Chi-Chi's Personality In The Majin Boo Saga

Piccolo Daimao · Post by **Piccolo Daimao** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:29 am

Ever since the beginning of Dragon Ball Z, Chi-Chi has always been against Son Gohan fighting, and is annoyed at Son Goku for making him fight and such.

But later in the Majin Boo Saga, Son Goten mentions that he has been sparring with Chi-Chi. There's a scene which follows, which is only featured in the anime. Gohan thinks about how Chi-Chi has always had a harsh attitude towards him fighting, and that maybe Goku's death is the reason that her attitude has changed about her sons fighting.

This certainly seems to be the case, as I, for one, notice Chi-Chi's changed personality in the Majin Boo Saga. She no longer objects to Gohan's training for the tournament (although this was mainly because of the prize Zeni award), nor does she have any objections to Goten training to battle Majin Boo and entering the Tenkaichi Budokais at the beginning of the Majin Boo Saga and the end of Z. It seems that now, she realizes that fighting to protect the Earth are more important than studies. Being without a husband who has died twice for 7 years can affect someone.

ssjcj · Post by **ssjcj** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:01 am

I always thought her attitude change from Gohan to Goten was strange. As someone who was so focused on Gohan's studies, it seems that she gives up on Goten a little bit. My thoughts are that, maybe, we just didn't see her being strict to Goten.

Another point which was touched on was Goten being allowed to train in the R.O.S.A.T. Chi Chi did allow Gohan to go to Namek. So you could argue there was just less emphasis put on Chi Chi's parenting rather than anything else.

jjgp1112 · Post by **jjgp1112** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:22 am

ssjcj wrote:I always thought her attitude change from Gohan to Goten was strange. As someone who was so focused on Gohan's studies, it seems that she gives up on Goten a little bit. My thoughts are that, maybe, we just didn't see her being strict to Goten.

Another point which was touched on was Goten being allowed to train in the R.O.S.A.T. Chi Chi did allow Gohan to go to Namek. So you could argue there was just less emphasis put on Chi Chi's parenting rather than anything else.

But Gohan had to yell at Chi-Chi to convince her to let him go to Namek.

Bussani · Post by **Bussani** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:52 am

She always wanted Gohan to be a scholar. By the Buu saga he'd been working on that without fail for 7 years. I guess she was able to cut him some slack, especially with the zeni prize and all.

She was never as strict with Goten. Let me tell you, as an older sibling myself, that this is quite realistic. Parents never seem to be as strict with their second child as they were with their first.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:38 pm

She realized the best she could hope for with Goten was that he didn't shove more than three crayons up his nose every day.

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 3:05 pm

Chichi isn't against Gohan and Goten learning the basics, just not at the age of 4 and letting fighting be the only thing they think about. Meanwhile I think the fact that Goten being a Goku clone helped her realize that constant studying was not the right lifestyle for him, a fact she may have accepted even more easily with Goku being dead.

SSj_Rambo · Post by **SSj_Rambo** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:20 pm

Well at that the point of the series, Chi Chi knew that Gohan could pretty much hold his own with anybody on the planet. That's where I think a lot of her worries went away.