Dragon Ball Chapter 244
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| A Spaceship Found!! | |||
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Kanzenban  Full Color  Tankōbon  | |||
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| Premiered | Weekly Shōnen Jump, 1989 #44 | ||
| Sale Date | 03 October 1989 | ||
| Issue Date | 16 October 1989 | ||
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| Pages | Title; Pages 1-14 (Black and White) | ||
| Episodes |
Dragon Ball Z Episode 37 Dragon Ball Kai Episode 18 | ||
| Viz Publication | |||
| Title | The Mysterious Spaceship | ||
| Chapter No. | Z 050 | ||
| Release | March 2003 | ||
| Translation | Lillian Olsen | ||
| Adaptation | Gerard Jones | ||
| Editor |
Trish Ledoux Jason Thompson | ||
| Collected Volumes | |||
| Tankōbon |
Dragon Ball Tankōbon Volume 21 (Dragon Ball Z Volume 5) | ||
| Kanzenban | Dragon Ball Kanzenban Volume 17 | ||
| Full Color |
Saiyan Arc Volume 3 Digital Color Part 5 Volume 1 | ||
| VIZBIG | Dragon Ball Z VIZBIG Volume 2 | ||
| Viz 3-in-1 | Dragon Ball 3-in-1 Volume 7 | ||
"A Spaceship Found!!" is the two hundred and forty-fourth chapter of the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. It was first published in Japan in the 1989 #44 issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.
Summary
Kuririn asks if there really is a spaceship and Mister Popo says "probably". Goku explains that Mister Popo lives with God, and served under all the previous Gods as well. Kuririn asks what he means by "probably", and Mister Popo says there is probably a spaceship, but he does not really know. So he wants someone to come with him to investigate. Kuririn looks to Bulma, but she does not think it looks safe to go with Mister Popo on his flying carpet. After some encouragement, Bulma climbs out the window and onto the carpet, telling Popo to be careful since she is delicate. The carpet suddenly vanishes and the others wonder about this possible spaceship.
The magic carpet reappears in a windy canyon. "We have arrived. Get down." Bulma asks where they are, saying this place is extremely cold. "Yunzabit Highlands." Bulma asks if this is not the ends of the Earth, as Mister Popo tries to remember which direction it is in. He starts walking through the canyon and Bulma follows, saying he better not be planning anything sexual. And then they come to a big open spot with a... "thing". A big round thing with spiky legs holding it up and some other spiky things sticking out the top. Mister Popo asks if this is a spaceship and Bulma goes over to investigate, thinking it seems like metal. Then she asks where this "thing" is from and what it is exactly.
Mister Popo says God told him something very unusual about a hundred years ago. He said that when he was a kid, he used to live here in the Yunzabit Highlands. He had asked Mister Popo why there was no one else living at Yunzabit. It seemed God had hit his head and lost his memory. He also asked Mister Popo where his parents were, since all he found was a letter saying, "I'll come later, please wait for me." So he kept waiting for his parents, but they never came.
In a flashback, God tells Mister Popo he waited there for someone to come; it was harsh and the food was not good. He waited for twenty, no, thirty years, until he finally gave up and left his house behind. Sometimes he returned to look, but there was never any change. Bulma interrupts and asks the meaning of all this and Mister Popo says he is getting to the point. God said that, looking back on it, his "house" was really unusual. It had four round legs, like an insect. The door did not even have a knob or key; you had to open it with a word.
Mister Popo tells Bulma the word was "piccolo". The bottom of the "thing" suddenly comes down from the round part, like a disc-type platform, and so they climb onto it and say "piccolo" again. Bulma realizes this is God's house. Now the disc is a part of the floor, and they are inside. It is a futuristic-looking room, with a big seat behind a control panel. Mister Popo asks if this looks like a spaceship and Bulma remembers that God was a Namekian, and he must have come here to escape Planet Namek's unusual weather. Mister Popo says he also heard what Kaiō told everyone about that and it reminded him of what God had told him about this house. Mister Popo says his parents must have sent him here as a kid, to save him from the bad things on the planet.
Bulma thinks something must have been up if his parents did not escape with him; maybe they planned to come afterwards, but they died. Bulma looks around and is certain this must be a spaceship, but wonders if they will be able to use it. She starts messing with the control panel looking for the main switch, but cannot seem to find it, and wonders if there is some kind of code she needs. Then she thinks these buttons are not switches, but sensors. Then she realizes that the whole ship must be voice-activated like the entrance was. "Piccolo" does not work, so she tries saying something else. "Move!! Can you hear me!? Fly!! Try flying!!"
Bulma gives up and realizes you must need to speak in Namekian. She remembers the weird language God and Piccolo spoke at the Tenka'ichi Budōkai, and realizes that must have been Namekian. Mister Popo says he knows that language. "Piccolo" means "different world" in that language. Then Bulma thinks about "Demon King Piccolo" meaning "Demon King of a different world". She tells Mister Popo to tell it to fly, and he asks where. She says anywhere is good, like Jupiter or something, and Mister Popo gives it the command in Namekian! Almost instantly it takes off and they immediately reach Jupiter. They start celebrating and Mister Popo wipes a tear away at the thought of God coming back to life.
Cast
- Bulma
- Mister Popo
- Earth's God (flashback)
- Kuririn
- Yajirobe
- Ox Demon King
- Chi-Chi
- Son Goku
- Turtle Hermit
- Karin
- West City Hospital patients
- West City residents
Availability
This chapter has been released in numerous countries and languages around the world in both print and digital formats.
Japan
- Dragon Ball Volume 21: Go For It! The Planet Namek (Tankōbon; 10 April 1990)
- Digital Monochrome Edition Volume 21 (12 October 2012)
- Dragon Ball Volume 17 (Kanzenban; 04 August 2003)
- Dragon Ball Part 5: Freeza Arc Volume 1 (Digital Color Edition; 04 April 2013)
- Dragon Ball: Saiyan Arc Volume 3 (Full Color Comics; 04 February 2013)
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