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Kamiccolo9 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 17, 2022 3:13 am I was watching it at, like, 5? 6?

Same. On RTL ll, yes?

Toriyama based them on outfits from the many Hong Kong kung fu movies he watched. Examples: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYzA1NWVlOTItMzBhYi00MTg3LThjOWUtOTVjZGZkYWIwMWJhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzQ5ODY3NjA@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg https://kiaikick.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/yuen-biao-jackie-chan-sh...

I grew up reading the Danish Dragon Ball books and watching the German anime dub. One error which really annoyed me ever since I was a kid was during Goku's first SSJ transformation on Namek. After Krillin died, Goku yelled "He was just a child!" in both the Danish manga and German anime. ...

Most DB fans in the west? The west doesn't revolve around USA and English speaking countries. A lot of European and Latin American countries started out with Dragon Ball, either through the anime or the manga. Dragon Ball didn't sell almost 260 million volumes worldwide by selling volume 17-42. Sinc...

As bad as DBE was, at least they try to build things up by starting off with Piccolo. Have the Saiyans show up for the third or forth movie instead. Saiyans showing up during the fourth movie is definitely something I agree on. Personally I always imagined a live action saga to be made up of seven ...

I know this is kinda off topic but I didn't want to create a thread for it. How different is the Viz English manga compared to the Funi anime? Did they turn Goku into a superhero as well or is it closer to the original Japanese? Excluding certain artistic liberties taken for puns and expressions, i...

I know this is kinda off topic but I didn't want to create a thread for it. How different is the Viz English manga compared to the Funi anime? Did they turn Goku into a superhero as well or is it closer to the original Japanese?

I use both terms for the fighters. When I'm referring to the OG's (Goku, Yamcha, Krillin, Tenshinhan and Chaozu) I strictly use Dragon Team though.

Son Goku and Yamcha are my two favorite characters. Loved Goku's innocent and pure personality since the beginning as well as Yamcha's cocky attitude and his cool design. Tenshinhan, Krillin, Chaozu, Trunks, Vegeta, Broly (DBS), Android 17 (DBS) and Piccolo (these eight are in no particular order) w...

Dragon Ball definitely doesn't need a new character to do that. I'm not into Mortal Kombat games but I can understand why did they it with the new movie. New fans watching this new potential live action DB film basically know as little as Goku does at the beginning of Dragon Ball, and that's why we ...

I own the original 42 volumes that I purchased back when they were released in Denmark during the early 2000's or something, all of the older Z movie anime comics and other various books. The only Dragon Ball mangas I've bought in recent years are the Yamcha Reincarnated book and the the DBS: Broly ...

Yeah it's a fictional world just like how Avatar the last Airbender is a fictional world. Doesn't mean we can't tell what the races of the characters are supposed to represent. In 6 pages of talk about Toriyama's intentions, it was the first quote taken from him, and you immediately took the chance...

Yeah it's a fictional world just like how Avatar the last Airbender is a fictional world. Doesn't mean we can't tell what the races of the characters are supposed to represent.

Maybe it's because Dragon Ball takes place on a fantasy "Earth" that might as well be another planet, but I don't think it really matters what race Goku or the other characters are. Sure there's tons of Asian culture in Dragon Ball, like characters wearing gi with kanji on them; but there...

We can tell that Krillin, Yamcha and Tenshinhan are supposed to be Asians and the same applies to Goku, regardless of him being an alien or human. He doesn't look Asian to you ? Doesn't matter, everything points to him being an Asian character. I've said a million times he looks ambiguous. Being an...

Yes, stories do evolve. In this case, the Asian human boy Son Goku turned out to be an Asian looking alien who came from a homogenous alien race based on Asians. Except we can't tell if he looks Asian due to the style of the art. The reason why you're so adamant on Saiyans being their own ethnicity...

It does matter, him being revealed as an alien later on doesn't change anything. It doesn't change that he was based on Sun Wukong, has the same name, lives in a Chinese inspired setting etc. Toriyama didn't place him in the Western Dragon Ball World, he didn't give him a Western Dragon Ball name (...

If they're human you would look at other aspects, yes? Yes, and it's important to note why. Reason being that a human in an Asian-like setting is most likely a native of that setting. An alien is definitely not a native. Unless Toriyama planned on making him an alien from the beginning - which he d...

Nappa looks white to you while he looks Asian to me. If the Saiyans had multiple ethnic groups they would most likely have had different hair and eye colours just like Earthlings are described. Toriyama decided to make them a homogenous race with his description of them.