If you ever asked yourself why Son Gohan went from being the perfect successor of Son Goku to a guy with ridiculous and potential costume in “Dragon Ball Z“now we have the official answer: author Akira Toriyama simply got bored of him.
During a recent interview, the former “Dragon Ball”, Kazuhiko Torishima, Yu Kondo and Fuyuto Takeda, told some secrets about Toriyama's creative process. According to a shared translation in networks, the author did not neglect Gohan's story in high school because fans were hating her at the time, but because he stopped being interested.
After the intense Cell saga, Toriyama wanted to do something more relaxed and fun, as in the first days of “Dragon Ball” or “Dr. Slump ”. Thus was born the idea of the great Saiyaman, with Gohan doing foolish while trying to lead a normal life. But the problem was that drawing school stages full of characters took too much time and effort, and as Toriyama had the habit of abandoning any idea that did not convince him at all, there was the story of the teenage Gohan.
For years, fans believed that Toriyama took Gohan's prominence because his popularity had collapsedespecially after the Majin Buu saga seemed to be much weaker than when he defeated Cell himself. But in reality, it seems that Toriyama admitted in his time that Gohan never fit all in the role of the protagonist. Unlike Goku, who was born to fight, Gohan was always pushed to be a warrior without really wanting it.
Today, the debate is still alive. The “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero” film tried to return some shine to Gohan's character, but “Dragon Ball Daima” directly left him out of history again. It seems that, for better or worse, Gohan could never recover the place that, in the opinion of many, had won towards the end of the mythical Cell saga.
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