King Kai
One of my biggest moments of self-discovery(as far as anime fanboyism is concerned) was realizing that, after I had spent years angrily railing about how FUNimation's dub "mis-translated" Kaio-Sama's name as King Kai... I found out that "King Kai" is actually a totally appropriate translation. In fact, if it's a work in english, he SHOULD be King Kai. See, the "O" in Kai-O means "King." The -Sama is just an honorific. I WAS A FOOL!
ANYWAY... King Kai is the god of 1/4 of the galaxy! The North Quadrant. Yeah, they kind of gloss over it in the dub - Kami is the god of earth (again, basic translation would just call him God, but the translators have some common sense), and Grand Kai is god of the whole galaxy! Dragon Ball Z has hilarious theology.
King Kai lives on a tiny planet (and I mean TINY. My house is bigger) at the end of Snake Way in the afterlife. he's got a little house, an awesome 1968 Chevrolet Bel Air hardtop, a pet (divine) chimpanzee named Bubbles, and a cricket buddy named Gregory! Though Gregory is only in the anime. I don't care, he's fun.
King Kai was Goku's very last teacher - after him, Goku just taught himself. He imparted a lot of info to Goku - introduced him to training in increased gravity (Kai's planet has a lot of gravity), taught him the invaluable Kaio-Ken and Spirit Bomb techniques (that last one won the whole series), and taught plenty of important technjiques and methods of training that served Goku time and time again. The two stayed really good friends, even after Goku accidentally KILLED THE GOD OF THE NORTH GALAXY AND HIS CHIMPANZEE AND HIS CRICKET AND WRECKED THE CAR BY TELEPORTING A SELF-DESTRUCTING BAD GUY THERE BECAUSE HE COULD NOT THINK OF ANYWHERE ELSE TO GO YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT GOKU. Actually, death didn't change anything for King Kai. He just gained a halo and moved to a new place. Btu he's awesome. He's not perverted, but he has an awful pun-based sense of humor. He can't fight worth anything himself, but his teaching was most of the reason why Goku went from unable to beat Raditz to totally steamrolling the Ginyu Force. Awesome!
King Kai
One of my biggest moments of self-discovery(as far as anime fanboyism is concerned) was realizing that, after I had spent years angrily railing about how FUNimation's dub "mis-translated" Kaio-Sama's name as King Kai... I found out that "King Kai" is actually a totally appropriate translation. In fact, if it's a work in english, he SHOULD be King Kai. See, the "O" in Kai-O means "King." The -Sama is just an honorific. I WAS A FOOL!
ANYWAY... King Kai is the god of 1/4 of the galaxy! The North Quadrant. Yeah, they kind of gloss over it in the dub - Kami is the god of earth (again, basic translation would just call him God, but the translators have some common sense), and Grand Kai is god of the whole galaxy! Dragon Ball Z has hilarious theology.
King Kai lives on a tiny planet (and I mean TINY. My house is bigger) at the end of Snake Way in the afterlife. he's got a little house, an awesome 1968 Chevrolet Bel Air hardtop, a pet (divine) chimpanzee named Bubbles, and a cricket buddy named Gregory! Though Gregory is only in the anime. I don't care, he's fun.
King Kai was Goku's very last teacher - after him, Goku just taught himself. He imparted a lot of info to Goku - introduced him to training in increased gravity (Kai's planet has a lot of gravity), taught him the invaluable Kaio-Ken and Spirit Bomb techniques (that last one won the whole series), and taught plenty of important technjiques and methods of training that served Goku time and time again. The two stayed really good friends, even after Goku accidentally KILLED THE GOD OF THE NORTH GALAXY AND HIS CHIMPANZEE AND HIS CRICKET AND WRECKED THE CAR BY TELEPORTING A SELF-DESTRUCTING BAD GUY THERE BECAUSE HE COULD NOT THINK OF ANYWHERE ELSE TO GO YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT GOKU. Actually, death didn't change anything for King Kai. He just gained a halo and moved to a new place. Btu he's awesome. He's not perverted, but he has an awful pun-based sense of humor. He can't fight worth anything himself, but his teaching was most of the reason why Goku went from unable to beat Raditz to totally steamrolling the Ginyu Force. Awesome!