First World Martial Arts Championship Saga

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Dragon Ball Sagas First World Martial Arts Championship Saga
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The First World Martial Arts Championship Saga, also known as the 21st Budôkai Saga, is from the fictional manga/anime Dragon Ball. It covers the training of Goku and Krillin (Kuririn) by Master Roshi (Muten-Rôshi) and their participation in the World Martial Arts Championship (Tenka'ichi Budôkai).

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This saga starts when Goku goes to Kame House, and asks Master Roshi to train him in Martial Arts. Roshi refused, saying it was many years since he had students. After awhile, Roshi says he can train with him if he get him a girl. He brings Roshi a fat woman and a mermaid. Then, Goku sees a boat in the horizon. It was Krillin, who also wanted to train with Master Roshi. (Krillin even gave Master Roshi a porn magazine in order to bribe him.) Finally, Roshi says they can train with him if they get him a girl. Goku and Krillin ride on the Nimbus Cloud looking for one. (Krillin can't ride on the cloud, so he travels on Goku's back). Finally, they find a blonde bank robber named Launch, that mysteriously transforms into a kind, blue-haired girl when she sneezes. After the prize is given, Roshi starts training the two kids. They wake up every day at 4 AM for milk deliveries (they even have to climb hundreds of stairs in order to get to the priest's house). They also have to swim in a shark-infested lake, and move a gigantic rock with only their bare hands. On a certain day of training, Roshi threw a stone onto a huge forest, and charged Goku and Krillin with finding it. At the end of each day of training comes dinner made by Launch. After eight long months of training, Goku, Krillin, Master Roshi, Bulma, Yamcha, Pu'ar and Oolong go to the twenty-first World Martial Arts Championship. After the preliminaries, the quarter-finals come. The combatants are:

Krillin vs. Bacterian

Yamcha vs. Jackie Chun

Goku vs. Giran

Nam vs. Ranfan

QUARTER-TO-FINALS 1 battle: Krillin vs. Bacterian

Krillin’s rival is Bacterian, the smelliest fighter in the world. He had never bathed since the day he was born. Bacterian uses his vile stench to disgust his opponent. But when Goku helps Krillin realize that he has no nose, he easily defeats Bacterian by giving him a whiff of his own medicine by releasing flatulence in his face. Krillin then goes on to the semifinals.

2 battle: Yamcha vs. Jackie Chun

Yamcha, anxious for victory, launches a powerful offense against Jackie Chun. He is quickly surprised by Chun’s incredible speed, as he is unable to land a single blow, including his trademark attack Wolf Fang Fist. Chun then counterattacks by sweeping his hand toward Yamcha creating a massive gust of wind. The force of the wind knocks Yamcha out of bounds, though Chun did not actually strike him. Yamcha is surprised by being easily defeated by the old man. He then suspects Jackie Chun to be Master Roshi in disguise. The mysterious Jackie Chun goes to the Semifinals.

3 battle: Nam vs. Ranfan

Prior to the fight, Jackie Chun uses telepathy to read through Nam's mind to see why he is taking the tournament so seriously. It turns out that Nam is from a desert village that has had a poor harvest recently because of an apparent drought, and won't make it without water until the rainy season begins in the next two months. Nam offers to enter the World Martial Arts Tournament so that he can use the prize money to buy enough water to last his village until the rainy season.

Ranfan's main strategy is to use female stereotypes to her advantage. Whenever Nam is about to land a serious blow, she acts scared, and cries. When Nam stops to see if she's OK, she attacks him while he's defenseless. Realizing this, Nam says that he will picture Ranfan as a man, so that he can actually fight her. Realizing that her previous strategy won't work, Ranfan pulls out her ace in the hole- she strips to her underwear. Nam loses his concentration, and is too flustered to even fight back. Ranfan slowly walks toward him, and Nam backs away till he's at the edge of the ring. Thinking back to his friends and family in the village who are in desperate need for water, Nam regains his focus. Ranfan launches an attack, but, with eyes closed, Nam dodges and counterattacks, knocking Ranfan out cold.

4 battle: Goku vs. Giran

The fight begins with hand-to-hand combat: the two are mainly even until Giran uses his Guru Guru Gamu (Merry-Go-Round Gum in English) to bind Goku then tries to finish him with a punch. Goku is able to use his Flying Nimbus to avoid a ring out, the referee rules in his favor for a first time offense, but warned him that he will be disqualified if he does it again. Goku is then saved by the appearance of his regrown tail (which was cut off at the end of the Emperor Pilaf Saga) that grabs onto Giran's arm the moment of impact. Goku manages to break free of the gum thanks to his new-found strength, then tests it out on one of the arena walls, destroying it outright. Seeing this terrifying feat, Giran raises a white flag, conceding to Goku.

SEMIFINALS

5 battle: Krillin vs. Jackie Chun

The fight starts with Krillin going on the offense. He launches a series of attacks that Chun says that he actually had to try to avoid. Chun then went offensive, striking Krillin with a punch so fast that the younger fighter never even saw it. Krillin watches more carefully the next time, and is able to counterattack. The two launch into a flurry of blows that no one, save Goku, is able to follow. At the announcer's request, the two repeat their confrontation in slow motion.

At this point, Krillin realizes that he won't be able to defeat Chun in a fair fight. Recalling Chun's earlier ogoling of Lanfan, Krillin tries a desperate ploy. He throws a pair of Bulma's underwear into the ring. Chun loses control of himself, and makes a leap for the underwear. Krillin attacks Chun, sending him flying into the air and out of the ring. The announcer declares a victory for Krillin, but Chun isn't finished. Using a Kamehameha, Chun propels himself back into the ring to the amazement of all, except Yamcha who is now certain that Chun is really Roshi. Chun boldly claims that he will now end the fight, angering Krillin in the process. Krillin charges at Chun, but Chun dodges the attack so quickly that he leaves an after image. Krillin unknowningly attacked the after image. Chun appears behind Krillin, who is quite bewildered, and lands a heavy blow on the young fighter's back for the win.

