[ripdog]

This sort of nitpicking really isn't appropriate for this time and place. It comes off as criticism of Dragon Ball for being aimed at boys, though I understand you did not actually intend that.

A mourning thread is not the place to start arguments about technicalities.

[alephnan]

> It comes off as criticism of Dragon Ball for being aimed at boys, though I understand you did not actually intend that.

You're right. It was not a criticism nor value judgement of Dragon Ball, Toriyama Akira, nor Japan.

> nitpicking

You're right. It was a semantic nitpicking of OP's claim of universal transcendence.

> A mourning thread is not the place to start arguments about technicalities.

I agree with you in principal, but HN had no qualms starting arguments about technicalities and non-technicalities when it came to other mourning threads. Recently, there was a nobel nominee where more then half the comments were criticism. Things get especially tribal and protectionist whenever Japan and Japanese pop culture is involved.

[Kamq]

> You're right. It was a semantic nitpicking of OP's claim of universal transcendence.

Here's the thing about nitpicking in a high emotion thread. You have to be completely correct if you don't want to be piled on... and especially here, you aren't.

The OP didn't make a claim of universal transcendence, they listed specific categories (cultures, languages, and generations) that the work transcends. Categories that most works don't transcend. This is inherently praise for the author.

Your bringing up of a separate category that it doesn't transcend when there was no original claim that it transcended this category is either off topic, or a criticism.