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duhragonball · 4 months

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Dragon Ball Super Manga ch.88-90

The 2023 Dragon Ball Apocrypa Liveblog concludes with the DBS manga's adaptation of the Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero motion picture.

First up, we have this three-chapter prologue/prequel thing starring Goten and Trunks in their lankey teen bodies. It's well-made, but I'm not impressed. Find out the reason why... inside!

Okay, as the image above shows, this is all about the boys' playing superheroes while they're in high school... just like Gohan did way back in Dragon Ball Z. The main difference seems to be that there's two of them doing it this time, and their motives are a little more frivolous. Gohan came up with Great Saiayaman because he just couldn't help but foil crimes, and the costume allowed him to save the day without giving away his identity. Goten and Trunks also want to keep a low profile, but they mostly seem to be doing this shtick because they're on a superhero kick lately. They call themselves "Saiyaman X1 and X2", but their act mainly imitates their hero, Cleangod, who has a franchise of movies, video games, and so forth.

The added wrinkle is that they're also trying to keep this thing a secret from their families, as Bulma and Chi-Chi wouldn't approve of the boys screwing around like this when they should be studying. I guess it was okay when Gohan did it, but times have changed, and Trunks in particular isn't doing so hot on his report cards.

That does keep things mildly interesting. For example, you'd expect the boys to use costume changing watches like Great Saiyaman had, except they don't want Bulma to find out. So Trunks asks Pilaf to make them instead, and Pilaf can't make them as quickly, so Trunks doesn't get his until chapter 88 is half-over, and Goten's isn't ready until chapter 89. And you know, it probably would make things a lot simpler for Goten and Trunks to avoid the Saiyaman stuff altogether if they don't want their moms to find out, since they've seen this trick before. But they're doing it anyway, I guess because they're just that deep into the Cleangod fandom.

However, this still feels like a retread of a storyline we've already seen. Reading this, I feel like I've gotten too old for Dragon Ball. I know that isn't true. I'm looking forward to whatever happens in Chapter 101 onward, and Daima seems promising, even if it wasn't what I had in mind. There's always something interesting around the corner... but I see stories like this one that are more interested in rehashing older material, and it just feels tired and stale. Younger fans may not mind at all, but I see this and wonder if all we have left is just rehashing ideas we've already seen before.

Besides all of that, I'm not a big fan of high school stories, and there's a healthy dose of Trumai... and let's just get this out of the way before we go any further: I'm not that interested in the whole "next generation" thing.

I know there's a lot of fans who really dig the whole idea of exploring what happens to Goten, Trunks, Marron, Uub, Bulla, and Pan. I respect that, but I've never been very invested in any of them. I liked what we got out of them in DBZ, but that's about it. Let me kind of single out Goten so I can discuss this more easily. For the sake of argument, let's just call the "next generation" concept "Big Goten", since it features the teenage or adult version of the character, as opposed to the little guy in the Buu Saga and most of Super. Trunks, Marron, and the rest can be lumped into this, but it's easier to just refer to one character.

Basically, this 3-chapter arc is probably the best "Big Goten" story by default. Your other options are the End of Z episodes which barely do anything with him, or that one GT episode where he fights Baby and gets possessed. Or the Super Hero movie, where he's barely in it.

And yet, we have this 3-chapter arc, and Goten's basically playing sidekick to Trunks. That's not a huge problem in itself. You'd expect these two to be side-by-side, but it's mainly a Trunks story. He's trying to get Mai to go out with him, but she's part of the Pilaf gang living at Capsule Corp, and they have to be useful or Bulma will kick them out. So she's too busy repairing these "helper robots" that malfunctioned recently. Trunks thinks he can investigate the case as Saiyaman X-1 and get Mai the weekend off so she can date him. Goten's just sort of along for the ride. He enjoys the superhero bit, and he likes goofing off with Trunks, so it's all good.

And honestly, you could probably switch these two around and have Goten be the one trying to solve crimes to go on a date, while Trunks is the supportive wingman. But that's the problem. We have this one story, and they both kind of have to share it, and it really doesn't matter which one of them gets the lead.

Like, in this arc, we learn a little more about Teen Trunks. He's not doing well scholastically, he lacks Bulma's talent with computers or science, and... he's still carrying a torch for Mai for some reason. Oh, and he's afraid of ghosts now. It's not much to go on, but at least he gets something. All we find out about Goten in this thing is that he likes Cleangod, just like Trunks. Oh, and Teen Marron has a brief appearance where it turns out she really likes Cleangod too. Also several of Goten and Trunks' classmates enjoy Cleangod. And Dr. Hedo likes Cleangod. You know, that's how you develop your characters, right? You make them all like the same thing.

