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Gosh this new outfit for Rangiku is cute.

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What do you think of Chiaotzu x Ran Ran? DB Movie 3

In my opinion this is the only acceptable chiaotzu ship and also they’re married

What’s their ship name ..?? Chiaoran ? Rantzu ?

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Nothing is perf-

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Dragon Ball 129

Popo isn’t satisfied with Goku’s progress, so he starts him on some new training. I feel like Goku’s already started and stopped three different training regimens already, but what’s one more?

First, Popo sews Goku a new outfit, since he’s been wearing the same rage he’s had since defeating King Piccolo.

Goku seems to be touched and impressed by this. I think it says something about Goku that he’s just as amazed by Popo’s ability to make clothes as his immense strength.

Popo then leads Goku into the Room of Time, which is covered in clocks. When I first saw this episode, I had hoped that the “Room of Time” would be the Hyperbolic Time Chamber from DBZ. When that concept was introduced, Goku said that he had learned of it during this period, while he was training with Kami and Popo. But it’s a retcon, the Hyperbolic Time Chamber never appeared in the original Dragon Ball anime in any form.

As far as this room goes, I’m unclear as to what it does. The notion that it “creates time” is ridiculous. This episode appears to suggest that it’s a typical time machine, since it flings Goku back into the past, but I’m not sure that makes sense either.

My guess is that the room simply “creates” replicas of past eras, allowing Goku to interact with historical events without altering history or actually leaving the Lookout. For that matter, I’m starting to wonder if the places Goku visited in the previous two episodes weren’t simulations as well. The whole point of Goku training on the Lookout was to ensure that Piccolo Junior didn’t track him down and try to kill him before the tournament. Sending Goku back down to Earth for training exercises seems to defeat that idea.

Likewise, I doubt Kami would want to send Goku into the actual past, for feat that he might kill somebody’s grandfather and cause a time paradox. But we never really get a handle on what this thing is or how it works.

Meanwhile, Tien and the others are running around with giant rocks on their backs. Tien breaks his because he’s frustrated that these kinds of exercises won’t be enough to get them as strong as they want to be. He later suggest that they all seek out Korin Tower, and receive training there, since it worked for Goku.

Meanwhile Goku tumbles into the past, where he lands on a young Master Roshi, who was trying to peep on a girl taking a bath.

Okay, so the big problem with this episode is that “Master Roshi” isn’t this guy’s name, and even if it was, this would have been before he became a master. He’s not the “Turtle Hermit” either, but he introduces himself as “Turtle-chan”, just so we have something to call him. The Crane Hermit is in this episode too, and he’s just called “Crane” for some reason. Must be the hat.

The object of Roshi’s lust is this lady, named Fanfan. Okay, just to clear this up...

Ranfan is the lady who fought Nam in the 21st Budokai. She has curly purple hair and isn’t above using nudity to win a match.

Ran Ran is Chiaotzu’s doll/wife from the third Dragon Ball movie “Mystical Adventure.”.

Colonel Violet is an officer in the Red Ribbon Army. She looks almost exactly like the lady in this episode, except Violet has blue eyes.

But this episode features Fanfan. Her main distinction from the others is that she lived at least 280 years before Dragon Ball began. I say this because Master Roshi is at least 300 years old, and his younger self claims to be 18 in this episode. So maybe Fanfan is the ancestor of Violet and Ranfan?

Of course, this implies the existence of yet another purple-haired woman (or doll) named Fanran. I’ll let you know if I spot one.

Anyway, Turtle-chan is pissed that Goku messed up his chance to see titties, so Goku shows him his own titties. Turtle-chan explains that it doesn’t count. Insert your own Tumblr nipple joke here.

Crane shows up and gives Turtle a hard time, and he claims that one day Fanfan will be his girlfriend. Okay, so what I don’t get is how both of these guys are supposed to be students of the great Mutaito, but neither of them wear his uniform. They also have full heads of hair, unlike their previous appearance in flashback during the King Piccolo Saga, where they looked a lot more like Crane’s flunkies in the back.

