>go to gym. >yet another buff black dude with a DBZ shirt

>go to gym
>yet another buff black dude with a DBZ shirt
Why is there so many black guys who are into shonen anime? Do they actually use fictional cartoon characters for inspiration or what? It's weird to have chinese toon characters as your role model.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i live in rural armenia, the last time i saw a black man in real life was 2018

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Armenia
      m8 Turk roaches are basically black.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        we really don't have that many turks here either, like 90% are armenians, 5% georgians, 5% miscelanious

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Armenians/Georgians/Albanians/Turks/Greeks are the same thing though

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      My condolences
      Last time I was in Armenia I was baffled how people can live in a shithole like this. It literally smells like shit everywhere, trash on the street and every motherfricker tries to scam you. Also how come this country is so full of manlets? Swear to god no dude was over 5‘8

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        How’s the cooming? Will Armenian women want to fug an autistic white American man? I’m 5’11 blonde hair blue eyes

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          They might, but if her male family members find out you had premarital sex with here, they will literally kill you.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      my grandpa had an armenian friend, he said he couldnt find anyone to get his kids married with so he went back to his country.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Black people love DBZ idk why they also love Kevin Nash go fricking figure.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Who is Kevin Nash

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They have internalized racism and know that chimping out isn't food for them and wish they could transform into a blond blue eyed legend.

    Really, toonami, they didn't have dads and want goku to be the fatha figya they ain't eva had.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      To be fair, Goku is basically an absent father, so maybe they sympathize.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone loves dbz you moron.
    >why do so many x like music?
    >I just don't get it

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    DB and DBZ are great inspiration for anyone in training.
    DBZ was also one of the few anime to have an important character who is also a black guy.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >great inspiration for anyone in training.
      It is a fricking cartoon

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        This. I will never be able to take DBZ fanboys serious
        >BUT CAN HE BEAT GOKU
        Shut the frick up, man.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        If you grew up watching cartoons as a kid in the 90s-2000s, Dragonball was the most IST show on Cartoon Network.
        Everyone on the show has muscles and dedicates a lot of time to training and getting stronger between arcs. Even though it’s fantasy fiction, Goku is a motivational character who never gives up and pushes himself past his limit every time.
        A lot of the screaming and charging up to attack in the show is thematically comparable to grunting and physically exerting yourself in the gym.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          It. Is. A. Fricking. Cartoon.
          Goddam did you not have a coach or something to motivate you or football practice to think about?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            What's your argument exactly? Are you autism?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Trying to tell people to stop making literal cartoons an important part of their life is autism now lol?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes. You think that drawing inspiration from fiction is a problem. You're autism.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You’re throwing a tantrum because people draw inspiration from a form of media, how is that not autistic?

                Who gives a frick. "Important part of their life" what a drama queen you are.

                Bros cartoons are for little kids on Saturday mornings. Only neet morons make literal cartoons an inspiration in their lives. Maybe next time life is beating you up, those lessons you learned from Bugs Bunny and Mighty Mouse will be a great benefit to you.

                I'm only trying to help you morons unfrick your lives but you are lashing out about it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Bugs bunny didn't inspire any people competing in the Olympics or martial arts.

                Cope.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Hey man only neet morons make posting on IST a part of their lives. Maybe next time life is beating you up, those lessons you learned from gay porn and bait threads will be a great benefit to you. But still great advice bro. I'll treat it with the same respect you've shown everyone ITT.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Bro this isn't for me this is for you- what I'm telling you is a public service.

                The only inspiration I really had was my grandfather and he passed on last year.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I would have passed too if i had such a massive autist of a granddaugther

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I'm only trying to help
                i hear women say this all the time when they say some stupid shit and refuse to admit being wrong

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Kek you don't hear women saying anything neet unless it is your mom trying to get you to empty your piss bottles.

                Also women are unironically more prone to making entertainment part of their identity and worldview. Honest advice- don't ever make something mass produced part of your identity. Don't ever make something that you can't control or sit down and talk to an inspiration of yours. And just to keep things in the proper frame of reference here I want to remind you that we are talking about Dragon Ball Fricking Z kek.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You’re throwing a tantrum because people draw inspiration from a form of media, how is that not autistic?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Who gives a frick. "Important part of their life" what a drama queen you are.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why do women not get dbz?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Women had Inuyasha, anon

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you really care about what other people think of you, which is really sad. there is some nerd out there just enjoying his life playing yugioh at some game shop while you are on IST complaining about what other people like. unironically get a life

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah. Pretty clear-cut case. Only an autist would get triggered some guy was wearing a DBZ shirt, who the frick cares?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Triggered? Im just trying to help some people out m8.

