Anime The meaning of Kami-Sama

[SS5 Gogeta]

In school today I learned about the religions that people in Japan follow and one of them mentioned about worshipping god-like spirits named Kami. Kami's are worshipped and that people believe that they will protect them. So in db and dbz, Kami-Sama is actually considered the god of earth not the guardian of earth. That's the reason Yajirobe was skeptical when he heard that Kami-Sama was the creator of the dragonballs and that he could be met.

I'm just pointing this out because I made a thread about this and someone told me that Kami-sama is the guardian of earth not the god of it.

[Transtic Nerve]

Yes, Kami essentially means God, while Sama is just a suffix given to it pretainign to the meaning "master" or someone of higher authority than you.

[Manic Webb]

I saw something about The Kami on television once. It's interesting to know that Kami-sama in [i]Dragonball[/i] is supposed to be God. Of course, the whole "godness" thing just gets weird in DBZ, where Kami turns out to be the lowest ranked god in the entire series.

The "guardian" thing is a misnomer that came from the dub, because it'd seem a little weird for the characters to be more powerful than God. Plus it's a major religious reference, and that's a big no-no.

[Vegitto4]

Yeh, we dont want to get the insane religous mothers of the world up and angry enough to get the show cancelled now do we?[/sarcasm]