Dragon Ball's Wildest Name Origin
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Piccolo was actually named after the instrument, but it is funnier to think of him being a pickle, especially since several names in the series come from food.
Piccolo means small or little in Italian.
@@LunaBari Okay, but it's also the name of a small flute. There were relayed characters named Tambourine and Drum.
In the OG his minions were all instruments too
@@helenbaumander3953 i know
@@LunaBari This why those small flutes were named piccolos
Master Roshi is exactly as described. He's an incredibly skilled martial artist and the one of the toughest humans ever, he lives alone on an island with a talking turtle, and yes... he is a pervert. For example, in the original "dragon ball" he gives Goku his dragon ball in exchange for a look at a girl named Bulma's underwear. While she's wearing it. Except, unbeknownst to her, she isn't wearing any
Goku and his curiosity. And Bulma and her unawareness. (And the Japanese sexualized culture, as well.)
Dragon Ball fans, how'd I do?
you did well
Not too shabby. I'm a massive Dragon Ball fan and you nailed it pretty well for someone who isn't familiar with the series.
We’ll see lol I just started
Pretty good but it’s important to note Dragon Ball also has a very strong link to Chinese culture and myths with the og manga starting off as a spinoff of Journey to the West, so it’s also somewhat linked to the Chinese use of it
1. Your Hawaiian needs work. The king and the move are not pronounced the same way.
2. How can you talk about Dragonball without mentioning that every name is some sort of pun with every group in the show having a theme?
In Hawaiian Kamehameha is provided like "kah-MAY-uh-MAY-uh.
That's the way I've heard it pronounced for forty years, well before Goku.
I'm really surprised that didn't come up at all in this video.
Dbz always had some interesting names, all of the sayans are purposely named after vegetables and i think all the people of namek are named after instruments. I also find it funny that goku's wife's name is chi-chi, which i think means milk, but is also slang for boobs in some spanish speaking areas
Piccolo and his minions are named after instruments; actual Namekian names are all related to snails. (The original name of Piccolo and Kami is never mentioned.)
Also, Bumla's family are all named after underwear.
@@NovaSaber thank you for the correction, ive only known a little bit about og dragonball and z
"Ha" undoubtedly means Wave. In the manga, the full attack is written as かめはめ波. Kame and hame is written in hiragana, one of Japan's two alphabets, but 波 is written in kanji, Japanese logographs borrowed from Chinese. The kanji means Wave and is pronounced "ha". Fun fact though, the complete kanji for wave is made up of the components 氵meaning water and 皮 meaning skin. So basically, the kanji means "skin of the water", seeing how waves are the surface layer of the ocean.
Wrong. 波 is one of those "Phono-Semantic" compound characters where it's composed of a phonetic component and a semantic component. In this one, 氵acts as the semantic component and is a radical that's related with water or liquids, seen in other characters such as 流 "flow", 泳 "swim", and 液 "liquid". 皮 is the phonetic part that denotes the pronunciation of the character, and it has nothing to do with the meaning of the character, namely "skin". This type of folk-etymology is prevalent is explaining Chinese Characters and it really grinds my gears
Listening to you struggle to pronounce that ridiculously long list of names of the king, was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
This, coming from a United States Navy guy that was stationed/lived in Hawai'i, for over eight years.
As another person who didn't really watch Dragon Ball but heard little stuff about it, I interpreted the name "Kamehameha" in a quite interesting way. The beginning of this name, "Kameha" sounds like the Hebrew word for talisman and the end, "meha", sounds like the Hebrew word for the number 100 so I thought for years that this name means "Talisman 100" (I'm a Hebrew speaker and didn't know the name is the same in other languages). I understood that it didn't mean that years ago, probably when I saw it was the same in English, but I still remember this false interpretation.
In Final Fantasy 8, the protagonist's most powerful special move is called Renzokuken. That sounds like "Purify the d*ck" in Norwegian. We were old enough to know it probably didn't mean that in Japanese, but you bet I still remember it.
That's very interesting, it's funny how language works.
I'm from Japan, every single Wednesday at 7pm I watched dragon ball from the very beginning of it.
US may only aired dragon ball Z
4:17 Huh... is this why Hailey Banks, protagonist of _Hailey's On It,_ happens to be of Hawaiian descent?
As a history love when I learnt about Hawaii and its kings , I could clearly remember one king name because of Dragon ball Z and always wondered if it was connected
Same here.
as a massive Dragon Ball fan, i've known about most of these for a while now, but it's still fun to see where it all came from.
