Man can y'all nikkas stop pushing this shyt? How many times have I had to debunk the whole "Fans complaining put Goku back in the top spot" shyt on this damn board
. This needs to be stickied:
Just like that DB was supposed to end at Frieza shyt, it's one of those unsubstantiated rumors that's been circling around so much that people assume it's true. Only time Toriyama's mentioned being influenced by fans was keeping Vegeta around.
Hell, at the beginning of the Buu saga Gohan was actually at the top of the fan popularity polls ahead of Goku!
Because of the cell games. Are we going to deny that Gohan wasn't popular because of it?
Like I said, execution of the ideas and trying to recreate Dragonball hurt the product. Fans were complaining, he wasn't even in the top 5 most popular characters when he was fighting Super Buu. Piccolo was though and he played volleyball.
The Saiyaman arc was useless
And you're going to tell me he didn't train once after promising his dad he would hold it down? After Vegeta quit training. When he's the strongest? He's been known to disobey Chi-Chi before so what's the excuse here?
The arc started wrong and it ended wrong.
Gotenks and Piccolo being absorbed would have caused moral conflict because he would have to kill them all to win.
But no, Vegeta and Kakarot come back to life
Toriyama can't write personalities if they aren't hating or jealous of someone or something. That's why Gohan's story failed. He had a spark with Dragonball but couldn't channel it when he needed.