Kanzenshuu

So it's only ok to not be diverse if what I'm making is very small, independent, and self-published? Or maybe it's only ok if what I make isn't sold for a price at all? What if I suddenly become a best-seller and am very popular? Do the rules change and suddenly I have a responsibility to the world...

Corporations are not people. Literally the very center-most core of a VAST chunk of our political problems is the societal and legalized perception of corporations as people. And yeah: they're not people. At all. And yeah, there is a VAST gulf of a difference between an individual, independent arti...

I'm sorry, I thought it was a general consensus here that most anime characters has a problem with "white characteristics"? There have been a lot of articles written about how anime favors "fair skin". But yes, you are right. Most of the leading characters in Dragon Ball are...C...

... All right, you're not a person who condones pedophilia. Got it. Check. 10-4. I'm fairly sure I didn't even think or say that about you in that old thread from 4 years ago either: rather, you were basically in denial about the person being credibly accused of sexual assault and were refusing to ...

And as for example, here's one that comes to mind, even tho I don't see it as a prevalent thing you ever so eloquently frame me as: Back when Harold and Kumar was first being written they were encouraged to make it about a white guy and a black guy instead of a Korean guy and an Indian guy. And tha...

Names were already mentioned in this thread for specific cases. No, they actually weren't. Look again in this thread, nobody cited anything specific that fits this. LoganForkHands named one single example (that doesn't really count anyway, cause the writer in question ended up finding out that the ...

Force diversity is meant to imply putting people for the sake of representation rather than having the author choose who he wants to put in their story without being scrutinized for not depicting certain gender or ethnicities in a proportional way... Specially in a Japanese manga, revolved around f...

I don't think inclusion should be forced. It should come off as natural. People say this all the time but what the fuck does that even mean? Yeah if it's a story about all boy boarding school or a Men's Prison I wouldn't expect too many women characters but its a martial arts series. How would the ...

As I've been rewatching the original Dragon Ball anime (in Japanese) I started thinking about something that Sean Schmmel said at a panel for the Super Broly movie at NYC. He mentioned that he thought it was a win for feminism that Goku is voiced by a woman into adulthood in Japan. "And, #femi...

Well, theherodjl mentioned Karate Kid earlier in the thread, a character I'd never heard of prior, but seems to qualify: In DC, there is Karate Kid, a human from the future who has mastered every conceivable martial art(including alien ones) and was able to actually physically tangle with Superboy ...

Isn't it mentioned somewhere that Bruce, at some point during this training, went to a monastery out in Korea to learn about martial arts? He's probably been all over the world, learning, however. I would imagine the concept of Nei and the internal aspect of martial arts isn't lost on him; this is ...

This actually has me thinking. I'm not well versed in deeper metaphysical and cosmic fabric of the DC universe. Is there anything resembling "qi/chi/ki" in the sense that East Asian mythology shows martial artists as being able to tap into and weaponize for superhuman feats? Are there any...

EDIT: Also please dont use terms like clinically insaane to describe One Piece fans or just people you dont like in general. Delusional sure, CLINICALLY INSANE is really loaded and is pretty much an ableist slur. And I am not saying this because I like One Piece but as a person with mental issues (...

lulz I'm quite certainly that they haven't. Then again, I haven't kept up with Super Dragon Ball Heroes because it looks like shit and it's wasting my favorite anime writer, Tomioka Atsuhiro, with zero wiggle room to flesh out the story it's trying to tell. It's baaaaaad. If we're discounting all d...

First this still doesnt contradict anything. I dont expect people to give One Piece 19 episodes to get good, I distinctly remember way, way back in the day I had given One Piece more than 50 episodes to "get good". When it never did and I gave up on it, I was immediately told by One Piece...

For a series that keeps getting called 'fan fiction-y', none of my fanfic ideas have shown up in Dragon Ball Super . :( To me, DB Super isn't the series that's particularly "fan fiction-y". That would instead be Dragon Ball Heroes. Though even there, I don't think either of your fanfic id...

I never said that its the dub's fault that people obsess over kiddy bloody shonen, anime, I meant that Kunzait said that or at least implied it. Not to speak for the guy, but from conversations I've had with him over the years (as well as simply re-reading his post from the other thread) I don't th...

And my heartless response to all of the people who cry "But... but then that means that I never would've found it or got into it, since I only ever was allowed to watch kids' cartoons on TV back then!" is... I do find this notion to be more than a bit ridiculous. (Not your statement but t...

In fact, Saint Seiya isn't even a very popular property in its home country. Nonsense. Saint Seiya was plenty popular in its native Japan during its time. Unless you're making the mistake of comparing its height of popularity to something like Dragon Ball: in which case MOST things are going to com...

Kunzait_83 made a pretty lengthy thread here 8 years ago (!?) that covers a lot of things Dragon Ball referenced. Apart from even the big stuff, there's COUNTLESS little tiny details from across Wuxia fiction and media that Dragon Ball liberally lifted directly from: I chronicled a ton of them in t...