There's no anime hero as iconic as Dragon Ball 's Goku. From debuting as a mysterious, tailed boy in the pages of Shōnen Jump, to acting as the cultural ambassador at the Olympic Games and having ...

Such is the case with Goku Black’s big return in the spin-off series, which saw Zamasu’s alter-ego unveiling a transformation that is none as Super Saiyan 3 Rose.

But as major as this is, it isn’t Black people’s first entrance into anime, a style of Japanese film and television animation. In fact, the two have a long history together.

The Goku mods for Black Myth, of which there are two so far, swap the Super Saiyan in for Sun Wukong. Both are by Nexus Mods user norskpl and the first one swaps in a 2D-looking Goku model for the ...

In this segment from June 2018, we discuss Black representations in Japanese manga and anime with William Bridges IV. He is assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester.