OG Dragon Ball Episode 7 full reaction
Added 2025-03-04 20:00:06 +0000 UTCFull Watch Along Reaction to Dragon Ball Episode 7
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I wouldn’t say ruined per say but definitely didn’t live up to her full potential. It would’ve been so interesting to have her be part of the z fighters!
SB
2025-03-18 03:47:57 +0000 UTCI don’t think she was really ruined
Sköllyr
2025-03-15 02:51:00 +0000 UTCWow, yeah those are three distinctly different versions!
Bethany and Ken
2025-03-06 22:08:51 +0000 UTCYeah, so crazy to think of an alternate universe where it would be Bulma and Goku because Bulma and Vegeta is so wonderful and those two really fit well together!
Bethany and Ken
2025-03-06 22:07:52 +0000 UTCOh wow, yeah totally didn't have the context to have picked up on that before but love that you pointed it out for us now!
Bethany and Ken
2025-03-06 22:05:55 +0000 UTCYoung ChiChi and Abbey are the same actress... talk about showing off a performer's range! 🤯 And that context on ChiChi's mentality after the pat-pat now makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing all this info for us 🙏
Bethany and Ken
2025-03-06 22:03:31 +0000 UTCYeah they kind of ruined chi chi after dragon ball. Turning her into the angry ball of negativity you two are used to.
Chad Mancillas
2025-03-05 05:03:08 +0000 UTCI've seen those videos and they are hilarious. Also, FYI Shadowpunch, I think the general conception is that the American equivalent is not a southern accent, but more like a mountain hillbilly accent. Something like Appalachia. I believe Chi-Chi has a way more thicker accent than Goku.
Cilla W
2025-03-05 01:47:10 +0000 UTC"No, no, he didn't start it." Ok, which one them is gonna say it? "It was always burning." Ken is our lucky winner! Man, I love Ox King's original design. Looks so awesome. Credit where it's due, Yamcha is smooth. ...OH YEAH! VA Fun Fact! Young Chi-chi is voiced by Laura Bailey. You've actually heard her recently as...Abby in The Last of Us Part II! Her playing Abby is really surprising, since she plays a lot of innocent characters, such as Tohru in Fruits Basket, if either of you have ever seen that. So, something lost in translation is that Chi-Chi and the Ox King are, much like Goku, country bumpkins. According to the Japanese subs, when Goku says she has to have a pure heart to ride the Nimbus, she says her heart is as clean as a flushed toilet. Could you imagine if this entire franchise maintained those aspects of their personality in the dub? A little cultural gap here. Chi-chi's turnabout is partly due to the fact that he patted her crotch; the thought process is "Now that he touched me there, I have to marry him," which is (less nowadays) a mindset Japanese people have/had. So her blushing was her coming to the conclusion that she's marrying this boy no matter what. Unfortunately, Chichi's mother is a non-entity. I don't think she's ever talked about outside of a "she'd be so proud of you" line in a filler episode some time from now.
DementisXYZ
2025-03-05 01:46:01 +0000 UTCMONSTER CARROT THE GOAT OF DRAGONBALL
Sean Carroll
2025-03-04 23:36:40 +0000 UTCAnd you can already see it, Goku and Chi-Chi’s chemistry at such a young age, it’s really adorable to watch (the pats aside 😅) Literally every freaking time I see the turtle, I think about how Ken never fed him in DBZ Kakarot and I just die in laughter 😂😂
J Sal
2025-03-04 23:29:58 +0000 UTCI already know which part you mean 😂😂
J Sal
2025-03-04 23:26:57 +0000 UTCPersonally I think Goku and Bulma made more sense, Bulma would have understood Gokus need for freedom and would have indulged in it as well as she too values her independence.
Cynergy
2025-03-04 21:44:31 +0000 UTCChichi was definitely more chill as a kid as opposed to an adult, more bearable as well.
Cynergy
2025-03-04 21:42:05 +0000 UTC😂.
