Todd Blankenship on X: Uub's inexperience with the larger world mirrors Goku's at the start of the series. Ubu=inexperienced/innocent in Japanese, by the way / X

Todd Blankenship on X: One result of all this re-arranging is that the two bank robbers Gohan and Videl stop in the manga don't appear in the DBZ anime (well, not in

Todd Blankenship på X: That's Fuji TV HQ, last seen in DBGT ep.53 (and probably other places) / X

Todd Blankenship on X: Toriyama's word on the subject is that Saiyans stay young until they reach a certain age, then rapidly grow old. So Goku and Vegeta have that to look

Todd Blankenship on X: Today's Goku Outfit: bye-bye tunic. Ten years after the battle with Buu, Goku has taken to wearing a darker number with no undershirt and shoes instead of boots

Todd Blankenship on X: As usual, the DBS anime and manga present a wildly different sequence of events for the ToP. The anime's narrator gives an update on the time remaining at

Todd Blankenship on X: The ability of ordinary bystanders to track Goku and co's movement varies wildly over the years. In Japanese fandom, perceiving a fight as only incoherent blurs is dubbed

Todd Blankenship on X: The DBS manga doesn't address this issue in its main story, but for the 2015 Jump Victory Carnival, Toyotaro provided a short bonus manga showing how Kaio used

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Todd Blankenship on X: Obviously the timing of Goku's birth is bound up with Goku's age. When he first meets Bulma, Goku gives his age as 14, but this is quickly retconned