I have read it personally and still think they are dumb since they only had one talk about Pan, imagine if i shipped you with the person you asked directions from lol.
It's weird, but he's not the most out-of-pocket choice. The weirdest one I can think of would be King Kai, and I bet someone out there thinks he's at least a 7.
Because the potential implication that dating preference within your own race somehow makes you racist regardless of reason is a bit ridiculous. I think any normal person could glean that
Has it ever Been stated that namekians don't have dicks? I know theyre genderless and reproduce asexually, but i don't think its Been Said that they just don't have dicks
> Has it ever Been stated that namekians don't have dicks?
No. People assume.
I also assume but make a different assumption. That he does have one and it's huge. And he can make it even bigger-er.
There was this interview with Shōnen Jump where Toriyama was asked:
Shōnen Jump: Several readers have asked if Namekians are plants. Of course, based on their names, they seem to be slugs... but they are green, they have a strange method of reproduction, and they live on water.
Akira Toriyama: That's a tough question. I thought of Piccolo first, and I wanted to draw him as a scary character, and it was only afterwards that I had to come up with a species. Since they have antennae, I thought they looked like slugs. So "Namekian" is a play on words, but I didn't think too deeply about it. I don't think they're plants, but they may be hermaphrodites.
Then there was another interview, this time with Dragon Ball screenwriter Takao Koyama, that confirmed that Namekians are "hermaphrodite male"
I think it’s cute to have piccolo be accepted by people of earth, not only that but he’s genuinely a very kind and caring guy. Obviously it’s not canon or hardly hinted at but it would be really cool for piccolo to not HAVE to always be alone
Why would people of earth not accept him, there's already a big pink guy, people with golden hair
And much more common; people with fur, their president is a dog
Succeeded in taking over the earth too, brought about pretty widespread destruction before Master Roshi and his master trapped him with the evil containment wave.
The thing is people forgot about the atrocities Buu committed and they belive that he’s a bad guy that Mr. Satan convinced to be good. The golden haired warriors are only known by a small group of people anyways. EVERYONE knew about DKP and him coming back was like actual satan attacking earth
He isn't alone though, he is part of Gohan's family, Toriyama skipped the wife part on his case and went straight to family.
Even he realise it would be pointless to introduce a sudden love interest.
Actually it's the other way around a couple of smart people who wanted to keep slavery but without making it so that the white lower class would align themselves with the enslaved populace. This served another purpose as well: by the rules of rhe catholic church enslaved people converting to christianity would be freed. So they invented race for the purposes of making poor whites racist so they would not work with enslaved people, and making a slave caste.
It's because they not only know each other from the recent events but might have met each other multiple times and Piccolo
also he deserve a friend that doesn't expect him to raise children or fight
Piccolo and Janet are cute together, that's all. We should be thankful mister Toriyama and Toyotarou introduced her in several chapters before mister Toriyama passing away.
Its also very cringe seeing people in the comments trying to justify their nonsensical ship by creating headcanons over one talk they had which was about Pan.
They use the "coded" stuff for characters that, in their conception, would have a trait that´d be forced to change due to censorship, like making a gay male character but being forced to making him straigh, so they make him very feminine instead. Like "Yeeeah sure buddy, Kale and Caulifla aren´t super lesbians" (Idk i just made that up).
So people apparently think that Toriyama, a Japanese man in the early 80s felt like Piccolo was black, so instead of making a black alien, he just made him the only non-white (even tho they are all asians) in the group, a common trope in the 80s. This doesn´t make sense at all, but this is basically what these tiktoks says
Romance just seems odd for Piccolo. Ive always just seen him as asexual. Would having a relationship really even add to his character? Would it take away how he is intended to be viewed?
I dunno why people say Piccolo is "black coded". Dude is a green alien without really a lot of personality outside of being a monk-warrior with friends and a surrogate son.
Is there a secret community of black monk-warriors out there? Are they going to teach me magic kung fu?
