What do you think the Red Ribbon Army was doing at the time?
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So Shu is a kapo?
No. But when brushing my teeth I brush my tongue as well.
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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
"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.
How is "i didn't feel like drawing them anymore" less boring?
Because then at least the universe still exists in your imagination without being a shitty retcon cop out.
Edit: I also want to clarify, I'm not against change or drugs or bodymods, by any means, and I do think the drug idea is actually really cool. BUT - using it as a means to bs your way AS AN AUTHOR out of having any animal people anymore feels really messed up. And also Lazy. It would be one thing if it were a fan theory, which I still feel like it might be, but that it's canon is like ... It just feels so fricking cheap and like "there never were any animal people because it was all just bodymods" like bro fuck you yeah there were, we all saw the animal people and the world was more colorful and wonderous for it.
If they want to save it, maybe have both: have the majority of people be animal people, they've just gone into hiding, but then there is also a technology in the world that's capable of turning people into animal people and animal people into human people. Like the reason we haven't been seeing animal people is because they've been transformed/hiding/playing as humans.
Don't take away animal-people authenticity! They exist!
This is far more terrifying than the existence of animal people
An utopia for furries actually
As I said
Was gonna say- where do we sign up? Haha
Launch took them all with her when she disappeared.
No they didnt. The president is a dog type earthling in DB and Z named King Furry.
His name is actually King Furry? When they said that in abridged I thought they were joking.
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...
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!
Dragon Ball is not known for its subtlety, that's for sure.
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
The last survivor.
https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Animorphaline
It was actually drugs that caused the furries in the DB universe. Only Red Ribbon Army stans know
The two beastmen assume Oolong is a Beastman until he explains he was born an Animal-type
Looks like Oolong wasn't only forgotten by Toriyama but also by myself.
That was a very interesting read, thank you for sharing.
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Blame Gen Z.
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.
There are still animal people in DBZ and subsequent series. A couple of them are even recurring characters and part of the story. wtf?
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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🎶 animal people in my soup 🎶
What about Oolong and that lecherous turtle? Also isn’t Krillin canonically a duck?
Krillin is a chestnut monk iirc. Kuririn クリリン 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 栗 (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 少林 (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.
Also isn’t Krillin canonically a duck?
What a majestic creature.
What? When/how/why is krillin a duck?
QUACK
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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