The intention of this thesis is to analyze the representations of masculinity in the anime series Dragon Ball Z as it aired on Cartoon Network's programming block Toonami, specifically the nature in which they were framed and how oppositional interpretations in the fandom became prevalent as a result. The series emphasizes the evolution of its central characters Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan into performing a sensitive masculinity, but there are a prevalence of images in the series that discredit this. Similarly, the way the series was advertised on Toonami placed emphasis on images of superficial violence and reinforced the masculinity that the series was attempting to move beyond. Understanding the ways fans have interpreted Dragon Ball Z on Toonami helps reveal that there is much more to a media text's influence than its themes and representations of gender.

The aim of this study is to analyze whether or not the translation of shōnen manga, a subset of Japanese comics, cannot be done into English while maintaining the complete original intent and meaning of the work in its source language. This was done through a survey asking both native Japanese speakers and non-native Japanese speakers to compare panels from both the Japanese and English versions of the manga Dragon Ball, and through their responses strengthening the hypothesis that the inherent meaning between the two versions did indeed end up feeling different. The main differences cited were based partly on yakuwarigo, so-called "role language", and that there were inherent implications in the Japanese speech patterns that were not accurately conveyed in the English translation, thereby leading to some loss of context between the two versions, making the impressions of the characters differ in some areas. Hence, the results of this study accentuate that some aspects of Dragon Ball will be lost in translation.

Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-05-24T13:24:48Z No. of bitstreams: 3 André Luiz Souza da Silva parte 3.pdf: 5744284 bytes, checksum: 77cfea20d0b62d21bb28bdaa33cd07f2 (MD5) André Luiz Souza da Silva parte 2.pdf: 6279094 bytes, checksum: 2a34abd3bde2217525dbb539358ec3f9 (MD5) André Luiz Souza da Silva parte 1.pdf: 5919305 bytes, checksum: 69221622cebd08abc45a450f9c75de32 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T13:24:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 André Luiz Souza da Silva parte 3.pdf: 5744284 bytes, checksum: 77cfea20d0b62d21bb28bdaa33cd07f2 (MD5) André Luiz Souza da Silva parte 2.pdf: 6279094 bytes, checksum: 2a34abd3bde2217525dbb539358ec3f9 (MD5) André Luiz Souza da Silva parte 1.pdf: 5919305 bytes, checksum: 69221622cebd08abc45a450f9c75de32 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / A presente dissertação, intitulada O herói na forma e no conteúdo: análise textual do mangá Dragon Ball e Dragon Ball Z, objetiva averiguar os aspectos narrativos que compõem o mangá ao longo dessa série, verificando o papel do herói e a sua relação com os demais personagens. Para isso, a investigação analisa os aspectos plásticos do herói no contexto da economia narrativa geral dos quadrinhos. O objetivo é ponderar e realçar certos aspectos de ordem morfológica e das ações narrativas entre o herói do mangá e o herói das comics, partindo do pressuposto de que o conceito de mangá deve ganhar uma amplitude que não se restrinja à sua origem de produção. Portanto, a nossa proposta é pautada na análise interna dos mangás, tendo em vista não só a distribuição das imagens no espaço das páginas, como também a construção da figura do herói. / Salvador