The point I'm getting at is that for years I've heard that Big Goten is this untapped well of great story ideas and this arc finally gets around to that and... it's pretty underwhelming. That's the big idea? Superheroes? Again? It worked for Gohan because it was a fresh idea when he did it. And it worked for Dr. Hedo because it helped set him apart from Dr. Gero. But all it does for Goten and Trunks is give them another set of clothes. Trunks is still pining for Mai and Goten is still just happy to be here. It's not enough. It's not nearly enough.

So let's move on. The boys head into town one night to investigate the Helper Robots that are mysteriously disappearing. Turns out they've been hijacked by Dr. Hedo's Alpha series androids. Strictly speaking, the Alphas are just corpses stolen from a morgue, reanimated with cybernetics. Remember those goons working at the convenience store in the beginning of Super Hero? Well this is the same group of guys. Hedo's problem is that he's fare more brilliant than Gero ever was, but he lacks the resources and funding to make the kinds of androids that he wants to make. The Alphas are functional, but only just. Their brains are defective, and you can probably only steal so many bodies from the morgue before the cops get wise to you. So Hedo's big idea is to hijack the Helper Robots and use them to manufacture sushi packages for profit. He could build something more efficient for this, but this will have to do until he gets the cash.

Oh, I forgot to talk about how Pilaf built the Helper bots. I'm not clear on what they do, but there's a lot of them in the city, and apparently Pilaf pitched the idea to Bulma and she okayed it. At first I was surprised to read this, but then I remembered that Pilaf had his own Dragon Radar way back in the day. It wasn't as sophisticated as Bulma's, but it goes to show that Pilaf knows his way around technology. This isn't some new thing they slapped onto his character, like Trunks suddenly being afraid of ghosts.

For a second, it looks like Goten and Trunks are discovered by the Alphas, but it turns out Trunks' pals from school have snuck into the production floor, and they're the ones who get discovered, so Trunks has to go in and save them. Except his superhero wristwatch malfunctions, so Goten has to take out the lights to cover for him.

Trunks cleans house, even defeating Alpha 12, who was the strongest guy on Hedo's team. When Hedo himself arrives to find his base wrecked, his only clue is that it was trashed by someone who goes to "Blue Hal" High School. It's a major setback for Hedo, but what really upsets him is that Trunks took an important disc from his safe. Hedo wants to recover it above all else. Ironically, Trunks isn't even that concerned about the disc, since all he really cares about is disrupting whatever Hedo was doing to the Helper Robots. That way he can get his date with Mai, except it won't. Even more ironically, Mai still has to work on Saturday night, because she and the Pilaf Gang have to repair all the Helper Robots Trunks smashed in Hedo's base. Whoops!

Later, Trunks tries to use Bulma's computer to access the data on the disc he took from Hedo's sushi packaging shop. He briefly sees information related to Cell, but he doesn't recognize its significance, probably because he only knows Cell from hearing about it through his family. Anyway, the disc gives the computer a virus, which Bulla removes because that's her big character defining moment in this story. She's basically a carbon copy of Kid Bulma from the Jaco manga, but at least she's not another Cleangod fan.

Anyway, Bulma had decided to start sending Mai to school along with Trunks. Apparently she realized it might be awkward if anyone noticed Mai working for Capsule Corp. and not going to school. This just now came up? I mean, the Pilaf Gang have been here for a few years at least. If anything, it would have been more awkward when Mai was younger, right? I mean, I get it, this is just a way to get Mai involved in the story, but still...

There's also another new student in Trunks' class: Baytah. Trunks' friend Rulah takes an immediate liking to him, but this is pretty clearly a new android created by Dr. Hedo. The Alpha series was no match for Saiyaman X-1, so he created a new Beta class to infiltrate Blue Hal High School and find out who X-1 really is. Beta begins to suspect Trunks, since he displays some above-average performance on the basketball court, but he can't find a way to prove it without giving himself away.

So here we have this weird scene where they're getting soup for lunch, and Trunks is sad that he can't get extra. Then Beta pretends to trip or something, and throws his soup into the air. I guess the idea was that Trunks would have to use super powers to dodge it, or he'd get it all over his nice school clothes. But instead Trunks just sort of shifts to one side and the soup miraculously lands in his bowl. And he's happy because he gets extra soup? How does it all fit in one bowl, though? Is the lunch lady only filling them up halfway? This whole bit is really contrived, is what I'm trying to say.

Somewhere along the way, Mai figures it out and explains it to Trunks, so they know Beta is looking for Saiyaman X-1. So he knows to be careful about showing off his powers, but Goten just picks up a truck during recess to get a tennis ball back for his classmates. See, Trunks, this is how you get the ladies. Mai is like 55 years old. She doesn't care, but if you pick up a truck or two, all these teenage girls will go wild. Right now, these two girls are thinking about how much they wish they were trucks, being held in Goten's mightly-yet-gentle hand.

