The Many Parallels Between Sonic and Dragon Ball

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  • @BlueStride
    @BlueStride  2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    For anyone who wants to, you can watch the opening and ending I made for this video without all the credits here: th-cam.com/video/UkQGB0V46fA/w-d-xo.html
    And Sonic would totally be the type of dad to throw that senzu bean.

  • @VillageOtter
    @VillageOtter 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +36

    That editing is god-tier

    • @pumpkintron8969
      @pumpkintron8969 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My eyes hurt

    • @VillageOtter
      @VillageOtter วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@pumpkintron8969 just a little

  • @chatd20061
    @chatd20061 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    I was gonna ask: "Then what sonic's equivalent to nimbus?" But then i remembered the tornado

  • @the-aspiring-creator4249
    @the-aspiring-creator4249 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    This is the first video I'm watching of yours and honestly as a Dragon Ball and Sonic fan? It's really solid. It's doing a good job of highlighting the many similarities between the two, many of which I know and some I wouldn't, I ADORE that you addressed how pointing out similarities is not the same as saying two series ripped each other off (Side tangent here, people who write something off based on similarities or feel the need to take shots at another because they have those are incredibly sad individuals who I urge to grow beyond the high school clique phase they're clearly stuck in.).
    I think the only complaint I have is the editing. Not that it's bad, it's in fact incredibly proficient and certainly does stuff I could never do. I just think paired with the script and what's going on, it's a bit too chaotic and hard to follow. I genuinely have to pause a few times because my eyes are feeling strain. That being said, certainly am still gonna sub.

  • @BlueStride
    @BlueStride  วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    To those who may be wondering...
    ...this video took me 6 months to make. And I am NEVER editing another video to this scale EVER again. 😅

    • @mcp993
      @mcp993 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Then it's my responsibility to tell you, as Picollo said to Gohan after Cell's defeat: "You peaked".

  • @the-aspiring-creator4249
    @the-aspiring-creator4249 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    16:56 To bust out the Dragon Ball nerd in me. The coloring of the Super Saiyan eyes here is a result of the limited color pages. In Weekly Shonen Jump where Dragon Ball was initially published, some chapters would be given color, usually by way of the first couple pages being full color while the the rest were colored in this limited palette of red and black with maybe some exceptions for the sake of skin tone and small details like Goku's laces. The red eyes were the result of this. Now apparently Cooler's Revenge originally was considering having Goku with red eyes with the drawing you show being done primarily to demonstrate the hues and such to be used for the form did portray it with red eyes. That being said, the chapter cover for Chapter 323, "The Two Wishes" gave us a full color image of Super Saiyan showing it with the greenish blue eyes most know it for and that came around April 27, 1991.
    Though it's funny because it's reflective of how inconsistent Toriyama could be drawing his own characters since like a lot of manga creators, while he had general ideas for the coloring, it's not something he really considered since the manga's mostly black and white. For instance, King Kai was never colored consistently, we've seen Korin/Karin be colored blue and then there are mistakes that had to be corrected such as Android 18 being drawn with white hair many times by Toriyama and sometimes coloring just stuck because that's all the artist had to go off of such as Bulma's hair being blue in the very first chapter for the color pages which is what the anime went with but then when the hair color was made purple and carried over to Trunks, the anime just threw up its hands and made Trunks' hair purple.

  • @KobeR.Y.A.N
    @KobeR.Y.A.N 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    This is a NEAR Max0r level of editing, and I love it.

  • @Your7T7
    @Your7T7 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I think this video GAVE me ADHD

  • @NorthSutherland
    @NorthSutherland วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Parallel comparisons are supposed to be *FUN* , not accusations of blatant rip-offs, all because one franchise is more popular than the other and hasn't made as many mistakes.
    Also, don't throw Bo-bobo under the bus, just because you don't appreciate its humor (assuming that's what that was). And technically speaking, those two shows were never next to each other during its original time slot. There were no reruns (apart from the first episode) either.

