True History hidden in Dragon Ball Z?

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Akira Toriyama is a Japanese dude who was writing by the seat of his pants.

Y'all gotta stop projecting American shyt onto a show not made for our country at all. Goku is based on Sun Wukong, the Monkey King from Journey To The West. Later on when Akira Toriyama made up the Saiyans, he extrapolated all of their characteristics from Goku's.

Additionally, the Saiyans being slaves mistreated horribly by Frieza is dub fabrication. They were a bunch of murderous savages in a mutually beneficial partnership with Frieza. A bunch of small fish dealing with a big fish and got gobbled up. Vegeta wasn't pissed at Frieza on some "Saiyan pride" shyt, he was just mad about having to answer to somebody.

Frieza's character was based on dirty real estate investors because they were driving the Japanese economic bubble in the late 80s.

And Super Saiyan has blonde hair and blue eyes because Toriyama wanted to give his assistant less stuff to ink. In fact, Super Saiyan had RED eyes at first but Akira Toriyama thought it looked too evil:

Red eyes huh

 

[KidJSoul]

One Piece? Elaborate

This is it. I don't know if you read One Piece or not, so this is spoiler-ish, but as of 2020:

Spoiler

the main character, Monkey D Luffy, and a few other supporting characters, and even the former king of the pirates Gol D. Roger (who left the One Piece treasure behind in the first place) carry behind the "Will of D", which is basically the will of an ancient race of very strong, friendly, and wise people who helped build the world, many centuries ago. One member of that ancient race even had a pack with fishman under the sea that involved a large ark called "the Noah" . They were a great and peaceful race. But they and some of their buildings and ships they made were wiped out some 800 years ago by the world government. The Will of D people seemingly left large stones known as known as poneglyphs that tell the true hidden history of the world that has been completely covered up by the world government, and that help point to the location of where One Piece is. Lastly, the world government in the story often refers to people who carry the Will of D as being "devils" "violent" and "god's natural enemy" . The world government often covers up, censors, or kills people who try to subvert their lies about the world's formation . The world government likes to prop up their nobles as being "gods" that built the current civilization

Oh yeah, and if that's not enough, the nobles of the world government own slaves too

In one arc, when Luffy and his crew saw this, he punched the shyt out of them

Another anime show that fits this even more is (hint: it's been one of the more popular shows the last decade):

Spoiler

Attack on Titan

One Piece is worth reading on its own, and one of the best pieces of fiction written IMO - but it can be tricky to get into. You have to approach it like a book - it will definitely start out a little slow, and seem simple, but gets better and better and richer, until it blows your mind. And then later, you realize that damn near every single scene and arc in the show is so meaningful that you'll find yourself learning knew things and connecting the dots when you rewatch it

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Damn I thought this was gonna be concise

I need you and @Squirrel to take this nicca weed stash

@HarlemHottie I need you to drive him to a rehab center

 

[The Fade]

Y’all need to go on YouTube and watch the FFXIV Stormblood cutscenes


Vivid illusions to real life about stopping a white Roman based empire when all subjugated people team up with the help of a messianic figure (with religious esoterism and evil beings blending into governments)..

the allusions to real life in that game is crazy, deals with c00ns, selling out, capitalism, broken people scared to fight back etc

the [rome/usa] government even steals culture from a nation that is a collective of the dark skin people of all races (they make a blonde blue eyed white girl the leading rebel of it though, probably to sell the game) but the shyt IS DEEP.

the “cacs” in that game cant use magic either

 

[Cadillac]

One Piece is worth reading on its own, and one of the best pieces of fiction written IMO - but it can be tricky to get into. You have to approach it like a book - it will definitely start out a little slow, and seem simple, but gets better and better and richer, until it blows your mind. And then later, you realize that damn near every single scene and arc in the show is so meaningful that you'll find yourself learning knew things and connecting the dots when you rewatch it

One Piece? Elaborate

its best to treat OP how it is, as a long fantasy Adventure(which it is a long adventure series) comic book. Its a series that starts out slow. But thats only because its slow for the setup of the series(Which is huge in Scale) so do not expect to dive in and things get brackin.

its a great, and one of the most versatile fantasy works you can read tho. with all the crazy stuff Oda can mix and match together from Horror, science fantasy, fantasy, wuxia fantasy, etc. fused alltogether. Whatever you can think of One Piece got it.

when it comes to multi-tasking and having mutiple plot points, multitude of story threads, mysteries, fights, story, etc. It has that and is prolly the biggest manga in terms of scale with all that it does. OP balances and uses alot of elements, genres, and does things to make itself fresh
hence with 24+ years the series still is one of the most popular series in the world.

one flaw is that, because the series does alot of things and isnt it as simple and straight to the point as say Dragonball Z is. I
It takes Oda a long time to get to the point of arcs espescially the 2nd half of the series. Things have been inflated with all the different stories, character stories, events, powers, story elements, etc.
the series is 1010 chapters and we have yet to beat one of the Yonkous(huge bosses) in the series. Plus theres a whole other Boss character who will be dealth with after them. So its gonna take a while

 

[JesusFOREVER]

This is it. I don't know if you read One Piece or not, so this is spoiler-ish, but as of 2020:

Spoiler

the main character, Monkey D Luffy, and a few other supporting characters, and even the former king of the pirates Gol D. Roger (who left the One Piece treasure behind in the first place) carry behind the "Will of D", which is basically the will of an ancient race of very strong, friendly, and wise people who helped build the world, many centuries ago. One member of that ancient race even had a pack with fishman under the sea that involved a large ark called "the Noah" . They were a great and peaceful race. But they and some of their buildings and ships they made were wiped out some 800 years ago by the world government. The Will of D people seemingly left large stones known as known as poneglyphs that tell the true hidden history of the world that has been completely covered up by the world government, and that help point to the location of where One Piece is. Lastly, the world government in the story often refers to people who carry the Will of D as being "devils" "violent" and "god's natural enemy" . The world government often covers up, censors, or kills people who try to subvert their lies about the world's formation . The world government likes to prop up their nobles as being "gods" that built the current civilization

Oh yeah, and if that's not enough, the nobles of the world government own slaves too

In one arc, when Luffy and his crew saw this, he punched the shyt out of them

Another anime show that fits this even more is (hint: it's been one of the more popular shows the last decade):

Spoiler

Attack on Titan

One Piece is worth reading on its own, and one of the best pieces of fiction written IMO - but it can be tricky to get into. You have to approach it like a book - it will definitely start out a little slow, and seem simple, but gets better and better and richer, until it blows your mind. And then later, you realize that damn near every single scene and arc in the show is so meaningful that you'll find yourself learning knew things and connecting the dots when you rewatch it

Woooow definitely gonna check this out thanks my brother

 

[JesusFOREVER]

its best to treat OP how it is, as a long fantasy Adventure(which it is a long adventure series) comic book. Its a series that starts out slow. But thats only because its slow for the setup of the series(Which is huge in Scale) so do not expect to dive in and things get brackin.

its a great, and one of the most versatile fantasy works you can read tho. with all the crazy stuff Oda can mix and match together from Horror, science fantasy, fantasy, wuxia fantasy, etc. fused alltogether. Whatever you can think of One Piece got it.

when it comes to multi-tasking and having mutiple plot points, multitude of story threads, mysteries, fights, story, etc. It has that and is prolly the biggest manga in terms of scale with all that it does. OP balances and uses alot of elements, genres, and does things to make itself fresh
hence with 24+ years the series still is one of the most popular series in the world.

one flaw is that, because the series does alot of things and isnt it as simple and straight to the point as say Dragonball Z is. I
It takes Oda a long time to get to the point of arcs espescially the 2nd half of the series. Things have been inflated with all the different stories, character stories, events, powers, story elements, etc.
the series is 1010 chapters and we have yet to beat one of the Yonkous(huge bosses) in the series. Plus theres a whole other Boss character who will be dealth with after them. So its gonna take a while

Ill definitely check this out thank you

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

You don't deserve the internet.

This shyt is like a crackhead 5th graders homework

 

[KidJSoul]

Woooow definitely gonna check this out thanks my brother

Yeah man. I legit learned how to write stories thanks to it.

 

[The Minister Of Culture]

Akira Toriyama is a Japanese dude who was writing by the seat of his pants.

Y'all gotta stop projecting American shyt onto a show not made for our country at all. Goku is based on Sun Wukong, the Monkey King from Journey To The West. Later on when Akira Toriyama made up the Saiyans, he extrapolated all of their characteristics from Goku's.

Additionally, the Saiyans being slaves mistreated horribly by Frieza is dub fabrication. They were a bunch of murderous savages in a mutually beneficial partnership with Frieza. A bunch of small fish dealing with a big fish and got gobbled up. Vegeta wasn't pissed at Frieza on some "Saiyan pride" shyt, he was just mad about having to answer to somebody.

Frieza's character was based on dirty real estate investors because they were driving the Japanese economic bubble in the late 80s.

And Super Saiyan has blonde hair and blue eyes because Toriyama wanted to give his assistant less stuff to ink. In fact, Super Saiyan had RED eyes at first but Akira Toriyama thought it looked too evil:

This guy knows his stuff its funny most people dont know much about how Toriyamas career all started from him hating his 9 to 5 office job, to being unemployed & trying to win the shonen jump one shot contest for cigarette money to eventually evolving into making Dragonball

 

[Ake1725]

Now One Piece, that was actually intentional. The Fishman are treated like black people in every sense and the World Nobles are oppressive cacs who treat their military like their bodyguards. Fisher Tiger was a super militant, refused to even accept blood from humans that would've saved his life because the oppression he lived through was too much .

Fisher Tiger and the mermaid chick's mom were meant to be a Malcolm X/MLK analogue. Fisher Tiger even came to soften his stances on humans later in life like Malcolm but the scars still ran deep.

And then Hoady Jones was a TLR fake militant

I always saw fishman island being comparable to haiti Fisher Tiger being like Toussaint Louverture

 

[goatmane]

the editor of DBZ said aint shyt to analyze
Dragon Ball Manga Editor Said ‘There's Nothing in It to Analyze’

 

[The Minister Of Culture]

the editor of DBZ said aint shyt to analyze
Dragon Ball Manga Editor Said ‘There's Nothing in It to Analyze’

The death of the author concept can apply in this case. Ppl forget most mangaka do make art strictly for fun but readers can see it more as an inspiration/lesson. It's not unheard of for fans to look too deeply into things. You see it with many of the sub communities in anime. The authors may have zero intent to convey what others personally see in art. However i do think someone could learn somethng from it (albeit something you should already know) but i try not to analyze manga with a fine tooth and comb ruins the entertainment value for me



Ah Torishima I got mixed feelings on him he almost made One Piece not get serialized in jump with his asinine cheif editor tatics. Told Tite Kubo the draft he sent in (which was Bleach) was ass and told him to read Fist of the North Star & Dragonball Vol.1 and said "create such a manga" . But he did facilitate in creating the Dragon Quest & Dragonball series

 

[goatmane]

they know their shyt

 

[Sterling Archer]

I stopped reading when he said blue eyes