Anyway, now Beta is convinced that Goten is the one he's after, and Hedo tells him to attack and get the disc.

So Beta reveals he has a goofy superhero suit of his own, but Goten can't fight seriously because he doesn't have a transformation watch yet. Fortunately, Trunks does, so he shows up as X-1 and quickly slips Goten the new watch Pilaf must have made last night.

I'm not thrilled with Beta's design, but I like the concept. Faced with both Saiyamen, he deploys Beta 2, which is a robotic exosuit that can separate and fight in two modules. The Betas are here for the disc, but neither Goten or Trunks has it. Mai does, because Trunks gave her his bag while he ran off to pee or whatever excuse he had to switch costumes.

So Trunks has to save Mai from the Betas, and as he catches her, she briefly mistakes him for Future Trunks, the only version of Trunks Mai seems to have any interest in. The Saiyamen clean house, and the day is saved. Trunks very nearly tells Mai that he was X-1 all along, but Goten stops him before he can spill the beans in front of the whole school.

Okay, but what's the point? I mean, Goten just lifted a truck with one hand a minute ago? More importantly, Great Saiyaman was revealed to be Goten about ten years earlier. Not that I expect these students to remember that, but that's my point: Gohan was worried about everyone finding out he had super powers, and in the end no one cared.

I mean, there's still the matter of not wanting Bulma and Chi-Chi to find out what they're up to, but that sort of doesn't matter? I mean, the moms just want their kids to study more and screw around less. It doesn't really matter if they're playing superhero or going fishing. Their moms know they aren't studying, because they've got the report cards to prove it.

Back at Hedo's (other) base, he realizes he underestimated the Saiyamen, and realizes that he'll have to build even better androids to defeat them. And he's taken a liking to the Saiyamen's costumes, particularly their capes, so the implication here is that the Gammas' designs were inspired by Goten and Trunks' antics in this story.

Later, we finally get to that convenience store we saw briefly in Super Hero. Hedo still needs money, especially if he plans to build something to defeat the Saiyamen, so he puts three of his Alphas to work at the "Mammal Mart". It's Krillin who makes the bust, and for some reason Mai is there too.

Despite his lofty plans for better androids, the best Hedo can manage is to send more Beta series androids after Goten and Trunks. Beta 7 looks like an Elvis impersonator, and he intercepts Goten's school bus, but Goten changes into X-2 and beats him. Apparently this sort of thing has been going on for a while now.

Mai takes Goten aside and reveals to him that they're being watched by a tiny spy-robot. After the Beta-1 incident at school, Mai investigated and learned that Dr. Hedo is a famous scientist in the area, and she believes he's behind all of this. Apparently he's already figured out Goten and Trunks are the Saiyamen, since he's been sending Beta androids to harass them.

Mai's plan is to defeat Hedo by using the school dance to lure him into a trap. The organizers have arranged for a live appearance by Cleangod at the dance, which... seems kind of odd for a high school dance, but nothing about this super-hero business really makes any sense to me.

Like, okay... I've been a comic book fan for over thirty years. I just read a bunch of Golden Age Captain Americas a few months ago. I think I know the genre pretty well, and nothing Dragon Ball Super does with the concept really rings true to me.

In the first place, the Dragon Ball characters are already superheroes. I went from Batman to Superman to Marvel to Dragon Ball Z, and it was a pretty smooth transition. I never stopped liking the other stuff that came before, so it's not like my tastes changed all that much. I just see DBZ as a natural extension of the same stuff I liked in Marvel and DC.

It made sense when Gohan became Great Saiyaman because the only trope he hadn't done yet was the secret identity thing, and the only reason it had never come up before was that he'd never needed one before then. Once he got into high school, he suddenly had friends he wanted to keep secrets from, so he did the same thing Clark Kent did in 1938.

But then you have Goten and Trunks doing it because they think it's neat, and they're fans of Cleangod, who is a fictional character to them. And this is probably because Hedo was doing the same bit in the movie, where he would wear a costume and do the poses because he was imitating other fictional superheroes. So the idea seems to be less about the superhero genre as I know it, and more of this ironic "Let's be comic book nerds and do cosplay, and also we have super powers so we can do more than just pose in the suits."

Which... fine, I guess. The thing is, I don't understand the fascination with Cleangod. I mean, it makes sense for Hedo to be an enormous fanboy, because he's a nerdy scientist. I'm a nerdy scientist, so I can relate. He wants Cleangod's autograph, and I'm running an anime blog in my late 40's.

But Goten and Trunks are not nerds. Neither, it seems, are most of their classmates. They all seem like fairly normal teens, mostly interested in dates and school stuff and snooping around abandoned factories or whatever. But this high school dance is going to feature a live appearance by a man in a superhero costume. That's the sort of thing a circus would do to get small children to show up.

