Within an artist's lifetime of works there will be many eras. But is is not often that you see two of their eras butt heads. In this episode of DBS we see Akira Toriyama's early gag-manga characters from Dr.Slump crossover with the most modern form of Dragon Ball, and yes it is as wacky as you think.
With this episode a plot description would be mostly pointless. This episode should be viewed mostly on its gags, and yes I did laugh at many of them, though I feel like a lot may have slipped past me due to not reading Dr.Slump. The jokes that got the most out of me were the metatextual jokes. the ones pointing out how ridiculous it is for Vegeta to be fighting a gag character, or the fact that Goku was a gag character and so was actually on par with Arale.
The biggest thing I take away from this episode is just how much an artist can change, and how much they don't. Because for everything Dragon Ball Z did to become one of the definitive action manga and anime, at the heart of it all is just a man telling jokes. While this is probably the most non-canon that this show has been so far, in good conscience I can't say skip it. This episode shows the growth of an artist, and it shows us the value in knowing where the art we love comes from.
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