i'm a day late for piccolo day but I couldn't not draw a picture of the grill master
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Happy Piccolo day to those who celebrate
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"it's goku day" this "it's piccolo day" that
you fools
IT'S PICCOKU DAY!!!!!!!
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HAPPY GOKU DAY, MAY 9th
Strongest man in the universe and saved it many times! Nothing but all my love for this iconic Shonen anime character. His power level may be big but his heart is bigger!
Don’t stop, don’t stop , we’re in luck now!
HAPPY PICCOLO DAY, 9th MAY
All time favourite of the Z-Fighters, AWESOME and BADASS Fighter and the greatest dad! He’s also quite handsome too. (Ik it’s technically King Piccolo day but hey it’s still Piccolo)
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man whats that guys feal?
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Happy Piccolo Day!
I **needed** to do something to commemorate the day, but I had little to no time to do it in. I hope this is enough.
I shall raise a glass of water in Piccolo's honour!
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(re: @books-are-my-life-stuff)
Playing around with readings of kanji is an absolutely huge part of Japanese wordplay and one that usually goes right of the heads of English readers — and often even English translators. Here’s a fun example that I think basically everyone missed…
In Dragonball, there’s a bit where King Piccolo invades the Earth, and he says this line about how he’ll force everyone to celebrate that day as Piccolo Day. Specifically, it’s May 9th.
This is actually a kind of numerical pun in Japanese about Goku, the hero of Dragonball. See, May 9th is 5/9. 5 can be read as “go”, and 9 can be read as “ku”, and that makes 5/9 “Goku day”. And Dragonball is big enough in Japan that you’ll sometimes see promotional material celebrating it as such:
So the joke is that Piccolo invades Earth and declares Goku day to be Piccolo day. Hah. Well, I thought it was funny…
Here’s the thing, this kind of number-based pun is its own whole category of Japanese wordplay, called goroawase, and you see it everywhere in Japanese media. Band names, twitter handles, license plates on cars. Hell, a lot of supermarkets have sales on meat on the 29th of each month because “meat” -> “niku” -> “ni ku” -> 2 9. It’s a really flexible form of joke because every number can have like a dozen different readings, so tons of words and phrases can be turned into goroawase numbers. And 99% of the time, this kind of joke is totally untranslatable in English.
So, any time you see a weirdly specific number in an anime or game, there is a decent chance it’s actually a pun that you missed.
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In this house we celebrate both Piccolo’s on the 9th of May
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A Piccolo sketch for Piccolo Day!
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