                Lol why is your mind incapable of seeing the difference between "wearing a t-shirt" and finding something to be an unironic "inspiration" lol.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >NO you CANT find inspiration from media!
                >B-BECAUSE I SAID SO
                >MOM THEY’RE MOCKING ME AGAIN DO SOMETHING WHERES UNCLE STEVE I NEED MORE INSPIRATION TO WIN THIS ANONYMOUS INTERNET DEBATE

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Stories, as inspiration? I'm SO MIND BOGGLED I DON"T UNDERSTAND I"M LOSSING MY MIND

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            you're on IST

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Dragonball and DBZ were kino.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Boomers need to die out already

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Who the frick gets motivated for practice? Cool larp you fricking moron

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            and I thought people on this god forsaken place couldn't get any more moronic

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          What's your argument exactly? Are you autism?

          Yes. You think that drawing inspiration from fiction is a problem. You're autism.

          You’re throwing a tantrum because people draw inspiration from a form of media, how is that not autistic?

          Keep distracting him bro, my special beam cannon is almost charged

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        do you have autism or something?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nogs love DBZ because nogs love screaming and fighting. Just so happens I also love DBZ, so it's the one thing I can bond with them on, since I hate most nog culture.

        Have you watched it? I don't get how you can be into fitness and not like DBZ. It's all about training, testing your limits, becoming stronger. Great anime for young boys, glad I grew up on it. It got me into lifting when I was a 12 year old nerd.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I watched alot of cartoons as a child including dragon ball z. But my dad got me into weight lifting when I was probably about that age and then in sixth grade through sports I had a weightlifting class everyday until I graduated highschool. During that time football was my primary motivator and to be honest I forgot about all these cartoons for the longest. I have become sincerely exhausted as I've become an adult seeing people my age wallow around in childhood comforts.. vidya, Star Wars, capeshit etc. People just need to let it go they'd be better off for it, this generation wouldn't be nearly so fricked.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I just don't understand why you think people going, "I like this show. This is a shirt of that show" is wallowing in childhood comforts to you.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Look you donkey I don't have a problem with people liking the show lol (even if a tad pathetic as an adult) I have a problem with the refrain I keep hearing ITT that it is a
              >great inspiration for anyone in training.
              Kek don't try that sandbagging shit with me all people have to do is scroll up to read the fricking thread.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >great inspiration for anyone in training.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                cringe

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You argue like a woman and it's exhausting to even read
                >I don't have a problem with people liking the show lol (even if a tad pathetic as an adult)
                You talk like a b***h. You can troll better than this. This will be my last reply

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I watched alot of cartoons as a child including dragon ball z. But my dad got me into weight lifting when I was probably about that age and then in sixth grade through sports I had a weightlifting class everyday until I graduated highschool. During that time football was my primary motivator and to be honest I forgot about all these cartoons for the longest. I have become sincerely exhausted as I've become an adult seeing people my age wallow around in childhood comforts.. vidya, Star Wars, capeshit etc. People just need to let it go they'd be better off for it, this generation wouldn't be nearly so fricked.

                [...]
                [...]
                Bros cartoons are for little kids on Saturday mornings. Only neet morons make literal cartoons an inspiration in their lives. Maybe next time life is beating you up, those lessons you learned from Bugs Bunny and Mighty Mouse will be a great benefit to you.

                I'm only trying to help you morons unfrick your lives but you are lashing out about it.

                https://i.imgur.com/rz4s7gE.jpg

                Trying to tell people to stop making literal cartoons an important part of their life is autism now lol?

                It. Is. A. Fricking. Cartoon.
                Goddam did you not have a coach or something to motivate you or football practice to think about?

                Okay, so DBZ and anime in general aren't good forms of inspiration. So what is? What's an "adult" form of inspiration and motivation?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                For me- I had some older family members that taught me alot, gave me alot, and gave me a good example that I appreciate more and more everyday and would give anything to have their advice just one more time.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >For me I had some older family members that tau-
                Not even going to bother reading the rest of it. You do realize not everybody especially nowadays ESPECIALLY nogs have any decent older role models to show them the ropes of the world? How are you this moronic to not put 2 and 2 together?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                So you admit it is fricked up and sad to have these entertainment role models.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I admit that it's not hard to see why they turn into media, fiction or not, for sources of inspiration. Well, not hard to see if you're not an inept tard.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Lol why can't you just admit that it is fricking sad and pathetic? I mean you walked yourself into basically agreeing with me on the main point of the entire disagreement kek just admit it- a fricking rock on the ground could see it anyways.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Fiction has inspired people from the dawn of time. You might be legitimately autistic.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >uhhhh you can’t be inspired by mythology it’s literally a myth

                >cannot see the difference between mythology and literal children's cartoons and other forms of fiction.
                Lol are you actually autistic?

