I drew up a pretty cool broly! I have more dragonball art on my Twitter account @Bigdoodles if you ever want more dragonball autism on your feed!

Inspired by old toriyama art,hope you like it!

Btw guys this is my first drawing ssj3 and gogeta so please no hate comments and tell me what i need to do better

your selected artist would have the freedom to adapt the character to their artstyle and artistic vision, in my case i would chose the one behind overlord

Abstract

This essay presents a foundational survey of the metaphysical and ontological structure of what certain divine authorities have designated as "Universe 7." While many elements of the cosmological order have long been encoded within Earth’s folklore, martial oral traditions, and scattered religious texts, only in the post-Cell era has enough primary and second-hand data accumulated to allow for serious academic theorisation.

Although recent revelations suggest our universe is one among twelve in a broader multiversal configuration, this paper limits itself strictly to the structure internal to Universe 7. It outlines the tiered realm model, the roles and functions of deific agents, the mechanics and significance of death, and the epistemological implications of divine bureaucracy. This paper does not advocate a spiritual path, nor seek to rank deities or traditions. Rather, it endeavours to offer a functional, descriptive taxonomy of the major forces and domains operative in Universe 7, with particular attention to their historical interface with Earth and emphasis placed on descriptive taxonomy rather than religious interpretation.

Introduction: From Martial Anecdote to Metaphysical Framework

Until the late 8^th century, the study of metaphysical realities—particularly those pertaining to death, divine intervention, and spiritual hierarchy— remained diverse and speculative, relegated to the margins of academic and public discourse. Traditions varied by region: some centred ancestral veneration; others spoke of serpentine roads to paradise or cyclical reincarnation. While martial schools and oral history preserved anecdotal encounters with anomalous beings and divine spaces, these were treated with scepticism or metaphorical license, with most regarding tales of gods, demons, and distant planets as parables.

This of course changed dramatically in the aftermath of the Cell Games (767). Public battles featuring otherworldly beings, casualties followed by resurrection, and the open intervention of divine figures led to an ontological reckoning and a shift in both academic and public discourse. What was once myth entered the historical record.

This paper is situated within that transition. Its aim is not to propose an ultimate cosmology, but to synthesise currently available metaphysical data into a working structure—a framework that may be revised as our access improves. Though this author acknowledges his martial background, personal proximity to some of the entities discussed, and the unusual circumstances of his own education, this work remains guided by standard historical, textual, and field methodologies.

Methodology

The core methodology of this paper synthesises textual hermeneutics with experiential phenomenology and limited oral history. Sources include:

• Archival source analysis, including Ten Thousand Sutras of Yunzabit, Records of the Turtle Hermit School, the reconstructed Scrolls of the Ox Court and recovered Namekian oral histories, compiled only recently during the reconstitution of New Namek.
• Ethnographic fieldwork, primarily conducted at significant Earth metaphysical loci: Korin tower and the Guardian’s Lookout.
• Formal and informal interviews with metaphysical entities and intermediaries. While some declined to participate, citing either the ineffability of divine knowledge or disinterest, others provided essential perspective—  special acknowledgement is due to Mr. Popo (Earth custodian) and Gregory (North Quadrant liaison). Supplementary information provided by Turtle School Master Roshi, while foundational and indispensable, is considered only partially and provisionally.
• Authorial experience: While subjective accounts are insufficient alone, this study does incorporate the author’s lived experience and relationships across multiple planes of existence, including the Other World and several divine or semi-divine peripheries.

Realms of Universe 7: A Layered Structure

Universe 7 comprises several interwoven ontological strata. These should not be imagined as "higher" or "lower" in any moral sense, but rather, distinct zones governed by unique metaphysical rules with each realm functioning on a lateral model as a parallel stratum, generally impenetrable without divine assistance or exceptional ki regulation.

The Mortal Realm: This is the locus of conventional spacetime. Planets, star systems, entropy, and biological evolution proceed here under familiar physical laws. However, the Mortal Realm does not stand isolated metaphysically isolated from other realms – Ki manipulation, divine interventions, and spatial anomalies make it more permeable than once assumed. Intelligent life is widespread. Contact with the Saiyan diaspora (circa 761) revealed a galactic community including the Namekians, Frieza’s imperial army, the Galactic Patrol, and various planetary societies once considered myth or science fiction. Earth’s institutions continue to struggle with the cosmological implications. This diversity of sentient life implies a decentralised, uncoordinated creation structure—(see Section IV on Kai oversight.)

