Dragon Ball Fan Illustrates Unexpected and Unhinged Crossover Fan Art That Looks Like a Nostalgia-Fueled Fever Dream

Ely Bulnes • Writer and Editor

Feb 12, 2025 11:30 AM EST

Have you ever actually had a fever dream? My dreams are strange and surreal anyways, but I didn't quite understand the significance of calling something a "fever dream" until just last year. It was the evening of my birthday, and I was feeling under the weather. Despite this, I hosted a goth-themed party and managed to ignore my body until the eleventh hour. I slept at a friend's house on their couch, and despite being absolutely freezing, I was sweating intensely under my blankets. I had an incredibly realistic dream that I was in the very same room, unable to move. The AC above my head was sentient and malevolent; it communicated telepathically to me that it wanted me to suffer and was thus blowing cold air right in my face. It was very much like being stuck inside of a nightmare directed by David Lynch.

The amazingly executed fan art featured below by illustrator @t_crux looks like a fever dream that would result from watching way too many cartoons while sick as a child in the early 2000s. Who would've thought to draw the cast of Recess cosplaying Dragon Ball? Scroll down to check out a selection of cursed images.

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From Naruto to Spy x Family, plenty of anime have paid homage to the iconic Yamcha pose. Never though I'd see Peter Griffith pulling the crater pose, though!
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Randall and Frieza have never existed in my mind at the same time. My brain has trouble processing this image.
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