Synopsis: Roshi resolves himself once more to do whatever it takes to take his student down, while Goku starts to act like a silly monkey. Jackie attacks him, but as with Jackie's Sui-ken attacks against Goku earlier, Jackie now can't hit his opponent at all. Goku keeps dodging until he eventually uses his tail to pull Jackie's feet out from under him, allowing Goku to leap onto his face and scratch it up like an animal. As Jackie stands back up and Goku laughs and says that was his Monkey Attack, Jackie laments that Goku is starting to get cocky now. He starts to gesture with his hands, proclaiming that this next move will win him the match. Goku watches and gulps nervously, and is caught off guard as Jackie's eyes flare, and he starts to hypnotize the boy with a lullaby. As Jackie finishes the lullaby, Goku falls to the ground, dead asleep. Jackie reveals this was his 'Min-Min-ken' attack, though the announcer wonders if hypnosis can really be called a technique, which Jackie protests saying it is since it has a fancy Chinese name. The announcer worries how underwhelmed everyone will be if the match ends this way, and Jackie again protests that it's not his fault if his opponent was stupid enough to fall for it. With no other objections, the announcer starts his ten count. From the crowd and from backstage, Goku's friends yell loudly for him to wake up, but it doesn't seem to be doing any good, with Roshi himself claiming that Goku won't wake up until he gives the signal. He thinks to himself that this was all worth it, as now Goku will see just how much further he has to go in his training. At the last second, Bulma thinks of one last thing that might work, and yells to Goku that it's dinner time. The young boy wakes up instantly, running around and looking for his food, much to Roshi's dismay. When Goku asks the announcer where dinner is, the announcer happily tells him he can eat all he wants once the fight is over. Ready for his food, Goku says he'll just have to win this quick, and Jackie agrees that it's time they end this. Goku attacks Jackie with his Janken, but Jackie manages to block every blow. Jackie says he's well familiar with that technique, surprising Goku since he thought it was his grandpa's secret attack. Goku says he'll try it one more time, and Jackie lets him, but is caught off guard when Goku throws a 'rock' attack while yelling 'paper', catching a fist to the face. Jackie is knocked down but gets back up, marveling at Goku's brilliance. It's risky, but it looks like he really has no choice but to use 'THAT' technique after all... Review: While this chapter is fun enough, the fight is starting to feel a little bit dragged out in all honesty. I think that's because, for the most part, we're just hitting the same story beats again in this chapter that we did in the last one. Roshi tries a technique on Goku. It works, only it actually doesn't. Goku gets back up, and manages to slam Roshi with an attack he's just now come up with on a whim. Roshi is staggered, but manages to hold on and swear that this NEXT move is really gonna be the one to end the match in his favor. Don't get me wrong, it's still plenty entertaining, it just feels a little bit like we've been here long enough to where it's time to move on to something new, which thankfully the next chapter is primed to do. I do like that Roshi's so desperate at this point that he's trying to do anything and everything he can think of to just put Goku down on the ground for ten seconds and claim victory, right to the point of just putting him to sleep with hypnotism. The announcer questioning if this really counts as fighting is great too, because I had the same question. What is this, Anything Goes Martial Arts from Ranma ½? In what might come as a surprise though, I actually don't mind the technique itself, nor do I mind everyone cheering to try to wake Goku up. Unlike with Yamcha shouting to try and tell Goku exactly what Jackie's doing, this is something that possibly would have been happening even without the presence of Goku's friends. There's a big enough crowd there that at least some of them are probably rooting for the boy too, so there's probably some of them yelling at him to wake up to. There's probably also people yelling in Jackie's favor. Either way, there's enough noise going on that everything is going to be attempting to wake Goku up, so Bulma ultimately pulling it off by yelling 'Dinner!' just feels like the yell out of all of them that finally did it rather that actual interference. That's just me though, your own mileage may vary. And even though it's ultimately just more of the same, I do get a laugh out of Goku landing a hit on Roshi simply by yelling the opposite of what he's actually going to do, and Roshi praising him as a genius for it. That's just stupid enough that it's great. Until next time! Favorite Panel: Next Time: Goku's going ape! Again!
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