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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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Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 39, 40 and 41, "Mysterious Android No. 8," "Horrifying Buyon," and "The Fall of Muscle Tower." We dig further into the Red Ribbon Army and Goku's challenges as he continues along, the Frankenstein-like Android Number 8, the Pink Blob monster Buyon and finally General White himself.
In this episode:
- The battle rages on...
- We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments
- We talk about the obvious inspiration points from Frankenstein (Frankenstein's Monster) in Android 8
- We highlight Toriyama's subversion of expectations
- We tease out the idea that there will be future scientists and androids from the Red Ribbon Army
- Jelli discusses some of the translation issues with regards to Android 8 aka Jinzoningen Hachigo aka Man-Made Man Number 8 aka Artificial Man-Made Human Number 8 (more is explained herein)
- The original of 8er (Eighter) as a nickname being translated from the Japanese Hachan.
- We discuss why 8er is reluctant to fight
- Bekinney discusses some of the East-West ideology conflicting within 8er and highlights how Goku passes some of his learnings from Master Roshi on to 8er
- We draw connections between Goku's tutelage under Roshi to that of his real world experience and how that drives his encounters with Vegeta, Frieza and Beerus later on.
- We remind everyone of a connection to Xuanzang and Journey to the West
- We discuss some of our favorite adaptations of Frankenstein and how 8er ranks
- Jelli highlights the clashing opposites of the village elder and General White
- We talk more about James Bond, and You Only Live Twice, reminding our listeners how that led to Murasaki, and informs this arc
- We highlight a brief connection to Curse of the Blood Rubies and our commentary from a couple months back
- We do a wrap-up of some of our final thoughts on Muscle Tower's anime arc
- 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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