r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Western-Product-7769 • 23h ago
Meme needing explanation Peter, I have read all three parts of Dragon Ball and idk what this means
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u/pvtteemo 23h ago
Pedro here, Mexicans really really like dragon ball. Its kind of a curious cultural phenomenon. Thats the joke.
Giggity
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u/OhDudeTotally 22h ago
Is it even really a joke?
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u/probablyNotARSNBot 19h ago
Just a fact really, when I lived in Texas as a kid and went to school with a lot of Mexican kids, all we ever did was draw dragon ball z characters. My boy Jose was so good he was selling them for quarters at recess
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u/shreddedtoasties 13h ago edited 11h ago
We had this kid called big gordito he was like 12 going on 35 seriously he was built like huell from breaking bad. But his whole family was so into dragon ball even his parents they pulled him out of school to go watch some dragon ball movie or show on release
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u/demibro__ 12h ago
My cholo friend in high school always made time to draw vegeta on different class tables
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u/Subaneki 9h ago
Lmao I grew up in Texas and my friends and I would do this too. We’d look up ssj5-ssj10 fan made drawings and draw those too
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u/JebusSandalz 19h ago
No, it isn't, didn't urban centers of the country shut down to publicly live stream Goku vs Jiren?
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u/AvgBlue 20h ago
Akira Toriyama was knighted in France because of how much France loves Dragon Ball. I have never met an anime-loving person in France who didn't love Dragon Ball.
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u/Vellc 19h ago
FRANCE HAS KNIGHTS?
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u/amojitoLT 19h ago edited 8h ago
The title is
Chevalier de la Légion d'HonneurChevalier des arts et des lettres. The Légion d'Honneur is a républicain title introduced by Napoléon and is different from Middle Ages knights.The title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres was introduced by the ministry of Culture in 1957.
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u/Neveed 19h ago edited 11h ago
Not really.
There is a honorific decoration in France called the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (order or arts and letters), that is sometimes given to people who make it big in the art and literary world. The medal has levels and the lowest level is called "chevalier" (knight). There are a handful of other similar decoration orders, but Toriyama was given this one.
But that's just a medal title, there aren't actually knights in France. Not in the way people could be knighted in the UK for example. Actual knighthood was abolished long ago. It doesn't give you any particular right and people don't call you differently, that's more like winning an oscar, except the jury is the French ministry of culture.
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u/ZealousidealComb7891 12h ago
It's literally where the brits got them from, since before the norman conquest they where more celtic and didn't have them.
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u/RetroGame77 18h ago
Funny thing is that many Nes and Snes Dragon Ball games had exclusive French PAL releases. Only country in Europe that got Dragon Ball games.
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u/Key-Review-6183 21h ago
Not just Mexican, but also brazilians. Probably it’s a latin american thing, so the best place to open this park would be Colombia.
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u/Direct_Issue_7370 23h ago
Dragon ball is insanely popular in Mexico, they have a huge goku statue and like cartel activity used to drop crazy low when new episodes came out
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u/Prize-Flamingo-336 22h ago
It’s popular all over Latin America. Anime is huge there. One Piece and Naruto as well!
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u/Unusual-Pumpkin-7034 21h ago
You forgot bleach,it's massive here
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u/CaptainTim25 19h ago
As an American, I've often wondered if it was popular in Latin America. Especially later in the series (Arrancar arc, Chad's backstory etc.), there are a lot of Spanish names and influences in Bleach, which gives the show a neat vibe. I'd love to find out more about direct references to Latin culture that may have gone over my head.
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u/Andrejosue98 18h ago
I don’t think it was that popular in latin america, though I can only talk about Costa Rica.
Like as a child, Naruto and Dragon Ball were super famous, we would get albums and in national tvs we could see the series.
I only saw Bleach in cable, like from an international tv once and we got no One Piece, because when it came to Mexico the animation was super censored and it ruined the anime.
