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Official 1993 Shonen Jump poll:

1. Son Gohan 51,921 votes
2. Son Goku 48,256 votes
3. Trunks 29,627 votes
4. Vegeta 17,383 votes
5. Piccolo 9,454 votes
6. Kulilin 7,438 votes
7. Mr. Satan 1,892 votes
8. Cell 1,769 votes
9. Bulma 1,135 votes
10. Dende 756 votes

Official 1995 Shonen Jump poll:

1. Son Goku 10,492 votes
2. Vegeta 7,019 votes
3. Trunks 6,537 votes
4. Gotenks 6,102 votes
5. Piccolo 5,515 votes
6. Son Gohan*
7. Son Goten*
8. Yamcha*
9. Freeza*
10. Kulilin*

Official 2004 Shuiesha poll:

1. Son Goku 6,235 points
2. Vegeta 2,527 points
3. Son Gohan 2,131 points
4. Trunks 1,487 points
5. Piccolo 1,176 points
6. Son Goten 798 points
7. Kulilin 736 points
8. Majin-Boo 421 points
9. Freeza 324 points
10. Android No. 18 204 points
11. Mr. Satan 201 points
12. Karin 185 points
13. Kame-Sennin 172 points
14. Cell 170 points
15. Yamcha 160 points
16. Tenshinhan 125 points
17. Bulma 112 points
18. Android No. 17 98 points
19. Yajirove 93 points
20. Beedel 86 points

Official 2018 Sports Nippon poll:

1. Goku: 26.6%
2. Vegeta: 16.5%
3. Gohan: 9.3%
4. Piccolo: 5.8%
5. Broly: 6.6%
6. Goku Black: 4.7%
7. Android 17: 3.1%
8. Frieza: 2.4%
9. Hit: 2.1%
10. Trunks: 1.8%
11. Yamcha: 1.8%
12. Cell: 1.8%
13. Jiren: 1.3%
14. Beerus: 1.1%
15. Krillin: 1%
16. Tien: 0.9%
17. Mr. Satan: 0.5%
18. Majin Buu: 0.5%

Official 2021 Viz poll:

1. Vegeta
2. Goku
3. Gohan
4. Goku Black
5. Future Trunks
6. Beerus
7. Whis
8. Android 17
9. Frieza
10. Krillin
11. Granolah
12. Moro
13. Android 18
14. Zamasu
15. Chi-Chi
16. Cabba
17. Bulma
18. Oracle Fish
19. Jaco
20. Future Mai
21. Seven-Three
22. Macki
23. Elec
24. Gas
25. Oil

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Arale ranked in 12th place for most popular anime/manga character and Sembe was nowhere (in case it's not obvious, Dr. Slump's real name is Sembe Norimaki)

https://sg.style.yahoo.com/top-10-shonen-jump-manga-characters-voted-japanese-netizens-103413533.html?guccounter=2

Arale is in third place and Sembe is nowhere in sight. Totally nonsensical to claim that he's more iconic or influential than Arale. Anyone who's actually seen or read Dr. Slump would know that Arale was the star.

Asuka hasn't done more than Arale lol. She wasn't even the most popular female character of Evangelion; that was Rei, who still isn't on Arale's level.

This may be a shock for some but a female character doesn't need a lot of hentai to be iconic

Baphometa posted...

Urusei Yatsura helped popularize female protagonists and inspired the waifu genre.
Creamy Mami is the inspiration for the magical girl genre.
Minky Momo continued to inspire the magical girl genre and is the origination of (Minky Momo spoilers) Truck-kun.
Asuka wasn't the first, but certainly cemented the notion of tsundere characters.
Studio Ghibli had numerous female characters who have influenced media even outside anime.
Motoko Kusanagi similarly impacted international media and cultural philosophy.
Sazae-san is THE longest running anime and influential on Japanese comedy and cultural tropes.

Not all of these are Shonen.

Bulma created the dragon radar

Pilaf did.

and is the first major side character in Dragon Ball.

Side characters aren't important and she's not a major one.

Dr. Slump, the character, is probably more influential on WSJ and the series is similarly influential to Japanese comedy.

Sembe isn't more iconic or influential than Arale, who was the protagonist and mascot for the series.

And no, Bulma isn't more influential than Arale. Or at all, for that matter.

SSJKirby posted...

also the inspiration for Mario and the Tanooki Suit

mario's run was also inspired by arale's

Full_Pokedex posted...

