Comments on: 5 Communist and Socialist Elements in Dragon Ball

By: derekpadula

derekpadula — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:29:32 +0000

Hi everybody. The publication date on this article is over 2 years old, but it is still the most popular page on my site. So if you'd like to leave a comment, then please do!

Also please keep in mind that the original purpose of this article was simply to point out what is already there, since nobody on the internet seemed to have done so.

And like I said in the intro, "Dragon Ball is above all else a fun and lighthearted show with a heavy dose of silliness and martial arts antics. These socialist and communist elements do not detract from the Dragon Ball experience in any way."

Thank you.

By: Matthew Stotler

Matthew Stotler — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:02:53 +0000

Did it ever occur to you that they just made up that name? Mostly because he was the most feared as in he was the strongest there is. And then they thought that it would be interesting to put the 666 on the side because his name was mr. Satan? This reminds me of a south park episode where they made a book just for fun and everybody was just trying to find a Deeper meaning when there was none. And so if you made a character in a comic named mr. Satan, you wouldn't make any of hisstuff or merchandise have 666 on it? Seriously. And most of the army crap was meant to be for the so called real red army cuz they wanted the army to seem terrifying. And they put hitler in an episode because they realized that the super saiyan looked just like the superior beings that hitler talked about.they just wanted to get a laugh out of it. Heck I make stories from disasters that happened in the world but there's no deeper meaning than that. I'm sorry.

By: dan b

dan b — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:00:13 +0000

The reason why the Nazi party had the word "socialist" in it was because it started as a LBGT socialist party in the 20s believe it or not. When Hitler took over, he purged the last socialist element in it "night of the long knives", 1934. Millions of communists died fighting Germany. The communists were the first to be sent to the camps. Both 30s Soviet communism and Nazism were totalitarian. That is style over substance. The substance of the two were polar opposites. What is disturbing, if this article has merit, is that the corporate/academic myth of USSR equaling Fascism has caught on in Japan. (Even in the U.S. the vast majority of university professors do not back this claim.) I know Japan is impressionable, I have seen their text books and they are carbon copies of Kennedy-era U.S. textbooks in regards to history. I see this distortion as a reflection of how warped our "history" programs are and Japanese buying it wholesale. For your information, Japan has the largest 1st world communist party, after Italy disbanded its one.

By: derekpadula

derekpadula — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:22:43 +0000

In the first issue of the manga, Bulma says, "The last person who collected them became a king! But SOMEHOW, in the centuries since, the balls got scattered again! Leaving it to li'l ME to bring 'em back together!"

This tells me that the current King of the world was not the one to unite the planet. And the "king" who made the wish could have been a king of some part of the world prior to its unification. Or maybe he was the first. Not sure. There's no way to know.

Good theory though.

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Reply to Blogger about Dragon Ball Z and Communism « The Maoist Rebel News — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:46:43 +0000

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By: The Name

The Name — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:59:26 +0000

my theory is that the world became united thanks to a wish to shenlong using the dragon balls

If I'm not mistaken something like this is mentioned in the very first pages of the comic book

By: lenin

lenin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:24:01 +0000

are you stupid.

the nazis were not actually socialist, they just had the name national socialist.

they were infact right wing and facist, and hitler HATED communists.

this is like basic history, geez.