@@sayantadas1622 Correct. Go"ten" is heaven, Go"ku" is sky, and "Gohan" is rice. The comment you are replying to is making fun of how Goku and his sons are named with two weirdly-meshing themes.
Funny thing about Mr. Satan's name. His name was more accurately "Maaku" (the same way someone with Japanese accent would pronounce "Mark"). If you switch it around then it would be "Akuma", which means "Demon"
Mark is ALSO a play on someone who is an easy target for grifts/someone who buys into the supposed reality of professional wrestling. As a Paper Tiger world champion, I'd say that's appropriate.
Nice video! It's great to have them all compiled like this, and I learned some new ones! :D Small note: the "ババア" (baba) in Fortuneteller Baba's name isn't a respectful term, it's the opposite. "Baba" means "hag", so it's quite DISrespectful! 😅
That's the joke Although I do agree that he probably shouldn't have made that joke with a name that far removed. Maybe if he used her manga name, lunch, then it would have worked
Nahare also might just be because the Glind come from trees so that makes sense. You also didn't do the Super characters. All the Gods of Destruction are named after various alcoholic drinks, which makes sense considering that alcohol is a poison and can destroy stuff. Beerus being Beer as a good example and Champa being Champagne. Angels are the same way with them being named after alcohol too. Whis being a pun for Whiskey and Vados being a pun on Calvados.
2:01 idk if Akira Toriyama made Yamcha's name with this in mind or not but yamcha is actually Cantonese for "drink tea". Which in casual settings, people just say "want to go yamcha? " to ask if you want to join eating (mostly light meals)
No, chichi means "Father", Milk is Gyunyu (Captain Ginyu) Gohan is not named Grandpa Gohan, he is directly named after "Rice/food", Goku was tired of the naming thing and just asked for some "Rice/Food", And Baby Gohan liked the Sound
The manga notes that chichi both means father and is slang for boobs, which of course leads to Roshi pondering if the name means that she got her boobs from her father. I'm guessing that's him implying she's flat, which is a weird thing to think about a 12 year old.
In some dubs, like the original French version, Mr. Satan was renamed Hercules likely to avoid controversy with religious communities. However it's also a pun because "Hercules" is not only a legendary hero but also a term used to describe someone incredibly strong in certain language and as we know , Mr. Satan is actually much weaker compared to the Z Fighters
I think its because some European dubs based theirs off of the American dub which ironically now does call him Mr. Satan officially. A lot of purists hate the "Hercule" name, but I can't think of what else they could have called him back then, when Christian groups were a lot more prominent in the 90s.
You did great with the japanese! (at least as an american who has taken japanese courses can say). One little note that when you mentioned the the japanese character for bee (bi) (buu's dog" is close to bu, you highlighted the character for be, which is pronounced "beh" :) loving how much work and thought you put into everything!
in spanish, popo means shit and chi chi means piss😭(both are a childish way to say them)and still they kept the names in the spanish dub edit: they changed "chi-chi" to "milk" in the dub
@@jesusramirezromo2037 you are right i forgot they call them that in mexico, however in colombia and nearby countries they can say "chichi" to mean pee (mostly said by children)
Couple things: Gohan can also mean "food" based on context, though technically it means rice. Tao Pai Pai can also be a reference to a slang term for female breasts--it's kind of two jokes in one. This is also somewhat true of Chi Chi, but with less of a connection.
Great video, man! They’re pretty simple, but I still get a kick out of the names Toriyama Sensei chose. Bro said, “I ain’t got time for names. I have a manga to write!” 😂 RIP Sensei🙏🏾
"dragon ball doesn't have any writing or depth!" toriyama thinking of dragon ball with name puns: appreciate the effort, A for it. i really look forward to a dbs and maybe gt one
Fun facts about the Italian dub names: - Android 8 is named Ottavio, which is both a real, if uncommon, Italian name and it also is a letter removed from ottavo, meaning eighth. -Not sure if it has any link, but Bora is a wind -They renamed the entire crane school for some reason. Tao bai bai became Tai pai, Tenshinhan Tensing, and Chiaotzu Rif - Piccolo also means small, the word for great also means big, and his title in italian is the Great Mage Piccolo, so it ended up funnier than usual -Vegito is called Vegekou, splitting the difference and using Goku rather than Kakarot
Shuu's name was originally Soba, and Pilaf calls him this once in an early chapter. The anime missed this and called him Shuu, and Toriyama forgot that he'd already been named Soba and just went with the anime name. The pun here is the same, regardless; sobamai is also a type of dumpling.
