T5W#241-Top 5 Moments from Dragon Ball Z Abridged Episode 60 (The Series Finale)

We’ve spent all this month on Top 5 Wednesday looking back on Dragon Ball Z Abridged now that Team Four Star has announced it has concluded.  From the series, to the movies, to the specials, I’ve looked at all the highs and still feel like I’ve scratched the surface of how much goodness DBZA has brought to the Anime community.  So I had to think about what Top 5 would be adequate enough to finish out this month long special.  Well, we’ve seen the history, now what about what ended up being the very end of the journey?  Today, I cover that end with my Top 5 Moments from Dragon Ball Z Abridged Episode 60 (The Series Finale).  This covers all 3 parts of the finale plus the Future Trunks Epilogue.  Thank you Team Four Star and thank you Dragon Ball Z Abridged…may we meet again my friends.

#5-Trunks Returns Home

I’m really happy that TFS already had this episode wrapped before they announced their end.  Future Trunks has always been my favorite character in Dragon Ball Z and it was so awesome giving him an episode to wrap up his storyline properly.  This means returning to his home future and kicking the crap out of the Androids and Cell.  But first, “HEY MOM…have you met Dad?”  Yeah Bulma might’ve forgotten to tell Trunks about how douchy of a person Vegeta was back in the day or how truly disfunctional a group the Z-Fighters are, especially Goku.  Everything in this entire epilogue is just as golden after this opening chat, especially Trunks embodying his fathers words, “Bitch…I’m adorable.”

#4-Goku’s Goodbye Speech

Man, the weight on this speech in hindsight.  KaiserNeko and Lanipator even said that they wrote Goku’s last chat to his son and friends as a sort of final farewell to Dragon Ball Z Abridged as a whole.  For the first time, Goku owns up to things happening because of his happy go lucky attitude and love of fighting.  He’s content to stay out of the spotlight and let Gohan and his friends protect their home and family from this point forward.  It’s going to be weird not having him, or this series, around.  But Goku knows as well as any of us do…everything’s gonna be ok.  Dammit Goku whyd you have to make us cry?

#3-Cells Way

Talk about sending this series out on the highest note.  All of the villains covered in Dragon Ball Z Abridged thought they were larger than life, especially Vegeta and Frieza.  But Cell, man what a great send off.  Takahata101 delivers a tour de force with a rendition of Frank Sinatra’s epic final bow, “My Way,” to a slew of Cell’s greatest hits across his history.  It delivers one final chuckle for the villain and sends him out with a bang.  Man these guys have incredible singing voices.  Bonus points to Imperfect Cell trying to do the same thing in the epilogue but gets cut short cause his life wasn’t nearly as long. 

#2-MY BABY BOY!!!!

It’s hard to believe Vegeta goes through any kind of character development in Dragon Ball in general.  But he does, though he doesn’t really show it.  For all the belittling and berating he throws at Future Trunks, the future Super Saiyan is still his son.  Rather than just shrug off his death at the hands of Cell, Vegeta snaps and says the last three (out of five) words no one expected him to cry, “MY BABY BOY!!!”  It’s heartbreaking and also hilarious in it’s delivery.  Oh and if you’re wondering what those other two words are that Vegeta would never say til now, it’s his weak but sinciere, “I’m sorry” to Gohan after getting them both injured at Cells hands.  “Oh wow we are F****d” indeed Gohan.

#1-Gohan goes SSJ2

 If you thought Goku going Super Saiyan for the first time was the epitome of Dragon Ball Z’s most epic moments…well depending on who you talk to you might be right.  But Gohan’s angry ascension to the next level, Super Saiyan 2, is a very close rival for that moment.  Not only do we get another pitch perfect vocal performance of Day of Fate (Spirit vs Spirit) in English but Gohan’s attitude goes from timid and unsure to cold and bad ass at the drop of a hate.  His slaughtering of the Cell Jrs is only made better by his emotionless and honest declarations to anyone he talks to.  “Nobody’s lactose intolerant in heaven Krilliin.  That’s why it’s Krillin.”  We should be as worried as Piccolo about this attitude change…emphasis on should, but we love it all the same.