The Saiyan race is surely what I have always liked the most”dragonballAmong other things, that’s why I refuse to write “Dragon Ball GT” as a negative as it followed the monkey’s path that ultimately led to Super Saiyan 4, a transformation that remains my favorite in the franchise so far. day. to get to phase 4, obviously you had to come from other previous phases, and that’s what I’m going to do: who was the first Super Saiyan (Yamoshi) and where his legend came from.

No, Bardock was not the first Dragon Ball Super Saiyan

Before starting with the true story regarding the origin of the Super Saiyan in “Dragon Ball”, I prefer to treat the one who is NOT, no matter how cool:

  • Indeed, sorry Bardock This is NOT Dragon Ball’s first Super Saiyan.
  • The reason is very clear: the story that paints it as such is not canonand was never considered as such.
  • I remember Bardock starring in a special beyond his loss to Frieza in which Goku’s father didn’t die at the tyrant’s hands, but instead the explosion derived from Planet Vegeta and Frieza’s supernova sent him into the past.
This is great, but Bardock Super Saiyan is NOT canon in Dragon Ball
  • It was on this trip at the time that Bardock was with Chilled, an ancestor of Frieza who eventually aroused so much anger in him that it allowed him to achieve Super Saiyan state. Although Bardock manages to defeat Chilled, he survives, and it is through this that the legend of the fearsome first Super Saiyan begins to spread through Frieza’s bloodline.
  • However, as I said, this whole branch of the story was never considered canon content for the franchise. At the end, The only canon is what will also be seen later in Dragon Ball Super: Broly: Bardock being eliminated at the hands of Frieza, along with many other Saiyan warriors..
  • There’s no denying that Bardock’s story as the first Super Saiyan would make sense in his build and later seeing what’s going on with Goku, but unfortunately this role goes to another character with mythical status I would say: Yamoshi.

Yamoshi, the first true Super Saiyan

Yamoshi is a name that will NOT sound like many, and that’s the story of that practically refers only to some Akira Toriyama comments in official interviews. Even so, the truth is that there is knowledge of its existence:

  • As the creator of Dragon Ball himself explained, Yamoshi was officially the first Super Saiyan of all.
  • But who was Yamoshi? It’s about a pure-hearted former Saiyan who started a rebellion against the evil Saiyans of the past. He and his five compatriots fought to the limit, and it was when Yamoshi was about to pass out that he managed to awaken the power for the first time Super Saiyans.
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This is the typical Yamoshi depiction, but it is NOT official
  • Everyone, including Yamoshi’s companions, was stunned by a form they had never seen before, but even this new state of power was not enough for Yamoshi and his kind to make it out alive. of the meeting
  • This legend of the first Super Saiyan is also related to that of the Super Saiyan God, because after his death Yamoshi’s spirit continued to wander through space with one goal: to find the Super Saiyan God..
  • Supposedly, it is understood that Beerus heard this story about Super Saiyan God and that’s why he claims to know himwhich ends up forcing Son Goku to historically become Dragon Ball’s first Super Saiyan God.

Sincerely, I would like to one day write a manga or produce an OVA/movie entirely dedicated to explaining the story of Yamoshi. From what is known, the era he resided in was much older than the Saiyans of Planet Vegeta, so it would be interesting to see what the Saiyan race was like back then. Anyway, I’m mostly very interested to see how Yamoshi and this moment of the first Super Saiyan transformation would be portrayed, since all we have are fan-based designs and speculation (beyond the confirmed by Toriyama-sensei).

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