Our shortest run of manga-anime comparison ever! Will we have enough material to do a full episode?
Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 78, 79, 80, 81 and 82, "The Eternal Dragon Rises," "Terror and Plague," "Goku vs Sky Dragon," "Goku Goes to Demon Land," and "The Terror of InoShikaCho." We continue discussing the Fortune Teller Baba mini tournament and a few unexpectedly interesting filler episodes, as well as round up with a discussion of the Baba arc in the manga.
In this episode:
- Jelli is on an ant-hunt
- We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments
- The hidden meaning behind Baba's chanting as she intones the final dragon ball's location
- Kazuhiko Torishima's take on Goku's pants being burned
- Some Voltron and Power Rangers comparisons
- Terror and Plague's similarities to both Journey to the West and Seven Samurai
- Jelli and Bekinney discuss Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven, and....A Bug's Life? Also The Three Amigos.
- The similarities between Goku's clash with Sky Dragon and the films Tiger and Crane Fists and Fist of Fury
- The movies being borrowed from for Goku's trip into Demon Land
- How Shura looks like the destroyer Shiva, and how Shiva may be repurposed in Super later on
- InoShikaCho's inspirations from a popular card game and the influence of said game on anime, including Naruto
- And we round it all out with a discussion of the manga and do our usual comparison to the anime
- and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual
Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise.
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