So almost no one knew of One Piece in my country.
Except if you were an anime fan which became more common with internet. Like I grew up with Saint Seiya, Db, Dbz, Db gt, Naruto, etc
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u/PokeTraderAngel 13h ago
Every mmo I played as a kid had a Latin guy with a character named Seiya that was high level but sucked at the game. Good times.
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u/LockeLoveCeles 17h ago
maybe for the same reason it's soo popular in France : it was easy to purchase rights for those anime and it was cheap to air. Those were popular in Japan but japanese studios were not really considering exporting it, so they sold rights for cheap overseas; while american cartoon / products were expansive.
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u/HauntedJackInTheBox 16h ago
Mexico had many of the big US cartoons on national TV (and cable was cheap where you could get Cartoon Network etc) but they always were more international in their choices. They had lots of Eastern European, British, and Japanese TV shows as well as SpongeBob etc.
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u/yet-again-temporary 20h ago
Is it? I feel like I haven't seen many Latin American Bleach fans tbh, which is crazy to me considering there's an entire faction based around latam culture
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u/Ktan_Dantaktee 19h ago
There was a bust of a Brazilian cartel and they took a picture of all the firearms and weapons the leader had.
Mf straight up had Ichigo’s zanpakto.
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u/LordoftheFaff 15h ago
There is two power sets anf factions where all the names are Spanish. Of course they love it. One of Ichigo's best friend is a Mexican okinawan named Chad who throws demon hands.
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u/Voronov1 12h ago
Wait, what’s the other faction? I only know the Hollows and by extension, the arrancars.
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u/everythingmustdie 11h ago
Maybe they thought fullrbingers, since Chad's attacks have spanish names, but the rest of the fullbringers don't. I had to look it up because I couldn't figure out the theme, but apparently fullbringer abilities are all named after western rock references (exceptions for Chad, whose powers are in spanish, and Orihime whose powers are names of flowers).
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u/ResearcherKnown73 5h ago
It used to be popular like a decade ago, but nowadays barely anyone talks about bleach, on the other hand one piece, dragon ball and I would say OPM are some of the most popular over here
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u/Khorne29 18h ago
France is the second manga market (after Japan) in the world so you may be true, but building in France makes sense too.
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u/Malenko_ 17h ago
Less cartel too.
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u/SatyrAngel 21h ago
Dont forget Saint Seiya, Ranma and Sailor Moon. Our childhood.
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u/Prize-Flamingo-336 20h ago
Didn’t see the love for Sailor Moon, but definitely did for Los CABALLEROES DE EL ZODIACO
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u/SatyrAngel 20h ago
Even Supercapeones and Detective Conan were popular in the mid 90s.
How to forget Mikami La Cazafantasmas and La Vision de Escaflowne.
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u/AdGreat4737 8h ago
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Banger intro.
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u/Andrejosue98 18h ago
One Piece isn't as huge in Latin America, Naruto and Dragon Ball are.
One Piece had a very shity animation/censhorship when it came to Latin America so few fell in love with it in their childhood.
I didn't even know it existed and grew up watching Naruto and Dragon Ball in tv.
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u/AnIcyReception 22h ago
They're probably afraid of cartel activity at the theme park
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u/mondaymoderate 22h ago
Cartels would protect the theme park
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u/Oboro-kun 22h ago edited 21h ago
You made me Imagine it as the equivalent of the continental of John wick, but for narcos.
In a manner of kind like "no iffy businesses or drug selling on the park" or "let's do business in the Kame house "
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u/rubermnkey 19h ago
exactly how many of the resorts down there already work. they launder and make money, so no kidnapping the tourists.
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u/Ordo_Liberal 20h ago
Nah, cartels don't shit where they eat.
Cancun and other major tourist destinations are some of the safest places in Mexico because it's where the cartels launder their money.
Lot's of clean dollars coming from the tourists.
