Dragonball Z: Buu Saga (Brief)

This summary is entirely based on the manga, which was the original version, so don’t be surprised if there is the occasional shortened fight, etc.

It starts off with all the old characters being introduced, 7 years on from the Cell Game. Gohan is a lot older now, and Trunks is grown up and a Super Saiyan. A kid called Goten is there too, another Super Saiyan, this time the son of Goku. As they prepare for the martial arts tournament, they are told that Goku is entering it, being granted one day from the afterlife by Baba.

The martial arts tournament begins, and it appears that it is going to go relatively well, until the world champions daughter Videl fights a previously only average fighter with a strange ‘M’ implanted onto his head, and gets destroyed.

Gohan has this guy next, and with hatred in his heart for what he did to Videl, he charged up ready to inflict some damage, only to be tricked into going up to SSJ2. All of his energy was then sucked out of him by a weird machines carried by the people with the ‘M’s on this head. Gohan goes down, and is healed by a man called Kaioshin, one of the highest ranked Gods. Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Kaioshin, Piccolo, and later Goten and Trunks follow the weird, yet strangely powerful people who stole Gohan’s energy, and reach a spacepod owned by the evil magician Badibi.

Whilst there, they are forced to fight three people, with Vegeta easily killing the first, and Goku easily beating the second, but when Gohan fights the third, the strongest man in the evil universe – Dabura, he is slightly winning, but the devil walks off, saying that he has discovered something important for Badibi.

Dabura returns to the evil magician and says that one of them has evil in their hearts, referring to Vegeta. Badibi then agrees, and says that he can turn him into a Majin, just like the other two fighters were, making them far stronger. He says that once this is done then they will finally have enough energy to deal with Buu.

Badibi attempts to turn Vegeta into a Majin, and because of the evil in his heart it is accomplished, with Vegeta suddenly becoming evil, and baring that strange ‘M’ on his head. He and Goku go off to fight, with the Saiyan prince being ruthless, and not listening to anything that is said. Every bit of damage done to Goku is energy that Badibi can steal in order to wake up Buu from his previous eternal slumber. The two fighters are about equal for a long period of time, until they sense that Buu has finally been awakened. Goku suggests that they stop their fighting and find out what the source of the power is, with Vegeta agreeing, then attacking Goku when is guard is down and knocking him out.

Meanwhile Gohan is fighting Buu, and is destroyed, with everyone thinking he is dead, but he is later saved them bought to a planet in the afterlife for a special power up.

Trunks and Goten then arrive with Piccolo, and Vegeta knocks both of them out in one punch, then asks Piccolo to take them away, as there is something that he has to do. He has finally decided to fight for someone other than himself, and knows that he has screwed everything up, so wants to make up for it. He flies off to where Buu’s KI is, and fights him, resulting in him self-destructing, sacrificing his life to kill Buu. Unfortunately Buu manages to regenerate though, and under Badibi’s evil influence, he begins destroying everything, purely because Badibi is threatening to return him to his prison, trapped inside it forever. At this time Goku arrives after regaining consciousness, thinking that Buu has killed everyone, and powering up to super Saiyan stage 3, a form that is very tiring and uses great deal of energy. He seems to match Buu, but has a plan, teleporting off to Kami’s lookout.

Eventually, Badibi is killed by Buu, as the evil fiend gets tired of his name-calling. Mr Satan is sent to fight Buu, but of course cowers away and tries to be his friend instead, discovering that Buu isn’t really that bad, and asking him not to kill people, with the supposedly evil fiend deciding on not hurting anyone else because Mr Satan said. Satan had a dog follow him, and Buu became quite attached to it, until it was shot, along with Satan. Buu managed to heal them, but became so angry that he released a skinny, evil version of himself, which defeated him in battle and absorbed him, becoming Buu in an extremely powerful form.

Goku teaches the kids who to use fusion, but it takes them a while to master it. He is then taken back to the afterlife by Baba, because him turning SS3 used a lot of energy, cutting his time short. Whilst in the afterlife, he senses Gohan, and goes over to him, seeing that he is being powered up by a very old Kaioshin.

