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Tien Shinhan Saga! 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai! Launch can’t stand the excitement! She wants to hijack this plane and crash it right into Papaya Island, because it’s gonna be extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme!

Also, Roshi can’t contain himself, because he’s gotta take a dump. Well, he’s just gotta hold it in, because the plane is landing. Seriously, why did Roshi eat all those bran muffins and drink all that coffee during the flight anyway?

Anyway, here’s your “embarrassed by Master Roshi collection.” VLC media player screen caps the subtitles too, which is handy, but I gotta remember that.

Meanwhile, Goku’s paused his trip to get some food on an island. He’s still got Shu’s ninja gear with him. He looks like he’s about to plant the really awesome costume flag on this uncharted land. Some tigers give him a hard time, but I think we all know how that’ll turn out.

On Papya Island, Roshi announces that he has successfully dropped a deuce. Former Vice President Dick Cheney looks pretty relieved to hear that.

Just so we’re all clear, they brought Turtle along for this one. Used to be, this poor guy would get nervous if he was too far from the ocean, but now he’s in the big city and he’s totally chill. You know what that is? Growth.

Also Launch tagged along, and she looks awesome every time she’s on screen.

She considers entering the tourney herself, but Turtle reminds her they don’t allow weapons. Really, Launch ought to rob the tournament organizers before the event. They’re relatively wimpy, and the prize money probably isn’t guarded in any meaningful way...

The boys all register with the tournament officials, and they ask if Goku’s already signed up. He hasn’t. While they wait for him, Roshi remembers to register himself, under the alias of Jackie Chun.

Then these dudes show up. We’ve seen the before in Epsiode 82 and 83, but this is the first time they show up in the manga, and it’s also the first clear indication that Chiaotzu (left) and Tien Shinhan (right) are students of the Crane Hermit (center). Crane heard that Roshi’s students did well in the previous tournament, so he figured he’d enter his own students and show them what gonzo-super-fighting is all about.

Everyone looks in awe at the Crane School, except Launch, who can’t even be bothered to turn her head. This is ironic, considering how things eventually play out.

Finally, Goku arrives right before registration closes. He’s wearing a tiger skin, and it’s really saying something that this is actually less awesome than Shu’s ninja suit. I can only assume that Goku donated Shu’s clothes to some poor nerd who needed to impress his classmates at school. It was tough parting with such a sweet costume, but that’s Goku for you. He’s strong in body and spirit. Besides, he’ll probably run into Shu again some day and he can just mug him and get another set of his clothes.

Krillin’s upset because Goku grew more than he did over the past three years. Roshi is pissed because Goku took so long getting here. Why didn’t he use Kinto Un? Because Roshi told Goku not to use it, that’s why. This whole episode is a really bad day for Roshi. He offers to take the gang out to dinner, but then he remembers he doesn’t have any money to pay for it, so he has to convince the owner to put it on his tab, since he plans to win the tournament. He can pay with the prize money, right? Riiiiiight?

Look at Launch just tearing into that meat. This is the sort of content I look for in cartoons. Is she holding a hard boiled egg in the other hand? Probably. This is terrific.

Goku asks Krillin how his training went over the past three years, and Krillin says he did the exact same stuff as before, but this time he graduated to the 100kg turtle shell. I appreciate this, because if this wasn’t spelled out for us, I might assume that Krillin’s training was a waste of time. Yamcha, I get, since he just joined the Turtle School, but Krillin already did all of this before the previous tournament, so I always thought it was kind of unfair to have him repeat it all.

The gang retires to the hotel to play cards, and Roshi loses at Old Maid.

Then he tries to talk his way into Bulma and Launch’s room, but they deck him. At least the girls are of legal age this time. Bulma’s 19, if I’m not mistaken, and I just always assumed Launch is the same age as Bulma. Master Roshi still belongs in jail, but at least he’s not running up a bigger bill every time he appears on screen.

Krillin’s got those pre-tournament jitters, so he gets up and jogs a bit to relax.

So does Yamcha. I don’t want to be too hard on Yamcha’s outfit, but I really am glad it’s going to go away soon.

There’s also a bunch of other fighters doing some late-night exercises. Check this dude out. Wild.

The next morning, everyone shows up for the preliminaries. I think they said 182 people entered this year. This is impressive, because that’s about fifty more than last time, and Roshi said they started doing the tournaments every three years instead of every five because of the extra participation. If anything, more and more people are signing up, including Speedo Man here.

Yeaaaaahhhh, back in the Turtle Hermit colors. The blue-and-yellow had a good run, but it’s good to be back in Turtle Orange.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhh. It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally arrived at Yamcha in Turtle School fighting duds.

Also, Jackie Chun is back. The reigning and defending champion says he’s come back to see how Goku’s improved since last time. Goku hopes to defeat him in a rematch, but Jackie’s still very confident. Apparently Roshi didn’t just train Yamcha and Krillin; he trained himself in secret. Kind of curious how he pulled that off, but we’ll see if it was enough.

Yeah it was 182 this year. That includes that cow-dragon guy on the left, as well as the smuggest guys in the room. Well, not Crane Hermit. He didn’t enter. Or maybe he did and he lost in the prelims while no one was looking?

LOOK AT THIS WALRUS MAN THIS IS INSANE! That green cyclops behind him ought to be the main event of this screencap, but he’s not even close. And who’s the guy in the helmet. You can’t use armor in the tournament either, so is that his real head? Is he a robot? I would have thought it impossble, but look at Walrus Man and tell me anyone in charge of this cartoon had standards. Walrus Man is livid about weapons being forbidden, by the way.

Also, they dropped the time limits on preliminary bouts. Last time the fighters had to win their preliminary matches in under a minute in order to advance. I think this system is more fair, but in theory some of these matches might take a long time to settle.

So we’re off to the races. My money’s on Walrus Man.

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