If a different mangaka wrote Dragon Ball

[SaiyamanMS]

If Kazuki Takahashi, the author of Yu-Gi-Oh!, wrote Dragon Ball, then Dragon Ball GT would be about kung fu on motorcycles.

[dae428]

If Hirohiko Araki created Dragon Ball... (warning massive spoilers for people who have not read Jojo‘s Bizarre Adventures or Dragon Ball)

Spoiler:

Part 1- The series would first start off in England with Mutaito as the main protagonist except he would probably be a lot more muscular and younger. Eventually he would get married and have a son who would be Muten Roshi and he train a young Muten Roshi in martial arts. In this version Piccolo Daimaou would be Mutaito‘s evil counter part instead of Kami‘s. After Mutaito encounters some strange mystical mask and wears it Piccolo emerges out of Mutaito and for some reason he would be a vampire. Eventually the two would have a fight to the death with Piccolo trying to fuse back with Mutaito as the dominant personality. The two fight to the death as a tearful and young Muten Roshi carries on the martial arts legacy of Mutaito.
Part 2 - Muten Roshi would then become the main protagonist of the series and the focus would be placed on Muten Roshi finding out that who created the mask that caused Piccolo to split from Mutaito. Roshi is also now in America. The arc would end as Muten Roshi defeats the creator of the mask and he would eventually find love and stuff and get a kid named Son Gohan. Also for reason everybody looks absolutely FABULOUS!!!
Part 3 - Years would pass and a now old Muten Roshi would travel to Tokyo where he meets a teenage Goku who has become a bit of a wild rebel. Apparently Son Gohan married some Japanese musician. Also ki becomes the main focus instead of martial arts here. The reason Muten Roshi came to Tokyo was because he had to enlist Goku with him to stop Piccolo who was retconned to have survived his battle with Mutaito and had become the dominant personality. Whats more is that Piccolo had learned how to use ki resulting in Muten Roshi, Gohan, and Goku somehow learning ki due to their familial bonds. Unfortunately, because Son Gohan lack the will to control his ki, his ki is slowly killing him meaning that Muten Roshi and Goku would then only have around a month or two to go to Piccolo and destroy him. While traveling, Goku and Muten Roshi meet other Ki users such as Yamcha, Kuririn, Chaozu, and Tenshinhan who join them. They meet enemy ki users such as Drum, Piano, and Tambourine who are Piccolo‘s minions. Kuririn also dies. Just kidding! Turns out he was actually alive! Everyone just thought it would be funny to mess with Yamcha cause he‘s Yamcha. Finally they get to Piccolo and Piccolo beats Muten Roshi and uses his blood to make himself young again. And he also kills Kuririn and Chaozu. Somehow Yamcha survives... Goku manages to kill Piccolo using sheer brute force and a really confusing strategy that you have to go over 8 times before you get the gist of it.
Part 4 - Goku‘s son Gohan becomes the lead character and he is in high school while also knowing ki. Goku also pops up from time to time as a teacher for Gohan. It is also retconned that the blood line of Goku is actually from space and that they are descendants of the Saiyan race. The prince of the Saiyans comes to the town where Gohan and Goku live and massive high jinks ensue from there.
Part 5 - Pan becomes the new protagonist and she lives in America with her Italian mother. She hardly see‘s Gohan because he‘s too busy doing what he loves... studying the ocean despite never showing any interest in it before. Because of this she holds a bit of a grudge against him. Freeza‘s a creepy priest who commands a cult or something where they look for the dragon balls because of reasons involving Piccolo. Stuff happens with dragon balls and the timeline gets really wonky.
Part 6 - We see ourselves back in the first arc with Mutaito except he looks completely different from his original self and the story for some reason now takes place in America. Everyone now looks really realistic for some reason. Ki is still the main focus but martial arts is still used to some degree especially in conjunction to ki.
Part 7 - We skip forward to Gohan being the main protagonist again. Or is it Goku? Vegeta? Cell?! I have no idea what‘s going on?! Regardless Gohan and Videl work together to learn just what the heck is going on.

Also like Weejus mentioned previously, all the characters names would be based off musicians and songs making it nearly impossible for the series to become a hit in America.

[SaiyanZ]

Togashi? I'd pass. I don't want my Dragon Ball to be filled with wannabe complex plot, average characters and lazy art.

