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Any celebrities that like Dragon Ball?

Post by Bullza » Thu Mar 27, 2014 5:39 am

Like any well known actors or writers or athletes? Not like other well known Japanese mangaka or anything because that's somewhat expected but like famous people more so from America and Europe and such.

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Post by samuraix123 » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:44 am

Actually I remember some guy a-long time when I watched MTV cribs pulled out the box sets of the Ocean Dub and was talking about them haha I just can't remember who he was :lol:
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Post by Marco Polo » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:45 am

James Marsters AKA Spike from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

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Soulja Boy... but that's not exactly a glowing endorsement
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Post by Makaioshin » Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:01 am

Jackie Chan is a fan and has met Toriyama on several occasions. It is kinda cool that the man that inspired the series is a fan himself.
Slightly related, he also wore an Arale costume suit in the film My Lucky Stars.

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Post by samuraix123 » Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:53 am

Super Saiyan 4 Goku poster was in christina aguilera's music video ''What a girl wants'' :P
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Post by RocktheDragon » Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:02 am

Makaioshin wrote:Jackie Chan is a fan and has met Toriyama on several occasions. It is kinda cool that the man that inspired the series is a fan himself.
Slightly related, he also wore an Arale costume suit in the film My Lucky Stars.
I'm not sure exactly why but this just made my morning! It's great to think that Jackie Chan met up with Toriyama before and just had some conversational exchanges between them. I wonder what their conversation was like/about, and they definitely needed a translator. :lol:
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Post by dbboxkaifan » Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:07 am

There was a topic somewhere here about celebrities who liked Dragon Ball but.. they were mostly just rappers.

Snoop Dogg was one of them, iirc.
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Post by Blade » Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:38 am

dbboxkaifan wrote:There was a topic somewhere here about celebrities who liked Dragon Ball but.. they were mostly just rappers.

Snoop Dogg was one of them, iirc.
Indeed. In his words: 'Gogeta is a G'.

In the UK, Jonathan Ross and Bill Bailey are both fans - the latter of which has been seen on TV wearing Dragonball shirts multiple times. In fact, during his last comedy tour, he played a commercial he recorded for a Japanese product where he was always wearing a Goku shirt.
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Post by Ajay » Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:55 am

dbboxkaifan wrote:There was a topic somewhere here about celebrities who liked Dragon Ball but.. they were mostly just rappers.

Snoop Dogg was one of them, iirc.
Yeah, there's a 4-page thread here with some good ones http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=20390
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Post by DBZAOTA482 » Thu Mar 27, 2014 7:34 pm

Jackie Chan is an obvious one.

Also, Chris Brown also did say it was his favorite anime once. I wonder why ....
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Post by tinlunlau » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:13 pm

Hong Kong actor-director Stephen Chow is definitely a fan of Dragon Ball.
He has entire sets of several Shonen Jump manga on his shelf and known to be quite knowledgeable on Shonen Jump properties.

Speaking of Jackie Chan, I used to work for him. Translated special features for several of his movies on DVD from Chinese to English. Incidentally, I wouldn't have learned how to read Chinese if it weren't for Dragon Ball.
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Post by DoomieDoomie911 » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:40 pm

samuraix123 wrote:Super Saiyan 4 Goku poster was in christina aguilera's music video ''What a girl wants'' :P
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Post by Gokuden » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:55 pm

Rafael Nadal is now at the top of my cool list.
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Post by ABED » Thu Mar 27, 2014 9:32 pm

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Post by FrogTrigger » Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:36 am

Rza and the whole Wu tang

Stephen chow too iirc

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Re: Any celebrities that like Dragon Ball?

Post by Bullza » Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:51 am

So it looks like Jackie Chan is the only A list celebrity that's a fan?

Christina Aguilera isn't necessarily a fan just because a poster appeared in a music video and the rest are D list material.

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Post by DragonBoxZTheMovies » Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:12 am

Bullza wrote:So it looks like Jackie Chan is the only A list celebrity that's a fan?

Christina Aguilera isn't necessarily a fan just because a poster appeared in a music video and the rest are D list material.
I'd call Nadal 'A list'. :?

Patiently waiting the day when a new name finally pops in one of these threads. It's the same answers to this question every year. :lol:

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