Nudity in the series

[Anonymous Friend]

Watching Path to Power and seeing the "pat pat test" and Bulma's butt as she flashes Roshi without knowing that she's not wearing any underwear (how can someone not know that) then reading about Yamcha exposing Bulma breast to win his fight in Baba's Tournement has got me wondering: How much nudity is in the series?

Whether it be manga or anime or whatever else.

[finnishjuoppo]

One word: much.

[Kendamu]

Other than the occasional Son family member peeing, getting ready to swim, or having no clothing after an Oozaru transformation there's not much more nudity than what you described and it's all mostly in Dragonball.

[TheGreatness25]

In Dragon Ball, the most nudity is Goku running around naked. Other than that, only nudity is Bulma's butt and her boobs for like a split second. And magazines that Roshi reads (I think one time there was a topless girl on the magazine). Other than that... not much nudity. Just racy stuff like bras and bikinis. And Bulma's thong during the General Blue Saga lol

By the way, absolutely hilarious scene was when Hasky and her lackies were trying to get the two Dragon Balls that Goku had. So she pretends to be a fortune and she's like, "I see you have two great balls" or something like that. And Goku's like, "Yeah! Wow that's incredible!" And she asked to see them and Goku pulled his pants down. He's like "Why would you want to see my balls?" Laughed, even though I knew it was coming. Another nice line in the dub was when the Red Ribbon Army comes to Roshi's island to look for the Dragon Balls that Bulma left in the Kame House and one of the Red Ribbon guys kept bugging Roshi about it and he's like, "It's obvious you're lacking in the balls department."

[Super Sonic]

Watching Path to Power and seeing the "pat pat test" and Bulma's butt as she flashes Roshi without knowing that she's not wearing any underwear (how can someone not know that)

Reminds me of a while back I was looking at this one girl's site and she was reviewing the manga. After the part of Goku taking her panties off until she found out she added a line, "To you guys who were wondering, there's no way in Hell she could not have known, especially riding the bike like that."

[Anonymous Friend]

Watching Path to Power and seeing the "pat pat test" and Bulma's butt as she flashes Roshi without knowing that she's not wearing any underwear (how can someone not know that)

Reminds me of a while back I was looking at this one girl's site and she was reviewing the manga. After the part of Goku taking her panties off until she found out she added a line, "To you guys who were wondering, there's no way in Hell she could not have known, especially riding the bike like that."

I find it very hard to belaive that Bulma, or anyone for that matter, couldn't feel someone getting to second base on her and removing her underpants and her flashing someone without underpants and she not not know it.

[omegacwa]

For the record, the vast majority of the Female Nudity, IE 99% was only in the manga, and even then, in America, only about 2% of that nudity got through due to Viz's editing.

[Super Sonic]

For the record, the vast majority of the Female Nudity, IE 99% was only in the manga, and even then, in America, only about 2% of that nudity got through due to Viz's editing.

It was all there in the ones I got. Good thing I got them early.

[Rocketman]

I find it very hard to belaive that Bulma, or anyone for that matter, couldn't feel someone getting to second base on her and removing her underpants and her flashing someone without underpants and she not not know it.

Bulma's a tart.

[Kendamu]

Watching Path to Power and seeing the "pat pat test" and Bulma's butt as she flashes Roshi without knowing that she's not wearing any underwear (how can someone not know that)

Reminds me of a while back I was looking at this one girl's site and she was reviewing the manga. After the part of Goku taking her panties off until she found out she added a line, "To you guys who were wondering, there's no way in Hell she could not have known, especially riding the bike like that."

I'd rather say that it just tells you something about a special level of obliviousness that comes from Bulma (or it just tells you something about her character).

[Sun_Wukong]

As far as manga goes, its pretty tame. The fact that its Shounen means not much more nudity than you would see in a pg-13 movie. If it were a Seinen series, you could see pretty graphic scenes.

[Bura]

We also got a few shots of a naked Vegeta from behind! I wonder why Goku was thinking of Vegeta being... naked.

