ARALE!?! DRAGON BALL Episode 56 REACTION | DB

[@Riptide27]

9:21 Yeah…your instincts were right, in original Japanese dub, Blue isn’t recognizing him as his younger brother, he describes the kid as “just my type” and asks the kid to have dinner with him. Thankfully the kid, blissfully unaware, declines saying, “he doesn’t need repayment, he’s just doing a good deed.” Japan sometimes, dude…

[@Riptide27]

Also, the timing here is crazy, because TFS just put out their commentary for World’s Strongest, and in that commentary they make a joke about Kochin working with Blue and saying, “STAY AWAY FROM MY KIDS!!!”

[@perezkevin076]

Yep i was just about to comment this! It kinda continues the gag from a few episodes prior when he says Bulma is not his type.

[@mathewcooper8505]

Worth mentioning that this wasn’t written by Toriyama, it’s a filler episode.

[@The_One_In_Black]

​@@mathewcooper8505It's definitely a mix. The actual episode is in the manga, but the anime inflated it and made Blue's character worse.

[@Vero-hf3tz]

And this is the only time you care that the English dub changed something. Americans...

[@c.k.6939]

Dr. Slump was made before Dragon Ball, and it had already ended by the time the latter started. In fact, this is the series that made Toriyama famous in Japan before Dragon Ball made him famous everywhere else. Funny enough, back when the Dr. Slump characters first appeared in the Dragon Ball manga, they tried to bait the readers into thinking they were getting a revival of their own series before Goku and Blue showed up out of nowhere.

[@jmantime]

General Blue is the 6th strongest fighter on the planet with power level of 108 ( Roshi is 180 ). Blue is parody of the Nazl " Blond Hair / Blue Eyes Aryan Super Soldier " from 1930's. Even his uniform is based on the real life pre-WW2 uniforms worn by Nazi members in the 1920's and 30's. Toriyama is a huge WW2 buff and many dragon ball villains are parodies of WW2 figures, like Oolong is Mao Zedong ( CCCP ), Commander Red is Joseph Stalin ( USSR ) and Emperor Pilaf is a parody of Emperor Pui ( Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state in ww2).

[@clarissaterry6507]

Huh, I didn't know that last one

[@Riptide27]

4:10 A little extra context here, in Japanese, sour translates to “Suppa” making Sourman = Suppaman. The more you know! 💫

[@icehell99]

General Blue is the sussiest character in Dragon Ball. That interaction between him and the boy is different in the original dub.

[@The_One_In_Black]

I actually thought Dr. Slump ended before Dragon Ball started but, looking it up, there was actually almost a year of overlap (Edit: That was actually the collected edition. They actually did not overlap). Dr. Slump made Toriyama rich and famous; Dragon Ball made him world-renowned.

[@solomiguex]

The Looney Toons vibe is very accurate to describe the Arale strength and the vibe of the show. Also, Dr. Slump's wife was his crush on the TV show, but I never saw him getting her love, it was really nice to see them married.

[@TruthSpeaker893]

Where goku is currently in Super... she is still stronger then him 😆

[@KnaveryX]

True, true. (Ask Vegeta)

[@Vero-hf3tz]

gag characters are the strongest

[@clarissaterry6507]

​@@Vero-hf3tz'I'm never fighting a gag character again' says vegeta in super he knows something we don't 😂

[@spartansaiyans6424]

@@Vero-hf3tz Beerus did beat her ass tho

[@marcintosh4040]

@@spartansaiyans6424 beerus will whoop most characters unless it is the angels or the grand priest himself. he is also afraid of zenny and his guard possibly

[@Acerthorn]

9:31 In the Japanese anime, Blue wasn't mistaking this kid for his long-lost brother. He was just sexually attracted to him. Yup, in Japan, Blue is a MAP! A minor-attracted person!

[@sasora1360]

That's creepy..

[@c.k.6939]

We should also make it very clear that this is only in the anime version. In the manga, this never happened.

[@calvinospina7307]

You seriously call them MAPS? that's disgusting, get off that affirming nonsense, they're pedophiles dude.

[@clarissaterry6507]

Also, I read several Dr slump volumes and the kid is actually an adult by this time, since he was in high-school in the manga and senbei wasn't married with kids back then, so he's at least 18 and working, thus the meeting reference. You can also see a sliver of a mustache on him. He's just a dwarf for size

[@rocketmanart7964]

Akira Toriyama was in his early twenties when he made Dr. Slump and Dr. Slump made a lot of money, and his editor wanted him to make a martial arts manga, so he made Dragon Ball after that.

