Dragon Ball Z Abridged

Three months and ten days, if memory serves. Also, yes, but that doesn't excuse going for five or six days with only one meal and little-to-no rest.

I know the beans came later, but it at least means they were properly fed for the battle with Ginyu-Goku / Freeza.

And who needs an excuse? They went a couple of days with little food or rest. Big deal, they're superhuman.

edited 29th Aug '15 5:26:08 PM by Saiga

Vegeta spent some time in a healing pod after Zarbon knocked him the fuck out.

That's like sleep.

edited 29th Aug '15 5:42:54 PM by unnoun

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Fair enough.

Note that I didn't bring up Namek because I remembered the multiple Sun thing.

I-isn't that super bad for you? Being unconscious for a long period?

It is.

I was joking.

I mean, Frieza's healing pods seem to run on bullshit.

I dunno whether people go into rem in them or not.

Part of the point of sleep is to restore the body, which the healing pod also does.

Senzu Beans also do that, actually.

Of course, going without rem sleep would also make them go insane.

I mean, interestingly, rats that were sleep deprived (of rem sleep specifically) showed significant lack of ability to heal wounds.

So.

I mean, Senzu beans are already bullshit. Maybe they can heal the thing that you need sleep for or whatever. Fuck it.

Or maybe having your potential unlocked by Guru is like sleep somehow because of reasons.

edited 29th Aug '15 5:59:11 PM by unnoun

I mean, this series is already full of bullshit so.

How do we know they never slept on Namek? I mean there were clearly points in the story where nothing happened and people were just sitting around.

I'm near positive Vegeta was napping at one point.

Two points actually, the second being when the Krillin, Gohan and Dende stole the balls and tried to deny him his wish.

I just thought of something totally unrelated to the current mini-topic...

...Goku won't be the one to throw Cell a Senzu Bean.

Krillin will.

SENZU BEAN! *whap*

......

That almost works.

Though maybe it will be Goku who still does it, but give the Senzu Bean line, and then is all like I thought that's what we're supposed to do!

As long as they keep "Thank you Goku I will take this bean without hesitation!"

Lack of comma between "Goku" and "I" is deliberate.

I always wondered why Goku named his son after his scrotum. :P

Goku was dead. That was Chi Chi's choice.

• BULMA: You haven't called me in months!
• YAMCHA: I've been dead!
• BULMA: Well, that's not stopping you now, is it?

It likes to watch.

...not really, no. Most of the time, if something's not happening, it's because the characters are in-transit from one thing that happened to another thing that happened.

Maybe the characters learned to nap while flying at supersonic speeds. Dende spent 12 hours trying to figure out why Krillin was snoring in the middle of their journey to meet Grand Elder Guru.

The time skips didn't happen when they were flying at super sonic speeds. It happened when they were traveling in low key, hiding their power. It was on this context we have seem Kuririn and Gohan eat that one meal, if I remember correctly, so I think it is fair to assume they simply ate, slept and went to the bathroom, on those times.

edited 30th Aug '15 8:37:54 AM by Heatth

No, the one time we saw Krillin and Gohan eat is right after they rescued Dende which is right after they got to Namek. Aside from that one time, they pretty much just flew at or near top speed when trying to get from place to place. This is especially true for when they were going to and from Guru's place since that was stated to be, like, eight hours away or something. Gohan could have rested and ate during that time but we don't know when he left to get Vegeta's Dragon Ball or how long that took him.

Ultimately, the problem here is Goku's transit time.

Gohan and Krillin go rescue Dende, return to camp. Krillin goes to meet Guru then returns and has his confrontation with Vegeta, while at the same time Gohan steals Vegeta's Dragon Ball and returns with it, having a brief altercation with Vegeta along the way. Then they go to Guru and Gohan gets his power awakened while Krillin is stalling Vegeta. Then they fly to Vegeta's stash and fight Guldo and Recoome.

Somehow, this all takes six days. It's maybe one or two days of content, tops, which also makes Gohan and Krillin's failure to eat or rest less of an issue. But somehow, six days pass between Bulma getting word that Goku's coming and Goku fighting Recoome. Goku's Six Days are the inversion of Frieza's Five Minutes.

edited 30th Aug '15 9:15:42 AM by TobiasDrake

MOAR BATMEN!

AND THE STREAM!

No. They were flying full speed all the time until Vegeta followed Kuririn to the cave and stole their dragon ball. After that, they learned their lesson and started to fly much slower, hiding their ki. We see that in chapter 270, which is when we saw Kulilin and Gohan lunching that one time. Immediately after the meal they grabbed the Idiot Ball resumed to "full speed" mode, being therefore noticed by Vegete, but the point is they spent days traveling off-screen. That is the point where all the sleeping and eating happened.

It takes six days because there is a time skip in chapter 270. At the end of chapter 269, Kulilin just decided to take Gohan to the Guru. At the start of 270, they comment the trip is taking long because they have to fly slowly. Next time we saw them they decided to go full speed again, which is just before the Ginyu forces arrived.

edited 30th Aug '15 11:44:23 AM by Heatth

I've always wondered if someone tried to map out how everything would roughly happen during the 6-day timespan.

But in terms of a lot of stuff that happens in a short period of time, we can't beat the Buu Saga, where the tournament happens and finishes, Majin Vegeta kills some people, Bulma and co gather the Dragon Balls, Buu is released, Vegeta performs his heroic sacrifice, Babidi and Buu start killing people, Goku teaches Piccolo and the kids the Fusion Dance, AND Goku goes SSJ 3 and fights Buu.

All in under 24 hours.

Man, just imagine living in that universe. That sounds like the worst fucking day. All of the terror and destruction, and you don't even get to know that someone's doing something to stop it.

...Honestly, can you blame those guys for trying to shoot Buu? How the hell else would they have known what to do? Despite being goofy, Buu and his arc were really disturbing.

And then there's this...

....So why did Chi-Chi name her son after her dead husband's scrotum?

It was her favourite thing about Goku

edited 30th Aug '15 9:54:53 PM by Hylarn

On the other hand, the heroes make sure that very few people stay dead at the end of those crises.

On a side-note, those two assholes that shot Buu's dog... Did their victims get brought back?