In Dragon Garow Lee’s “Dragon Ball Side-Story: The Case of Being Reincarnated as Yamcha,” that world is Akira Toriyama’s martial arts action hit, and the incarnated form is the series’ long overshadowed desert bandit.
Buzzfeed Japan recently spoke to Shueisha’s editor on the spin-off series in an interview which Kanzenshuu then translated… –How was “Dragon Ball Side-Story: The Case of Being Reincarnated as Yamcha” planned out?
Starting with Yamcha meeting young Goku, the protagonist works to avoid his fated death at the hands of a self-destructing Saibaiman.