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She have other hairdo? Anyway, I guess I just never recognized her.
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King Cold is a king and a father, and I am pretty sure Freeza is a "son" (also pretty sure these words are as gendered in Japanese as they are in English). So, even if they are sexless, they definitively have genders. Like the Namekians.
edited 25th Jan '16 8:23:44 PM by Heatth
Her hair's the same, she might've been wearing a hat though...I don't remember completely.
Genders can't exist unless there was sexual multimorphism to base them around. The masculine pronouns/terminology are likely just a matter of convenience or the ol' "genderless defaults to male" thing.
edited 25th Jan '16 8:34:46 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Yeah...it was either that or they drew her hair weird in a close up shot as my guess.
edited 25th Jan '16 9:14:54 PM by randomness4
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I started the series by reading the manga in order from the library. It wasn't until years later that I learned just how popular Dragon Ball was.
Started watching when it came on in The Netherlands
By that time the backlog was so big, it went straight from Raditz, across the Funu dubbed part of the Frieza saga, and then right back to the Ocean dub as soon as Trunks went back to the future the first time.. and then it stopped right before the actual androids showed up
My country was weird about that (mostly because they couldnt make up their minds which dub to use for the Buu saga)
Never saw the anime myself. I grew up reading the manga and loved everything pre-Raditz. After Raditz and the Saiyan showed, I just found the manga's new direction off-putting. I keep reading it, but the plot and characters just couldn't manage to hold me any more.
Then DBZA made me fall in love with all of that stuff.
That is an explanation for how the concept of gender formed. You could argue that their race shouldn't have a concept of gender, logically, but Dragon Ball is hardly a realistic setting. There was (sadly) never any ambiguity of that in the anime/manga, Freeza and his father are considered male, plain and simple.
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edited 26th Jan '16 9:16:35 AM by Heatth
I started off somewhere in the middle of the Ocean dub of the Saiyan saga, (one of the first memories I have of the show is the narrator talking about training with Piccolo and describing Piccolo as "the harshest martial arts instructor in the land" or something along those lines) and I remember all too well the frustration when the show suddenly restarted from the beginning... and did so again and again. It got to the point that I'd try catching episodes on the Spanish language channel in hopes that they would go further and I'd get at least some idea of what happened!
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |I was lucky to watch Dragon Ball from the very beginning, and as it segued into Z (and later GT). I was there for the shock of Krillin's death (it was really creepy in the Anime), seeing Goku grown up (I genuinely did not recognise him with that turban), Raditz's arrival (the moment Raditz showed off his tail, my jaw dropped), and the Super Saiyan transformation (no knowledge whatsoever that it was going to be a thing).
I followed the series while staying blissfully unspoiled. Until the Buu Arc, that is, where toys and videogames showed characters that hadn't appeared yet (Majin Vegeta, SSJ 3, Fat Buu, Super Buu, Vegetto, Krillin with hair...). At least there was plenty they didn't spoil.
I've said this before, but I saw a raw version of movie 6 of Dragon Ball Z (so the return of Coola) then a raw of the first two episodes (Raditz arriving on Earth, and Picollo and Goku getting ready to fight him).
Some time later, I caught the first dub of the first arc of Dragon Ball, and while a few characters were vaguely familiar (since Oolong and Roshi were in movie 6), I didn't recognize a lot of others. Despite his hair not changing, I didn't realize kid Goku and Adult Goku were the same person until I looked at the latter's space-suit and saw the words Goku in english on it.
So then I finally watched the first dub of Z, and there was a lot of confusing stuff. I finally became aware of the fact that Krillin was an adult (still having a female voice and his height made me assume he was a kid who was just older then Gohan), found out Piccolo had formerly been a villain (it did explain why the others were freaked out by him), found out Gohan was Goku's son (another freak-out explained), etc etc.
It's because of seeing Z first that, like many, my bitterness at the humans being pushed out of the spotlight is so prevalent (while I still don't like it, I'm starting to understand that they were always being outshone, and their increased priority was something that was being built up to).
I've learned a lot more since then. I admit, there are still some things I wish were different (though mostly, I wish Toriyama had planned things out a bit more; his world building has gotten interesting, but he needs to work on his character arcs, and maybe learn something about recurring villains instead of just tossing them out for a new guy), I understand Dragon Ball far better than I used to.
One Strip! One Strip!My bitterness at the Humans not being important is due to my having read Dragon Ball before Dragon Ball Z and, as such, I prefer the characters I'm more nostalgic for.
edited 26th Jan '16 12:10:37 PM by PushoverMediaCritic
Dragon Ball is great. It's the only reason I've ever been interested.
Maybe just because I like the fights better when they stay on the ground, which doesn't happen much in Z.
If I actually started with Z, I would've been bored out of my mind. Things just happen and it is not interesting.
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I first got into DBZ halfway through the Freeza arc, right around when they were explaining Vegeta's past and the Namekians and such, so I managed to avoid getting confused about some stuff. I just went "okay, so some of these guys are aliens, Vegeta looks human but is actually an alien, and Goku's a Vegeta-alien who was raised on Earth."
And then Toonami abruptly reset to the beginning of the series, as it does, and I went "wait, why are they back on Earth? Wait, Goku's long lost brother? Surely he'll be an important and significant recurring character."
Reminds me of how Harry Potter films would toss out characters and subplots from the books on the assumption that they weren't that important, only to be bitten in the ass when those things got more significance later.