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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 03, 2024
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Jelli and Bekinney take a break from Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon (because we don't do enough of that, right?) by breaking down some early video games. We're talking about Dragon Ball 3: Goku Den, aka Dragon Ball: Goku's Story from the Famicom; Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure for the Gameboy Advance; Dragon Ball: Origins and Dragon Ball: Origins 2, for the Nintendo DS
In this episode:
- Bekinney is checking the ship for abnormalities
- Cleaning up some items about pre-console video games and talking briefly about Tiger Electronics handhelds
- A reminder about TOSE Software, the programming company behind Dragon Ball 3: Goku Den
- TOSE's credits, including Bases Loaded, Mappy-Land, Toxic Crusaders, Tetris 2, Yoshi's Cookie, Resident Evil Survivor, Resident Evil Zero, Scarlet Nexus, Dragon Quest, WWE and Metal Gear Solid
- Dragon Ball 3 Goku Den story recaps and how it goes through the end of Dragon Ball
- We discuss early Nintendo RTS (real time strategy) games
- The port of Goku Den to the Wonderswan color, and a brief discussion about that system, including a reference to the Nintendo Virtual Boy and Gunpei Yokoi
- Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure story elements and how the game goes from the beginning of the story through the Demon King Piccolo arc
- How Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure's gameplay works and the mind behind its creation
- A brief summary of the company Banpresto
- Getting into Dragon Ball Origins and Yoshiki Okamoto, best known for creating Gyruss, 1942, and Street Fighter II. He also helped created Rockstar’s Red Dead franchise, and was a supervisor on Resident Evil 2 and Dino Crisis
- Discussing the use of the stylus on the Nintendo DS
- How Origins 2 functioned as a last-time-out for Stephanie Nadolny as Kid Goku and Tiffany Volmer as Bulma
- SURPRISE! We mention the game Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo for the Nintendo Wii
- 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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