says that Kibito was the assistant for all of the Kaioushin. Of course, since all the other Kaioushin are gone, we only ever see him assisting East Kaioushin. This would imply that Kibito was around before Majin Buu wiped out the other Kaioushin.
Freeza and his Followers
On p.59, it gives ‘psychokinesis’ as a common ability among the higher members of Freeza’s organization. We do in fact see Freeza, Ginyu, and Ghould all use this ability in the series. According to the daizenshuu, this is not a natural ability of their respective races, but an advanced technique that they all learned.
On the same page, it describes Freeza and Zarbon as being ‘Transforming-Type Aliens’ (変身型宇宙人).
On p.59, it has the organization chart for Freeza’s organization. It describes King Cold’s role as “controlling things from above” (exact quote:“フリーザの父コルド大王がその上に君臨している”).
Babidi and his Followers
On p.62 it explains that Majin Buu can turn people into anything he imagines, and not just candy. He just mostly turns people into candy because he likes candy. This is actually implied in the series, since we see Buu turn people into clay and milk when he needs to, but people tend to forget this.
Earthlings
In the Dragon Ball world, there are three kinds of earthling: human-type, animal-type, and monster-type. Human-type are of course the humans like Bulma, Yamcha, and most of the cast. Animal-type are the animal people like Oolong and the King. Note that actual animals like Sea Turtle are not included here. Monster-type includes people like Pilaf and Akkuman (they use the English word for ‘monster’ here).
According to Daizenshuu 7 (p. 43), 75% of earthlings are human-type, 17% are animal-type, 7% are monster-type, and 1% are half-breeds such as Gohan, Trunks, and apparently Tenshinhan.
So yeah, Tenshinhan. This is where the daizenshuu first mention Tenshinhan’s alien ancestry. In the section for specific earthling’s powers on p.69, it explains that the reason Tenshinhan can do things like grow arms from his back and split into four different bodies is that he is a descendent of the Three-Eyed Clan (三つ目族).
Despite his alien ancestry, Tenshinhan is still included in the ‘earthling’ racial section. He’s also presumably still a human (人間), since even a full-blooded alien like Vegeta refers to himself as such in the series (like when he turns Oozaru). So anyone who tells you that the daizenshuu say Tenshinhan isn’t an earthling or a human is wrong.
Animals and Monsters
On p.70, it explains that the reason Sea Turtle can talk is because he’s lived with Kame Sen’nin for so many years.
Technology
On p.147, they ask Toriyama which of his android designs he liked best. His favorite? 2nd form Cell! He says he planned to have 2nd form Cell around longer, but his editor made him have Cell reach his complete form sooner because he thought 2nd form Cell looked really dumb. The fact that Toriyama had 2nd form Cell return temporarily and chose to draw him for Daizenshuu 6’s cover is probably more evidence of his affection for this form.
Some people have wondered if Sergent Metalic of the Reb Ribbon Army was one of Dr. Gero’s androids. However, the daizenshuu includes him in the section for robots on p. 158, not androids. It doesn’t say anything about him being built by Dr. Gero.
In the android section, it includes Android #8 as one of the Bio-type androids, and says that he is human-based (人間ベース), the same as #17 and #18.
And that wraps up Daizenshuu 4. Only one left! Of course, it’s the monster known as Daizenshuu 7, but still…
In other words: please post the translations you made! 
