Interesting Myth
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Interesting Myth
I recently found a Chinese Myth that, to me, seems to correlate pretty strongly to the end of GT. Whether or not the creators were aware of this story is debatable. Here is a version (I've found several but this version is the shortest while still maintaining the important parts):http://www.fairrosa.info/dragon/dragons.pearl.html
For those too lazy to ready it, here is a synopsis: A boy named Xiao Sheng, finds a pearl (Dragonball?) that appears to grant good luck. He ends up swallowing it (remember Si Xing Qiu?), in order to protect it. It burns him (reminiscent of Si Xing Long's attribute) Eventually, he ends up becoming a dragon. Before leaving, as his "final farewell", he brings rain the people had needed and carves the riverbeds. Then, he flies off into the unknown.
To me, the pearl reminds of the Dragonballs in general, and when he swallows it, it more specifically reminds of when Goku swallowed Si Xing Qiu. The last good deed before disappearing reminds of Shenlong's last granted wish.
In the boy we seem to have a combination of Goku and Shenlong, but it really appears to me as some plots points in GT correspond to this.
It could be a coincidence and I am reading too much into it. What do you guys think?
For those too lazy to ready it, here is a synopsis: A boy named Xiao Sheng, finds a pearl (Dragonball?) that appears to grant good luck. He ends up swallowing it (remember Si Xing Qiu?), in order to protect it. It burns him (reminiscent of Si Xing Long's attribute) Eventually, he ends up becoming a dragon. Before leaving, as his "final farewell", he brings rain the people had needed and carves the riverbeds. Then, he flies off into the unknown.
To me, the pearl reminds of the Dragonballs in general, and when he swallows it, it more specifically reminds of when Goku swallowed Si Xing Qiu. The last good deed before disappearing reminds of Shenlong's last granted wish.
In the boy we seem to have a combination of Goku and Shenlong, but it really appears to me as some plots points in GT correspond to this.
It could be a coincidence and I am reading too much into it. What do you guys think?
Even if that is a coincidence, it still blew my mind.
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That's an interesting find. Someone at Toei probably heard it as a kid and used it for GT unwittingly.
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Amazing... It actually does ring so true... I LOVE IT!
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Journey to the West, chapter 26 wrote:The strong man will meet someone stronger still:
Come to naught at last he surely will!
Zephyr wrote:And that's to say nothing of how pretty much impossible it is to capture what made the original run of the series so great. I'm in the generation of fans that started with Toonami, so I totally empathize with the feeling of having "missed the party", experiencing disappointment, and wanting to experience it myself. But I can't, that's how life is. Time is a bitch. The party is over. Kageyama, Kikuchi, and Maeda are off the sauce now; Yanami almost OD'd; Yamamoto got arrested; Toriyama's not going to light trash cans on fire and hang from the chandelier anymore. We can't get the band back together, and even if we could, everyone's either old, in poor health, or calmed way the fuck down. Best we're going to get, and are getting, is a party that's almost entirely devoid of the magic that made the original one so awesome that we even want more.
Kamiccolo9 wrote:It grinds my gears that people get "outraged" over any of this stuff. It's a fucking cartoon. If you are that determined to be angry about something, get off the internet and make a stand for something that actually matters.
Rocketman wrote:"Shonen" basically means "stupid sentimental shit" anyway, so it's ok to be anti-shonen.