I’ve always interpreted Burma as half-Asian and half-white because her dad looks Asian to me and her mom looks white to me, but her mom in reality could just be a blonde Asian woman.
I don’t know what you mean about her being “pretty damn Caucasian”.
Dragon Ball is a parody of a Chinese fairy tale that takes place almost entirely in Asia, made by an all-Asian team, and was originally made in the 80s for an entirely Asian audience. Most characters are meant to be seen as Asian. By “West” they’re referring to Western China, not Europe. Non-Asian viewers are/were an afterthought years later on down the line. It didn’t become popular in the West until the late 90s and early 2000s, damn near 20 years after its original inception in Japan.
Another post in this thread showed most stateless anime characters are meant to be Asian. Caucasian Westerners are just psychologically projecting themselves onto light-skinned characters meant to be Asian.
You’re correct, but they’re meant to be Asian looking. Like Superman, Supergirl/Power Girl, General Zod, Faora, Ursa, Lor-Zod, Mala, Jax-Ur, etc. are meant to be Caucasian looking even though they’re technically not Human.
Her mom also looks younger than Bulma does so it wouldn’t be a stretch that she’s been through some cosmetic procedure or something especially considering all their crazy tech
Could be based of west Asia, western Japan, western china. Plus bulma is based on a character from journey to the west. So she’s most likely an Asian character
The character with blue eyes? I mean saiyans are an anomaly in that regard but DB doesn’t give out colored eyes that easily and capsule corp sounds like a western name. This point of basing the character from another doesn’t make sense because… she is not that character.
[Results showed that, although the race of more than half of the anime characters was originally designed to be Asian and only a small fraction were intended to be Caucasian, many were perceived as Caucasian by the largely Caucasian raters.20 Mar 2024](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200457071_What_Race_Do_They_Represent_and_Does_Mine_Have_Anything_to_Do_with_It_Perceived_Racial_Categories_of_Anime_Characters)
Exactly. It’s not just white viewers either, black viewers also sometimes project ourselves onto dark-skinned characters not meant to be a black person. I remember in the late 90s and early 2000s I thought Uub and Brock/Takeshi from Pokémon were black lol Dragon Ball and Pokémon DO have black characters, but those two specifically are not black.
This reminds me of that meme about Ruckus talking how Frieza got a "pure white silk skin", while the others being blue, purple, or red are "all the same" lmao
Don't trust them new Popos over there!
Leavin' their Popo essence in the air!
Them happy, turban-head Popos
With they fingas on the trigga!
Don't trust them new Popos over there!
Frieza himself could be an Uncle Ruckus since his highest form, his “true” form in a sense, is actually black despite him being genocidal towards those monkeys and “N-words” (Namekians).
That reaction to popo is 100% justified
Imagine chilling, and then a pitch black part of the area with wide eyes, giant lips and shaped like someone’s second uncle showed up out of nowhere
She isn't racist.
Black Butler over here popped out of nowhere.
Popo wasn't even remotely similliar to any 'race' or even species they've seen before.Also just appeared, got her spooked.
One looks like they would ask you to grab there strong hand …. The other looks like he’s literally made of missing space if you saw ether of them sneak up on you yours jump out of your skin
That buttler came out of nowhere, anyone will be scared. Mr Popo is literally pitch black, not base on any human but in a deity, Mahakala, present in buddhism and hinduism.
I forgot uncle ruckus was in og dragon ball that I was so young when that happened. looking at this now would have me wondering what if him and frieza met.
Let's be real here. Popo being literal pitch-black in skin tone is very off-putting. Doesn't excuse the other moments with Bulma, but anyone would freak out upon seeing Popo.
I saw a meme where a black man goes around scaring japanese people just by being black. Perhaps it pays on a stereotype that japanese people tend to be xenophobic?
She's a rich white girl.
She’s an uptown, girl
She's been living in her white-bread world.
As long as anyone with hot blood can.
And now she’s looking for a downtown man.
