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| | eng_name = East City | | | eng_name = East City (Funimation Subtitles)<br />Eastern City (Viz) |
| | manga_debut = [[Dragon Ball Chapter 212]] | | | manga_debut = [[Dragon Ball Chapter 212]] |
| | anime_debut = [[Dragon Ball Episode 21]] | | | anime_debut = [[Dragon Ball Episode 21]] |
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| '''Pepper Town''' is a fictional location in the world of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' by [[Akira Toriyama]]. It is a small city, notable as the setting for a portion of the [[Dragon Ball Z TV Special 2|second ''Dragon Ball Z'' TV special]] as developed by [[Hiroshi Toda]]. It was featured as one of the towns attacked by [[Trunks's Timeline Characters|Artificial Humans No. 17 and No. 18]] which sparked [[Future Trunks|Trunks]]'s crusade to bring peace back to his world. | | '''East City''' is a fictional location in the world of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' by [[Akira Toriyama]]. |
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| Pepper Town's location is never given in the special, however it shares much of its high-tech architecture with other major cities in the series such as [[Metro West]]. It is depicted as being located on a flat plain, snuggle between several nearby mountains. It has large glass buildings and elevated glass tunnels, as well as more mundane establishments such as a bar and a bas station. In the alternate future of [[Trunks's Timeline]], it was destroyed in [[Age 780]] by the Artificial Humans; both [[Future Son Gohan|Son Gohan]] and Trunks arrived too late to save the city or its inhabitants.<ref>{{Cite features|Number=ztvsptrunks}}</ref><ref group="notes">The main timeline version of Pepper Town is never depicted; it is possible that this city exists only in Trunks's alternate future.</ref>
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| [[File:Location-dup-and-peter1-pepper-town.png|thumb|right|200px|Pepper Town as it was depicted in [[Dub and Peter 1]], a brief manga series by Akira Toriyama.]]
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| Like several other places created for the [[Cell]] arc, Pepper Town's name is based on an herb or spice, in this case pepper. Similar locations following that name pun series include [[Ginger Town]], [[Nicky Town]] (named for a word for cinnamon), and [[Basil Town]].
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| The name may also be a reference to an identically named town in the ''[[Dub and Peter 1]]'' manga by Akira Toriyama. That manga, first released in '''December 1992''', preceded the airing of this episode by less than three months. The main characters, Dub and Pete, both live in Pepper Town, but the region is depicted as being much more like a small town than a city. Additional references to ''Dub and Peter 1'' would follow during the [[Great Saiyaman]] episodes.
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| Due to the production schedule challenges inherent in producing a weekly anime series based on a weekly comic, the writers of ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]'' interjected anime-only material both as a means of extending the runtime and to flesh out the ''Dragon Ball'' universe. The Trunks TV special was created to elaborate on Future Trunks's difficult life and to depict his struggles to become [[Super Saiyan]] and defeat the Artificial Humans. Pepper Town is the first of two named towns in the special, the other being [[Bridge Town]].
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