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For a serious answer, as someone who grew up in a family that couldn't afford cable television. DBZ, Sailor Moon, and Pokémon all aired on network, antenna, televison in the morning before school or after school throughout the 90's.
So it's probably a function of income more than race. All the poor white kids I grew up with worshiped those three shows too.
There's a scene in the netflix show, Daybreak, where RZA as a narrator explains how eastern warrior culture became popular in the black community. Which is what i thought of reading your question. I couldn't find a clip but here's an article about it, and the relevant quote:
"It's not your fault you want to be a samurai," says RZA. "See, that's the economical pressure being expressed as warrior code. It started when young black men couldn't afford to go to the movies, so we watched kung fu reruns. We found beauty in things that had been neglected." He explains the socioeconomic forces that raised a whole generation of "blerds," spinning out into everything from Jim Kelly to The Last Dragon to Kendrick Lamar's "Kung Fu Kenny" to The Boondocks to Wu-Tang Clan itself.
Pokemon, yes. But DBZ and sailor moon were on Cartoon Network which was on cable.
Eventually, first two seasons of DBZ aired on syndicated TV. Cartoon Network picked it up in 98
I towed a guys truck one time. Nerdy fella, talked a ton. Said he loved DBZ. I fucking went for it, said "yo why did every one of the black dudes I know growing up love DBZ?" And without missing a beat he looks at me and goes "they talk MAD shit in the show man." Blew my mind.
blew your mind because you were convinced that's the reason. so many black people like dbz?
does dbz talk shit different than other anime? I feel like everyone kind of talks shit to everybody else in every anime with heroes and villains.
or just cause it's the original?
I'm curious about the rest of the conversation.
Was he saying that talking mad shit was specifically compelling to black people?
It blew my mind because I wasn't expecting it.
does dbz talk shit different than other anime? I feel like everyone kind of talks shit to everybody else in every anime with heroes and villains.
I don't know. Never watched it.
Was he saying that talking mad shit was specifically compelling to black people?
That is what he meant. I interpreted it as "fuck yeah dude, that shit rules" more than "we talk shit" but who the hell knows.
haha, thanks for the followup.
yea that'd be a shock
Was he saying that talking mad shit was specifically compelling to black people?
Talking shit is the universal language of any black American communities. Source: lived and worked downtown with all black restaurant staff. Also signed up late for college one year and was placed in the athletic housing building which put me in the rooms with the entire basketball team. 2 semesters of me, a 5'7" white dude with 10-15 6'5" black dudes. It was a fucking scene to behold. We could've been our own fuckin comedy sitcom the amount of shit talk that was had lol. The college experience is what gives me reason to say it's universal because the players I lived with were from fuckin everywhere. NYC, St. L, Maryland, GA (NY school so didn't have any players from out west). It's a special feeling being a shorter white dude and stuffing a 6 foot black dude driving the net in 2K with the whole dorm room watching hahah I reached God status for like 30 seconds while all his teammates roasted him🤣
I'm black, and I loved Dragon Ball, and back in the late 90s early 2000s when it was airing on Cartoon Network it was pretty much popular with everyone.
I can't talk for everyone but the saiyan and Frieza arc in Dragon Ball z really stuck with me. Goku knew nothing about his family his people and their history. Then all of a sudden they show up and reck havoc on his life. Eventually he learns that his people were essentially enslaved and exported around the universe as babies to work for their slave owner Frieza, and when they started to organize they were wiped out. This arc ends with a final showdown between the Goku who now knows his history and the last of his race facing down the slave master Frieza who thought he was nothing but a monkey.
Well, when you put it like that.
Piccolo is badass, and clearly he's black.
I'm pretty sure he's green.
And The Simpsons are yellow
and the teletubbies are..
"Piccolo"
Are you colorblind ?
It's huge in Mexico as well, they had public viewing of new DBSuper episodes (Toei Animations tried to cease and desist them but got told to stfu).
Police reports regularly showed a significant decrease in cartel activity around the times new DB episodes dropped.
France too
Mainstream supermarkets have adult sized DBZ briefs, there are still little coin-op machines that dispense DBZ figurunies
Are these guys American? I know DBZ was huge in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Dragon ball is huge in latin america because they were the first to get dubs in their language, in a time where spanish dubs for any cartoon were very underserved. Usa airwaves were saturated with animation for kids. Latin america had to buy rights because there was very little home grown production.
They also got the dubs way way sooner than viewers in the united states.
Right time and right place, and it snowballed from there.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/anime/why-dragon-ball-popular-mexico-latin-america
I live in a black town and I can confirm this. The phenomena remains mysterious, I have no answers.
Omg black people like comics now ?
Thats why I never leave out the /s
lol I will never learn