That’s how I took it! Maybe ‘pretends to be a good boy’, even? That sounds more cynical, hehe.
I think it’s interchangeable with this expression:
https://www.weblio.jp/content/世が世なら#:~:text=「この人が存分,文脈で使われる言い方。
Thanks for figuring out the Ackman reference! I did wonder who that kid was 
Start date: 10 July
Pages: 59-76
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I see, so not so much a grammar point but a fixed expression. Thanks for this. I see that 世が世ならhas an entry in Jisho too.
Loved chapter 32 - if you are like me you won’t be able to wait til next week to read on to the next chapter!
I peeked ahead a bit 
This is my first time reading this franchise so I was shook to see the surprise! Can’t wait to dive in in a few days
Start date: 17 July
Pages: 77-94
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Yes, both are clever references to themselves appearing in other media.
The first panel goes:
I’m a little nervous appearing for the first time in a while.
Eh? You appeared in a movie recently so the kids haven’t forgotten you.
It presumably refers to one of the Dragon Ball Z movies released in 2014/15.
The second panel I read as:
Your way of speaking has changed a bit since your most recent appearance in Dragon Ball.
You are a well informed person Roshi-sama.
The cutaway is from Dragon Ball Minus - a special released in 2014 that was published in Jaco the Galactic Patrolman. It includes the story of Gohan finding young Goku.
I was pleased that my Japanese is good enough now to see the difference in his way of speaking between the two examples!
I spotted the exact panel in Grandpa Gohan’s wiki page
Page 86
To get the joke you need to know that the kid in the red hat is Goku’s son Gohan as a child.
If you read Jaco the Galactic Patrolman in the English translation on the Shonen Jump app the Dragon Ball Minus Story is not there.
But looking at the Japanese version available on Book Walker it’s there as the last story in the table of contents:
We could just add it to the pile of possible spin-off book clubs of the spin-off book club 
Start date: 24 July
Pages: 95-112
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Page 97
ここであったが１００年目！
Did anyone understand this sentence?
Page 112
The picture shows Pilaf’s machine in “swan mode” - with the middle pod removed (in the original the middle pod took damage so they switched to this mode).
Seems to be a fixed expression. That might explain why the grammar feels a bit off (or is that just me?).
I am puzzled by the next bit though: お前お倒し6つのボールをうばってくれる！ Why is くれる used? Who is the implied subject here…?
Who’s saying these asides? There was another one at page 95. Just some sort of authorial voice?
I’m looking forward to a new storyline next week!
I read it as Goku will do him the favour of letting him steal the Dragon Balls.
I thought this was Bulma speaking, I think that’s because it was her who reacted to Kid Gohan last time he spoke up.
Thanks for this, I hadn’t thought to search for this as a fixed expression. Out of interest what did you search for to find this link?
ここであったが百年目. It’s just what my IME made of it when I typed it.
But then wouldn’t we get a causative?
Start date: 31 July
Pages: 113-130
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Wow that was unexpected! While I was reading I was thinking isn’t this going to disrupt the continuity of the story? I love how they tie all together, including the comment that Raditz’s tail will lose its training if he doesn’t maintain it, and then the memory loss at the end!
I’ve been a bit quiet, but following along! Just wanted to comment before we go to a new chapter that this was the most surprising chapter so far… I am reading the original in parallel so I thought it was going to take the same direction 