Honestly you could make a whole video about Dragon Ball names. Almost every group of characters in the series has names which are connected via a theme. You have temperature themed villains, vegetable themed friends, even some characters are named after underwear
And some characters are named after the Devil or Devil analogues
It would be great to hear you go over more Dragon Ball names
All the names used in the dragonball series are worth mentioning in your videos. Several are named after vegetables or different kinds of pants/underwear
Ah, trunks
You could do a whole series explaining Dragon Ball names. The series is so rich in puns, musical instruments names and other things. I highly recommend watching it from Dragon Ball onwards. It starts out as a fun martial arts tournament series but gets more and more surreal and absurd.
Gotta travel backwards in time to get to the portal to one of the dimensions a god lives in, to get more room and time to train, to eventually go back to the future and beat up an alien
@@kaitlyn__L pretty sure I bumped into you in several unrelated channels now. You're awesome!
@@bf0189 aw thanks!
In a nutshell Dragon Ball is about the story of Goku who was born as Kakarot back on his home, a Saiyan raised on earth by Grandpa Gohan who accidently hit his head and was killed by Goku himself as a Great Ape, Goku got to Earth when his parents Bardock and Gone realized that their planet are getting destroyed by the Galactic Imperial Tyrant Frieza. They stole a space pod to Earth to ensure a great future for the Saiyan race, after Gohan's death Goku lived alone for a decade mastering his skill in the woodlands and hunting animals on Mount Paozu (Can't get the spelling right.) Until one day a young teenage blue/purple haired intelligent girl named Bulma came to his life when she tells him about the Dragon Balls, a legendary set of seven golden crystal ball with red stars on them when they are collected a dragon named Shenron appears and grants you a wish for anything below his power. More about the Dragon Ball story on my own replies.
Wasn't Goku send to Earth on a spaceship alone from his homeplanet or something? Also because of a prophecy? I think that is pretty fitting with the name
Additionally, "Kamehameha" being "the lonely one" could be interpreted as "the peerless one," since he was without equal, similarly, the Kamehameha in Dragon Ball was an ultimate move without equal.
You could do more videos on the names of the Dragon Ball series. Character names display an incredible sense of tribalism and relation to each other, like the Saiyans (reverse Japanese of yasai "vegetable") and their sworn enemies in Freiza's family/people (because refrigerators destroy vegetables).
As Polynesian, here is my translation :
Ka = Inside fire (Ex : Volcano, or Within us)
Differrent from : Ahi = Outside fire (Ex : Makes by thunder, Artificial, Makes by humans)
Mehameha = Fear, Scare, Horror, Terror, Terrific
Kamehameha = Fear of Fire. The fear of the fire. The fear of the fire within us. The fear of the fire in all of us.
Finally, in all polynesian languages, a noun is a verb and a verb is an adjective.
Mehameha = Fear, To scare, Scary et caetera.
Valentine's Day, named for Saint Valentine, is next week. But there's a problem, what records we do have can't agree on which Valentine the holiday is named for; from what I heard, there were around 7 different Valentines from that time that were all up for sainthood or had actually achieved sainthood, and thus the muddled records can't help us, especially since there are at least 3 records of his execution (two different hangings and one beheading, from what I've managed to gather). So just who the holiday is named for is a bit of a mess that historians, record keepers, and archivists are still trying to collate and make sense of.
That all said, just how many genuine Valentines are there in the world now? That is to say, how many people and families actually have the family name of Valentine? And how many of them can trace their lineage back to Saint Valentine somehow?
Valentine would be a great pick for the "Fun with Firstnames"-video next week. At least in Germany it is a firstname. But it is rather rare.
Next Tuesday specifically
I'm aware of two different individuals with the name. One of them was martyred by the Romans during a celebration of one of their pagan feasts to a fertility goddess. They very specifically did that to insult the guy. But by so doing, they surrendered the holiday to Christians. Fair's fair. Valentine's Day is rightfully ours.
Basically, the name Christian and the holiday of Valentine's Day are excellent examples of the fact that the standard Christian response to insults is, "Hippity hoppity, that term is now our property."
@@AtarahDerek Some accounts aren't actually Valentines, the name is actually credited to an Italian named Valentinius, the English equivalent is usually cited as Valentine. That said, I've run into three different accounts of a Valentinius, 2 overtly claiming to be the Valentine of Valentine's Day. But you are right, the Catholics do have a history of commandeering the holidays of other cultures and religions and proclaiming them to be "Christian" after slapping some signs and whatnot on them to cover up the parts they didn't like or agree with at the time.