6th Combat : Goku vs. Nam

The two fighters seem fairly evenly matched, with Nam's discipline helping him keep up with Goku's strength. But when Goku winds up too dizzy to stand after a spinning attack, Nam sees an opening. He takes to the sky, and uses the full force of his body to land a deadly X strike right on Goku's neck. Though Nam claims that no man can awake sooner than ten days after that strike, Goku just barely makes it up before the 10 count. Nam takes to the sky to attempt the attack again, but this time Goku follows him. Neither can effectively fight up in the air, however, but Goku has an idea. He hits the ground before Nam, letting Nam think he might be able to use his X attack. But as Nam nears the ground, Goku jumps up and kicks Nam, who cannot maneuver in the air, and sends Nam out of bounds.

After the fight, Nam congratulates Goku and leaves with a heavy heart. Chun confronts him before he leaves, giving Nam a capsule and telling him that water is so plentiful in the city, Nam doesn't even have to pay for it. When Nam askes Chun how he knows so much, Chun reveals that he is in fact Master Roshi. He tells Nam that when he realized that one of his students could win the tournament, he entered in a disguise. He did not want either of them to win, fearing that they would stop training if they did so. He wanted to beat them both and to show them that there would always be a better fighter.

FINAL

7th and Final Combat: Goku vs. Jackie Chun

The combat starts with a couple of taunts and finally a KameHameHa Wave battle. The ring nearly explodes. Chun then uses a double afterimage, and Goku always hits the image. The true Chun gets behind Goku and kicks him onto a wall Goku gets up and uses a triple afterimage, and because Chun only used a double, he can’t see Goku coming from the air up to him and crushes him. Chun then uses the Mad Cow Attack in which he looks to be drunk. Goku fails in dodging his moves. Goku then acts like a monkey and seriously hurts old Chun with his tail. Chun then seems to prepare a KameHameHa Wave, but actually it was a hypnotizing move that puts Goku to sleep. Goku soon wakes up and uses his grandfather's move "Rock, Paper, Scissors" (or Janken Punch). However, when he yelled "Paper", he was using "Rock", and was able to hurt Chun in his eyes. Chun then begins to get quite mad and uses his deadly electric attack that strikes Goku. It seemed that only Goku’s grandpa ever escaped the attack. When Goku was about to give up, he looks at the full moon and turns into an Oozaru. Everyone is shocked and runs away (except for Goku’s friends and the Referee). Puar transforms into a pair of scissors and tries to cuts Goku’s tail off. But Chun uses the classic KameHameHa Wave, and seems to have killed Goku, but actually he destroyed the Moon in order to prevent further transformations (a Wolfman that would appear in the later in series saw the destruction of the moon and then swore revenge on Chun, because he destroyed the moon, which was the only thing that could turn him back into a man.) Because Goku is naked, he borrows Krillin's clothes. To Chun's surprise, Goku has enough energy to perform another KameHameHa wave, which Chun can only avoid by jumping. Goku uses this opportunity to kick Chun out of bounds, and it appears that he has landed just outside the ring. Goku's victory is declared but Chun draws the attention to how he managed to land. As he was falling he was able to insert his left foot into the side of the ring, only barely managing to stay off the ground. Chun climbs back into the ring, and then says to use only physical movements since they used up a lot of energy attacks and both are now depleted. After a lot of punching and kicking, they both charge at each other and both are hit by the others strong jump kick. The Referee starts a count for each one of them. When neither get up by the end of the count, he declares the first to stand and say "I am the world champion!" would be the winner. First, Goku seems to stand up, but falls before he can finish the sentence. Chun then lifts himself up slowly and remains that way a bit before he finally spouts the phase, thus he is declared world champion.

Master Roshi then takes everyone to dinner and plans on paying with his prize money (because he IS "Jackie Chun") but because Goku eats so much, the money is spent completely.

[edit] Episode list

(English translations of original ep titles courtesy of Steven J. Simmons)

• 14 - "Goku's Rival? Appears" (DUB: "Goku's Rival)
• 15 - "The Peculiar Girl, Lunch" (DUB: "Look Out for Launch")
• 16 - "Training-- The Rock Hunt" (DUB: "Find that Stone!")
• 17 - "With Life at Stake! Milk Delivery" (DUB: "Milk Delivery")
• 18 - "The Turtle Hermit's Inte~nse Training" (DUB: "The Turtle Hermit Way")
• 19 - "The Tenka'ichi Tournament Begins!" (DUB: "The Tournament Begins")
• 20 - "Will It Appear!? The Power From the Training" (DUB: "Elimination Round")
• 21 - "Watch Out! Kuririn" (DUB: "Smells Like Trouble")
• 22 - "Yamucha vs. Jackie Chun" (DUB: "The Quarter Finals Continue")
• 23 - "He's Here! The Mighty Foe Giran" (DUB: "Monster Beast Giran")
• 24 - "Kuririn's Desperate Offensive and Defensive Battle" (DUB: "Krillin's Frantic Attack!")
• 25 - "Get Up, Goku! The Fearsome Tenkû Pekeji-ken (DUB: "Danger From Above")
• 26 - "The Final Round!! Kamehame-Ha" (DUB: "The Grand Finals")
• 27 - "Goku's Greatest Pinch!" (DUB: "Number One Under the Moon")
• 28 - "Clash!! Power vs. Power" (DUB: "The Final Blow")