The third DragonBall Graphic Novel features the characters Goku, Kururin (Krillin), Master Roshi, and a girl named Lunch who tranforms personalities when she sneezes which isn't that good. Our story begins with Master Roshi sending out Goku again to find a hotty. Goku is just about to leave again when he sees a boat coming. He waits for it and a funny little bald kid jumps out. His name is Kururin (Krillin) and he wishes to train under Master Roshi. He brings a dirty magazine to help with the decision. Master Roshi takes him under too. Then he sends the two off to get a hotty.
Goku and Krillin are flying along on Goku's Flying Nimbus. They hear a girl calling for help and go to investigate. They find a girl who is being attacked by the police. They rush down and save her. Krillin says she is a hotty because Goku can't tell. They bring her back to the island and Master Roshi is very pleased. They start their training by moving his house to the mainland. When they get there they have a foot race and Goku is faster than Krillin. Then Lunch says dinner is ready and Master Roshi gives them a test and the loser doesn't get any dinner. He draws a turtle on a rock and throws it into the jungle and tells the two to go and retrieve it. The first one back gets dinner. Goku of course finds it but Krillin tricks him and brings it back first leaving goku very hungry.
The next day the real training starts. Their routine consists of running a huge distance, plowing fields with their bare hands, learning, a nap, road work, swimming, dodging bees for reflexes, and all with wearing a 20 kilo shell on your back. They do this for months preparing for the Tenkaichi Budoka tournament. Finaly the tournament day arrives, and Goku and Krillin are impossibly strong.
They arrive and meet Bulma, Oolong, Puar, and Yamcha, because Yamcha is also entering the tournament. When they get into the arena where you compete to qualify they see everyone else and they look really strong, even stronger than them. When they begin to fight they realize they can easily knock anyone down. Their training left them with a huge advantage over everyone else. When they got a huge blow to the body they didn't even flinch because their training has left them strong in that area too. Both Goku and Krillin qualify to compete in the tournament.
Krillin is up first against a guy called Bacterian, who wins against all his foes by using his disgusting oders to knock out all his opponents. He claims he has never bathed in his whole life. The fight looks grim for Krillin as Bacterian hits him with oder after oder after oder. Until Goku reminds krillin he doesn't have a nose. Krillin snaps out of it snd knocks out bacterian, of course after using some of his own body oders. Krillin is the winner as the comic ends.
Well, this graphic novel was another great one, I highly reccomend this one as well because you get to see some actual fighting, even though it seems it is pointless.
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