Todd Blankenshipさんのイラストまとめ

@peraperayume Freeza makes it sound like the Ginyu Force are actually on Planet Freeza, although of course this is long before Toriyama thought up Yardrat. If we ignore their anime-only departure scene, we could say Appule contacts Planet Freeza who then contact the Ginyu Force on Yardrat

Another day passes during Goku’s training montage, thus putting us on Day 6 (December 23rd). Goku has one day left to reach Namek, which he decides is best spent resting (a principle he later applies in the lead-up to the Cell Games)

(In Japanese the narrator also starts out by describing this scene as two days later, which Viz leaves out)

Day 2 (December 19th): Zarbon beats Vegeta and takes him back to Freeza’s ship for healing and questioning. Freeza (via Appule) puts in a call for the Ginyu Force, who are due in 5 days. Kuririn+Dende are 5 hours away from the Great Elder, but decide to sleep first.

Goku’s trip is said to take 6 days, and once he gets there it’s all one battle after another, making for one super long day (the longest in the original manga, in fact). So that makes the time spent on Namek a total of 7 days counting from Team Bulma’s arrival.

Despite all the back-and-forth shenanigans and the lack of any night, the Namek arc’s timeline is relatively straightforward. Bulma and Vegeta arrive at about the same time, Bulma phones home, and Goku leaves 2 hours after Roshi gets the call.

Actually, I guess they show the crotch grab in the anime too, but they really focus on it in the manga (these are the details people want, right?)

In the manga this line is fleshed out a bit more: Myst explains that Hadlar will lose his immortality because dark aura will no longer be able to revive him (this is why Hadlar is still alive after dying a few times, as explained earlier in the manga and anime ep.20)

Much later of course, the Perfect Origin arc retconned much of this, so that Gold Man, Silver Man, and Justice (Man) aren’t gods, and the motive for their fight is far more complex than them just getting egged on by some dumb kid.

On Tuesday: long days on Namek!