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Juuhachigou and Juunanagou are not machines. A better name would be Cyborg's 17/18.


Juunana-gou and Juuhachi-gou are artificially enhanced humans. Juuhachi-gou is the older of the twins, but Juunana-gou is more powerfull.

Cyborg is a more appropiate term. Android is a robot that looks like a human, so it doesn't make sense to name her that.

Erm, but Android 17 and 18 are their official names in the television show Cyclone49 12:11, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

They are both the same power for your information.

  • Android 17 and Android 18 are the official ENGLISH names. However, Trunks explains that a better term to call them by is cyborgs after calling them Artificial Humans in the original. Jinzoningen, or rather Artificial Human, is the actual official ORIGINAL name. And #17 is stronger than #18, though weaker than #16.

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How exactly do you insert pictures into the information box? There doesn't seem to be any place in the template for it to put a picture in. Cyclone49 03:35, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Two different explanations

From the Android 17 article: Android 17 is actually not a robot. He is an essentially a regular human with "upgrades" (I.E., Cyborg) along with his twin sister, Android 18. The two were experimented by Dr. Gero though very little of their history is given.

From this article She is referred to in the original Japanese as an artificial human, which is translated as 'android' in the literal sense; she is not a robot, and it is implied in the manga she and her brother were originally runaways heavily fitted with cybernetics.

So this article says that the Androids are "Artificial humans", when the other says that they were both human. Should one of these be modified?

Both basically say that they are cybrogs, which is essentially what they are. The Japanese term Jinzoningen covers that definition of the characters, as well as describing true androids like 16 or 19, and even covers cell (since he was artificially created despite being mostly biological). In english we don't have a wide term to cover all of those, so for simplicity sake the dub just went with Android. Onikage725 22:41, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
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