Dragon Ball Z Abridged

That could work.

I mean, Piccolo in a backwards baseball cap learning to drive is hilarious, so Piccolo in a dress would be comedy gold.

I mean, if Piccolo just wore the dress sometimes and wore the jeans or his gi other times.

...Or him combining the jeans, the baseball cap and the dress.

Deciding that human gender roles were too arbitrary and constricting.

Something.

edited 2nd Jun '15 5:24:22 PM by unnoun

You speak madness!

.....That could also work.

Vegeta and Piccolo bonding over being really intensely weirded out by humans.

All of the yes.

The easiest way to make humans relevant is to find some way to write the Saiyans out. Basically, make it so they're all somewhere else. Like, you know, at the main plot. Doing the important things.

Sometimes 18 joins them because she just doesn't understand why her daughter needs to eat and sleep and breathe all the time.

Just cut to the fight scenes without any context and make the actual story about anything else.

edited 2nd Jun '15 5:31:08 PM by unnoun

That sounds like it could work.

Yeah, I've never gotten how her mechanics work.

Piccolo has lived with knowledge of humans basically all his life. And now he has all of the knowledge Kami gained while watching over them for forever. It's doubtful that he's even remotely confused by anything at this point.

As for Vegeta, he's probably adapted more than enough due to being exposed to it far more than Goku has. I mean, Goku's only spent about 5 years around a person who wasn't constantly training or traveling with him and his house is somewhere deep in the woods away from everybody. His only "normal" social interaction is with Chi-Chi.

Meanwhile, Vegeta has been living with Bulma in Capsule Corp for about seven or so years and, while he does train a lot, he's also undoubtedly spent a lot of time around normal humans. He's also likely spent far more personal time with his son than Goku has.

According to Toriyama, she doesn't have to eat but does have to drink water. Meaning Gero basically turned her into a Namekian.

I like how Vegeta apparently watched TV to learn about bargain sales.

But just because you live in a place doesn't mean you understand it.

I don't think the lookout ever had a television.

Also, Piccolo mostly lived in wastelands, and the Lookout didn't have a lot of interaction with others.

I can see Piccolo and Vegeta riffing on infomercials.

edited 2nd Jun '15 5:39:04 PM by unnoun

Interesting.

Also, I bet Vegeta and Piccolo would become pretty good friends if they had to be around each other for a while.

I also love how Vegeta says "bargain sale" even in the Japanese version. Funniest use of Gratuitous English ever.

I could see 18 and Vegeta becoming sorta antagonistic friends after that whole "broke both your arms" thing settles down.

I could see 18 and Bulma being friends maybe, assuming being around Bulma covered in motor oil and grease didn't give her horrible flashbacks.

...I can't see Buu relating to people very well because of just how childish he is. I mean, he might get along with Goten until Goten grew up.

Kinda curious how things went in the Satan household with Videl, Hercule, Bee and Buu.

See, that's the part of high school I'm interested in. After the Buu Saga is over. How the hell do Gohan and Videl adjust? I mean, yeah they become superheroes together, but besides that?

Why would Lazuli not know why her daughter needs to eat? She was born human.

edited 2nd Jun '15 5:47:10 PM by Enlong

Does she remember being human? Or is her first memory waking up on a slab?

I quite honestly don't know the answer to that question.

edited 2nd Jun '15 5:57:53 PM by unnoun

I wonder if Buu ever matures or if he's just stuck that way for the next millennia?

I've actually been writing a fanfic about that but I'm sure it's kind of shit so whatever....

One thing in GT that I kind of liked was Buu's role. It was basically the only time you saw him do something relevant.

edited 2nd Jun '15 5:48:04 PM by LOLypop1224

And then he disappeared forever.

And then he dies, and merges with Uub. Who did... something... I'm sure...

Except in Online, where instead he finds Mr. Satan's porn and decides to create a new species in his own image.

Like, that's one of the most absurd things in dragon ball and I kinda like it.

Some of the Dragon Ball Online ideas are things I wouldn't mind too much if they became canon. Except how apparently everyone is a Saiyan hybrid.

What's wrong with humans, guys? Humans are awesome!

Say what you will about GT but it gave us this scene and it is amazing:

It's more that the Saiyan race became sorta absorbed by the human race.

Which. I mean, the fact that Saiyans and Humans can produce fertile offspring means that the two have basically been the same species the entire time, so.

Except Saiyans aren't terrible at not sucking

edited 2nd Jun '15 5:56:25 PM by BaconManiac5000

It's a sort of peeve of mine that people act like being able to interbreed means two species are basically the same. It doesn't but it's on here on several places as if that's true.

Plus, this is Toriyama and more generally sci-fi. It doesn't have to make actual scientific sense to happen.