It's funnier when you consider the fact that Dragon Balls' worldbuilding is a mesh of different time periods. Like God forbid, we have dinosaurs that know exactly who Goku his.
Depends on which 16th century farmers you are talking about. The name comes from one of the most famous and oldest stories in China called Journey to the West. Son Goku is the name of the Monkey King. And they knew about him in the 16th century.
every time I eat good food I think about how billions of hominids have lived and died without tasting even one ingredient of what makes this meal so special and I think that's true of media too
Imagine experiencing the frieza saga through travelers passing by your village every few months and repeating little bits of the story at a time around a tavern fire
In church school I asked my teacher if people in remote villages went to hell when they died because they'd never heard of Jesus. My teacher said Jesus probably appears to them in a dream or something so that they have a choice of getting saved. I like to think the same happened with Goku back then.
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