Dragonball Z: a show for heterosexual males only?

[SuperAndroid11]

Does anyone know any female friends/family that watch DBZ? Is it primarily a show for heterosexuality males? There certainly are no positive female or homosexual characters that females/gays can relate to. I don't know just something I thought about. Not sure if anyone else has any opinions about this.

[KiddoCabbusses]

I don't think heterosexual males find enjoyment in Goku/Vegeta slash pairings in spite of how many there are, if that gives you any clue.

[SuperAndroid11]

I don't think heterosexual males find enjoyment in Goku/Vegeta slash pairings in spite of how many there are, if that gives you any clue.

What exactly are "slash pairings"? Your comment seems to be a nonsequitur to me.

[KiddoCabbusses]

Here's what I mean:


Thankfully, Google image search's mostly got tamer stuff here.

... why'd you make me run a search on -this?-

[SuperAndroid11]

Here's what I mean:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs45/f/2009/ ... mersss.jpg

Thankfully, Google image search's mostly got tamer stuff here.

... why'd you make me run a search on -this?-

I'm pretty sure none of those are made by people who actually watch the show. Also, I honestly think you have those on your comp ("searched" ha).

[Fox666]

Piccolo is quite a popular character. So what does this tell about the sexuality of Dragon Ball audience?

[Bussani]

There are plenty of those female-thingies in this community that seem to enjoy the series just fine. I mean, the manga was written for young boys, but that doesn't stop anyone from being able to enjoy it. Even my mother read and enjoyed the manga a while ago. I don't think people always need a character of their gender/sexual orientation/race to "relate to" to enjoy a show; I enjoy plenty of stuff that doesn't have strong, heterosexual male characters.

[jjgp1112]

Yeah, I could've gone without ever seeing that picture (unless I won an icon bet on IGN and needed to make a particularly humiliating icon, lolz)

[Kiyza]

As a girl, I find that even though there aren't exactly any main characters I feel like I can relate to in particular, I don't feel it changes the fact that I like the series. It's also possible to relate to a character who isn't the same gender/sexuality/species, you know. Girls often times like it for the same reasons that guys do. Some of us like explosions, some of us like the humor, the characters, the plot, etc. The fact that there aren't many female main characters doesn't actually bother me too much. Just because it's targeted towards one group of people doesn't mean that others can't enjoy it. I mean, most of the people on this forum are adults for starters.

I don't think heterosexual males find enjoyment in Goku/Vegeta slash pairings in spite of how many there are, if that gives you any clue.

There are some guys who like slash, just not nearly as many as girls. I don't like slash too much myself because it's usually poorly written, and done just to be slash.

[TripleRach]

I'm pretty sure none of those are made by people who actually watch the show.

That's a really closed-minded (and wrong) statement. People wouldn't care enough to draw art or write fanfics about those characters if they weren't familiar with them.

Anyway, female fans definitely exist, and one of them may even be writing this post. I don't need to be able to relate to characters to enjoy a story.

[Velasa]

I'm kind of a female myself, and most of the people I grew up on the show with were females as well. It would be nice to have strong female characters, yeah, but we're completely capiable of liking and relating to characters who don't look like us.

And if you think people who've never watch a show spend that much time drawing slash of it? Yeah, I don't think so.

[Chaz]

I'm gay and I love the show.

[AnimeMaakuo]

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[Akumaito Beam]

I'm bisexual and honestly I couldn't care less what the characters do in bed. I'm invested in the story and the personalities of the characters. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't make the slightest difference to me if Goku went home at the end of the Freeza saga and sucked a dick. Obviously that would probably change the story a bit in terms of children but I'm assuming you get my gist.

I feel the anime got a little offensive with General Blue lusting after a small child in the typical old fashioned way of thinking that gays are always pedophiles but I merely chalk it up to it being the 80's. Not that the time period excuses it from being hurtful of course but context is always important in these sorts of instances. I also haven't ruled out the notion that the anime writers just though Blue being a pedophile would add another dumb joke and take up some time without associating it with his homosexuality. It could be that Obatchan is really clean, polite and friendly which is the kind of guy Blue finds attractive and age didn't factor into it just for the sake of making a joke. I don't really know for sure which is probably another reason it doesn't offend me too much.

[Metalwario64]

Goku went home at the end of the Freeza saga and sucked a dick

I'm sorry, but my brain just exploded...

...Carry on...

[DBZ Mick]

My sister likes it, although she gets sick me watching it at times, however she was REALLY into during the FUNI dub of the Cell arc though back in 2001. Nowadays she likes it in Japanese too. Her favourite character is Piccolo (I've noticed a few female fans like him).

[theoriginalbilis]

I have at least 3 gay friends (1 of them female) who were nuts about the show during the Toonami. I know for a fact anyone can appreciate cool animation, fights, and characters. Fanfics though, that's just a poor side-effect of anything remotely popular or good...

[Raithos]

I bring up DBZ to girls I meet fresh, or that I know and they ALL, and I mean ALL know what it is, who the cast consists of and the events up until at least the SSJ Goku/Freeza Battle on Namek.

No joke, you wanna get laid? Bring up the subject of DBZ to the womenfolk.

[Tanooki Kuribo]

I bring up DBZ to girls I meet fresh, or that I know and they ALL, and I mean ALL know what it is, who the cast consists of and the events up until at least the SSJ Goku/Freeza Battle on Namek.

Man. I would do that back in the late 90's and they'd think I was talking about Pokemon. God damn the world you young people live in!

[CODii]

It's obvious you have never listened to the Daizex podcast before, because there happens to be a girl on there almost every week.