DBZ Abridged Episode 42 REACTION

*HAD* a crush on 18? She was a big reason for me figuring out I was a lesbian, so I'd say *STILL*, lol. Which, like, certainly isn't a hot take-- I'm not sure I could have found *anyone* who watched DBZ at the time that wouldn't have agreed with me, tbh.

Also. Fun fact: fused Picollo and Kami are technically a completely different case than Picollo/Nail. Nail was basically absorbed, such that Picollo got more powerful, but was elsewise the same. Picollo fusing with Kami, however, is them returning to some version of "the Namekian that was," which is technically a completely different character. In DBZ itself, both Picollo and Kami are effectively gone as characters, but "the nameless Namekian" never mentions this, and instead just largely goes by Picollo's name, both because their own name has been lost to time, and because they didn't want to concern the others with such.

DBZ:A instead uses the mental voices, rather than fusing egos, but that's pretty fair-- while "Kamicollo" or whatnot is pretty neat in concept, Toriyama's writing is such that he basically either forgot about all of that or largely ignored the impact it would have, regardless, and just continued to treat him as Picollo shortly thereafter.

Still, though. Even if it's not given much thought in the aftermath, it's one of the few real "deaths" in the show that has some weight to it, so it's a pretty sad moment, even for a show that's more about just the action and such. Pretty neat!