So um Super shows Arale came back after the earth was destroyed and brought back in DBZ. How? Android 16 shows that those without a soul, IE pure androids, cannot be restored with the Dragon Balls. How was she able to come back while 16 wasn't?

Gag character

I still wouldn't use Arale as an example of a good female character because she's dumb as bricks, though.

Masashi Kishimoto, creator of Naruto, gained an interest in drawing during his childhood from drawing pictures of Arale.

ARALE IS LOVE ARALE IS LIFE

The N'cha Cannon is the original Kamehameha
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c225f614.jpg

If she said Fushigidane then she a real one

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8cc17676.jpg
The main character/mascot of Dr Slump and original model for Goku.

Without the success of Dr Slump, Dragon Ball would have never been a thing. And yes Toriyama also created Dr Slump if that wasn't clear lol

Fun fact: With a 36.9% average household rating, the December 16, 1981, episode of Dr. Slump is the third most watched anime since the television ratings group Video Research began keeping track on September 26, 1977.

I tried ordering at this time but the donuts are unavailable.

I guess you have to order during the day?

Remember when GameFAQs was owned by Viacom and the mods would remove any negative post about Schneider

Do they got the waifus

iirc it's also ambiguous in the sub. koenma says "no, this is something completely different" when yusuke powers up

Lmao!

Pororin posted...

10/10 fam poro!

Ayyy Fam!

Specifically, the end of Chapter Black and Three Kings. As much as I like the idea of Yusuke fighting a former Spirit Detective being the finale of the series, ending the series without exploring what the Demon World was like would have been rather unsatisfying. The next arc taking place in the Demon World was a logical progression from Chapter Black, which centered around the portal to the Demon World being opened. The main issues were the bullshit retcon that Yusuke had demon ancestry and the half-assed tournament (how the fuck do you skip Yusuke vs. Yomi, which was supposed to be the final fight of the manga?).

Here's my idea. In the Chapter Black arc, instead of Sensui killing Yusuke, he kills Koenma; right when Sensui is about to kill Yusuke, Koenma jumps to take the blow and dies. The series can unfold in two ways.

1) Enraged over Koenma's death, Yusuke powers up to Class-S and kills Sensui. Itsuki takes Sensui's corpse and leaves. Koenma later gets brought back by his father Enma (seeing as Koenma's pacifier could revive the Game Master kid, Enma could have his own tool that brings the deceased back to life), the portal is sealed and the series ends.

It's a rehash of the Dark Tournament's ending, but given Togashi's ailing health, it would have been better if he just ended the series here. If he really had to continue it, though, then it should have gone like this:

2) Enraged over Koenma's death, Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei and Kurama all get rage boosts that power them up, but none of them reach Class-S. They fight Sensui in the Demon World and lose. Sensing Yusuke's desperation to defeat Sensui, Raizen partially turns Yusuke into a demon against his will. The partial demon Yusuke snaps and accidentally kills Sensui, whose corpse is taken by Itsuki. Yusuke feels guilt for having killed Sensui, who was human. The portal is closed by Enma's special force, leaving Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei and Kurama stuck in the Demon World. Raizen, the strongest of all demons, is the only one capable of opening the portal. He'll only open it for Yusuke and his friends to go back to Human World if any of them can defeat him. Yusuke trains with Raizen's men to surpass him. Yomi and Mukuro are the strongest demons after Raizen. Kurama trains with Yomi and Hiei trains with Mukuro. Kuwabara trains with Jin, Chu, Rinku, Shishiwakamaru and Suzuki at Yomi's territory.

As Yusuke trains to surpass Raizen, he gradually loses more and more of his humanity. It's suspected by Yomi and Mukuro that Raizen's true plan is for Yusuke to fully become a demon and have him destroy the Human World himself. A year passes and Yusuke is sent to kill Kuwabara, Kurama and Hiei to fully complete his transformation into a demon. Yusuke battles his friends and defeats all of them, but Kuwabara brings him back to his senses, which fully returns him to his human form. Yusuke still has the same amount of power he had as a near-complete demon (the Demon Energy is converted to Spirit Energy) and he goes to fight Raizen. Yusuke powers up further by awakening Sacred Energy and defeats Raizen, who reveals that his true goal was to be killed by a human as penance for all the humans he killed in the past. This parallels how Sensui's goal was to be killed by a demon as penance for all the demons he killed in the past. Raizen anticipated that Yusuke would regain his humanity and the reason he didn't turn Kuwabara into a demon was so he could help Yusuke. Yusuke, however, doesn't kill Raizen, declaring that both humans and demons deserve to live. Raizen opens the portal and Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei and Kurama return to the Human World. Koenma is brought back to life by his father. Series ends.

