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Dragon Ball and Ranma
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Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:55 pmby Draconis Stelanaris
Ok, not exactly the best name for this but...
Did any one else cach the reference to DB in the cheerleading fight? One of the boys in the stands says the name of one the cheerleader's attacks is a reference to Dragon Ball. Ranma then asks who's manga this is.
I just thought that was funny that Ranma may read DB on ocasion and wanted to find out if any one else got that..
Posted:
Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:10 amby Bliss
Hmmm do you have a link or whatnot to the exact page? I don't think I caught it. Unless it's the anime, in which case is it possible to ref me a screenshot? *grins* Yeah I'm unreasonably lazy like that.
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Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:23 amby Draconis Stelanaris
sorry no link, no clue how to go about doing that but..
vol. 19 Viz action edition of the manga page 174 english translation.
That help any?
Posted:
Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:36 amby nuclear death frog
Draconis, do you mean this page?
http://ranmahentai.ranma.ws/RanmaManga/Book21/RM21-174.gifThe golden cloud could be a reference to
Dragon Ball, but since the early story of
Dragon Ball was largely based on
Journey to the West, this could actually be a reference to that. I wouldn't know, as I've never read it.
Posted:
Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:43 amby Draconis Stelanaris
No but within a few pages...
Its 2 pages back and a verbal referance by a student. The attack is the "nyoibo boton crash" that the boy coments on. He literaly says "Whoa! A Dragon Ball referance!"
Posted:
Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:50 amby Draconis Stelanaris
....and diferent Translation, I found the page on that site but it did not have it... Do I have to scan this in just to show you guys? :Gumbles:
Posted:
Fri Aug 04, 2006 8:22 amby nuclear death frog
There is also a Nyoibo in Dragon Ball, but as I said, it is not necessarily a Dragon Ball reference because the early part of Dragon Ball was heavily derived from other sources.
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Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:23 amby lwf58
If you're talking about the attack with the extending baton, that and the "golden cloud" of pom-poms are references to the same source as Dragon Ball, not necessarily to DB itself. The manga scans
http://ranmahentai.ranma.ws/RanmaManga/ ... 1-172.htmlcontain no dialog referencing DB.
DB, this story arc in Ranma, and many other other anime and manga stories are referencing the traditional Chinese folk tale, Journey to the West. This tale features as one of its characters the Monkey King, Sun Wukong (The Japanese pronounce the kanji that make up his name as Son Goku) and two other fighters accompanying a Buddhist monk on a journey to find some precious Buddhist manuscripts and return with them to China. The extending staff (in Journey to the West, it can also become many other tools, such as an axe) and the golden cloud he can ride upon are items associated with the Monkey King.
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Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:38 amby Draconis Stelanaris
Confine it to the void... I am going to have to scan....
I just started buying Ranma at Books-a-million and the version they have there has a literal "Hey, thats from DB!" comment. I will try to get that scaned in and show you, and I knew the origin already. I thought the attacks were from Journey to the West befor I saw that blip.
