Synopsis: As Goku flies over the mountains, he spots his old house from above and decides that he should drop in real quick and grab some of his things since he'll be staying at the Turtle Hermit's place for now. Once his small amount of packing is done, he finishes flying to the island with kinto'un, hoping that Roshi has some food for him.
At first, it doesn't seem like anybody is home, but Goku soon locates Roshi watching an aerobics program on TV and drooling. When he finally manages to get Roshi's attention, Roshi ignores him and tells Goku to help himself to something in the fridge. He learns what a big mistake this was, when his program finishes and he enters the kitchen to find Goku's eaten everything in the fridge. Roshi asks Goku what he's come here for anyway, and Goku says the hunt for the Dragon Balls is over now and reminds the old man of his promise to train him. Roshi it seems had either forgotten that promise or didn't think Goku would be coming to collect so soon...or alone. He asks Goku where Bulma is, and Goku tells him she went back to the city. Roshi scoffs, and warns Goku that his training is extremely tough, which only makes Goku even more eager. He says he wants to get even stronger than the old man himself is. Roshi likes his spirit and accepts, but tells Goku his lessons aren't free – if he wants to get training, he'll have to bring Roshi a 'hotty'. After much confusion, during which Roshi tries to explain to Goku just what a hotty actually is, Goku prepares to leave and bring back a girl for the master. Roshi notices that Goku's tail is missing, and Goku says he doesn't know what happened to it, before leaving like it's no big deal. Roshi comments what a strange kid his new student is. He quickly rushes back into the house afterwards to prepare for his 'date'. He changes into a nice suit, chills some wine, gets some music playing, and even tries to figure out which shell is the best one to wear. A short time later, Roshi hears Goku yelling that he's found one, and runs outside excited to meet his new 'hotty'. He's less than thrilled when Goku shows off his find, a tall and large woman holding a barbell. Review: It's a very brief moment, but you'd better enjoy seeing Goku's childhood home one last time, because as far as the manga goes, you won't be seeing it ever again. It's sad really, the little place is a very iconic location for the series, but it's basically served it's purpose by now. A small but interesting little factoid that I've never seen anyone else point out is that Goku is able to place his futon and belongings on kinto'un and it with no problem whatsoever. The only real rule we got for it is that riding requires a pure heart, so either inanimate objects are fine because they have no heart to be impure in the first place, or the cloud is cutting Goku a break as it's master. I'm more inclined to believe it's the former, because if it was the latter, it wouldn't have as much problem letting people that Goku likes ride it you wouldn't think. More on that later this chapter, actually. It's not really made extremely clear why Roshi is so surprised to see Goku outside of being absorbed in his aerobics program at first. He might not have expected them to find the other Dragon Balls so quickly, but given Goku's eagerness towards getting training, you'd have thought he'd be expecting him sooner rather than later. His biggest issue though is definitely that he was expecting Goku to show up with Bulma in tow for some reason. Considering what Roshi has already gotten from Bulma – even if it was actually Oolong the second time – it's...a little scary to think about what he might have had in mind here...let's move on. Roshi's warning about his training being tough is kept vague for the time being, but even the mention of it is pretty exciting. We haven't really seen Goku do any training at all up until now. Early on, we saw him splitting firewood and breaking rocks, but even those sorts of scenes faded to the background pretty quickly as the story got moving, but now we'll actually get to see Goku strut his stuff at last. The highlight of the chapter, at least for me, has to be Roshi trying to get Goku to understand what exactly a 'hotty' is. It's pretty sexist on some levels, but it's Roshi, were you really expecting anything less? Honestly it's just really funny to see Roshi, who might just be one of the horniest characters ever drawn, clash against the naïve to the point of not even knowing how to tell girls and boys apart Goku. There's also perfect comedic timing to Roshi commenting that Goku's weird. Yes, the perfect judge of normalcy is he who has a closet full of turtle shells to choose from for various occasions. The chapter ends with Goku bringing a girl to Roshi's island, and remember how I said there was still something to talk about in regards to the kinto'un? Think back to how when Goku and Chi Chi rode the cloud together. There was no problem there, because Chi Chi apparently is also pure of heart. Jumping ahead of ourselves a bit, we'll soon be seeing that if someone who isn't pure of heart tries to ride it with Goku, they have to hold onto Goku's back or waist lest they fall off. Between the relatively small size of kinto'un and how large the lady Goku brings back is, there's practically no way she could have been hanging on to him like that. This presents only one logical outcome that I can see...the big exercising gal is pure of heart. Good for her. It's also pretty funny that while Goku misses the mark of what Roshi wanted, I think it could be argued that he did put some thought into it in a way. What, you think it's just a coincidence he saw the aerobics program Roshi was watching and then comes back with a girl in a leotard? Please. Until next time! Favorite Panel:
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