DragonBall Z Abridged: Episodes 35 & 36 (Reaction)

[@wrantheim6777]

The RR thing stands for Red Ribbon Army. It was an antagonistic organisation in the original Dragonball series. The man who build the androids worked for them.

[@sikox209]

The senzu beans can restore one’s health and stamina. The beans can practically bring some one who’s about to die of injuries back to full health. They don’t work against illness though

[@ChiePet_]

Yeah, weird because they literally fixed Gohan's broken neck on namek lol.

[@silentassason]

In the original, it was a heart virus, I always assumed the beans also restored the virus power and boosted it

[@magne7771]

So what you're saying is If they have a senzu- bite em so they get sepsis

[@eskreskao]

They also fill up your stomach for a full week or so. At least that's what they're supposed to do, not sure how it works with Saiyan appetite.

[@In-The-Zone]

@@eskreskao Thats what is just suppose to be actually, an instant recovery based on a week of rest and food but then it became a magically insta fix.

[@psychogoreman198]

The skater is actually listening to Guerrilla radio and also the line where Goku asks “Do androids dream of electric sheep” is the name of the book that the film Blade Runner was based on.

[@MatandChelsReact]

😔Damn, we're disappointed in ourselves for missing such an obvious THPS2 reference. Hope you're having fun conquering planets PG!

[@Nerdy_Jarhead]

So, in the future, Goku DIES from that heart disease. Trunks gave him an antidote that will allow him to SURVIVE the disease, but he still goes tbrough having thw disease

[@dearikj90]

The running joke with the Intro Disclaimer read has always been that the person reading it is likely to die that episode. That's why Yamcha was starting to flashback to the last time he did it and "get a bad feeling" after he finished. It's a subtle joke I continue to find hilarious.

[@Hawkx10]

If there's no death the person usually has a big part to play in the episode

[@xenosaga8436]

The R R stands for Red Ribbon army. Goku destroyed them as a child. That's why they have a grudge against him. Senzu beans do heal. Back in the Namek saga Gohan was kicked so hard in the head his neck was broken, but a senzu bean healed him back to full life seconds after eating it. Goku was having a heart attack. That's why Trunks went back in time. Goku originally died of a heart attack before the androids showed up. Bulma made a heart medicine to save his life and sent Trunks to give it to him in the past.

[@jaysonguzman4484]

RR means Red Ribbon. Goku destroyed the Red Ribbon Army when he was a kid in Dragon Ball.

[@MatandChelsReact]

Good to know!

[@Revanants]

Have you noticed name themes in the show? Saiyans are named after vegetables (Kakarot being Carrot, Raditz being Radish, Vegeta being Vegetable). Bulmas last name is “briefs” and her son is “trunks”, so they are underwear related names.

[@MatandChelsReact]

Honestly it didn’t start hitting us until Trunks. We had no idea Bulma’s last name was briefs or that Kakarot and Vegeta translated to those either. 🤣

[@daryl772003]

​@@MatandChelsReactin the future Vegeta and Bulma have a daughter named Bra

[@kingbeauregard]

"Bulma" is supposed to be "bloomers". And her mom, according to the writer, is actually named "Panchie" ("panties"). AND, in GT, Trunks will have a sister named "Bra".

[@ignanimepm4545]

I believe "Gohan" means something like rice in japanase or sushi rice.. Toriyama was really inspired when thinking names.

[@robertmauck4975]

Gohan means rice or a meal

[@ZWarrior89]

If you wanna know how Vegeta became a Super Saiyan, you gotta watch the actual show. He goes on about a speech and a flashback about how he achieved it and he sounded poetic and was beautifully done.

[@charlesjones9860]

Yamcha has been a fan-appointed laughing stock ever since he got dropped by a Saibaman, though Toriyama has since gone on record to say it only happened because his guard was down, and that he could easily take down a Saibaman in normal circumstances. TFS did not "add fuel to a fire," they simply offered a louder voice for what everyone was already saying. For what it's worth, Yamcha could still single-handedly solo the rosters of MOST other anime/manga without serious repercussion.

