>Akira and his brother Krilin, who is two years younger, both took a liking to ice hockey, and their mother helped out with the SCL Tigers’ juniors. Akira and Krilin are not exactly typical Emmental names. The mother laughs. “My husband and I used to do karate intensively, he ran a karate studio and still gives trainings today, and we were fascinated by Japan.” Akira Toriyama is the author of the popular Japanese manga series “Dragonball,” which father Andreas read in French at the time and which also became a TV series. That’s how they came up with Akira.
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https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wir-telefonierten-nie-mit-skype-sonst-haetten-wir-alle-geweint-540966655100
by buerglermeister
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His power is over 9000
This makes me so happy
I follow MMA too and as much as we need him here for hockey, I can’t help but wonder how good he could be if he was a 6’5″ striker with a karate background. Wonderboy’s dad is his coach and that worked out really well, I think Lyoto Machida’s dad coached him at least some too. Nothing like a big guy wheel kick KO, except perhaps a big guy stealing series from the net.
Thats actually so cool. Your classic die hard DBZ fans. You should post this in r/hockey
I guess its not mentioned in the text but Krilin is also the name of a main character in Dragon Ball
Does he have a nose?
Please tell me he wore number 18
Was he born after DBZ? Did they still want to name him after watching Krillin get jumped by the saibaman or just whipped in general?
Must be big fans of the destructo disc.
DB Krillin was a bro though. Easy to see why Schmid Senior liked the character!
I have a reason to support the Schmid family even more.
Legendary weeb behavior
Very interesting. Always thought it was an cool name but unexpected
Is there anything that isnāt totally awesome about Akira?
Iām mainly impressed the dad managed to convince the mom to go ahead with the names
I thought he was named after the film āAkiraā, but thatās also really cool.
Weeb parents raising a professional athlete, who wouldāve thought.
Even more reasons to keep this guy forever. Cha la, head cha la!
Itās even tougher that heās named for toryima and not the movie Akira. Gonna be fun tonight we need to lend our energy to Akira and hope Jack goes super saiyan.
Hockey and weebery. A glorious combo
All hail our weeb goalie and his little brother!
Sincerely, a fellow weeb
Iām so fucking here for this!
Weeb ass family… I love it.