    • @the-aspiring-creator4249
      @the-aspiring-creator4249 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      He was just joking about how funny it was that one moment you could be watching Dragon Ball and the next you could just see something ridiculous like what one would see in Bo-bobo. He still noted he liked it.

  • @EldritchSama
    @EldritchSama 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    This video was fcking awesome, man. I got into Sonic from old flash games and Sonic generations. And I got into dragon ball from my uncle and old amv’s.

  • @2212W
    @2212W วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Absolutely love the editing

  • @baguettetheweirdguy2529
    @baguettetheweirdguy2529 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Your editing is giving me a stroke this is awesome

  • @alanemocab3465
    @alanemocab3465 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Sonic Heroes was my first sonic game and I watched Dragon Ball on Toonami.

  • @scoffeex1740
    @scoffeex1740 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why is your editing beyond perfect?

  • @ssjsal2159
    @ssjsal2159 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    But did you know piccolo is a saiyan just like Raditz ?

  • @ScapeVEVO
    @ScapeVEVO วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Dude you had my attention so fkin fast with that abrupt cut from rock the dragon to prefacing being a Kai fan then playing the intro with the damned nicktoons new episode card thing 😭 YES I GOT INTO IT THROUGH NICKTOONS it’s ok guys I rewatched the uncut version on toonami like 6 years ago when it re-aired 👍

  • @BlackFlash09
    @BlackFlash09 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    The difference between Amy Rose and Chi-Chi is that the hedgehog is allowed to grow as a character and fully supports her love interest.

  • @Goku-fn3qd
    @Goku-fn3qd 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    This editing is fricking insane 😭

  • @Flaps_jacks69
    @Flaps_jacks69 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Fantasticly edited video (seriously give a brother some tips and tricks🌚)
    Anywho I got into dragon ball via nicktoons like you and I got into sonic via games like sonic and the secret rings and sonic unleashed for the Wii

  • @ThisisTheUltimate
    @ThisisTheUltimate วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I'll say something to add on your Prefaces, not to hate on what you said but rather to agree with it and make things clear:
    Sonic has many *parallels* with Dragon Ball
    Sonic has a few *inspirations* from Dragon Ball (At least confirmed ones)
    Many of the things people say to be simillar in both series, like the Echidnas and Namekians, Knuckles and Piccolo, Sonic and Goku, etc. were never confirmed to be inspired, some were even denied to be the case, like Sonic being inspired by Goku as confirmed by Naoto Ohshima (and some might just be a common idea/concept used by many different media) it's still impossible to deny that those who aren't directly inspired still are surprisingly simillar, hence why so many people talk about it
    And obviously, there are direct inspirations from the Dragon Ball series in Sonic, Silver's writting inspired by Future Trunks, Shadow having Vegeta's name listed in one of his concept arts, Surge the Tenrec and Kitsunami the Fennec being said to be inspired by 17 and 18, obviously Super Sonic being inspired by the Super Saiyan, Sonic and Tails' relationship being inspired by Piccolo and Kid Gohan, Blue Sphere Special Stages being inspired by King Kai's Planet, etc.
    Of course, having inspirations doesn't mean they're copies, even with the non-intentional parallels and the intentional inspirations, Sonic still manages to do its own original twist to these concepts
    It's basically what you said, and I liked how you worded it
    (And quick here, Sonic's concept name was Mr. Hedgehog, Mr. Needlemouse is a mistranslation from Harinezumi (which means hedgehog) the word is formed by "Hari" (Needle) and "Nezumi" (mouse) since hedgehogs are basically a mouse with quills, so the word hedgehog in japanese is the fusion of both words, and the name Maurice, you should already know but it's Archie canon only, and the one in Prime, most people can't even confirm if that description is actually real, but if it was, it was soon removed anyway)

    • @Axxidous
      @Axxidous วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Yeah but Shadow as a character isn't inspired specifically by Vegeta. There's just an aspect of him that is, which I believe was supposed to be his scowl and body language. His personality couldn't be further from Vegeta.
      Infinite on the other hand...