Mark’s name in Japanese in Maku which if rearranged can become Akuma (Just Remove an A) a Japanese word meaning demon. I have know evidence for this being the case, but I think it’s neat.
5:10 I went from the original Dragon Ball sub to DBZ Kai with the English dub, and I always thought that everyone just called him Tien as a nickname, and that they only started calling him Tien in Z Kai because they got a better relationship with him or something
BONUS ROUND!! -Dende's brother, who was attacked by Dodoria, was named Cargo as in Escargot, the French word for snail. -VIZ Media changes Pui Pui to Pocus in the English Manga. -Bulla's name isn't random. Her name is Bulla for the same reason the R's in "Burruma" were changed to L's. It's still Bra, only pronounced the way you would in Japanese.
Also, "Gohan" means "meal" in general, more than just "rice" (or even "rice meal") So "Pan" follows the name trend on food. Sadly, we don't get to know her children names
Goten also follows in his brothers footsteps of being named after Gokus masters, as tbe chinese rendering of his name and the Muten in Muten Roshi are both rendered as Wutien, so if Goku were to have a 3rd kid it's probably be something like Gorin
Some of the speculations I've come across are kind of funny too in the western fandom. I've heard people think Trunks was named after a tree trunk, Pan named after Pan Troglodyte (Chimps) and Krillin named after the orange crustacean krill and "Piccolo" being a pickle, because he's green. I see the logic, even if its not really correct. As for Pan, I'd like to think her name is just based on frying pan, because you can fry-rice (common in Asian food) and Gohan is 'rice'.
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I really liked. I don't know how, but we had the same idea. I was searching out of curiosity in wikis but it was getting kinda boring, so I gave up. Algorithm blessed me
I think, at least in the anime, when they say Piccolo for the first time there is a quick joke about how silly his name is, before Roshi says while it is silly he is very dangerous
Android 8's name is likely a reference to a 1963 manga and anime called EIGHTMAN / 8 MAN / 8TH MAN. A police detective is murdered by criminals and a scientist transfers the detective's mind into an android body. Sound familiar? The EIGHTMAN anime also ran in the US in the 60s before it was channels stopped running the show because Eightman recharged by smoking power cigarettes when new broadcast standards barred marketing of tobacco o. TV and not wanting to encourage kids to smoke. EIGHTMAN seems to be the direct inspiration for ROBOCOP
I actually, knew about that, I decided, to not go too far into side characters though, or id have had to do stull like freezas 20 goons who only have names from external material
2:16 In the mexican Spanish dub, Chi-Chi is called Milk directly because "chichi" is an indigenous word turned slang that means boobs, so it was deemed inappropriate for television lol
Important to note that for Freeza, the original spelling has a long "a" sound in the end as opposed to a short one used for literal freezers. So while the pun is there it is indeed not supposed to be written or pronounced the same.
3:57 "The letter eight" 8 is a number 4:47 "invisable man" invisible* Correcting people in RUclips comments ain't the flashiest job, but someone's gotta do it.
Shin translate as heart . Diamia is nothing but a what if mini series with a whole lot of retcon in it, even Troiyama wasn't suppose to be on the project he was only brought on to make suggestions, so he wasn't as on board as people think.
There’s also apul for apple, the heaters, gas etc. cabba for cabbage, Kefla kale, beerus for beer, champagne for champa, whis for whiskey, cooler, broly, paragus, I can name so many more too should have a part 2 to the video:(
They missed an opportunity in GT not naming uub and buu's fusion buub
The japanese version would be really funny. Buubuu
They didn't miss it, probably decided against it.
I remember in abridged they did a joke where goku called uub buu and uub corrected him saying uub and then goku said buub.
