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FrozenBananas posted...

But the Japanese culture has always been ahead of the US...

and even in the 90s we knew what Millennials were, we just didnt have a term for it yet...

Except until the term came out, there wasn't anything defining it and the early 90s was too early to claim broad trends because the oldest millennials under the most liberal definition of the term would have been in their pre-teens (the Cell saga started in 1993 and, from a cultural standpoint, those born prior to 1984 are sometimes viewed as xellennials, a transitional generation between gen x and gen y). And that's excluding the fact that millennials as a trend aren't necessarily an Asian thing at all. These trends were designed more about Western culture.

FrozenBananas posted...

I saw adults complaining about the laziness of the generation as early as 1998-2000

The Cell Saga had its manga volume come out in 1993, it presumably ran in a shonen magazine a year prior to that, and was planned probably a year or two before that (and having Gohan replace Goku was foreshadowed since the start of DBZ in 1989). Even if you ignore xellennials, the oldest millennial would have only been 10 or 11 when it was planned out.

Teen Gohan was also introduced in a volume in 1993 which, again, would have compiled something that ran earlier than that and would have needed to be planned prior to that.

LinkPizza posted...

Yeah. I watched a video or confirmed fan theories of Dragonball Z. That was one of them. About how Gohan was set to take the lead. And then, they decided to not go through with it...

That was kinda obvious from the get-go and unrelated to the millennials claim

FrozenBananas posted...

But then in the next saga (Buu saga), hes literally just a lazy teenager thats been neglecting his training in order to hang out with his high school gf and be the cool kid in school. He literally does nothing in this saga and cant come close to competing with Buu, Goku or even Vegeta to be honest

...because Goku had been dead since the end of the Cell saga, leaving Chichi -- who never wanted her son to take up fighting and wasn't a competent fighter herself -- in charge of his development. Chichi didn't want Gohan fighting and wanted him to live a normal life. Conversely, Goku mostly just trained and fought while he was dead. Vegeta has only ever just trained. As for Buu, his powers just allowed him to become absurdly strong because he could absorb other fighters.

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