A teenage Dragon Ball fanboy dies trying to get a closer look at a girl in a short skirt and gets reincarnated as Yamcha (a very minor character in the saga). True to form, now as Yamcha, the teenager lusts after hot girl Bulma and tries to use his fanboy knowledge to get into her pants. Finally, a Dragon Ball book for creepers!
I love Dragon Ball but the latest books - which are basically official fan-fic - are pretty bad and lean way too heavily on nostalgia than try to do anything new or interesting. So it goes with That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha which is a brief tour of some of the Dragon Ball storylines, even drawn in Akira Toriyama’s style, and made me wish I was re-reading them instead of this load of nonsense!
The concept is a little like the Marvel series Gwenpool where a fangirl finds herself in the Marvel Universe and uses her knowledge to survive. Yamcha does the same and chooses to train with various powerful masters in order to not get killed. Except that happens in between the panels - the actual new material! - so we’re left with reading the familiar famous scenes but this time with a more competent Yamcha.
But that doesn’t actually make them any better, particularly as the outcomes aren’t affected, and “Yamcha” didn’t get what he really wanted - Bulma - anyway, so… what was the point? Oh that’s right, it’s just another book to make money off the Dragon Ball fanbase.
Pointless, stupid and boringly uncreative, even if you’re a Dragon Ball fan, don’t bother with That Time I Got Duped Into Re-Reading Dragon Ball.
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