It makes sense to think that as the years go by, and as a franchise grows, there are more things to control. If someone had to manage such a huge brand “Dragon Ball” he would surely have problems giving consistency with all the facts past and what is to come. What is not acceptable to many fans is that its own author has neglected his work so muchand that we find inconsistencies as a result of omissions every two steps.
Akira Toriyama’s Long Career With Dragon Ball Leads To Author’s Omissions
Akira Toriyama it already takes over 30 years caring for and shaping what was his masterpiece and catapulted him into manga and anime history. “Dragon Ball” is about to turn 40, and that’s why we see promotional campaigns like the recreation of their manga covers. All this time we’ve had four long seasons and more than a dozen filmswhere things have become more and more complex, and its author, with now almost 70 years old, recognize a bit of oblivion which ended up shaping what we know today.
To this day, the series is still more alive than ever with “Dragon Ball Super”but more than one will have noticed inconsistencies that happened in its episodes: missing characters, disproportions of power, and many other things that are now left in charge Toyotarōwho, by order of Toriyama has the daunting task of continuing to maintain success after so many years. And all these inconsistencies are not new, since its creator has already recognized in the past some of his omissions.
Akira Toriyama forgot the existence of Super Saiyan 3
Do you know why he Super Saiyajin 2 Was it a bit like the first? easy, because Toriyama forgot there was a Super Saiyan 3, and merged the previous two into one. This is how he acknowledged, in an interview for V jumpnot taking notes on what I was drawing:
“No, that’s why I forgot a lot of things. If I hadn’t forgotten these ideas, I wouldn’t be able to create new ones. Do you remember Super Saiyan 3? I completely forgot and I thought it was Super Saiyan 2, even though I made them myself.”
Launch disappeared from Dragon Ball
But the thing doesn’t end there, since his memory errors have come to affect even to certain characters. If the first season of “Dragon Ball”it was to have a humorous tone which would then be lost the surname Z. During the first episodes of the series, certain characters made an appearance which later had no continuity in the future of the brand.
Many of them, like Aralehave been intentionally removed in order to provide you with a better more serious to the series in view of the arrival of Saiyans on Earth. But others like Launch fell into a distant corner of the mind of Toriyama. Thanks to comics the cartoonist is known to have made the mistake of removing her from campus, although later he would remember her and be introduced in the epilogue to the life of Ten Shin Han as his girlfriend.
What is clear is that the time has come to make way for new generations, including the promising Toyotarō. There are many other authors like Francisco Ibanez who, although older, knew how to better preserve their works and give them more coherence. It is clear that the dimensions he has acquired “Dragon Ball” make it difficult for Toriyama continue to masterfully manage all its elements. Right now your disciple is doing a great job, and “Dragon Ball Super” it’s in its best state. The birth of goku and company they will always answer to their father’s hands, and that’s something fans will never forget.
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