Dragon Ball in the rest of Asia?
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orangebrick94
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Dragon Ball in the rest of Asia?
I do apologize if there is a thread already on this topic , But I was wondering a little about the history of DragonBall in the rest of Asia, In places such as Hong Kong,Taiwan, and South Korea. I always hear about Mexico and the U.S and Canada but I rarely hear about the history of the franchise in Asian Countries. Does Dragonball have home video releases in these countries and would anyone happen to know if or when it aired on Television? At my University i know a guy from Hong Kong who showed me a Cantonese version of Head Cha La on Youtube and I thought it was really awesome.
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JohnnyCashKami
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Re: Dragon Ball in the rest of Asia?
The wording here is kinda weird, you make it seem like Canada, America and Mexico are part of the Asian continent. These countries listed are from the Americas.orangebrick94 wrote:I always hear about Mexico and the U.S and Canada but I rarely hear about the history of the franchise in other Asian Countries.
Anyway, I recall that there's an official Chinese release of DBZ which are black boxes and they look pretty cool.
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I grew up reading the Dragonball manga in Chinese. Occasionally switching from the Hong Kong version to the Taiwanese editions. (Really depends on which ones get sold out and which is still available in stores). Both regions have separate Chinese translations of the manga so it is always nice being able to compare them directly.
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orangebrick94
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Re: Dragon Ball in the rest of Asia?
I am sorry for the confusion, I have fixed the post.JohnnyCashKami wrote:The wording here is kinda weird, you make it seem like Canada, America and Mexico are part of the Asian continent. These countries listed are from the Americas.orangebrick94 wrote:I always hear about Mexico and the U.S and Canada but I rarely hear about the history of the franchise in other Asian Countries.
Anyway, I recall that there's an official Chinese release of DBZ which are black boxes and they look pretty cool.
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Dragon Ball got a live-action film in Taiwan, so it must have had some sort of notable presence there.
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What I wanna know is who are the most/least popular DB characters in Korea and the Chinese speaking nations.
zarmack wrote:The whole "Dragonball is only supposed to be light and funny" mentality that exist in a lot of the fandom is in many ways even dumber than the "edgeload" side of the fandom. You know, the contrarians who think DB should be a Slice-of-Life series, the folks who worship Pre-Raditz Dragonball uncritically, the folks who downplay and often flat-out deny that Dragonball is an action series, the folks who try to push that false argument that none of the serious moments in the series were mean't to be taken seriously, etc.
Dragonball doesn't have a single tone. It has both silly and serious moments, both humor and drama, just like real life. The idea that a work of fiction should be only all-comedy or all-serious is unnatural and frankly, retarded.