The plots in YYH or HxH have never been complex, and especially YYH's characters are similar to DB's (Goku-Yusuke, Vegeta-Hiei, Piccolo-Kurama, Toguro-Freeza/Cell, Koenma-Kami, etc.). I can get the lazy art, but his redrawn stuff in the volumes are great, and his art when he draws Toguro in YYH during the final round is amazing. Peep some of his stuff during the Chimera Ant arc as well:

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[Gyt Kaliba]

The plots in YYH or HxH have never been complex, and especially YYH's characters are similar to DB's (Goku-Yusuke, Vegeta-Hiei, Piccolo-Kurama, Toguro-Freeza/Cell, Koenma-Kami, etc.). I can get the lazy art, but his redrawn stuff in the volumes are great, and his art when he draws Toguro in YYH during the final round is amazing. Peep some of his stuff during the Chimera Ant arc as well:

Vegeta and Hiei I can definitely see, and I can maybe see the Piccolo and Kurama parallels, but...Yusuke and Goku? Outside of being the lead characters of their respective series, I can't really see them as being too awfully similar personality wise.

As far as Togashi's art goes though, based on Yu Yu Hakusho alone as I haven't read HxH yet...ehh...I'm not really a big fan either. A lot of it just seems too...sketchy, or something. I much prefer the anime's artstyle (in general anyway).

[SaiyamanMS]

Yusuke and Goku? Outside of being the lead characters of their respective series, I can't really see them as being too awfully similar personality wise.

Agreed, Yusuke and Goku really aren't all that similar at all. Gon and Goku on the other hand are much more similar...

[Kid Buu]

Yusuke and Goku? Outside of being the lead characters of their respective series, I can't really see them as being too awfully similar personality wise.

Agreed, Yusuke and Goku really aren't all that similar at all. Gon and Goku on the other hand are much more similar...

They are, but that is one of my problems with Gon. He is rather generic.

[SaiyanZ]

Yusuke and Goku are similar imo, in fact he's the shonen character most similar to Goku that I've seen. Gon is similar also, but Yusuke is almost the same as Goku outside of him being more of a city boy and bigger smack talker (although Goku himself can be quite condescending). They both love to fight, generally only fight for themselves, are not very smart, die twice, have to learn about their heritage (Goku with his Saiyan stuff and Yusuke with his demon blood), have to develop a killer instinct (Goku after training under Kami to fake-killing Freeza, and Yusuke when he fake-kills Doctor and subconsciously makes the decision to kill Sensui), have a signature blue energy blast, don't really care for their biological parents....there's more too, but he's far and above the most similar to Goku imo.

[Doctor.]

Togashi? I'd pass. I don't want my Dragon Ball to be filled with wannabe complex plot, average characters and lazy art.

The plots in YYH or HxH have never been complex, and especially YYH's characters are similar to DB's (Goku-Yusuke, Vegeta-Hiei, Piccolo-Kurama, Toguro-Freeza/Cell, Koenma-Kami, etc.). I can get the lazy art, but his redrawn stuff in the volumes are great, and his art when he draws Toguro in YYH during the final round is amazing. Peep some of his stuff during the Chimera Ant arc as well:

I was more-so referring to Hunter in regards to the "wannabe complex plot" part, seen as how the Hunter fans keep blabbing about how Hunter x Hunter's plot is so deep, so complex unlike other Shounens, and I just don't see it. Average characters apply to both HxH and YYH, though.

[SaiyanZ]

Togashi? I'd pass. I don't want my Dragon Ball to be filled with wannabe complex plot, average characters and lazy art.

The plots in YYH or HxH have never been complex, and especially YYH's characters are similar to DB's (Goku-Yusuke, Vegeta-Hiei, Piccolo-Kurama, Toguro-Freeza/Cell, Koenma-Kami, etc.). I can get the lazy art, but his redrawn stuff in the volumes are great, and his art when he draws Toguro in YYH during the final round is amazing. Peep some of his stuff during the Chimera Ant arc as well:

I was more-so referring to Hunter in regards to the "wannabe complex plot" part, seen as how the Hunter fans keep blabbing about how Hunter x Hunter's plot is so deep, so complex unlike other Shounens, and I just don't see it. Average characters apply to both HxH and YYH, though.

Oh, I see. Well, both are generally easy plots to follow, I find their structure pretty similar to Dragon Ball's in terms of the whole new villain showing up and training to beat them motifs. I definitely wouldn't call YYH's characters average, but HxH's does leave more to be desired; but I think that's only because he's waiting to reveal stuff about them.

