BlazingBarrrager wrote:Am I the only one who got a sudden craving for Watermelon from that page?
Yeah, and i don't even like them!
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Hellspawn28 wrote:I didn't see it being racist until other people pointed it out. I always thought Uub wanted a healthy snack .
That was my initial impression as well. I guess I am biased as I never had to deal with the "Watermelon stereotype" as a white person but it seems like people in the comments are making a mountain out of a mole hill. If Salagir and Asura wanted to they could easily edit the page to depict . . . I dunno a Honeydew or a Cantaloupe.
BlazingBarrrager wrote:Am I the only one who got a sudden craving for Watermelon from that page?
Yeah I could really use some kind of melon right now. It is better for you than cake.
I wonder how Oob will get out of the predicament of being turned into a watermelon.
Man, you gotta give Majin Boo credit for being crazy prepared. Or very lucky.
Edit: Had a brain fart while reading the page.
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Lord Beerus wrote:I wonder how Oob will get out of the predicament of being turned into a watermelon.
He's....not one?
Just re-read the page and realised how much of brain fart I had. Gotta edit my previous comment now, so I don't look like too much of a fool.
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Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
As an African American I can say safely that while Watermelon loving is a racist stereotype we face it is one of the down played ones and anyone would a brain would be able to see the joke between Buu and the Watermelon.
The fat that Oob himself is Indian and not Black makes the joke even less racist and I find it more racist if people are assuming Oob is black personally.
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I really didn't even think of that page being racist in the slightest. Maybe because the stereotype doesn't affect me, but it just seems some people are overreacting.
Indian just means you're from the country India.
There's white Indians and black Indians. Just like there's white Americans and Black Americans.
Pretty sure "black" is being used to mean "of African descent" rather than "anyone with a darker brown skin tone" here, considering that the watermelon thing is a stereotype that's directed specifically at African-American people, not anyone who happens to have darker skin.
But yeah, it'd be pretty silly if anyone seriously assumed Uub turning Buu into a watermelon was intended to be a race-related joke, especially considering that the "black people LOVE watermelon" stereotype doesn't seem to exist where Salagir is (not surprising, it's mostly an American thing, more specifically a Southern thing. I wouldn't be all that surprised if someone in, say, Alaska had never heard of it, let alone another country.) It's just a pretty simple "Uub's from a small tropical-ish village and prefers fresh tropical-ish fruit to cakes and candy, plus Buu is huge and round like a watermelon" sort of thing.
Lol, poor Uub I think it was established in manga/anime, that Buu only look stupid, but is pretty smart (Like when he learnt techniques so fast, and killed Babidi)
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Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
coola wrote:Lol, poor Uub I think it was established in manga/anime, that Buu only look stupid, but is pretty smart (Like when he learnt techniques so fast, and killed Babidi)
He's pretty much a more severe version of Goku. He learns technics faster than him, but is far more stupid in day to day stuff.
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Uub shouldn't have any problems with Majin Buu, especially with Kaioken
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