September 24, 2024

Piccolo Jr Manga Review (S3E19)

55 minutes

Dragon Ball gives way to Dragon Ball Z, but what about the manga? How does it stack up to the anime adaptation?

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon Dragon Ball by jumping into comparing the Dragon Ball anime to the Dragon Ball manga. We continue discussing Piccolo Jr arc, and talk about Goku's character growth.

In this episode:

Jelli and Bekinney are almost back to their ship

We recap the story a little bit

Goku's character growth from being overly impetuous and rash to a little more measured and intentional with his fights and how this is doled out over thousands of pages, making it subtle

How Goku becomes the stand-in for Sun Wukong and Xuanzang as the series progresses and that feeding into his character development meant

Brief discussion of Toriyama's editors as the series progressed

A callback to Jelli's theory about the gods being like middle management

Comparing the manga to the anime, as we do when we wrap up an arc

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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