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DemonBuffet
01/29/21 2:06:16 PM
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After the Cell Saga, Gohan couldve been written to be the new favorite of the series by being the stronger, and more mature version of Goku.
holy shit they fucked that up.

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Dark_SilverX
01/29/21 2:07:18 PM
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https://youtu.be/Q4jPVtzWTwU

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kage_53
01/29/21 2:08:39 PM
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That they did which is why the Buu Saga is the most debated saga in the entire DB universe and is considered the weakest in Z.
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Were_Wyrm
01/29/21 2:08:41 PM
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God forbid someone in the series got actual character development.

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Hayame Zero
01/29/21 2:11:29 PM
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That was the intention, but the fans didn't like it, so they just brought Goku back.

I think people in Japan had more of an emotional connection to Goku since they actually grew up with original Dragon Ball, as opposed to people outside of the country growing up with Gohan, considering DBZ was the bigger breakout hit.

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DarkChozoGhost
01/29/21 2:12:56 PM
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The Super manga has been treating him well. I hope that can hold out

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YourDrunkFather
01/29/21 2:13:03 PM
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Literally spent 3/4ths of Z building him up, then turned him into a useless loser who doesnt train

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Weezy_Tha_Don
01/29/21 2:14:45 PM
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Hayame Zero posted...
That was the intention, but the fans didn't like it, so they just brought Goku back.


pretty sure I remember hearing that this was not the case at all


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YoungMutual
01/29/21 2:15:03 PM
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He's not a violent fight obsessed brute, if anything it's Goku and Vegeta who are losers.

Maybe it's the half human heritage that made him see that there's more to life considering pretty much every saiyan son is sidelined

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KlRBEH
01/29/21 2:31:55 PM
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Gohan was originally supposed to take the reigns as the MC in the Buu Saga, and he did at the beginning. But he became so unpopular as a character that the Japanese Dragon Ball fans basically forced Toriyama to double back into making Goku the MC.

This kind of tells the whole story

https://dragonballworld.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Popularity_Polls

In the Cell Saga Gohan was the #1 most popular character and in the Buu Saga at the time of this poll (the chapter where Gohan loses to Super Buu) he fell to #6. Lmao FUTURE TRUNKS was #3 and he isn't even in the Buu Saga, imagine having the main character lower than a character that doesn't even appear in the current arc.


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Doe
01/29/21 2:34:41 PM
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People talk about 'built him up' and 'betrayed him' like literally every arc in DBZ is Toriyama flying by the seat of his pants and trying to find a way to end the story. Gohan killing Cell might as well be the end of the series. Anything else is WSJ yelling "THE PLEBS DESIRE MORE"

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Jeff AKA Snoopy
01/29/21 2:35:19 PM
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If they didn't write high-school Gohan to be such a Melvin I think it would have been fine.

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Questionmarktarius
01/29/21 2:35:59 PM
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Did Gohan ever learn to dodge?
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Doe
01/29/21 2:36:14 PM
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Also if Gohan actually went through with full training he would invalidate every other character in the cast. Hope you love Gohan and only Gohan lol

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HBOSS
01/29/21 2:43:36 PM
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tbh i thought goku was THE character in the series.

Gohan was cool and all but goku is legend.

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SPE
01/29/21 2:57:19 PM
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Wasnt he supposed to be the next main character but dragon ball fans didnt want it so the idea was abandoned ?

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KlRBEH
01/29/21 3:04:33 PM
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HBOSS posted...
tbh i thought goku was THE character in the series.

Gohan was cool and all but goku is legend.
Dragon Ball as a whole is obviously about Goku, but you can definitely argue that Gohan was the Co-MC throughout Dragon Ball Z.

-Saiyan Saga after Raditz is defeated the show primarily follows Gohan until Goku comes back but even afterwards Gohan still plays a major role in defeating Vegeta and technically is the one to defeat Vegeta in the end.

-The Namek Saga is primarily focused on Gohan/Krillin/Vegeta until Goku comes back.
Then Gohan and co fight Frieza for a while until Goku comes back again and it's just Goku vs Frieza for a while.

-The Android/Cell saga is the one that features Gohan the least, but to be fair it also features Goku the least as well until the middle of the Cell arc. One of the coolest things about the Android/Cell arc is that it's mainly carried by multiple characters (Trunks/Vegeta/Piccolo/ect.) until the end when it's clearly about Goku and eventually Gohan taking the reigns at the end.

-Then obviously Gohan is the clear MC in the beginning of the Buu Saga. When he's out of commission the lead role kind of shifts to Goten/Trunks but Gohan takes the lead back only to be permanently sidelined by Goku when he comes back to life.

Then it's not even a question whether or not Goku is the MC in GT/Super

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