Is this an ironic thing? Like, did Goten and Trunks start out thinking Cleangod was cringy kidstuff, and they just kept getting deeper into the fandom until they started liking it for real? Is that what's happening?

Sorry, I was explaining Mai's plan. Okay, so Cleangod will be doing a meet-and-greet at a high school dance party. Okay. Dr. Hedo is a huge mark for Cleangod, so Mai is certain he will crash the party just to meet Cleangod and get his autograph. And she plans to be there when he does, so she can shut him down once and for all.

And she gets to go to this dance, because she's attending with...

...Trunks. He wanted to ask her to this thing, but she asked him instead, so he's all a-flutter over this, never realizing that she's just using him to get at Hedo. Except.... she's attending this school now. She doesn't need a date to get in. Hedo is the one who has to find some way to get access to the building, because he's not a student.

I like Mai's armor in this scene, although it really never comes into play. Also, Trunks brought Hedo's disc with him, because.... I have no idea. Maybe he doesn't want to risk losing it?

As expected, Hedo does show up for this thing, and I guess it's because Beta-1 is still registered as a student? I'm more confused about this signing event in the middle of a dance floor. This just feels like a hot mess. Trunks and Hedo bond over their mutual love of Cleangod... wait, I thought Trunks was excited about getting to go on a date with Mai? Priorities, Trunks!

Anyway, Hedo confides to Trunks that he had a Cleangod autograph before, but it was stolen, so he's here to get another one. Hold on, doesn't Hedo know Trunks is X-1? I mean, he was sending androids after Goten, so he must know he's X-2, right?

Mai tries to get Hedo, but then Beta shows up, and Rulah explains that he got back into the school, so she asked him to the dance. I really like Rulah. She doesn't know what's going on, but there's a new boy in town and she's gonna make time with him. She's like an Archie character.

Then the cops show up. Yeah, just draw your guns in a big crowd of children, Krillin, that makes a ton of sense.

Hedo uses a smokebomb to escape and everyone chases after him. By the time Cleangod comes out to make his big appearance, everyone is gone except Mai, who isn't impressed. That's the thing I can't square with all of this. The running gag seems to be that superheroes are both cool and uncool at the same time. People were lining up to see this guy, but the punchline is that he totally sucks? I guess? Characters will praise Goten and Trunks' costumes and then later characters will call them corny.

Like, which is it? That's the thing about superhero comics, at least from my perspective. In the real world, you either think Batman's awesome or he's a giant dork in a fursuit. Fine. But in the Batman mythos, just about everyone takes him seriously because he's a mysterious badass. I get it, Cleangod's basically Adam West working car-shows in the 1970's, but Saiyaman X-1 and X-2 are the real thing. They fought robots in the middle of the football field in front of everyone. I mean, no one called Goten corny when he lifted that truck.

Oh, by the way, Dr. Hedo's jalopy is awesome.

Krillin (reluctantly) brings Goten and Trunks along to chase down Hedo, and he fills them in on the situation. The cops have been after Hedo because they think the Red Ribbon Army is trying to stage a comback and they want to contact him. That.... doesn't quite square with the movie, but we'll talk about that later.

Anyway, they get to Hedo's (third?) base and he's got a dinosaur android to stop them. This is the biggest, strongest one he's made so far, but it's still not very sophisticated, simply because Hedo lacks the resources to build anything better.

It gives the Bio-Broly Buster Crew a little trouble, but Krillin disables it with a kienzan, and then Goten and Trunks take it out with a double-team move. And Hedo's going to jail.

So what about that disc? Turns out it never mattered. Hedo memorized all the information on it a long time ago, so the disc itself had no value to him. What he wanted was the case, which contained, in addition to the disc, his prized Cleangod autograph. Remember? The one he told Trunks got stolen? They didn't know it at the time, but Trunks was the one who stole it in Chapter 88.

And that's really dumb, because Trunks did try to investigate the disc in Chapter 89. He didn't get very far, but he still had to open the case it was in, so you'd think he would have noticed the Cleangod autograph inside. I mean, another character might not have paid any attention to it, but Trunks is a huge fan of Cleangod himself.

And if Hedo truly had no use for the disc, why didn't he throw it away a long time ago? In this scene, he says he discarded it, but he must have only done that in the last few minutes, before Krillin showed up to arrest him, since Trunks had the disc before the dance. This whole thing is supposed to be clever, but it's kind of dumb.

