Synopsis: White yells over an intercom for Sergeant Major Purple to stop playing around and finish off Goku immediately, and Purple concedes, telling the boy that the fight is for real now. Rather than scaring him however, Goku seems excited at the idea. Purple draws his sword and leaps into the air, intending to stab right through Goku, but Goku simply jabs the end of his nyoibo into the ground and moves out of the way, allowing Purple to impale his butt upon the other end of the staff. Naturally, Purple lets out an agonized scream and starts running around with nyoibo sticking out of his rear end, while Goku laughs and tells him he's got a tail now just like his own.
Goku eventually pulls the nyoibo free of Purples' butt, causing the ninja even more pain. Purple is outraged that Goku would do this and even laugh about it, and picks up his sword to attack the young boy again. As Purple swings his sword viciously, he finds himself unable to land a blow on Goku. In fact, Goku ends up pushing him back with the nyoibo and going on the offensive himself, eventually snapping the blade of Purple's sword right off. Purple is horrified to see his weapon broken, and Goku asks him if he's redy to give up yet. Purple praises the boy's skills and challenges him to prove what he can do bare-handed, but while Goku puts his staff away, Purple readies a bladed boomerang behind his back. He throws it at Goku and misses the first hit, and Goku calls him out for lying, but Purple says that everything is fair in a battle of life or death. Goku finds he can't really disagree with that, just before taking the boomerang to the back of his head. Goku is knocked down and Purple declares victory to White, but Goku pops back up off of the ground, holding his pained head, much to Purple's horror. Goku says the ninja has made him angry now and starts to chase after the retreating Purple, but Purple throws a series of shuriken at him. Goku dodges behind a tree, then starts grabbing the shuriken out of the bark. Purple ends up running back inside the small house by the pond, and Goku catches up to him with the shuriken in hand. Purple tells him to throw them if he can, and Goku does so, only for Purple to block it with one of the tatami mats off of the floor. Goku ends up throwing three more shuriken, and Purple blocks each one with another tatami mat, with the last one being noticeably smaller than the rest. Goku is impressed, and Purple relishes in it for a moment. When Goku throws the final shuriken however, Purple finds the floor devoid of mats and takes the shuriken to the forehead. He curses himself for only buying 4 ½ mats when he should have bought six, and swears that he's really going to show Goku next time. Review: This chapter continues basically running with the same joke as the previous one (the joke being that holy crap Purple is stupid), but Toriyama is still getting really great mileage out of it, so I for one am okay with this repeating chapter. And he does change things up slightly this time, with the antics being more combat focused whereas before they were just showcases of skills...or lack there-of. The chapter peaks early too, as the first gag of the chapter is Purple getting nyoibo jammed up his butt, so it's a wonder the chapter is able to keep up as well as it does following that. If you had any delusions about this being a serious fight between Goku and Purple, this gag basically tells you right away exactly how their interaction is going to continue, which only makes it getting lamp shaded in a different light in a few chapters even stronger. Speaking of, while much of the focus is on the gags however, Toriyama does make it a point to show just how underhanded Purple really is, showing that there's more to this guy than just being a moron, even if it's pretty much a 95%/5% split. The bladed boomerang probably would have worked on a lot of other opponents, but thankfully Goku's head is just that hard. He's really taking quite a few knocks to the noggin in this arc though. It wouldn't be a chapter primarily about Purple if it didn't end on a gag though, and the tatami mat flip section is up there with the flag and pond bits from last chapter. Foiled by his lack of foresight in not buying enough mats for the whole floor! Until next time! Favorite Panel:
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