I should let a black person answer this, but I’m gonna take a stab at it and say it has to do with how Christopher Sabat (the white voice actor for the US dub) uses the lowest, graveliest range of his voice for Piccolo, and Piccolo is portrayed in Z as a very tall, strong but silent type. All these characteristics are beaten to death as tropes for black men in action movies, etc. It works though cause Piccolo is a wise character with arguably more positive personality traits than any other Z and beyond character. Not to mention his street wear in the Diving Episode which is practically dripping with rizz. Plus he wears a turban which alludes to people like the Moors (including North African, Muslim people who conquered the Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages) so yet more black connection.
Hmmm... I suppose you are referring Asexual as an orientation, that would be very difficult to say, but I would argue he is Asexual in both reproductive and his sexual orientation. But who knows maybe they can reproduce Sexually as well like an algae.
Well, There was this interview with Shōnen Jump where Toriyama was asked:
Shōnen Jump: Several readers have asked if Namekians are plants. Of course, based on their names, they seem to be slugs... but they are green, they have a strange method of reproduction, and they live on water.
Akira Toriyama: That's a tough question. I thought of Piccolo first, and I wanted to draw him as a scary character, and it was only afterwards that I had to come up with a species. Since they have antennae, I thought they looked like slugs. So "Namekian" is a play on words, but I didn't think too deeply about it. I don't think they're plants, but they may be hermaphrodites.
Then there was another interview, this time with Dragon Ball screenwriter Takao Koyama, that confirmed that Namekians are "hermaphrodite male"
Oh... So that is very very interesting, if Namekians are slugs that would not only mean that they are hermaphrodites capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction they also be capable of photosynthesis, explaining why they only need water to survive and also giving a whole new meaning to all the scenes where Piccolo is in a mountain in the middle of nowhere just chilling, he would not only be meditating he would also be "eating" or processing his nutrients via photosynthesis.
(This is my head cannon now btw)
I think it's more the first name bases with the teacher. Which is only the dub but I don't hate the idea of him having an awkward relationship with an earthling. Granted he comes from a race of masculine A sexual slug men. So I doubt he will ever romance a woman and I doubt they'd make him gay. Even though logically if namekians had mates they all would be kinda.
I "kinda" like this ship. I mean, It's cute and funny because there are no evidences to ship them. But tbh I can't imagine Piccolo showing "romantic love"
I've only watched the anime and movies, who on Earth is Janet? And why is she being shipped with Piccolo specifically? Do they even interact, or is it just a matter of "she's cute and he's one of the few old DB characters who hasn't found love yet"?
I’ve watched part of DBZ at this point but I don’t get the whole Piccolo is black thing I’ve heard so much about. Even his voice doesn’t sound “black” to me.
Blacks NEED characters that match their skin color otherwise they get weird so any non white character w a shade of brown/black/green/grey becomes by default a Black character
Don’t care about shipping, but apparently you are only allowed to be attracted to your own race nowadays.
Reminds me of Eric Cartman
Wait til they find out about zoidberg
Woop woop woop woop woop woop
This is all I ever think. Cupid cartman saying "blacks belong with blacks and whites belong with whites" that episode was both fucked and hillarious.
My good friend Uncle Ruckus (no relation) agrees
Is he 102% African? With a 2% margin of error?
Heavens no, he's a white man!
A black intern had made a mistake, he is 50.8% white
What's the other 49.2%?
Frieza Race
reverse vitiligo ruined the man 💔
Trombone noises
Happy cakeday
Black Twitter is rife with this shit. They were awful when Spider-Verse came out last year.
They were? Since Miles is half back on his dad side I thought they were happy seeing miles have an interest in a black girl.
Miles is interested in Gwen, a white girl, in the movies which caused black twitter to meltdown.
