Dragon Ball Z fans are often obsessed with the details. That's why Dragon Ball FighterZ's respect for its source material has helped its reception. When Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's creators implied that it would reveal secrets from the Dragon Ball universe's canon, fans responded with pure excitement. Few could have predicted that Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot would ultimately only confuse certain matters all the more.

One everpresent question in the Dragon Ball franchise is the nature of Earth's people. Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z reveal a huge variety of people living on Earth, including humans, beastmen, aliens, and even demons. Some fans have questioned how such a diverse population made its way to Earth. Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot expands on the idea, offering some insight into the concept of beastmen in particular.

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In one sidequest in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, a pair of beastmen explain their background to Goku and friend Ooolong. The two beastmen explain that they weren't born this way, but rather they took a pill to turn them into beastmen. "We wanted to turn into beastmen, so we took some animorphaline," one explains. The other then says that animorphaline is a fad and that since it's over, "you don't see any more beastmen around..."

Here's where a problem is created. These beastmen seem to be implying that there are no natural beastmen and that they're instead created by a pill. Bulma even explains later that King furry, Earth's king and a beastman, also took animorphaline. However, in the Dragon Ball anime King Furry's walls are lined with paintings of his ancestors. All of them are also beastmen. There's also the fact that both Oolong and Puar, two Dragon Ball characters, are beastmen. Oolong even says he's been the way he is since birth.

In other words, in trying to explain the nature of beastmen, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot has instead stepped on canon and created a contradiction.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's positioning with regards to canon remains confusing. Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama himself has said that Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot adds canon backstories for a variety of characters in the past. Which stories are canon and which were added by Bandai Namco aren't clear, however. And there's always the chance that Toriyama doesn't exactly recall the absolute canon of the universe after all these years, either. Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's storytelling being kind of janky doesn't help, either. But speculating is most of the fun, anyway.

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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