#Legend a dragon ball tale

[saiyanmazen]

Working on a little something to break through my writer's block. It's an early draft, so please excuse any mistakes.

Yes. It's smut for Legend - A Dragon Ball Tale. All based on Bulma catching Vegeta’s cape.

[danizinhaut]

A fanart of @saiyanmazen 's amazing fanfic, A Royal Exception

I know it's not exactly the scene, but when I read the part where Bulma gives his cape back, I couldn't resist imagining that she just threw it in his face 😂

If you haven't read this beautiful fic yet, go read it, it's worth it!

[darius-1]

I wanted to post this 'cause I was intrigued in this concept art of Cho-Chi.

(C) reMENgeance.

[pommigranite]

the savior from heaven: son goku

see i told you i have other interests lol (i've probably watched it at least 100 times)

all credit for this design goes to studio stray dogs (i also heard that some people from this studio worked on rottmnt as well, so shout out to them!!)

[scribblemason]

Some anime fan art (July 2022)

[ssj4-is-the-best-design]

today needs to end RIGHT NOW

I finally decided to watch this video and now I desperately want to go home right now so I can squeal my entire heart out about this video GOD it’s so good!!!!

[grahamtonya3d]

I edited a bunch of animation clips I liked together and made a little AMV edit with music by DJ Cummerbund on youtube and his song mashup Animal Wonderland!!! I really liked how this turned out

[jimjamjomjum]

Goku and Gohan (with inspiration from Naseer Pasha’s design for flavor)

[rrcraft-and-lore]

The Monkey King - Sun Wukong who first appears in Chinese stories (Journey to the West) during the Ming Dynasty period 1368 to 1644 CE, well after the introduction of Buddhism to China in about 206-220 CE.

But, was he inspired by another Monkey hero/character of myth?

The prevailing and dominant theory among Asian scholars is ...yeah, likely.

That character, Hanuman, king of the monkeys (the monkey people -Vanaras- of Vedic myth!).

The story follows a Buddhist monk who is accompanied by Sun Wukong and others to travel west to India to obtain sacred Buddhist sutras. Many of their powers and personality traits are similar as well.

We know that Vedic god such as Indra have made their way as far as Japan to take root and be worshipped because of the spread of Buddhism.

As I've talked about before and is shown in texts such as the journey's of Ibn Battuta / Ibn Fadlan, storytelling was a weapon and powerful tool for idea transfer--propagation. Philosophy was huge in the old world - and places such as Nalanda - the first residential university in the world - invited scholars from all over such as Greeks from the west, and the Japanese. Buddhism became a vehicle for trading things such as: martial arts information, medicine, sciences, and of course, myths and stories.

However, as with stories, people usually altered/coopted elements and molded them to better suit their cultures and fancy. That's a thing as old as time. I've shared how the panchatantra stories and jatka tales are thought to be the inspiration for nearly 30-50 percent of all nursery rhymes, ballads, "fairy tales".

Anyways back to this theory - Chinese Indologist Professor Liu Anwu of Peking University has dedicated chapters to the comparisons (in one of his works) to further break down this theory focusing on consistent and or similar depictions of beats in Journey to the West that of Rama's story in Ramayama and the Buddhist sutras.

Even though today the story of Sun Wukong is a wholly Chinese story - it's important to note the power of oral storytelling and how it travelled evolved over thousands of years, and, just as important, the vehicles it used to do so. Not just storytellers and philosophers and travelers but religion! Philosophy!

This is a theme heavily commented on and shown in Tales of Tremaine, which is my love letter and sort of self PhD. in comparative storytelling, mythology, and story foundry through an Asiatic lens (hence a silk road analog) stretching along a similar route the silk road did from damn near as far as you can east (complete with the oceanic routes) to as west as old venezia, portugal, and spain.

Also note: this is the most popular theory atm, but the operative word is theory. Experts likely far better than you, Internet, so chill before you comment, are still debating this. I know last week some of you were doctors in sociopolitical relations, the music industry before that, and then you were leading virologists before that. Spare us simpler folks from your mighty genius just now and sit down.

The point here is the beauty of stories and their ability to travel and morph and comment on themes/points ideologies important to cultures while being entertaining and showing that humans like certain universal moments, beats, archetypes, tropes, and progressions in tales.

Now, is that because we've naturally been predisposed liking them, or the opposite in that everyone went, yo, i dig this, took it home and someone else went, this is cool but needs to be more US (insert culture) and retold it. And thus...timemachine noises speed up. Here we are today?

You might not know that about 35,000 Chinese words ( I said this instead of Mandarin because they don't just show up in one language) are derived from Sanskrit as well as Pali (a Middle Indo-Aryan Liturgical Language -- meaning language of sacredness/religious use, in this case connected to sacred Buddhist texts). It is important to make the distinction, because, Internet!

Sanskrit did not SHAPE the Chinese languages. They evolved on their own. This is just a commentary on how words/stories shaped over travel in this case strongly through the spread of Buddhism.

Religion was the mover.

Back from quick bathroom break. Going to add again - INSPIRED is the keyword here.

INSPIRED.

Sun Wukong is his own mythos/character. Influence doesn't nor can claim dominion over everything in a later tale. Sun Wukong has gone on himself to inspire legends and characters Outside of China - re: most famously and legendary?

Son Goku - who is openly a Sun Wukong inspired character.

...hell, tbh, he might be the most famous monkey inspired super powered character now. Dude makes soccer stadiums air his fights. @_@.

[shinobi-illuminator]

Boris Style Challenge

[sunkenshipsanddreams]

I find drawing on a darker canvas is fun.

[sora-art-513]

I Never thought I would draw Dragon Ball again, it’s been such a long time!!!😆🐉 So when I watched “Legend a Dragon ball Tale film” @/mystery_meat , it was such Epic film and The Animation is so Awesome!!! I Loved it! So I had to draw a Fanart of the Legend version of Goku and Vegeta, I Just love their Story and How it’s going, it’s Just so Awesome!👀���🏼✨

[gokuthegrandpa]

Damn, why haven't I seen this before. It's fucking amazing. Love the homage to the OG Sun Wukong with Goku's out of whack transformation.

[professor-doc-emeritus]

"Great teacher," the disciple asked, "why do most dragon ball fan projects suck so much?"

"There once was a man who traveled abroad," the great teacher replied, "and came across a brilliant temple. It stood a hundred stories high, and shone in a brilliant gold hue. Astonished and inspired, the man returned to his homeland and set out to build a temple of his own. He spent ten years gathering gold, and learning how to work with it. "

"When he was ready, he set about constructing his temple. But as soon as he completed it, the building collapsed. He spent another ten years gathering gold and tried again, only for the same thing to happen. Then another ten years. Then another."

"Finally, the man returned abroad to see the great temple that inspired him once more. When he arrived he saw it still standing, even after all those decades. He went and spoke to the priest inside, and asked 'Father, I've learned that Gold is as fragile as it is brilliant. How has your building endured for so long?' The Priest replied, 'the Gold is simply the building's finish. It's the steel beneath it that stands strong.'"

the disciple was enlightened.

[shehulksworld]

Amazing my other Christmas gifts i brought have finally arrived The Legend a Dragon ball Tale movie poster #2 and my Knee high cosplay Rwby Socks 😁