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What's something you used to like as a kid that you now, as an adult, realize had some pretty fucked up messaging? (hexbear.net)

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For me it's Dragon Ball Z, that was a pretty fucked up show tbh.

Like holy shit, all the characters are terrible people except maybe Gohan and Trunks.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeh ngl I still love Dragon Ball but Mr Popo is super suss and Master Roshi is incredibly wack. The portrayal of women in general is wack.

I don't think the characters in general are supposed to be morally perfect or anything like that, and I don't see why that detracts from the quality of a show, depending on how its presented (which is why the representation of Mr Popo and Roshi are big time criticizable). I mean technically Dragon Ball is basically space opera with its mix of East Asian mythological and sci-fi elements with soap and sit com elements for good measure, so evil dudes doing evil shit is expected.

The fights are still fucking awesome tho

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