Page 2 of 2

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 12:10
by Dark Lord
Crush wrote:I am not a fan of yaoi, but I am quite a yuri fanboy.
What is yaoi and what is yuri?

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 13:30
by Crush
Both are quite common terms from anime/manga fandom.

Yaoi = homosexuality between male characters
Yuri = homosexuality between female characters

Some people also differ between yaoi/yuri and shonen-ai/shojo-ai where the first two terms refer to erotica and the latter terms to romantic love stories.


By the way: The main target demographic for explicit Yaoi erotica are not homosexual men how you would expect but heterosexual women.

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 15:05
by DonCBen
I wonder if:
a. it's regional, I have lots of friends who like DBZ (and I do too)
b. it's an age group thing (we're all between the ages of 24-30)
c. a little of both :wink:

And I definitely don't think it's gay (as in homosexual) because there are lots of scenes where the different male characters are VERY blatantly staring, groping, harassing the female characters.

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 15:46
by Spit23
I have a friend who works in a comic store. He told me that the most yaoi mangas are bought by girls in the age of 14. And there are many of them who buy it. I wonder why young girls like them so much.

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 17:19
by Matt
Whats up with Kage? Does he want to cover his gay emo self-cutting lameness attitute with bad flamewar topics? This forums gets worse each day :(

Dragonball Z rules, Dragonball is one of the best and successful animes out there!

If you've got no time for fillers watch Dragonball Kai, thats Z without fillers in HD = awesome!

Of course I'm talking about the japanese original version with english fansub-titles. Dubs always suck. Always.

I like yuri too.

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 02 Sep 2009, 16:17
by tapion
DonCBen wrote:I wonder if:
a. it's regional, I have lots of friends who like DBZ (and I do too)
b. it's an age group thing (we're all between the ages of 24-30)
c. a little of both :wink:

And I definitely don't think it's gay (as in homosexual) because there are lots of scenes where the different male characters are VERY blatantly staring, groping, harassing the female characters.
+2

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 18:53
by Black Don
Crush wrote:I am not a fan of yaoi, but I am quite a yuri fanboy.
Why am I not surprised?

PS still waiting on the Maid Costume sprite sheet :P

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 06:51
by Viscous Viscera
Shinchan? It's teh awesomest!!

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 14:54
by tapion
however,saying "Dragon ball Z is gay" is not good in my opinion.It is a cool movie.Some people do those pictures to do the people think that dragon ball is gay but the company that created the movie didnt do those!

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 16:56
by Black Don
I mean sure it has a thin plot that is only there to give a premise for the 20-30 episode long fights.
Doesn't mean its gay.
Or when the villain says he is going to "give him all he's got" and the hero says "go ahead I can take it".
Whats gay about that?
Or when they shoot energy beams that have a similar shape to the male reproductive organ.
How is that gay?

Why Dragon Ball Z isn't any more gay then the sport of Bodybuilding. I mean oily guy in speedo's with all hair shaved off his body, striking poses on a stage. Whats Gay about that?

Now a person in the sport could be gay or a character in a show. Maybe an artist or writer is struggling with hidden feelings of homosexuality and it shows up in the work they do. People can be gay but a TV show can only show what people put in them. I mean calling a TV show gay is dumb and immature, I mean a tree is more likely to be gay cause it cross pollinates with other trees. So I would suggest a different adjective to describe non-living immaterial things.

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 20:24
by Black Don
Dallas wrote:I'd like to see you say that to Goku, he'd fk you up!
Why would I worry about an anime character who's Japanese voice actor sounds like an angry smerf.
As for my feeling for the show itself, I have watched it and did find some of the visuals cool but it is laking when compared to any of the other better written anime out there.

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 06:08
by leeor_net
Dark Lord wrote:
Crush wrote:I agree that Dragonball Z (and the rest of the Dragonball franchise) is a very badly written anime, but I am not aware of many homoerotic undertones in it. When you are searching for some really gay anime, this is a good starting point:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HoYay/Anime
Aww yuck, homosexual anime porn EWW
Turns out we've got a silly child on our hands. You know, there are a lot of us out there and I still fail to see why so many people seem to have a problem with homosexuality. Personally, I don't understand what men see in women... :? breeders... lol

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 19:19
by InspectorShameless
Short and educative example :
Image
extracted from this guy blog :
Image

Got it ? :idea:

Re: Dragon Ball Z is gay

Posted: 20 Sep 2009, 18:14
by tapion
Gouki wrote:I never watched an episode of Dragonball GT. is it good? Or wasted time?
It has cool episodes :P .I saw more than half of them.Goku becomes small again,he reaches ssj level 4.Vegeta trains to reach it and with some experiments of his wife he reaches level 4 too :lol: .And there are some strong monsters :wink: