Thread by @Herms98

Age 733: on Earth, a new king takes the throne as world ruler. We all know him as a friendly dog man, but at the time he was apparently still hairless. Around this same time, Briefs and Bikini have their second child, Tights’ younger sister Bulma. #HistoryofEver

DB ep.113 shows the current world king celebrating his 20th anniversary. According to the game DBZ: Kakarot, he became a dog man via the drug Animorphalin around when Bulma was 10, meaning he was still a human-type for the first decade of his reign.

Curiously, DBZ ep.173 shows the walls of the king’s palace adorned with pictures of other dog men. Previously we might have assumed he came from a long line of dog kings, but DBZ: Kakarot would seem to put the kibosh on that.

Still, DBZ: Kakarot establishes that not all animal people are Animorphalin users, so perhaps many previous kings were indeed dog men, and the current monarch just took the drug to seem suitably regal (assuming of course that not all kings come from the same family)

As for Bulma’s birth: she gives her age as 16 when she first meets Goku...and also 8+ months later during the RR arc (meaning she should be close to 17 by then). In keeping with this, per the official timeline Bulma is born in Age 733 and meets Goku in Age 749.

Also born in 733: Yamcha and Tenshinhan. Their ages aren’t specified in the main series, but the Adventure Special pegs them both as 20 during the Piccolo arc (set in 753, four years after Goku meets Bulma), and Daizenshuu 7 first gave their birth years

A Weekly Jump feature from August 1986 (when the manga was in the RR arc) gives Bulma’s birthday as August 18th, and Yamcha’s as March 20th. This trivia wasn’t repeated in any of the guides, but did get a shout-out in That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha kanzenshuu.com/translations/w…

Tomorrow: Freeza meets the Saiyans!