Asuka Yousei 妖精帝國
2025-03-04 21:35:53 +0000 UTCFire mountain and the bansho fan are another homage to the story of wukong fyi. God i love these filler episodes this is how you build a world! They're not ready for what's coming later tho 😅
Asuka Yousei 妖精帝國
2025-03-04 21:35:30 +0000 UTCHmmmm i had the episode order confused. I was thinking a certain rabbit featuring episode was next
Serpent King
2025-03-04 21:08:34 +0000 UTCYou seen any of the YT videos of fans doing voiceovers with "accurate" accents? They ain't half bad lol.
JT
2025-03-04 21:00:38 +0000 UTCI want just a glimpse into the timeline where we were given an "accurate" English Goku and he has a southern U.S. accent just to see how hysterical that would sound.
Shadowpunch13
2025-03-04 20:59:11 +0000 UTCI make sure to leave the Japanese subtitles on whenever I sync up the episode and BOY does it make for a interesting experience.
Shadowpunch13
2025-03-04 20:56:27 +0000 UTC19:30 The funny thing about this moment is that Chi Chi's line is pretty much the complete opposite in the manga than what she says here. Instead of "When your dad's the Ox King you always behave well", it's "Then I'm ON! My heart's as clean as an indoor toilet!" I believe other commenters have mentioned it in the past, but Goku and Chi Chi both speak in the Japanese equivalent of "hick" accents. It's not really apparent in the dub, but the manga really leans into it in their dialogue. Goku's accent is one that was created by Masako Nozawa herself as she was voicing him, while Chi Chi (and the Ox King) both talk in a dialect that comes across as a blend of different rural Japanese dialects.
JT
2025-03-04 20:45:36 +0000 UTCThere's a small joke you guys missed watching DBZkai, when Goku met Videl, he ask Gohan "She's a girl, isn't she!" a small nod to this old habit of Goku. He did eventually learn not to do that 😂.
emma kotone
2025-03-04 20:43:05 +0000 UTCEnjoy pre-psycho Chi Chi while you have her
Hohoho
2025-03-04 20:33:55 +0000 UTC26:12 This is a point that doesn't really have a payoff canonically, so I'll just go ahead and say that we've never gotten an official design/name for Chi Chi's mother. She comes up very briefly in an episode far, far down the road, but even then, you can tell that Toei tried to avoid talking about her too much in case Toriyama ever ended giving her an actual design.
JT
2025-03-04 20:30:04 +0000 UTCI’m forever grateful Toei & his editors insisted on adding romance anyway. Although it’s not the main focus of the show, it adds a lot of dimension. The pairing of Vegeta & Bulma is legitimately one of the best things to come out of the franchise and I’d hate a world where that might’ve not happened
Hohoho
2025-03-04 20:22:05 +0000 UTCSometimes I wonder how high the dub writers were in the pre-2010s
Hohoho
2025-03-04 20:15:29 +0000 UTCThe start of Goku and Chi Chi’s relationship is what you get when you push a writer who’s super uninterested in writing romance into writing romance. As I’ve said before, Toriyama’s editor (Kazuhiko Torishima) was much more into writing with love and romance than Toriyama was, so just about any ideas involving such things were Torishima’s doing. He actually tried convincing Toriyama to have Goku and Bulma fall in love (to Toriyama’s displeasure).
JT
2025-03-04 20:01:32 +0000 UTCBall Joke Counter: 11
JT
2025-03-04 20:01:18 +0000 UTCThe history behind Fire Mountain is different between the dub, sub, and manga. Dub: The mountain was set aflame after the Ox King paid a wizard to put up the flames to protect his palace. Sub: The mountain erupted in flames while the Ox King was on a picnic with Chi Chi. Manga: A fire spirit fell from the heavens and transformed it into an eternal mountain of flames, with no involvement from the Ox King. The manga’s explanation is the closest to the mountain’s Journey to the West counterpart, but I’m not fluent enough in Japanese to say which version is correct.
JT
2025-03-04 20:00:53 +0000 UTCThe Ox King is also based on a Journey to the West character, Niumowang (which translates to “Ox King”), who befriends Sun Wukong during his journey. His wife (Princess Iron Fan, the VERY loose inspiration for Chi Chi) was the owner of the Bansho Fan and made villagers living near the Flaming Mountains pay tribute to her like a goddess.
JT
2025-03-04 20:00:20 +0000 UTC