Anyway, this whole caper explains how Hedo got sentenced to prison at the beginning of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. He could have been given a longer sentence, but according to this story, he agreed to return some of the Alphas back to the families of the corpses he built them out of. This is supposed to be funny, but it's just kind of bizarre. Like, are we saying Hedo resurrected the corpses? I thought the idea was he just used a dead body to build Alpha 12. But this seems to suggest Alpha 12 remembers his former existence. That's kind of fucked up.

Like I said at the beginning, there's a lot that is well done here. Toyotaro's art is on-point as usual, and there's some great action scene with Goten and Trunks. I think the big highlight of the arc were all of the side characters we see at their school, like Rulah and the others. Trunks' math teacher looked pretty cool. The problem is that they were never going to be the focus of this or any other story. It's taken years for Toei or Shueisha to do anything with Goten or Trunks, so their pals may never see the light of day again.

And that's what disappoints me about this arc, because it may have been the one chance of getting a good teen Goten and Trunks arc, and they blew it on this. Did we really need a backstory on Hedo's prison sentence? Did anyone leave the theater not understanding why he was in jail? Was anyone confused as to how he came up with the designs for Gamma 1 and 2's costumes? No. We didn't need this.

One of these days, there will be an official Big Goten story that gets it right. But this ain't it, chief.

#dragon ball #dragon ball super manga #2023dbapocryphaliveblog #goten #trunks #mai #bulma #emperor pilaf #shu #bulla #dr hedo #rulah #beta 1 #beta 7 #cleangod #alpha 12 #i forgot the names of goten's friends sorry

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dragon-ball-meta · 4 months

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It is absolutely astounding how fast the night changes ones perspective. I was ready to quit Dragon Ball in general thanks to the extremely shitty year we had with the retelling. But now here. I am jumping for joy over Daima and it's future. I know one day in the future those fancy Moro and Grandolah arcs will be adapted. Someday

Eh, I'll say this. I'm really hoping they skip Moro completely and if they adapt Granolah, they make some heavy changes. But yeah, there's a whole new world of exciting possibilities that this opens up.

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maguro13-2 · 2 months

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Beezlebub : (eating a bowl a cereal) Hmm? (Spits out of cereal, coughs out) What the-?! Hey, old geezers! Look!

[Doing Time title theme plays]

Rao : What is it now? Can't you see that i'm trying to do my show biz and---!? (yelling) NNOOOOOOOO!!!!

[NEWSPAPER : LEGENDARY CREATOR OF DRAGON BALL IS DEAD!]

Paper boy : (throwing newspaper) Extra, extra! Legendary mangaka of Dragon Ball has officially been deceased!

Naruto : What's this all About? (Looks at the newspaper and then puts it down) ...My god!

[BELL TOLLS]

Hiromu Arakawa : Akira Toriyama was a great Mangaka and a great story teller, and he was never the same again. Without him or before Daima being released. Let's all give him a farewell to our man that made Dragon Ball in history.

Naruto : I can't believe every mangaka in the industry is dead, no sand land before Daima, no sequel, and More importantly, No Dragon Quest!

Edrick : I can't believe the guy who designed us is dead.

Eight : What did you expect? We're only the toriyama characters to be ever joining a crossover fighting game by Nintendo! We have our rights to deserve that title.

Whis : He was good man, and we had a good run.

Beerus : Yep.

Vegeta (in Kid form) : Do you think that we'll ever get back to our current size?

Goku (in kid form) : No thanks. I've always been like this since GT.

Hiromu Arakawa : And now we all pay due to respect that we give a farewell gift to Ohku, I mean Toriyama, the man made Dragon Ball the greatest manga in history.

(bagpipes starts playing)

"later..."

Goku (in kid form) : This sucks! Now we're gonna be Kids forever!

Vegeta (in kid form) : This will forever take off this stupid curse once we get back to into adults, we are going to make Goten and Trunks getting ready for school.

Bulma (in kid form) : So what? This is what I get for being the greatest character of all. If Emperor pilaf would've turned you all into kids, we wouldn't been shrunken by this de-aged form in the first place. Age regression is nothing but the butt of the joke.

Shinra (Devil Chaos Chao) : So when did the last time I die?

Arthur (as Saber) : I don't know. Probably the 1000 years of death.

Iris : Oh, well. Who cares? As long we don't have the opportunity to be abandoned or forgotten us in the mangaka industry for all the century since I came back from that church in Providence, Rhode Island. What's the worst thing could ever happen to Dragon Ball? (Tamaki accidentally falls down into a hall)

Tamaki : Hey! Guys! I'm okay! I just accidentally fell down into this hole and--*CRACKING* OH GOD, NOOOOOO-(gets crushed by a Tombstone)

Shinra : Oh my God! They killed Tamaki!

Arthur : You bastards.