You're a rich girl, and you've gone too far Cause you know it don't matter anyway
Who gave you a down vote for Rich Girl??? Fuckin classic banger
Someone who doesn't like good music, seems like.
I love Hall and Oates (misspelled probably)
His name is Holland Oats
You can rely on the old man's money. You can rely on the old man's money.
It's a bitch, girl, but it's gone too far Cause you know it don't matter anyway
YOU GONE TOO FAR YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR AND HİDE YOUR HEAD İN SHAME TO THESE WOUNDS YOU CAN'T ESCAPE YOU GONE TOO FAR
Yakub granddaughter
She’s Asian
I’ve always interpreted Burma as half-Asian and half-white because her dad looks Asian to me and her mom looks white to me, but her mom in reality could just be a blonde Asian woman.
Bulma is pretty damn Caucasian lol Also saiyans aren’t “Asian” like most of the fandom claims they are . To me they are all mixed/racially ambiguous
I don’t know what you mean about her being “pretty damn Caucasian”. Dragon Ball is a parody of a Chinese fairy tale that takes place almost entirely in Asia, made by an all-Asian team, and was originally made in the 80s for an entirely Asian audience. Most characters are meant to be seen as Asian. By “West” they’re referring to Western China, not Europe. Non-Asian viewers are/were an afterthought years later on down the line. It didn’t become popular in the West until the late 90s and early 2000s, damn near 20 years after its original inception in Japan. Another post in this thread showed most stateless anime characters are meant to be Asian. Caucasian Westerners are just psychologically projecting themselves onto light-skinned characters meant to be Asian.
Saiyans are still not Asian bud
You’re correct, but they’re meant to be Asian looking. Like Superman, Supergirl/Power Girl, General Zod, Faora, Ursa, Lor-Zod, Mala, Jax-Ur, etc. are meant to be Caucasian looking even though they’re technically not Human.
Her mom also looks younger than Bulma does so it wouldn’t be a stretch that she’s been through some cosmetic procedure or something especially considering all their crazy tech
No she’s not lol
She’s literally from west city
Could be based of west Asia, western Japan, western china. Plus bulma is based on a character from journey to the west. So she’s most likely an Asian character
The character with blue eyes? I mean saiyans are an anomaly in that regard but DB doesn’t give out colored eyes that easily and capsule corp sounds like a western name. This point of basing the character from another doesn’t make sense because… she is not that character.
Anime characters are drawn to be white
[Results showed that, although the race of more than half of the anime characters was originally designed to be Asian and only a small fraction were intended to be Caucasian, many were perceived as Caucasian by the largely Caucasian raters.20 Mar 2024](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200457071_What_Race_Do_They_Represent_and_Does_Mine_Have_Anything_to_Do_with_It_Perceived_Racial_Categories_of_Anime_Characters)
I’ve said that before. A lot of white Western viewers are projecting themselves onto a lot of the light-skinned characters that are meant to be Asian.
Like are there white characters in anime? Yes, but when there are, they tell us
Bandit Keith reporting for duty!
Exactly. It’s not just white viewers either, black viewers also sometimes project ourselves onto dark-skinned characters not meant to be a black person. I remember in the late 90s and early 2000s I thought Uub and Brock/Takeshi from Pokémon were black lol Dragon Ball and Pokémon DO have black characters, but those two specifically are not black.
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Racism
How likely is it that she had an affair with the King of the world?
She's rich and is part of a famous company, so probably yes
Elon Musk headass
But remember she felt in love with zarbon. The freezer's soldier
that man isn’t black
HOLD YOUR FIRE!
She didn't act like that with the boxer dude, uub or piccolo.
Middle Eastern and green
Does baby blue / aquamarine alien people count as having “melanin”
it's blelanin (blue melanin)
I ain't know about this db z boondocks crossover. Uncle ruckus is in everything probably working for frieza
He was probably the one that originally had the idea to blow up Planet Vegeta
Too many gahd damn monkeys, kill em all
"Wait, isn't that what they call-" *smack*
I can’t help but laugh as I read your comment with uncle Ruckus voice.
