Pardon me while I Geek Out

"Being a good fiend is like being a good photographer. You have to search for the right moment." -- Vegeta


Brother Omi mentioned Dragon Ball Z a few days ago and I surpressed my geek urges, but after admitting them monday (and the fact that the uncensored episodes have been airing) I don't have to hold back anymore. This is the greatest animated series ever! O.K., there I said it. Judge me if you will. Rain down insults upon my head, I care not! This is the only series (that made it to America) where people grew up, had babies, died and so forth. This is the only series where people grew and changed. Where the bad guy could eventually become a valued friend. Not to mention people get their ass kicked. One of my favorite things about this show was despite the hero being generally heroic...he was as dumb as a bag of rocks. His first master had a thing for porn and his wife was a nag.

This series has brought forth one of my favorite bad guys of all time Vegeta (who's name means, I believe, Vegetable in Japenese). This cat was royalty, hella strong and had a Napolean complex. Killer of his partner, beating up on kids even trying to take out the only other of his kind left in the universe. Vegeta is *ahem* Hella bad. Forever dogged by the fact that someone who was supposed to be inferior could surpass him. Eventually he puts all his schemes of domination aside to just try and out do the hero. This is a cocky son of a bitch. Even when he became a semi-friend to the "good guys" he would still get on their asses on a regular basis. He married one of the ladies, had a son and still remained an arrogant prick who couldn't wait to show up the hero. He's like your asshole friend, you need him to get things done but he'll rip you in a second. Despite most animated series in the end he admitted that he was never as good as his rival because he wasn't selfless.

Nothing like watching animated characters experience growth.

Akira Toriyama put some weird things in here. The main Characters name means Cloud, his son's name is Rice. One families name all has to do with underwear. The name I love most though is that of an attack, one of the strongest and heavily trusted...The Kamehameha...if you don't know you gotta do a Google search on that.
The other thing I got from watching Dragon Ball Z was that Americans are pussies...So much crap was cut out or changed to make it T.V. friendly.

No blood, no cursing and nothing dealing with sex but also dumb things like:
A character named Mr. Satan was changed to Hercule
Instead of calling the underworld Hell they changed it to H.F.I.L. Home for Infinite Losers (Which is kinda funny).

While we cringe at all these "horrible" things...the Japenese don't have all the issues on as large a scale as we do. As a matter I think we have the sheltered girl syndrome: Y'know what I mean the girl that was never allowed to do anything and couldn't hang out or have a boyfriend...that's the one dudes targeted on those half days off from school. Then all of the sudden she's got like 5 kids and everybody knows her name. When I think about it you see more in regular T.V. from around the world than you do here. We cut out violence yet have the most murders. We restrict sexual material yet there's mad pregnant children. It's a wonder how all of our protection just doesn't work...See look how thought provoking DBZ is.

Now having gotten that out of my system we may continue with the regularly scheduled program...unless someone brings up Metal Gear Solid then I'll geek out again.