Of course. He invented the fake moon.His father's a brilliant scientist?
(It seems that the recent Q and A with Toriyama 'canonized' the "average fighter" part of that statement at least, so who knows?)
Toriyama did say something about Goku being dim-witted/lacking formal education. And this isn't nearly the same thing as Yamcha being a cheater.For all we know he could be a Rainmaker-esque savant. Or he could have taken correspondence courses over the duration of the series. We just don't know. I wouldn't buy it because it's at odds with what we do know, but there's nothing in the story to contradict it either.
As rereboy notes, Yamcha's characteristics make him realistically more likely to cheat, not less.Yamucha is frequently shown not just to be scared of women but also desiring settling down with a wife and family. Sure, none of those things necessarily keep him from being capable of cheating, and there's nothing in the story to contradict it either, but it's such a bizarrely out of left-field thing. And not in the sense of what you're talking about either. It's not treated as a shock or a twist. It's not any kind of dramatic irony that Blooma constantly hangs off of other guys and seemingly , but it's the constantly dogged Yamucha who turns out to be the bad guy in the relationship after all! No, we don't get any of that. It's just a completely random factoid that that's not organic to the character or to the plot. It only exists to push Blooma and Vegeta together while ensuring that Blooma doesn't look unsympathetic.
Are you complaining about it, or trying to disregard the author and pretend it didn't happen?I don't think it's impossible. It's certainly possible. But there's nothing in the story to back it up. It's very poor storytelling. It's character assassination. And it's certainly not the only time in this story arc that it happens. Nearly every character in this arc is given ample opportunity to act out of character and do stupid things. And I'll complain about those too. But it'd be just as plausible to say out of nowhere that Kuririn cheated on #18. Hell, Kuririn is given much more lascivious tendencies than Yamucha, and I still wouldn't believe that either without any context.
Did the author forget, or did he just consider Tao extremely minor? Because he kinda was.Hey, at least I know who Tao Pai Pai is. That's more than the author can say.
Tori-bot actually is the official canon God of the DBU.In all seriousness, though, I'm by no means calling for 'Death of the Author.' But the author is NOT god, either.
The author has never contradicted himself on Yamcha's cheater status, either in interviews or the series. He's always supported it.Just because he is the author doesn't make him infallible. It doesn't make him immune to poor choices, poor storytelling, or just having an off day. There's no reason to automatically assume that every decision he makes is in line with the multitude of characters he's created, especially when he's just making it up as he goes along. And authors can just up and randomly change their minds. J.K. Rowling, who plots much more diligently and, I'd say, cares much more about her characters, just made headlines by saying she wasn't sure if putting Ron and Hermione together was correct.
That's the thing: are you saying it's poor story telling, or are you pretending that it didn't happen? Because if so, I can bring up other instances of what I consider detrimental OOC behavior, like Buu being turned into an idiot so Vegetto can look cool, or Goku making Goten and Trunks clean up his mess in the Buu Saga.When a decision looks like it was made just because it was the easiest way to push his current agenda (Trunks) along, then I feel it's a legitimate criticism to make.
