Godo wrote:Look at these clips and then try to say Dragonball is for children:
Gah, how I hate to nitpick. But this is one of those subjects for me where I always feel as though I need to get in my two cents.
I'm afraid that I have to agree with Vegard, here. Despite that the show can and does become bloody and occasionally touches on mature themes like death, none of it is handled
particularly seriously to the point where we can really say that DragonBall was intended strictly for an adult audience. With its colorful characters, oddball humor and (later) non-stop, over-the-top action, the show was in fact geared toward children, particularly young boys, and just so happens to be capable of being enjoyed by all ages.
Well, the original Japanese version, anyways.
And speaking for the third video, you can hardly use a FUNimation trailer as means to support the argument of DragonBall/Z/GT being an adult-oriented program. The hype with the Ultimate Uncut Special Edition was that those first 64 episodes were in fact being released unadulterated for the first time, and the advertising was dressed to appeal to the target demographic for
American DBZ-- a demographic (and indeed the version catered TO said demographic) that is very different from what was its Japanese counterpart. I'm sure that I don't need to tell you or anyone else here that what FUNimation is advertising as "uncut" in said instance has been as such in Japan from the very first airing on Fuji TV onward with no alterations, edits or cuts of any kind-- hell, Toriyama-
sensei himself sat down to watch the show with his children every Wednesday night-- and when you consider that the Japanese are
far less lenient about what they put on the air as opposed to our own very liberal media, it should all tell us something about the content and intention of a show like DragonBall that was aired as is.
It is, and always has been, a kid's show.
~Da Lemmy
I love how in that Ultimate Uncut trailer, they just throw up random characters and pretend it's supposed to mean something in Japanese. What a joke. Seriously, it's almost insulting.
