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#21701: Jul 25th 2015 at 6:34:08 AM

And she was 16 in the first arc. Great job, Toriyama.

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#21702: Jul 25th 2015 at 6:36:49 AM

Repost because page rollover: Oolong is two years younger than Goku.

[up]16 is the age of consent in Japan so that, at least, isn't a problem.

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#21703: Jul 25th 2015 at 6:37:41 AM

Yup, there's also the fact that censorship was a lot more loose back then as well.

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#21704: Jul 25th 2015 at 6:46:34 AM

[up][up] Sort of. Unless it's changed recently, it's really weird.

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#21705: Jul 25th 2015 at 6:50:01 AM

Sexualizing minors is also part of Japan's uncomfortable relationship with Patriarchal values, sex, and relationships.

I mean, the Sailor Senshi are fourteen years old. That says it all right there.

[up][up] There's that too, yes. Goku and Gohan both get full frontal nude scenes in Dragon Ball. They're just not sexualized nude scenes.

edited 25th Jul '15 6:51:57 AM by TobiasDrake

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#21706: Jul 25th 2015 at 7:07:58 AM

That might be more Artistic Age than anything, they sure as fuck don't look like fourteen year olds.

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#21707: Jul 25th 2015 at 7:20:35 AM

ewww ewww eww ewww ewww ewww ewww ewww eeewwwwwww

Oolong is two years younger than Goku.

But how much is that in pig years?

Also, ewwww

So I was going to joke about Vegeta being an awful person but. Then you started talking about the kidnapper and rapist so.

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#21708: Jul 25th 2015 at 7:29:23 AM

So Oolong was like ten years old back in Dragon Ball (if Goku was about 12)?

He was 23 at the start of the Saiyan saga (if Goku being 25 is accurate)?

Seriously?

.......He tried to rape Bulma? What the fuck Japan? Seriously?

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#21709: Jul 25th 2015 at 7:33:12 AM

[up][up]I don't think animal years applies to animal-people (which, by the way, should totally be an option as an alternate for 'Human' species in Xenoverse 2), I think Oolong was straight-up a child when he was introduced.

edited 25th Jul '15 7:33:36 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

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#21710: Jul 25th 2015 at 7:36:10 AM

So, I'd like to say that Dragon Ball started about 31 years ago. It just fascinates me how old this series is.

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#21711: Jul 25th 2015 at 10:45:08 AM

Oolong is a shapeshifter, I'm not sure how age really applies to him.

Sure Goku is too, but a much more limited one.

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#21712: Jul 25th 2015 at 11:01:26 AM

Just because he can change shape for a limited time doesn't mean age doesn't apply to him.

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#21713: Jul 25th 2015 at 11:02:16 AM

Shapeshifting isn't something he is, it was something he was taught, in a shapeshifting school.

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#21714: Jul 25th 2015 at 11:03:45 AM

[up]

Also wasn't Oolong's shapechanging learned? I remember Puar kept on teasing him about how inferior his shifting was compared his in Dragonball.

So yeah, he's a pig person who also just happened to know how to shapechange.

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#21715: Jul 25th 2015 at 11:05:23 AM

Yep, he could only stay changed for what was it, somewhere between five and ten minutes, because he got expelled before he learned to keep it up for longer than that.

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#21716: Jul 25th 2015 at 11:22:50 AM

Dragon Ball has been around pretty long. That's crazy.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#21717: Jul 25th 2015 at 11:31:33 AM

...How does shapeshifting mean that age doesn't apply to you?

I mean, it doesn't impact how much he can experience, or how his cells divide and decay or how his body and brain mature, so.

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#21718: Jul 25th 2015 at 11:33:07 AM

[up][up]It's up there with Jojo and some of the other old ones in terms of still getting new material even now. Most mangas this old get nothing these days.

edited 25th Jul '15 11:51:47 AM by LordofLore

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#21719: Jul 25th 2015 at 11:36:25 AM

Shapeshifting doesn't change personality or consciousness. Turning into Bulma didn't make Oolong smart enough to make time machines. Turning into Goku didn't make Oolong super strong.

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#21720: Jul 25th 2015 at 11:49:57 AM

What amazes me is the sheer vitality of this franchise. The original anime ended in 1997- 18 years ago! There has been a whole new generation of shonen since then. The franchise sort of lingered in the realm of licensed video games but no one actually expected that we'd get new series again. And yet here we are.

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#21721: Jul 25th 2015 at 1:23:53 PM

Shapeshifting doesn't change personality or consciousness.

That depends.

edit:

Well, not in DB, of course. My bad. I need to read better.

edited 25th Jul '15 1:25:54 PM by Enlong

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#21722: Jul 25th 2015 at 1:37:55 PM

Ya know, since Pu'ar is such a superior shapeshifter, why doesn't he train with other Z-Fighters?

Have the ability to fight and shapeshift can be very useful!

Also, apparently Time Breaker Bardock with the broken mask is it's own form in DBH, which I just learned a few minutes ago.

edited 25th Jul '15 1:39:42 PM by Rinsankajugin

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#21723: Jul 25th 2015 at 1:39:47 PM

The idea that someone could voluntarily alter their cellular and molecular structure suggests they might be able to fight off long term cellular degeneration as well. That's the logic behind Mystique looking as young as her son and daughter in X-men anyway.

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#21724: Jul 25th 2015 at 1:39:57 PM

Shapeshift into a Saiyan.

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#21725: Jul 25th 2015 at 2:00:53 PM

Unless Oolong studied biology and has taken to dissecting Saiyans to see how they work, I doubt his transformation into a Saiyan would do any more than a transformation into a Giant Robot.

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