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(2024)
Episode 5, “Panzy”
*****SPOILERS*****
Synopsis: The girl the group meets, whose name is Panzy, says that she knows the way to the castle. On the way, Panzy reveals that she’s actually 82 years old. In the First Demon World, Gomah oversees Dende’s care, hoping that he can get him to produce new Dragon Balls for him. When Goku and the group get to the castle, it’s revealed that Panzy is the princess. The king is reluctant to believe that Goku and his friends on Earth defeated Majin Buu, so he has Goku’s strength tested in a battle against his men. Goku easily takes them down. The king gives the group a plane so they can reach the Tamagamis, which promptly breaks down as soon as they take off.
Episode 4, “Chatty”
*****SPOILERS*****
Synopsis: With Glorio’s plane stolen, the trio have no choice but to hoof it to their destination. After a while, they come upon a shop where they refresh and buy specialty bugs. Glorio, Kaioshin, and Goku then take a “sky seed” into the air. They abandon it before it crashes. Goku seemingly convinces Glorio that the best course of action is to beat the Tamagamis and obtain the Demon Realm’s Dragon Balls. The three come upon a village where King Gomah’s subordinates are demanding payment from the poor citizens. When a small villager tries to stop them and fails, Goku steps in, defeating the henchmen with his Nyoibo. Glorio laments that now they’re fugitives. The small hero reveals how they really look, which is a young girl.
Episode 3, “Daima”
*****SPOILERS*****
Synopsis: Glorio’s ship passes through the barrier to the Demon Realm, landing in the Third Demon World, where he’s from. Goku notices that the air, which is thick with smoke from volcanoes, makes his movements more sluggish. Glorio, Goku, and Kaioshin rent a room in a town, then proceed to a bar where Goku eats. The group are attacked while they eat, but Glorio and Goku easily repel their attackers. The next day, however, they discover Glorio’s ship has been stolen.
Episode 2, “Glorio”
*****SPOILERS*****
Synopsis: Goku and his allies are dumbfounded at being transformed into children. An irate Gomah, upset that Shenron only granted him one wish, decides to kidnap the baby Dende. Goku, Piccolo, Kaioshin, and Kibito go to Kami’s Temple, where Popo explains what ocurred. Kibito brings an old spaceship that could be used to traverse the barrier into the Demon Realm, but it needs work, which Bulma starts on. Goku visits Karin and Kamesennin, looking for his Nyoibo, which he retrieves from the latter. A ship like Gomah’s lands at Kami’s Temple and a person named Glorio emerges, requesting that Goku defeat Gomah. Goku and Kaioshin take Glorio’s ship with him and they fly off to the Demon Realm.
Episode 1, “Conspiracy”
*****SPOILERS*****
Synopsis: In the Demon Realm, a pair of figures, the new king Gomah, and his subordinate Dagasu, watch the fight against Babidi and Buu unfold, astonished mortals could defeat them. Seeing that they had the help of the Dragon Balls, Gomah plots to transform Goku and the gang into children to prevent them from getting in his way. He enlists the help of an elderly Namekian, Neva, who comes along with him to Earth to gather and reactivate the Dragon Balls from their slumber in between wishes. Gomah has Shenron summoned, and makes his wish, causing all those who fought against Buu to be turned into kids.
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(2024)
Akira is one of those obvious “must-review” anime classics that it feels like I should have gotten to a long, long time ago. But I didn’t just want to review everything everyone else was reviewing all the time, which is why I held off on it. But holding off for ten years is probably enough. I even read a huge swath of the manga (though not *all* of it) to prepare myself. I wanted to do my homework, as to avoid somebody making a “Penguin Truth Was Wrong About Akira” video. (Yeah, right, like anyone would even notice this video.)
Yikes… I’m running out of favorite anime to review! But I can’t worry about that, because Black Lagoon was calling to me, saying in a loud voice, “Review me!” And I cannot ignore the call of a classic, one of my favorite anime of all time. Still, of my, let’s say, top 30, I’ve got maybe five or six left to do? I might have to begin intentionally reviewing bad anime just to distance myself from the rest, as painful as that’d be. Not to mention, this anime also has one of my favorite English dubs, and I’m pretty sure I’m all out of those to cover after this. But more on the dub another time.