Its only a missed opportunity if you are unaware they knew why they couldn’t do it
Really fam. Although in Japanese it would be Boob
Vegerot sounds like when vegetables have spoiled
Goddamnit! My stew is ruined! 😭
“Oh egads, my roast is ruined!”
Goku: Sky
Goten: Heaven
Gohan: **rice**
Actually "ten" means heaven
Well Japanese people do tend to take their rice very seriously. There are even gods associated with rice.
@@sayantadas1622 Correct. Go"ten" is heaven, Go"ku" is sky, and "Gohan" is rice. The comment you are replying to is making fun of how Goku and his sons are named with two weirdly-meshing themes.
Funny thing about Mr. Satan's name. His name was more accurately "Maaku" (the same way someone with Japanese accent would pronounce "Mark"). If you switch it around then it would be "Akuma", which means "Demon"
Mark is also one of Jesus disciples
Mark = Maaku = Akuma
Miguel = Michael, like the Archangel
Videl = Devil
Pan, like the Greek God, who is often erroneously associated with the Devil
Ooh ! That's a really good pun actually
Mr satan: die one thousand deaths
Mark is ALSO a play on someone who is an easy target for grifts/someone who buys into the supposed reality of professional wrestling.
As a Paper Tiger world champion, I'd say that's appropriate.
Yuruzah: "Gohan is named after Grandpa Gohan, which still means rice."
Me: Well I would hope so.
His real name doesn't matter. You shall henceforth address him as SUPER KAMI GURU.
NAIL... I SAW A BIRD
@@fire__ferret it was pretty... KICK IT'S ASS!
EVERY PARTY NEEDS A POOPER.
THAT'S WHY THEY INVITED YOU.
PARTY POOPER...
PARTY POOPER...
"NAIL!!! there's an albino namekian standing beside you. Kill it like the rest"
He is hilarious and we quote everything he says
Disappointed there's no mention of Bardock, who rounds out a family of root vegetables.
Same goes for his wife Gine (if you guys are curious it’s reverse for NeGi, which means green onion)
Nice video! It's great to have them all compiled like this, and I learned some new ones! :D
Small note: the "ババア" (baba) in Fortuneteller Baba's name isn't a respectful term, it's the opposite. "Baba" means "hag", so it's quite DISrespectful! 😅
That actually makes sense. Remember who we learned that name from? I wouldn't put it past Roshi to throw this kind of jab.
Turbo baba😂
Explain why Trunks is called a bevarage of sorts
They call him the what?
Because he's liquidity
Because Vegeta's the cup, he poured him
@@TheStewGuyy bulma the straw
well, here's what happened, basically, he came back from the future
So safe to assume that Vomi (The person Android 21 is based on) is also a pun for vomit. Another great video
yes she is
Because in fighterz she's a bitch
It makes so much sense now that i watched this video but still doesnt answer why the whole squad was named after vomiting💀
@@whowhy7554 Probably because Gero hates Goku for destroying the Red Ribbon Army, and vomiting is something you do to food you hate.
@@vervetwrydavigy3006 thats hilarious😭😭
I never realized that all of the Frieza Force are things you put in a fridge!
And I love that Mr Satan's name is just Mark.
Gohan's name retroactively relating to the Vegetable naming scheme the saiyans have is fun.
11:02 you have the wrong Kana highlighted. べ makes the "be" sound from "bed". The sound from "Bee" is "Bi", ビ.
3:01 Isn't Launch named after "Lunch" instead of some esoteric Japanese thing?
That's the joke
Although I do agree that he probably shouldn't have made that joke with a name that far removed. Maybe if he used her manga name, lunch, then it would have worked
3:23 not that gif 💀
I completly missed that one
GUYS HIS POWER LEVEL IS ONLY 4.95K WE NEED TO HELP HIM REACH ONE MILLION!!!
still couldn't beat 2nd form frieza
@@ElDeLasRecargas.2007 dun dun duuuun
@Antoniomendoza-o2o Vegeta. Hanging out with little boys in spandex I see.
Nahare also might just be because the Glind come from trees so that makes sense.
You also didn't do the Super characters. All the Gods of Destruction are named after various alcoholic drinks, which makes sense considering that alcohol is a poison and can destroy stuff. Beerus being Beer as a good example and Champa being Champagne. Angels are the same way with them being named after alcohol too. Whis being a pun for Whiskey and Vados being a pun on Calvados.
