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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#49451: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:09:58 PM

Well, I'm fairly sure that people under Trunks' situation would not be anywhere near as well adjusted as he is, so I'm thinking it's fairly unrealistic on that side too.

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VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#49453: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:11:56 PM

The tone is darker than the main series timeline is, but that's all.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#49454: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:13:48 PM

Well, Trunks spent most of his time away from the Androids and their destruction. He wasn't constantly on the run or anything, even when he did start personally fighting against them.

Also, half-Saiyan, we've had conversations about how that might affect dealing with things like this.

edited 11th Jan '17 4:14:30 PM by LSBK

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#49455: Jan 11th 2017 at 4:15:51 PM

Dood, I know.

Also Trunks might not have been in the thick of the Androids' carnage all the time... but he definitely bore witness to a lot of it.

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#49457: Jan 11th 2017 at 5:13:28 PM

Okay, help me out, is Gohan 9 or 11 when he fought Cell? Because I've heard people say that "eleven" is a dub error and I'm pretty sure TFS made a joke about Goku insisting Gohan was eleven because he's stupid, but the math doesn't add up for Gohan to be 9.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#49458: Jan 11th 2017 at 5:15:46 PM

Hmm...he was four when he was introduced, about a year past before Vegeta and Nappa arrived, there was a little time before Goku came back and they trained for three years to battle the androids, and then he spent a year in the time chamber. Either nine or ten works, but not eleven. So, yeah, nine.

DarkHunter from New Mexico Since: Jan, 2001
#49459: Jan 11th 2017 at 5:17:08 PM

4 at the beginning of Z.

5 during Saiyans and on Namek.

6 when Freeza returns.

9 after three years of training (Android/Cell Saga).

10 if you count the subjective year in the time chamber.

I do recall that the original dub aged him up to five at the beginning of Z for some reason, which is probably where they got eleven years.

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edited 11th Jan '17 5:18:51 PM by DarkHunter

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#49460: Jan 11th 2017 at 5:43:03 PM

Here's how I looked at it.

He was four at the start of Z

By the time he got to Namek he was five (the Saiyans were a month early and it took a month to get to Namek)

There was a year and eight months between Freeza's defeat and Freeza's arrival on Earth. So he's six, but he should probably be seven.

Three years training: 9~10

Hypersonic boopado: 10~11

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DarkHunter from New Mexico Since: Jan, 2001
#49461: Jan 11th 2017 at 5:46:36 PM

And all this means he apparently entered high school at 17 or 18. And all the other students seemed to be the same age (or at least, nobody commented on him being older than the norm).

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#49463: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:09:14 PM

Gohan was chronologically 9, biologically 10, when he fought Cell. Him being 11 is a dub mistake much like Goku's power being OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!

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MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
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#49464: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:25:10 PM

[up]Is something a mistake when you need to adjust for mouth flaps?

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#49465: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:29:26 PM

Weird that the dub aged him 11, when I'm pretty sure they said he was 4 in introduction.

Also this means there was no year before Karrot came back, since that's the only reason the age 11 exist.

edited 11th Jan '17 6:34:13 PM by randomness4

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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#49466: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:33:30 PM

Considering "Nine" and "Eight" are both a single syllable...

Yes, yes it is a mistake.

And it still weirds me out that Nine is a single syllable, because I speak Spanish, and it reads as two syllables to me.

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#49467: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:36:16 PM

Again, blame trying to match the mouth flaps.

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Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#49468: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:40:26 PM
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IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#49469: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:41:55 PM

See, Eleven and Ten I get, 'cause 3 versus 1 syllable, but eight or nine doesn't make sense because it's the same amount of lip flaps, and the art and animation are not good enough where the difference of mouthing eight or nine would be noticeable enough that people would harp on, or even notice, it.

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edited 11th Jan '17 6:44:24 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#49470: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:42:33 PM

Fun fact: Gohan was three when the chapter was first published in Jump. It was changed for the volume release, but you can see from his fingers that he's holding up three (hard to see, though).

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#49471: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:45:21 PM

... Why didn't they edit the art, if they changed his age?

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MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#49472: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:46:44 PM

I still find it easier to believe than to think that someone at Ocean Group mistook "hachi" for "kyuu".

[up]Same reason why they didn't edit Gohan's fingers in the early dub.

edited 11th Jan '17 6:47:40 PM by MightyMatilda

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#49473: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:47:17 PM

[up][up][up][up][up] and [up]To be fair, the "eight" in eight thousand isn't pronounced "hachi". It's a word stopping thing (glottal stop maybe?) compound word. It's more like "hassen".

edited 11th Jan '17 6:50:18 PM by LSBK

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#49474: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:50:01 PM

[up][up][up] don't know. It might have been missed, we don't even know why his age was changed

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#49475: Jan 11th 2017 at 6:52:17 PM

I would assume it was because he was too young and people thought it would be too ludicrous. But then again, it's only one year older.

It might've been Toriyama himself who asked for the change because he thought it might help the story, we don't know, but it's fun to speculate any possible dumb reason might have been true.

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