[@orbboom6119]

Yeah he could easily destroy the moon, if not a whole planet by that point, its pretty nuts.

[@Pragabond]

My dude you're describing adding fuel to the fire. They took the voices already there and made them bigger/louder vs taking the fire already there and making it bigger with fuel. Its goofy to pretend like they didn't make it more prominent when they absolutely did. I don't even consider it a bad thing just a true thing.

[@bms2010]

No he hasn't that a small minority that takes power levels to the extreme

[@protalghulnist4126]

One thing a lot of people miss is that every time a major character dies they narrate the disclaimer at the beginning of the episode, that’s why yamcha was nervous.

[@wakkaseta8351]

The scene where the old man gets lifted out of his car by the neck is actually heavily censored. In the Manga, 20/Gero just squeezes his neck til his head pops off.

[@toddkes5890]

24:06 - notice that it is Yamcha, and he is getting more distant at a rate of one kilometer per second. That is 3600 kilometers per hour or about Mach 2.9. So the weakest person in the group while carrying someone else, can move at a speed that is only exceeded by the SR-71. Makes you wonder what the various air traffic control people around the world think when these guys are flying.

[@c.clasher]

Yamcha's still my dude lol. The writers are the reason The Yamcha Slander Abuse Society started

[@MatandChelsReact]

Poor Yamcha! 🤣

[@MiloTheScorpion]

Well that's just not true. They did admitted they went a bit hard on him, but Yamcha's punching bag status pre dates by far TFS.

[@scientisticthug8454]

Nah man the yamcha meme predates that without doubt

[@VaultPool]

Cat loves food ya ya ya

[@hobbes6392]

If you mean Toriyama then yeah. Yamcha has been a loser since the 1980’s, now that has absolutely been played up by Internet culture, but he’s always been a loser. That’s the joke

[@tonyjackson4078]

When Krillin says Bulma's boobs are amazing and she thinks "just take the compliment" it's a callback to Goku and Vegeta's pink shirt moment to showing that Bulma and Vegeta do "get" each other. It's cute.

[@alexanderren1097]

Did anyone else notice how 19’s voice dropped an octave or so after the reboot when he started winning the fight against Goku but then went back up to the original higher pitch after he got scared by Vegeta?

[@Kingofcorrect]

I've always said that that little exchange between Goku and Yamcha is what proved to me that they had the ability to do drama and touch hearts.

[@LTrain4444]

8:23 Chels' debut in DBZ

[@Just_Plain_SteveENT]

Vegeta's transportation in the original DBZ was epic. I would watch the original video.

[@LuffyxNamiisathing]

I just want to say I love your reactions! Found you from your Nightwish reactions and was suprised to see DBZA in your channel but loving it❤

[@charismaentertainer1657]

They won’t say it, but one of the names of the 2nd android is android 20 RR stands for red ribbon, a army that goku defeated when he was young. Why they’re here or how for now is unknown, but android 20 clearly hates him for what he did.

[@Samyboy03]

appreciate the consistency of episodes 🙌🏽

[@infini_ryu9461]

The idea of Bulma and Vegeta together was so out of left field the team working with Toriyama thought he was smoking crack(figuratively). Yeah, Bulma and Vegeta makes no sense, it's really just a plot device for introducing Trunks, tbh. However, it develops more later on and that's why people like them. Chi Chi and Goku also happened out of left field and it was Chi Chi's stubbornness that pushed them together. Toriyama said he is not good at romance, that was an understatement. Toriyama makes one actually decent romance start to a certain couple later on.

[@charlesjones9860]

I wouldn't go quite that far, as to say there was no reason outside plot. Vegeta was an isolated, historically lower-class (in galactic scale) warrior with a power/self-worth complex, and Bulma was an female intellectual fighting for a place within her male-dominated reality. I can see how there were vulnerabilities in each, that could have felt inviting to the other. They both probably initially looked for love within those they deemed inferior. Chi-Chi was a literal princess who had never experienced pushback for her desires, and Goku was a country bumpkin who thought 'love' was a kind of food he was in line to sample. Theirs is a perfect comedy marriage and not a mystery to me at all. I think Toriyama writes brilliant love stories; he just uses the lens of comedy to do it, and in doing so, tends to try to subvert expectation as much as possible. Or maybe I should rephrase that to: I think Toriyama writes brilliant love stories; he just populates them with characters who have giant inherent flaws. Lol.