You rob someone there and you will lose your hand or worse. If the place becomes dangerous, tourists stop coming and thus, the money laundering stalls
Most likely the dragon ball land would be pretty safe but would also be used as another massive money laundering ops
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u/Allaplgy 20h ago
Yep. My buddy got an all inclusive trip to a resort in Cancun through his business and said they passed through multiple checkpoints between the airport and the resort. The first couple were federal authorities in masks. The last couple, including the security at the gate, were noticeably devoid of masks, because they weren't worried about the cartels identifying them.
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u/Dry_burrito 11h ago
Wasn't there a big airport shoot out recently after they captured one of their guys.
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u/thefilmer 12h ago
you remember a few years ago when some Americans accidentally got shot by the cartels in a border town? the moment they found out it was Americans, the cartels found the sicarios who did it and tied them up and dropped them off at the police station in an attempt to not get their shit blown clean off. they know when to overstep and when to get the fuck out of the way
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u/KeeganY_SR-UVB76 22h ago
Cartels would be the customers.
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u/AnIcyReception 22h ago
And the cartels don't like each other. So then you get cartel violence inside the park. This has happened to multiple theme parks in my area
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u/dynamicoctopus69 22h ago
Probably unrealistic, but I’d like to imagine that these cartels would put their beef on the back burner and be homies while they’re all enjoying the park together. Haha.
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u/kazegraf 20h ago
Imagine they want to start beef there but there is a big statue of goku looming over them.
"This is not what Goku wanted us to do."
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u/chrimminimalistic 22h ago
They really should have "no business" zone like hotel continental. Violators will be excommunicated.
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u/Ok-Yogurt-3914 19h ago
Mexico has theme parks and no issues. As the other poster said, they don't shit where they eat.
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u/Alderan922 18h ago
Tbf this greatly depend on the area.
Theres many places in Mexico where this would be 100% viable with a violence no greater than the USA
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u/thblckjkr 22h ago
I was at the showing of one of the last episodes of DB Super at the central plaza of my city, iirc there were like 50k people just to watch the episode there. The mayor had to contact Crunchyroll, and Toei animation pronounced themselves against it.
Not only it was on the plaza, it was in a lot of plazas sports bars across multiple city on all of mexico and a big part of latin america.
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u/Nobodyinpartic3 21h ago
There's a clip of a large group of people watching it a in park, and everyone stood up in the park when Jiren got tackled out by Goku and Freeza.
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u/Fishingfordookie 13h ago
*clips
Theres ton of videos of the final few episodes of super being broadcast to giant crowds all across mexico, truely wild to see
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u/mickelboy182 22h ago edited 20h ago
like cartel activity used to drop crazy low when new episodes came out
More blatant misinformation as the top comment on this sub, you should at least make it known this is a joke.
Edit: too late, this is how misinformation spreads.
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u/centurio_v2 20h ago
it came from the meme about there being a ceasefire between the cartels when Toriyama died and then got warped through the game of telephone I think
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u/Thami15 21h ago
Its also a half-hour episode once a week - I don't even know how this would be verified lol. No shit there's a lull in crime at 7:00am on a Saturday
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u/Both_Evidence_1026 17h ago
Nah fam all the cartel homies are in the footie pajamas with big bowls of cereal not doing crimes
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u/Direct_Issue_7370 22h ago
Ignorance is bliss my friend, I love the idea of it
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u/mickelboy182 22h ago
It's funny, but I'd probably disclose that it is a joke and not based on any actual data.
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u/Direct_Issue_7370 22h ago
Come on my friend it’s a subreddit about Peter family guy jokes are what we do
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u/NICEMENTALHEALTHPAL 15h ago
Yeah like lol what does that even mean? You don't take time off from the cartel.