12:00
Bro deserves easy more subs
11:34
"In the end of Z, Pan is both bred-"
-Yurazah
2:01 idk if Akira Toriyama made Yamcha's name with this in mind or not but yamcha is actually Cantonese for "drink tea". Which in casual settings, people just say "want to go yamcha? " to ask if you want to join eating (mostly light meals)
Maybe Pan is also a pun on Piccolo name showing the respect Rice and devil have for their daughter godfather.
Your vids are really good for background noise while I do school work
This is the content that I subscribe for!
No, chichi means "Father", Milk is Gyunyu (Captain Ginyu)
Gohan is not named Grandpa Gohan, he is directly named after "Rice/food", Goku was tired of the naming thing and just asked for some "Rice/Food", And Baby Gohan liked the Sound
The manga notes that chichi both means father and is slang for boobs, which of course leads to Roshi pondering if the name means that she got her boobs from her father. I'm guessing that's him implying she's flat, which is a weird thing to think about a 12 year old.
Gohan is clearly named after Grandpa Gohan. The fact that Gohan liked the sound of it too is an additional fact. Stop issuing stupid corrections
@Kurushimi1729 you can't read?
Giran might be a boy kisser, we don't know
It’s a mistranslation for big lizard not boy kisser 😂
@@dr3nch_g0d52 Sounds like something a boykisser would say
@@dr3nch_g0d52 Sounds like something a boy kisser would say
You sound like a pleasant person! Happy holidays!
In some dubs, like the original French version, Mr. Satan was renamed Hercules likely to avoid controversy with religious communities. However it's also a pun because "Hercules" is not only a legendary hero but also a term used to describe someone incredibly strong in certain language and as we know , Mr. Satan is actually much weaker compared to the Z Fighters
I think its because some European dubs based theirs off of the American dub which ironically now does call him Mr. Satan officially. A lot of purists hate the "Hercule" name, but I can't think of what else they could have called him back then, when Christian groups were a lot more prominent in the 90s.
Im so glad i found your channel
Love your videos
You did great with the japanese! (at least as an american who has taken japanese courses can say). One little note that when you mentioned the the japanese character for bee (bi) (buu's dog" is close to bu, you highlighted the character for be, which is pronounced "beh" :) loving how much work and thought you put into everything!
I thought Lunch's (Launch in dub) name was just directly referring to lunch
in spanish, popo means shit and chi chi means piss😭(both are a childish way to say them)and still they kept the names in the spanish dub
edit: they changed "chi-chi" to "milk" in the dub
and also pan just means bread
chi chi means tit, Not piss
That's why the Latin American dub changed her to Milk
@@jesusramirezromo2037 you are right i forgot they call them that in mexico, however in colombia and nearby countries they can say "chichi" to mean pee (mostly said by children)
@@wry5031 In Brazil they kept both names as in the original, and "Chi-chi" means "piss", while "Popo" means "butt". Both are childish terms.
yeah id really like to see you cover super names too, this was fun
This video made me hungry
And your name is a pun for “sitting in hot water.” Nice!
you know I do like a good bath...
Couple things:
Gohan can also mean "food" based on context, though technically it means rice. Tao Pai Pai can also be a reference to a slang term for female breasts--it's kind of two jokes in one. This is also somewhat true of Chi Chi, but with less of a connection.
Great video, man! They’re pretty simple, but I still get a kick out of the names Toriyama Sensei chose. Bro said, “I ain’t got time for names. I have a manga to write!” 😂 RIP Sensei🙏🏾
"dragon ball doesn't have any writing or depth!"
toriyama thinking of dragon ball with name puns:
appreciate the effort, A for it. i really look forward to a dbs and maybe gt one
Fun facts about the Italian dub names:
- Android 8 is named Ottavio, which is both a real, if uncommon, Italian name and it also is a letter removed from ottavo, meaning eighth.