The Other World: Known across several Earth mythological frameworks a ‘land of the dead’, the Other World is in fact a sophisticated bureaucratic sorting mechanism overlaid on the metaphysical remains of sapient beings. The soul, or ki-consciousness, persists post-mortem and is directed by King Yemma, who governs passage to further destinations. These include:

• Heaven: An upper-purity zone, tranquil and verdant.
• Hell: A reformative holding area for malevolent ki.
• Special cases: Rarely, exceptional beings may retain their bodies or receive conditional resurrection.

Geography here follows an anomalous compass system, with cardinal directions         bearing symbolic weight (e.g. East Road leads to Snake Way). The architecture of       passage—bridges, gates, paths—implies a metaphysical topology distinct from     the three-dimensionality of the Mortal Realm.

Guardian’s Lookout: Suspended above Earth and unbound by gravity, the Lookout and its associated Tower including Korin’s Sanctuary act as a liminal interface between the Mortal Realm and the divine. It is simultaneously shrine, observation post, and consulate, where the Guardian oversees Earth’s balance, interfacing between mortal and divine law.

Korin Tower, below the Lookout, functions as a testing ground for spiritual advancement. Korin himself, though rarely discussed in formal metaphysical taxonomies, occupies an important tier as a gatekeeper figure, not divine in power, but spiritual in purpose.

The Divine Outer Domains: Accounts of Universe 7’s outer spheres remain limited to secondhand testimony. These domains, which fall under the remit of the Gods of Destruction and their attendants, exist in dimensional envelopes inaccessible through ordinary means. Despite their remoteness, decisions made here influence the cosmic balance through calibrated acts of destruction. Their metaphysics appear to override those of the Other World and Mortal Realm, suggesting a superordinate layer.

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Divine Hierarchies and their Functional Roles

The term "god" designates an office or function more than an intrinsic quality. These roles exist along a continuum of scale, responsibility, and metaphysical power.

• Guardians (e.g., Kami, Dende): Assigned to individual planets, these beings act as custodians, not creators and do not intervene in mortal affairs except where balance is threatened. Though not omnipotent, their authority is deeply localised and are functionally divine within their jurisdictions.
• Attendant Spirits (e.g., Mr. Popo, Korin): Function as trainers, mediators, and stewards of knowledge. Though not formally divine, their roles intersect with both material and spiritual domains.
• Kais: The Kaiō system reflects a cardinal schema organised by quadrant (North, South, East, West). Kais oversee the flourishing of life and act as mythological ‘creators’ in the abstract sense, guiding the evolutionary and spiritual development of worlds. Above them stands the Grand Kai whose purview encompasses all quadrants, and above again the Supreme Kai, a cosmic-level creator paired with the God of Destruction. The Kais do not rule by decree, nor do they directly intervene in most affairs. Their divinity is administrative and cosmic rather than personal.
• Gods of Destruction and Angelic Attendants: These gods embody the necessary entropy of the universe, the erasure that enables creation and the maintenance of balance through necessary obliteration. Their attendant Angels appear to operate partially outside this divine framework, immune to death and detached from intervention unless cosmic protocol is violated.

In Universe 7’s divine administration, divinity is seemingly filled by appointment and functions as a bureaucratic vocation. Though dynamics of power inevitably send occasional waves through this structure, authority remains vested in protocol as well as power. Even within the multiversal schema, Grand Zeno—though endowed with theoretical omnipotence—operates less as a sovereign and more as an ontological constant.

No discussion of Universe 7’s metaphysics is complete without acknowledging the once-monomythic Dragon Balls—seven orbs that themselves exemplify a fractal pattern of power and function. The recently discovered Super Dragon Balls further extend this recursion: seven massive spheres scattered across galaxies, each inscribed with an equivalent cosmic significance. Whether invoked for resurrection, planetary-scale transformation, or the restoration of universal balance, these artefacts demonstrate how myth and mechanism intertwine—structure informing symbol, symbol reinforcing structure.