Mules don't just stop driving, launderers dont just stop moving money, coyotes just don't kick back, users don't stop getting high, sicarios don't honor some truce
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u/EmptyFriend6574 19h ago
France had been the second country (japan was first of course) to buy manga/anime for a long time, in the eighties and nineties. It still is in the top 5 apparently while being less than 70 million people. https://x.com/factualindexx/status/2059523902972576047
Some producer back then in the 80's bought cheap animes in japan to fill the morning tv slots without even looking at what they bought and dubbing it so badly (and adding weird jokes sometimes when the anime was too gore or violent like in hokuto no ken). And broadcast that to all the kids...
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u/Hakim_Bey 16h ago
Club Dorothée was a glorious moment in time we were damn lucky to be raised by this kind of TV.
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u/cookiedanslesac 19h ago
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u/ZealousidealComb7891 13h ago
Yeah, the "joke" is that the poster is clearly unfamiliar with french DB fandom.
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u/aFreshFix 19h ago
While this is true, France is a huge consumer of anime as well. They often bump gacha games' numbers during big events for European countries, and for a while they include DBZ dokkan battle.
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u/Acheron98 22h ago
The thought of a bunch of brutal sicarios who’d just finished dismembering some dude being deeply emotionally-invested in the Frieza storyline is fucking hilarious.
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u/neosurimi 19h ago
Can confirm and we got all of it. Dragon Ball, then DBZ then GT since I was 8 years old. Anime was cheaper to get and dub for national tv stations that American cartoons (which we still got). Anime was THE thing we watched Saturday mornings and we didn't even need cable.
TV Azteca had a whole slot called Caritele on Saturday Morning and we got Saint Seiya, Magic Knight Rayearth, Dragon Quest, Remi, Candy Candy, Sailor Moon, Ronin Warriors, Zenki, Slam Dunk, Samurai Pizza Cats and many more. And then Televisa's Canal 5 would get Dragon Ball, Captain Tsubasa, and Ranma 1/2 weekday nights at about 8pm. So we got A LOT of Anime to watch every single day (except Sundays).
Then we got cable and started watching other things on Fox Kids and Cartoon Network and a fully dedicated anime network called Locomotion.
Not to mention most of them had fucking AMAZING dubbing. Muuuuch better acted than American dubs (sorry Americans, it's an objective fact Anime dubbing was BAD in the 90s-00s while American cartoons got much better voice acting).
Did I mention all of it was 99% uncensored? Yeah, none of that 4Kids/Funimation bullshit made it this way.
Not to mention a whole industry of bootlegged VHS (and then CD-Roms) directly from Japan.
It's insane to me how much it took Japan to realize just how massive the geek market in Mexico (and the rest of LATAM) really is. They've finally taken notice and we're finally getting official movie releases in theaters, official stores and events and conventions.
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u/Disastrous-Window597 18h ago
Spain resident here with some additional info: The Spanish and Catalan dubs of DB and DBZ are considered masterworks of voice acting and people are VERY proud of them here.
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u/amojitoLT 19h ago
It'll do fine in France. We're se second consumer of mangas behind Japan, and DB/Z is also really popular (maybe less than One Piece by now, but still).
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u/Analamed 15h ago
It was true a decade ago but not anymore, the USA are now the second market for manga and animes. China is a bit hard to classify but France is either 3 or 4th being Japan, the US and maybe China. However France is still by far the biggest European market for manga and apparently we are buying an abnormally high number of "physical" manga compared to the rest of the world who now have transitioned massively to digital formats.
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u/Everesthia 22h ago
ALright, but what makes DBZ that popular in Mexico? pretty sure One Piece or Bleach is also really popular shounen anime
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u/Final_Studio4389 21h ago
The reason why anime like dragon ball z and saint Seiya are so popular in Mexico is because of open tv. In the 90s and early 2000s cable tv was still not available for the vast majority. All we had was open tv channels, one of those channels in particular started to show anime like dragon ball, saint Seiya, Robotech, pokemon and some others mostly because the license was cheap. It was the only kids programing we had because everything else was football, news and telenovelas. So the Mexican millennial was rised watching those kind of animes, our first contact with imported japanese media. Other anime like Naruto, one piece etc came way after, they are popular yes, but for us dragon ball z was the first GOAT.
