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Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast

Final Forum Podcast

Dragon Ball has a wealth of cultural context and inspiration that’s often overlooked because the fights are cool. Though not averse to fawning over animation and allowing for the Rule of Cool, Jelli and Bekinney delve into the world of Akira Toriyama, and discuss lesser-known facts about the worldwide manga and anime phenomenon that is one of the most well-known and popular Japanese pop culture exports of all-time. Want to learn about the cultural importance of moments, literary inspirations behind

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53:27

Episode 38 (S2E8) - Bora, Upa, and Indigenous Peoples...

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/05/09

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episode 58, "The Land of Korin." We continue discussing the Red Ribbon Army, and get into how Indigenous People are portrayed in Dragon Ball and why they are portrayed that way. In this episode: Jelli remains convinced he is having a nervous breakdown as Bekinney attempts to get him to notice that they're standing in the same spot We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments We

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Episode 37 (S2E7) General Blue Manga Comparisons

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/04/25

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 56 and 57, "Strange Visitor, " and "Arale vs. Blue." We continue discussing the Red Ribbon Army, the walking contradiction that is General Blue, continue talking about Dr. Slump, and do our usual end-of-arc manga comparisons. In this episode: Jelli remains convinced he is having a nervous breakdown as Bekinney attempts to get him to notice that they're standing in the same

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Episode 36 (S2E6) On Booby Traps and Crossovers (with...

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/04/11

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55, "The Trap is Sprung," "Beware of Robot," "The Pirate Treasure," "Blue Black and Blue," "Escape from Pirate Cave" and "Penguin Village." We continue discussing the Red Ribbon Army, the walking contradiction that is General Blue, talk about booby traps, and delve into the crossover with Dr. Slump and Goku meeting Arale. In this episode: Your Jelli remains

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Episode 35 (S2E5) General Blue

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/03/29

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 46, 47, 48 and 49, "Bulma's Bad Day," "Kame House - Found!" "Deep Blue Sea," and "Roshi Surprise." We continue discussing the Red Ribbon Army, the walking contradiction that is General Blue, and have a discussion about LGBTQIA+ Representation in Dragon Ball. In this episode: Your cohosts return! We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments More of Toriyama's love of

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Episode 34 (S2E4) 2023 March Madness Tenkaichi...

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/03/15

Jelli and Bekinney continue their break from breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon, and pivot away from tearing into the manga and anime that are the most crucial parts of the Dragon Ball franchise to have a little themed fun! In this episode: It's TOURNAMENT SEASON! Kick off your shoes, relax, and listen as we break down 32 of Dragon Ball's most popular (?) characters and discuss who would win in a theoretical game of one-on-one Halo. We discuss the system used for

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01:29:19

Episode 33 (S2E3) 2023 March Madness Tenkaichi...

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/03/09

Jelli and Bekinney take a break from breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon, and pivot away from tearing into the manga and anime that are the most crucial parts of the Dragon Ball franchise to have a little themed fun! In this episode: It's TOURNAMENT SEASON! Kick off your shoes, relax, and listen as we break down 64 of Dragon Ball's most popular (?) characters and discuss who would win in a theoretical game of one-on-one Halo. We discuss the system used for determining

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55:30

Episode 32 (S2E2) - Further West and Capsule Corp

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/02/16

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 44 and 45, "Master Thief, Hasky," and "Danger in the Air." We continue discussing the Red Ribbon Army, break down some trivia on a few filler episodes, and have a discussion about how society is basically just the worst. In this episode: Your cohosts remain missing We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments (spoiler: we don't have a lot of favorite

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Episode 31 (S2E1) - Clue

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/02/02

Jelli and Bekinney have no time to continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime Dragon Ball. In this episode: Jelli and Bekinney are MISSING! Audio from when your heroic hosts first met one another and played Dragon Ball Z Clue We discuss the pieces inside the Clue box, and talk about the classic whodunit game. Join us and find out if we will ever continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball

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Episode 30 - Season One Finale - Climactic Battle

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/01/19

Jelli and Bekinney have no time to continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime Dragon Ball. In this episode: The climactic battle! Join us and find out if we will ever continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise. https://www.facebook.com/FinalForumPodcast https://twitter.com/finalforumpod

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Episode 29 - Muscle Tower Manga vs Anime Comparison

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2023/01/05

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 42 and 43, "The Secret of Dr. Flappe," and "A Trip to the City." We dig further into the Red Ribbon Army, break down some trivia on a few filler episodes, and compare the Muscle Tower manga chapters to the episodes of the anime. In this episode: The battle rages on...and a new fighter emerges! We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments We talk about the inspiration

