Did they not watch that episode before it aired? Yeah I know what they meant but it just comes across as wrong.
Just say he's the wrong guy and leave it at that. Then again this is the series that brought us
I mean seriously
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it really varies from author to author.It’s a Japanese show. There’s a reasonable chance that the literal translatation/character/word used in Japanese isn’t the one used for “black” as in people. If anything the blame for that should be on the dub team, but they probably figured people would know they are talking about a character named Black and that people wouldn’t cut a particular dialog segment for comedic purposes like it was done here.
The history of Dragon Ball terrible portrayal of black people can’t be denied tho. Pure fukk shyt. Although it’s gotten better in modern times . Some will say Japan is a pretty homogenous country and attribute DBZ’s negative and stereotypical depiction of black people to being driven by western media portrayal of African Americans and Africa, but I still would like to see someone press Toriyama on this shyt, but them dudes never really leave their safe haven/japan and when they do is for weeb conventions where no one’s gonna press them on this type of shyt