See, he’s 18. Feel free to draw all the young Roshi/young Crane Hermit slash fan art you want, kids.

Roshi takes Goku to see Mutaito, who is curious enough about Goku to accept his request for a fight.

There’s something about Mutaito that reminds me of my dad, and I can’t quite figure out what. They don’t look that much alike.

Goku wonders why Mutaito doesn’t adopt a stance for their battle, and Mutaito assures thim that he’s been in one this whole time. They fight while he sits right there, and then he knocks Goku against the wall without even touching him.

So, is Mutaito supposed to be stronger than Goku is?

No, because even Mutaito acknowledges that Goku has incredible speed and power. It’s more likely that Mutaito won that exchange simply because he surprised Goku with moves he wasn’t expecting.

He explains to Goku that he used ki to knock him back.

This whole scene feels a little weird, since we’ve seen Goku use ki before, and he’s fought against other ki users like Roshi, Tien, and Piccolo. I think the point of this lesson is that Goku’s mostly been using it in very primitive ways. The Kamehameha is powerful, and Goku learned to bend it around to make it more versatile, but ki could be used for more intricate applications than this.

Mutaito demonstrates by using a thin beam of energy to divide the flow of a waterfall. He assures both Roshi and Goku that they could do the same with enough concentration and hard work.

While Goku plugs away at this, he finds some of Fanfan’s laundry in the water.

Fanfan thanks Goku for finding it, and wipes the sweat off his face.

Turtle-chan says he’s sweaty too, but Fanfan points out that he’s drooling. Master Roshi Turtle Chan belongs in jail.

Then Crane shows up and he’s all “D-Did you get my DM?” and she’s like “Nope.”

I feel bad for Fanfan, because it looks like her only options for romance are a peeping tom and a cranky incel with a stupid haircut. Goku’s actually 15 in this episode, so I guess he’s almost eigible, but all he wants to do is cut waterfalls in half and show everyone his titties.

So Crane just punches Fanfan and kidnaps her on the spot. Man, this guy is the worst. He tells Roshi to tell Goku to meet him in the harvest field. Uh, okay?

Roshi brings Goku along...

...And Crane tries to fight Goku, but he can’t even touch the guy.

Well, I guess he does touch Goku’s fist with his face, but that really doesn’t help him.

Turns out he’s got Fanfan tied to a tree, and his henchmen are going to kill her.

So Goku has to let him beat him up, and somehow even that doesn’t help. Crane works him over for a bit, but Goku’s not even hurt. Look at this smug li’l bastard. Crane Hermit absolutely sucks. I was mad at him before for hitting Fanfan, but now I’m starting to think she just pretended to get knocked out so she wouldn’t hurt his feelings.

So Crane calls on his other henchman to light a fire around Goku and Turtle. I guess they poured gasoline all over this field before they showed up? Is this even a threat? I’m pretty sure Goku could jump over this easily.

Roshi is panicked, at least.

But Goku remembers what Mutaito told him, and he starts powering up his ki while he’s surrounded by flames. Foreshadowing!

So Goku manages to clear a path through the flames.

And Fanfan kicks one of Crane’s buddies in the nuts.

The other flunky tries to hit her, but then Mutaito stops him, and he looks pissed.

He tells Crane to either quit the dojo now, or get moved to the back of the class.

Turtle is super-impressed with Goku’s ki power, and vows to train hard to surpass him. Well, he did beat Goku once, so he’s not totally wrong. Fanfan promises to wipe the sweat from Turtle’s brow, but only after he surpasses Goku. I like that because it would have been really hacky for Roshi to get the girl. He didn’t even do anything in this episode except bring Goku along. This way, she doesn’t even have to touch the sleazebag until he gets strong enough to beat Goku, which doesn’t happen until after she’s long dead.

Later, Goku tries to cut the waterfall, but he can’t get his ki power to work this time. Turtle wonders if what he did in the fire was a fluke.

From the Lookout, Kami and Popo watch all of this, and wonder if Goku is getting anywhere. So does this mean they watched the part where Fanfan was taking a bath?

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