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Hey guys, so I wanted to talk about hair (exciting, I know!), and probably more specifically the hair post-DB as in Z is when hair really started going crazy. I remember my mum always calling Goku the banana bunch guy after seeing his hair in SSJ3, and to be honest the hair is one of the most recognizable things for me too. The main cast all have pretty unique hairstyles that you grow to associate with them, but do you guys think there was any method to this madness?
You could probably say that their hairstyles/colour reflects their personalities a little, Goku is a little unkempt and all over the place but at the same time he has a little edge to him, whereas Vegeta is all edge and there's no fun going on in his hair. I mean, could you imagine watching DBZ with Goku having any other hairstyle? I edited this picture and swapped Goku and Vegeta's hair just to show how weird it looks, do you think the hair no longer matches the person? Or does it simply not matter as it's only aesthetic?
Goku would look decent with a Yamcha(The one in Boo Arc) style of hair. Vegeta look surprising good in Goku's hair. It might go along with his character since as posted above looks like an angry midget.
Goku's hair used to madden me to no end when I would try to draw him. I always had to have a reference picture on hand for some reason. Vegeta's hair, it's exact look I mean, just stays in my head more easily for some reason. I'm also pretty sure I aped Boo arc Gohan's hair, changed it a little, and used it for the hairstyle of a character from a comic of mine back in school...but I honestly don't remember if I did it on purpose or not.
Also...that SS3 Krillin is glorious for some reason. I know it's ridiculous, but...hello future avatar.
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Gyt Kaliba wrote:Goku's hair used to madden me to no end when I would try to draw him. I always had to have a reference picture on hand for some reason. Vegeta's hair, it's exact look I mean, just stays in my head more easily for some reason. I'm also pretty sure I aped Boo arc Gohan's hair, changed it a little, and used it for the hairstyle of a character from a comic of mine back in school...but I honestly don't remember if I did it on purpose or not.
Also...that SS3 Krillin is glorious for some reason. I know it's ridiculous, but...hello future avatar.
This picture is more entertaining than it should be.
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Roland_ELoG wrote:I think the lesson here is that Saiyan characters have such similar facial features you rely on their hair to tell them apart.
Picture 1 looks like Vegeta in a gi, picture 2 looks like Goku in his Bulmarmor.
Yeah, the Goku with Vegeta hair seems more alien because we never saw Vegeta in an Orange Gi before but we had seen Goku in armor.
KentalSSJ6 wrote:I know this is gonna sound stupid, but how bout giving Goku and Vegeta their wives hair. I mean we got SSJ1-4 Krillin, so why not?
Bulma and Chi-Chi again have hair which seems to coincide with their character, Bulma's hair is quite interesting as it changes and becomes less wild as she enters motherhood (beside the crazy 'fro).
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
