Why DragonballZ
is like Harry Potter
Okay,
before you go and decide that I'm totally mad, and Harry potter couldn't
possibly be like Dragonball, because one or the other is much better or
whatever, hear me out, okay? I heard on an interview with J.K.Rowling, on
j-pop.com researching for an English project, that her favorite tv programme is
Dragonball, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought the two series
were similar.
So
what do you think, is it just me or what? (Oh yeah, you don't have to read all
this, just stop either when I've proved my point or when it gets boring.)
Goku/Harry, is the main character of the
series, they are both boys of high school age, and they are both orphans, as
their parents died when they were really little. Both of their parents were
killed by the 'baddest baddie', Frieza/Voldemort, who Goku/Harry will
eventually end up defeating as the series progresses, and both baddies have an
annoying habit of not dying. Both kids go on lots of magical adventures, meeting
wizards, ogres, dragons etcetera, and they both always end up saving the day,
even though neither of them are very bright, are they? They both ride a
Nimbus(magic cloud thing)/Nimbus 2000 (a broomstick) and they both go to a
school run by a wise old man with glasses and a long white beard, Master Roshi/Dumbledore who teaches them martial
arts/wizarding. Goku/Harry is their favourite pupil and they help them
through their adventures. At the beginning of the series Goku/Harry go on
adventures with a genius of a girl called Bulma/Hermione who are real scolds
and have the worst taste in boyfriends and who own an equally annoying cat
called Puar/Crookshanks, Goku/Harry's other friend is a really geeky guy who
never gets any limelight, called Kuririn/Ron. As they go on adventures they
meet lots of other friends, including the terrible twosome Yamcha and Tien/Fred
and George, a really little guy called Oolong/Dobby, who is a pain in the butt
and usually gets them into trouble, not out of it. There's also a giant guy
called Ox-king/Hagrid who has a dangerous obsession with dragons and other
creatures and eats toffee that sticks your teeth together. Both Goku/Harry fall
in love with a beautiful Chinese girl called Chi-chi/Cho, who sadly doesn't
return their affections until they get older, (sorry harry potter fans, don't
want to tell you too much! But if you go to j-pop you can find out lots of
harry potter stuff, if they've still got the harry potter special on.) One of
Goku/Harry's biggest rivals during the series is Vegeta/Draco, who is a baddie
at the beginning of the series but somehow always ends up teaming up with the
good guys when it's time to save the world. (Here I quote Vegeta: "Nobody kills
Goku but Meeeee…" just then he launches an attack that saves Goku's life.
Again.) Vegeta/Draco's parents both served under Frieza/Voldemort. Also, in
both series, there is a continuous storyline that goes with the whole racism
thing, where there are Saiyans(an alien race of really powerful fighters) and
humans, or Wizards and humans. Both Vegeta and Draco tend to put people down
because they are 'Mud-bloods'. Hey, don't think I've forgotten Sirius! He has a
counterpart in Dragonball too, it's just I've saved him till last cause both
characters are my faves of their series. Sirius would be paired with a
Dragonball character called Pikkoro, as both are really cool! No, really, I do
have better reasons than that! Both are kind of like father figures to
Goku/Harry, and both aren't really trusted very much in the dbz/wizarding
world, so they live on their own apart from talking to Goku/Harry and Co, and
helping them out with all of their adventures and stuff. Both don't get nearly
as many fanfics wrote about them as they should, (hint hint, it would be so
cool if someone wrote a fanfic with both of them in! If anyone wants to then
e-mail me when you've done it, as I wanna read it when it's up!) Both of them
were thought to be a bad guy at the beginning, and both of them have kind of
turned into good guys as the series progressed, still keeping that kind of
ruthlessness the good guys aren't allowed to have. Oh yeah, another similarity,
you know when a harry potter character points there finger and someone gets
cursed, it's kind of like when a Dragonball character does an attack like the
kamehameha or something. (Thanks to Charlotte for that spelling!) Another
useless fact for you, both Harry Potter and DragonballZ are in the top ten
words entered into search engines every month. (Thanks again Charly!)
D'you
like the pics?
Okay,
that's just about all that I can think of, I hope it wasn't too boring for you,
but review it and tell me what you think, you know, the review box? Down there? â J â
Good. You found it. Now use it or I'll set Sirius AND Pikkoro on you!