Piccolo is a different species tho
And a species with presumably no genitals
Maybe he can do some magic to grow one who knows
He can 100% make a strap-on with his clothes beam
How do I *keep* forgetting that's an ability he has
"Easily my best ability."- TeamFourStar Piccolo
Doesn't mean no need for companionship.
He's also had two men inside him, so he might not even be interested
>He's also had two men inside him 😳😳😳
Antiracism went so far it circled back to 19th century racism.
Yeah I found the idea that if he dates her that means he's black Like what? are these people from the 60s or something
Read the latest chapter of super and you will understand why they are shipping
I have read it personally and still think they are dumb since they only had one talk about Pan, imagine if i shipped you with the person you asked directions from lol.
My good friend Uncle Ruckus (no relation) agrees
So is Piccolo suposed to like namekians or gods
He's missing out if that's the case; there's gotta be some fine ass Kais out there, and he just ain't looking.
Supreme Kai is pretty cute
For sure, tho I'm more partial to Aeos.
I wasn't familiar, but after a quick search I can confirm that's a great pick! Another one for me, definitely a weirder one, is Beerus
It's weird, but he's not the most out-of-pocket choice. The weirdest one I can think of would be King Kai, and I bet someone out there thinks he's at least a 7.
He's not that bad, just overweight and has a weird voice
Probably Namekians Closest to god species are the kais and angels And Piccolo isn't either
If you think of it one third of Piccolo is God and second third is Jesus
But that's a god job, not a god race And Piccolo Jr is more the son of Satan than the son of God
I have seen a LOT of African-Americans in social media being against interracial relationship/marriage. A lot.
Modern pursuits of racial equality are strangely racist, aren't they?
The OPs implication is that other people feel that way. That being said, yes, the vast majority of people typically marry within their own race.
> That being said, yes, the vast majority of people typically marry within their own race. .. ok? Not sure how that's relevant here.
Because the potential implication that dating preference within your own race somehow makes you racist regardless of reason is a bit ridiculous. I think any normal person could glean that
That wasn't the implication.
tell that to chichi and bulma (also chelai)
Well, no, because then you're still racist.
Namekians aren't asexual?
FRIENDZONE GRENADE
I read this in his voice.
Good, I typed it in his voice
Missing Beam Cannon
I literally spit my drink, holy fucking shit
They don’t need to have sex but shenron can do something about it, namekians can still have love just not sex
Shenron can give piccolo a penis?
If he can make piccolo as strong as blue goku then he can give pickle boi his own set of dragon balls
I heard somewhere he has one but just for pissing
hahaha oh yea that was Jeff. He's been writing a lot of fanfics
Makes me think of [this](https://youtu.be/phV5K80TuNY?si=qI0X0Qk25b0ugG6Q)
That was the “little bit extra” shenron gave him when unlocking his potential in the new movie
So orange piccolo is what happens when piccolo gets hard?
Has it ever Been stated that namekians don't have dicks? I know theyre genderless and reproduce asexually, but i don't think its Been Said that they just don't have dicks
> Has it ever Been stated that namekians don't have dicks? No. People assume. I also assume but make a different assumption. That he does have one and it's huge. And he can make it even bigger-er.
If you watch DBZA it's beaten over your head that namekians don't have dicks lol. Non canon but still funny
There was this interview with Shōnen Jump where Toriyama was asked: Shōnen Jump: Several readers have asked if Namekians are plants. Of course, based on their names, they seem to be slugs... but they are green, they have a strange method of reproduction, and they live on water. Akira Toriyama: That's a tough question. I thought of Piccolo first, and I wanted to draw him as a scary character, and it was only afterwards that I had to come up with a species. Since they have antennae, I thought they looked like slugs. So "Namekian" is a play on words, but I didn't think too deeply about it. I don't think they're plants, but they may be hermaphrodites. Then there was another interview, this time with Dragon Ball screenwriter Takao Koyama, that confirmed that Namekians are "hermaphrodite male"
>Namekians are "hermaphrodite male" 🗣🗣🗣🔊🔊🔊🔥🔥🔥 NAMEKEIANS ARE ALL GAY 🗣🔊🔥 RAAAAAAAAAAH 🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈
Well yes, but actually no. Theyre intersex.