    • @somehelluvafanboy8357
      @somehelluvafanboy8357 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wait, Sonic has Maurice as his real name in Prime?

    • @the-aspiring-creator4249
      @the-aspiring-creator4249 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@somehelluvafanboy8357 It's not. Basically a series description popped up including a small bit joking that his middle name is actually Maurice as a nod to the Archie comics. But no one's been able to truly confirm if that description was real and even so it's not that on Netflix so no, Sonic's real name is not Maurice nor is it his middle name.

    • @KKHell
      @KKHell 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Axxidous Shadow comes off as being more inspired by Tetsuo Shima or Bass to me, and even that's a stretch.

    • @Axxidous
      @Axxidous 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@KKHell I can kinda see Bass. But I doubt that. I think his personality is just based on his storyline, as it's also drastically changed throughout his installments.
      But his concept they've already revealed was inspired by Spawn. Particularly just the concept of the "anti-hero, or "dark hero". I can see it. Shadow is the "Nega Sonic". (Please don't say whatever joke you just thought in your head. LOL) Regardless, I don't think he's particularly BASED on any one thing.

  • @e-scorts7485
    @e-scorts7485 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Editing goes crazy bro

  • @Tacom4ster
    @Tacom4ster 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    This must blow up in popularity

  • @NorthSutherland
    @NorthSutherland 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    25:50 Allow me:
    Tails - Bulma/Krillin
    Cream - Suno (that's as close as you're going to get)
    Rouge - Hasky/Colonel Violet
    Big - *Yajirobe*
    Mighty - Yamcha
    Vector - Hercule
    Espio - Tien
    Charmy - Chiaotzu
    Tikal - SKOT (Supreme Kai of Time)?
    Blaze - Annin (Google her)
    Old Man Owl (Sonic OVA) - Roshi
    Mecha Sonic - Raditz
    Terios - Turles
    Mephiles - Goku Black
    Deadly Six - Bojack's Crew
    Eggman - Pilaf/Frieza/Dr. Willow/Gero (most DBZ villains never come back)
    E-Series (SA1) - Ginyu Force
    Picky (🐷) - Oolong
    Ricky (🐿️) - Puar
    Storm - Android 19
    Jet - Android 17
    Wave - Android 18
    Omega - Android 16?
    Heavy - Android 8
    Remington (Archie Comic) - Nail
    Athair (Archie Comic) - Kami
    Archimedes (Archie Comic) - Mr. Popo
    Chaos - Majin Buu? (Beerus seems too powerful for that role)
    And if we're being really generous:
    Tiara B. (Sonic X-treme) - Bulma