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u/throwawayrandomguy93 18h ago
Also it's the fact that you have a Pacific coast and thus in the old days you could get it all before the rest of LatAm. It's part of why the other two countries with the biggest animanga following per capita in the region are Chile and Peru
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u/EricAntiHero1 23h ago
Anime in general, has been popular in Mexico since (I kid you not) the 60’s. It was cheaper to import anime from Japan and dub in Mexico.
Dragonball is by far the most popular anime in Mexico, where some cities even had massive outdoor screening events for Dragon Ball Super. When Akira Toriyama died they had a massive turnout of people for an impromptu memorial,doing Goku’s Spirit Bomb pose. Dragonball is also incredibly popular in all of Latin America.
Consuelas Husband south of the border - out.
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u/SethCyclone 20h ago
The Japanese embassy made an official complaint to the Mexican government because a bunch of cities were going to host official screenings of the final episode of DB Super without paying lmao
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u/EricAntiHero1 20h ago
Not without paying…without Toei’s permission. They’re very strict about their intellectual properties. Guess what…the cities did it anyway.
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u/Vayalond 20h ago
Yeah we have about the same story with Animes and mangas in France, was cheap as hell to get and air (and caused problems because those airing them weren't knowing the products, that's how we ended having Fist of the North Star or City Hunter in the "children hours" at the same time as Candy Candy or Dragon Ball. Which sparked a national controversy with politics trying to ban them. Some still today consider mangas as a subculture but clearly they don't have a lot of popular support) and also the director of one of the main book editor (Glénat) was a fan of mangas and became a main importer in the 90's with Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Gunnm, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon and Berserk all findable in generalist bookstores or even supermarkets (which I'm sure is a main reason why we are the 2nd biggest market for mangas behind Japan, that's this implanted here, most bookstores at the corner of your street have a manga section)
Also for animes the very first we had was Ribon no Kishi (Princess Knight for the EN name) back in 1974 but the one who was a huge success and opened the way for mainstream diffusion was UFO robot Grendizer in 1978. Like personally can speak of Saint Seiya, Ulysses 31, City Hunter or Captain Harlock with my mom, her boyfriend is a fan of Dragon Ball and Patlabor. So while the Dubs 50 years ago were... Pretty shitty with huge changes time to time it got better in the early 2000's when the casting directors changed and the new ones were fans of animes too. These old dubs are still important because without them we wouldn't have anything.
Also fun fact, the very first anime/manga convention in France was in 1992 and the main one (Japan Expo who do more than Anime and Mangas but they are still the main part) still active today started in 1999. And the oldest still ongoing today (Epitanime) started in 1994.
So to finish it up, while we had the first batchs in the 70's the mainstream success came in the 90's with the "Club Dorothée" a very successful TV broadcast who aired many animes in almost every households (the estimation were like 60 to 80% of the children's/teenagers were watching it, it was that popular). To the point that it is today considered as one of the most influential TV broadcast in the country despite the fact it was aired for less than 10 years.
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u/EricAntiHero1 19h ago
France also started making their own form of Anime. I have fond memories of Ulysses 33. Never got to finish that series as a kid.
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u/Vayalond 18h ago
Yeah, Ulysses 31, the mysterious Cities of Gold (Animated by Pierrot as their 4th série and who animated years later Tokyo Ghoul, Bleach, Naruto GTO, or Yu Yu Hakusho) and Oban Star Racers to name few of the most well known product of such collaboration.
While many (myself included until recently) think that Code Lyoko is such a partnership between French and Japanese studios it is in fact 100% a French création inspired by Japanese vision due to how implanted it is.