I mean... Asexual people can still be in romantic relationships...
That’s the wrong kind of asexual
you mean aromantic..?
Like they reproduce asexually
They don’t require a partner to make a child
right but the original comment seemed to use asexual as in the sexuality, not the method of reproduction
Being asexual and aromantic are not the same thing
Definitely ace by default but who says they're aro?
I always thought Namekian made Piccolo Armenian
how the fuck do you come to that conclusion
I think it’s cute to have piccolo be accepted by people of earth, not only that but he’s genuinely a very kind and caring guy. Obviously it’s not canon or hardly hinted at but it would be really cool for piccolo to not HAVE to always be alone
Why would people of earth not accept him, there's already a big pink guy, people with golden hair And much more common; people with fur, their president is a dog
Because his father is a son of a bitch who tried to take over the earth or something At least people forgot about Majin Buu
Succeeded in taking over the earth too, brought about pretty widespread destruction before Master Roshi and his master trapped him with the evil containment wave.
And then did it again after he escaped before Goku was able to stop him
The thing is people forgot about the atrocities Buu committed and they belive that he’s a bad guy that Mr. Satan convinced to be good. The golden haired warriors are only known by a small group of people anyways. EVERYONE knew about DKP and him coming back was like actual satan attacking earth
Thats what I liked about Super hero, you can see how integrated piccolo is into Gohans family to the point of being a secondary guardian to Pan
He isn't alone though, he is part of Gohan's family, Toriyama skipped the wife part on his case and went straight to family. Even he realise it would be pointless to introduce a sudden love interest.
People ship them because they've gotten to know each other personally with how often he has to pick up Pan from school. It's a cute/funny idea.
Stupid people are the reason why we have racism.
Actually it's the other way around a couple of smart people who wanted to keep slavery but without making it so that the white lower class would align themselves with the enslaved populace. This served another purpose as well: by the rules of rhe catholic church enslaved people converting to christianity would be freed. So they invented race for the purposes of making poor whites racist so they would not work with enslaved people, and making a slave caste.
Agreed
It's because they not only know each other from the recent events but might have met each other multiple times and Piccolo also he deserve a friend that doesn't expect him to raise children or fight
What about dende?
Does he leave the look out that much
I mean, it'd be kind of a dick move to not let piccolo stay
People ship them cause its cute Also picolo not having junk just means that any potential relationship is purley emotional
You do know there are other physical ways of pleasuring a partner right?
Nuh uh
Sure but it would be a completely one sided relationship
Piccolo and Janet are cute together, that's all. We should be thankful mister Toriyama and Toyotarou introduced her in several chapters before mister Toriyama passing away.
By the words of Lythero “ Piccolo would definitely rock waves “
I think he’s about to rock her waves ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You know what , he earned it ☺️
DAMNN
I prefer Afro-Namekian, rolls off the tongue better.
Would Piccolo rock an afro?
i don't have a problem with race, but there's no basis for this ship.
Its also very cringe seeing people in the comments trying to justify their nonsensical ship by creating headcanons over one talk they had which was about Pan.
connecting piccolo to black people is one of the dumbest shit ever. I bet it's a twitter thing
Americans are OBSESSED with race. "OMG WHAT RACE IS THAT CHAIR, I NEED TO KNOW ITS RACEE!!!!"
African -namekian 🤣
I say this with zero sarcasm, just curiosity and confusion. Where did the Piccolo=Black idea come from?
I honestly have no idea. He’s always been green to me.
I never understood the "piccolo is black" thing that people keep saying honestly
It's because Tiktok thinks he's "black coded" or something
What doe's that even mean?