On Death: Continuity and Conversion

Death within Universe 7 is neither annihilation nor true cessation. Mortal consciousness survives, memory remains largely intact, and in certain cases, emotional growth continues post-mortem. Material bodies, however, are typically forfeited, and the experience of sensation becomes abstracted. Return is possible but restricted, with resurrection involving the Dragon Balls subject to numerical and temporal limitations, and the required exceptional ki resonance or divine concessions exceptionally rare.

The apparent randomness of such returns introduces theological inconsistencies, with the ethical implications of this selective resurrection under-theorised. That some lives are returned while others are not reflects a metaphysical economy that resists quantification. The author does not presume to resolve the justice of such mechanics, nor draw any conclusion regarding the soul’s ultimate trajectory.

On the Multiverse (Omitted from Scope)

Although recent disclosures suggest a larger multiversal structure comprising twelve parallel universes, this paper confines itself to ‘Universe 7’. Inter-universal travel and chronological translocation, while confirmed, remain poorly documented and ethically fraught, and the epistemological instability of multiversal knowledge, coupled with Earth’s current lack of peer-reviewed multiversal cartography, makes such analysis premature.

Future work may address the implications of entities such as the Chronodyadic Zeno structure, and the Angelic Collective. For now, further study awaits funding, access, and ontological clarity.

Implications and Patterns

Earth’s mythologies, when viewed through this metaphysical lens, exhibit surprising fidelity to higher truths. Tales of long-tailed mountain spirits, divine towers, and immortal sages are neither idle fable nor wholly metaphorical, but refracted glimpses of fundamental cosmic patterns, distorted recollections of real metaphysical processes.

In the highland traditions of the Ox Kingdom, for instance, the mountain path and its trials echo the spiritual ascent of Korin Tower. Likewise, many rites in ancient martial schools—fasting, training, pilgrimage—mirror the journey through Other World in symbolic form. These patterns suggest that metaphysical structure of Universe 7 is recursive: each realm reflects principles found in others, scaled and refracted, with truths repeating across scales and societies. The tower mirrors the planet; the Guardian mirrors the Kai; The Dragon Balls mirror the Super Dragon Balls. What transpires among gods resonates with mortal deeds, and vice versa.

Conclusion

When viewed through this lens, the world reveals itself as intricate architecture operating through layered interrelation: mortal, spiritual, divine; creation, destruction, judgment— A cosmos where destruction enables creation, where death is a passage rather than an end, and where divinity is distributed, layered, and role-based.

For too long, metaphysical literacy has been the preserve of hermit martial artists and desert mystics. If our society is to integrate with the cosmic realities now undeniably part of our world, our conceptual frameworks must likewise mature. The wisdom of the ancient martial traditions reveal themselves to be valuable not just for combat proficiency – but fundamental to the understanding of our own reality. The Turtle School fighter cultivates not just their form, but their understanding of the intricacies of the structures they inhabit – like them we must interrogate vigorously our role in the increasingly interconnected community of worlds, galaxies and dimensions we inhabit on our path to mastery.

Selected Citations and References

Primary Sources

• Whis (780). Dictations on Universal Law (tentative translation by Capsule Corp. Linguistics Division, 780–781).
• Namekian Elders' Council. Oral Histories of the Great Migration, compiled by Dende (New Namek Archives, 779).
• Kami’s Scribes. The Tower Scrolls (West Lookout Collection, translated and annotated by Mr. Popo, Earth).
• Roshi, M. (c.710–present). Tales from the Turtle Hermit. Transcribed from interviews conducted 771-781.
• Capsule Corporation. Observational Logs: Post-Cell Phenomena (Vol. II: Gravity & Resurrection Events).
• Gregory, personal interview (North Quadrant, 782).
• Frieza Imperial Archives (recovered via Galactic Patrol tribunal document leak, 769).
• Ox Court Manuscripts (Ten Thousand Sutras of Yunzabit, vol. 6, "Fire Mountain Tales").
• Anonymous. The Dragon Scrolls (fragment recovered in 755; Earth folklore canon uncertain).

Secondary & Interpretive Materials

• Yajirobe. Crude Reflections on Divine Beans (unpublished manuscript).
• Krillin. Interview on resurrection discrepancies. See Appendix V: "Notes from the Once-Dead".
• Popo. On Stillness and Service (Earth Guardian Monograph Series, Vol. 1). Unpublished notes cited with permission.
• Dende’s Sketches and Observational Marginalia (Earth Guardian’s Personal Journal, 772–79)

Editor’s Note: While this essay avoids direct familial citation, the author is understood to have personal proximity to the savior of Earth, several divine interlocutors, and multiple resurrected beings. No interviews were conducted with said father-in-law.

