Viola's Palace

[theagents23]

[reronn]

[dailycupofcreativitea]

Cute little comic based on the idea of Goku forcing Gohan to unlearn all of the horrible survival habits he picked up during his 6 months alone :') (Can you believe this has been a WIP since 2023?)

[saiyamekianprincess]

You know....as much as I obsessively think about the Z Fighters' trauma, especially Gohan and how being alone in the wilderness as a tot affected him, I've never considered this...like he was an actual baby! No way he figured out everything. It was likely a lot of "well, it works". (Same for Piccolo, though he does have a lot to fall back on.)

[ninjasmudge]

an inexplicable feeling of protectiveness. i figure hed probably have some Feelings if he found out freiza was still looking to get hold of broly like he said at the end

[saiyamekianprincess]

Honestly been thinking about this a lot lately. I've felt since the beginning of Super that Vegeta is trying his damndest to keep any part of his past repeating with any of his people, Saiyan or otherwise.

[dailycupofcreativitea]

Survivor's guilt 🥲 (This is a redraw of this "comic" I drew 4 years ago!)

[laladbzland]

[dailycupofcreativitea]

Why does it look like the animators couldn’t decide whether they wanted to keep Gohan’s bowl-cut or let it grow out 🤔

(Side note, why does Gohan’s expression look like that? What does that look even mean?)

Like his hair has a squarish shape and his bangs seem to be freshly cut but he also has quite the ponytail (I mean…it looks like it’s tied but it might not be?) and some rouge spikes on the top of his head 🤔

I don’t think his hair looks like this for the rest of the saga though?

It’s literally different??? It’s longer and not squarish and he has no square bangs.

Guess they just liked this style better 😂

[saiyamekianprincess]

To be honest, the art style kinda changes episode to episode in general in Z. Lol

It's likely the same hairstyle, but with a different head animator that draws it differently.

[ball-slayer]

[ball-slayer]

"Nice try!"

[comicstarsblog]

There's another reason why Krillin grew his hair out

[mikyapixie]

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐈𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝!!

[shannonsketches]

“Come visit Earth if the urge hits to do battle with a Saiyan. I welcome the challenge. 😘”

Vegenolah for the Four Ships Art Challenge!

[tyluxe]

[filmnoirsbian]

From the bottom of my heart: im not sorry for anything i put on yalls dash, i am my own target audience and i find my taste immaculate but thank u for witnessing 💕

[saiyamekianprincess]

Saiyan wives on YouTube. :P

[tbposting]

The whole point of power levels in Dragon Ball is that they are wrong and stupid and an expression of an evil mind.

They are introduced in the Saiyan saga with Raditz, representing the true intrusion of sci-fi into the general fantasy vibe of the series. DB always had tech elements, but this is when shit gets space and biotechy for a long time until the Boo saga.

Anyway, Raditz reads power levels and he's like "okay this immutable number means I'm stronger and I win" but then whoops turns out the Dragon Ball protagonists cannot be quantified because their power is not a scientific measure, it is an expression of their passion, heart, determination; their heroic qualities. Get Special Beam Cannon'd about it, idiot.

Second verse same as the first, Vegeta shows up and he's like "blah blah superior elite Saiyan warrior, Kakarot" and now power levels are an expression of a repressive hierarchical class system that proscribes inferiority and superiority, a genetic destiny that can never be overcome.

But oops turns out Dragon Ball protagonists cannot be quantified etc, and also class hierarchies are bullshit, get Kaioken'd about it, loser!

Third verse: Namek Saga. Frieza's intergalactic empire runs on hierarchical oppression codified in power levels, and in Vegeta's confrontation with Kiwi, Kiwi is confident that Vegeta is not a real threat because they have the same power level of 10.000. But oops Vegeta has been to earth and he has been touched by the fantasy, and now it turns out he is a protagonist who cannot be quantified, get energy blasted about it, numbnuts.

This is also how Vegeta begins to transition from villain into a heroic figure: he begins to give up on obsessing over quantified power levels and embraces his passions, heart, determination as sources of his strength.

Anyway yadda yadda Frieza is space Napoleon-Hitler, etc etc avatar of inherent superiority and hierarchy encoded in power level, blah blah get Super Saiyan'd about it, dipshit.

The Super Saiyan is a power that is accessed by deeply caring, it is a power of myth and legends, it is fantasy overcoming and destroying sci-fi, as literalised by the progressive destruction of quantifiable "power levels" as a construct.

So the story is saying:

Power levels are dumb bullshit invented by evil minded people to enforce shitty hierarchies. They suck and everyone who believes in them sucks and trying to measure the power of a hero with a number is an attempt to destroy fantasy as a genre.

...

On an entirely unrelated note, huge portions of the anime community are obsessed with measuring the power of heroes with numbers.

[callmemaybe127]

[ninjasmudge]

everyone knowing vegetas going to hell for all the murder (including vegeta) but porunga bringing him back anyway was very funny to me