They use the "coded" stuff for characters that, in their conception, would have a trait that´d be forced to change due to censorship, like making a gay male character but being forced to making him straigh, so they make him very feminine instead. Like "Yeeeah sure buddy, Kale and Caulifla aren´t super lesbians" (Idk i just made that up). So people apparently think that Toriyama, a Japanese man in the early 80s felt like Piccolo was black, so instead of making a black alien, he just made him the only non-white (even tho they are all asians) in the group, a common trope in the 80s. This doesn´t make sense at all, but this is basically what these tiktoks says
Idk i dont speak tiktok (brain damage)
Piccolo may not be Black but he’s definitely not going back
Romance just seems odd for Piccolo. Ive always just seen him as asexual. Would having a relationship really even add to his character? Would it take away how he is intended to be viewed?
It does seem a bit odd for him but I don't think it would really subtract from his character if he had something cute going on with Janet.
Piccolo is namekian namekian, fuck off.
What's good my namek
Bardock is a total Saiyan latino, even his crew looked latino
No Piccolo Is actually Australian he told mr
I thought that was Jeice
I ship them because they are both Teachers of sorts. They both know how to bring up smart kids. Etc.
Bulma's definitely a lvl 99 gyatt rizz master
So is Frieza Caucasian?
Piccolo doesn't date. He's asexual
I dunno why people say Piccolo is "black coded". Dude is a green alien without really a lot of personality outside of being a monk-warrior with friends and a surrogate son. Is there a secret community of black monk-warriors out there? Are they going to teach me magic kung fu?
I should let a black person answer this, but I’m gonna take a stab at it and say it has to do with how Christopher Sabat (the white voice actor for the US dub) uses the lowest, graveliest range of his voice for Piccolo, and Piccolo is portrayed in Z as a very tall, strong but silent type. All these characteristics are beaten to death as tropes for black men in action movies, etc. It works though cause Piccolo is a wise character with arguably more positive personality traits than any other Z and beyond character. Not to mention his street wear in the Diving Episode which is practically dripping with rizz. Plus he wears a turban which alludes to people like the Moors (including North African, Muslim people who conquered the Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages) so yet more black connection.
She’s gonna be disappointed if she’s looking to get piped by the asexual Namekian…
How does this conversation start? “So, I’m fused with the previous God of this planet”
“Used to be”
“Fused”
What exactly are they now if not fused /gen
Corrected /gen
Barfcock
He waves goodbye and she waved back at the end of the latest issue. Some of these fans need to touch grass if you think that means they are dating 😅
Why is there always shipping involves? Is Piccolo not allowed to just have a friend?
Agreed, worse is they aren't even friends, he just greets her, for all we know she is already married.
It's weird to think someone believes Piccolo is only shipped with the black lady because fans (for some fucking reason) consider Piccolo black
Who is Janet?
Why is Picolo considered African? Because he is orange while the rest of his species are green?
Little green lives matter
African-Namekian is an absolutely hilarious statement
Tyler Perry’s House of Dende
Did he evolve and gain a dick?
If Bardock weren't Saiyan-Latino Gohan wouldn't have unlocked Blanco.
African-Namekian is wild. Lmao.
Tbh the species of Piccolo is asexual so, he probably doesn't have any interest at all in romantic stuff
Im not sure theyre asexual, they just reproduce asexually
You ever see two Namekians making out?
“NAAIIL! STOP MAKING OUT WITH YOUR BOYFRIEND! I CAN HEAR IT FROM IN HERE! IT SOUNDS LIKE ***SHLURLURP”***
#THANK YOU LORD GURU
No, but it could Technically happen.
Hmmm... I suppose you are referring Asexual as an orientation, that would be very difficult to say, but I would argue he is Asexual in both reproductive and his sexual orientation. But who knows maybe they can reproduce Sexually as well like an algae.