[@infini_ryu9461]

@charlesjones9860 None of those things matter when you consider the circumstances. The entire idea is just comedy and plot device.

[@MrMeddyman]

Yeah and Dragonball is a comdedy first-and-foremost and Dragonball Z is an action shonen with comedic elements still in it. Even if the romance was compelling I wouldn't want it in DBZ, or for it to be focused on in lieu of what the show is supposed to be about, it just doesn't belong. @@infini_ryu9461

[@charlesjones9860]

@@infini_ryu9461 well... happy to agree to disagree!

[@infini_ryu9461]

@charlesjones9860 You are writing the story for them. It's not that deep, bro. Lol. Like no, Vegeta just being invited to Bulma's requires an asspull in itself. Yamcha being dumped out of nowhere just after being in hysterics that he's dead. It really makes no sense. This is creating a narrative after the fact. Lol.

[@jonathanwatson5818]

Love this series, very nice to see you 2 back at it.

[@SpecialBeam]

Pausing more as you go is probably better for retention rates, yeah. But also, a lot of reactors take notes so they remember to bring up things during the discussion at the end.

[@zacharylyell6299]

So some people have already explained that the senzu beans heal your injury's, but I want to kind of add to that. Someone might've already said this stuff and I might get some things wrong, but anyways. So the senzu beans not only heal you, but completely restore your stamina. I believe they also somehow make you feel full for 10 days and give you 10 days worth nutrients without overdosing you on those nutrients. They're powerful enough that you can actually bite them in half and share them and they still work pretty well. I think it's also implied somewhere that if you take one immediately after losing a limb that you could get that limb back, but idk how canon that is. Again I could be wrong about all of this, but I know I've heard this stuff before.

[@darkerkyo]

It could be canon considering that yamcha got a hole in his chest that got patched after the sensu bean.

[@yogurtofthemultiverse2200]

I'd assume you could regenerate parts of your hand, but not a whole arm-- and that it would have to be a fresh wound.

[@Pink.andahalf]

19:40 That's exactly what the editors at Shonen Jump said when they saw the first set of androids. Thus leading to all of the others.

[@Lord_Nagafen]

There was even a Scooby-Doo reference here and many people keep missing it lol

[@HellBrYnger]

afaik you also cant be wished back by the dragonballs if you die of natural causes, in trunks's future goku died of heart failure before the androids appeared and couldnt be wished back to life

[@Pink.andahalf]

Goku was already wished back by Earth's Dragonballs, and they didn't have time to try and get him back with the other set.

[@bobmanperson599]

The RR on their red Red Ribbon ribbon is the logo of the Red Ribbon army. Future Trunks kinda brought it up, but it was only 2-3 seconds of his long speech. And you wouldn't know what he's talking about if you haven't watched/read OG DragonBall.

[@DavCube]

5:18 So this song is an... odd one. In the first english dub of the show, this was a weird out-of-context flavor line from Yamcha in an episode leading up to Mecha-Frieza arriving on Earth. TFS thought to take this line that most people probably forgot existed from both the passage of time and multiple re-dubs later, and turn it into a song he was forced to make to get by that follows him around to further humiliate him.

[@OtakuJuanma2]

Keep your eyes peeled for the Cat Loves Food song. From here onwards there will be remixes of the song thrown into the background music when it's part of the scene (out of radios, headphones, etc)

[@ignanimepm4545]

Boy, did I feel excited about Vegeta's return. I realized I missed that part as a teen. I knew about it, but I missed it.

[@trolleyfan]

The "R R" is the symbol of the Red Ribbon Army, from the OG Dragonball series. Think of them as Isis without the religion. Goku kinda destroyed it.