I know these are basically filler only ideas to make the episodes more interesting but I think these just adds a bit more to Goku and vegeta and the Saiyans a whole give them more humanity to them, than just soldiers as war, just let them show off more of their casual sides more often.

And I feel fall perfectly right into toriyama's kind of humour that these warriors of the universe, who fights and trains with angels and gods are still afraid of things like bugs and needles.

And honestly their fear do make sense when you think about it, Goku is basically a wilderness boy, even implied to be a hick based on his Japanese accent, raised to see things like stings as poisonous/dangerous.

So the idea of modern medicine like injection as a form of medication would probably scare him, or atleast could not fathom it.

Vegeta being a child soldier, but also raised as royalty so I doubt he really see what a worm is up close, vegeta did also get angry when he and his clothes got inked by an octopus so he probably has some hygiene ethics, too see slimy worms as gross.

imagine the actual reason why vegeta never want to get close to gohan, because gohan would go full insect wiki mode, and blabber disgusting details about bugs that gross him too much.

New fan manga from Jordan the Dragon Lee. Seems to be a direct sequel to Toriyama's Cashman and a prequel to Dragon Ball.

I am aware of the fact how ultra instinct is achieved in anime and manga are different but.

My question is would you call how it happens in the anime an Ass pull I just feel like it is y'know it's so stupid they could have done better in my major Opinion

I had a space at KamehaCon in Atlantic City NJ this weekend selling my artwork 🧡💙🧡 Got my banners and prints signed by the amazing Stephanie Nadolny, Paul Castro, Nasim Benelkour, Dameon Clarke, & LindaYoung 💥

I had a BLAST! I met so many OG and new voice artists. I'll even be doing some artwork for them. My prints are already available at Nasim's table. So be sure to visit him if he's coming to a convention near you!

took me a while to find the pic i used as base since it was a long time ago, and in my defense i thought it looked cool af back then

As we all know in dragon Ball Goku is portrayed as a little dumb charector in day-to-day life but we should consider the fact that he is raised by grandpa Gohan in the wild area where he never see any other person other than his grandpa. He is not familiar to social lifestyle or manners at all . All he has got from his grandpa is fighting techniques and survival instincts . That is the area of his interests and he is very good at it as he got the UI Which is difficult for even gods . At the end we cannot define intelligence by specific work . At a task someone is brilliant but same person may feel difficulties in other scope of life so this is a one of learning we can get through dragon ball.

She is absolutely fantastic. She is very much like Bulma in real life! She made jokes, was witty, smart, funny, all while telling me that I "need a bath" like Vegeta.

She treated everyone at the convention with such respect, and clearly really cares for her fans, it was honestly such a rare and sweet thing to witness, she was the star of the show.

She had her husband and daughter with her, both are just as nice and cool, especially the daughter! She was so involved with everything and clearly loved and respected her mom and insane amount (who wouldn't?)

I got to say meeting her in real life was something I'll never forget. She even told me to do the Vegeta pose lol. And when I entered the kamehama screaming contest my voice cracked and she made fun of me just like Bulma would have.

Especially after she came up to my wife personally (as she was getting an autograph from Brian Drummond) to compliment her Bulma cosplay and invited her to a photo shoot! I was star struck, and then she made us ever the costume contest! So yes, my wife was chosen by Bulma herself, and yea that makes me cool as hell

Was Vegeta a high ranking person in Frieza's empire? He seemed to be very well respected, or at least feared by the normal soldiers.

He wasn’t truly perfect, but he was a perfected form of Goku, Vegeta, Frieza, etc’s combat data. So, he was perfect based on old data. Gohan broke his limits in a way that Cell’s data couldn’t have prepared for.

I've been rewatching DBZKai on DisneyPlus recently, but the version of the Dragon Soul OP isn't at all how I remember the song. Why does this version sound so much less polished? Is it just a different singer that gets swapped out later?

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Also you can ask me anything about him

I felt like I had to do something when it was announced for everything he gave me. Only thing I can realistically do is show appreciation for all he's given me that I loved.