  • @the-aspiring-creator4249
    @the-aspiring-creator4249 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Final comment but to answer the question. I'm certain I got into Sonic first and that was through Sonic Heroes. I was a PS2 kid and while I was aware of Sonic because I'd seen the blue dude every so often through ads, I wasn't a fan yet. But there was something about the Heroes ads that made me specifically want to play the game and so the game wound up being picked up at one point during a trip out. I was hooked from that point onward. Didn't matter I was playing what is considered the worst version of that game, I had never experienced high speed action like that before from a video game and my little brain was rocked. Later I'd try keeping up with Sonic X, would play the older Genesis games through Mega Collection Plus and I'd keep up with later releases like Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic '06 which I initially liked at the time and... god I remember getting hyped for Sonic Unleashed.
    Dragon Ball is interesting to talk about because my first exposure to it was through GT. I happened to catch one day a random episode of GT from the Super 17 Saga and watched as a tiny monkey boy fought a big buff guy who had no eyebrows. That tiny monkey boy went blonde and later grew into a big deep voiced monkey man and overall I had NO idea what the hell I was watching but it intrigued me. However, I didn't really get into watching the series because I didn't have exactly the interest to really go for it. Then one night on Toonami, very late, they began airing the Ultimate Uncut editions of Dragon Ball Z, starting with the Saiyan Saga and it was then I was hooked. I tried my damnedest to stay up every Saturday night to watch Dragon Ball Z and I did a decent job keeping up with it even if I watched stuff out of order thanks to On Demand... and was baffled by the voice cast not realizing that the Ultimate Uncut dub redubbed a lot of stuff while On Demand had the original broadcast dub. Otherwise, I was able to keep up with the series but not without spoiling myself on a lot of things. Aside from the fact I only watched the anime up through the first couple fights of the Cell Game, I had experienced many sagas through the games. I saw Freeza's final form and the androids first in Budokai 2 because when my love grew, I was starting to be given games from the series when they came out. I experienced Cell via Sagas and basically the rest of the show and GT through BT2 and because this was during when I started to browse the internet, I went online and looked up stuff about the series, spotting all the crazy AF stuff, Broly who I remembered seeing in a video for the fighting game engine MUGEN and AMVs before seeing the movie, experiencing through MUGEN Dragon Ball characters that gave me my first exposure to the Japanese and Spanish voices which because I was a dumb American kid I rejected because they didn't sound like what I knew. I had read about Kai before it aired in the US expecting we wouldn't get it because Dragon Ball had a lot of Japanese exclusive material that stayed that way and then Nicktoons announced they were airing it and I was floored because otherwise I had just been watching that network for Teenage Robot. I tried to keep up with it there and couldn't really but I loved what I saw for the most part. I became a super fan when Kai was finally airing uncut on Toonami and from that point onward, I sought out everything Toriyama.

  • @TheSwordsman100
    @TheSwordsman100 วันที่ผ่านมา

    First Sonic game was Sonic 1 on the Sega Genesis, though my introduction to the blue blur was one of the two Dic cartoons, I can't remember if was SatAM or AoStH that I saw first. As for Dragonball I first was introduced to it via a friend during the Cell Saga on Toonami. I mostly agree with what is said here and the editing was really good. Though Shadow = Vegeta only seems to work on the basest of surface levels and falls apart when looking deeper unlike Sonic and Goku. I also personally never saw Gamma as the robot but the Flicky inside of it, due to it's memories being the thing that sets Gamma on it's quest and to befriend Amy, the mission being to free it's siblings not kill them, the Flicky reappearing in the final story and oddly enough Prime. (though Prime is as bad as Forces when it comes to continuity and characterization) That being said I do agree with the 16 comparison.
    The ages thing just confuses me? With Multiverse Classic theory spawned from Forces being thoroughly debunked by Tailstube, offical interviews and the Generations remake that would mean Classic is indeed Sonic's younger self. So there is no way for Modern to be younger then his Classic self. Looking at the ages Sonic is always 15 BUT in the transition to the Modern Era in Adventure most of the characters not named Sonic were aged up by 4 years suggesting a 4 year time gap between the eras. If we take that into account that would make Classic's real age to be 11, Sonic from Adventure to Colors 15 and then finally 16 onward from Generations.

  • @MD_tbb
    @MD_tbb วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    nice vid

  • @czms922
    @czms922 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You've just reminded me of that cluster of a fan comic being Sonic's daughter that was dating shadow...

  • @Chaos_Sonic_Fan
    @Chaos_Sonic_Fan วันที่ผ่านมา

    This got recommended to me right in the middle of my dragon ball obsession, more fuel for my brain rot

  • @Jack4ss0608
    @Jack4ss0608 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    bro just explained every lythero video ever made

  • @KKHell
    @KKHell 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    talk about the (honestly, more apparent) parallels Sonic and Mega Man have.

