Fusion Saga

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Dragon Ball Z Sagas Fusion Saga
Episodes (uncut) 254-275 Episodes (edited) 239-260
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In the anime Dragon Ball Z, the Fusion Saga deals with the Fusion dance technique, the Kaiô Potara Earring Fusion, and the emergence of Gotenks and Vegetto, all during the battle between the Z Warriors and their most formidable foe, the ruthless Buu. This saga aired in Japan in 1994 and 1995.

This is part of US Season Six.

1 Major players
2 Supporting Characters
3 Outline
4 DVDs
- 4.1 Episode list
  - 4.1.1 Uncut Version (22 episodes)
  - 4.1.2 Edited Version (22 episodes)
5 Trivia

[edit] Major players

[edit] Supporting Characters

[edit] Outline

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The second Buu we see is Evil Buu, who looks like a grey and desiccated version of Majin Buu at first. Evil Buu kills one of the two men who shot Mr. Satan and the puppy and then confronts and fights the Good Buu. Good Buu attempts his conversion attack on Evil Buu, but Evil Buu simply reflects it back at him. Good Buu is turned into chocolate and is eaten by Evil Buu. This throws the two back together but creates a whole new, "Super" Buu. Buu is now muscular, wearing just the billowing white pants and black boots. He is also considerably more powerful. He then displays an attack on the other man that was involved in shooting Mr. Satan and Bee by turning himself into liquid form and goes into the man's mouth and down his windpipe. The man is overloaded and explodes. Buu then sees Mr. Satan and Bee cowering from him, and goes to attack the two of them, but holds back and flies away.

With the ability to sense life energy now, Buu journeys to Kami's lookout where the Z Fighters and their loved ones are waiting for Goten and Trunks to master the fusion technique so that they can fight Buu. However, Buu is a day early and the boys aren't ready. In an act of desperation, Piccolo pleads with Buu to return to the surface and wait an extra day, saying there are plenty of people for Buu to have fun with. Piccolo knows that Buu's victims can be resurrected with the Dragon Balls. In response, Majin Buu launches his Human Extinction Attack, an assault that quickly kills every human on Earth with the exception of Tenshinhan, Chaotzu, and Mr. Satan.

Buu agrees to wait one more hour before facing Goten and Trunks. During this period, Goku's wife, Chi-Chi, slaps Buu and verbally remonstrates him for killing her son, Gohan (who is actually not dead, but is training on East Kaiôshin's Planet). Buu's response is turning Chi-Chi into an egg with his tentacle and then stepping on her. Before the hour is up, Buu becomes very impatient, so Piccolo tricks Buu into following him along a very long route to reach the boys, buying them additional time.

Buu enters the HyperBolic Time Chamber and begins his battle with Gotenks (Goten and Trunks fused). He fights Gotenks in the Room of Spirit and Time. Gotenks puts up a relatively good battle with clever new tricks in addition to older ones. But when it appears that Gotenks is losing the battle, Piccolo destroys the entrance, thus trapping them inside forever. Buu is shocked that Piccolo would sacrifice himself and the boys, just to keep him in the room. After a few hours of being trapped, Buu decides to take measures into his own hands. He realizes that he will never eat chocolate again and, in his rage, screams a hole between dimensions, returning to the lookout through the portal. Piccolo and Gotenks are too late to go through the portal. Majin Buu makes his way outside and turns everyone he can find into chocolate, devouring them. Gotenks and Piccolo copy Buu and escape when Gotenks transforms into a Super Saiyan 3, shocking Piccolo. Unfortunately, they are too late to help their friends and family.

Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks and Buu do battle on the lookout, completely destroying it. The battle wages on in the skies, with SS3 Gotenks being on a par with Buu. Near the end of the fight, a beaten and battered Gotenks gains control and leaves Buu on the verge of death. As he moves in to finish him off, the power of the Super Saiyan 3 fades, as he reverts to his base form. Without being a Super Saiyan 3, Gotenks realises he is no match for Buu, who manages to regenerate, completely refreshing his life energy. Soon after, Gotenks defuses and becomes Trunks and Goten again. Picollo realises all hope is lost, but still demands to take one last stand.

But not all hope was lost. After some time on the Kai world and impressive training from the Elder Kai, Gohan becomes very strong. After awakening his potential, he heads back to Earth. He makes his way back to find out what happened to Earth and encounters Buu. Gohan demands a battle, in an attempt to save the world. Gohan starts off strong and completely overpowers Buu. Suddenly, Buu realizes Gohan is too much for him and will surely be killed. He powers up and tells Gohan he will self destruct, taking everyone with him. As Gohan grabs the others and flies away, Buu explodes. However, Buu was not completely destroyed and regenerated. He understood that Goten and Trunks would have to wait to fuse and hid in the meantime. When the warriors returned, Buu inexplicablly challenged the boys as their fused self Gotenks. Gohan and Piccolo saw no reason not to allow this as Gohan could have finished Buu off at any time. But Buu was very clever, and as soon as the boys fused, he absorbed them, and Piccolo, thus becoming stronger, and smarter than Gohan.