                I mean for starters I don't find ANY mythology a compelling inspiration, but there were probably people who believed those stories were true at some point in the ancient world that were inspired by them before they were reduced to mere tales in the modern mind.

                Also Iron Man and Goku are not mythology ypu fricking moron and at no point in time did a fully functional adult ever actually believe Luke Skywalker was a real person.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I don’t find mythology compelling so that means no one can

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I think all fiction is a weak inspirational best but where do you get off calling goku and iron man "mythology" lol?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                > only counts if its MYTHOLOGY and, and, the people once believed it to be TRUE

                Come on, just walk away dude.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Kek I said explicitly even mythology is a weak form of inspiration although I can see how a person might have been inspired by it once upon a time when they actually believed it was true.

                >can understand why people would draw inspiration from fictional tales
                >can’t understand why people would draw inspiration from fictional tales
                you are pants on head moronic

                >I don't find ANY mythology a compelling inspiration
                Are you actually illiterate and moronic?

                Replace "liking" with "being inspired by" then, makes no difference whatsoever.

                I like ice cream. I am not inspired by it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I like ice cream.
                I bet you do, fatty.
                >I am not inspired by it.
                But your body looks like a soft-serve cone.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Kek oh so you don't like ice cream? Also look you are an adult inspired by DBZ m8 you don't need to make yourself look even worse by making up fantasies about anons online do you?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Bro… it’s over, you’re a clown, just stop embarrassing yourself. We all get it, nobody talked to you at lunch and you never bonded with the boys about DBZ. We get it. You can go home now, you’re a big smart man with your entry level knowledge of ancient fables and philosophies good for you, I’m sure your mom will give you extra gold stars. Meanwhile we’ll all be imitating Goku and Vegeta fighting on the playground.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >can differentiate between liking something and being inspired by something
                >still doesn’t understand how someone can be inspired by something
                Please continue

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You had a nice bait for the first two/three reply but now you sound like an edgy 13yo atheist (summer is around the corner, it seems)
                also :
                >i dun trust any mythology cuz it's fiction *tips fedora*
                >reddit spacing
                >food analogy

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >can understand why people would draw inspiration from fictional tales
                >can’t understand why people would draw inspiration from fictional tales
                you are pants on head moronic

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You don't think anyone in antiquity ever doubted their myths? You realize there were also folk tales told for entertainment like Journey to the West, Beowulf, or King Arthur, right?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not entirely sure anyone actually knows how much belief ancient people had in their gods and legends in any given time and place. My wager is a great many of them actually 100% believed it though in most cases.

                Anyways are you telling me you believe Goku and Iron Man are real but you occasionally have your doubts lol?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Do you think Aesop believed in his fables? You're being deliberately moronic.

                Stories exist to teach.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Which of Aesop's fables were meant to be inspirational? Many were meant to scare children or teach a lesson or to entertain. My mother read them to me when I was a small child but I can't say I can see how any of them would be inspiring?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The tortoise and the hare. It's inspiration for powershitters to finish a 5k.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Again Aesop's fables are more about teaching lessons than being "inspirational" and the tortoise and the hare is a great example. It is just a lesson explained by a narrative story.

                Perhaps you could stretch it and say you find the lesson itself encouraging or comforting but does the fictional tortoise actually inspire you?

                >I'm not entirely sure anyone actually knows how much belief ancient people had in their gods and legends in any given time and place. My wager is a great many of them actually 100% believed it though in most cases.
                I am doubtful because even with modern religions as streamlined as they are today, many adherents to religions are admittedly agnostic theists. There are also examples from antiquity of people being agnostic or atheist. And probably numerous more that didn't bring it up because they didn't want to be executed.

                No can say for sure but I disagree honestly, I think people in general were much much more open to spiritualism of all forms in antiquity even if there are occasional accounts that might suggest some individual here or there felt otherwise. I mean today we live with a backdrop of this scientific ethos that everything CAN be explained by science- they had no such underpinning back then. There were still mysteries in the natural world for the ancient mind, magic, spiritualism, miracles, etc. were still a conceivable part of life and it is actually insane to compare that to some time where the default assumption is that all things can be explained necessarily with observation, logic, etc. like we labor under today.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Aesop's fable are an example

                Now, imagine something more immersive than Aesop's fables, with characters, dialogue, and end goals. Journey to the West, for example.

                Don't you think that would make a larger impact on someone? Now I wonder which series was inspired by Journey to the West.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Aesop's fables are literally not an example. They are just parables to teach children lessons.