[@coolkid7377]

All the Yamcha hate just made me like him more since he stood out more lmao

[@andersonmi1492]

I can’t remember if you already realize it but just in case the one reading the intro in each episode most likely will 💀

[@YukoValis]

The thing with Dragon ball z names is that they all fit a theme. Dr Briefs daughter is named Bulma which means Bloomers aka girls shorts. Her son is Trunks etc Vegeta = Vegetable. Kakarot = Carrot. Raditz = Radish. Nappa = cabbage. it goes on and on.

[@demonsorrows]

True Saiyan names are after vegetables, Kakarrot carrot/human name Goku (a food) and fam named after foods (Gohan & Goten) The Brief family names are underwear and such. 😛 Dr. Brief(s) Bikini Brief (his wife) Bulma (Daughter)= bloomers (Japanese say buruma) Trunks (B&V's son) Bulla (B&V's daughter) = bra (Japanese say bura) It's an amusing way to name characters.

[@digger66a]

19:30 to know what the Red Ribon Army is you need to watch the original Dragonball when son Goku was little.

[@Kingofcorrect]

Gero had to say "boot" to reactivate 19, lol.

[@AscendedXSaiyan]

Wooow the wrestling terminology in the conversation near the end 😂😂 So do you think Goku's heart attack coming back is a work or a shoot?

[@MarijnvdSterre]

Love the double episodes ^^

[@rag5617]

The thing about Goku with boys and girls names, is that it's a hint to the OG Dragonball, when he was little and still a bit in his adulthood, Goku can't differienciate boys to girls. So, in the abriedged, they made that joke some times. "It's a girl's name". Yes Goku. 🙄

[@protalghulnist4126]

Trunks also apparently is feminine in the world of dragon ball as Goku thought he was a girl when he showed up and in the broly movie so did both broly and Paragus, probably a reference to the bishopen trope in anime which trunks kind of fits though on the lower end.

[@rocketmanart7964]

Red Ribbon army, so yeah. The androids are a part of a company called the Red Ribbon army.

[@asaashara2592]

The R R is a shout out to the red ribbon army Goku destroyed as a child

[@jadenwalker2052]

Fun fact: Android 19 is voiced by a TTS program, the same voice is used for the Warhammer 40k fanseries: What if The Emperor Had Text to Speech(which is also quite a funny series)

[@xaqbarnitz4937]

Vegeta kills no one on earth. Its all Nappa and the siybamen.

[@nescirian]

The reason Goku thinks Trunks is a girl's name is because he thinks he's already met "a nice young lady" named Trunks (as he said when Future Trunks was leaving in the previous episode) "These seem like the most underwhelming villains" - the manga editor agreed, that's why this saga goes through three sets of villains and the final one transforms. The editor kept being underwhelmed, and Toriyama kept changing the villain in response. This is why Trunks says there are 2 Androids, but there end up being 6 (if you count Cell).

[@YungandRekless545]

19:39 And it's comments like those that made the Android Saga what it is today 😂

[@cezar4135]

Should watch how vegeta turns super sayian off the first time in the original it’s poetry

[@silentassason]

You can blame Taka and Lani for all the Yamcha hate, Kaiser apparently didn't want to shit all over Yamcha this much but kept getting 2 to 1 vetoed out lol

[@TheParappa]

Blame Toriyama. TFS may exaggerate Yamchas treatment, but it was always there. He was the punching bag, even back in the 21st tournament and it never stopped.

[@MarisuSedai]

“This day and age, it could kinda go either way.” Mmmm, as could I.

[@jadenwalker2052]

Ohhh myyy

[@davidjonsson9549]

Yes, Goku is having a heart attack. It is explained better in the original that the medicine Trunks gives him is not preventative. He has to take it when he starts experiencing symptoms that for reasons I can't remember start later this time since Goku was already dead by the time the androids show up in the future time line.

[@protalghulnist4126]

I thought he just didn’t take it because he didn’t feel sick until the fight

[@davidjonsson9549]

@protalghulnist4126 Yes, that's what I'm saying. He had to take it when he started feeling sick, not before, which was why he couldn't just take it right away and forget about it. Its been a long time since I saw the original but I'm fairly sure trunks says Goku was already dead by the time the android show up in his time line. So the timing of events is a little different. I could just be misremembering though.

