I honestly never seen Mr. Popo as a racist character. In a world full of humans and talking animals I just figured he was an alien.

Popo went Super Saiyan Blue before it was cool.

Everybody who's black never thought anything was racist with Mr.Popo. Most black folk i knew mostly associated Piccolo as a black character.

Mr popo is not even human

The blue colored popo hurts my eyes...

Blue Popo is horrible, lol. I'm glad it's only FUNimation dubbing it nowadays.

Blast you, 4Kids! You turned Mr. Popo into a smurf!

Because kids looked a Popo and Jynx and thought " These characters are perpetuating a racist stereotype from 40+ years ago". Clearly I myself was a stupid child for not see it and being mad.

#PoPosLifeMatters

Here in south america. It wasn't sensored, even, his voice has a indian accent

“Okay, I’ll bite, what the hell is this?”

Blue Mr Popo gave me a headache and plus he's too bright. Glad that some people stuck with the black Mr Popo. Genie is better off blue at least he's not that bright.

Man, I'm so glad here in Latin America we've got to see Anime uncensored (with some rare exceptions). I still remember when I was 14 and visited the US for the first time and realize that most (if not all) of the anime there was heavily censored. I was like, "what the heck happened to this scene... And that one... And that other one?!"

I didn't realize Mr popo was apparently an offensive stereotype until the internet became a thing. Up until then I thought he was a djinn inspired character. But that's me being European

Is Mr. Po Po even human? I never thought he was....

Vegeta: guess it’s just you and me now, black man. Mr popo: *turns blue*

Mr popo wasn't even a human. He's a genie.

In Brazil, Mr Satan is still Mr Satan

As a kid, I never once thought Popo was supposed to be a racial stereotype. He was just a funny looking character that was hella strong so if I got anything out of Popo, it was that appearances can be deceiving. I'm glad recent outings haven't been changing Popo. He just doesn't look right otherwise.

In Mexico no censore

Damn! They Jynxed him.

Any black folk around here think this is racist?

I'm glad I never saw the blue Mr. Popo on TV. It looks lazy and very poorly done.

Unbelievable that these people know fuck all about the mythologies these characters are based upon but claim to be culturally sensitive.

Let this be a lesson to all future parents:never judge a fictional character just by their appearance alone, and keep your politics out of our anime!

I love that NickToons kept Mr. Popo the same color as the uncut Kai version.

If something offends you stop watching it

This is so ridiculous

It's 4Kids what do you expect?

I freaking hate everyone who makes a fuzz saying Jinx is racist. mostly because it's EXTREMELY ignorant of the true inspirations of the character. she's made to resemble a Yama-uba. a Japanese Yoai that has no relation to black people whatsoever, but because AMERICANS think they're the only ones that matter, they instantly associated something that was supposed to be from Japanese folklore to their own racist interprations

Mr. Popo is the ultimate being in all of the multiverse.

I'm sorry, but that blue hue censoring just looks lazy -_-

Mr.Popo seems... Blue

hmm...at the end they have removed the only black person in DBZ

Blue Popo was assimilated by Lord Popo.

Well Popo hasn't smote us all yet, so he must approve of this video.

I never thought as Mr Popo as a racist character when I was younger, it was until someone told me that he was a racist stereotype, that guess I kinda saw what they meant, but I still didn't see him as a racist character. I forget, is he even human, with those ears of his? there's a talking pig and a cat after all, and I don't recall ever seeing someone else like him, or as dark as him. I always thought namekians as the black people for the dbz universe for some reason, despite there being regular black humans on the show, lol, I was a dumb kid.

United States people didn’t know the difference between cartoons and real life, they sensibility to stereotypes and fears to be racist ( that is something so stupid because it’s a racist country)... thank good in Mexico we got the anime without censorship and no stupid prejudices.

In Mexico no such censorship exsist of the original spanish dub. The old spanish version of the manga also didnt get censored. They later change for reasons even i dont know at least for the manga

Why America have so many sjw's?

I had great respect for the Guardian of the lookout , no matter the colour.

I would have liked an explanation as to why Akira Toriyama designed him to look this way. I read that Popo is designed after an ancient mythological god, not a racist stereotype. Also, Mr. Popo seems to be one of the most powerful characters in DB. He can seemingly handle anyone.

