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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 Jul 18, 2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 71, 72, and 73, "Deadl Battle," "Goku's Turn," and "The Devilmite Beam." We continue discussing the Fortune Teller Baba mini tournament and break down the identities of four of Baba's five champions.
In this episode:
- Jelli and Bekinney arrive on a new planet
- We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments
- Fangs the Vampire's inspiration points, which are obviously Dracula and Vlad Tepes
- How Fangs is a Muai Tai fighter and that is appropriate for his character
- A discussion of how Japanese pop culture tends to utilize Western (specifically Christian) religious iconography when telling fictional tales
- More Dracula discussion, as we did when we looked at Don Dracula
- The Invisible Man and where his name came from, the prime time soap opera Water Door Earth Gate
- The background of the song Baba sings to distract Yamcha during his fight with Sukesan
- And discussion of the Invisible Man Universal films
- Mummy Kun's obvious inspiration points front Boris Karloff's portrayal of Frankenstein and The Mummy
- How Toriyama subverted expectations with his mummy by making him nimble
- And discussion of mummies in movies, especially the Universal films of the 30s and 40s and the 1999 Brendan Fraser Mummy film which is called by your cohosts "perfect"
- Devilman aka Akkuman and his name being derived from Akuma
- Why Devilman's evil exploitation ray aka evil expansion beam does not work on Goku
- If Goku is pure of heart or just dumb
- And a discussion of Devilman, the anime series
- We finish up with a discussion of how Toriyama subverts expectations by not using further Universal Monsters and ponder why we did not get a Gillman or possibly a Wolf Man.
- 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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