#the dragon ball fan ever

[mimikmeat0]

See I told y’all I didn’t forget abt dbz posting I just haven’t had much to say publicly that would Warrant a post…

Anyways I wanna talk abt piccolo bc to me he’s one of the more intriguing characters I feel got let down by being pushed to the side. Can we talk abt just like?? How insane it is he went from some intimidating guy who would fight anyone or anything to a domesticated dad😭don’t get me wrong I ADOREEE dad piccolo but I feel like he’s lost his edge, which could be a “on purpose” thing like how gohan became more “human” due to lack of training but?? Idk I miss his old power, he can still be intimidating but they don’t utilize him as much.

Super goku and vegeta had me pissed off too bc when it came time for him to fight they all basically laughed at him? They never even had an inkling he could win or hold a punch which is?? So out of character?? Well more so on gokus part bc??

Anyways that really pissed me off bc they didn’t even give him a chance to fight.

[rickardt]

Rest in Peace, Akira Toriyama. While your works live on, your light and creativity will be missed.

[artbybai]

Chu~•💕 Gochi doodle | The Married Couple Ever

Goku loves his wifey Chi-Chi so dang much y’all my HEART

[misscalming]

I was watching the search for Spock with a friend and like- how tf was Spock supposed to predict his body regenerating like that? Like did he just transfer his soul to McCoy like “my parting gift to thee…. Autism” JUST TO BE A BITCH LIKE????

“You are suffering from a Vulcan Mind meld” YOU MEAN AUTISM!!!??

[mikeellee]

Any crossover between MHA and other franchise you like?

Hi @nyc3 funny you ask me this bc I was thinking about an au where Izumi is in a pokemon world. Srsly!

Izumi is a poke trainer, she has eevees and eeveelutions (I think it fits here. One Eevee can be anything just like Izumi)

And well Cinder menages to steal a gym becaming a gym leader (people like him better lol) and well, things happen.

On a broad side, I don't have much crossovers for mha. They work fine as they are...they just need a good writing.

[dahliamorena]

Average Mexican Dad

[icebuntea]

With today's episode I wanna yap and scream and cry and laugh AND SCREAM AGAIN

THE LORE MY FRIENDS

THE LOREEEEE

[scarletsp1der]

teen gohan if he never cut his hair like Yamcha (im sorry i hate that cut so much)

I am very tired forgive me if it isn’t the best

[twobellsilence]

That thing Dragon Ball does where they take a former, incredibly powerful villain and go "woe, child be upon ye" and they become domesticated is the single best thing in any piece of media, actually

[mimikmeat0]

Fun fact this is my fav iteration of broly (fanon and canon). Idk man super just hit the nail on the head when it came to him.. at least for me anyways. Maybe I’m a little biased bc I always felt sad not seeing new broly content that wasn’t just him being hurt. Super makes me so happy bc we do get to see little pieces of characters lives, broly is a really good example of this. (Cheelai is amazing too augh) That’s one thing I will say I enjoy about super is some of the filler that isn’t pure fighting is great, a nice sit back and relax thing, yk? I enjoy the relationship between goku n broly too theyre so cute

[squashberri-art]

There’s not really anything I can say that can explain these but I want the world to see them

[futurefreedomau]

my favorite sonic artist AND a Nazo fan? Absolutely based beyond comprehension

I FUCKING LOVE FAN PROJECTS

HAVE YALL SEEN SONIC THE LAST ADVENTURE THAT SHIT LOOKS AMAZING

SONIC OUTBREAK TOO

[dragonballwish]

Your Krillin icon :’) my most beloved guy ………

HE IS EVERYTHING TO MEEEEEEEEE <3333333333

[breezytealy]

Folks who've pick up the Dragon Ball franchise for the first time in recent years and go back to inhale it all are so powerful - I'm Afraid and In Awe

You're not even driven by nostalgia how are you doing this? Mad respect

[pleasantspark]

Your chapter three reveal of the actual cause of King Cold's death was so masterfully executed. Like oh my god, it was done so perfectly. the foreshadowing, the relationship between him and Frieza, you really killed it. 😉

Bahaha. Thanks, just wait until you find out about Frigid's Death, it's pretty well thought out too.

