Monday 9 November 2015

Dragon Ball Z, Majin Buu


I don't really enjoy the Dragon Ball series much but this character really caught my interest.

Like a man sized toddler with the power to destroy galaxies is how, fat version, Majin Buu is described. As you can tell from his appearance he is a very happy creature who likes to eat candy and is quite focused on his own self interests. These are characteristic almost similar to that of a child as he essentially is as we find out he is rather innocent and can be gentle. These go well with his very non-serious appearance, he is rather simplistic with an odd fashion sense and his pink skin is colourful so doesn't look very intimidating. He has little understanding of how to be evil and ends up healing people who can't run in fear or see him to be scared.



However the fat childlike Majin Buu isn't his original and only form. He was pure evil before he absorbed people and changed his mind and appearance. As shown on the second picture, this is how he looks when his evil side takes over. It's a very dramatic transformation from the fat and happy creature to a slim, muscular and intimidating looking Buu (Super Buu). His eye sclera is black making them look demonic and empty and make his red iris more distinguished adding to the demonic look. His colourful pink skin doesn't make any difference to this demonic look. Since he has muscles he has more detail put into him as well as more wrinkles on the face when he frowns to make him look more mature from his previous childish appearance making him more complex then the simplistic fat version of Majin Buu.

His appearance changes even further as the pure evil version and original form of himself is actually, as shown on the third image, Kid Buu. In comparison to fat Majin Buu, Kid Buu looks like a troublesome and bad child unlike the innocent and happy childlike Buu. Almost like two polar opposite kids which is essentially the idea. Fat Buu turns into the good side of Majin Buu and Kid Buu is the evil side of Majin Buu using child like personalities and apperances to represent good and evil.




Out of all the forms I prefer the fat version of Majin Buu for the actions he does and the stuff he says with that appearance are pretty funny for me and is very interesting. You get the idea he is misguided and misunderstood because of his monster like appearance.



Following video shows how Buu approaches a blind kid to scare him with his appearance then kill him, but since the boy can't see Buu to be scared Buu ends up healing the boy who becomes so grateful afterwards he isn't afraid of how Buu looks which confuses Buu:

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