The Kamehameha was introduced in Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga and anime, created by Master Roshi and made iconic as Goku's signature technique. The slow, shouted name became inseparable from the beam itself and spread far beyond the series through games, parodies, and early internet soundboards. Like other shouted anime attacks such as Za Warudo, it survived as a meme shorthand for charging up overwhelming power. Its familiarity across generations keeps it in constant rotation for edits and reaction videos.