                Look when life gets hard- all those pie sky stories don't mean much. The stuff that gets you through are real people that gave you an example, real people that depend on you, and things you actually believe in like your religion. Life was even harder for the ancients and I am confident in saying that the legends they may or may not have actually believed in were NOT their primary inspirations.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Okay, so respond to Journey to the West. Unless you seriously believe a story where an immortal monkey pisses on Buddha's hand is part of any longstanding religious tradition.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It is

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                lmao

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It sounds ridiculous but there are actually a lot of wukong temples and shrines in South China, Malaysia, Singapore

                Why is the whole squad black, but Gohan didn't get a race change

                Cuz Gohan is the whitest Z fighter

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >It sounds ridiculous but there are actually a lot of wukong temples and shrines in South China, Malaysia, Singapore
                They are being silly. JTTW was a book written in the 1500's and not really ever construed as fact.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                No they aren't. It is silly but they are serious

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I know almost nothing about those Chinese tales tbqh. And I have said multiple times I don't find ANY mythology a very compelling source of inspiration much less literal commercial children's entertainment.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I don't find ANY mythology a very compelling source of inspiration
                Why would people consume fiction if it were not evocative of emotions? And if something is evocative of emotions, it can serve as inspiration.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Exactly that dude is a massive homosexual

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Narrative is extremely important. Stories have inspired humans since time immemorial. You don't have to believe a story as fact (e.g. Religion) to derive value from it. You can also find inspiration from multiple sources beyond your loved ones or religion.

                You come off as young and edgy; like an atheist trying to shoe horn their lack of belief on the rest of humanity. You aren't going to stop what appears to be a crucial part of humanity as a whole.

                Narrative > your opinion/perception of superiority.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I could not disagree more and now you are just flinging things against the wall because I stepped on your toes. I am a religious person (albeit backslidden at times) who finds a lot of inspiration from my beliefs and from my family.. I think that's natural and good. I find it sad that there are so many people out there who would actually compare a child's TV show or cartoon comic books to these verybimportant things. Even if you want to try and bootstrap a literal children's TV show into the larger category of "narrative" lol (which is itself insane) it is still pathetic to me. Unfortunately this emphasis on entertainment in people's lives is widespread and probably belies many of our society's current failures.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                So you're saying you take inspiration from fiction then lmao owned.

                Jokes aside I find Goku more inspiring than Jesus for any number of reasons.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                https://i.imgur.com/pi9BIcU.jpg

                Kek ah who is the edgelord now? And if I was sensitive about fedora stuff do you think I would even be on this board?

                Jokes aside you are not alone. Many many people view things like Star Wars, Avengers, etc. as a religion. You see countless videos of them crying when a new trailer gets released.. And on the flip side many many "religious" people view holy books as just mythology or aestetics. However for those who actually believe in God or some gods as literal deities from ancient teachings- who have a genuine religion- can you really not see a difference between this and a literal children's cartoon or comic book produced for commercial purposes? Surely no one is so stupid that the vast gulf between the two is not completely obvious?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Surely no one is so stupid that the vast gulf between the two is not completely obvious?

                It really isn't all that different. You bought into your beliefs more is all.
                No one is praying to Goku or believes Toriyama is his profit.
                However, many still can see the good lessons and perspectives given by a story.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                So you are actually so stupid you don't see the difference between a person who reads an ancient religious text and believes in the existence of a literal deity.... and an adult male who is obsessed with a children's TV cartoon show? I mean how much further down the line until you are drawing sonichu comics?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't really see a gulf. As a non believer they're both just stories to me.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Kek please tell me you are not the anon who accused me of being a fedora?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nope. I just find Goku more inspiring than Christ. Goku sacrificed himself several times.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You can find inspiration in things without worshipping them moron-anon. Im inspired by arnold the same way im inspired by goku, but im not worshipping either. The lessons of hard work are applicable for both, even if one is fictional and the other is real. You really are autistic

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Please understand the person you’re talking to is either autistic or ESL.
                He doesn’t understand nuance

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                So is this entire argument chain just some ESL who got mixed up between the words "inspired" and "worshipped"?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I challenge you to watch these scenes in their entirety, and then tell me there is no way someone (young men in particular) would be inspired by them.

                >a new chink cartoon

                For a gym goer, there's nothing that can match DBZ in terms of inspiration:

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well then, if fiction has never inspired you, that's great! Just be aware that you are the odd one out.

                It's inspired several professional athletes, scholars, engineers, and scientists.