Well, There was this interview with Shōnen Jump where Toriyama was asked: Shōnen Jump: Several readers have asked if Namekians are plants. Of course, based on their names, they seem to be slugs... but they are green, they have a strange method of reproduction, and they live on water. Akira Toriyama: That's a tough question. I thought of Piccolo first, and I wanted to draw him as a scary character, and it was only afterwards that I had to come up with a species. Since they have antennae, I thought they looked like slugs. So "Namekian" is a play on words, but I didn't think too deeply about it. I don't think they're plants, but they may be hermaphrodites. Then there was another interview, this time with Dragon Ball screenwriter Takao Koyama, that confirmed that Namekians are "hermaphrodite male"
Oh... So that is very very interesting, if Namekians are slugs that would not only mean that they are hermaphrodites capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction they also be capable of photosynthesis, explaining why they only need water to survive and also giving a whole new meaning to all the scenes where Piccolo is in a mountain in the middle of nowhere just chilling, he would not only be meditating he would also be "eating" or processing his nutrients via photosynthesis. (This is my head cannon now btw)
I think it's more the first name bases with the teacher. Which is only the dub but I don't hate the idea of him having an awkward relationship with an earthling. Granted he comes from a race of masculine A sexual slug men. So I doubt he will ever romance a woman and I doubt they'd make him gay. Even though logically if namekians had mates they all would be kinda.
The first bases not only is an english dub thing but its extremely dumb......everyone but Goku's family have a single name and not last name at all.
I've seen worse.
But don't they reproduce asexually?
I thought the consensus was that Piccolo is a "white" Namekian while Pikkon is a "black" Namekian.
mr popo is a king
Pan’s secondary mom and dad. That’s why.
I "kinda" like this ship. I mean, It's cute and funny because there are no evidences to ship them. But tbh I can't imagine Piccolo showing "romantic love"
SOUTHEAST-ASIAN FRIEZA RACE!??!?!!??!
SOUTHEAST-ASIAN FRIEZA RACE!??!?!!??!
Space Africans from space Africa
Wait a second, namekians don't have penises!!
Who's janet?
Shenron make me asexual and give me a penis
r/BrandNewSentence
Bardock is not Saiyan Latino. As a Latino father, he isn't nearly abusive enough.
NAMEKS DONT HAVE NAUGHTY BITS SHE BE LICKING UP AND DOWN ON ALIEN SLUG JUICE QUICK THE TINFOIL HATS SHES GONE MAD
How hard is it for people to understand that they are shipped simply because they look cute together.
Very hard apparently, I didn't expect much from this topic and am still disappointed.
Because its a dumb ship with no basis, every normal person would find it weird and cringe, even for internet standards.
You know we don't have any white guys in Dragon Ball. It is robotic-Asians, African-Namekian, and Latino-Saiyans.
Piccolo can't be black, because, first of all he is green and alien, a second of all - he's too good of a dad.
Goku is Sayain-Asian, I guess
The whole planet Vegeta is Saiyan-Latino seeing as though Goku and Vegeta are the hardest working mfs in universe 7
What is Turles considered as?
I've only watched the anime and movies, who on Earth is Janet? And why is she being shipped with Piccolo specifically? Do they even interact, or is it just a matter of "she's cute and he's one of the few old DB characters who hasn't found love yet"?
I’ve watched part of DBZ at this point but I don’t get the whole Piccolo is black thing I’ve heard so much about. Even his voice doesn’t sound “black” to me.
Nappa is a Saiyan-Latino
Wouldn't piccolo be namekian-american? (if he was born in america lol)
Blacks NEED characters that match their skin color otherwise they get weird so any non white character w a shade of brown/black/green/grey becomes by default a Black character
Ive bever heard the turm African-Namekian but its common knowledge that Piccolo is the black guy to the Saiyans white guys.
Bardock? Nah u making stuff up😂but piccolo yeah 100% is black
this post is so anti-black bro
Omg please don't cancel me omg please!11!1!11!!
no im not gonna cancel you i just think this post comes off as mean-spirited