Dirty Magazine

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A Dirty Magazine (スケベ本, Sukebe Bon) is a type of book with images that mostly involves women completely nude, partially nude or performing pornographic acts while nude.

Overview[]

Master Roshi has a huge collection of them, which he is commonly seen viewing throughout the series. Ninja Murasaki of the Red Ribbon Army is also seen to have a collection hidden in a hut on his floor in Muscle Tower. It is also revealed that Dr. Brief collects them, even though he is married; Bulma accidentally switches capsule cases with him and ends up seeing the magazines in one of the capsules in it during the General Blue Saga.

Krillin gave one of these to Roshi in order for him to take him as his pupil. Krillin had several more that Master Roshi found after Krillin fell through the Flying Nimbus. In "Until We Meet Again", Krillin berates Roshi for still reading them, only for Roshi to respond that Krillin reads them as well.

In his airship, Emperor Pilaf once showed dirty magazines to King Piccolo. However, only Animal-Type Earthlings were shown in it rather than Human-type Earthlings indicating dirty magazines featuring Animal-Type Earthlings exist as well as the ones that normally feature Human-type Earthlings (this makes sense given Earth is home to different types of Earthlings with presumably different tastes).

Old Kai also reads dirty magazines. As a matter of fact, one of Goku's first bribes to him was loaning him some of Master Roshi's magazines, much to Gohan shock and Shin's chagrin. However, he indicated during that time that he had no real need for them to be satisfied due to him using omniscient vision to watch girls play volleyball on the beach/strip down (depending on the version).

In Dragon Ball Super, after the third destructive shockwave produced by Goku and Beerus' Energy Clash, Old Kai shows Kibito Kai one of his Dirty magazines depicting a scantly clad blonde woman as a final goodbye (as he believes the universe is about to end), only for Kibito Kai to knock it away in anger to Old Kai's shock.

Video Game Appearances[]

In Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku, the magazines must be collected and returned to Roshi at the beginning of the game.

In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, a magazine can be seen laying on a table in front of Kame House in the first level's opening cutscene. The cover of said magazine cannot be seen, but with emulator tools, the game camera can be moved to see that the cover is, unsurprisingly, a nude woman (albeit blurry).

In Dragon Ball: Origins, Krillin uses the dirty magazines as a bribe to become Master Roshi's student, just like he did in the anime/manga.

In Dragon Ball: Origins 2, in the bonus level 3-5, Dr. Brief wants Bulma to retrieve the dirty magazine capsule Bulma left on General Blue's Camp island; it is revealed in this level that the magazines were found by Master Roshi, who hid them on the island because he can't read them at Kame House.

They appear under the title Naughty Book in Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors.

In Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, during the animated epilogue after Mira's defeat, Elder Kai can be seen reading a dirty magazine while walking around Conton City's Recreation Plaza. However, he is so focused on his book that the doesn't notice that Beerus is right in his path causing him to bump into the God of Destruction. Beerus notes he almost dropped his food and angrily wonders who it was before noticing it was Elder Kai and calms down, though he gets angry when Elder Kai grumbles about Beerus' presence still holding a grudge for Beerus sealing him inside the Z Sword, loud enough that Beerus is able to hear him. He prepares to destroy Elder Kai, though fortunately Whis defuses the situation by offering them some food which they both try.

In Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, certain characters can be occasionally seen reading Dirty magazines in various places. During Cell Saga Episode 2, Dr. Briefs' Treasured Mag is a Memorabilia Item that can be found inside the Capsule Corporation's atrium. If picked up by Goku, he will note the people in it are naked. The mag is a reference to Dr. Briefs' magazine collection that was accidentally discovered by Bulma during the General Blue Saga. Picking it up will unlock Dr. Briefs' Treasured Mag entry in the Z Encyclopedia and the Memorial Spot "Capsule Crisis" which explains the events involving Dr. Briefs' magazine collection in Dragon Ball.

Trivia[]

• A magazine that features males was among the dirty magazines Krillin gave to Master Roshi and the word "Homo" can be seen on it.
• Bulma is extremely embarrassed that her father collects them, despite the fact he is married.
  • In Origins 2, Bulma is even mortified by the idea of someone finding her father's dirty magazines that she returns to retrieve their capsule in a sub-level, and she is forced to search for it in bad weather for a long time before she finds it. However, unbeknownst to her, they were found by Master Roshi who apparently keeps them as his own "private" collection only to be angry when he can't find the capsule as he notes the magazines were the highest quality stuff he'd ever seen.
  • In Kakarot, Future Bulma's dislike for Dirty magazines has apparently intensified in adulthood as she becomes enraged when she finds Future Krillin and Future Master Roshi looking at a Dirty magazine pointing out their dream girls. When they try to cover it up with a flimsy excuse, she becomes so enraged that she proceeds to grab up their collections and stuff them into a capsule before throwing it into the ocean where it lands next to a shipwreck. The capsule sits there for several years until Future Trunks inadvertently finds it unaware of what it contains. However, Future Bulma remembers about the Old Capsule after having built the Capsule Detector that Future Trunks used to find it, causing her to race over to Kame House in her airplane to prevent Future Master Roshi from exposing her son to its contents out of fear that it could lead her son to become a pervert like Future Master Roshi despite the fact that he was an adult by that point.
  • In real life, it is not uncommon for married men to collect dirty magazines (at least before the raise of the internet which rendered dirty magazines for the most part obsolete).
  • In the same scene, Goku also expressed confusion about why the girls were naked and yet not taking baths, and also feeling sorry for them when he thought they were too poor to afford clothes, owing to his more innocent nature and thus not understanding what was actually going on in the magazine.
    • Goku himself has no sense of shame when it comes to being nude himself which is probably why he is more confused than shocked by their nudity. However, as he gets older, he does recognize that dirty magazines are perverted and recognizes perversion in others as he notes similarities between Master Roshi and Old Kai, even trying to bribe him with the promise of some of Master Roshi's magazines but Old Kai declines. However, Goku himself retains a pure heart free of perversion in addition to being married (In Dragon Ball Super, Goku himself notes he is attracted to Chi-Chi's feisty strong-willed personality) and having children.
• In the Funimation dub for Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, Bulma implies that Master Roshi's antics during the Hanami party were due to someone hiding Master Roshi's magazine collection and his going mad as a result, in order to cover up that he had gotten severely drunk during the party.

Gallery[]

Dirty magazines Ninja Murasaki's dirty magazines Goku reading dirty magazines Roshi asleep with a dirty magazine in The World's Strongest Roshi, asleep with a dirty magazine One of Master Roshi's dirty magazines Old Kai's dirty magazine Texture for the magazine in Budokai Pafu Pafu card

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