Oh right. Bulma's mom still has no actual name.
Yeesh. He sure likes doing that huh? I mean, I get that she's totally irrelevant to the entire story, but it takes so little effort to name a character (especially if they are re-occuring) that I'm baffled by how you can't even take the five or six seconds it would probably take and get it out of the way.
One Strip! One Strip!Well, it did take more than two decades to finally give names to characters such as Android 17, Android 18 or the Nameless Namekian.
And i think Bulma's Mom name is Panti. Because Toriyama loves his Family Theme Naming
Uni catI feel like 17 and 18 are good enough names for them.
It emphasizes the great wrong that was done to them.
Having not just their bodies, but even their names, memories, their entire lives stolen by a mad man's revenge.
Learning their "real" names sorta. Cheapens that.
Edited by unnoun on Sep 24th 2018 at 6:27:08 AM
Yup.
False alarm, Nameless Namekian is still Nameless. I thought his name was Katas.
I suppose 17 and 18 do remember their real name but don't bother with it. Also, unlike Goku, they don't have someone like Vegeta who insists on calling them by their real name.
Least they reveal an Android equivalent of Broly who gets triggered by their real name.
Uni cat...
...You now need to change your name to Sperber.
One Strip! One Strip!Thinking of things I'm looking forward to see in the next arc, (or wondering if TFS will include in one case)
- Goku "re-uniting" with the World Tournament Announcer guy who recognizes him and Krillin. It's actually an endearing scene.
- Their take on Gohan teaching Videl Ki.
- Goku being kind of jackass about Krillin and 18 being married. And not being aware Krilling isn't actually bald.
It emphasizes the great wrong that was done to them.
I feel like that's exactly why 17 and 18 are not good names for them. If someone was raped by a dude who kept calling her Sugar Muffin in the middle of assaulting her, would it be appropriate to continue calling her Sugar Muffin for the rest of her life?
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'm honestly surprised at you Tobias, you should know better than to crassly, reductively simplify all traumatic and dehumanizing experiences to rape. I could be misremembering, but I could have sworn you've said that yourself.
A better comparison would be something like a military, or a cult, or, y'know, the African slave trade, which did take people's names and past and heritage away from them and made those names impossible to recover or even know about in some cases even to this day.
A great wrong was done to the android twins, but they're still able to move forward and move past it, because sometimes that's the only thing you can actually do. Reparations are nice, sure, like decapitating Gero and smashing his brain. But at the end of the day, you have to do something to take care of yourself. Like fucking a noseless Buddhist monk with dwarfism or a zoologist, or being a park ranger.
Edited by unnoun on Sep 25th 2018 at 11:16:50 AM
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IIRC, they were abducted against their will and had their bodily autonomy violated without consent for the sake of satisfying another man's desires. That's a lot closer to rape than it is to military service. 17 and 18 are victims, not soldiers.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 25th 2018 at 9:41:10 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.

I'm assuming Panchy = Bulma's mom