Thread by @Herms98

May 9th, 750: after spending the night in Jingle Village, Goku reunites with Bulma in West City, then goes after pirate treasure in the south seas. This leads to a big chase between him and General Blue, which leads to... #HistoryofEver

That’s right, it’s Penguin Village! The setting of everyone’s favorite Akira Toriyama series, Dr. Slump! After the requisite crossover hijinks, Arale sends Blue packing and Goku goes on his merry way before anyone can think too deeply about continuity issues

In his Adventure Special Q&A from the middle of the Piccolo arc, Toriyama answered two questions about Arale, saying she probably wouldn’t appear again (true until the Super anime) and that she’s probably stronger than Goku (by Super they seem about even) kanzenshuu.com/translations/a…

Daizenshuu 4’s map of DB Earth places Penguin Village on an island far east of Kame House. In Slump itself, Penguin Village is on Gengoro Island and is part of Japan (with other countries such as China and America mentioned too), which is naturally a tough fit for DB continuity

The anime paints Goku and Blue’s trip in psychedelic colors, almost to suggest the two are traveling into another dimension, although the Penguin Village police are still well aware of the Red Ribbon Army. Overall, it’s best not to try and rationalize Dr. Slump.

But back to our main story: Goku reaches the holy land of Karin, where he befriends father/son guardian duo Bora and Upa and finally finds the 4-Star Ball (according to Daizenshuu 7 this is the same day as all the General Blue stuff; the manga doesn’t really specify a timeframe).

Fed up with the repeated failure of Red Ribbon personnel (not to mention Gero’s useless androids), Commander Red calls in an independent contractor: Crane Hermit’s younger brother, the former office worker and current assassin Tao Pai Pai. Thankfully he comes cheap this year!

Tao makes short work of Bora and Goku and leaves them both for dead, then rather carelessly takes off with some but not all of Goku’s dragon balls (you really can’t get good help these days). Bora actually is dead, but Goku survived thanks to the 4-Star Ball blocking Tao’s attack

Goku has suffered his first crushing defeat, but luckily he happens to be right smack next to Karin Tower, home of the world’s very best non-fake non-lethal power-up water (or so the legend says). He begins climbing up and up and up...so far up that he makes a night of it.

Bright and early on May 10th, Goku finally reaches the top of the tower, and begins a seemingly endless struggle to defeat a talking cat (this will become the dominant theme of his later years). Can he wrap this up before Tao comes back for the 4-Star Ball?

Tomorrow: Black is the new Red!