[@SkittleXero]

Arale Norimaki is one of the most powerful characters in Dragon Ball as she is an artificial lifeform and a GAG/parody character. She can fold and manipulate the panels of the very Manga that she is in. Like she is literally able to fold people into paper airplanes. However a Destroyer, the Angels and of course Zeno can all erase her from existence. But she can beat pretty much everyone else in Dragon Ball though. Also yeah Suppaman (English Dub, Sourman) is Dragon Ball/Dr. Slump's version of Superman. His name is Kenta Kuraaku and he is a report. He is also a parody character.

[@Sephiroth144]

Though I would love to see her meet Beerus, and him to be very concerned...

[@SkittleXero]

​​@@Sephiroth144Arale and Beerus did meet in Super. Goku was the one who said that none of Arale's tricks would work on Beerus and that Beerus would destroy her.

[@Sephiroth144]

@@SkittleXero Right, right, now I remember- well, sorta. I remember Beerus "knocking her head off", but then having a sudden stomach ache and yeeting home... (And definitely didn't get a Mr. Satan vibe =p Like if Beerus, while preparing the Hakai figured out she's a gag character and not really bound by the laws of the world and went "aw craaaaaap...")

[@0nlytimeevrc0menting]

There’s a Dragon Ball Super episode where Goku and Arale meet again. Please watch that episode and see for yourself if she’s OP

[@MatthewJamesKalasky]

She definitely is. Vegeta was actually AFRAID to fight her. Well, maybe not afraid, but he didn't want to fight any "gag-manga" characters after that.

[@beckthetinkerbot]

I wonder why when this episode aired they never revealed that Arale is a robot/android. I mean I saw the Dr.Slump series or anything related to it.

[@samayoubi5818]

Love the crossover and love when that happens in anime

[@seannetworkblogsandgames7504]

Yeah Dr Slump had run its full course by the time of Dragon Ball. At this point in the DB manga, Dr Slump was actually a much longer series. I don't think Dragon Ball passed it until either the Saiyan or Frieza arc

[@drunkenswordsman3373]

Arale and Toriyama's other creations really make you wonder what brought him to creating the massive Shonen that DBZ became.

[@seanwilson8168]

Arale the Goat.

[@lerey74]

12:23 arale's hobby on the manga is to bump into police cars where she see one lol

[@rogertemple7193]

Great more Dragon Ball have a really great week Melon and Thanks.😁✌️

[@dager5558]

you know, when you think about it, this makes Aralie canon to the dragon ball world so everytime Toriyama blew up the earth in dragon ball Z and beyond Aralie was blown up too

[@saphcal]

blue saying the kid reminds him of his little brother is a dubism. in the japanese anime hes lusting after the little boy...in the manga he's gay but hes not into kids...

[@Sunaki1000]

I realy hope he gets defeated this Episode, I want to go to the next. 9:05 oh no. Yeah.... lets just say he thougt it was his brother, lets go whit that.

[@clarissaterry6507]

In the manga, obacha is a teenager same age as the two siblings, so he would be an adult at this point, also because senbei never got married in the manga before it ended, so being married with a kid adds time to it. Obacaha is just a very small adult with a sliver of a mustache, but yeah, still creepy given that it's blue

[@albertmas3752]

Dr. Slump manga started 1982 and finished in 1986, Dragon Ball manga started in 1984 so for 2 years Mr. Toriyama was creating 2 mangas at the same time. And no, Arale didn't find Blue in the police car, just that in her series she destroys the police car whenever they meet, all by accident. Just thist time there were no policemen inside. Oh and by the way, Dr. Slump is married to Lunch XD

[@bakkasama]

Regarding Arale's strength, even if we ignore her feats in Super, she should be stronger than Goku at this point, yeah. One of the repeating gags in the Dr. Slump manga was that she could split planet Earth in two by punching it and that she could destroy the moon by tossing a stone at it. I think both of those things happened like four times each in the manga, though to be fair, one of those times was by Obacchan (the boy that helped Blue with his car)

[@rananaveedahmed2617]

and kid goku once punched someone out of manga panel by breaking the panel boundary. 🤣🤣

[@rebornjm]

Oh boy after this one of my favorite villains comes in the picture

[@BEnXAm.13]

9:29 Final Fantasy 7 game main menu theme , i guess after all FF7 is indeed inspired by Dragon Ball Z and Cloud is super saiyan Trunks with big sword in back

[@Allenryan819]

I always laugh about with the car scene how Funimation, covered up general blues, pedophilia.😂

[@wesleyflores1085]

Great episode

[@edward18517]

"Wait, so this village is part of the Dragon Ball universe?!" Eh...it's kind of a gray area. There's like nothing that implies it should be or that it is other than the very minor crossover stuff that happens, but for the sake of moving the plot of the crossover along they acknowledge things happening in the saga this is taking place in. As for Dr. Slump, it's the manga that Toriyama created before Dragon Ball and is the first super popular series he created (though he did make various little one-off stories and stuff in Shonen Jump aside from Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball during that time period (Dragon Ball itself was sort of reworked from Dragon Boy and another one-off story that were both published a year before he reworked them into Dragon Ball)).

