Quote Originally Posted by Lord Raziere View Post
ah but, those do different things, one flies the other doesn't, and one harnesses steam the other the sun, they are not similar at all. Dragon Ball is all about needless redundancy when it is not needed, and not about any functional difference

and I can prove it one word: Goten.

I rest my case.
Thats right, they do different things to accomplish the same goal. Both get you from A to B, they do so with very very different mechanics. Same for power generation. Both generate power, both work in very very different ways. So saying, "Well this guy used ki to do something nearly identical to a magic spell, they must be the same" doesnt make it true.