Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F was released in 2016, more than a quarter of a decade after Frieza first appeared in the game Dragon Ball manga in 1989. Revived after years spent in Hell on Earth, Frieza devotes the next four months of his life to training to kill Goku once and for all. While some fans questioned how Frieza could gain such power so quickly, most fans had a bigger question on their minds: why was Frieza's body restored with his battle jacket intact?
It turned out to be a movie brochure given out during the Japanese run Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F actually answered that question over a decade ago when the film's director Tadayoshi Yamamuro clarified the discrepancy between Frieza's anatomy and armor. An excerpt from the pamphlet recently appeared on the Internet after a Japanese man Dragon Ball a fan, @Com_battler_KK, shared it on Twitter and asked other fans to “please spread the word to overseas fans.”
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Frieza's battle jacket is actually his skin
It turns out that Frieza's battle jacket was never armor, but literally part of his skin. As revealed by Tadayoshi Yamamuro in translation Resurrection F brochure,
“The protector-like thing that Frieza wears is actually part of his body. That's just part of his 'naked' state, or his natural form. Apparently it was something that only Toriyama knew… (laughs). In the scene where he transforms into his final form, this piece is shown breaking into pieces, but despite that I always thought that having nothing meant being naked in the first scene. regeneration tank, originally I drew him without the shoulder parts, so I had to go back and fix it later.”
When Frieza takes off his “battle jacket”. Dragon Ball Zhe actually breaks part of his outer body, allowing him to transform into his second form. This is actually backed up Dragon Ball Super: Brolywhere a younger Frieza is shown without his “armor”. This Frieza does not yet have purple gems on his body, meaning he only grew them as he got older.
The fact that King Cold “wears” very similar “armor” also suggests that he is not in his second form at all, but rather in his first form. Likewise, it strongly suggests that the Saiyans' battle jackets and the rest of the Frieza Force are actually modeled after King Cold's exoskeleton.
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The issue where Frieza was revived by the armor came up again Dragon Ball discourse after it was announced that Dragon Ball Super the anime remake will make it better Resurrection F after Dragon Ball Super: Beerus completes the broadcast. The fact that new Dragon Ball Super: Frieza This means that the anime is scheduled for Fall 2026 Dragon Ball Super: Beerus will only last a few episodes (and currently rumored to be six episodes, according to Dragon Ball insiders like Geekdom101).
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In the trailer for Dragon Ball Super: FriezaFirst Form Frieza is shown inside a rejuvenation tube from Resurrection Fcomplete with his Battle Jacket. What many fans thought was a bug more than a decade ago actually turned out to be a part Dragon Ball ZThe doctrine that Akira Toriyama hid from plain sight. The Dragon Ball Super the remake will not only revive and restructure the story of the original anime, but will more closely follow Toriyama's outline and notes, all leading up to the premiere Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol either next year or 2028.
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Akira Toriyama
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Dragon Ball
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Dragon Ball DAIMA
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Dragon Ball DAIMA
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February 26, 1986
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