This comic pops up from time to time causing shock and despair to unsuspecting DBZ fans who just can't believe their favourite mangaka would make something like this 
(but shouldn't be all that surprising to people who pay attention to DB/DBZ).
Some threads on the topic.
Kanzenshuu forums:
https://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47537
https://old.reddit.com/r/mendrawingwomen/comments/ouf4nr/an_actual_oneshot_made_by_toriyama_in_1987/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Ningen/comments/192jabl/i_thought_i_was_just_being_gaslit/
Honestly, the copium is as funny as the outrage 
. I mean seriously, how are these people this surprised? 
What do you guys think ? !anime !kino !carlos is it funny or an awful example of boomer humor 
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Lmao what incredible
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Critique of all types of media has devolved into this weird results based analysis which treats all works like morality plays (note the emphasis on "The Message"). Good things happen to good characters. Bad things happen to bad characters. A bad thing happening to a good character means the author believes the character to be inferior and deserving of the bad outcome. The author is morally obligated to avoid writing bad outcomes for minority or woman characters because uh... they don't have much representation and that
makes potential self-inserters feel badsends a message to minorities and women that they are inferior.If you follow the logic it essentially asserts that "good character writing" means that the character succeeds and has good outcomes in the story. Which is essentially a massive regression when you consider the past 100+ years of writing that was spent desperately tried to escape this low-brow morality play mentality, but in the current era where so many don't read and the ones that do read focus on comic books or YA novels I guess it shouldn't be surprising.
!bookworms critique has fallen, billions must read actual literature
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The idea that writing a less than perfect minority 'endorses stereotypes' and 'does harm' has does more to frick literature then a battalion of old school church ladies.
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I got through The Republic two times. !sophistry
I got through De Rerum Natura until he started going off into nonsense. But at least half of it was good shit, even though he couldn't prove the things he got right right and the things he got wrong wrong by proof of experimentation. !ifrickinglovescience
I got through Calc 1-3, ODEs, PDEs, thermo, and quantum if that counts for Principia Mathematica. !mathematics !physics !chemistry
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I mean lit from the past couple hundred years but sure.
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I re-read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court as an adult and appreciated the messages in it much more.
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Also explaibs (part of) why modern hollywood writing and particularly characters are so dogshit.
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I would argue that this is a positive thing. It's been observed that in the work of one of my favorite writers, Rod Serling, bad characters usually get what they deserve in the end. Maybe that's not what always happens in real life but it's important for two reasons. It's important for teaching kids not to try to get away with shit. And it's important because it helps us sleep at night.
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I have just the book for you:
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