Dragon Ball Zfans are often obsessed with the details. That’s whyDragon Ball FighterZ’s respect for its source material has helped its reception. WhenDragon Ball Z: Kakarot’s creators implied that it would reveal secrets from theDragon Balluniverse’s canon, fans responded with pure excitement. Few could have predicted thatDragon Ball Z: Kakarotwould ultimately only confuse certain matters all the more.
One everpresent question in theDragon Ballfranchiseis the nature of Earth’s people.Dragon BallandDragon Ball Zreveal a huge variety of people living on Earth, including humans, beastmen, aliens, and even demons. Some fans have questioned how such a diverse population made its way to Earth.Dragon Ball Z: Kakarotexpands on the idea, offering some insight into the concept of beastmen in particular.
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In onesidequest inDragon Ball Z: Kakarot, a pair of beastmen explain their background to Goku and friend Ooolong. The two beastmen explain that they weren’t born this way, but rather they took a pill to turn them into beastmen. “We wanted to turn into beastmen, so we took some animorphaline,” one explains. The other then says that animorphaline is a fad and that since it’s over, “you don’t see any more beastmen around…”
Here’s where a problem is created. These beastmen seem to be implying that there are no natural beastmen and that they’re instead created by a pill. Bulma even explains later that King furry, Earth’s king and a beastman, also took animorphaline. However, in theDragon Ballanime King Furry’s walls are lined with paintings of his ancestors. All of them are also beastmen. There’s also the fact that both Oolong and Puar, twoDragon Ballcharacters, are beastmen. Oolong even says he’s been the way he is since birth.
In other words, in trying to explain the nature of beastmen,Dragon Ball Z: Kakarothas instead stepped on canon and created a contradiction.
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot’s positioning with regards to canon remains confusing.Dragon Ballcreator Akira Toriyama himself has said thatDragon Ball Z: Kakarotadds canon backstories for a variety of characters in the past. Which stories are canon and which were added by Bandai Namco aren’t clear, however. And there’s always the chance that Toriyama doesn’t exactly recall the absolute canon of the universe after all these years, either.Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot’s storytellingbeing kind of janky doesn’t help, either. But speculating is most of the fun, anyway.
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarotis available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