Buu immediately teleported to Kami’s lookout, where he challenged Goten and Trunks, who were in the room of spirit and time practicing the fusion that Goku had just taught them. Buu kills all humans on Earth with one attack, then demands that Piccolo leads him to the kids. Walking slowly, Piccolo stalls as much as possible before finally entering the room. Goten and Trunks fuse then go up to SS3, beating up Buu slightly. It ended in them losing badly though, with Buu turning everyone to chocolate and eating them, except Gotenks, and Piccolo, whom he doesn’t waste his time fighting. Just then Gohan arrives, fully powered up, and battles with Buu for a while, with an advantage. Realizing he can’t win, Buu runs off, and later comes back and absorbs Piccolo and Gotenks from behind their backs, making him stronger than Gohan.

Back in heaven, the old Kaioshin gave Goku his life, and then a pair of Potara earrings which he could use to fuse with a powerful fighter, with it ending in a permanent fusion. Goku takes them gratefully, and teleports down to help Gohan. He tosses him an earring, but Gohan misses it and it falls to the floor. Goku zooms down and retrieves it, but by that time Buu had launched another sneak attack and absorbed Gohan. Goku knew he didn’t have a chance, until he sensed Vegeta’s KI, teleporting to him. Vegeta explained that the demon lord had allowed him back for a while so he could save Earth. Goku gave him the earring, and Vegeta eventually decided to fuse, with them turning into Vegetto, and powering up to SS. After a short fight, Vegetto destroys Buu, then lets himself get absorbed in order to save everyone else. Whilst inside Buu, they cut everyone down from weird casings, and somehow unfuse. They even find the first, original Buu, and cut him down. Buu’s body went through a strange change, and Vegeta and Goku quickly left with everyone except for the original Buu, waiting for the change to happen, and with it eventually leading to Buu to turn into his ultimate form, a small evil, destructive fiend, who doesn’t even have control over his evil self.

Buu immediately blows up the Earth, with Goku only managing to save himself, Vegeta, Satan, and Dende by teleporting away to the old Kaioshin’s planet in the afterlife. Buu soon follows, and Vegeta and Goku decide to finish it, with Goku going first, and powering up to SS3 straight away. He fights with Buu and they are about equal, but Goku can’t finish him off. He then tells Vegeta that he needs to get to full power to win, so Vegeta turns SS and fights Buu, getting pulverised. Goku’s plan doesn’t work though, and instead of gaining energy, he loses it, and is stuck in his normal form, leaving Vegeta on the floor hurt badly, and him vulnerable.

Satan throws a stone at Buu, but it only makes the evil one try and attack him but fail. He then spits out the original Buu, allowing him to attack Satan. The original Buu, we’ll call him fat Buu, then sees his friend hurt, and attacks Buu. They fight with an obvious winner.

Vegeta gets in contact with the Nameks, and gets them to wish for the Earth, and all good people on it to be restored. The third wish is left for the time being. Vegeta then contacted everyone on Earth via King Kai, and asked them to hold their arms in the air to help Goku draw power, but they wouldn’t do it. Goku then realizes the plan, and begins preparing a Spirit Bomb. Goku then tries asking them, but it doesn’t work. Hearing what is going on, Mr Satan appeals to them, and of course they all oblige. Goku then gains enough energy, and throws it at Buu. He doesn’t have enough power left to finish it off though, until Vegeta asks that they wish for the Saiyans power to be restored, allowing him to finish Buu off.

A few years pass, and it’s the martial arts tournament. Fat Buu and Satan are good friends, and Goku is expecting someone to be there with power that rivals his own. The announcers says that Uubu is next, and Goku asks fat Buu to make him face him. The Boudoukai starts, and Pan (Goku’s grandchild) manages to beat a huge, muscular guy. Goku then faces his opponent, and realizes he is a great fighter, and that he is a good incarnation of Buu in his ultimate form. He then flies off with him to give him some training so they can fight properly. Vegeta watches them leave, annoyed that he didn’t get his fight with Goku.

And so Dragonball Z ends – Krillen got his girl #18, they had a daughter, Videl and Gohan married and had a daughter called Pan, and everyone lived happily ever after.