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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 04 May 2014

idk if this goes to teh Anime thread.

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"Dragon Ball" Creator Reveals Android No. 17 and 18's Names

Plus the latter career of No. 17

Scott Green
May 02, 2014 5:50pm CDT (one day ago)

Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama has a couple Q&A's published in Japan today. There's a "Twel-Buu Mysteries" in Saikyō Jump, and there's bonus material in volumes 4-6 of the new color editions of the Cell arc. What's really grabbed the attention of Japanese fans is that he's revealed the names of Androids No. 17 and 18. 

No. 17 is Lapis and No. 18 is Lazuli.

Toriyama also revealed that after the Cell arc No. 17 becomes a park ranger at a nature preserve. He's well suited to the work and shows no mercy to poachers! In this happy ending, he's well paid and married to a zoologist with two adopted children.

 



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vivster on 04 May 2014

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NiKKoM on 04 May 2014

O wow.. just realized that dragon ball z ended 18 years ago.. bit late for this piece of info don't you think?



 

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kirby007 on 04 May 2014

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Cheebee on 04 May 2014

That's... kind of random. Any reason given for these particular names?



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d21lewis on 04 May 2014

Finally. Now I can sleep at night.



JEMC on 05 May 2014

Lapis and Lazuli? Was he looking for jewelry for his wife or what?

18 years have already passed since the end of Dragon Ball? (that pice os sh*t called GT doesn't count) WOW.



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Mr Khan on 05 May 2014

I do like that they both got happy endings. They kind of deserved it, since they weren't evil by choice (i think Toriyama's story was that they were teenage runaways whom Gero captured and remade into cyborgs, which would be the closer term for them than Androids, which is why the all-organic Cell could absorb them and not the mechanical Android 16. Either way, they were human to start with)



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AZWification on 05 May 2014

And we only had to wait 18 years! Wonderful!



                
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Kasz216 on 05 May 2014
Mr Khan said:
I do like that they both got happy endings. They kind of deserved it, since they weren't evil by choice (i think Toriyama's story was that they were teenage runaways whom Gero captured and remade into cyborgs, which would be the closer term for them than Androids, which is why the all-organic Cell could absorb them and not the mechanical Android 16. Either way, they were human to start with)


....ehhhhhhh.

 

I'd have more sympathy for them if they didn't kill their creator and then cause a massive apocolypse in the mirai timeline.

 

Which there seems to be no reasonable explination for why they decided to wipe out humanity outside of "Something to do".

 

You can't really argue programming because I doubt gero programmed them to murder himself.

 

 

They're good guy turn seems to come soley from getting their asses saved by someone stronger... making it not the most convincing good guy turn, seems more like simple acquiescence to a stronger power.