They take a shit in the morning like everyone else. They're not special. Get that shit out of your head right now. Because the more you think they're special, the more you're gonna fuck up when you talk to them. It's a human being. An organism bro

It's easier to focus on yourself than it is to focus on others. Once you got your shit straight then you can focus on dating and sex and all that.

Btw, in DBS, Bardock wished for Goku to survive into adulthood with the Cerealian Dragon Balls.

So we know no matter what, Goku will live into adulthood. The Red Ribbon army isn't killing him when they go after his ball.

TMOG posted...

He didn't need one, he was using his Scouter eyepieces to find them because the Namekians were keeping them all in villages instead of hiding them in the wilderness

He does need one, because if the Namekians felt like it, then they could hide the balls somewhere they can't be found. With no radar, Freeza wouldn't be able to find them.

And on the off chance he does gather them, he won't get his wish as he can't speak Namekian.

Based.

She was the one who kickstarted the plot

Just because you did one thing at the start of the series doesn't make you important for all of it. Mizuki isn't the most important character of Naruto just because he told him about the Shadow Clone scroll, which led to him graduating from the academy and the rest of the plot occuring.

Even then, this is incorrect as the plot would began without her as someone else would have come for Goku's ball and given him a reason to leave the mountains.

The red ribbon would have found goku, beat him, and took the dragon ball.

Nah, I could just as easily say that Pilaf would have come for Goku's ball and taken him on his quest for the balls. Then they become friends and Goku meets Roshi anyway.

"But if this didn't happen, then that wouldn't happen" is a meaningless argument when everything is arbitrary and decided on the author's whim.

Without the dragon radar he'd have no way to track it down or bring it back.

Good thing Pilaf has his own radar, which is superior to Bulma's as it has video feed.

Without Bulma, Goku would have also died to the virus

Convoluted plot devices like this aren't important. Goku died at the end of the arc, anyway, so it didn't matter.

Bulma also fucked over the spacetime continuum with her meddling, which led to Zamasu killing everyone on Earth and Zeno erasing the multiverse. So if we're giving Bulma credit for "kick-starting" the series, then she deserves blame for Future Trunks's timeline being wiped out.

Without Bulma, krillin and them don't arrive on namek in time to stop frieza from getting the dragon balls. Frieza has no delays.

Freeza doesn't have a radar and he can't speak Namekian, so he wouldn't find the Dragon Balls or get his wish.

Bulma's dad can fix the spaceship by himself, too.

Bulma is definitely integral to the plot as a driving force. The end.

She isn't. The end.

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That's funny when she never wins any of the official character polls for the franchise. Not even making the top 10.

So I'm pretty sure people just voted for her to spite me lol

Lore wise, the "most important" would be Zeno seeing as he's the highest of all Gods. Then Dragon God Zalama as he made the original Dragon Balls

But lore is worthless. The most important character is Goku because he's the protagonist and mascot of the franchise.

Crimson_Corsair posted...

Most important character in lore.

No

I don't see how anyone can watch Attack of the Clones and think it's better than the sequel trilogy

I hate sand

Or just CE

Discuss

It's gonna be may

Died in the room shot up to 97 cavities

"Toguro is the strongest demon"

Next arc

"JK he was only B class"

Kek

lilORANG posted...

I'm excited about it. The reboot trilogy has been great.

*was great

so you can open and close your accounts whenever you please?

TheBestBeast posted...

What's a CE fam?

Current Events

or perhaps Past Events if this board is replacing it as the popular off topic board lol

Scotty Man Into the Scotty Verse

zing grace

Still haven't seen War

RIP Ash

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/5/AAfdaFAAElJL.jpg

Resolve you like an argument.

Carry you like a discussion.

what's the all time low

R1masher posted...

That aint deep, deep is fathomable

i dunno what that words mean

You could wait years to meet the right girl and then bam she leaves you after a month

that's deep fam

Raiden2909 posted...

I'm sorry, are we walking about fire and things burning?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJTK_iNA5s&t=74s

that's from megaman

OH SNAP FAM

@SomeLikeItHoth

Disco inferno

For me anyways. Is this just a scheme to get people to use Chrome?

@DToast If loving her is wrong then I don't wanna be right.