Wednesday, October 7, 2009

When I was younger my favorite television show was Dragon Ball Z. It showed from (seemingly) the beginning of time up until the eight grade. DBZ was not just something my brother and I watched every five o’clock on Cartoon Network it was communal event. At school the next day all the kids would talk about the (two) episodes that aired the previous day. I remember talking to my friends in the third grade about the first time Goku turned Super Saiyan, and thinking that his eyes had poped out of his head. However in reality, they just rolled into the back of his head, and when he set them again his irises had gone from black to blue. This was during the Frieza saga just after Frieza had killed Goku’s lifelong friend and training partner Krillen. When the Buu Saga came around Goku was dead, but since it is impossible to die in DBZ he was easily able to teleport back and forth between the afterlife and real life. This made the coming events a great deal more suitable for the writers as now they have their big hero on scene for the day of destruction. Buu (in case you did not know Bibbity is the father of Bobbity the man who created Buu). The best point of the Buu saga however was Goku ascending to Super Saiyan 3. The power up to this new level took about a whole episode (20 minutes) and entailed mainly Goku screaming in his constipated stance. I say this because when the DBZ characters increase their power level (it far exceeds 9000 at this point) they assume a position not unlike one that someone might find on a person with bowel blockage. Anyway throughout the entirety of this episode there is music playing in the backroud that just suits the suitation perfectly. Finally, Goku has finally ascended (that or he soiled himself) and proceeds to pummel Maijin Buu (his proper name). It winds up being a draw, and Goku goes back to Kami’s (Japanese word for God) Lookout while Buu proceeds to turn the population of Earth into chocolate.

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