-Not sure if it has any link, but Bora is a wind
-They renamed the entire crane school for some reason. Tao bai bai became Tai pai, Tenshinhan Tensing, and Chiaotzu Rif
- Piccolo also means small, the word for great also means big, and his title in italian is the Great Mage Piccolo, so it ended up funnier than usual
-Vegito is called Vegekou, splitting the difference and using Goku rather than Kakarot
honestly, the english version should have just renamed vegeto entirely too, like kaketa, or vegeku
3:36 Bulma's mother's name has been stated to be "Bikini" in DBZ: Kakarot.
Love your channel dude keep up the good work
How shin got his name.
The dad : ouch!
The mom : what happened?!
The dad : someone kicked me in the shins!
i just realized i been watching all your videos but wasnt subscribed yet. fixed it immediately
Shuu's name was originally Soba, and Pilaf calls him this once in an early chapter. The anime missed this and called him Shuu, and Toriyama forgot that he'd already been named Soba and just went with the anime name. The pun here is the same, regardless; sobamai is also a type of dumpling.
Mark’s name in Japanese in Maku which if rearranged can become Akuma (Just Remove an A) a Japanese word meaning demon. I have know evidence for this being the case, but I think it’s neat.
If the Ginyu Force ever recruited from Earth, Chi-Chi would be one of them.
NEED MORE OF THIS!!!
5:10 I went from the original Dragon Ball sub to DBZ Kai with the English dub, and I always thought that everyone just called him Tien as a nickname, and that they only started calling him Tien in Z Kai because they got a better relationship with him or something
Babidi bibidi boo is the one that blow my mind, like how could I not realize it?
Yeah bro that one is easy too
Haha it's both so obvious but also not really. So I don't blame you.
Actually for Nappa, Toriyama said in an interview (I believe) that in Japanese Nappa refers to leafy green vegetables, not the cabbage
BONUS ROUND!!
-Dende's brother, who was attacked by Dodoria, was named Cargo as in Escargot, the French word for snail.
-VIZ Media changes Pui Pui to Pocus in the English Manga.
-Bulla's name isn't random. Her name is Bulla for the same reason the R's in "Burruma" were changed to L's. It's still Bra, only pronounced the way you would in Japanese.
I thought Giran's name was based off of the Kaiju Gigan, from Godzilla
"Bulla" was just derived form Bulma, for censorship (Bulma is either a mistranslation or censored as well).
Buu's fury ost hit me hard with nostalgia
Spopovich means forget something since he forgot that he had a work while he was harassing videl
And guess who stopped him... That right yamu
Also, "Gohan" means "meal" in general, more than just "rice" (or even "rice meal")
So "Pan" follows the name trend on food. Sadly, we don't get to know her children names
he nailed on king furry name... specially due to blue fur and also so many furries that are blue XD
0:24 A BEVERAGE OF SORTS ?
Vegeta’s pun name makes more sense when you combine it with his younger brother’s name, Tarble (Vegeta-Tarble)
Goten also follows in his brothers footsteps of being named after Gokus masters, as tbe chinese rendering of his name and the Muten in Muten Roshi are both rendered as Wutien, so if Goku were to have a 3rd kid it's probably be something like Gorin
So the fourth child would have been Gopo.
@@schwarzerritter5724the 5th one would be gomi
@@alexpresso243 The 6th one would be Gooi
Some of the speculations I've come across are kind of funny too in the western fandom. I've heard people think Trunks was named after a tree trunk, Pan named after Pan Troglodyte (Chimps) and Krillin named after the orange crustacean krill and "Piccolo" being a pickle, because he's green. I see the logic, even if its not really correct.
As for Pan, I'd like to think her name is just based on frying pan, because you can fry-rice (common in Asian food) and Gohan is 'rice'.
Toriyama sensei must be really hungry while naming dragon ball characters.
I also hope there is part two that have movie, gt, dbs, daima characters.
Funny how chichi's name in spanish is literally "Milk" because chichi means 8008s haha
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I really liked. I don't know how, but we had the same idea. I was searching out of curiosity in wikis but it was getting kinda boring, so I gave up. Algorithm blessed me
Would be nice to cover Super + Daima. There's clearly a naming motif going on with Nahare, Degesu, Arinsu, Gowasu, Zamasu, etc.
And the destroyers being named after alcoholic drinks, like Beerus (beer) and Champa (champagne).
