rapmastermind;7639993 said:
I like the new look for Goku & Vegeta, not so much Gohan tho SMMFH LOLOLOLOL. Gohan looks like Akira Toriyama now LOLOLOLOL.
Peep the resemblance:
Something to note about Akira Toriyama, he was vicariously living thru Gohan early on in his career. If you look at the new pics of Gohan today he almost resembles AT. Another thing, Goku and Gohan's relationship is the relationship AT wanted with his own father. He wanted to end DBZ with Gohan surpassing his father and being the star. He said in an interview that his own father was a lot like Vegeta, who didn't want him to become a bum writing cartoons/manga like many of his time were. You gotta remember it was the 70s and manga was nothing like it was today. He wanted his son to excel at sports and school to become a scholar - something he wasn't good at nor had a passion for (just like Gohan LOLOL). His life was writing. Future Trunks & Vegeta were more like how AT and his dad were.
Personally I think the reason why he made it so hard for Vegeta was b/c of some resentment towards his old man. To let Vegeta win in some ways meant to give his own father a boost. It's interesting, b/c for AT, proving his dad wrong was his motivation. Dragonball didn't take off the way he wanted and was a commercial failure but creative success. We almost didn't even get a DBZ b/c it didn't take off the way he wanted. He was going to originally stop DBZ at the Frieza saga until he got a radical idea to take things to the next level. Dragonball Z was his magnum opus and I'm glad he never stopped and kept writing. AT helped morph a lot of childhoods with memories and great storytelling.
