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In anime history, ‘Dragon Ball’ is the second best-selling comic, only below ‘One Piece’.
In 2020, the year of the pandemic, anime saw sales of up to $24 billion worldwide.
A survey conducted in Japan details that 64 percent of young people are more interested in anime.
A group of Workers at the “La Colonia” supermarket, located in Honduras, took on the task of creating a “Vegeta” using their own inventorybetween fruits, vegetables and other products.
We are a few days away from the release of a new movie of one of the most popular animes in history: next Thursday it opens, in Mexico, ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ and the fans have made all kinds of initiatives.
To mention an example, a few days ago the case of a young Peruvian who teaches the indigenous language Quechua, which is a family of languages spoken in countries such as Colombia, northern Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, using chapters from ‘Dragon Ball Z’inventiveness that has even earned him a significant number of followers.
In addition, based on the popularity of anime, various studies have been carried out in order to break down everything that encompasses the universe of characters such as “Goku”, “Vegeta”, “Gohan”, among many others.
There are even studies on this, such as one carried out by the Cadiz Universityin Spain, which reveal that 33.3 percent of people who have seen ‘Dragon Ball’ since childhood are more noble, are more attached to certain values, are more sociable, optimistic and intelligent.
Now, to this day it is known that ‘Dragon Ball’ is one of the best-selling anime in history, only below ‘One Piece’, which is the best-selling title.
This is what “Vegeta” looks like created with various products from the supermarket
Through social networks, on TikTok, a video circulates in which a group of workers from the La Colonia Supermarket, popular in regions such as Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, in Honduras, are seen creating a figure of “Vegeta” with fruits, vegetables, rice, among other products.
The video has collected the amount of 10 million reproductions and, to tell the truth, the employees have received several positive comments thanks to their creativity.
“From how beautiful it was, nobody is going to take the fruits”; “Definitely, it is an art”; “It kind of made me want to buy fruits and vegetables”; “That is called always doing things with love and dedication”; “That way they do make me want to go to the supermarket with my mom”; “These work teams are the ones worth having”; are some of the reactions of Internet users.
@lacoloniahn Get out of there Shenron! ??And what wish would you ask of the dragon balls? ? #Dragon Ball Z #dragonballsuper #dragonball #vegeta #fyp #foryou #for you #anime #fans #Supermarket #The colony #viral #fruits and vegetables #rice #foryoupage
Dragon Ball, as we have seen, is one of the most successful animated series, its popularity has spread throughout the world and, from various parts of the planet, there are fans who feel inspired by some of the anime characters.
Let us also remember that anime is one of the most popular industries today. To mention an example, for young people in Japan, anime is a very important part of their daily lives. According to an investigation by Dentsu, Among the 20-29 age group, 64 percent responded that they are interested in anime, while the corresponding figure for those aged 15 to 19 was 72.4 percent.
On the other hand, we are talking about the fact that, according to what the AJA (Association of Japanese Animation) reports, in 2020, the anime market was worth 24.23 billion dollars worldwide.
Needless to say, these types of cases represent great publicity for the brand in question (‘Dragonball’ in this case) and when we are only a few days away from the premiere of ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’the euphoria of the fans for “Goku” makes them turn to see initiatives such as that of the employees of the “La Colonia” supermarket.