'Visual References' in the anime like these. Are there more?

Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.

Moderators: General Help, Kanzenshuu Staff

User avatar
Aoi
Beyond-the-Beyond Newbie
Posts: 431
Joined: Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:56 pm
Location: Now in Buenos Aires Argentina

'Visual References' in the anime like these. Are there more?

Post by Aoi » Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:01 pm

I don't know what the correct term for these things is. But I recently discovered many cool visual references. Apparently the anime is filled with them. I only noticed these 3 so far.

Image

Image

Vegeta: from evil to good.
Image
Image

User avatar
Ajay
Moderator
Posts: 6195
Joined: Sun May 26, 2013 6:15 pm
Location: Surrey, UK
Contact:

Re: 'Visual References' in the anime like these. Are there m

Post by Ajay » Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:03 pm

Quite a few. There was a thread a while ago that detailed some of the more known ones - http://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=24067
Follow me on Twitter for countless shitposts.

Deadtuber.

User avatar
Dyno
Banned
Posts: 2235
Joined: Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:57 pm

Re: 'Visual References' in the anime like these. Are there m

Post by Dyno » Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:04 pm

I can't find the image, but I take Kakarot and Bills fight as a visual reference to Bardock and Freeza... They are so similars.

User avatar
NitroEX
I'm, pretty, cozy, here...
Posts: 1690
Joined: Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:21 am
Location: Not America

Re: 'Visual References' in the anime like these. Are there m

Post by NitroEX » Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:27 pm

Umm... what's with the image of the crowd and the strobe lights? I'm guessing that was a mistake.

Anyway I'm not sure if this counts but I remember during the Martial Arts Tournament when Gohan comes out to face Kibito everyone in the crowd instantly recognizes him despite wearing sunglasses. To me it always seemed like Toriyama was trying to make fun of Superman/Clark Kent by illustrating how that would never work in real life.

Post Reply