Maki : Well, I guess the mangaka career of Toriyama is--(scene cuts)

Goku (in Kid form) : History! Didn't you hear? Akira Toriyama is history! Same goes to Kentaro Miura! As a matter of fact, I think we should see other people. (Closes door)

Maki : Well, that's the last time the author dies and never finishes anything in the industry.

[Iris out]

~ HERE LIES AKIRA TORIYAMA R.I.P 1955-2024 ~

#dragon ball #naruto #Fullmetal alchemist #fire force #sand land #drama #crossover #comedy #tragedy #dark comedy #akira toriyama #hiromu arakawa

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ziracona · 4 years

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If we give you six whole minutes to talk about your son Philip, what thoughts or headcanons post ILM do you have for him?

Awwww yeah. I think I could say all this in six minutes if I tried. : D Here’s ya post-realm Philip HCs:

Because he had to know how to survive to live as long as he did, Philip is very used to having to just shut up and bear a lot of mistreatment and keep his head down to get through it. It’s strange to him to have that be so little of his experience post-realm, where he’s constantly surrounded by friends ready to throw hands for him at any second. It’s a really nice change.

Philip thinks about the Clown’s horse, Maurice, pretty frequently, and feels really bad they didn’t get it out too, especially now that the Clown is dead, and he has no idea what will happen to it, stuck in the realm. He worries about that.

All of Philip’s younger friends try to get him into video games and up to date on technology and culture. Philip is an old man at video games, and does not learn anything remotely like quickly, but he does get really emotionally invested in story lines, so he’s super rewarding to force story games on.

While his mother has passed away in his almost forty-year absence, his brother Isa, sister-in-law Lami, and niece Daima are still alive, and he is eventually able to track them down and reunite, and help them some too. It’s kind of sad for them, because Isa and Lami are getting close to seventy, and Daima is older than Philip now, but they’re the same as he left them, and Isa’s the exact same kind of goofy-and-shitty-on-purpose-but-in-a-playful/fun-way he’s always been. They spend a whole lot of time together, and it’s always a little bit sad, but way more than that, they’re just thankful to have what they’ve got.

Philip learns how to garden and a whole lot about botany from Claudette, and really takes to it. He always liked fixing cars, because he was able to repair something—put a little life back in the world. And with gardening, it’s sort of similar. He can help plants that are dying recover, and help saplings grow straight, or protects plants from frost, watch seeds turn into something completely different. It’s not exactly repairing, like cars were, (at least not most of the time), but it’s still nice. It’s still a giving life kind of little thing that just feels good to do.

Out of everyone who survived, Philip is maybe the /most/ dedicate to team It’s-Not-Over-Till-The-Entity-Is-Dead-At-My-Feet, and spends a whole bunch of time learning how to research well, and trying to track down accounts and folklore, and anything he possibly can that might help. He remains very certain that he has to stop it. And will try.

Meg gets everyone to play D&D in a campaign she DMs, and a lot of them get super into it. Philip really enjoys the game, even though there is a bigass learning curve for him at the start. Meg is super nice to him though, and cheats for Philip (and for Susie, and Tapp any time she can get him to play). He plays as an Oath of Ancients Paladin, and has no sense whatsoever of self-preservation, but Meg loves him so he’s okay. (Jake, on the other hand, she loves to mow down so that one of his friends can dramatically save him on the battlefield, and Jake hates it. Boy does he get secretly invested in the drama though.)

Philip goes out of his way to try to get to know and be kind to/help the other former killers, because while he knows less initially about any of them except Sally than the survivors do, he understands at least parts of what they’re going through. Anna finds him funny and odd, but likes him and is happy he understands and seems interested by a lot of her explanations of hunting techniques, Susie doesn’t know what to think of him at first because she never really met him, but gets to like him a lot once she figures out he’s just genuinely that nice and doesn’t have an angle, Michael gets along well with Philip because they’re both pretty happy with comfortable silences and lifting heavy objects, but Philip also is pretty insightful and understanding. Rin thought he was great, and loved meeting him, and of course Sally loves him. Philip gets on well with the rest of the Legion too, especially Joey, because Joey has about 15x the charisma of the others combined and is the kind of person it’s easy and fun to get to know. Aside from just being a nice thing to do, it’s actually super valuable, because the survivors really can’t lead them in the right direction when it comes to dealing with coming to terms with the really awful shit they’ve done and the people they are now, and Philip can. He’s got plenty of his own struggles, but he’s also in a good place now, with people who love him, and he worked through a lot in the realm itself. He’s ahead of the rest of them, and he does everything he can to help the other former Reapers catch up to him, and it really matters. I don’t think Philip really gets just how much? But it does. Things turn out differently than they would have without him, for all the other killers, and in a really good way. : )

