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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 Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Which episodes of Dragon Ball had to be edited due to the September 11th World Trade Center attack?
Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by jumping back into the show, and delving into how filler is important when creating an anime based on a manga. We discuss the episodes "The Roaming Lake", "Pilaf and the Mystery Force", "Wedding Plans?", "The Flying Fortress Vanished!", and "The Legend of a Dragon" and we dig into why filler exists, as well as some of Asian culture's wedding traditions.
In this episode:
- Jelli and Bekinney are once more drifting through space
- We break down the episodes and scrape where we can, looking for homages and cultural references
- We come up pretty sparse, despite thinking there might be some significance to a roaming lake
- We find some Star Wars and Death Star references, within an episode
- We discuss some of the music and its importance
- We talk about the FIFA World Cup from 1986, which was hosted by Mexico
- The difference between Toriyama's approach to the real world vs the anime is made clear via a reference to Alexander the Great
- We talk about marriage traditions in China and Japan
- A discussion of September 11, 2001 and the attacks on the World Trade Center due to a bit of censorship
- Notes on contradictions between things that appear in these filler episodes and the true canon of Dragon Ball
- The meat of the episode: filler
- Is filler necessary?
- How much filler is necessary per chapter of manga?
- How does filler work in Dragon Ball?
- We get into the nitty-gritty of tracking how the anime caught up to the manga and also how filler was used judiciously to maintain pace...or not used judiciously until the animators got themselves into trouble, how far behind the anime was than the manga, and how much it caught up when things got dire for the animators and filler became an absolute necessity
- 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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