It is pointless to try to censor his appearance since there are so many Dragon Ball Xenoverse series player made Majin characters who look just like him. No one can escape Mister Popo in the end...just as no one can escape moral busy bodies. Block them from the Right and new ones pop up and attack from the Left.

Imagine seeing the one where he's blue first and then seeing that they changed him to be black instead.

The mantra of the 21st century; never miss an opportunity to be 'offended'

Mr popo isn’t a human he’s a deity anyways and he doesn’t speak in some racist stereotypical manner either. Although yes I do see the similarity to the old fashioned racist imagery I don’t think that was to Rita as intent

That blue edit Mr. Popo had in 4Kids' version looks hideous, IMO.

I remember Mr Popo in black in 1996 and 1997 when I was little boy and close to my early teens in that time. In blue what my youngest brother watch Dragon Ball Z Kai on TV, in my early 20's. I watch Dragon Ball Z Kai it's was different cut scenes and quickly than original from my time in the 90's.

Therapist: Blue Popo isn’t real. He can’t hurt you. Blue Popo:

Mr Popo is just the genius version from Alladin lamp in the complex fantasy world of Dragon ball ....

TEAM FOUR STARS POPO HATES BLUE POPO

I grew up watching Dragon Ball and I never found mr. popo offensive not one damn bit I just saw him as a little goofy but he was an alright character also that 4Kids censorship when they colored him over was an eyesore

Glad the real Mr Popo assimilated Blue Popo

More of these videos please

Why do people think its stereotype that having mr. Popo be his original color design. I mean, I grew up watch all Dragon Ball series. I mean come on people, we have sailor scots that have big eyes, ninjas with wiskers, sword fighting online game references, catching rare and nonexisted animals that get trapped in a ball, anime school girls, sad anime movies and shows (Clannad is a very sad one to me), psychotic boy with a black note book that kills anyone just by writing your name on the paper, and don't forget about Ghibli studios.

I hate censorship 😕

Mr popo Never gets any slack . In terms of censorship

Now you See mom I told you blue mister Popo existed

I find it extremely funny when the real bigoted and racist people see racial sterotypes everywhere. Had they done some research, they would know Jinx was made to mock Japanese fashion trends. Btw, here in Italy neither Mr Popo or Mr Satan were censored, though there was a bit of confusion with the original series, as King Piccolo here in the italian adaptation of the anime was called "Al Satan" for some reason, instead of "Grande Mago Piccolo" like in the manga (meaning "Great Wizard Piccolo", which could be a mistranslation of the "mao" part, confusing it for "maho" which means magic or magician/wizard).

I feel like censoring him brings attention to it. Nowadays we aren't taught stereotypes like the ones Mr Popo shows because we know that isn't right. We also don't think about these stereotypes anymore. Basically what I'm saying is no one really cares anymore because we don't even think about them as being stereotypes, but rather just the character design. Idk that's just my opinion

I don't mind Jynx was internationally changed purple early on, but I really hated the updated appearance for Virtual Console ports of Pokemon Snap and especially Pokemon Yellow. In Yellow the black on Jynx's face and hands are replaced with purple, giving it an additional color in its palette, making it the only Pokemon with the most colors for that port. It just looks ugly in a lazy way and ruins the limited color palette that game originally had, black, white, and two other colors. Gold, Silver and Crystal also changed Jynx's color for the original western release, but atleast it was neatly done sticking to just four colors. Though it did change the yellow in Jynx's hair to just white in order to change the face because of there being a color limit. The western palette of G,S&C is now used in the Japanese VC versions.

when i watched dragon ball z kai on nicktoons it was uncencored

bro my parents saw him and they were like "tf kinda minstrel cartoon u watchin"

Could they've picked a more obnoxious blue? Jinx at least looks good in purple

Toriyama predicted the "WAKE UP" meme

I'm proud to say that in my country (Argentina) We are so liberal about what's in our media that no manga that get's published here is censored in any way. That includes dragon ball in all it's uncensored glory

man they punch piccolo so hard that his pickle body is splatting out milk

But know the genie of aladin is offended, by the blue popo😂

3:25 IS THAT ICE CREAM COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH?

Omg. I'm surprised this emoji ☻ still exists. Such sensitivity.

Mister Popo in the Tagalog dub remained untouched, because Negrito people here are harmless. We Filipinos animated some of Dragon Ball, currently Super.

