I love it when Goku’s gone and the weaker characters have to fend for themselves. Like other story arcs, Goku’s an absentee hero for quite awhile. Just about everybody knows Vegeta ends up a good guy, but seeing him in the prime of his heartless past can really harsh your vibe. The amount of peaceful Namekians that get slaughtered is pretty shocking and not just by Freeza, but Vegeta as well. Now, Toriyama Sensei isn’t shy about killing off characters (of course, many come back), but this arc, in particular, is quite dark. It’s the craziest easter egg hunt ever!Īnd caught in the middle of this cosmic easter egg hunt are the poor Namekians.
Freeza and his troops want them so Freeza can live forever, Vegeta wants them for the same reason, and Kuririn, Gohan and Bulma just want to bring their friends back to life.
Following the insane battle between Goku and Vegeta, the word about the wish-making power of these magic balls has traveled all the way across the galaxy and now multiple parties are searching for them. Storywise, the Freeza Arc has our heroes searching for the…dragon balls! But not just your normal dragon balls, special alien Namekian ones. His tech tends to be round with soft edges and look cartoony but have an intelligent sensibility that makes everything seem like it would really work. His vehicles, space ships, mech suits are all visually impressive and show his distinctive style. It’s always had some Sci-Fi elements, but this arc takes place on an alien planet! People praise Toriyama Sensei for many things, but there’s one area where he might be a little underpraised and that’s his design of technology. This is also where Dragon Ball goes into full Sci-Fi mode. And although he doesn’t fight in this volume, or even get out of his flying chair pod thing, it’s made clear through Toriyama Sensei’s expert storytelling that this is a bad guy of extraordinary strength. And I would have to agree with my excited young colleague, this these Dragon Ball Full Color versions are indeed, “sick.” And this new run also features one of the “sickest” Dragon Ball villains ever, Freeza! A masterpiece of character design, Freeza is a deceptively weak looking, but incredibly menacing foe. To quote my millennial coworker, “These Dragon Ball Colors are sick, bro!” Of course, in his youthful vernacular “sick” means really good.
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