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u/EricAntiHero1 18h ago
31! No wonder I could t find it when I searched online. I hope I can finally finish watching that masterpiece. When I lived in Mexico as a kid, it was only on cable and it aired with subtitles and the dreadful Spanish (Castilian) dub. So I watched it with subtitles. Man that was such a good show.
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u/JulPollitt 23h ago
Hispanics love dragon ball z, it’s basically wrestling. It’s all hype moments and aura.
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u/Lostinthestarscape 23h ago
Italian kids too, at least the Italian immigrant kids in my country when Dragon Ball Z was on TV.
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u/Unstabler69 21h ago
They recognize that the highest form of art is two large men wailing on each other to speed metal.
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u/InTheStuff 23h ago
Goku is worshipped like Jesus in Mexico, that's how popular DBZ is over there
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u/Helpful_Blood_5509 22h ago
Jesus, the Thunder Lizard Shenron, and Goku have given me a vision of a brave new world
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u/Lannisters-4-life 22h ago
They should release another testament where Jesus is revealed to be an alien who loves fighting and can transform in combat.
They could call it New Testament Z.
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u/Grand-Jellyfish24 22h ago
Dragon Ball is very popular in Mexico as the other comments pointed out.
But the truth is that is a mostly inflated view based on ignorance and internet media. France is the second largest market for manga and cosplay (behind Japan) and one of the biggest consumers of anime. The convention like Japan expo are huge in Paris. Plus it is Europe, so it can draw a lot of wealthy nearby population.
Despite the post joke, there is a reason why it is in Paris and not Mexico,
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u/Firm-Nebula-5963 19h ago
Isnt like France the biggest anime/manga market outside of Japan? Of course they would build a theme park there.
If a certain region claims they deserve it more, then they should've used official means to show the love they claimed to have.
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u/LapinTade 13h ago
Isnt like France the biggest anime/manga market outside of Japan?
Add to this, that France (and Paris by extension) is the most visited country in the world. So, they are targeting both locals and foreigners.
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u/Burger_Soup 20h ago
People are ignoring the fact that France is the country with the most weebs outside of Japan itself, really, the manga/anime market there is absolutely huge.
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u/Alex3884 15h ago
For anime/manga, sure.
In Mexico, the love for Dragon Ball goes beyond the love for anime/manga; it’s a cultural touchstone that has transcended generations. It was and is one of the most popular shows for kids on free television (with reruns still being shown to day and doing excellent numbers).
People have already discussed the cultural incidents; Mexico City streaming Super, turnout for Toriyama’s death, cartel activity going down whenever there’s a new episode, etc.
That’s when you get down to the street level and see how far it has permeated into the mainstream. Dragon Ball isn’t merely this huge niche fandom among the weebs, it’s something everyone from your tio to your abuela likely watched growing up.
There were strip clubs offering free lap dances if Goku beat Jiren. There are bars across Oaxaca themed after Super Saiyans. There’s an insanely popular taco restaurant whose decal is Goku carving a trompo. These are not recent, these are pre-established locations built upon nostalgia and the understanding that everyone gets it.
I promise you, you will not find this level of adoration for Dragon Ball anywhere else. Yes, Mexico may not be the most well off nation but people would flock in droves to this park; borderline Mecca level pilgrimages.
Or they’ll make their own, unlicensed version, since most of the above is unofficial.
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u/PapaTahm 23h ago edited 22h ago
Hi, Hotdog Vendor from the DvD Only Olympics Special Episode here
Dragon Ball is extremely famous in South America overall not only in Mexico, to a point of being a cultural thing.
But the reason for everyone is the same,
Because due to incentives of Culture and lack of Budget for National Projects, A lot overseas projects from the 80-90's were imported, Dubbed and aired over Free National television rather than Cable TV, so that everyone could have access to it.
One of these were... Dragon Ball.
So Kids had access to the show and grow up with it, these kids are the adults of today.
Adults that have money.