Pride Troopers are named after kitchen tools and appliances
I think, at least in the anime, when they say Piccolo for the first time there is a quick joke about how silly his name is, before Roshi says while it is silly he is very dangerous
Android 8's name is likely a reference to a 1963 manga and anime called EIGHTMAN / 8 MAN / 8TH MAN. A police detective is murdered by criminals and a scientist transfers the detective's mind into an android body. Sound familiar?
The EIGHTMAN anime also ran in the US in the 60s before it was channels stopped running the show because Eightman recharged by smoking power cigarettes when new broadcast standards barred marketing of tobacco o. TV and not wanting to encourage kids to smoke. EIGHTMAN seems to be the direct inspiration for ROBOCOP
9:32 "Ironic."
5:44 Oh, no wonder Krillan kept calling him “Yoyo Brain”. 🪀 🧠
Chi chi also means boobs in Latin America. Which is probably why they changed it to Leche (milk) in the Latin America dub.
THEY CALL ME THE WHAT? A UNDERWEAR OF SORTS?
Videl... Damn. Never connected that idea. I should have know there was something even behind the name.
3:55 Eighter is also likely a play on “Terminator”
Fun fact: ranfan actually married someone named trunks, i'm not joking either lmao
I actually, knew about that, I decided, to not go too far into side characters though, or id have had to do stull like freezas 20 goons who only have names from external material
Please make on for super, I need to know what Beets is a pun of.
1:27 Krillin also makes fun of Bulma's name when they first meet, atleast in the anime.
Bibidi Babidi Buu broke me i love it
3:23 Adding that in there is crazy💀💀
2:16 In the mexican Spanish dub, Chi-Chi is called Milk directly because "chichi" is an indigenous word turned slang that means boobs, so it was deemed inappropriate for television lol
Uub is Buu backwards!?!? That's insane!!! How did someone notice that!? It seems so hard to figure that out!!!
Important to note that for Freeza, the original spelling has a long "a" sound in the end as opposed to a short one used for literal freezers. So while the pun is there it is indeed not supposed to be written or pronounced the same.
Videl to Devil is so obvious but I never noticed it
The letter 8😂
Goku> "c'mon Buu!"
Uub> "Uub"
Goku> "Boob!"
7:43 There’s also King Slug! I know he’s not technically canon, I just noticed that and thought it was funny
Son is Goku's last/family name. It's common in Japan to put family before your given name.
Great video!
You ever see a pomelo? Theyre the mos monstrously gay fruit there is. It fits him quite well.
3:57 "The letter eight" 8 is a number
4:47 "invisable man" invisible*
Correcting people in RUclips comments ain't the flashiest job, but someone's gotta do it.
In the English manga, Goku names Eighter "8-Man," which is a manga and anime series from the 1960's.
Shin translate as heart . Diamia is nothing but a what if mini series with a whole lot of retcon in it, even Troiyama wasn't suppose to be on the project he was only brought on to make suggestions, so he wasn't as on board as people think.
He was though later on lol don't understand why you acting like that it's non canon 🤷♂️
For those wondering King Chapa is named after "Chappati"
also called roti, which i had alot of while I was traveling earlier this year
@@yurazah No you have it wrong both are two different flatbreads. Both are prepared differently although with same ingredients.
Love the inclusion last minute for supreme Kai's name
Pan (the god) is holding a pan flute, like Piccolo.
Gohan specifically means cooked rice. Uncooked is kome.
there is some folklore tell us about turtle (kame) and stork (tsuru) in some country
There’s also apul for apple, the heaters, gas etc. cabba for cabbage, Kefla kale, beerus for beer, champagne for champa, whis for whiskey, cooler, broly, paragus, I can name so many more too should have a part 2 to the video:(
ALL the names are puns and/or related to groups of things (mainly foods).
All except Gokuu, who is just literally Monkey from Journey to the West 😂
I always wondered why one of ginyus attacks in xenoverse was called "milky bomb or wave" I forget which one
his iconic milky cannon?
@yurazah YEA THATS IT, it always confused me cuz I was like when in the hell did ginyu use this move in the anime???
My dad used to say "popo" to mean butt! Nowadays it's often used to describe police!