http://dbkai.net/episodes

1. Does it say something about society, demographics, focus grouping or w/e else that Goku is essentially the world’s first mentally handicapped superhero? (take a look at him in the episodes when he’s not fighting, clearly the knock on the head as a baby’s had some pretty major effect)

2. Is Dragonball Z (android saga onwards) a modern-day version of ancient mythology in the style of the greeks, romans, ejyptians, norse, etc? Think about it, a place above the world full of incredibly powerful people, seeing everything, squabbling amongst themselves. A whole variety of personality flaws and secret agendas and rivalries and such, with noone to regulate them except each other… Actually this could also be the real world version of that parody “Saturday Morning Watchmen”.

3. Beyond the obvious homoerotic undertones to it, I think the whole fusion thing in the Buu saga could be a good topic for overthought. Did anyone notice that Gotenks was essentially an experiment in taking the worst of both Goku and Vegeta? Things like Goku’s playful carelessness, lack of critical thought and naivety with Vegeta’s narcissism, power lust and rage, and representing that peak of immaturity and stupidity by making their fusion be by the proxy of their sons. This is particularly interesting when you consider that Vegeto was a combination of everything that is best about each and he can only be created when each can fully understand and respect the other’s strengths, and that this is the reason why Gotenks fails and Vegeto succeeds.

Also, the video at the end is broken…