The Dragon Ball series is a franchise that's easy to get nostalgic over.
Many of the kids who grew up watching Goku and the gang train, and train, and train some
more remember how epic the sayian's battles were, and likely remember how long the battles
would drag out for.
Little did most of us know, creator Akira Toriyama was writing and drawing the Dragon
Ball manga did so on a weekly basis, never wanting to plan ahead as to where the story
would go.
So by the time the show was airing, he was pressured to keep the stories coming on Weekly
Shonen Jump, which is where the manga was being published.
This is why the series often took some, well, interesting turns from time to time, and why
the show itself during certain periods would lull or explore odd territory.
The more you reflect on it, regardless of how much you may love Dragon Ball and Dragon
Ball Z, there were a lot of odd mistakes made of the years that were a product of rushing.
So today, we're taking a look at some of these instances with our list of the top 10
Dragon Mistakes you can't unsee.
10 Yajirobe and his Dragon Ball While the anime is notorious for harbouring
a ton of mistakes, inconsistencies, and animation errors, the manga is just as guilty some times.
And, to be honest, I feel like Toriyama has more leeway when it comes to making mistakes
there, since he was under so much pressure to pump out new stories.
But this one also made its way into the anime.
Remember Yajirobe?
He's a ronin who met Goku when Goku was just a boy in Dragon Ball, and managed to
continue to be a reoccurring character throughout all of the Dragon Ball series.
If that doesn't ring a bell, he's the chubby dude who loves food and has a katana
he carries around, and often a pretty brash attitude, but is also a very adequate warrior.
He carries a dragonball around on his neck, attached by a brown string.
But here's the thing; Dragon balls are supposed to be indestructible mystic objects.
So riddle me this; how the hell did Yajirobe manage to drill a hole into it and turn it
into a fashion accessory?
While you could argue that in the anime, the Dragon Ball could be attached on a clasp of
some sort, in the manga, there's clearly a hole through the top of the Dragon Ball
that attaches it to the string.
This is a mistake that some have noted Toriyama has tried to revise later on down the line,
but still, it's next to impossible to unsee that now.
9 Krillin's Height This one is pretty hilarious.
Inconsistencies and continuity errors are pretty common in the Dragon Ball Z anime,
right from the start of the show to its end.
This one, which occurred during the Saiyan Saga, can be seen in multiple episodes, and
even in the manga, too.
In various scenes, pay attention to Kirill and his height.
It constantly varies; at times, he's at Goku's shoulder level, whereas in other
scenes, like when he's in front of Raditz, he looks as if he's the height of a child.
This could be chalked up to the fact that in certain scenes like the Raditz one for
example, Raditz is meant to seem more physically imposing and threatening compared to sweet
little bald Krillin, who, despite the difference between them, has proven over the years that
he can hold his own when side by side with the universes most powerful saiyans.
It kind of makes sense that his stature would vary early on in terms of using it as a character
tool.
But considering this is a problem that fans noticed in the manga too, well, let's maybe
chop it up to Toriyama's rapid pace when pumping out Dragon Ball stories.
8 Vegeta Planet Vegeta, the home planet of the Saiyans,
was destroyed by Frieza when the villain became concerned that the Saiyans were becoming too
powerful.
But for a long time, as far as the few surviving Saiyans were concerned, the planet was destroyed
by an asteroid three years before Frieza's arrival; this is the story that Frieza spread
to keep the remaining Saiyans from turning against him.
It's also the story that Vegeta had been told as well.
So when Vegeta finds out that Frieza had been the one to destroy the planet, it's a pretty
big deal, and the reveal, while not flooring him, has him thrown off his guard.
In the Japanese anime and the original manga, when Vegeta finds out the truth, he's clearly
surprised.
But in the dubbed English version of the anime, producers decided to remove his original reaction,
instead replacing it with Vegeta stating that he knew all along, which doesn't really
match up all that well with what's on screen.
7 Capsule Corp In 2009, a revised version of Dragon Ball
Z was released, called Dragon Ball Kai.
In it, many of the previous animation errors that appeared in the show were fixed, and
it boasted remastered high definition picture, sound and special effects, and even some re-recorded
voice work by the majority of the show's original cast.
Since many of the series sketches and animation cels had been disgarded back in 1996 after
the final episode of Dragon Ball Z, creators had to produce new frames by digitally tracing
over the existing footage, and filled them in with softer colours which reduced visible
damage on the original animation.
All in all, a really smart thing to do.
But some mistakes weren't erased in Dragon Ball Kai, including this number.
During the Namek saga, there's a scene with a mistake in it in episode 11, which is episode
46 overall in Dragon Ball Z, called Defying Orders.
In it, there's a Capsule Corporation space ship that was built for Goku by Dr Brief.
When it takes lift off, you can see the Capsule Corp logo on the ship, which reads CPSULE
CORP rather than its proper spelling.
There's a slew of little details like this all throughout the show, too.
6 Cell's Regeneration In the Cell Saga, we see the villain Cell
regenerate a total of three times.
Cell, who was created by Dr Gero and came from a future timeline, was crafted to possess
all the abilities of the greatest fighters the Earth has ever seen, with the goal of
Cell being the perfect warrior.
