#Gohan and Dende... they're so special 2 me

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I don't have anything REALLY specific for father's day, but uhh...

Uncle Krillin seems close enough!

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EPISODE 2: GLORIO

Episode 2 time! Let's get this show on the road!

Firstly, an interesting thing they added about Shenron- apparently his multi-wish capabilities are a bonus for the regulars and any new users only get one. I'm seeming to notice with Daima that they seem to come up with a lot of new rules for the lore at the drop of a hat- many of which contradict what we've seen in Super, so it's very interesting how the show's really trying to make itself its own new branch.

I mean, we still have the Universe numbers, but the Supreme Kais travelled over from the Demon Realm. And aren't they born from the special fruit? Does siblingship mean they came from the same branch? Was it travel by choice or were they sent over? Are the Gods of Destruction retconned- now that I think about it how do they get linked up? I'll need time to think on this.

Digressing...

Turns out Mr. Popo has horns and Dende was still considered a child enough to be turned into a baby. When is Namekian maturity? Apparently, he's too young now to power the Dragon Balls. You'd think Shenron would have a self-preservation maneuver to prevent self-destructing himself with this wish.

Bulma's taking the whole shrinking (also they're acknowledging it as "shrinking" since, while they have younger bodies, they have adult mental maturity) situation surprisingly well- plus we got confirmation that's she's coming along for the Demon Realm adventure! I guess it'd kinda be like with Namek where they need a pilot, but hopefully, since she seems rather active in the OP and ending animations, it won't be a "watch the Dragon Ball for us, bye!" while she has a filler-exclusive killing crabs in the ocean moment (oh who am I kidding, I'd like to see the giant crab fight).

Kibito is officially Bulma's errand boy.

Goku can't sit still for a few days and is still trying to get the hang of his distance judgement and flying, all while everyone's having their lore meeting. Then, he comes up with the idea to grab good old reliable, the Power Pole (I honestly forgot it was called the Nyoibo)!

Turns out with everyone flying nowadays, they no longer need it to get to the Lookout, so Korin gave it to Master Roshi, who, in tribute to the gag manga roots, was using it to hang his laundry.

And speaking of these guys:

Korin's apparently not enough of a "friend" to be affected by the wish, unless he's never grown in his life and he's always been like that, so he didn't notice.

Master Roshi is still kinda weird and flirty, but I'm at least glad that in the areas with the potential to be absolutely creepy, they kept him toned down. I think he did a little heart chu at one of the waitresses, but I think that's it. Though who knows what he'll do on his planned "night on the town".

According to the lore, pointy ears are usually a good but not universal indicator of someone being from the Demon Realm. Five minutes later, Shin then proceeds to assume Glorio's from the Demon Realm based on the pointy ears (I mean, Popo did mention the ship-plane looking similar to Gomah's, but still, they did the emphasis zoom-in).

Anyway GLORIO! For an episode named after him, he sure wasn't there for most of it.

Apparently within the Demon Realm, there are individual Demon Worlds and Glorio's from the third one. He also has some motivation to defeat Gomah. That's pretty much all we know since that's enough for him to pass the stranger-danger check.

Glorio's ship plane is too small for the whole gang- though Vegeta is very insistent on squeezing in there- so they'll have to go in two waves, Vegeta, Piccolo, and Bulma coming along once Shin's old spaceship is fixed. ...I'm foreseeing maybe one or two episodes of Goku and Shin adventures until the full team reassembles.

RIP "Hey, it's me, Goku!"

ALSO Where's Gohan? Where's Videl? Where are they during all this, frightened, scared, and confused?

I'll start the tally:

EPISODES WITHOUT KNOWING HANVI'S WHEREABOUTS: 2

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Self-Pronouns in Z

Yo, so, imma gonna nerd out linguistically a little, I hope you'll forgive me.

Now I don't claim to be an expert about Japanese expression, but I know a thing or two about grammar-used-as-conveyor-of-character and while Z is nothing special when it comes to using them, it's worth having a look.

So I'd like to talk about two things: how characters say "I" and how they address others with (or without) honorifics (you know, -san, -kun, etc). Today's part one.

How they say I

Ok if you're here, you probably already know watashi, atashi, ore, boku, etc, and I'm sure you can wiki them if the info is a little old. In most Shonen manga, the "casual", informal speech is favored (it's simply cooler ^^), and z isn't the exception. I'll ignore Super for now, because I've not properly dug into it, so "Adult Gohan" in Super, idk yet.

Most male characters in DB/DBZ use "ore" (which is informal, "with a stronger sense of masculinity"), and most of them go on a first name basis straight up (also because many characters don't have a last name). Some characters adapt depending on who they speak to (Krilin, mostly, uses the formal "watashi" when talking to Roshi).

- Goku who uses the country-side Ora (but he goes Ore in the fusions and when he's serious-SSJ, which explains Gohan's shocked face during the Namek saga). Chichi also uses Ora (which is the BIG CLUE for her identity).

- Uub has a similar speech too (he uses Oira)

- Gohan uses Boku almost all of the time (which is also informal, young man I, but it's slightly more on the younger side and less testosterone (the My in MHA is "Boku")). Future Gohan uses Ore though.

- Goten, Kid Trunks, Teen Future Trunks (+ the one time when he talks to Freeza and Goku when they first meet then he switches to Ore), kid Krilin, Pu'ar, Chaotzu and Dende also use Boku. Gotenks, however, uses Ore.

- Piccolo uses plural-we (Ore-tachi) after fusing with Nail for a short time

- Older characters uses informal, "I'm old" Washi (Enma, Roshi, Korin, King Kai, Dr Briefs, Piccolo Daimao when old..)

- Freeza is the most all over the place one, he changes depending on his mental state, but usually he's watashi or watakushi (more formal!) but he also goes Boku when he's with his "papa" and has a mix between Ore and Boku in his final form.

-C-17 only uses watashi when acting "good Cyborg" with Gero, but then goes Ore.

- Vegeta and Piccolo use the honorific "sama" about themselves when they're pissed (ore-sama). A very "villain" thing to do tbh ^^

- Despite using Ore most of the time, Future Trunks' speech pattern is also more formal than most of the cast, which matches Gohan's general formal attitude (as the "kid" of the gang, he's more formal towards adults, using honorifics and shit, which carries on to Future Gohan's speech, which is how Trunks got it), while the gang in general is more relaxed around each other.

- Blonde Launch uses Ore, which makes her even more badass

- And the regular, formal/neutral Watashi is used by women (Blue Launch, 18, Pan, Panchy, Bulma until she switches to the more informal girly atashi, Videl uses both watashi and atashi) some villains (Pilaf, Tao Pai Pai, younger-Daimao, Cell (with a couple instances of Ore), 19 and 20, Dabura) and other forces of nature (Shenron, Kami, Shin). I can't stress enough that 18 keeps the formal and neutral watashi all of the time.

(oh and Mr Popo doesn't use pronouns, he always uses his own name)

Let me know if you'd like me to continue this with honorifics and other relations!

Part 2 is right here