RELATED: Why Layoffs and Cancellations Have Sparked Industry-wide Worry Among Animators 4/15 Gintama’s Characters Frequently Engage In Elaborate Dragon Ball Parodies Harima gets into a fight with Karasuma that reaches such heights that the characters develop intense energy auras. It actually makes a lot of sense that Harima would be inspired by Toriyama and aspire towards comparable levels of power. Harima happens to be a manga writer, so it’s not exactly surprising that he has a healthy knowledge of other manga archetypes. In one of the later episodes of School Rumble, lead character Harima transforms into an actual Super Saiyan for a fight with his opponent, Ouji Karasuma. One can always count on a good comedy for references to more popular pop culture. Goku and Luffy are both tirelessly devoted to their goals and pursuits for greater strength, but they also contain massive appetites that are at times more impressive than their brute strength and transformations.ĥ/15 School Rumble Turns Harima Into A Genuine Super Saiyan The pacing and adventures in One Piece pay respect to Dragon Ball in various ways, but the most obvious lies in how Luffy of the Straw Hat Pirates doesn’t feel very far removed from the plucky protagonist, Goku.
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It’s no easy feat to keep a series going for as long as One Piece, yet Eiichiro Oda’s consistency with his storytelling owes a lot to Akira Toriyama’s storytelling staples. One Piece’s popularity only grows more intense over time and it’s even set to have a live-action Netflix series.
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That’s to say nothing of Don Patch, whose transformation, Professional Patch, is absolutely a shout-out to Dragon Ball’s famous Super Saiyans.Ħ/15 Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece Lead, Luffy, Is Inspired By GokuĪt this point, One Piece has usurped Dragon Ball as Japan’s top shonen manga series.
Much of the fighting in Bobobo pulls directly from Dragon Ball Z, including the fact that characters are known to fuse together to create more powerful combined fighters. There are clear allusions to Fist of the North Star with the lead character’s nose hair-based fighting style, but Dragon Ball nods are also quite common. Bobobo is technically a shonen series, but its priority is absurdist gags and it’s an anime that truly relishes surreal humor and unexpected pop culture parodies. The name of the anime Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo should be a clear indication to most audiences that it isn’t meant to be taken seriously. It’s not difficult to see the influence either - Naruto and Goku are both big eaters with a taste for battle.ħ/15 Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo Embraces Dragon Ball To Compliment Its Comedy Masashi Kishimoto has admitted that he started working on manga because of Dragon Ball and Goku in particular. Lina Inverse wouldn’t stand a chance against Goku, but the two would without a doubt respect each other’s journeys.ġ0/15 Naruto’s Masashi Kishimoto Drew Inspiration From Dragon Ball And Goku Slayers even has a shrewd sense of humor that’s not unlike the gags that come out of the original Dragon Ball. One of the biggest differences between these two series is that Slayers has a cast primarily made up of crafty female magic users rather than burly male brawlers.Īesthetically, Slayers and Dragon Ball are quite distinct, but the adventure and scope of these series are quite similar, at least at first. Slayers, admittedly, isn’t the first anime series that comes to mind when audiences think of Dragon Ball. 1/15 Good Luck Girl! Features Goku And Vegeta In Its Playful Introġ1/15 Slayers Follows A Special Team Of Sorceresses On Amazing Adventures.2/15 My Bride Is A Mermaid Sneaks In Goku, Vegeta, And Trunks Into The Background.3/15 Assassination Classroom Features A Direct Reference To Dragon Ball’s Saiyan Saga.4/15 Gintama’s Characters Frequently Engage In Elaborate Dragon Ball Parodies.5/15 School Rumble Turns Harima Into A Genuine Super Saiyan.6/15 Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece Lead, Luffy, Is Inspired By Goku.7/15 Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo Embraces Dragon Ball To Compliment Its Comedy.8/15 Bleach’s Tite Kubo Took Note From Dragon Ball’s Bold Villains.9/15 One-Punch Man’s Saitama Is Like If Goku Suddenly Ran Out Of Competition.10/15 Naruto’s Masashi Kishimoto Drew Inspiration From Dragon Ball And Goku.11/15 Slayers Follows A Special Team Of Sorceresses On Amazing Adventures.12/15 Yu Yu Hakusho’s Emphasis On Dark Tournaments Brings Dragon Ball’s Structure To Mind.13/15 Hunter X Hunter Is A Smart Shonen Series That Builds Upon Dragon Ball’s Solid Foundation.14/15 The God Of High School Focuses On Intense Tournament Battles With A Monkey King Protagonist.15/15 My Hero Academia Combines Shonen Storytelling Staples With Superhero Stereotypes.
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