Dragon Ball Z Abridged

Like, okay, fine. He's supposed to sound like an awkward high schooler. Were you flirting with eleven year olds in High School, Kaiser? I don't think so!

How old is Dende supposed to be, exactly? Because just because Kaiser took inspiration from his high school experiences doesn’t mean that Dende’s supposed to be that age.

But Dende is also a kid.

Dende doesn't talk like a child.

Neither does Gohan.

Also, at least some of that is for comedic purposes.

Edited by KarkatTheDalek on Sep 18th 2018 at 11:49:31 AM

Vocal Dissonance then.

Dende expresses sexual interest in Gohan, and using high school pickup lines on a kid, so evidently is mature enough to know what he's doing. Gohan, while super intelligent, does not. Also, to reiterate, sexual interest towards a child is obviously not okay.

Yeah I thought it was pretty obvious that Dende was supposed to be a kid.

He's also from a race that's literally asexual.

I doubt that matters when he was checking out Gohan's body or wanting to play spin the bottle 1v1.

What were the rules?

Spin the bottle is just kissing. I do feel like there were some past comments that went more overtly sexual though, which is not great.

It is? That's lame.

And then there was the really creepy way he said he needed to give Gohan mouth-to-mouth.

iirc a group of people sit around a bottle, someone spins it and they have to kiss the person it points to. Old game, don't think anyone actually plays it anymore.

I liked that joke for the "1-v-1 me, Gohan!" punchline.

Reminded me when he said "Come at me bro!" to Freeza. That always cracked me up for some reason.

I like Dende but the fact that his crush has gone full on sexual, which would be fine if Gohan wasn't a prepubescent child, is alarming at best.

The worst part is that I do think TFS was genuinely trying to be inclusive after their regret for Dodoria.

I'm pretty sure Gohan is consciously ignoring Dende's flirting, there's no way he doesn't pick up on it. Dende also totally sounds like a tween/young teenager, have you heard his lines? There's so cheesy and desperate, not at all like the creepy confidence that comes from old men. Not quite sure where he heard them from, since he's a Namekian, but he's clearly just trying to come across as cool and smooth and faceplanting for his troubles.

Heh I looked up the My Way song on Youtube & I just love how the comment section is already filled with people R.I.P.-ing Cell.

Its only been like 4 days & several comments that bid him farewell has over a thousand up-votes.

Man imagine the confusion some will have over a sudden pouring of people bidding good bye to a green child-beating bug-man.

Edited by slimcoder on Sep 18th 2018 at 11:32:03 AM

Or people who know nothing about Dragon Ball confused why they're saying rest in peace to a cell. Like, was there some kind of science thing where an artificially created cell died? Also, why this video, this song, in particular?

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Sep 18th 2018 at 11:38:24 AM

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Okay I am a high school teacher, 12-13 year old kids literally have to get taught in the moments their brains stop thinking about sex, and 11 is an awkward age because some kids are going through puberty, and some aren't.

If a kid who has gone through puberty has a crush on one who hasn't, things get awkward. I can see it as an outsider, and I saw it as the pre-puberty kid back in the day.

Preteen attempts at romance are awkward as hell. Dende makes sense.

While I agree broadly, having been a teacher for pubescent children, in fairness, it is still a little weird given that Dende is from an asexual parthenogenic species.

Who definitely dont have dicks in the abridged version, and probably (?) wouldn't have anuses or prostates or whatever in any version of DBZ what with the only drinking water thing.

King Piccolo and Guru didnt have to give people bjs to impregnate themselves as far as I know, they just sorta. Focused ki to stimulate egg production. I guess? Their reproduction seems like a technique like the kamehameha, as far as I can tell, which is weird.

All of which is to say, Dende being horny on main doesnt quite make any sense.

Romantic interest might, I guess, Dende was seemingly being raised by Moori even though they're both brothers born by Guru. So Namekian adoption seems like a thing. Gay penguins sometimes raise an egg from a pair of straight penguins, when you have a species with children that need caretaking, having a pair of caretakers makes a sense.

When I was eleven, I was. Shit, I had my first crush in first grade. I started flirting when I was six.

Can't say my mack game was very much better than it was in high school at the time, either.

Yeah, and there's a lot of people from races that reproduce sexually who are interested in the same sex or no sex at all. Some people like goats. Biological means of reproduction is by no means an absolute indicator of individual desires.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 19th 2018 at 7:31:12 AM

I mean, right, but our species did evolve the hormones and neuron pattern structures involved in sexual attraction.

There's individual differences where individual members of Homo sapiens sapiens are unique, but it's more. Difficult. For me to imagine it developing at all in a species where it's entirely unnecessary.