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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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It's our 100th Episode! And we didn't want to celebrate on our own, so we brought in some new friends, Spencer and John from the show Eric Hates Dragon Ball Z to do a commentary-slash-reaction to the second live-action bootleg movie, Taiwan's Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins.
In this episode:
- Jelli and Bekinney are celebrating 100 episodes
- We reveal our title and instruct listeners where to find this one
- We discuss some of the production facts about the film, its 1991 release, and the production team working on the film
- Discussing the history of Taiwanese cinema
- Why this movie is on Tubi, Amazon Prime, and official YouTube channels
- A theory about why this movie looks like it has a budget
- Forays into the history of China and Taiwan
- A wild combination of everything being absolutely right and ABSOLUTELY wrong
- and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual as we react to this insane fever dream of a film
Eric Hates Dragon Ball Z Links:
https://www.rocktopusnetwork.com/eric-hates-dbz
https://erichatesdbz.libsyn.com/
https://x.com/erichatesdbz
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8rUZoC6KaDgEo9cnFnMRLw
https://www.instagram.com/erichatesdragonballz/?hl=en
https://discord.gg/7pUnfRf29k
Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise, and unspool what we all love so much about Goku, the Dragon Ball franchise, the Dragon Ball anime, Dragon Ball manga, and more.
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