[Doctor.]

What if Dragon Ball was written by Naho Ooishi?

[KentalSSJ6]

What if Dragon Ball was written by Naho Ooishi?

We'd already have a SSJ Gine special.

[Kid Buu]

What if the Dragon Ball was written by the Death Note guys?

[KentalSSJ6]

What if the Dragon Ball was written by the Death Note guys?

It would be as overrated as Death Note and all of Evangelion.

[Doctor.]

What if the Dragon Ball was written by the Death Note guys?

It would be as overrated as Death Note and all of Evangelion.

It kinda already is. By the Youtube community, at least.

[SaiyanZ]

What if the Dragon Ball was written by the Death Note guys?

It would be as overrated as Death Note and all of Evangelion.

It kinda already is. By the Youtube community, at least.

From the Youtube community I'm apart of, Dragon Ball is underrated. Death Note and Evangelion are also heavily criticized lol

[Doctor.]

From the Youtube community I'm apart of, Dragon Ball is underrated. Death Note and Evangelion are also heavily criticized lol

From the communities I'm a part of it's either massively overrated (Youtube guys who state it's the greatest anime of all time), or massively underrated (think it's utter crap). Kanzenshuu in general seems to have a good standing. Everyone here think it's good, but obviously recognize the huge flaws and inconsistencies it has.

And you only need to go to a top 10 list on Youtube to see how either Death Note or Dragon Ball are overrated by the Youtube peeps.

[SaiyanZ]

From the Youtube community I'm apart of, Dragon Ball is underrated. Death Note and Evangelion are also heavily criticized lol

From the communities I'm a part of it's either massively overrated (Youtube guys who state it's the greatest anime of all time), or massively underrated (think it's utter crap). Kanzenshuu in general seems to have a good standing. Everyone here think it's good, but obviously recognize the huge flaws and inconsistencies it has.

And you only need to go to a top 10 list on Youtube to see how either Death Note or Dragon Ball are overrated by the Youtube peeps.

Ah I see. Personally, I think DB/Z is top 10 material as a manga moreso than an anime, but I can agree that they don't use the right criteria when assessing the series, because usually they use the watered down old dub of the series and don't bother with Kai. Rarely if ever have I seen people reference the manga on YouTube, aside from MistareFusion and some others.

[ImmaDeker]

Yusuke and Goku are similar imo, in fact he's the shonen character most similar to Goku that I've seen. Gon is similar also, but Yusuke is almost the same as Goku outside of him being more of a city boy and bigger smack talker (although Goku himself can be quite condescending). They both love to fight, generally only fight for themselves, are not very smart, die twice, have to learn about their heritage (Goku with his Saiyan stuff and Yusuke with his demon blood), have to develop a killer instinct (Goku after training under Kami to fake-killing Freeza, and Yusuke when he fake-kills Doctor and subconsciously makes the decision to kill Sensui), have a signature blue energy blast, don't really care for their biological parents....there's more too, but he's far and above the most similar to Goku imo.

Goku's arc is about how fighting for its own sake is fulfillment and meaning.

Yusuke's arc, and thus the entirety of YYH's, is about how fighting for its own sake makes you empty.

[SaiyanZ]

Yusuke and Goku are similar imo, in fact he's the shonen character most similar to Goku that I've seen. Gon is similar also, but Yusuke is almost the same as Goku outside of him being more of a city boy and bigger smack talker (although Goku himself can be quite condescending). They both love to fight, generally only fight for themselves, are not very smart, die twice, have to learn about their heritage (Goku with his Saiyan stuff and Yusuke with his demon blood), have to develop a killer instinct (Goku after training under Kami to fake-killing Freeza, and Yusuke when he fake-kills Doctor and subconsciously makes the decision to kill Sensui), have a signature blue energy blast, don't really care for their biological parents....there's more too, but he's far and above the most similar to Goku imo.

Goku's arc is about how fighting for its own sake is fulfillment and meaning.

Yusuke's arc, and thus the entirety of YYH's, is about how fighting for its own sake makes you empty.

This is true and that IS a difference between how they approach fighting when shit hits the fan. But, they both love a good fight.

[ImmaDeker]

I guess what bugs me about your comparison is, if anything, YYH is thematically the anti-Dragonball (and in a lot of ways the anti-shonen), and Yusuke's similarities to Goku that you point out are, at best, incredibly superficial and don't really paint the context both exist in in an accurate light.