  • @ScapeVEVO
    @ScapeVEVO วันที่ผ่านมา

    “I hope you like long stories” ok Luxu

  • @UltraArchieSonic
    @UltraArchieSonic วันที่ผ่านมา

    I remember Sonic Battle Adventure... the Game is amazing. i even had to get it on steam XD

  • @Axxidous
    @Axxidous วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    You're prepared. Aside from the crazy fucking editing (How in the lord's name did you do all that...?) and the voice which definitely serves your persona well... the fact that you specified that the comparisons were just for fun and not because you actually think they're based on one another is another level I don't see often on TH-cam. You even pointed out the stupid "Sonic Battle Adventure" crap.
    AND I knew one of the 3 things, the most obvious, was Super Sonic which actually WASN'T confirmed even though it's pretty obvious. Yet you actually addressed that already via text. I mean, it's stated in a way that doesn't seem to acknowledge that this technically isn't "confirmation" so I still disagree but kudos for at least making the point with that opposing argument in mind. o:
    Android 16 is Gamma, a machine that ended up being good with a love for the little animals.
    But also... The dynamic between all 3 Androids 16, 17 and 18 was a lot like Shadow, Rouge and Omega.
    While Vegeta is more like Shadow in Character placement, he's more like Infinite in being egocentric and full of hurt pride after his people were defeated!
    Erazor Djinn is often said to look like Majin Buu.
    Eggman and Frieza both flew in little floating pods.
    Eggman's crashed ships in Sonic Frontiers looked like Frieza Force ships on planet Namek as well.
    Oozaru = WereHog.
    DragonBall had the Nimbus and in Sonic Riders you can unlock a cloud to right on like a hoverboard.
    I guess you can mention these in part 2 but yeah. lol

    • @SmokeySpider24990
      @SmokeySpider24990 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Most of these are barely comparable
      Especially the werehog and oozaru shit

    • @Axxidous
      @Axxidous 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@SmokeySpider24990 Yeah. But they're comparable. That's the whole point.
      They both turn into a beast, one in front of a moon, the other at night (or in front of the moon in Night of the WereHog).
      Don't be so intense. It ain't that deep.

    • @SmokeySpider24990
      @SmokeySpider24990 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @ even then the werehog is based on a werewolf one of those werewolf stories
      It’s not comparable to turning into a giant monkey

    • @Axxidous
      @Axxidous 9 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@SmokeySpider24990 It is comparable. I just compared them. lol The reason or origin behind them don't seem to matter. According to the video and my initial comment, these comparisons are for fun and not to claim one is based on the other.

  • @juancl7658
    @juancl7658 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love the video but the editing of all the quick flashes made me replay the video just for seeing all the text and clips

  • @xlro8f853
    @xlro8f853 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So, Sonic is definitely a Sun Wukong analogue.

  • @reelix9318
    @reelix9318 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And surge and kit technically being android 17 and 18

  • @cronaxblade
    @cronaxblade วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dude... the opening makes me want a Sonic x Dragon Ball anime so bad now...

  • @Tacom4ster
    @Tacom4ster 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Darn I wanna an episode on Rainbow Dash

  • @FamilyIswell
    @FamilyIswell 42 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    erm actually the time lint is a game mechinic

  • @easyscout8369
    @easyscout8369 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ok I was an idiot an compared E102 Gamma to Gamma 1 and Gamma 2. Android 16 makes way more sense

  • @thesoniczone11
    @thesoniczone11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Are you gonna talk about how Tails was confirmed by his creator to be inspired by Gohan? And stop comparing Tails to Bulma just because "genius lol"?

    • @the-aspiring-creator4249
      @the-aspiring-creator4249 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I mean, he kinda has elements of both. Also, it wasn't really Gohan who directly inspired Tails, it was the relationship of Piccolo and Gohan that influenced Sonic and Tails.

  • @Mugen2024
    @Mugen2024 วันที่ผ่านมา

    disregarded GT, lost my attention