In canon, King Cold loved Frieza, and I thought to say "Maybe don't stop at him showing the favoritism?"

Oh trust me, honey. Trust me, everyone (But Frigid) lived in fear of the tyrant, King Cold especially.

Sadly, he believed the only way to escape it was by ending himself.

I am glad you liked it! :D

Psst, if y'all want to, feel free to send in asks and ping me for fanart of this series.

[comicaurora]

hi red!! i'm doing an analysis of sun wukong's (and journey to the west in general's) impact on modern culture for my world mythology final, and for some reason i'm having a hard time finding sources. is there anything you can recommend?

The fact that Journey to the West has contributed an enormous number of tropes to modern media is very clear when the media in question is examined, but I don't know of a specific secondary source that's already done that analysis for you. However, this IS a very good excuse for you to plow through a metric buttload of shonen manga, since the lineage is basically Sun Wukong -> Son Goku -> like a solid third of all shonen action heroes written in the last forty years.

Dragon Ball kicks things off:

Started in 1984 and almost unquestionably the most influential manga ever made. Its first arc features the weird super-strong monkey-kid Son Goku - which is just the japanese pronunciation of the characters of Sun Wukong's name - meeting up with a wacky crew of thinly-veiled expys of the Journey to the West crew, with teen inventor Bulma filling the role of Tripitaka, Oolong the pig-man filling Zhu Bajie's role and Yamcha the desert-based bandit as Sha Wujing.

Hijinks ensue, and while the story drifts pretty far from Journey to the West's original plot, it actually stays pretty solidly referential in weirdly unexpected ways. Several the villains of the week are JttW references, and even the later appearance of three more Saiyans lines up with the surprise reveal of three more Wukong-like mystical apes in the original story.

The connection between Dragon Ball and JttW is very unsubtle and a frequent reference in the chapter covers and supplemental art.

Not every subsequent JttW reference is the result of Dragon Ball popularizing it or anything, since it was already enormously popular, but I think it's pretty hard to extricate Dragon Ball's influence on anime and manga from the original influence of Journey to the West itself.

One way that a distinction can be drawn is in the differences in characterization between Goku and Sun Wukong himself. A lot of the next generation of shonen protagonists were kind of Goku-alikes - pure-hearted dumbasses who only care for the three Fs: Food, Fighting and Friendship.

But the original characterization of Sun Wukong is not really all that similar. He's a trickster, sure, but he's far from a young, friendship-motivated goober. He's profoundly intelligent, pretty much the most well-educated entity on the planet, and routinely brings up that he's centuries older than most of his peers. The Goku-alikes from the later decades of shonen anime are tellingly far-removed from that original characterization. So you get characters based on Goku's cheerful idiocy, but it's just a small subset of the broader influence of Journey to the West on the space of literature.

In general, Journey to the West frequently shows up in very small, bite-sized tropes in other stories. It's less "this is wholly based on Journey to the West" and more "oh, I know where they maybe got this idea/aesthetic/power/weapon/villain of the week from." There are way too many to list, but some of the ones that tend to jump out at me are-

Sneaky characters with monkey motifs:

Tricksy, highly mobile characters who fight with a staff:

Characters afflicted with a magical restraint artifact that allows a much weaker character to stop them from misbehaving:

Specific esoteric weapons, eg. magical fans, rakes, gourds, namedropping The Sword of Seven Stars, etc.

Villains with prominent ox or pig design motifs:

Characters whose primary combat strat is just making Shitloads Of Disposable Copies Of Themselves:

Honestly it just keeps going like this. It's kinda everywhere. Finding the JttW in things is my favorite conspiracy theory rabbit hole because it's 100% harmless and more often than not completely correct.