Metalwario64 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 5:50 pm
Pan
is noticeably taller than Goku who I assume was wished back to his 11 year old body, with her being probably as tall as Goku was at 15. Saiyans apparently age slowly and get a huge growth spurt nearing adulthood so I can see people assuming the same with Pan and Bra.
Of course, I'm not suggesting anything other than I could see why people could assume Pan and Bra are older and the "10 years later" thing was the case. I know it's not myself.
Then again she is the daughter of Gohan, who, at 10 years old, was still taller than what Goku was at 12:
And looked like this at the age of 11:
Not to mention Chi Chi was also bigger than Goku in at 11 and that we don't know How Videl's growth was (Pan does resemble her mother a lot, keep that in mind) so due to all of these factors Pan's design is perfectly consistent, Goku is just smol.
Also remember that GT was made before Jaco established Goku's growth was the norm among the Saiyans, at any rate, even if you want to count that, Gohan and Pan are hybrids, so there's a possibility that they could differ from the pure Saiyan norm because of it.
Bra is the one that is weird because she is presented as being more of a full-on adolescent than Pan, who is just entering puberty and is still quite childish (Pan is watching baby cartoons while Bra goes shopping on her own), i think that, at the time, Bra's birth year was not specified, so the people making GT guessed her approximate age from how she looked in the ending of Dragon Ball, she looked and acted older than Pan so they designed her with this correlation in mind, i deep they intended for Pan to be 10 and Bra 13.
Other than Bra, which seems to be a discrepancy between subsequent sources and how she is presented during Dragon Ball's ending (nothing to blame on the conception of GT's timeframe) GT being 5 years later is perfectly consistent with what is actually shown, i am convinced that the 5 year gap was always the intent from the creators.