                This is more about you than anyone else.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I'm not entirely sure anyone actually knows how much belief ancient people had in their gods and legends in any given time and place. My wager is a great many of them actually 100% believed it though in most cases.
                I am doubtful because even with modern religions as streamlined as they are today, many adherents to religions are admittedly agnostic theists. There are also examples from antiquity of people being agnostic or atheist. And probably numerous more that didn't bring it up because they didn't want to be executed.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Holy frick this man dedicated an entire day to whining about people finding inspiration from media designed to be inspirational. I haven’t seen autism like that here in a while lmao

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I mean you walked yourself into basically agreeing with me on the main point
                So you just weren't able to tell that I was playing devil's advocate in the beginning of this chain lol. Your tism makes a lot of this much more clear.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I was just pretending to be moronic
                Classic

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                So what about zoomers with no dads? Guess they're just fricked because they're not allowed to draw inspiration from Goku, according to your moronic ass.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Basically yes. If you don't have a dad, brother, uncle, grandfather, coach anything to be a role model yes you are most likely fricked unfortunately.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            There's unironically nothing wrong with liking DBZ or superheroes as an adult, so long as you aren't some redditor funko-pop collecting manchild with no kids. Back in the day people idolized the gods and aspired to be like the olympians, not really any different when you take inspiration from Goku, he is a modern iteration of a Hercules type figure. I don't understand why it makes you butthurt.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Don't conflate "liking" a children's show with making it a literal inspiration in your life.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                There's no problem with either, and I'll do whatever I want, c**tbag.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I'll do what I want.
                Lol OK and I'll give you honest (if maybe harsh) advice

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Your advice is dumb thoughbeit.
                >stop liking this thing that produces positive influences in your life, because... um... because I said so!
                Kek, useless mong.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Lol why is your tiny mind incapable of differentiating between liking a thing and being "inspired" by it?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Replace "liking" with "being inspired by" then, makes no difference whatsoever.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            He said on IST

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >uhhhh you can’t be inspired by mythology it’s literally a myth

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You clearly have never done any serious excercise in your life

        Ngmi

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      mr popo?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They think Piccolo is black. Don't ask why. I've had too many arguments with homies irl about this and none have given an answer other than "he just is."

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Bald
          >Tall
          >Is a ‘colored’ person
          >Sounds relatively black in the English dub
          >wears purple
          >often wearing a hat that looks kinda like a durag/beanie

          Obviously he isn’t black, but I can see why they’ve adopted him into African American culture and view him as the token Namekian since there are no real homies in the Z fighter gang

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Don't forget the long nails

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >intelligent
            >inventive
            >stoic and asexual instead of chimping and animalistic
            >becomes more and more of a force for good as the series goes on
            >can aim his attacks (for the most part)
            >drinks water
            How is this in any way reminiscent of a Black person?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I’m going to go out on a limb here and say the people that think he’s black aren’t racists like you.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >intelligent
            >inventive
            >stoic and asexual instead of chimping and animalistic
            >becomes more and more of a force for good as the series goes on
            >can aim his attacks (for the most part)
            >drinks water
            How is this in any way reminiscent of a Black person?

            If anything, Broly is a Black person
            >unhinged from birth
            >no respect for family
            >wants to kill a guy because of one slight thirty years ago
            >placated by israeliteellery
            >brown, but explodes into a buff and lighterskinned form (nigs' penchant for steroids and cosmetics)
            >stabbed as a kid
            >raised by a single parent
            Don't @ me supertards

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >father abandoned him (attempted)
              Checks out

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Whites are a bit taller than blacks on average bro

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >NBA players are all black
              ??

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                They aren't, it's an artifact of hood culture
                If you go by per capita there is a disproportionate amount of people from Balkan countries, the region with the tallest men in the world (6'1" average in the Dinaric alps)

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            meanwhile this is what black people look like in the series

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's dumb but just let them have it. DBZ homies and black weaaboos are chill.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Not photoshopping that so it says POSTBODY

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        there you go

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          baste

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      He’s an alien lil bro. Mr. satan is black tho

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >black men relate to a violent alien
      makes sense I guess

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Black people love both martial arts and anime. Asian and Black culture seem to mix very well. Same with Asian and Hispanic actually

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Been seeing a ton of people wearing Berserk shirts. That show has gotten way too popular, I liked it when it was more obscure 10 years ago.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >NOOOO MY HECKIN SECRET ANIME HAS ZO REMAIN LE UNDERGROUND

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        t. Got into Berserk way after its heyday

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Berserk is dumb anyway. The story has been going on since 1980. If you can't finish a story in 5 years, then what are you doing?
          I can only pray he wrote the base plot out somewhere and wasn't just winging it as he was drawing.

