Synopsis: Vegeta punches and kicks Gohan in an attempt to stop him from transforming into an Oozaru, but Gohan's body keeps changing. As Vegeta tries to kill the child, Goku and Kuririn watch on, with the latter thinking this is a long shot but it's all they have. Suddenly remembering that all he needs to do is take off Gohan's tail, Vegeta grabs hold of it and tries to rip it off, but an angry Gohan hits him with an enlarged fist. Vegeta falls to the ground and looks up to see a fully transformed Oozaru Gohan. Kuririn remembers how Goku seemed to lose control of himself while he was an Oozaru, and he wonders if Gohan will be the same. He doesn't have to wonder long, as Gohan slams a massive fist into a nearby rock pillar, bringing it crashing down and scattering debris everywhere. Kuririn further wonders however if it's less that he and Goku lose control, and more that they regain their natural Saiyan ferocity... As the Oozaru Gohan lifts a large boulder over head, Kuririn shouts at him to go for Vegeta, and Gohan freezes in place. Vegeta curses as the Oozaru seems to struggle with something, and Goku shouts to his son to do it. The Oozaru Gohan roars, and turns it's attention at last towards Vegeta. The Oozaru Gohan throws the boulder down at Vegeta who quickly dodges out of the way, Kuririn reminds Gohan that he's half-human and says he's glad he's listening to his human side right now. Vegeta says that if he was less wounded this wouldn't even be a problem, and curses that it's his own fake moon that brought him to this situation as well. Realizing that his only hope lies in cutting off Gohan's tail, Vegeta forms an energy disc similar to Kuririn's Kienzan, and as the Oozaru leaps into the air above him, Vegeta throws the energy disc. The disc cuts off Gohan's tail, and at first Vegeta smirks, thinking victory will be his at last – but as he falls forward, a still very large and reverting Oozaru Gohan falls on top of him, crushing him into the ground. As the dust clears, a naked and unconscious Gohan lays atop a defeated Vegeta. Barely conscious, Vegeta reaches into his armor and pulls out a remote control. He hits a button on it before his arms collapse next to him, and Kuririn questions what he's even made of. Elsewhere, in the city that the Saiyans crash-landed and Nappa razed to the ground, a group of scientists are recovering the Saiyan pods while trying to figure out what they are and what happened to the city. One of the pods suddenly flies into the sky and away from them before they can do anything to stop it, and as the pod flies through the sky, Vegeta remarks that he's never once in his life been forced to retreat before today. Review: There's something ironically hilarious about Vegeta having just used the Oozaru form himself earlier now having to do his damndest not to face off with one himself. Try as he might however, Gohan's going ape, and he's gonna be on the receiving end of it. That said though, there is just enough questionable about this turn of events that doesn't make it an obvious saving throw from the get go. As Kuririn points out, every time we've seen an Oozaru other than Vegeta, they've been beasts that are more apt to destroy everything around them, friend and foe alike, rather than being anything useful. And we've also previously seen Gohan transform as well, so there's already evidence to suggest that this time isn't going to be any different – our heroes might be just as screwed as they were before, and their 'only hope' might actually kill them as well as Vegeta. While that would technically still save the planet itself, that...would still be a really, really bad turn of events. This time however, something miraculous occurs, and Gohan DOES listen to reason – at least, by Oozaru standards. And it's not just Goku's scream at him that does it, as even Kuririn's scream before that seems to cause Gohan to stop his rampage. While I'm not entirely sure how much I buy Kuririn's earlier theory that the Oozaru's just revert Goku and Gohan to their true Saiyan nature – ancillary material outside the manga seems to suggest that only very well trained Saiyans such as Vegeta can control the form, and they wouldn't have any repressed Saiyan nature, they'd just be as they were – I do like his theory that it's Gohan's human side that allows him to finally exert a very minimal amount of control over the form here. He may be way younger than Goku was when he transformed, but he's far more intelligent and he does have a non-Saiyan nature inside of him – there's reason to think that maybe, had the series gone differently, Gohan really could learn to control this form. But alas, as we'll be seeing soon enough, the series is going to have different ideas in mind. In fact, as things stand, this is the very last time in the manga that we'll be seeing an Oozaru, and we won't be seeing very many more of them in anime form for a long, long while either. Given how far back the form dates, it's a little sad to say goodbye to the werewolf monkeys, but at least Toriyama got a lot of mileage out of them for one last run in this arc. I do find it interesting that Vegeta makes an energy disc similar to the Kienzan to cut off Gohan's tail though. Did he come up with that after seeing Kuririn's attack, or did he always have something like that up his sleeve? Either one would make sense actually. If he already had such an attack, that would explain why he knew what it was capable of and shouted a warning to Nappa. If he didn't however, it also makes sense that he'd be astute enough both to know what it could do, and to later mimic it himself. It's an interesting conundrum. This is jumping ahead a bit, but let's just say this isn't the last time we'll see something that isn't a Kienzan but totally seems to be for all intents and purposes. With Vegeta crushed beneath Gohan, the Saiyan is finally well and truly defeated...but not dead. We've seen just how impossible Goku was to kill, so it's not that surprising to see Vegeta be just as durable, but he HAS seen quite a bit of damage here, so I guess it's surprising enough in it's own way. And while we don't see for a fact where the Saiyan pod is flying off to, the fact that it only takes to the air after Vegeta uses a remote and he then talks about retreating makes it clear enough – the pod is coming to where everyone is, and Vegeta's about to make a break for it. Surely this isn't about to be a King Piccolo to Piccolo Jr. situation though, right? ...Well... Until next time! Favorite Panel: Next Time: A completely selfish, totally illogical request.
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