By that, I mean anime where the romance is at most a secondary plotline.

  • Michael Douglass@thelemmy.club
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    15 hours ago

    Hmm. I don’t remember either of those statements being true. Do you remember any plot details off the top that support this? It’s cool if not. I’m not trying to grill you.

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      5 hours ago

      I’m not the person you replied to. But in case they never get back to you, Dbz abridged did a lot of stuff to flesh out characters and plot. They kept a vlog going when they were recording and basically they got really really bored with the bit 1/3 into recording the series and decided to just start spicing up the writing in a lot of places to keep themselves entertained.

      For Krillin they wrote all the various L’s the show hands him as eventually contributing to a down-to-earth, unassuming, and resilient personality by the time he meets the androids. 18 on the other hand makes various jokes about having nebulous and inscrutable preferences in body type. She values in-group loyalty over other forms of morality so when they meet Cell and he immediately understands the Cell situation and begins working to save the other androids there’s at least a bit of a throughline for why their attraction was plausible. Though TeamFourStar did still play 18’s immediate magnetism to him for jokes.

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      4 hours ago

      DBZA, when Krillin decides not to blow up 18 because she’s pretty and he’s in love, and to stand up to Cell so she can escape:

      If we make it through this, I am going to rock his four-foot world.

      • 18, true love.she also calls him “the cute one” a minute before that.

      Oh yeah, also after 18 kisses him, he brags to Yamcha, who dropped out early after getting Yamcha’d by 19 and 20: (Krillin) “and I got kissed by the cute one!” (Yamcha) “… the clown?” (Krillin) “No no no, there’s a girl now”