Dragonball super Broly showed that Toriyama is not afraid to take characters that were not in the original manga and
Sort of reinvent them or reboot them
Recreate them for the modern era of Dragonball and it makes you wonder what other characters
Toriyama might at some point in the future
You know recreate whether it be cooler or baby and I'm looking into some of the more I guess popular
characters that were not in the original manga and I think the one that pops in my head that I've noticed that a lot of Dragonball
fans really seem to love is
from the other world tournament
Pikkon otherwise known as Paikuhan Han. In fact Pikkon isn't even his name. That was a big
mistranslation a big translation error in the original Dragon Ball Z English dub
his name is PI kou Han and I
decided to go ahead and do a video about PI crew Han and tell you his history and what we know about the character because
There's a lot of mysteries with the character. But what we do know I think is very interesting
so let's get right into the history of Paikuhan Han right now
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even though we've only seen Paikuhan for a really brief time in the series
5 Dragon Balls the episodes of the other world tournament filler arc a few bonus
Appearances in the Buu saga and of course infusion. Reborn you'd be surprised to how popular he is
in fact
Did you know that in 2017 there was a survey in v-jump magazine where they asked the Japanese readers?
Which character they want to replace fat, Buu?
As the tenth member of team universe seven and actually Paikkan Paikuhan was the winner. So even in Japan
people are very intrigued at this character and I think that Toriyama
Should he choose to bring him back would probably be a wise move?
Business-wise because people seem to really like the character even though he's very mysterious
but again
Perhaps that mystery is why people like him same thing goes with people like hit who's really popular now
Another thing. I want to quickly talk about speaking of Toriyama
Is that no Paikuhan is not in the original manga?
But that does not mean that Toriyama did not have a hand in creating him
In fact, Toriyama was heavily involved
Well somewhat heavily involved in the other world tournament story arc in Dragon Ball Z
No
This arc is not in the manga but he did help out a lot with creating not only the character of Pikkan in fact
if you look right here, you see this design sheet that he turned into toh a to create him
So yes, he was created by Toriyama
Even though he was not in the manga but also this is the arc where Toriyama would expand the cosmos and introduced the other
kaio-sama as the other Kai's
into the main franchise and he also provided designs for those as well as during the creation of
this arc back in the 90s Toriyama submitted the to--we the design for the Dragon Ball universe
For the very first time so this would be helpful for the Toei animators and the to--a staff to create stories around it
but also for himself
He had not designed this for himself for the manga but he did to help out the anime
and of course
This would be references official Dragon Ball lore in guide books and also within the series so yes
Pikkon Paikuhan is indeed a
Character created by Toriyama. Now another thing that people seem to get confused whether or not he is in the MEC in number one
No
he is not a namekian, but there was a
huge mistake made many years ago in one of the Dragon Ball Z card games that do list him as anime and this is
incorrect PyCon is not an amine
But in the original design sheet when he submitted a toh animation did state that
He is a piccolo type character and he even tells the anime staff to use piccolo as a reference for the facial expression
so he was intended to be a
serious sort of stoic martial artists like piccolo is and a mini rival for Goku for the other world tournament
But if you look at Dragon Ball Z
you can tell that they didn't really have many plans for him after this because he has very few appearances
he was never intended to be a big deal only for this arc
which really is his arc the five episode of the world tournament if you want to re-watch this check out Dragon Ball Z
episodes
195 to 199 this is there is no kai version because you know that
filler arc wasn't in Chi even though he does make a very brief
appearance in a very brief little montage at the end of the cell saga of kai the actual tournaments not there
So has to be a DBZ viewing. Anyways, what we do know about PyCon is that he is from the Western quadrant
Okay, and that's implied that Planet Namek is in the southern quadrant
I might do a different video about that so that right there tells you he's not in the Meccan
But we do know that he was a very powerful
student a very powerful martial artist and earned the trust of the west chi and
that's where he basically became the best martial artist that represented the western
quadrant from the West Chi and the first time that we actually see him in action
the writers of Dragon Ball Z made sure to let us know that this guy was not a joke
what ends up happening is there seems to be a the trouble going on in the other world with
previous villains from Dragon Ball Z Frieza King cold cell and the ginyu force and
Goku goes down there with PI kou Han and they dispatch these guys rather quickly the most impressive
feat we saw was the fact that PI Khan was able to easily mop the floor with
Frieza,king cold,and perfect cell
we just got done watching a 77 episode arc where a perfect cell was deemed to be the most
threatening enemy, they ever faced and Pikkan took him out in just seconds. So yeah
this always bugged me to be honest with you
but why they had to get Pikkan over and that was their idea to I
suppose do it so during the other World Tournament
of course the finals end up being Goku and pine Khan in a really fun little epic fight where we see PyCon
using some pretty interesting techniques like his thunder flash attack, and he does a move called the hyper tornado
which is one of my favorite moves in Dragonball very underrated move where he spins at
these really fast speeds creating a tornado drill and then entraps you he can do whatever he wants with you
I always thought that was a cool move
of course the thunder flash or ultimate flash is pretty much his biggest move
but it's also what led him to be defeated by Goku because Goku figured out that when he does this move
he leaves himself open and thus Goku was able to teleport and fire Kamehameha from the side and was able to eliminate
Paikuhan but then we find out that that's not necessarily the final finish of the match up because
earlier in the fight both Goku and PyCon touched the
roof of the arena and the snake that counts as a ring out and thus they were both disqualified
but it is hinted that the grand Kai feared Pikkon and goku and didn't want to give them that
training that he promised them if they won. Of course
Pikkan says that one day he will defeat goku, which is something that everybody says
But that wouldn't be the last time we saw him because he does appear in some filler episodes of the Buu arc in
Dragon Ball Z when Kid Buu goes to grand Kai's planet looking for Goku and Vegeta
But he really doesn't do anything and then of course we have his appearance in fusion
reborn where he is the
distraction for jinamba
while goku and vegeta
Fused to make Gogeta and that's pretty much the only time we saw this character he would of course come back in various video games
And things like that, but it remains to be seen as to whether or not haiku Han or PyCon will ever return
Unfortunately, we don't know and that's pretty much all we do know about this character
I wonder who was the guy that killed Pikkan in the Western quadrant?
And I wonder what his backstory actually is
We may not ever know and if we do know Toriyama might just change it. Anyway, thanks for watching
Hope you enjoyed this video and I will talk to y'all next time