>pokémon meets pulp fiction

Is this an accurate way to describe DB?

>What does Giovanni look like?

>>279915566 (OP)
No, whoever wrote the article has probably never seen an anime and probably just threw the one other anime name they knew. Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z have nothing in common besides being Anime from Japan.

>>279915614
Goku is Vincent.

Steins;Gate is a surreal viewing experience that's an absolute must watch for all fans of sci-fi. According to Anime Vice, "It's like somebody taped an episode of The Big Bang Theory over a copy of Donnie Darko."

>>279915671
Pulp Fiction is probably the only violent movie that that person probably watched too

>Summer has only just begun

>>279915566 (OP)
>image trends on xitter
>immediately makes it to the main page of /a/
Every time.

No, it's just insanely dated.

>>279915566 (OP)
Leave it to busybody housewives with nothing to do to henpeck the public about what boys and men should be watching. They're like an invasive weed, infesting every nook and cranny to choke out any liberty found therein.

>>279915566 (OP)
lady that wrote this works for pfizer now

>>279918458
Imagine my shock.

>>279915566 (OP)
>Mmmm, this IS a tasty Senzu Bean!

>brutal
When did the wets start feeding children all-happy-horseshit that's like opioids but in fiction?
The west used to tell children awesome story like that of Hansel and Gretel. Abandoned by their asshole parents (not just abandoned, they actively tried to get rid of them by tricking them), they're alone in the woods, literally starving to death. Until they find that witch's house, that's literally made of motherfucking candy. Turns out the candy isn't for fucking free. The fucking witch wants to eat Hansel because she's some kind of cannibalistic psycho shotacon. And a fucking fatfag, she tries to fatten up Hansel before roasting him, because the dumb witch thinks fat is the tastiest shit ever. Gretel isn't going to have it and just pushes the witch into her own oven and burns her fucking alive and then Hansel rapes the witch. Happy fucking end.
Goku crying like a cuck is supposed to be brutal?

>>279919402
OP's picture is from the 90s, so before you were born

>>279919495
early 2000's, actually. It was when DBZ aired on toonami and broke all cable tv audience records

I mean Pokemon sure, I get it
But what similarities does pulp fiction have to do with Dragonball on even the most surface of levels?

>>279919998
the characters beat the crap out of each other and bleed

>>279919495
It's not a new problem.

>>279915671
I'm old enough to remember when Mass Effect was called an online rape simulator

>>279919402
>and then Hansel rapes the witch
I don't remember that part.

>>279915566 (OP)
>Boomer who only know about pokemon: this japanese cartoon is giving me some strong pokemon vibes...

>>279922603
Artistic license.

>>279919402
Taking in consideration that most oldschool fairy tales got sanitized as fuck in the 20th century, I always found weird how Hansel and Gretel was left relatively unscathed. The only gritty plot element removed in the modern version is the Witch getting cannibalized in the end.

>>279915690
>Vincent is a kissless retard
ok

>>279915566 (OP)
do they mean the tarantino movie or pulp magazines
because manga is pretty similar to pulp in how quickly they're churned out and the subject matter is more on the wild side rather than tamer literary fiction

>>279919402
>When did the wets start feeding children all-happy-horseshit that's like opioids but in fiction?
When fascists took over

>>279926085
>Brazil flag
Every single time

>>279915671
>whoever wrote the article
Probably Mike Pence in between Mulan rants

>>279915566 (OP)
Nah.
I'd say a more fitting description would be:
The western canon in animated form.

>>279919998
It's just supposed to mean Japanese cartoon but violent. They only knew one anime and one violent movie.

>>279915566 (OP)
Terrible comparison, PF makes violence banal and sublime (original meaning of sublime that incorporates awe and fear). DBZ uses violence for a thrilling effect and the standout moments of cruelty highlight the toll of violence and the distinction between noble fighters and evil tyrants. DBZ is directly comparable to mainstream American comics except that the animated forms were rarely funded by people interested in chasing older audiences so violent content was obscured. This is where you something like Samurai Jack with an infinite supply of robots to cut down. There's no escaping it because ultimately that violence is the echo of our history, the reality of our present, and our inevitable future. Trying to isolate children from it is a foolish and devious program specifically meant to keep children from realizing how much violence is necessary to sustain the society in which they live, and how much violence it would take to create a better world. PF points out that Naked Lunch of reality, sociopathic violence and bloodstained Americana. Glowing briefcase, lose your name and become a shooter trying to catch the prize, or do it like a pro and stick around as long as you can follow criminal orders. DBZ shows reality in a different but fundamentally similar light, the direct struggle of violence against violence that underlies all attempts at exploitation. Goku's reframed character in Z is as a sort of dropout of the military industrial complex, born to be a marine but becoming a kung fu beatnik instead, until a solder of empire brings his naivety crashing down. PF can be said to glorify violence to the same degree that American culture permits and mythologizes violence; DBZ just shows the ground level brawling of that reality while saying that violence is both terrible and necessary for resistance.

Also I swear I've seen Wile E Coyote vaporized...he just got better

>>279916110
https://youtu.be/wGMXxuR_Qz8