As a Spaniard, I take offense at your insinuation that my people are
NOT loud and obnoxious. We try very hard to stand out.
Yeah, sorry. You would be the second Spaniard I've personally met and both of you have been level headed and chill people.
Maybe it's just because I've spent several decades of my life reading manga but Japan is fuckin' obsessed with will they won't they. Far more than the West. The West, which broadly includes America, England, France, Spanish, etc. focuses a lot on being in a relationship. Unless we're talking about teen dramas.
I think that's it exactly. A lot of them takes place in shounen and/or shoujo mangas. The shou (少) literally signifies teenager (same words in Chinese. Short Kanji lesson. 少 literally means less. Shounen actually means "Less years(age)". It should be noted that while "shounen" in Japanese is almost always male, shounen 少年, in Chinese as no explicit gender designation.). My personal opinion is that it's because it's easy and, like, right there, as a plot point but also it's wish fulfillment. But that's just my own opinion without research or anything.
As mentioned, I wasn't commenting on the quality. I find it silly but that's why SEED takes place in an alternate timeline separated from Amuro and stuff. Different galaxy, different tone.
Noted. It's just I don't usually watch Gundam for teen drama. I'll give it a shot. Thank you.
I mean Krillan is the comic relief and Team4Star had a running gag about how "owned" Krillan gets.
Yeah, most of us that had exposure to Dragon Ball before it became popular in the west didn't really see Krillan as a comic relief. I was kind of surprised when Team4Star made it into a running gag. I mean, I get it and yeah it's hilarious. But I think it was Goku or someone that said that Krillan is the strongest human on the planet. Not usually a title you give to a comic relief.
There's also the fact that Akira Toriyama is known for disliking the Chinese.
As someone that's ethnically Chinese. Yeah, I can understand. My grandfather hated the Japanese to his dying day. But then, he did live through the Japanese occpuation in China.
The original Dragon Ball was but I don't remember Sun Wukong being a member of an alien species who were named after vegetables.
Well, the buddhist monk wasn't a vain rich teenage girl named after shorts either. It pretty much went off the rails from the get-go. But that's what happens during adaptations. And us ethnically Chinese get that. Because, and people in the west probably don't know this, there was A LOT of Journey to the West adaptations even prior to Dragon Ball, let alone after.
Maddeninggg would legitimately kill me if I explained anything about Null's powers.
Well, we all know that Null's real powers are Snape kills Dumblevader who is Luke Cage's father.