[@avicruz2152]

Finally it's about to get super good🎉

[@kristopherhauser]

My god i cannot wait for them to meet C***

[@flyingpigmonkey1]

IIRC the original VA for Yamcha in DBZA pissed them off and bailed so they turned him into even more of a joke.

[@MrMeddyman]

Adding to the list of reasons that Bulma truly belongs to the streets for getting with Vegeta that you won't see until History of Trunks, after the Namek wish was made to bring everyone but Goku and Frieza to Earth, Vegeta goaded Gohan into a fight by mocking Goku's supposed sacrifice as Vegeta was now the most powerful being in the universe if both Goku and Frieza offed each other going as far to suggest that he should kill Gohan to keep him from being a prooblem in the future, or to do what Frieza did to Vegeta and make the kid his lackey. Gohan got angry and Piccolo let him go at Vegeta for disrespecting his father and while Gohan had the upper hand for like a second Vegeta then relentlessly pummeled Gohan right in front of Bulma, the child of one of her best friends... then she bears this man's child... and people say Goku is fucked up.

[@bf3015]

I'm with till the end of the series 🫡

[@raybirdman]

In defense of Yamcha. He’s not a coward. He can be a little bit of a bitch, but he is one of the strongest human beings on the planet. He can fly, is super fast and strong and can shoot laser beams from his hands. This episode is a prime example. Yamcha may bitch, but he doesn’t run away, but actually runs towards the screaming even though he knows he might get bodied. Krillen and Yamcha are among the bravest fighters on the roster because despite being the weakest of their group, they always try to help out in anyway they can.

[@TuskyBaby]

"He can fly, is super fast and strong, and can shoot laser beams from his hands" You mean like 95% of the cast? 😂

[@raybirdman]

@@TuskyBaby Yeah, but 99.99999998% of the earth’s population in the DB universe can not do that.

[@raybirdman]

@@TuskyBaby So, when compared to the rest of the crew. He’s the weakest. When compared to the general population of the earth, he’s friggin’ Superman.

[@TuskyBaby]

@@raybirdman But we don't follow 99.999999% of people in this story, we follow Goku and friends. We're shown things from their perspective. What you're talking about literally doesn't matter to the story outside of Yamacha's tournament appearances in early Dragon Ball.

[@raybirdman]

@@TuskyBaby Nevermind. You’ve missed my point entirely. Good day sir!

[@deathninja16]

Red ribbon army =RR

[@matiaspereyra9392]

It's not so much that they hate Yamcha (they actually really like him) but the thing is the actual DBZ story treats him like crap, he was Goku's first rival and by the end of dragon ball he was Bulma's boyfriend, was like the 4th strongest character and had some pretty good moments in general, z starts and he gets dumped by Bulma for cheating on her, which if you watch db that's unbelievable, gets insta killed by a saibaman, insta killed by the android and generally drifts apart from his friends more and more to concentrate on his baseball career because fighting is not really an option

[@ZanathKariashi]

it's fully believable, they broke up and got back together like 7 times over the course of Dragon Ball and she was gonna dump him for good and go after Goku after the 23rd WMT, but he proposed to Chi-chi after their match, so she settled for going back to Yamcha.

[@infini_ryu9461]

Yamcha gets dogged on hard in the abridged series, but it's really not his fault, he is like the other human fighters, reduced to irrelevance by the Saiyans. It takes a lot of asspull to bring them back. Yamcha used to be one of the best and beat Goku once, he is very strong all things considered. Yamcha is a pretty sympathetic character coming to terms with his now powerlessness and trying to live a normal life.

[@mugiwaraluffy6791]

Yamcha will solo in naruto verse

[@xavierlehew6746]

​@@mugiwaraluffy6791Genjutsu. Also please explain what Yamcha is reasonably going to do against something like majestic attire susanoo lol. Yamcha is cool and all but he would get shit on.