One day about three years after escaping, Philip is listening to Kate play her guitar during a whole-group-get-together in Indiana, and he tells her he thinks it is very beautiful that she can put words and music together in her head and create like that, and that musicians are a kind of magic really, to him. She asks him if he ever tried to play an instrument, and he tells her it just never really came up, and she gives him her guitar and shows him a few basic fingerings and how to play a really simple melody, and he’s kind of excited because he’s not played any instrument in years and years, and it’s nice to put chords together and sound okay, and after that Kate is determined to teach him, and very, very slowly does. He has absolutely no experience, and doesn’t take to it fast, but he’s very dedicated even though he’s slow at it, and he tries, and is very happy with all his minimal successes. Kate gets him an acoustic guitar for his birthday that Philip treasures and is very careful with. He doesn’t have great coordination for that type of thing, since he’s never had to or had the reason to, and Claudette hears him stay up late at night playing guitar quietly and poorly in his room. She goes in there a lot and asks him to play her specific songs she knows he’s learning, or just to ask if she can sit and listen, and he’s always very proud and embarrassed when she does, but lets her, and she’s so happy for him and loves to listen and watch him learning to play.

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604 - We Know Not the Hour

Major Key: B Flat

1 We know not the hour of the Master's appearing; Yet signs all foretell that the moment is nearing When He shall return 'tis a promise most cheering But we know not the hour.

CHORUS: He will come (He will come), let us watch and be ready; He will come (He will come), hallelujah! hallelujah! He will come in the clouds of His Father's bright glory-- But we know not the hour.

2 There's light for the wise who are seeking salvation; There's truth in the book of the Lord's revelation; Each prophecy points to the great comsummation But we know not the hour.

3 We'll watch and we'll pray, with our lamps trimmed and burning; We'll work and we'll wait till the Master's returning; We'll sing and rejoice, every omen discerning But we know not the hour.

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173 - Hatujui Saa "We Know Not The Hour"

1 Hatujui sa-a ya kuja kwa Bwana, Lakini dalili zasema karibu, Atakaporudi, -lakini kwa kweli, Hatujui sa-a.

Chorus Atakuja, kwa vile tukeshe; Atakuja Mwokozi, Aleluya! Atakuja kwa fahari ya Baba yake, -Hatujui saa.

2 Pana nuru kwao wapendao haki, Pana kweli katika Chuo Cha Mungu; Unabii hufundisha kuja kwake, -Hatujui saa.

3 Tutakesha tutaomba daima, Tutafanya kazi mpaka akija; Tutaimba na tutasoma ishara, -Hatujui saa.

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İngilizce Özlü Sözler

Sevgili kullanıcılarımız bu sayfamızda artık diğer internet sitelerinden bir adım öne çıkarak sizlere bundan sonra yayımlayacağımız tüm güzel sözler’i ve özlü sözler‘i ingilizce dilinde sizlere aktaracağız.

Elbette bunu sözün altında türkçe manasınıda ekleyerek. İnsanların artık teknolojik aletleri daha yaygın kullanması hasebi ile veya yabancı arkadaşlık sitelerine girmesi hasebiyle partnerlerini etkilemek için mutlaka güzel sözler’e ihtiyaç duymaktadırlar. Bizde bunu göz önünde bulundurarak tüm söz arşivimizin başta ingilizce olmak üzere tüm dillere çevireceğiz.

Ve Filozofların bilim adamlarının söylemiş olduğu tüm özlü sözler’i sizlere aktaracağız. Eğer sizde hiç bir yerde bulunmayan ingilizce veya diğer diller’de sözleriniz varsa bizlere aşağıdaki yorum bölümünden aktarabilirsiniz. Şimdiden hoşunuza gideceğinizi düşünüyoruz. Keyifli okumalar 🙂

