October, Age 763: the planet Makyo swings by Earth for the first time in 5,000 years. Naturally this makes those on Earth of Makyo descent a gazillion times stronger, thus allowing Garlic Jr to break out of the movies and invade the main series. #HistoryofEver
There’s worldwide chaos as Junior and co turn Earth’s population into demons, but it’s all cleaned up in time to celebrate Sea Turtle’s 1,000th birthday. This might also be Hit’s 1,000th birthday for all we know. Nobody can prove otherwise.
The narrator says the Garlic Junior arc is ~10 months after the events on Namek, which sounds oddly specific until you remember all the post-Namek wishing lasted 260 days total (130 days x2). That’s a little under 9 months, so “10 months after Namek”=“1 month after the wishing”
Since the Daizenshuu timeline puts the Namek arc in December of 762, by extension it pegs the Garlic Junior arc as in October of 763. It also includes Makyo’s last visit 5,000 years ago, Kami/Garlic’s rivalry 300 years ago, and the events of Dead Zone in 761. They love Garlic!
Without getting into a long and tedious canon debate, I think the Daizenshuu timeline includes all this Garlic Junior stuff mainly because the movie/filler already conveniently specifies so many dates, thus making it low-hanging fruit when trying to fill out a timeline.
The Garlic Junior arc introduces Maron, not to be confused with Marron. Both names are taken straight from marron, the French word for “chestnut”, making them a match for Kuririn, who’s named after 栗/kuri, the Japanese word for chestnut.
So far as we know, Toriyama wasn’t involved in (filler girlfriend) Maron’s creation, and shows no recognition that the name was used before when asked about (canon daughter) Marron’s name pun in the guide DB Landmark. Apparently it’s just a coincidence.
From an in-universe perspective, Maron’s existence makes it look like Kuririn named his daughter after his ex, but again, this wasn’t the intention of Toriyama or the anime staff. It’s just that a marron-based pun was the obvious choice for a character connected to Kuririn.
As you may know, Kuririn’s name is spelt “Krillin” in the Funi English dub, giving some the false impression he’s named after krill. And “marron” just so happens to be the name of another type of crustacean, thus preserving this alternate name pun theme: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marron
Tomorrow: let’s do the time warp again!
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