[@mugiwaraluffy6791]

@@xavierlehew6746 yamcha will deatroy madra..nappa power level 7000 same as madara ..and yamcha its like million power level..and yamcha will be like god threat to naruto verse

[@protalghulnist4126]

@@xavierlehew6746Yamch can kill a saibamen, who is as strong as raditz, handily. Raditz was way stronger than goku and piccolo at that point. Goku and vegeta at that point were way stronger than master Roshi at that point. Roshi in the first world martial arts tournament we saw blew up the moon. On power alone no one in naruto is anywhere near yamcha’s level.

[@xavierlehew6746]

@@protalghulnist4126 Kaguya can create and destroy dimensions brother lmao Any six paths level character would dogwalk Yamcha.

[@mdavissq3d]

People shit on Yamcha cause of how his character fell from the the first Dragonball series when Goku was a kid. Yamcha back then a pretty neat character. Desert bandit who became a main line up fighter. Then when DBZ was made his character became an after thought and was written in a way that was pretty disappointing for OG fans. DBZA just decided to give him a 2nd life as a joke character. TFS just used what they had.

[@lordgenerias]

It sucks how much Yamcha gets shat on, buy it was Toriyama that started that trend. TFS just added a few jokes to make fun of his status as the show's butt monkey. But I can safely guarantee ya that Tien wouldn't last thirty seconds if he got penetrated like that, either.😉

[@lordgenerias]

Also, Vegeta has two states of existence. Either he is *absolutely* dominating a fight, or he is *absolutely* being dominated. There's not a lot of variables for that equation, unless he's fighting Goku. Senzu Beans have been a thing for a while. Been a bit since the last video for you, so a refresher: Senzu Beans, described in Abridged as "the magical beans that heal all wounds and restore your stamina". In the Dragon Ball universe, Senzu Beans (translation: Hermit Beans) are grown by Korin, a magical cat hermit that lives atop The aptly named Korin Tower, located directly below the equally well named Kami's Lookout. They take a long time to grow, and Korin can only grow them in small amounts. They provide a large amount of nutrition, which is probably used in healing one's body and restoring their stamina and ki. Senzu Beans can heal even life threatening wounds, like impalement (in Yamcha's case) or a broken neck (Gohan on Namek after Recoome kicked him in the head). So long as you're not actually dead, a Senzu can bring you back from the brink. What Senzu Beans *can't* do is cure illnesses or damage to the body that has already fully healed naturally. Example: Yamcha has scars on his face, and after eating a Senzu Bean, the scars remain. He healed from the cause of the scars naturally, so the beans wouldn't affect them. If Yamcha ate one when they were still fresh, the cuts would have healed over as if they were never made. Also, a joke I felt got glossed over: Vegeta kicked Android 19 in the gut *so hard* he distended his back in the shape of a foot. Vegeta then says "looks like I'm a size *19."* He's referencing the designation of his opponent. It seems like it goes over reactor's heads. And thanks to Vegeta trashing 19, Cyborg 20 (the old man) realized he wasn't winning a fight against Vegeta and noped *right* the f✓©k outta there!

[@ciaoatutti307]

Toriyama himself hate yamcha, he was part of the show at the start but then after saiyan saga he needed someone for let it die drammatically at the android's first appearence and this is the only reason he resurrected him at the end of frieza's saga,after this moment you saw where he get hand stab he will literally disappear from any type of "action" scene in the real series becouse even drawing him in the manga was a waste of time and a waste of ink 😂 i mean this is kinda of a little innocent spoiler but he's never been relevant from the start of dbz and after all is yamcha so he spoiler himself from how much we are use to see him die, no one ever expect something from him outside get killed so bad

[@onerule1915]

Yamcha did cheat on Bulma before the saiyan saga so i guess karma

[@coolkid7377]

That’s never been proven fully 100 percent

[@TheParappa]

Yep... except we never see Yamcha do anything of that sort, while Bulma throws herself at Blue and Zarbon at the first opportunity.

[@dudeman47731]

Something happens to whomever voices the disclaimer

[@RAINJJ14]

It’s been too long. Please take my money and make faster lol

[@RAINJJ14]

Also have no problem with more pauses if u start. Your reaction is what we here for

[@TheSasuke707]

[@GreaterSociety]

I totally forgot you guys were reacting to this