When I wish Triple H would lose the belt.
Chyna #1, Published by Chaos Comics in September 2000
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you hate a character solely because of a ship/ships, you're a childish fuck who needs to log off the internet and go touch grass. It's so annoying to see some of my favorite characters either reduced to who they're paired with or demonized because of said pairing. Fans really do take the fun out of shipping, especially on Tumblr and TikTok. And what gets me is that y'all aren't only loud with that bullshit, but you're wrong with it too! Like, damn, so and so, which, let's be real, is usually a girl, being shipped with the main character really lodged a stick up your ass, huh? If you don't like him or her or whoever, that's fine! If you don't like them because of shipping, stop making that everyone else's problem because I'm sick of seeing my faves personalities twisted and diminished just because you take shipping way too seriously.
When you’re reading the Dragon Ball manga, anime filler isn’t canon.
When you’re watching the Dragon Ball anime, anime filler is canon.
It’s literally that simple.
Anime filler, aside from occasionally coming directly from rough ideas of Toriyama’s (like a certain sequel series people wanna call canon, HMMM), was written by and approved by the same crew of writers who adapted the manga into an anime.
Two very different mediums requiring different storytelling techniques.
When you’re watching the Lord of the Rings films, Aragorn getting Andruil in Return of the King is still canon, even if when you’re reading the books, he has it the whole time.
So when you’re watching this -
This is canon -
And when you’re watching this -
This is canon -
And if you’re going to be watching this -
This is still canon -
Doesn’t matter if you like it, dislike it, support it, or disagree with it. And it certainly doesn’t matter what some cheap, cash in spin off, produced two decades later, with almost none of the original staff, has to say about it.
Even His Most Holiest Toriyama-Sama doesn’t have a say in it. The anime was produced by literally dozens of men and women with equal talent to the original author’s, and this constant cherry picking of their work is a garbage way to watch their collective masterpiece.
So one more time, if you’re watching this -
This is still canon -
Cheers.
Poor boy got panicked
Joan Laurer “Chyna” attending the 2001 Exotic Erotic Ball
Gerald Scarfe’s concept art for Disney’s Hercules (1997)