[DemonKingPiccolo]

There's more groping (through clothing) and sexual innuendos than there are nudity scenes in Dragon Ball, and there's far more in the anime, especially with the filler eps. Like When Goku visits Princess Snake and we see his bum when he gets out of the water. Roshi is seen to grope 18 in filler scenes as well as grope Marron (Kuririn's GF) quite often in the anime.

Then there was the time that Roshi made them all dress in launderaie when Lauch came to live with them.

And of course you have the occasional magazine shots.

I'd rather say that it just tells you something about a special level of obliviousness that comes from Bulma (or it just tells you something about her character).

Or it could simply be that the series was written by a man therefore he may not have an idea how it feels down there to a girl. Being a girl myself, I can definitely tell when I don't have anything on down there. I won't go into details for the sake of your sanity

[Super Sonic]

I'd rather say that it just tells you something about a special level of obliviousness that comes from Bulma (or it just tells you something about her character).

Or it could simply be that the series was written by a man therefore he may not have an idea how it feels down there to a girl. Being a girl myself, I can definitely tell when I don't have anything on down there. I won't go into details for the sake of your sanity

That's why the site I mentioned said that. Said it was likely Toriyama not knowing.

[Kendamu]

I'd rather say that it just tells you something about a special level of obliviousness that comes from Bulma (or it just tells you something about her character).

Or it could simply be that the series was written by a man therefore he may not have an idea how it feels down there to a girl. Being a girl myself, I can definitely tell when I don't have anything on down there. I won't go into details for the sake of your sanity

Oh snap! You countered my in-universe argument with an out-of-universe argument! Now I'm really boned!

[TheGreatness25]

Watching Path to Power and seeing the "pat pat test" and Bulma's butt as she flashes Roshi without knowing that she's not wearing any underwear (how can someone not know that)

Reminds me of a while back I was looking at this one girl's site and she was reviewing the manga. After the part of Goku taking her panties off until she found out she added a line, "To you guys who were wondering, there's no way in Hell she could not have known, especially riding the bike like that."

Just for the record, it was done for comedic purposes. Would've put that whole Roshi scene to a quick halt if she woke up and said, "Wait a minute, something's missing." Besides, what bike riding? Didn't she just wear a nightgown between the time Goku took her underwear off and the Roshi scene?

[Adamant]

She rode her motorbike to the sea while wearing nothing but the nightgown. The sea was quite far away from the place the two spent the night.

[DemonKingPiccolo]

I'd rather say that it just tells you something about a special level of obliviousness that comes from Bulma (or it just tells you something about her character).

Or it could simply be that the series was written by a man therefore he may not have an idea how it feels down there to a girl. Being a girl myself, I can definitely tell when I don't have anything on down there. I won't go into details for the sake of your sanity

Oh snap! You countered my in-universe argument with an out-of-universe argument! Now I'm really boned!

I was just pointing something out. But then again it could indeed be Bulma's obliviousness to the situation, but I highly doubt that a brilliant girl who invented a device used for locating magical balls wouldn't notice some extra "airy-ness" down there.

...Or perhaps she slept every night with no underwear so she got so used to the feeling that she didn't even notice in the morning. Maybe she just decided to wear her underwear that night because Goku was there.

...Or maybe Bulma has no feeling down there....

Astounding how many possibilities I can come up with, agree?

[TheGreatness25]

I think people are reading way too far into it.

[Brakus]

Go listen to Episode 32 of the Podcast - Meri goes over her top five FULLY NUDE MOMENTS! (as Mike said on that episode).

I have to wonder, in Season 3, there's this scene in Goku's mind, where a very naked Vegeta is telling him to remember his Saiyan heritage. What was the point of Vegeta's nakedness in that episode? I mean, I was like "Why is Vegeta naked?"

Was there any other points in Dragon Ball Z with some puzzling nudity for no apparent reason? (Other than the moments that Meri brought up in her list?)