What Exactly Did Dr. Gero Do To 17 And 18?

Android 17 and Android 18 are not androids. They are two human teenagers Dr. Gero abducted off a road and rebuilt without asking, and the English dub could not carry the word that says so. The Japanese term is jinzoningen, artificial human. It covers everything Gero made, so 19 and 20 and 16 are machines, and 17 and 18 are something else entirely. Human bodies, human brains, human personalities left completely intact. Their names were Lapis and Lazuli before a man took them away and gave them numbers. This video works out what he actually did to them, why he needed a person instead of a machine he could have built himself, and what the bomb he hid inside each of them tells you about what he thought they were. And it ends on Krillin, who is the only character in the entire arc who looked at the two most dangerous beings on the planet and correctly identified them as victims. #dragonball #android17 #android18 #drgero #dragonballz #dbz #cellsaga #androidsaga #krillin #dragonballtheory #anime #dbzlore #explained