*I NEVER SAW HIM AS BLACK I THOUGHT HE WAS AN ALIEN AS A KID BUT AS A TEENAGER I THOUGHT HE WAS A GENIE WITH DARK SKIN BUT NEVER A BLACK MAN.*

Mr. Popo is so cool. I see him as an artistic inspiration of the Hopi Indian depictions of the Ant People who helped them learn how to create mud houses, live underground, forage, and store food for long periods of time. Such a cool story, def look into it! They strangely look just like Mr. Popo without the elvish ears. Super cool stuff.

hell yes I want more DBZ stuff. If there is any

As a black guy I had no issue at all with the black mr popo

You know what's b******* is that in the late 90s Jinx get censored and mr. Popo has been around since the 80s and doesn't get censored until after the series has been long over and the series has been released on VHS and DVD already. It's too late to make mr. Popo blue.

They screwed up Mr. Popo's character design. He is stated to be a type of god, and may get his power from absorbing surrounding light thereby making his skin EXTREMELY black since no visible light leaks out. I'm serious.

*insert TFS quote here*

It's obvious that the original character design was inspired by 'golly-wog' imagery (a lot of djinn-based art in the early-mid 1900's adopted this style as it was a lazy universal depiction of a black person) however the creator being Japanese (and in a time before the internet) would not have known the historical western context of such imagery as it was used in all sorts of household products and post-war advertising. It's just one of those accidental awkward situations, with no bad intent behind it, caused by our culture becoming more enlightened to the errors of history (which is always good thing). There are always elegant creative solutions to these problems, that can make the character and the show more interesting (without erasing him) if the writers ever wanted to do something about it. For example they could explore that fact that Popo is a Djinn and have other genie show up as antagonists, it could turn out that Popo is one of six cosmic entities that when fully together exist to end the multi-verse. Popo is the one defector that stops them from accomplishing their purpose. This could be a major saga and end up forcing Popo to reveal his true omnipotent (and more traditional-looking) Blue Djinn form, having adopted his current form as a disguise to hide from his past and vowing never to reveal himself as he considers himself a threat to all existence and that the other genie will discover him and collectively end all realities. The saga could end with Popo sacrificing himself to help defeat the other Djinn, however he is reincarnated (by the same all-powerful force that reincarnated Buu) as a cross between his favoured disguise and his true djinn form.

And Mr Popo said to Blue Popo... "Prepare to be assimilated"

In Italy, Piccolo Senior is called Al Satan! :D

Anybody here from Dorkly's newly uploaded DBZ video , things that don't make sense in DBZ?.

Pokmon? Did anyone proof read that article? Maybe they couldn't find the appostrofe key but were also too embarrased to leave the "e" without one, so they decided to exclude the "e" altogether xD

Aw cmon Mr. Popo isn't even human to begin with

When I was a kid I was him as some kind genius from a lamp or something, then again, this was all broad casted in Latin America, and I even watched it with black friends, and they never realized this was a racist stereotype, when we grew up and we both learnt English we talked about this, he himself being black said it was stupid, now I realize Americans think they are the center of the world

Damn!, that blue Popo was messy as hell!!..

People really need to stop getting their panties in a twist over characters having a black face and they need to stop saying having black is also using brown face makeup it's not the same thing goddammit.

I always liked Mr. Popo, specially in his TFS incarnation

Don't mess with him or you have to face the *PECKING ORDER*

What country are you from? In America we pronounce Z as "Zee" but outside the US they pronounce it as "Zed".

I thought as a kid me popo was a stone man or alien

Japan doesn't have the same historical and ongoing oppression and segregation of africans (or a history of actual blackface in media) so this isn't actually racist. That said, kids and moms (and , going by the comments, plenty of other people as well) aren't very good at understanding context so I think this instance of censorship is unfortunate but understandable on the part of the publishers.

IMAO ZED FIGHTERS XDDDDD

The reason Supers manga isn’t censored is because it’s technically unofficial and not by the manga writing and creation team.

Shouldn't there be a great distinction between a character being the color black and black face?

I've always hated how parents' for their children lead to these irrational and embarassing reactions. And censoring beer? Lol. I'm sure their kids have never seen them drinking before...

Mr. Popo is married to Jynx.

Trinston was here . . .

2:47 Followed which president?

. How’s it going