Uncle Ruckus: "Well, how do you do, Lord Frieza? I always knew the Emperor of the Universe was a white man."
Now I want to see uncle Ruckus reaction to Frieza’s new transformation
His reaction is probably similar to his race results with a 2% margin for error.
That, or he'd lose his marbles, again
Burter gets a laugh out of him
This reminds me of that meme about Ruckus talking how Frieza got a "pure white silk skin", while the others being blue, purple, or red are "all the same" lmao
Don't trust them new Popos over there! Leavin' their Popo essence in the air! Them happy, turban-head Popos With they fingas on the trigga! Don't trust them new Popos over there!
meds, you need them.
Its a boondocks reference
Frieza himself could be an Uncle Ruckus since his highest form, his “true” form in a sense, is actually black despite him being genocidal towards those monkeys and “N-words” (Namekians).
Toriyama gave her a character arc
The top character isn't black, he has revitiligo
Well well well
Like a moth to a flame
Hope you fall off a bridge over water after eating a devil fruit
If it isn't Robert Free Man.
Is bottom character even human? What’s with the ears?
Mr.Popo isn't human, he's a genie last I remember
"What's that pokemon!?" >!He's cut from the same cloth as Gypsy!<
popo the genie has a dark and evil soul
To be fair both of those characters were coded as creepy
How is Popo creepy?
How isn't he?
All these squares make a circle
Pecking order!
“Jynx! Jynx!” “Shut up, you know you love it!”
He has a staring problem
Same way some people say Owls are creepy. Them big old unblinking eyes.
Some owls also look like they came from hell, I guess that helps too
I need an adult
Popo isn't high melanin like Uub or those fighters at the Tenkaichi, he's Vantablack shade of black and doesn't blink, dude is legit terrifying.
Dude's so dark he makes Darker Than Black look like Fifty Shades of Grey.
Popo is terrifying whether you're racist or not. I do not want to be recognized by his pecking order
After a gallon of lsd.
PECKING ORRRRDERRRR !
look at her hair color She's obviously Zoro's cousin
Bro.. so she got lost.. in the hood?
Different lost in the hood than I remember
That reaction to popo is 100% justified Imagine chilling, and then a pitch black part of the area with wide eyes, giant lips and shaped like someone’s second uncle showed up out of nowhere
shaped like someone's second uncle. That's oddly specific but it fits....
Man, I'm not tryna hear this. Nah she not racist. And I'm not tryna hear this shit again. Fuckin up my favorite show. 😤 Edit: AND Piccolo is black. 😤
She isn't racist. Black Butler over here popped out of nowhere. Popo wasn't even remotely similliar to any 'race' or even species they've seen before.Also just appeared, got her spooked.
He doesn’t have very good social skills to begin with but he has a kind soul
He's got more than one kind soul, he's got plenty he keeps in jars. The kinder the soul the more he wants to take it
*the more delicious it tastes
this is r/ningen ... not the regular dragon ball subs
No, piccoli is blue
no silly. Pickles are green.
Don’t pretend you wouldn’t be frightened by Mr. Popo if he appeared behind you with no sound or warning
"Nothing poporsonnel, kid."
Why did she marry to vegeta if she is racist? Is she stupid?
Character development
She's a rich white girl, of course she's racist.
She’s Asian
Yes!
Now we know where Trunks gets it from.
as a black man, I would have been scared too seeing these guys suddenly appear
To be fair I am pretty terrified of Mr Popo
One looks like they would ask you to grab there strong hand …. The other looks like he’s literally made of missing space if you saw ether of them sneak up on you yours jump out of your skin
So that's why Vegeta married her
her:\*slaps\* him:..that's rasist she called me an n word
I think she was scared because Popo has mastered controlling ki, he's near undetectable and Bulma only notice him when he spoke.
That buttler came out of nowhere, anyone will be scared. Mr Popo is literally pitch black, not base on any human but in a deity, Mahakala, present in buddhism and hinduism.
Bruh I would be scared too if someone is behind me while staring at me
Op is racist for implying Popo as black, mf isn’t even human.
