On October 18, the 32nd anniversary of the broadcast of the 23rd episode of the famous Japanese animation "Dragon Ball Z", the Japanese media livedoornews also posted an advance post on Twitter the day before to celebrate.
Is there anything special about this? Of course, there is, commemorating the 32nd anniversary of the "sacrifice" of Big Brother Yamucha! (Laughs)
At that time, in the animated plot of this episode, Yamucha fought with the cultivators, and he thought that he would win, and he was carelessly attacked by the cultivators for a while and finally died, becoming the first "death" of the former male number two.
And this scene has also become a classic and eternal "famous scene", which will roll up a spoof trend of fans around the world in the coming decades.
Take last year, the square of the Li Ning Climbing Hall in the Shanghai World Expo Park just "lies" a huge and familiar humanoid sculpture, looking at the familiar costume, the familiar lying posture, it is easy to guess that this is Yamu tea.
When people took pictures and posted it online, it quickly became popular abroad.
Just one such photo can resonate with Dragon Ball fans around the world, which also shows that the world's spoof of Yamucha has long become a tradition.
The first is the pranks of netizens, such as the picture below where The chef of Anpanman is preparing to send Yamu tea into the oven.
Ah this... Is this roasting Yamu tea, or is yamu tea being cremated?
Some netizens took a few handmade pictures of the ornaments, and a group of cat hand-made offices surrounded Yamucha's handmade.
Looking at the expressions of these cats, they are basically laughing at people, and when people die, they will be ridiculed by a group of cats, and I can only use three words to describe --- "Take the bamboo shoots!" ”
However, the prank behavior of netizens is not the most damaged, only more damaged, as long as there is a suitable picture, everyone will directly get Yamu tea to the top.
For example, the mysterious circle of the seabed filmed in a documentary, because of its shape and structure is very similar to the big pit where Yamu tea lies, it is used by netizens to play a prank and throw Yamu tea into the sea.
In addition, these patterns were made by the white-spotted pufferfish as a courtship site and a breeding nest, but in this case, wouldn't it also satirize his tragic love ending lying in the love place of two fish?
However, not only are netizens spoofing, but even many comedic animation works have been played by the production team.
The above works with spoof scenes are "Gakuen Rescue Team", "Cute Invaders", "Stupid Quiz Summoning Beast" and "I can't understand what my husband is saying" and so on, but there are many related spoof works, you can look for them.
Not to mention other animations, even the follow-up official animation "Dragon Ball: Super" will have to play this meme, but this time, Yamucha only posed this pose at most at the baseball game.
The opening scene uses a very handsome "wolf's tooth wind fist" special effect to serve, the result is only three seconds of handsome, followed by a familiar classic picture.
In addition to the above, the Internet has also launched a series of related peripheral goods and games, which fully interprets the true meaning of the four words of "repeated whipping".
Sure enough, people's happiness is based on his pain, netizens look at this picture and say "too lack of morality", but obviously have been laughing without stopping.
If Yamucha knew about this, it is estimated that the heart of the scolding street would be there. (Laughs)
But from another point of view, this is also a way for everyone to remember Yamucha, since the story of "Dragon Ball" entered the Saiyan chapter, Yamucha's role has become less and less.
The reason is that his popularity has become low, he was once the popular second male protagonist in the early Dragon Ball, and he and the heroine Bulma were originally born as a couple.
Unfortunately, with the appearance of other popular characters such as Vegeta, Yamucha's status is declining, and he is also a mortal, unable to compete with those strong enemies in the universe, naturally there is nothing for him.
But at least for now, he has left a name for everyone, which makes everyone think of him again whenever they see a similar familiar picture, right?
Besides, the popularity of the Yamu tea stem is also equivalent to a microcosm of the popularity of "Dragon Ball" in the world.
Like now, the common "monster upgrade" and "protagonist bloodline" routine settings are also inherited from "Dragon Ball", and as the pioneer of this routine, "Dragon Ball" was naturally refreshing in the comic book market at that time.
Also refreshing is the story content, "Dragon Ball" as a bloody fighting anime, there are also a lot of brain-opening black technology, such as early universal capsules, detectors, spherical spaceships, as well as a series of weapons such as artificial humans and robots developed by the Red Ribbon Legion.
The characters in it also have a very unique personality, such as the serious and powerful turtle immortal in battle, but he is an old and unorthodox old ghost on weekdays, and the contrast between before and after is very interesting.
Even Yamucha, who looks very macho, was very shy when he first got along with Bulma.
The brain hole of "Dragon Ball" is also reflected in its overhead world view setting, although it is a Japanese anime, but in addition to the author Akira Toriyama is a Japanese, the story inside can hardly see any Japanese cultural elements, and many settings are common to all mankind.
The biggest advantage of this is that when foreign readers and audiences watch "Dragon Ball", there will be no cultural barriers, and the story content will be better understood.
However, the early Dragon Ball was full of quite a few Chinese elements, such as the protagonist's earth name is Sun Wukong, and the moves practiced by the Turtle Immortals have typical Chinese kung fu colors, and they also participated in the world's first martial arts meeting under the pseudonym "Cheng Long".
This has a lot to do with Akira Toriyama's love of Chinese culture, and he is also a fan of kung fu superstars Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
With these popular settings, the storyline of Dragon Ball is even more attractive to readers around the world.
Although the problem of the expansion of the combat power value of "Dragon Ball" has always been complained about by readers, they still watch it and spit it out there.
No matter how exaggerated the content of the picture is, but the fight scene is full of excitement, the deathmatch between the two cosmic-level masters fist to the flesh, blowing up one planet after another, simply more cattle than Superman x ah!
Through every exaggerated and outrageous cosmic-level destruction scene, we see Goku's tenacious will in fighting a powerful enemy.
We all know that the final boss of each chapter of Dragon Ball is a terrible nightmare far beyond any previous opponent--- Bic, Frieza, Sharu, and the demon Buu, but in the end, Sun Wukong clenches his teeth and defeats them all.
Of course, this is not only the credit of Goku alone, but also the help of his companions.
Speaking of companions, this is indispensable to the positive energy image of Goku, and many of the characters in the story who are opposed to the protagonist will eventually side with Goku.
When Yamucha first appeared, he was just a desert bandit, but after meeting Goku, he turned evil and then became a disciple of the Turtle Immortal.
Goku, on the other hand, has always been a hot-blooded warrior with a pure heart, and in his dictionary, there has never been "concede" or "surrender", some are "guardians" and "companions".
It is these beings that combine the bright side of human nature, so that Monkey King and Dragon Ball will become a monument in the Japanese anime industry.
The brilliance of Dragon Ball has shone in the hearts of many readers and viewers, perhaps because of this, even if the original work has been officially completed for so long, there are still so many people who commemorate it in various ways, right?
So Yamucha, you can lie down now