Summary
Yamoshi, the original Super Saiyan, influenced the Super Saiyan God ritual, giving him lasting effects. The cruelty of the evil Saiyans prevented them from transforming into Super Saiyans, unlike the righteous Saiyans. Yamoshi's righteous and legendary deeds scared Frieza, eventually leading to the destruction of Planet Vegeta.
IN Dragon ball Legend has it that there is a legend about a man who first achieved extraordinary power in his Super Saiyan state – the man Toriyama called Yamoshi. While little is known about Yamoshi in Dragon Ball, he is clearly a central figure in Saiyan lore and it is important to recognize his influence on the wider series.
Yamoshi is a Saiyan who appears in the legend that Vegeta tells about the “Legendary Super Saiyan” in the Dragon Ball Z episode “Goku's New Power”. In a time long before the Saiyans lived on Planet Vegeta, Yamoshi was a righteous Saiyan warrior who fought against the barbaric “Evil” Saiyans. Good and evil Saiyans are part of a long-standing conflict, but righteous Saiyans are on the brink of extinction. According to Vegeta, Yamoshi has transformed drastically and holds incredible destructive power, known as Super Saiyan.
However, despite his incredible strength, Yamoshi was defeated by the evil Saiyans, but that did not stop his righteous quest.
Yamoshi's name is never used in the scriptures; instead it comes from an interview with Akira Toriyama.
Yamoshi became the basis for Super Saiyan God
Although Yamoshi is shown in the original anime image in his Great Ape form in Vegeta's story, it is most likely that Yamoshi is using the legendary Super Saiyan form most famously used by Broly. Yamoshi's story is said to take place 1,000 years before the main story of Dragon Ball Z, which fits with the idea that the legendary Super Saiyan only appears once every millennium. The destructive power he is said to wield would certainly match the near insane power of the legendary Super Saiyan form.
After Yamoshi died, his soul was said to have wandered the universe, still searching for a way to defeat the Evil Saiyans. News of Yamoshi's deeds spread beyond the Saiyan homeworld, so much so that his transformation was even recorded in Namek's history. Yamoshi is said to have fought alongside five equally righteous comrades and devised a ritual, later known as the Super Saiyan God ritual, that could transfer the power of five Saiyans into a sixth, creating out Super Saiyan God.
While the original Super Saiyan God may have been another Saiyan, they only achieved that state through Yamoshi's guidance from beyond the grave, and in Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, it appears that Yamoshi came to Goku when the ceremony ended. well done. Beerus himself had a vision of Yamoshi's soul, which is what motivated him to seek out the Super Saiyan God as a potential opponent in the first place.
The legend of Yamoshi had a lasting impact
Although Yamoshi achieved Super Saiyan 1,000 years ago, it seems that very few Saiyans achieved Super Saiyan in that millennium, making the story legendary. The “evil” Saiyans, who were victorious, became the only Saiyans and became known for their brutality and aggressive personality, eventually becoming a planetary invasion force in Frieza's father's army. . Despite this, the legend of Yamoshi was still mentioned in whispers – whispers that Frieza eventually understood.
Since the legends, told from the perspective of evil Saiyans, focus primarily on the destructive power of Super Saiyans, Frieza begins to fear the power Yamoshi is said to possess. He worried that the Saiyans might rebel against him if they harnessed such power and decided that he could not take such a risk, even if it was a small risk. This ultimately motivated Frieza to destroy Planet Vegeta and with it the Saiyan race, all in a desperate attempt to prevent any such Super Saiyans from rising again.
Of course, this backfired incredibly on Frieza, as surviving Saiyans like Goku and Vegeta came to gain Super Saiyan power, and as a result had good reason to hate him. Lifted by his own pet, Frieza was killed by the very Super Saiyan he had tried so hard to stop.
How did Yamoshi achieve Super Saiyan?
According to Toriyama, Saiyans can only transform into Super Saiyans if they have enough “S-Cells”, a special type of cell reserved for Saiyans. The amount of S-Cells a Saiyan has is largely determined by their temperament, with gentler, kinder Saiyans having a larger supply of S-Cells. This explains why Yamoshi, as a righteous Saiyan, was the first to be able to transform into a Super Saiyan. The transformation is triggered by a strong emotional reaction and Yamoshi's ultimate stand against the evil Saiyans appears to have been successful.
This may also explain why the righteous Saiyans of Universe 6 were able to access this form relatively easily after being taught by Vegeta. It seems that the righteous Saiyans actually defeated their evil counterparts in Universe 6, so the Universe 6 Yamoshi parallel may actually have worked, since they have the same legend about the legendary Super Saiyan that appears every 1,000 years. S-Cell level can also be increased with one's combat experience, to the point where a strong emotional reaction is not necessary to transform.
On the other hand, the evil Saiyans of Universe 7 are largely unable to obtain enough S-Cells to transform because of their savage nature, unintentionally stripping them of their immense power through their cruelty. Goku, due to his relatively peaceful life on Earth and spending his time fighting evil, has a lot of S-cells, so when he is provoked into a strong emotional reaction by Krillin's death, he has everything it takes to become a Super Saiyan.
While little is known about Yamoshi and his actions, they clearly had a major impact on Dragon Ball lore, leading to the legends of both Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan God. EQUAL Dragon ballAs the first of the Super Saiyans, Yamoshi is an extremely important character, and fans can only hope that Yamoshi can receive the spotlight at some point in the future, and eventually reveal Revealing details about the first Super Saiyan.
Source: Kanzenshuu translated interview