Now that I think about it, the series is actually remarkably tame when it comes to fanservice like that, Bulma was part of the team since day one even if she wasn't a fighter, and to my count we've seen Goku naked way more than her.
She was in a playboy bunny outfit and showed her ass when she flashed Roshi in the first volume but for the most part yeah she wasn't really used for fan service in the original manga.
Which is funny because Bulma is quite progressive in being a CEO, a scientist, and a mom even with her vanity still intact. Guess girlbosses just aren't allowed to be flirty.
They're strong and wildly independent and don't need no man
I know Goku has never technically beaten Vegeta straight up, but I don't think Goku's coming in second in the grand scheme of things.
I thought Goku had to train to get where he was. There was even a point to where Bardock was stunned at his low power level.
Well yeah, his kid is technically the strongest being in the universe but he's more interested in books than fighting. To become super sayian for the first time, Goku just had to become very very mad... and he was supposed to be the only one until Toriyama's editor threatened him with a katana.
In games, Galick Gun is faster and the Kamehameha is stronger.
I always found it endearing and in character for someone like Gohan to like henshin heroes. Outside of saving the Earth (and anime filler) Gohan lived a basically isolated childhood. That along with Chi-chi's overemphasis on studying and Gohan would've never learned what was "cool" for a 17 year old. He would've fixated with one of the few outlets Chi-chi would've allowed which was cheesy do-gooders in tokusatsu media. I couldn't tell you where I first saw it, but I also like the fan theory that Goku would've snuck in comic super heroes in between all the books Chi-chi expected him to study.
From what I remember of DBZA, they very rarely touched upon all the edits that the English dub(s) had done. A lot of the humor from YGOA stems from changes in the 4kids dub. Shadow realm, fate of the world over card games, invisible guns, etc all originate from the 4kids dub. YGO is silly, but the 4kids dub did it (and many other anime for that matter) no favors. If they didn't like poking fun at the series, TFS should've focused on the dumb localizations. The problem was that A LOT of people have a huge fondness for those changes. Lots of people like the changes in the YGO dub but once they learn about it, rarely will anyone will tell you that they made the anime better or have a problem mocking them.
There's this weird thing that a lot "woke fans" (for lack of better term) do where they act very offended that female characters aren't made physically super strong in series where the conflict resolution is primarily resolved via violence. Personally, I think it's actually far more sexist to only see the worth in female characters when compared to their male counterparts. Bulma has already been brought up but she's the prime example. She's smarter than all the male cast but isn't a flawless. She can be vain and shallow but she ultimately cares a lot about her friends and family. She's better written and more well rounded than modern girlbosses. She's also continuously involved in the main story in some way or another. She gets better treatment than actual Z Fighers like Yamcha or Tien.
Goten and Trunks go Super Saiyan as kids without any real effort or trauma. Things which were once meta defining eventually become afterthoughts.
I think only HFIL and the cargo plane (where the cargo was people) were brought up in that regard.
It's far easier to learn a technique that's effective and easy to learn from a demonstration than invent the same thing from basically the ground up.
Don't say that around here. I did in the DBZ thread and it was as if I had insulted people's families.
Vegeta does posit in his first appearance that unions between humans and Saiyans produce powerful hybrids. It's still silly, though, when even Gohan had to work hard for SSJ 1.
Eh, I’d say things are more chill around here.
I'll do you one better and point out that Trunks had to work hard for SSJ 1, at an older age, in the future timeline.