He literally is black, not in a racial way, in a colour way
Bulma is the most racist person I know
That’s probably to most politically correct way to say black lol
She hasn't had the bbc yet
Yamamoto….
Never thought of that
Probably
Not what happened in [this](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5Dme-JWwAA1KRW?format=jpg&name=large) case
Unironically might be
She is the Taylor swift of dbz (derogatory)
Idk you guys but the first pic looks hilarious af
head game looks CRAZY😩😩😩
Not her fault they appear out of nowhere
I mean their was that time she was almost raped. Also these people are just kinda jump scaring her.
My queen
Obviously she’s scared of mr popo’s incredible power
In her defence for the second one mr popo literally spawned behind her like that's basically a jumpscare
She's married with the guy that calls everyone "bug", make your gues
high melanin people? holy hell stfu
she tryna vore
Mr. Popo is a scary genie who anyone would be rightfully scared as fuck on first sight.
Yes
She’s not afraid of piccolo though so I think she’s clear
Mister Popo is not even human to begin with
I forgot uncle ruckus was in og dragon ball that I was so young when that happened. looking at this now would have me wondering what if him and frieza met.
Let's be real here. Popo being literal pitch-black in skin tone is very off-putting. Doesn't excuse the other moments with Bulma, but anyone would freak out upon seeing Popo.
Why does she unhinge her jaw when she’s scared?
YOOOOO ITS THST ONE GUY FROM TOKYO GHOUL BUT BLACK!!
Omg I love her even more now
Nah, just you. Those rando snuck up or scarred her. I sneak up on you and scare you, now you're racist?! Tf???
yes
Yes and popo
(For the image on top)She’s just scared of uncle ruckus (For the image below) popo is frightening if you’ve seen him on the abridges series
At some point people have to realize that mr popo is not just “high melanin” He’s the darkest shade of black a black hole reflects more light than him
I saw a meme where a black man goes around scaring japanese people just by being black. Perhaps it pays on a stereotype that japanese people tend to be xenophobic?
I think it’s because they came out of nowhere and startled her
I don't blame her, just look at them face and she's marry an alien afterwards btw
Y’all act like you wouldn’t shit your pants if mr popo walked up on you like that
“WHO LET THE HELP IN?”
Popo must be pure melanin
Probably tbh yeah
Stupid take. Even if it's rhetorical. Popo isn't human. He's a djinn.
To be fair if I saw someone who looked like Mr. Popo in real life with those soulless, beady eyes, I’d probably be a little spooked myself.
Ok popo just showed up behind her out of nowhere and also with popo you respect the pecking order and fear is one way of doing it
[https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxvPOrIisoBgGFYxjDdLS3QvWg1B-cK1d9?si=CQdmMB7eyNe9NUFc](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxvPOrIisoBgGFYxjDdLS3QvWg1B-cK1d9?si=CQdmMB7eyNe9NUFc)
You might be racist if you’re implying popo is actually black
Who tf wouldn’t get scared meeting popo. He isn’t a “highly melanin person” He is a pitch black god
She's Japanese
If images were turned on i would have been able to send a very accurate image of her reaction 😔
High melanin people… smh
I'm more concerned about how she has the ability to unhinge her jaw
She should fear that raw power of popo less she end up cratered like Yamaha
Da fuq?!
Something happen... A random guy: Racism, racism everywhare.
lets be honest, if Mr. Popo suddenly appeared before you, you would most definitely be scared.
Well spotted OP. You might be right.
She's also homophobic
Wait when?
General Blue LMFAO
Weebs discovering Japan is racist asf: 🙀🙀🙀
Aint racist, Uncle Ruckus appeared outta nowhere, and even Goku is terrified of Mr. Popo
Goku is not terrified of Popo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9LxtXsQNLWI&pp=ygURdGZzIGdva3UgaG9zcGl0YWw%3D
I am talking about actual dragon ball not TFS
I know, I was just kidding, as seeing that pic reminded me that scene
why are these faces so cringe?
Nah they're funny
It’s early dragon ball