[@capra001]

hello from Japan. Toriyama became billionaire with Dr. slump in his twenties. Dr. slump make unbeleabable success in Japan.

[@spartansaiyans6424]

Hello Melon! This is the time line. I hope that explains your question from the beginning. Did Akira Toriyama make Dr Slump before Dragon Ball? Dr Slump (Manga) February 4, 1980-September 10, 1984. Dr Slump (Anime) April 8, 1981 - February 19, 1986 Dragon Ball (Manga) (1984-1995)* Dragon Ball (Anime) February 26, 1986 - April 19, 1989 Therefore the answer is "Yes". *Both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z anime are adaptations of the Dragon Ball (Manga).

[@nvp8191]

I believe Launch is from this penguin village no one ever says that but it makes it makes cents compared her to the characters of villagers. There are at least nine people including arale and the 2 turbos that are stronger then Goku who's he has to get stronger than before even going into one of his weakest points in his journey at the beginning of dragon Ball z .

[@ItsNumber84]

Nahhh, the little brother thing is only in the English dub to censor the original pedo implications. You were right to be squick.

[@13Bbeards]

Where was Arale when Vegeta, Cell, and the others were doing their stuff!

[@Stimulation334]

" I said work that an order" - blue

[@KingKidGoku32794]

Arale does come back in Dragon Ball Super and embarrassed Vegeta 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@abhabh6896]

Toriyama was swimming in Dr Slump money way before DB.

[@jmtradbr]

Arale is a robot. Dr. Slump is the one who build her.

[@millgiass]

Dr. Slump made Toriyama a millionaire before he even started Dragon Ball.

[@emmanuelalan2315]

I did saw her in super she was fighting against vegeta

[@jermainespeid4934]

The amine Superman right there

[@Yugioh420]

Police car was in better shape and was faster. Granted, it might have been much better after Obacha man fixed it since we never saw it after it was fixed.

[@joseramires1811]

Lol the way u said let's get started idk why sounded Italian

[@ADVERSlTY12]

Will u post a schedule for the current shows your watching and when they come out?

[@Hulkzilla0]

I know people debate on whether the English dub was good or not, but in the case of General Blue it really was an improvement.

[@KeijiMaeda86]

Nah. I think him being a degenerate ped0file nazi made the point harder that Blue was a bonafied villain with no redeeming qualities. Up until Goku's opponents either end being his friends or bumbling fools with joke endings to the encounters. Blue was a legit threat for the most part and not a person that can be redeemed into being a friend. He was the first true villain of the entire series.

[@Hulkzilla0]

@@KeijiMaeda86 He can still be pure evil without being a diddler.

[@JaredWillis-xt4se]

Love dragon ball

[@Austin.Kilgore]

11:32 Lol It’s so they can’t chase him

[@coltchan7380]

In the Japanese dialogue Blue was indeed attracted to the boy. Ik Japan is looser with everything but come on.

[@JaredWillis-xt4se]

Awesome

[@herronariela7469]

Araleeee ❤❤❤

[@CalciumChief]

Yeah, it's Dr. Slump time. Dr. Slump is a joke story, so you can't really apply the standard "stronger than X". Gonna be stronger if a joke calls for it (like Vegeta getting owned in Super).

[@rowlandandrew9597]

Hi Melon I love Arale she so cute I love the Dragon ball super episode were Goku gets to see her again She little but very sweet and strong so I would stay on her good side

[@mphosekonya374]

Arale is a robot She was in dragon ball super

[@Cache4561]

Rewatch the Dragon ball super episode, arale returns and beats Super sayan blue vegeta to the other side of the world

[@zitro22]

You realy should watch Dr. Slump at some point.

[@UnnLykley]

bluebadass

[@khedaingush2285]

On which days will you post avatar videos

[@BryanFury-he8km]

dragon ball starts in the next episodes

[@rocketmanart7964]

Akira Toriyama made Dr. Slump before Dragon Ball.

[@Sebbiio_9001]

Don't get me wrong, you're awesome but pleaseeeee continue with the avatar journey! It's so good 😂

[@spaceburrito215]

Isnt this a cross over ep?

[@BaithNa]

I'm pretty sure Arale is an android

[@rithulshelan]

She's stronger than SSB goku and SSB vegeta.

[@kevinmiles1731]

Hi animelon

[@arnaudgerard1971]

She's stronger than Vegeta, if you rewatch Super :)

[@MultiClittle]

what... is this episode

[@RussG935]

When are you going to watch Dragon Ball Super Broly? 😂😂😂😂 you’re all over the place

[@The_One_In_Black]

That's the next Super episode. She's been watching both cocurrently.

[@RussG935]

@@The_One_In_Black u on her patreon?