          There is merit to having a long comprehensive story. But in the case of berserk and one piece and other long multi decade shows. Literally just get to the point.

          Everybody fan girls about berserk meanwhile no game no life still doesn't have a second season. Lmao

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            My Berserk takes:
            Golden Age Arc is the best obviously, and the movie trilogy that covered them is far better than the 90s anime. Manga is the best but the story has gone to shit and I lost interest sometime after they introduced e-girl-witch

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I'm sorry, but the correct answer is "Conviction."

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because Shonen animes are dope af. Lots of action, cool abilities, dope fights, girls with big breasts.
    My favorite part is seeing characters train and get better to beat the villains who just whooped their ass episodes ago.
    If anyone knows how it feels to overcome adversity its black people (slavery blah blah). So a good comeback story is always going to touch base with us

    I also have a DBZ stringer. One of those goku's gym, golds gym spinoffs. It's my favorite deadlifting shirt as goku is only deadlifting 3 pl8s in the picture yet I deadlift 4. Makes me feel like I'm stronger than goku lol

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >If anyone knows how it feels to overcome adversity its black people

      if by overcome you mean cry about it and then kill whoever feels bad for you

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Based happy nerd

      >If anyone knows how it feels to overcome adversity its black people

      if by overcome you mean cry about it and then kill whoever feels bad for you

      He’s clearly a wholesome weaboo homie not a violent city ape.
      He’s more white than the other blacks

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Based happy nerd
        Yup. I made my wife watch all of naruto/shippuden/boruto and now we watch other animes together. Soon my son will to, but its going to have to wait till he learns how to read and watch at the same time. I despise the English dub versions

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Nice.
          I recently started putting my kid (age 3) onto the first couple seasons of Pokémon. He loves animals and it’sa real comfy show with good lessons and morals even with the Pokémon fights

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Based pokebro. Kids really do love pokemon. I also had him watch the first season. He loved the theme song, the pokerap, and would bring his pickachu plushy and say pika pika when he wanted to watch pokemon.

            He also watches avatar and he thinks he's an Airbender. We play little games where he tries to bend and I dramatically fall down

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              That's fricking adorable man.
              Keep it up and lead him towards the great work of ISTness... maybe skip the autism parts, though.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Should I watch one piece if I loved dbz?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        read One Piece, and look up which arcs are worth watching.

        The One Piece anime is generally low effort barring a few exceptions.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Anon you're replying too

          The one piece anime is 1000 episodes. While it has its high moments, it's the definition of a slog. I'd watch it because it does get good and 1000 episodes of binging will at least give you something to do for a long time.

          >while one piece is 1000 episodes, naruto in total is also about 1000 episodes if you combine naruto/ship and one piece also has technically one piece/one piece "2". So if you could watch and enjoy naruto, you can watch and enjoy one pieces 1000 episode binge

          So it's nothing compared to dbz epicness?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            It has its fair share of epic moments

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Anon you're replying too

        The one piece anime is 1000 episodes. While it has its high moments, it's the definition of a slog. I'd watch it because it does get good and 1000 episodes of binging will at least give you something to do for a long time.

        >while one piece is 1000 episodes, naruto in total is also about 1000 episodes if you combine naruto/ship and one piece also has technically one piece/one piece "2". So if you could watch and enjoy naruto, you can watch and enjoy one pieces 1000 episode binge

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    homosexuals cant understand how it can inspire people but will take "inspiration" from roidtroonys, powershitters, e celebs, prostitutes, ~~*media*~~ etc. Black person the soundtrack alone can get you through a brick wall. Its a brilliant work of art that inspires millions to get fit for decades without the homosexual shit of ~~*mainstream media*~~. Whats there not to like if your nose is human sized?
    Dbz bros wagmi

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      vegeta is the best character and mogs gokunt hard

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    American WASPs, and maybe the Finnish, specifically, are the only group of people on the planet, who act boggled that people are interested in shonen anime.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      so people with real hobbies and things to do other than watch anime? noted.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >be nerd watching anime
    >wanna be manly
    >How to when no father at home?
    >Only inspiration lies in the ghetto gospel, athletes or buff superheroes
    >In particular anime shonen protagonists
    >Man, if all those guys who consume those superhero comics, looked like them then they would be respected way more
    Personally I see no problem here.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    they just love mr popo

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    All the black dudes at my gym are either tren + test huge or aids skinny mode.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Kek. Those are the two modes of nigs at my gym too. Bunch of DYEL bucks and 2 giga homies.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    let them watch shounen, who cares?

