September 02, 2009

Dragon Ball -- man from mars

Goku contemplates the meaning of life.

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He better, because he's gonna lose his when Bulma wakes up.

I had heard that DB was more comedic than DBZ, but I hadn't really realized just how much so. I certainly didn't realize that they were going to use Goku to make man-from-mars jokes.

For instance, the first time Bulma activates a hoi-poi capsule, Goku thinks she's a witch. And given Clarke's Law, I'm not so sure he's wrong.

UPDATE: The random initial placement of the Dragon Balls is a convenient deus machina for introducing characters. Turns out that Roshi has one. I wonder if he knows what it is?

UPDATE: Ep 3, and Roshi makes his first appearance. Goku saved Turtle and carried him 120 km to the sea, and in exchange Turtle went and got Roshi and brought him to Goku at the shore. As a reward, Roshi gives Kinto Un to Goku.

Roshi also mentions that someone with impure thoughts can't ride it -- which explains why it's utterly useless to Roshi himself.

I wonder if Bulma will have trouble with it? I'd bet she does.

UPDATE: Holy shit, this really is ecchi.

Goku noticed that Bulma didn't have the kinds of lumps inside her underwear that he thought was normal, so he pulled her panties off while she was asleep. And then he started screaming because she didn't have... male anatomy, as it were. He was screaming about how she didn't have any balls, and she woke up and thought he was talking about the Dragon Balls. She rushed over and looked, but they were OK.

She apparently didn't notice that her panties were gone -- and hasn't up to this point in the story. After Roshi gave Kinto Un to Goku, Bulma asked if he could give her something, too. She may have noticed that he's wearing the Dragon Ball around his neck.

Roshi, ever the perv, says that he'll give her a gift, but only if she shows him her panties. She nerves herself up and gives him a flash.

Who ever thought I'd be using NSFW tags for frame grabs from Toriyama?

She ends up flashing him a few more times, and she still hasn't noticed! Anyway, she got the three-star ball from him.

UPDATE: It finally dawns on her:

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Where's my katakana chart? ノーパンだった? Anyway, "nou pan datta". I don't understand that last part, but "nou pan" is pretty clear.

UPDATE: And she finally figures out that Goku is responsible:

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Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 03:32 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
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1 datta = casual past tense of desu, so "I was no-pan!".

-j

Posted by: J Greely at September 02, 2009 04:27 PM (9Nz6c)

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Awesome!

And indeed it turns out that Bulma cannot ride on Kinto Un. I figured as much.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 02, 2009 04:30 PM (+rSRq)

3 I always wondered why if you liked DBZ you hadn't seen then DB yet. Don't take me wrong, not saying that you should just because you liked DBZ, just that what made DBZ so enjoyable (well, at least until the Buu saga) is there too in DB. Though it's more leaned towards being "comedy-fantasy-adventure" at first, it gets more action-oriented after half of the 1° season (it still retains a lot of comedy though).

Posted by: Jaked at September 03, 2009 12:39 PM (0wU/A)

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Mostly lack of opportunity. It's been out of print on DVD for quit some time, for one thing. And back when I was watching DBZ on the Cartoon Network, they weren't running DB.

I did manage to see the very first episode one time, though. Don't remember the circumstances, but that was the only ep I'd seen until the last couple of days.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 03, 2009 01:03 PM (+rSRq)

5 I watched bits and pieces of DB and I'm pretty certain it was in broadcast. It might've been a pirate broadcast in Russia.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at September 03, 2009 03:09 PM (/ppBw)

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It has been broadcast. But it wasn't being broadcast on Cartoon Network at the time I got hooked on DBZ.

I should point out that it isn't quite the case that what made DBZ fun is also in DB. No super-saiyajins, for one thing, and no Vegeta.

On the other hand, Krillin is a bigger factor in the story. And it'll be interesting to go through a period in which Yamucha is competitive.

Yamucha is kind of a sad-sack case in DBZ, way stronger than any normal human but totally outclassed by every one of the Z fighters, even Tenshinhan and Krillin. And he knows it. (Well, he's probably stronger than Chaotsu, but that's not really saying a lot. And Yajirobe, but that's not saying anything at all. Yajirobe has no control over his ki. He can't even fly.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 03, 2009 04:02 PM (+rSRq)

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