This rule of Super Saiyan yielding a 50-fold increase in power is also mentioned in Daizenshuu 7′s glossary entry on Super Saiyan, and in its attack dictionary entry for Super Saiyan as well. Since Goku was unable to beat Freeza with Kaiō-Ken x20 while Freeza was only using half his power but was then finally able to defeat Freeza as a Super Saiyan, we can infer that Goku as a Super Saiyan must be over 40 times as powerful as he is normally. In addition to having battle power 50 times that of his normal state, he now overwhelms even Freeza. The warrior of legend, the Super Saiyan, finally awakens. It is easy to see how someone not too experienced with the Japanese number system could make a mistake converting them, especially since all the previous battle powers in this section of Daizenshuu 7 are written purely in Arabic numerals, with no kanji or mathematical conversion required. If you do the math, “300 man” is 3 million and “1 oku, 5 thousand man” is 150 million. “万” ( man) is the kanji for 10 thousand, while “億” ( oku) represents 100 million. It is possible that “SkullMac”, the individual responsible for maintaining Planet Namek′s power list, made the same translation mistake as Werner, but it is more likely that he relied upon Werner’s site for these numbers.Īt any rate, how would someone mistranslate these numbers? This is the way those battle powers are written in Daizenshuu 7:
In particular, the popular site Planet Namek also used 12 and 15 million in their power levels list, color-coding them as being from the daizenshuu. Countless other fan sites relied on Werner’s site for information (and often took his content verbatim), so this mistranslation spread throughout the English-speaking Dragon Ball fan community.
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Werner prided himself on creating all of his site’s content, and much of his site consisted of things he took from Daizenshuu 7, so it is unlikely that he relied on someone else to make his list. On the “Little Known Dragon Ball Z Facts” page, item 26 provides a list of all battle powers from the manga or daizenshuu, and it gives these numbers for Goku and Freeza. This misconception most likely traces back to the Ultimate DBZ Information Site, a very influential English Dragon Ball fan site in the 1990s that was run by Greg Werner.
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Goku says in the manga that his Kaiō-Ken x20 attack hardly damaged Freeza.ĭaizenshuu 7′s battle powers for both Freeza’s full power and Super Saiyan Goku are commonly said to be only 12 and 15 million, respectively, while normal Goku is given as 300,000 and Freeza at 50% as 6 million. This puts 50% Freeza as twice as strong as Goku using the Kaiō-Ken x10, and equal to Goku with Kaiō-Ken x20. Though all the battle powers are essentially the same (see below for one minor difference), these reprints are both only a single page, and contain shortened versions of Daizenshuu 7′s explanatory notes.īelow is our translation of this section with commentary. The later guide books Dragon Ball: Landmark and Super Exciting Guide: Story Volume reused Daizenshuu 7′s battle power chart ( Landmark even specifically credits Daizenshuu 7). An odd thing about this chart is that it is placed right in the middle of the character dictionary, right after the pages with the biographies for Goku and the other members of the Son family. Daizenshuu 7 was published in 1996, a year after the end of the series, and this battle power chart provided battle powers for characters from both before the concept of battle powers were introduced into the story, and after they basically dropped out of the story mid-way through the battle with Freeza. It devotes two pages, 82-83, to a chart showing the growth of Goku’s battle power throughout the series, with other characters added for comparison purposes.
Of all the ten releases in its series, Daizenshuu 7 is the only one that touches on battle powers in any significant way. Magazine releases are placed below these. Battle powers on this page are listed roughly in order of the official status of their source - this means that the Daizenshuu are listed at the top, and after them are the Super Exciting Guides, etc. In this context, “official” refers to companies that have the legal rights to produce Dragon Ball merchandise, including data and guide books. This page details all known battle powers from various official sources outside of the manga and anime, but separate from actual video games (which we have categorized into its own page).
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