Of course, the Catholics also have a history of going on Crusades to purge any elements they don't like either. During the reign of Constantine they were selected as the official Christian faith of Rome, mainly due to how their doctrine at the time lined up most neatly with Rome's military culture at the time; keep in mind, this was when an estimated 700 sects of Christianity were basically in hiding until Constantine proclaimed himself to be a Christian. Then on the way to the Medieval period, the Catholic faith decided to purge all the other Christian sects for the crime of being "not Christian enough" and thus the Catholic faith was the only sect of Christianity to survive into the middle ages. So the Catholic faith has a longer history of crusades than just the Crusade Era.
Im a year late, but i feel like you may enjoy Dragon Ball if only for its wacky Naming gimmicks, like how all of the members of Goku's race, the Sayians, are named after vegetables. Or the Evil Lord Frieza's minions also being named after foods. And many more examples
I really think it's a shame that education doesn't take advantage of pop culture references.
Personally, I knew the DB Kamehameha before I ever learned anything about indigenous Hawaii. It's a great starting point to get kids into learning about culture!
"Hey kids, did you know that Superman's lazer bean is actually named after James Laser? THAT'S RIGHT!
Now let's talk about radiation, the atom bomb and how the US gov. murdered more than 200 000 women and children in Japan!"
- My Mum (she's an elementary school teacher)
Dragon Ball (+Z) is a Star Trek of anime. Make sure you have enough life to spend if you want to dive in.
I highly recommend you check out Dragonball Z Abridged by Team Four Star. There's a running gag that Goku is not the best dad because he's always busy training.
I watch a lot of anime but haven’t started watching Dragon Ball until a year ago, and it’s awesome!
Can you do a video about the names of the Loud Siblings?
one funny naming thing about dragonball is the name of piccolo, given that piccolo means "small" in italian the italian adaptation decided to name that character junior
another funny thing is that the piccolo we all know was originally called "piccolo junior" because he was the son/reincarnation of demon king piccolo
0:45 Just start at the beginning.
5:35 “i can say that one”
reader, he could not
Maybe Kamehameha coming from his master who taught Goku named Kame(turtle shell) on the back and he was the only one who could do it
I mean... he could have gone for something more mainstream...
Ka-ro-Lus-mag-nhaaaaa
I don’t have time to watch this video atm but I plan to set aside time later. That said, I just have to say I can’t believe I never noticed this before. In retrospect it’s *so obvious* but I just never put it together. I can’t wait to watch this!
Worth noting is that the anime pronounces his name wrong. It's not KA-me-HA-me-ha, it's ka-ME-ha-ME-ha.
I love Dragon Ball, great vid.
Dragon Ball might be the perfect topic for a name nerd that enjoys etymology for fictional names (or to make them go mad).
Saiyan names = Vegetables (their king literally being named King Vegeta)
Frieza army names = fruits
The recent parts of the modern run of the manga has a guy named 'Granolah' from an alien race called the 'Cerealians'
My personal favourite naming nonsense is Babidi, son of Bibidi, who summons a demon named 'Buu'.
Well not really nonsense, as said by the Cinderella Godmother: Bibidi, Babidi, Buu
@@iantino I may have worded that wrong, I think "silliness" is what I meant to say 😅
@@viviflam Nope, it was well worded. I just wanted to joke about it.
In my language it was translated as turtle wave (valul țestoasei)
I don't watch/read Dragonball (even though I was raised in Japan) but I believe Kamehameha is pronounced kah-me-ha-me-ha, with no stressed syllables. I think Dragonball uses stressed syllables for emphasis.
I think that doesn't clearly state it either! Ka - meha meha maybe? Ka mayha mayha? Ugh....
You can't not stress a syllable. The 'me' is stressed in the actual pronunciation of the name: ka-ME-ha-ME-ha.
Kah-MAY-uh-MAY-uh is what you're looking for. That's the way it's actually pronounced in Hawaiian.
@@timothybankjs4429 that's it!
I like turtles
To be really honest
I’ve always thought Hawaii was its own nation cuz of the major cultural differences from any other country.
Im actually really dissapointed USA has this beautifull major polynasian cultture island as state and ruin its culture by pumping it full with skyscrapers and stupid concrete war memorials.
I want Hawaii as its complete independent nation and would bring sooo much more tourist and culture seekers
King Kamehameha's name is not pronounced the same as the dragon ball thing
and dbz is the best anime made if you are not watching the dub
Dont you mean DB Kai?
@@SylviaRustyFae dbz is better the kai
@@Nate_Orion If ya like fluff XD
Dragonball isn't about anything, it is just a bunch of characters fighting. Sooooo boring.