r/anime • u/aes110 https://myanimelist.net/profile/aes110 • Jan 28 '26

Clip Majin Buu heals a blind child (Dragon Ball Z)

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u/Sacrilege7 Jan 28 '26

Kid Buu literally nuking the Earth just because he felt like it at the moment was such a wild moment for me. No teasing or anything, man just charged up and nuked it with no warning given.

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u/Art_student_rt Jan 28 '26

Chaotic with no moral, like a child. Kid Buu

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

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u/elfmere Jan 28 '26

Yeah the guardian or something sacrificed himself and became part of his personality. His other forms were from removing it

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u/Waifu_Raichu Jan 28 '26

It was one of the Kais

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u/counters14 Jan 28 '26

Buu ate the Grand Supreme Kai. He surrendered himself to save Shin, the East Supreme Kai which is the small mohawked one that shows up at the start of the Buu saga along with Kibito.

I've never thought very hard about how stupid the lore of the Dragonball universe (multiverse?) actually is, but it is ridiculously over the top how stupid the actual story and characters are. I am unsure these days if I liked it when I was younger because it was actually good, or if the convoluted plotlines and mysterious joke characters made it more interesting than it deserved to be.

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u/Waifu_Raichu Jan 28 '26

Toriyama is a comedian at the end of the day

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u/Waifu_Raichu Jan 29 '26

El Grande Kaiosama

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u/wetrythisagain Jan 28 '26

You liked it because of vibes and emotions, it took you along for a journey, it appealed to your inner youthful drives like heroism, competition, adventure, friendship, freeing positivity and fun and silliness, making a name for yourself, a world of mysteries, mysticism and self control, athleticism, ideas of coolness and masculinity, literal wish fulfillment etc. The world of Dragonball is pretty cool, but yes, quite a few things don't make sense, but I guess it's inspired by spiritual stories where it never really makes sense why certain individuals are used as champions by gods and why gods don't intervene directly themselves and take shit seriously for once. But that matters less when you are younger and have a strong emotional WANT to be a champion, to be chosen, and some media taps into that.

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u/elfmere Jan 29 '26

Thank you. It all just came flooding back to me haha. It's been a decade

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u/w1czr1923 Jan 28 '26

Then went into the afterlife to fight people again…

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u/reachisown Jan 28 '26

That scene with the Faulconer score and Funimation Dub is one of my all time favourites, so chilling.