He has Piccolo's genetic material in him, therefore he can regenerate his body parts,
just as long as his brain is intact.
But here's where things get fumbly.
In all of the times that Cell regenerates, it's only the last, an attack by Vegeta,
that doesn't obliterate his head.
Where his brain is.
Yet, in the first two regenerations we witness, Cell's head is nowhere to be seen.
When Goku attacks him and completely obliterates his upper body, Cell STILL regenerates, which
doesn't make sense if we're following the previous logic.
Even when it looks like Cell is completely destroyed, after he blows himself up, he manages
to come back thanks to a single cell still remaining.
How the hell does that work, you may wonder.
It works thanks to the suspension of disbelief friends.
And also because Cell was too good of a villain to have a short tenure on the show, obvs.
5 Krillin's Outfit Change And here we have yet another number concerning
Krillin.
So one of the most common mistakes you'll notice in Dragon Ball Z is that often, colours
will be inconsistent when it comes to outfits or backgrounds; in one shot, something might
be a lighter shade, and in the next, a darker shade.
Sometimes something can be two completely different colours.
Considering how many episodes there are within the franchise, you can see how sometimes things
would slip through the cracks.
Anywho, one of those instances happened in the Frieza saga during the big battle with
the villain.
Krillian and Gohan get some Saiyan armour from Vegeta before the fight, who explains
that the armour can expand to any size.
A little later on, Krillian and Gohan are talking before Krillin flies away.
When they're speaking, he's wearing the Saiyan armour.
When he flies away, he's wearing his orange gi.
So much for being prepared for the battle with the right threads.
4 Trunks' Warning At the beginning of the Android saga, Future
Trunks arrives and warns Goku about Androids 19 and 20; androids from the future who, along
with Dr Gero's other creations, threaten to wipe out all of humanity if not defeated.
The future is already in peril, and Goku and the gang will need to kill the androids in
their time in order to fix everything.
So what's the problem with this one?
Well, he warns Goku about 19 and 20 rather than 17 and 18.
This is a bit of a goof up because after this episode was complete, Toriyama's editor
told him that 19 and 20 just weren intimidating enough to be the main villains in the arc,
which then led to the creation of androids 17 and 18.
Trunks was then written back in, and didn't recognize the androids upon seeing them in
an attempt to get rid of 19 and 20 faster and clean things up.
3 Gohan's Dream Before Cell reaches his Perfect Form, he's
got two other stages that we witnessed in the show; Imperfect and Semi-Perfect.
Toei Animation, who were in charge of animated the show, added in a scene during the Cell
saga that took place in the Hyberbolic Time Chamber while Gohan was training.
Overall, the studio beefed up the Time Chamber scenes to further elaborate on the intensity
of his training that was initially depicted in the manga.
This included a scene in which Gohan has a nightmare about Cell.
What's wrong about it?
Well, his dream features Perfect Cell, who, at that point, Gohan hadn't seen yet.
At this point in the story, Cell had achieved his Perfect Form, but the last time Gohan
saw him was in his lesser form.
So how would Gohan know that's what he looked like?
Sure you can chalk this up to Gohan having some sort of mystic experience while in the
chamber and seeing him that way, but still, doesn't quite add up in the long run.
2 Beerus and the Dinosaurs Beerus is the God of Destruction, who appeared
in the movie Dragon Ball Z Battle of Gods, and in Dragon Ball Super in the first saga
of the show, aptly named God of Destruction Beerus Saga.
Anywho, at one point, the god claims that he is the one responsible for wiping out the
dinosaurs, causing them to go extinct.
But, that doesn't really add up, considering in both the Dragon Ball anime and in Dragon
Ball Z, we see dinosaurs.
They're quite prominent in Dragon Ball, and Goku even fights some of them, and then
in Dragon Ball Z, there's a scene where a T-Rex chases after some of the shows characters,
and Gohan, during the Saiyan Saga, cuts off a dinosaur's tail for food while training.
After that saga, the dinosaurs pretty much disappear, but that still doesn't add up
cause Beerus has been sleeping for years, and was definitely in slumber during Dragon
Ball and Dragon Ball Z's earlier sagas.
Perhaps you could justify this inconsistency by arguing that maybe Beerus was responsible
for taking out the dinosaurs in another universe; he's the god of destruction of Universe
7, which is where all of the canon Dragon Ball stories take place, while his twin brother
is the god of destruction of Universe 6.
1 Frieza's Tail The big battle between Goku and Frieza is
perhaps one of the most epic and memorable events in the entire franchise.
It's the first time Goku goes Super Saiyan, and it also is a battle that milks the crap
out of the conflict, lasting the course of several episodes, despite the main characters
being capable of moving in super speed.
There's actually a theory behind that that suggests that the viewers are watching the
battle in slow motion.
Anywho, there's one detail in that battle that is hard to unsee once you take notice.
Krillian contributes to the effort against Frieza by cutting off part of his tail.
Frieza then fights Goku missing part of his tail.
But, in some shots, you can see that his missing tail didn't remain all that consistent,
and the full tail returns at times.
Is it regrowing and falling back off again?
Nah, it's just a major continuity error.
There we have it friends!
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series?
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