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Damn dude, being inspired by fictional characters is so lame.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Did that guy won a medal? That would be so based

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, gold. So did the racewalker who did the gear 3 pose at the finish. The shotputter who did Franky's pose didn't win a medal but placed 10th in the world.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    anime nerds seething in the thread, good job OP

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >anime nerds seething in the thread, good job OP

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      nice job posting what the average anime fan looks like

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >nice job posting what the average anime fan looks like

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    culturally whites are pandered by a sense of belonging while blacks dont have much being given to them for a variety of reasons so they gravitate towards animes. rarely you will see a black larping as a barbary coast portuguese but you see thousands of american templars etc. for me its vegeta.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why is there so many black guys who are into shonen anime?

    Black people can't be uncool. So they take the uncoolest shit and put it on and the fact that they're wearing it makes it cool, which is a 3x cool bonus given the handicap.

    Same shit as a model wrapping herself in garbage bags and still being sexy.

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm thinking about getting some anime shit to wear to the gym (i go with my gf and don't give a single shit about impressing anyone there).

    Other than berserk and DBZ I can't decide what else to get. I don't like modern Shonen much.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The hit anime right now are
      >demon slayer
      >aot
      >jujitsu kaisen

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but they don't speak to me the same way. I unironically use guts as inspiration for last reps sometimes. If he can fight with one arm sawn off surely I can lift one more rep.

        The new stuff just doesn't inspire the same way. Early AOT was pretty rad I guess.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I like midoriya from mha. Playing the you say run ost and thinking of him being quirkless on the beach being coached by all might makes me feel like I can lift my lifts too

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          What about my soldiers rage or no road left but the one that leads to the end from attack on Titan that shits hard

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          For me, it's lezbeepic's vegeta mix

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Latin America is also big on Shonen anime and manga. Dragon Ball, Naruto, and One Piece are truly international

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    To the homosexual in this thread, you DO realize that you can get inspired by both real things AND fiction, right?

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Using fiction for inspiration isn't a bad thing.
    Now about your other question, it's just that they grew up watching it and it's their biggest nostalgia trip ever, maybe the only time they were happy as kids. They don't want to move on from this tho so it doesn't matter if a new chink cartoon is 100000x times better than DBZ, they still pretend Goku is some God or whatever

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lol no, Goku is a pure athlete, that's why he's inspiring.

      Coming up with all the moronic mental gymnastics in this thread makes no sense.

      Spiderman / Superman / Lord of The Rings / Atlas Shrugged / Star Trek

      doesn't matter, people have found them inspiring despite the fact they're fictional

      > new chink cartoon better than DBZ

      new generations keep fixating on DBZ no matter how much time passes, whether in the US or in other countries. keep coping.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      There unironically will never be another chink cartoon as good as DBZ, at least at its genre/what it does. It defined the genre and nothing has surpassed it yet in style or substance. Even Dragonball Super is total dogshit by comparison.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >a new chink cartoon

      For a gym goer, there's nothing that can match DBZ in terms of inspiration:

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It replaces their father figure he never had.

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    That's funny because when this opening used to play for the odd Ocean Dub episode I used to sing Black person Black person BALL Black person BALL Z

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >fairytale, myths, and made up bullshit can't be inspiring

    I feel sorry for the people who aren't inspired by the world's mysteries. Those who can't tap into the the higher dimensions of thought and imagination to manifest real physical abilities.
    Such a shame the man who tells others not to look at the stars for they are out of reach. For when the reality is the stars were made for you to look up at them and remember your purpose.

    The same blinded man who will tell you that there is no God is the same man who will tell you to commit sin.

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    So we b***h about the importance of male representation in media, but now suddenly, no one takes inspiration from media?

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    OP, do you perhaps find fiction in general uninteresting/unimmersive because you have undiagnosed autism? Just curious.

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Jiren
    >B-but...
    JIREN

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      More like Jobren LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Black folk and browns in DBZ
    no, just uub

  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why is the whole squad black, but Gohan didn't get a race change

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Why is the whole squad black, but Gohan didn't get a race change

      The guy who drew it is probably a Gohan fan and probably wishes he could hang out with him.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because gohan goes to school. No Black person would be caught dead studying

  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    a lot of black kids were raised by the TV. Single mother working late means Dragon Ball and microwave dinner.

  35. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone likes Dragon Ball Z. Everyone can identify with a guy who loves to train hard and eat big

  36. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    there's a theory about bootleg VHS tapes circling around ghetto's during the late 90's early 2000's. That's how that generation of homies got into anime.

  37. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You never asked them yourself?