Gotenks Buu is the most intelligent form of Majin Buu. He has the face of Piccolo along with the powers of Piccolo and Gotenks combined with his own. His head tentacle is now huge, stretching down past his waist. His assault on Gohan is devastating and it compels Rou Dai Kaiôshin to give his life to Goku, so Goku can return from Otherworld with a plan to fuse with his son and defeat Buu. Goku arrives and throws the fusing earring to the badly injured Gohan, who drops it and is left searching desperately through the rocks. Goku, in order to bide time for Gohan, power up to a Super Saiyan 3 and tries to go up againt Buu. He is easily outclassed, but manages to do fairly well, not getting too badly hurt. Gohan eventually finds the earring but by that time, Buu manages to quickly absorb him, skyrocketing his powers to unimaginable heights. Goku seems to be out of luck until the Otherworld allows Vegeta to go back. Luckily Vegeta does arrive from Otherworld with special dispensation to fight Buu. Goku and Vegeta fight Buu as Super Saiyan 2s for a while, but are easily defeated. With Piccolo, Trunks, Goten and Gohan within him, they realize he's too much. Goku then suggests the Fusion earrings that Kai gave to him. The only difference from the dance is that the earrings are more powerful and they're permanent. It takes Vegeta some time to agree to fuse with Goku, but the want to restore the world and return the safety of his family finally gets to Vegeta and he decides to go through with it. Goku and Vegeta fuse using the Potara fusion earrings to form Vegeto and they proceed to fight Majin Buu. Buu has difficulty fighting the fused being, throwing everything he has and finding it insufficient. Whatever Buu tries to do to Vegeto, Vegeto counters twice as hard. After the fight begins, Vegetto decides to turn it up a notch and transforms into a Super Saiyan. This proves to be another brick wall for Super Buu as Vegetto is 3x as strong as he was before. Super Buu is nearly defeated, but eventually manages to turn Vegetto into a coffee-flavoured jawbreaker. But this piece of candy still possesses intelligence and all of Vegetto's powers. Unable to damage the candy, Buu is compelled to restore Vegetto. He then manages to absorb them. Delighted with his seeming victory, Buu goes on a rampage, wishing only that he'd kept some humans around for more entertainment. However, when Vegeto was absorbed, he had a power field around him, and his powers weren't given to Buu like Gohan's, Piccolo's and Gotenks' were. Instead, Vegeto separated inside of Buu creating Vegeta and Goku again. For the whole time they are there, they have all kinds of elements to go against. After fighting Super Buu's mind and a giant worm, they find Majin Buu, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and Piccolo all covered in some sort of material from the neck down inside Buu's brain. They rip out their friends from these pods. Goku and Vegeta also take Majin Buu from the pod. They find a way out, causing Super Buu to power up and change into Kid Buu. The action Continues in the Kid Buu Saga.

[edit] DVDs

Fusion - Evil Buu (239-241)
Fusion - Play For Time (242-244)
Fusion - Losing Battle (245-247)
Fusion - Ambush (248-250)
Fusion - Hope Returns (251-253)
Fusion - Last Saiyan (254-256)
Fusion - Internal Struggle (257-260)

[edit] Episode list

English anime episode list.

[edit] Uncut Version (22 episodes)

254. The Evil of Men
255. Buu Against Buu
256. Empty Planet
257. Time Struggle
258. Super Moves of Gotenks
259. Trapped in Forever
260. Feeding Frenzy
261. Gotenks is Awesome!
262. Unlucky Break
263. A Whole New Gohan
264. Search For Survivors
265. Majin Buu Transforms
266. The Old Kai’s Weapon
267. Ready to Fuse?
268. Union of Rivals
269. Meet Vegetto
270. Rip in the Universe
271. Vegetto... Downsized
272. The Incredible Fighting Candy
273. The Innards of Buu
274. Mind Trap
275. Deadly Vision

[edit] Edited Version (22 episodes)

239. The Evil of Men
240. Buu Against Buu
241. Empty Planet
242. Time Struggle
243. Super Moves of Gotenks
244. Trapped in Forever
245. Feeding Frenzy
246. Gotenks is Awesome!
247. Unlucky Break
248. A Whole New Gohan
249. Search for Survivors
250. Majin Buu Transforms
251. The Old Kai's Weapon
252. Ready to Fuse?
253. Union of Rivals
254. Meet Vegetto
255. Rip in the Universe
256. Vegetto... Downsized
257. The Incredible Fighting Candy
258. The Innards of Buu
259. Mind Trap
260. Deadly Vision

[edit] Trivia

It is said that Akira Toriyama wanted to make Gohan the one who defeats Buu around this point in the story. However, negative fan reaction prompted him to put Goku and Vegeta back in the spotlight and designate them as the ones who ultimately defeat Buu.

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