İngilizce Özlü Sözler

İngilizce =>Be an encourager, the world has enough critics already. Türkçe Manası =>Cesaret verici bir insan ol, dünyada zaten yeterince eleştirici insan var. İngilizce =>Always give your best never worry for results. Türkçe Manası =>Daima elinden gelenin en iyisini yap, sonuç için asla endişelenme. İngilizce =>Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Türkçe Manası =>Eğitim, dünyayı değiştirmek için kullanabileceğiniz en güçlü silahtır. İngilizce =>The future depends on what we do in the present. Türkçe Manası =>Gelecek, şimdiki zamanda ne yaptığımıza bağlıdır. İngilizce =>God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Do not run after them. Türkçe Manası => Tanrı bazen sizi korumak için hayatınızdan bazı insanları çıkarır. Onların peşlerinden koşmayın. İngilizce =>Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things. Türkçe Manası => Kalbinizde derinlere inin, harika şeyler yapmaya yetkin biri olduğunuza inanın. İngilizce =>Everyone wants, happiness. No one wants pain. But you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain. Türkçe Manası => Herkes mutluluk ister. Hiç kimse acı istemez. Fakat biraz yağmur olmadan gökkuşağını göremezsiniz. İngilizce =>You can’t change what’s going on around you until you start changing what’s going on with you. Türkçe Manası => İçinde olup bitenleri değiştirmeden önce etrafında olup bitenleri değiştiremezsin. İngilizce =>People who touch your heart are always with you. Türkçe Manası => Kalbine dokunan insanlar, her zaman senin yanındadır. İngilizce =>Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Türkçe Manası => Birinin bulutunda gökkuşağı olmaya çalışın. İngilizce =>A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. Türkçe Manası => Dalgasız bir deniz asla usta bir denizci yetiştiremez. İngilizce =>I have nothing to lose, but something to gain. Türkçe Manası => Kaybedecek bir şeyim yok fakat kazanacak bir şey var. İngilizce =>Follow your heart and see where you land. Türkçe Manası => Kalbinizi takip edin ve nereye gideceğini görün. İngilizce =>I’m not lazy, I’m just on energy saving mode. Türkçe Manası => Ben tembel değilim, sadece tasarruf modundayım. İngilizce =>Train your mind to see the good in every situation. Türkçe Manası => Her durumda iyiyi görmek için zihnini eğit. İngilizce =>My secrets of life is a book any one can take a look. Türkçe Manası => Hayat sırlarım, kimsenin bakamayacağı bir kitaptır. İngilizce =>Enjoy every single moment in your life. Türkçe Manası => Hayatınızdaki her anın tadını çıkarın. İngilizce =>Pictures are worth a thousand words. Resimler bin söze değerdir. İngilizce =>Like stars in the sky, I shine at night. Türkçe Manası => Gökyüzündeki yıldızlar gibi gece parlarım. İngilizce =>Sometimes being stupid is also good. Türkçe Manası => Bazen aptal olmak da iyidir. İngilizce =>I will see you in the dark side of the moon. Türkçe Manası => Seni, ayın karanlık tarafında göreceğim. İngilizce =>Beautiful minds inspire others. Türkçe Manası => Güzel akıllar, diğerlerine ilham verir. İngilizce =>Life is a game, let’s make a high score. Türkçe Manası => Hayat bir oyun, hadi en yüksek puanı alalım. İngilizce =>Eventually, everything goes away. Türkçe Manası => Sonunda her şey ortadan kaybolur. İngilizce =>I know, I haven’t changed but I am not the same. Türkçe Manası => Değişmediğimi biliyorum ama aynı değilim. İngilizce =>Always keep smiling. Türkçe Manası => Her zaman gülümse. İngilizce =>Life must go on. Türkçe Manası => Hayat devam etmek zorunda. İngilizce =>Don’t worry, be happy! Türkçe Manası => Endişelenme, Mutlu ol! İngilizce =>Time never comes again. Türkçe Manası => Zaman asla geri gelmez. İngilizce =>If life is a journey, I am a traveler. Türkçe Manası => Eğer hayat bir yolculuksa ben bir gezginim. İngilizce =>Memories last forever. Türkçe Manası => Anılar sonsuza kadar sürer.

Ünlü Düşünürlerin Söylemiş olduğu Özlü İngilizce Güzel Sözler ve Türkçe Manaları

Arianna Huffington İngilizce Özlü Sözleri

İngilizce => Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than we fall down. Türkçe => Korkusuz olmanın korkmamak demek olmadığını, korkuyla başa çıkmak demek olduğunu çok güzel anlatmıştır.

Stephen King İngilizce Özlü Sözleri

İngilizce=> The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Türkçe => İnsanların güven duygusunun istismar edebildiğinden bahsetmiştir.

Aldous Huxley İngilizce Özlü Sözleri

İngilizce =>Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. Türkçe Anlamı => Belki de bu dünya başka bir gezegenin cehennemidir.

Anne Brontë İngilizce Özlü Sözleri

İngilizce => There are great books in this world and great worlds in books. Türkçe Manası => Bu dünyada harika kitaplar ve kitaplarda büyük dünyalar var.

Ivan Turgenev İngilizce Özlü Sözleri

İngilizce => If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. Türkçe Manası => Her şeyin, kesinlikle her şeyin hazır olduğu anı beklersek, asla başlamayacağız.

Émile Zola İngilizce Özlü Sözleri

İngilizce => If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Türkçe Manası => Bu dünyaya ne yapmaya geldiğimi sorarsanız.. Cevabım şu olacak; Hayatımı yüksek sesle yaşamak için buradayım.

Ernest Hemingway İngilizce Özlü Sözleri

İngilizce => There is no friend as loyal as a book. Türkçe Manası => Kitapların en iyi arkadaş olması, bize kattıkları ile ilgili olsa gerek.

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