  38. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >be in middle school
    >be German
    >all the Turks and Moroccans are huge DBZ fans
    >they say they're saiyans, because they have brown eyes and black hair like Goku in normal form
    >ask them what germans are then
    >they look at each other and one start to stutter
    >"S-Super saiyans, because they have fair hair and green eyes"
    Still makes me chuckle to this day
    Even in their power fantasy they're inferior

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      yet you went to high school with moroccans and turks, who is the inferior here, Hans

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Read again

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >In the United States most high schoolers are ages 13-18
          Okay fair point, thought high school was 16 - 18.
          In Germany "middle school" is from 5th to 10th grade and after that you go to Gymnasiale Oberstufe (dunno about the other stuff BVJ, Berufsfachschule etc) which is Grade 11 - 12/13 and the you go to University.
          >yet you went to high school with moroccans and turks
          Most of them dropped out by 8th grade anyways

          I'm implying Hans to be the loser for being near those species in the first place, mongoloids

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >In the United States most high schoolers are ages 13-18
        Okay fair point, thought high school was 16 - 18.
        In Germany "middle school" is from 5th to 10th grade and after that you go to Gymnasiale Oberstufe (dunno about the other stuff BVJ, Berufsfachschule etc) which is Grade 11 - 12/13 and the you go to University.
        >yet you went to high school with moroccans and turks
        Most of them dropped out by 8th grade anyways

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      homie Im the warrior of great azerbaijan, and I can frick you in your butthole and mouth with my extreme willpower and aura

  39. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i see so many god damn nogs and SEAsians with Akatsuki/naruto in general gear on too.

    It's sad because they missed the wave hard, now it's legit intro-level hipsteresque to wear that stuff.

    An actual answer though is around ~7 years ago there were up and coming soundcloud rappers (many of which were black) who ripped off the mall goth aesthetic including naruto/akatsuki gear and more than one of them included naruto references in their songs. DBZ references have been abundant in nog-rap even outside of the soundcloud boom, too.

    I'd actually consider an akatsuki cloud clothing item or something if it weren't so appropriated by nigs and hispanics and SEAmonkies.. I was a moronic mallgoth like a decade before i started lifting

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >It's sad because they missed the wave hard,

      we didn't miss the wave, I watched Naruto and DBZ since I was 5 years old.

      You're the fricker who abandoned it.

  40. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    black kids project on Goku the father figure they never had

  41. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm white and I love shonen too, maybe I have some Black person genes (my skin is white as frick tho), but I tend to be more emotional (emotional doesnt mean boohoo I cry it also mean I get hyped as frick and angry etc) and a lot of black people are like that too, that and the simple nature of shonen and simple archetypical stories makes it interesting for us I think

  42. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  43. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You're really overthinking it.

    I wear graphic tees at the gym because I think they're cool and would look cool in them. I'm not literally larping as Levi Ackermann imagining myself legpressing a 10-meter type titan.

    Also if anything what I really want right now is a Stannis heart shirt. I might make a custom tee. Thinking something like "I <3 NY" but make it "I <3 KL" instead, with Stannis' burning heart and stag Sigil. I think that'd be pretty funny.

  44. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    DBZ is unironically good lifting fuel, I'm not black and still use it. I don't wear shirts though, but there's an OST of the video game DBZ:BT3 called "survive" and it really brings back old memories and gets me in a fighting/lifting mood when I'm hitting heavy PRs.

  45. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >why do boys and men like fantasy fiction that glorifies and praises self excellence and determination
    Your query is self explanatory. In fact, let's get specific
    Why does an individual that is
    >black
    lacking father figure and/or deep cultural traditions of manliness
    >dude
    with testosterone producing factories
    >into shonen anime
    consumes fictional content designed and aimed at young male teens
    >buff
    about space monkeys fighting gods and demons through training and self discipline

  46. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I had to screencap the whole autist sperging out about inspiration all day long argument. priceless autism for my collection kek

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Post it. I have need of this.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        hmm I'd have to collage it, there's 32 seperate screencaps lmfao

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          If it's too much trouble I'll do it myself (probably).
          Still, it was a fricking treat seeing that sperg flip out over inspiration.
          What a fricking homosexual dyel. I hope he gets aids.

  47. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know but did you know black people respond more strongly to steroids than other races?

  48. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Saiyans are monkeys

  49. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kinos kino

  50. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    it goes a step f urther because there's a lot of black people that literally only watch fight scene complilations of anime. shonen is made teenage boys. do the math.

  51. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah why don't they just take inspiration from their long and rich histo- Oh.

  52. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Working out in my Vegeta shirt.

    I’m a 34 yo boomer who grew up on toonami. I don’t think I would be into fitness if I never watched dbz. I listen to dbz AMVs at the gym.

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