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Dragon Ball has a wealth of cultural context and inspiration that’s often overlooked because the fights are cool. Though not averse to fawning over animation and allowing for the Rule of Cool, Jelli and Bekinney delve into the world of Akira Toriyama, and discuss lesser-known facts about the worldwide manga and anime phenomenon that is one of the most well-known and popular Japanese pop culture exports of all-time. Want to learn about the cultural importance of moments, literary inspirations behind scenes and characters, production facts, and more? Whether you‘re a fan of Goku, Vegeta, or any of the cast of characters including Piccolo, Gohan, Frieza, or even Broly, there should be something for you to enjoy as we cover all things Dragon Ball, including DBZ, GT, Super, Daima, and more! We‘ll have discussions, guests, interviews, reviews, and commentaries so grab a senzu bean, power up your fan level to Super Saiyan, and get ready to learn about Kakarot and his friends; and of course, thank you for helping us achieve our FINAL FORUM...We hear it‘s over 9000.
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Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
It's Summer Convention Season! You think it's not, just because it's winter? Well, tune in to find out why it is! Jelli takes you into the world of our summer conventions by presenting one of the panels we held this year, at Anime Texas 2024, in Spring, TX from Fandom Events. This panel was also presented at San Japan in San Antonio, TX but the audio got too blown-out sounding to put out the full episode...but the Q&A portion of that event is retained here. The panel was also presented at Fan Expo Denver, in (of course) Denver, CO from Fan Expo HQ, the audio from that was unfortunately entirely unusable.
In this episode:
- Jelli is on his own.
- We delve into the background behind the Toei Manga Matsuri – Toei Cartoon Festival and its inception in 1969 and other such festivals around the country such as Toho's Champion Festival
- Contextualizing the box office of the films
- Going through all of the original movies and looking for what interesting facts and value they possess
- Curse of the Blood Rubies - notes on censorship and references
- Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle - Ghastel and his relationship with Prince Nezha
- Mystical Adventure - Similarities to the movie The Last Emperor
- Dragon Ball Z Movies
- Dead Zone - The Phantom Zone and Garlic Jr's unique properties
- The World's Strongest - Hal 9000
- Tree of Might - A possible Tree of Life
- Lord Slug - Super Saiyan and Pseudo-Super Saiyan, or False Super Saiyan
- Cooler's Revenge - Predator
- Cooler Returns - The Death Star, the Big Gette Star, the Borg Cube, and Star Trek's Vger
- Super Android 13 - Don't Lecture Me with Your $30 Haircut
- Broly the Legendary Super Saiyan - Meme culture in Japan and Nostradamus
- Bojack Unbound - Stan the Lariat Hansen and WWF/WWE references
- Broly Second Coming - Toribot and Nata de Coco
- Bio Broly - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
- Fusion Reborn - The Dictator, YIKES
- Wrath of the Dragon - Hirudegarn and kaiju
- Q&As
- and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual
Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise.
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