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The Universal ‘Dudes Rock’ Appeal of Dragon Ball
Goku, you will always be famous.
As an ongoing serial narrative spanning multiple media, Dragon Ball is both comically straightforward (a story about a bunch of powerful warriors who defend the earth from various threats) and remarkably versatile. In various series, Goku grows from boy to man to dad (and sometimes back, as this week’s Daima premiere kicks off with the hero now magically kid-size again), and it’s from his perspective that the franchise’s “dudes rock” approach to storytelling crystallizes. Dragon Ball Super, the 2015 anime that was the franchise’s most recent TV outing, began with the Earth threatened by a catlike god of destruction capable of destroying entire worlds with the flick of a wrist, yet it also made him an easily distracted epicurean who can be talked out of genocide by the thought of all the cuisine he would miss out on thanks to his mass murder.
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