Dragon Ball Vol. 40 — Manga Raw / Buy Official

Goku's Super Saiyan 3, gold hair to the waist and lightning, overwhelms Buu, but an afterlife body cannot hold it; he leaves the fusion form to young Goten and Trunks and returns to the afterlife when time runs out. Piccolo takes over the drills; if a pose slips even slightly they become a fat warrior or a skin-and-bones failure. When it finally locks perfectly, the mighty warrior Gotenks is born, though the merge lasts only about thirty minutes. Meanwhile, in the World of the Kais, the Old Kai emerges from the Z Sword and tries to draw Gohan's hidden power to its limit through a potential-unlock ritual. Trump cards against Buu are being forged in heaven and on Earth at once. A race against time has already begun, quietly. Until the children's timing matches, Earth has little time left. Gotenks's power, and the ritual's end, still lie ahead.