How do you feel about this Gohan/Yamcha look similar fad?

[precita]

The casuals all throughout the internet keep linking Gohan to Yamcha over and over, joking how Gohan might be Yamcha's son instead due to the similarities:



and



All of a sudden this meme is everywhere. Its like the new, "Krillin is dead again!" or "Yamcha sux!!!!11!11111" meme's the casual spread through the internet.

What do you think?

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Honestly, it annoys the piss out of me any time I see it. Gohan doesn't "look like Yamcha" (and certainly isn't his secret offspring), he looks like a dozen or more Toriyama characters. The man loves to recycle design elements and has been doing so since before Dr. Slump.

So, for the most part, I just try to ignore it and stay away from places it would be seen more commonly..

[Vijay]

This reinforces the unknown truth that Super's Gohan has been pre-destined to suffer the same fate as Yamucha.

In terms of relevance & left in the dust thing. The more I come across these memes, the more it convinces me of the hunch

@DevilsCorpse

I completly disagree on Toriyama "recycling" designs part. Toriyama may not be a great story-teller, but I'll be darned if his designs aren't original & distinct in anime history

Reason being you can't pinpoint one character to looking EXACTLY as another character in DragonBa.

Unlike FMAB or Inuyasha. You have Hawkeye lookalike almost everywhere. To say nothin about how Kagome & Kikyo designs being "recycled" with even random filler, side characters lookin like them

[Cypher]

Probably just another way for non-fans to deride something the popularity of which they cannot/ will not understand, and of which they refuse to approve. Sad, really, but then these sorts of meme-things always are to some extent.

But to say Toriyama doesn't recycle designs is clearly inaccurate given all the evidence.

[VegettoEX]

Reason being you can't pinpoint one character to looking EXACTLY as another character in DragonBa.

No, but you can do it for virtually any other Toriyama series. He's flat-out acknowledged how he's stolen character designs from previous series to use wholesale in Dragon Ball.

Part of the problem here is the shortsightedness with focusing exactly on Dragon Ball. OK, so some of Gohan's looks are similar to Yamcha's. Take a step back. Yamcha himself is just a carbon-copy of Tsun Tsukutsun from Dr. Slump.

There are all the obvious other examples people point to (God in Dr. Slump -> the Turtle Sage in Dragon Ball; Dabra in Dragon Ball -> the devil in Sandland), but the list truly does go on and on and on.

[DBZAOTA482]

There's definitely something going on between Yamcha and Chi-Chi. I mean, Gohan also has Chi-Chi's skin and hair color on top of styling it similar to Yamcha's.

[Lord Beerus]

This reinforces the unknown truth that Super's Gohan has been pre-destined to suffer the same fate as Yamucha.

Not it doesn't. There is no "unknown truth" about what will lie ahead for Gohan in terms of plot relevance. He'll become relevant to the plot when he needs to be. Just like every other character.

[Silver Sinspawn]

This isn't new though, it's been talked about since people were still making Over 9000 memes, or Krillin dying jokes.

[Captain Strawberry]

Gohan looking like Yamcha is an honor. :p

[Pantalones]

I don't mind the "Gohan looks kinda like Yamcha" thing nearly as much as I mind the term "casuals," especially when used in that obnoxious dismissive I'm-better-than-these-people-because-I-say-so sort of way. Which seems to be the only sense the word "casual" is ever used anymore on the Internet. Think it's about time to retire that word, at least when used in reference to fans of a thing/people who play a video game/etc. rather than like... clothes or something.

(And yeah, comparing Gohan to Yamcha is not at all new. Goten too -- I remember the "what if he's secretly Yamcha's kid rather than Goku's" thing being said about Goten in the past, what with him being born while Goku was dead and all.)

[Cursemark505]

This reinforces the unknown truth that Super's Gohan has been pre-destined to suffer the same fate as Yamucha.

In terms of relevance & left in the dust thing. The more I come across these memes, the more it convinces me of the hunch

@DevilsCorpse

I completly disagree on Toriyama "recycling" designs part. Toriyama may not be a great story-teller, but I'll be darned if his designs aren't original & distinct in anime history

Reason being you can't pinpoint one character to looking EXACTLY as another character in DragonBa.

Unlike FMAB or Inuyasha. You have Hawkeye lookalike almost everywhere. To say nothin about how Kagome & Kikyo designs being "recycled" with even random filler, side characters lookin like them

That's clearly false.
a lot characters in Dragon ball look exactly alike. They share the exact same face & body types.
The Saiyan characters are mostly clones of each other, especially when they turn super saiyan. Most of the females have the same structure.The only thing that distinguishes a lot of these characters is the hair.

[Marjo]

I find it quite hilarious.

[Kunzait_83]

Reason being you can't pinpoint one character to looking EXACTLY as another character in DragonBa.

No, but you can do it for virtually any other Toriyama series. He's flat-out acknowledged how he's stolen character designs from previous series to use wholesale in Dragon Ball.

Part of the problem here is the shortsightedness with focusing exactly on Dragon Ball. OK, so some of Gohan's looks are similar to Yamcha's. Take a step back. Yamcha himself is just a carbon-copy of Tsun Tsukutsun from Dr. Slump.

There are all the obvious other examples people point to (God in Dr. Slump -> the Turtle Sage in Dragon Ball; Dabra in Dragon Ball -> the devil in Sandland), but the list truly does go on and on and on.

Or one of my personal favorites:

Gohan looking like Yamcha is an honor. :p

...for which one?

[MozillaVulpix]

I think it's absolutely stupid. Gohan and Yamcha are the two male characters in DB that change their hairstyle often - of COURSE there'd be overlap!

Not to mention the people who say it's "proof" Gohan is going to have the same role in the plot as Yamcha. As someone who wants to be hopeful Gohan will be somewhat relevant, this just annoys me.

[precita]

To be fair Gohan and Yamcha do have the most similar hairstyles of any other characters who aren't related. I mean besides Goten looking like Goku, what two characters had the same amount of haircuts in this many designs?

[Xeztin]

Let's give the devil his due and say Gohan is Yamcha's son. So... How do we explain the tail?

[Captain Strawberry]

Reason being you can't pinpoint one character to looking EXACTLY as another character in DragonBa.

Gohan looking like Yamcha is an honor. :p

...for which one?

The long haired one

[IDreamtIWasABee]

Drawing room theories and fun aside, Gohan does look too much like Yamcha in much of the Boo saga. Not because Yamcha's got a bad design, but because Gohan's waaay too buff for a fey, bookish guy, even as a teenager. The extreme reversal in RoF isn't an improvement, but I don't think either approach does him justice.

[Beerus-sama]

Let's give the devil his due and say Gohan is Yamcha's son. So... How do we explain the tail?

He glued it with Super Glue and he could move it since it got connected to his spine somehow
Thats why it was so easy for Piccolo to pull it out from him

[Theophrastus]

When the very first promotional image(s) came out for Resurrection F, I legit thought that tracksuit Gohan was Yamcha until someone else told me that it was actually Gohan.

Wasn't ever really conscious of their visual similarity until that happened.