It’s amazing how much ground Dragon Ball DAIMA covers in episode 3 alone – from new lore drops about the Demon Realm to one of the best action sequences the series has seen, frankly, ever. As an anime that’s effectively presenting itself as a love letter to the original Dragon Ball, it’s hard not to draw comparisons to Kid Goku’s earliest adventures. Many of which feel deliberate, right down to Goku getting his Power Pole back. While it could very well simply be a one-off gag, Episode 3 might have reintroduced a very important weakness for Goku: hunger.
Concepts like endurance and stamina were fairly imporpant to Dragon Ball up until around the Saiyan saga, when characters became so powerful that battles would usually end through brute force before anyone could actually get tired. This idea got its start very early in the series. There was a time where Goku straight up couldn’t fight back if he was too hungry, a trait that almost cost him his life in Dragon Ball‘s very first story arc. With Dragon Ball DAIMA Episode 3 acknowledging how much weaker Goku is in his kid form and the bar fight actively showing Goku getting stronger as he eats more, Goku might end up the Demon World’s resident foodie by the time the anime wraps up.
Yamcha Almost Killed Goku Because He Was Too Hungry To Defend Himself
It’s hard to believe, but Goku’s earliest defeat actually came from Yamcha of all people. In Chapter 8 of the Dragon Ball manga and Episode 5 of the Dragon Ball anime, Goku, Bulma, and Oolong are ambushed by Yamcha while traversing through the desert. Too hungry to properly fight back, Goku slowly starts losing to Yamcha. By the time Bulma ends and prematurely ends the fight, Yamcha is seen rushing towards Goku, who is doing nothing to fight back.
Goku exclaims a couple of times that he’s too hungry. It’s only after he eats in the following chapter that he gets the strength to fight back against Yamcha and actually defeat him. That said, Goku’s hunger made him so weak that Yamcha absolutely would have killed him. Yamcha was still in perfect shape to keep fighting by the time the fight ended, while Goku was completely out of commission. The last time this trait of Goku’s is in the original Dragon Ball in the Demon King Piccolo saga when he eats Yajirobe’s fish to regain his energy after being defeated by Tambourine.
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