What kind of sense does it make for a being with three eyes to be a "human"?
Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon Dragon Ball by breaking down episodes 96, 97 ,98, 99 and 100, "Tail's Tale," "Final Match: Goku vs. Tien," "Victory's Edge," "Tien's Insurrection," and "The Spirit Cannon." We continue discussing the 22nd Budokai Tenkaichi, and delve into the topic of Tien and his third eye.
In this episode:
- Jelli and Bekinney split up. That will end well.
- We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments
- Some notes on Toriyama's claims of making it all up as he goes along
- Parallels in the fighting to Daoist concepts about levels of refinement and control
- Breaking down the Taiyo Ken, or Solar Flare, and its relationship to ying and yang energy
- Where the volley ball attack came from, and a brief note about shojo manga being essentially created by the manga Attack No. 1
- Breaking down the Shiyo-ken or Four Supernatural Fists Technique
- How Shiyo-ken ties Tien to Hindu deities such as Ganesh
- Breaking down Tien, Tien Shinhan, Tenshinhan, Ten, and which is the "correct" pronunciation
- Tien's ties to the Qing Dynasty
- Tien's all-important tenme, or third-eye and its metaphysical importance
- How a tenme is inspired by humanity's pineal gland
- A brief note on the movie From Beyond, which features the pineal gland as a plot point
- How Daoists believe it is possible to utilize your pineal gland and open a third eye
- A note about Tien and his retroactive explanation of being an alien from the Mistume-jin (three-eyed people)
- Toriyama's possible inspiration from Osamu Tezuka's manga, The Three-Eyed One, and Journey to the West, and the character Erlangshen
- Comparisons between Erlangshen and Tien Shinhan including uses of a third eye, fighting a monkey child, being able to defeat Sun Wukong (Goku), and more
- 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, and unspool what we all love so much about Goku, the Dragon Ball franchise, the Dragon Ball anime, Dragon Ball manga, and more.
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