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While rewatching Dragonball (note, the original, not "Z") I noticed this scene in episode 2. It instantly made me think of the artwork of Mario 2 and enemies like Shy Guys. The Dragonball manga and Arale manga have similar artwork, that could pass for a setting in Super Mario 2 (USA). I've noticed the look before but the similarities didn't really register before.

Dragonball came out in 1986. Doki Doki Panic came out in 1987, while Super Mario 2 (USA version) came out in 1988.

Was DDP/SMB2USA inspired by the artwork of Dragonball? Was it just a "style" or "school" of animation that looked similar? Did some of the same people work on the two? Did Nintendo just straight rip a popular style of art?

I'm just curious if anyone has done any research in this before. It would make sense for a group of animators to be trained in the "Dragonball style" and naturally they would get other gigs eventually. This would result in the Dragonball style cross pollinating in other forms of media.

Well, what do you think?

>> No.5377301

>>5377286
check your autism at the door

>> No.5377306
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>>5377286
I will bite.
That character is Toribot, Akira Toriyama self insert in most of his manga including Dr Slump and Dragon Ball, and no, SMB2 doesn't have anything to do with Toriyama, Shy Guys design is so simple that anybody could design them.

>> No.5377313

>>5377306
Shyguys don't look like Toribot tho, Snifit was quite clearly inspired by it.

>> No.5377323

>>5377286
It's based on some mask festival, isn't it?

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>>5377306
>>5377313

Crap, I forgot what Snifit was called and Shy Guy popped into my head as the character's name. Snifit is pretty much the same design only with the mouth/spout part added. So I do mean Snifit.

Interesting to see Toribot being a self insert. Pic related is an old Japanese gas mask, which I imagine is part of the design idea.

I find it unlikely that the designers of DDP could have somehow lived in a vacuum and missed the hugely popular manga of the time so it does make sense that it could have inspired snifit.

>> No.5377448

>>5377437
>i really meant snifit and t-totally am old enough to have played super mario us- i mean 2 when it was out

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>>5377448
Go bait another thread you fucking incel. I'm 38. People can forget the name of minor characters from a sequel 30+ years ago.

>> No.5377562

I don't think it's a groundless theory but i'd definitely lean towards it being a matter of coincidence and shared inspiration