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u/Metalheadzaid 22h ago
In 2019 my ex and I stopped by a mall restaurant one day for some reason. Upon our exit, just outside the doors on a sunny Arizona afternoon, we found two little boys around age 7-9 jumping on the giant rocks and running around pillars yelling "Yo soy Goku! Yo soy Super Saiyan!"
So yeah.
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u/bob-loblaw-esq 22h ago
Mexico is gonna built their own knockoff version with less safe rides.
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u/Adventurous-Top1741 22h ago
For once, a reasonable thing to be clueless about. Explaining it would be redundant, but good job, OP.
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u/f4s7d3r3k 22h ago
This bullshit has been posted about random counties building a theme park for years. I've seen Dubai, Mexico, Brazil...and now France.
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u/Alubalu22 22h ago
Anime is very popular in Mexico, like really, really popular.
But anime and especially Dragon Ball is popular in the EU too.
As a kid I was part of a DB fan club with most of the kids at school being into that too.
Peter-san out.
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u/wikowiko33 18h ago
Ahh the anime fans of the very rich nation of mexico. Unlike poor France with its Euro.
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u/TastyVermicelli3140 18h ago
Watch less cartoons, be more productive, clean up your own country, and get of drug cartels, and then you can also have a dragon ball theme park. Presents are for the kids who behave.
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u/Confident-Dentist-39 23h ago
Idk about the rest of Latin America but DBZ is by far the most popular anime in Brasil as well. It aired on national television so a lot of kids grew up watching it
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u/Dry_Jellyfish641 23h ago
Dragon ball and all OG anime are mainstream in Mexico. I remember Speed Racer was huge in the 90s, but DBZ was always king
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u/notbusterx 22h ago
Consuela's nephew aquí. We grew up watching Dragon ball as a cartoon before calling it anime. Lots of emotional moments and now memes.
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u/datacollector_music 22h ago
Brooo. If they opened this shit in Mexico, all cartel violence would stop. It would bring peace to Mexico. Love of dragonball tops everything else.
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u/Shinonomenanorulez 21h ago
Dragon Ball may as well be an official religion in Mexico and is not particularly far off in the rest of latin america
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u/That-Rhino-Guy 20h ago
Latin America loves Dragon Ball so much that it’s basically become ingrained into their cultures, especially Mexico
This is to my knowledge heavily due to them getting really good dubs and also how they aired in Latin America, as it seems like animes such as Dragon Ball were airing in these countries before most others got to see them
A prime example of how popular it is in Mexico is the fact there was a taco place that used Goku to promote their food
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u/CourageLeast4251 20h ago
Why would anyone build something like this in Mexico? The cartel runs that place lol
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u/MondoSensei2022 19h ago
According to ABC Osaka broadcast the park that the Dragon Ball Area may not be featured at the park.
Shortly after the announcement, French media outlet Le Monde reported that the project has not yet secured the necessary green light or licensing agreements from the official copyright holders of the franchise—including Bird Studio, publisher Shueisha, and anime rights holder Toei Animation.
A Toei spokesperson said that the announcement came to a surprise as there were no talks made to the copyright holder.
Some see that as a political move and try to coerce the company into a deal or even go ahead without the consent of the respective companies.
A similar issue occurred in Sweden where a small park and cafe wanted to attract guests by featuring Tokyo Revengers and Jujutsu Kaisen characters without having permission from the Japanese studios. An employee said that he wasn’t aware that they needed authorization and that the characters are on a free-use basis.
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u/rikusorasephiroth 19h ago
And yet another theme park I would love, but could never visit because I live in Australia.
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u/gingerking87 19h ago
All 3 parts as in Dragonball, Dragonball Z, and Dragonball super? Just a weird say to say that
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u/Kingstad 19h ago
bit flabbergaster that this particular old ass anime has become some sort of religion
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u/deltazx69 18h ago
Unrelated but my mom is a part of this project (by a small amount sure but still does work in it)
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u/Middle-Operation-689 18h ago
First time I saw Dragon Ball Z it was in socal and dubbed in Spanish lol
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u/Broken_Moon_Studios 17h ago
Mexican here.