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45:34

Episode 28 - Android 8 and General White

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/12/21

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 39, 40 and 41, "Mysterious Android No. 8," "Horrifying Buyon," and "The Fall of Muscle Tower." We dig further into the Red Ribbon Army and Goku's challenges as he continues along, the Frankenstein-like Android Number 8, the Pink Blob monster Buyon and finally General White himself. In this episode: The battle rages on... We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments We

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Episode 27 - Early Dragon Ball Video Games

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/12/06

Jelli and Bekinney take a break from Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon (because we don't do enough of that, right?) by breaking down some early video games. We're talking about Dragon Ball: Dragon Daihikyō, aka Secret of the Dragon from the Super Casette Vision; Dragon Ball: Shenlong no Nazo aka Dragon Power for the Nintendo Entertainment System; and Dragon Ball: Daimaō Fukkatsu aka Dragon Ball: Great Demon King's Revival, also for the NES. In this episode: We perform mop up

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Episode 26 - Ninja Murasaki

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/11/09

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 37 and 38, "Ninja Murasaki is Coming," and "The Five Murasakis" and we dig further into the Red Ribbon Army and Goku's challenge on floor 4: a deadly ninja assassin In this episode: INVASION! We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments We discuss the origin of Murasaki's name and why it's different than other members of the Red Ribbon Army who have color-based names We

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Episode 25 - Don Dracula

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/10/27

It's the last episode of Final Forum's Dragon Ball-oween Spooktacular! In this episode, Jelli and Bekinney break down Osamu Tezuka's manga and anime Don Dracula. It's part of our October/Halloween Festivities where we're taking a break from breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon and delving into times our franchise's creators have "put on a costume" and worked on other shows and movies. In this case, it's Takao Koyama, screenwriter on both Don Dracula and Dragon Ball. In

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Dragon Ball-oween MINISODE - Bekinney’s Top Ten...

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/10/18

Welcome to Final Forum's Dragon Ball-oween Spooktacular! In this special Bekinney-only mini-sode we take a complete break from format, and from breaking down Akira Toriyama's manga and anime smash success to continue our October/Halloween Festivities and on this episode, it's all about looks, because looks are similar to costumes and costumes are a big part of Halloween. AND we've already established that it makes sense so just go with it. Sure. So, who will make Bekinney's Top Ten Best-Looking

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Episode 24 - The Return of Godzilla Commentary...

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/10/11

Welcome to Final Forum's Dragon Ball-oween Spooktacular! In this episode, Jelli and Bekinney are joined by Kyle Byrd and Matt Parmley of the Kaiju Transmissions Podcast for a fun break from format and into the world of Godzilla films. It's part of our October/Halloween Festivities where we're taking a break from breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon and delving into times our franchise's creators have "put on a costume" and worked on other shows and movies. In this

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23:27

Dragon Ball-oween MINISODE - Jelli’s Top Ten Dragon...

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/10/04

Welcome to Final Forum's Dragon Ball-oween Spooktacular! In this special Jelli-only mini-sode we take a complete break from format, and from breaking down Akira Toriyama's manga and anime smash success to begin our October/Halloween Festivities and on this episode, it's all about looks, because looks are similar to costumes and costumes are a big part of Halloween. That makes sense right? Right? Sure. So, who will make Jelli's Top Ten Best-Looking Dragon Ball Character Designs? The pool to choose

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Episode 23 - Muscle Tower and 80s Pop Culture

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/09/27

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episodes 35 and 36 of the show, "Cold Reception," and "Major Metallitron" and we dig further into the Red Ribbon Army as well as their current base of operations for this portion of the arc: Muscle Tower In this episode: Jelli and Bekinney are preparing for invasion We recap the episodes and discuss our favorite moments We talk about whether the Japanese would say the "h" in White We

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Episode 22 - Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero!

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/09/14

Jelli and Bekinney take a break from Akira Toriyama's manga/anime once again to discuss a NEW MOVIE! In this episode: Jelli and Bekinney discuss Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero but FIRST We have some news items to discuss We talk about the collaboration between Swatch and Dragon Ball Z and discuss the watches for Goku, Vegeta, Master Roshi, Frieza, Cell, Gohan, and Majin Buu and which one is an unfortunate miss The news items then turns to discussion of the new arcs of the Dragon Ball Super manga

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46:10

Episode 21 - The Red Ribbon Army Debuts

Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast ·

2022/08/30

Jelli and Bekinney continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon by breaking down episode 34 of the show, "Cruel Commander Red" and we dig into the Red Ribbon Army In this episode: Jelli and Bekinney are finally safe(?) on a Frieza Force planet We recap Cruel Commander Red and discuss our favorite bits Bekinney talks about how Toriyama once again inverts the narrative of Dragon Ball and Goku We talk about some of the upcoming references that we will come across such as

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