"Ignored" is probably the wrong word. Odds are, he simply forgot.GS7X7 wrote:He ignored the whole "Ten's an alien" thing from the Daizenshuu.
Huh, guess maybe Ten isn't an alien then? Then again there is ZERO evidence or allusion to him being an alien anywhere in the anime/manga series.
Anyway, that interview is from about ten years back, and since then we've had more guides and whatnot come out and repeat the whole "Tenshinhan's descended from the Three-Eyed Clan" thing, so it's not been discarded. Ultimately it's up to you what you want to accept, but fitting Toriyama's comment from that interview together with the "descended from aliens" thing is a piece of cake compared to trying to reconcile Toriyama's two different accounts of where Kaioshins come from, or fitting his brand new origin for Boo into what we're told in the series itself.
Also, we've been focusing on the "third eye" bit, but it needs to be stressed that the "descended from aliens" idea is presented primarily as an explanation for why Tenshinhan can grow extra arms and split into four people. The guides say those are techniques Tenshinhan inherited from his Three-Eyed Clan forebears, but amusingly enough they never explicitly say his alien ancestry is where his third eye comes from, presumably because it's too obvious to spell out.
(And finally, people keep phrasing it as "Tenshinhan's an alien", when the actual idea is that he's distantly descended from aliens. He didn't drop off a spaceship like Goku or Katatz Junior. Rather, some Nth-great grandparent of his got frisky with a three-eyed, arm-sprouting visitor to Earth, and he inherited a few odd traits as a result. There's no reason to think that he or anyone else now living has any knowledge of his ancestry, and there's no point in the main story where it would have made sense to bring it up, hence its status as a bonus tidbit included in the guides. Again, you don't have to accept the idea, but let's all be clear on what the idea actually is.)
