Synopsis: Goku and Kuririn fly around, looking for a girl that Muten Roshi might like enough for them to receive some real training at last. Kuririn, who can't sit on the cloud and instead is hanging onto Goku, complains that Goku is flying too high and too fast and he's going to fall off, but Goku tells him he wouldn't have to worry if he'd stop thinking bad thoughts. Goku then spots someone down below and asks if Roshi might like her. When Kuririn look and sees that the person is a male farmer, Kuririn criticizes Goku for not being able to tell the difference. Goku meanwhile is impressed that Kuririn can tell just by looking, he usually has to pat someone's crotch to tell. Kuririn decides that this is a good time to tell Goku that he's a boy. Some distance away on the ground, two cop cars are chasing a light-haired woman on a one-wheeled motorcycle. They warn her that if she doesn't stop they'll have to shoot, though one cop note that they're already firing on her. Undeterred, the lady pulls the pin out of a grenade with her teeth and tosses it back at them. She continues to evade them by using the terrain to her advantage, and eventually pulls a gun out to return fire. Before she can however, a strand of her own hair tickles her nose, causing her to sneeze and fall off her bike. Back in the air, Goku and Kuririn are about ready to give up for now, as they're not finding anybody else out in the wilderness. The cops have now cornered a dark-haired woman who looks very similar to the light-haired one from before, right down to her wearing the same clothes and everything. The girl seems scared and has no idea what the police want with her, but the cops aren't buying it – they know it was her, so they have to arrest her. She screams for help, catching the attention of Goku and Kuririn up above. Goku asks if they should help her, but Kuririn says it's too risky, they haven't even trained yet and those guys have guns. Goku decides to help anyway, leaping off of kinto'un with Kuririn still on his back and landing behind the cops. He says they're here to rescue her, but Kuririn hides behind some rocks and says he's not a part of any of this. One cop threatens to arrest Goku too if he gets in the way, but Goku takes both him and his partner out in the blink of an eye before they can even really react. Kuririn is shocked to see that Goku actually does have some skill, and the girl eagerly thanks her savior. Kuririn comes out to take some credit as well, and Goku asks him if the old-timer might like her. Looking her over as they get her back on kinto'un, Kuririn has a feeling she'll do just fine. Review: Toriyama continues to get good gag usage out of Goku's inability to tell men from women, even without actually using the pat-pat test itself. It's also pretty clever how he continues to use it here to show Kuririn's contrasting personality in comparison to Goku's. We're introduced to a brand new character with a new interesting gimmick as well, and a bit of a complicated history within the franchise, but as we're not given her name or fully told about the gimmick in this chapter, I'll hold off on talking about her at length until the next chapter. That said, it's really not too big of a surprise once it's revealed since we pretty much DO see it here, so really this feels like another case where what was plot for one story ended up becoming two different chapters out of necessity of pages. That, or Toriyama wanted to get two weeks out of this one idea before he really had to come up with something else for the story. Either one's possible really. That unfortunately leaves me without a lot to talk about in this chapter itself, but I do want to take a brief moment to highlight Toriyama's incredible vehicle designs. Whether it's a real vehicle or a fantasy one, he always seems to put a lot of effort into designing and drawing them, to the point that even the fantasy ones feel like something that could actually exist in the real world some day. The one-wheeled motorcycle looks so unique that it actually manages to catch the eye more than the cop cars that are literally floating rather than driving across the ground. And that's pretty much all there is to say for this one. Even if I talked about our new character now, it still feels like this chapter doesn't have a lot going for it really. It's enjoyable, but we're starting to run into the same rut that we did in the Yamcha introductory chapters, in that we're basically going through the same gag and story each chapter until Toriyama finally decides it's time to move forward at last. Thankfully, we'll be moving forward at light speed soon enough. Until next time! Favorite Panel:
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