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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

No. But when brushing my teeth I brush my tongue as well.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What do you think the Red Ribbon Army was doing at the time?

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

So Shu is a kapo?

Launch took them all with her when she disappeared.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 68 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Dragon Ball Z Kakarot actually has an explanation.

There used to be a fad where you took Furry Transformation drugs, it was all the rage when Goku was a kid

Somehow the Red Ribbon Army was behind the manufacturing of these drugs.

But the fad died down around Z, and most people went back to being human. Most people, you can still see animal people in the background shots of some of the Z Movies, I wanna say Android 13 and Lord Slug have them

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

"How do you explain creative diversity?"

"Drugs."

I'm gonna be honest, I think that's super lame. Not because it's drugs, but because it's a cheap way to explain not having animal people rather than just admit you don't want to draw them anymore. It makes the world more boring.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How is "i didn't feel like drawing them anymore" less boring?

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

Because then at least the universe still exists in your imagination without being a shitty retcon cop out.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This is far more terrifying than the existence of animal people

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 14 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

An utopia for furries actually

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago
[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Was gonna say- where do we sign up? Haha

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Blame Gen Z.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 124 points 19 hours ago (22 children)

No they didnt. The president is a dog type earthling in DB and Z named King Furry.

https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/King_Furry

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 57 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

His name is actually King Furry? When they said that in abridged I thought they were joking.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Lot of names in Dragonball have little puns behind them. Some survive translation unscathed, some don't. Ka(carrot). Vegeta(ble). Nappa (Cabbage), Raditz (Radish). Bulma comes from Bloomer, Her dads name is Dr. Brief, her mom is Panchy (Panty), and her son is Trunks. Whole undergarments family.

Then there's the Journey to the West comparisons...

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 hours ago

Also in the Buu saga, we have the the villain Bibidi, his son Babidi, and the monster Buu.

Put 'em together and what have you got? Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo!

[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 25 points 15 hours ago

Dragon Ball is not known for its subtlety, that's for sure.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 10 points 12 hours ago

I was telling my friend about the lore, and he thought I made up the name King Furry as a joke. Had to show him screenshots from DBZ:Kakarot to convince him otherwise

[–] AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world 69 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 58 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Animorphaline

It was actually drugs that caused the furries in the DB universe. Only Red Ribbon Army stans know

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The two beastmen assume Oolong is a Beastman until he explains he was born an Animal-type

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 28 points 18 hours ago

Looks like Oolong wasn't only forgotten by Toriyama but also by myself.

[–] AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world 19 points 18 hours ago

That was a very interesting read, thank you for sharing.

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[–] kinther@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago

I juat watched the original dragonball recently. It was weird how the animal people seem completely absent in later series. They add a sort of je ne sais quoi that makes the original series hold up.

If you ignore the objectification of Bulma who is a teenager, that is. It seemed like every other episode Roshi was trying to be a perv on her.

Well, that's what you get when you put in power a son of a bitch for a king.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

There are still animal people in DBZ and subsequent series. A couple of them are even recurring characters and part of the story. wtf?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 35 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Beerus is a cosmic demigod not native to Earth. Idk if he counts as an "Animal Person" in the same way as Oolong or the Pilaf Gang's Shu. That said, both continue to exist in Z, GT, and Super as minor supporters/antagonists.

Incidentally, in interviews, Toriyama admits he forgot about the animal people between DB and DBZ for the most part. But mainline characters still show up from time to time.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

🎢 animal people in my soup 🎢

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

What about Oolong and that lecherous turtle? Also isn’t Krillin canonically a duck?

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

Krillin is a chestnut monk iirc. Kuririn γ‚―γƒͺγƒͺン is his actual name.

Like most characters in the series, the name Krillin is a pun. In his case, its Japanese source, Kuririn, is made up of two parts. The first two syllables come from ζ — (kuri), which means "chestnut" in reference to his shaved head (the "chestnut" pun is also carried over to his daughter Marron). The second part of his name comes from ε°‘ζž— (Shōrin; "Shaolin" in Chinese), as his early character designs were closely modeled on.

Shaolin monks. Other beliefs are that his name comes from kuri-kuri/kurin-kurin (an onomatopoeia for something cute and round), kuri-kuri shita me (meaning "big round eyes"), or the words kurikuri (which can mean "bald") and rin (a word added to the end of a name to make it sound cute). His English name, meanwhile, seems to be a play on "krill" (both a minuscule species of shrimp-like crustacean and the Swedish term for a small fry of fish) in reference to his diminutive stature.

From: https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Krillin/Misc

Which makes me wonder if that isn't his real name, and maybe a nickname given to him by other characters in the show, like from before he first meets Goku in Dragonball. Because other characters have the food or underwear themes of names, yet Krillin's name is fully just making fun of how he looks.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Also isn’t Krillin canonically a duck?

What a majestic creature.

[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What? When/how/why is krillin a duck?

[–] AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

I just learnt that Oolong was born this way and the other animal people took a drug that turned them into beast people.

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