Aura in Dragon Ball

goodguy777 · Post by **goodguy777** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:24 am

I don't know if this is just a mistranslation but in the raw-manga, are the Dragon Ball-characters using the japanese word of aura?

Tyro · Post by **Tyro** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:48 pm

In place of what other word? What point in the series?

jda95 · Post by **jda95** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:51 pm

Did they ever even say aura? They probably just used 'Ōra' if it was ever in there.

mattymoron · Post by **mattymoron** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:49 pm

In the dub version of the Kid Boo arc, when Kid Boo is about to spit out Fat Boo, Mister Satan thinks that he's "feeling his aura."

goodguy777 · Post by **goodguy777** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:04 pm

I'm talking about this, I'm wondering if Yajirobee's statement about "HUGE DEMONIC AURA" and Kuririn's statement about "I can feel the ki like a DEMONIC AURA" are correct in the raw manga. And I'm also thinking if aura is different from ki.

Post by **Herms** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:02 am

Kuririn's phrase is 鬼気迫る/kiki-semaru, which literally means to have a demonic ki pressing upon you (that first ki being the kanji for oni). Yajirobe's phrase is 妖気/youki, the term for the ki of youkai, often used in such series as Yu Yu Hakusho. So basically, these are two instances of phrases equivalent to "demonic ki". I think Viz added "aura" in to make the meaning clearer to those readers still not too familiar with the concept of ki.

Pain · Post by **Pain** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:54 am

Could they even see the aura?

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:04 am

Pain wrote:Could they even see the aura?

Aura's aren't supposed to be seen, they're meant to be like a spiritual feeling about someone. The visible aura's are just a way to show over flowing energy aren't they?

Pain · Post by **Pain** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:42 pm

The Time Traveller wrote:
Pain wrote:Could they even see the aura?
Aura's aren't supposed to be seen, they're meant to be like a spiritual feeling about someone. The visible aura's are just a way to show over flowing energy aren't they?

But they can see ki blasts, waves, balls, etc., right? Ya know, Freeza saw the Genki Dama, despite the fact that he lacked the ability to sense and/or feel ki. When Son Goku's Super Saiya-Jin 3 transformation was televised, the civilians saw the aura and all, didn't they?

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:26 pm

In Dragonball, Ki is visible in order to make it easier to understand and more exciting for the reader/viewer. In reality, the various Ki theories out there generally state that Ki is invisible.

The Time Traveller · Post by **The Time Traveller** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:32 pm

Pain wrote:
The Time Traveller wrote:
Pain wrote:Could they even see the aura?
Aura's aren't supposed to be seen, they're meant to be like a spiritual feeling about someone. The visible aura's are just a way to show over flowing energy aren't they?
But they can see ki blasts, waves, balls, etc., right? Ya know, Freeza saw the Genki Dama, despite the fact that he lacked the ability to sense and/or feel ki. When Son Goku's Super Saiya-Jin 3 transformation was televised, the civilians saw the aura and all, didn't they?

Read what I said this time, an aura is usually like a bullshit feeling you get from someone, like if you had a crazy old aunt who has to be psychic because she's fucking insane, and she says "You have a good aura!" Something like that, auras are supposed to be a premonitory feeling about someone, in the real world it's just observing their posture, expression and voice.

The aura that's SEEN (Not FELT) in Dragon Ball Z is probably because their power is over flowing.

Bussani · Post by **Bussani** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:32 pm

I pretty much agree with Time Traveller. In addition, auras in Dragon Ball aren't always visible to the naked eye, but that doesn't mean they're not there. I mean, they didn't start becoming visible to normal people as that glow until maybe the 23rd world tournament. Before that they were drawn as kind of background squiggly lines, if you know what I'm talking about.

Ki attacks tend to be visible, although you have kiai-type attacks as an exception -- they're in the default, ki-is-invisible state.

Pain · Post by **Pain** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:35 pm

Bussani wrote:I pretty much agree with Time Traveller. In addition, auras in Dragon Ball aren't always visible to the naked eye, but that doesn't mean they're not there. I mean, they didn't start becoming visible to normal people as that glow until maybe the 23rd world tournament. Before that they were drawn as kind of background squiggly lines, if you know what I'm talking about.

Ki attacks tend to be visible, although you have kiai-type attacks as an exception -- they're in the default, ki-is-invisible state.

I get your point. I heavily agree. And I know what you meant by the "Squiggly Lines".

DBZGokuSaiyan · Post by **DBZGokuSaiyan** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:49 pm

I lol'd when I saw THE BIG "CHI"S!...