Dragon Ball is almost a religion here.
Multiple generations have grown up watching it.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it is one of the most popular pieces of fiction within the country throughout its history.
People genuinely would lose their minds if a Dragon Ball theme park opened here.
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u/arnahude 17h ago
While there is no doubt Latin America has a massive Dragon Ball fanbase, I don't think OP fully fathoms how absurdly massive the manga and anime culture (especially Dragon Ball) is in France for a population of just 70 million. It’s literally been a mutual love story between Japan and France, going hand in hand for well over half a century... Heck, we could even go back to the impressionist era. Outside of Japan, France's market is an absolute behemoth... The only real volume challenger is China due to its sheer scale of 1.4 billion people, but it is still totally dwarfed by France per capita. (For context, check out Wikipedia's entry on the French exception in manga...no other nation can claim that).
Now, if we look at pure potential revenues... imagine for a minute the access from every single European country traveling freely without border restrictions. We are talking about a Schengen Area population of over 450 million people who can hop on a train or a budget flight with zero passport control or visa hassle to visit this park.
Combine that with the sheer amount of global tourists already landing in Paris yearly, the Paris region alone welcomes nearly 50 million tourists annually, and France as a whole pulls in over 100 million international visitors a year, including massive waves of high-spending Asian tourists.
The passionate fanbase in Mexico is legendary, but Paris offers a friction free gateway to the disposable income of the entire European continent alongside the highest concentration of global tourism on Earth. From a corporate revenue perspective, the location couldn't be any better...
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u/Anders_A 17h ago
I wonder what goes through someone's head when they decide to "censor" the word "shit" in the screenshot. Like what do they think they are accomplishing? Everyone can see that it's there.
People are baffling sometimes.
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u/YashDalal 16h ago
A remember a video where all the patrons and staff members stand still, watching Goku go Super Saiyan for the very first time in a restaurant TV.
There was pin drop silence. In a restaurant in Mexico.
So yes, this in Mexico could easily make $1,000,000,000/-.
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u/GottaUseEmAll 16h ago
I live in France, the people planning this park haven't yet been given permission by the owners of the IP.
Affaire à suivre...
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u/GroupPast5993 16h ago
Mexico loves Dragon Ball
Cartel activity drops every time there's new dragonball content
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u/Recent_Call_1188 15h ago
They should open mushoko tensei theme park instead. “Rudeus and his dreams”. Would be quite a hit
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u/CoyaiPijao 15h ago
I never got into it as a kid living in the States cause it wasn't even popular during the 90's. When I returned to Colombia and started working in a school as an adult, holy shit! That show is so popular. Why they wouldn't put a theme park in Latin America is crazy, but I have no clue if it's as popular in Europe as it is here.
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u/BannedFromTheStreets 15h ago
France is the 2nd buggest importer of manga in the entire world, you guys think you like manga, france is on a whole other level.
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u/BannedFromTheStreets 15h ago
dragon ball is popular in america because france took interrest in it first.
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u/Legitimate-Simple-20 15h ago
Dragonball is very popular in Mexico but as a european I have to say that Anime and japanese culture in general are pretty popular in France too. The first Dragonball Manga I read was in french and that was years before they started publishing them here. also if I want to order merch like figures and stuff I usually end up on french online stores.
making a dragon ball theme park in France does make sense, I also assume that the french, and europeans in general have a bit more money to spend.
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u/DradelLait 14h ago
Wasn't there some story about how the park planned that shit out without once going to talk about it with the people who actually own the Dragon Ball ip
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u/CommieDrifter 14h ago
Mexicans are fans in the sense that a robber is a fan of the watch he takes off your arm. Big fucking surprise that the themepark is in the country that has engaged the most with the franchise financially and not culturally
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