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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#27076: May 17th 2017 at 2:54:51 AM

and it's way older than the official age of consent for Japan.

Kinda sorta not really. That's a kinda complicated subject that I've seen many different conflicting sources on.

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#27077: May 17th 2017 at 3:18:47 AM

Dragon Ball has a lot of toilet humor. Often literally. I remember last time I went through the series I sometimes turned on subs to see if I was missing anything because Funi changed a lot.The dub removed stuff like Bulma's much more explicit promises to Pilaf. It also changed Roshi freaking out on a plane ride because has to poop to something else. I think the dub just made it seem like he was claustrophobic. And this is why I don't care that the dub was pretty different from the original.

So I am sure we are supposed to think of Roshi's creepin' on Bulma as funny just like the fact he has to poop is funny. I just ignore it and move on.

Or maybe I just remember the wise words of Yahtzee, discussing how Resident Evil 5 has you mowing down black people in grass skirts and war paint. "Capcom aren't bad people, they're just idiots." That works well for a lot of things in my view.

edited 17th May '17 3:20:34 AM by Nikkolas

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#27079: May 17th 2017 at 4:47:17 AM

Perv humor is something you either like or don't, but that doesn't mean all perv humor is equal and should be tolerated.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#27080: May 17th 2017 at 5:58:59 AM

You either find it funny or you don't, it's that simple really, no need to complicate it. Anime humor in general tends to vary from actually being funny to "what the fuck..."

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#27081: May 17th 2017 at 9:01:11 AM

Well, it also tends to be really repetitive.

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#27082: May 17th 2017 at 9:22:47 AM

Funniest thing I remember in DB is when Roshi is training Goku and Krillin and he gets to the education part of it, explaining how to be a truly great warrior "takes brainpower!"

And Goku responds with "ohhhh but I don't have that."

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#27083: May 17th 2017 at 9:30:53 AM

[up][up] That's because Japan seem to be under the impression that the same jokes told constantly are funny.

It's why you see a lot of the same gags across different series probably

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
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#27084: May 17th 2017 at 9:43:16 AM

That's just a given though.

But it's more that their joke pool isn't wide enough.

So they only ever re-use a small amount of jokes.

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#27085: May 17th 2017 at 9:43:28 AM

[up][up][up]It's kinda great.

edited 17th May '17 9:43:35 AM by unnoun

Prime_of_Perfection Where force fails, cunning prevails Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#27086: May 17th 2017 at 10:25:32 AM

From what I recall, Japan has a reason for repeating the jokes involving broadcast and their lack of reruns. I can't recall the precise reason, I think it's that though.

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#27087: May 17th 2017 at 10:36:40 AM

They've been doing it for years on years.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#27088: May 17th 2017 at 11:07:07 AM

It's not like Japan is the only country that hat television repeat the same old tired jokes over and over.

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#27089: May 17th 2017 at 11:19:46 AM

It seems to come in varieties of "love them despite their flaws" "love them because of their flaws" and the ever confusing "hate them because what they do is bad and unacceptable but also find it funny and like the series because of it"

There's cultural background at play. Humor isn't the same across the world. Take puns. Here puns get you groaned at. Japan loves puns. Obviously you see it with the names in Dragonball, but it's not just there. Puns everywhere. Similarly, Japan finds perverts exceedingly funny. Both the Loveable Sex Maniac and the Accidental Pervert. And to their credit, they also like seeing perverts being punished (See Roshi getting shot by Lunch, or every time a character in an anime gets punted to the moon after some perversion, accidental or otherwise)

I am pretty sure that to a Japanese Audience, Roshi's "quirks" are meant to be a source of humor and endearing the same way Captain Haddock's alcoholism is treated in Tintin as an endearing quirk and a source of humor, as opposed to the self destructive spiral it should be.

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#27090: May 17th 2017 at 11:32:22 AM

To be fair to that last point, I'm pretty sure western media has played alcoholism for laughs as well.

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#27091: May 17th 2017 at 11:34:13 AM

I consider Tintin western. It's Franco-Belgian. And that was exactly my point.

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#27092: May 17th 2017 at 11:35:26 AM

Oh. I thought it was the name of another anime.

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terumokou Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object from In a bamboo forest full of bunnies, California Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Mu
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#27093: May 17th 2017 at 12:49:00 PM

[up] I wouldn't really put it past you since I read that as Captain Harlock and thought it was an anime too.

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#27094: May 17th 2017 at 1:04:00 PM

[up] Ditto.

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terumokou Pitiable and Illegally Dumped Object from In a bamboo forest full of bunnies, California Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Mu
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#27095: May 17th 2017 at 3:04:48 PM

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#27096: May 17th 2017 at 3:46:04 PM

As I understand, [up] is a remix of a tune from, of all things, LazyTown.

I'm guessing that's the normal version we hear at the end then?

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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#27097: May 17th 2017 at 3:55:01 PM

I also take it that you missed when that spiked in popularity not too long ago as a meme. It came up alongside the "x except whenever y happens, z also happens" meme. For example, "We Are Number One but the word one triggers duplication and makes the video slow down + get louder".

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#27098: May 17th 2017 at 5:34:44 PM

And it just so happens to be from an episode where the main villain forms a team of four guys who all look like him.

Hence the use of the song for Cell's multibody shenanigans.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#27099: May 17th 2017 at 6:12:38 PM

[up][up]and[up]

Pretty much. I knew about LazyTown, but never really watched it.

Had no clue it had any memes behind it either.

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LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#27100: May 17th 2017 at 6:17:25 PM

Also the actor who played the main guy that sang it had cancer and the meme helped raise awareness for a fundraiser that paid for his treatments.

edited 17th May '17 6:20:48 PM by LordVatek

This song needs more love.

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