Toriyama ending DBZ after the freeza arc. Any proof?

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Post by Kikoha Hater » Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:50 pm

Sign...finally, now were getting somewhere. If you mind going through the trouble, could you point me out to the interview. :wink:

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Post by Phenomenol » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:15 pm

Pieter wrote:Here's an old post of mine about the same subject:
Pieter wrote: Quotes from Toriyama:

Q: What does the Z in Dragonball Z stand for? (Most of us know that the Z was only used in the anime and it was just an index to separate Goku as a kid and Goku as an adult. But check out the response from Toriyama-san).
A: I was starting to run out of things for Dragonball and I really wanted to finish the series. So I thought that if I put a Z at the end of Dragonball, people would think that it was going to end soon!

Q: I was wondering if you really wanted to end the series where it ended? Do you want to continue to write for the series?
A: I worked on the series for nearly 10 years and I really wanted to end the series at year 3. But... well... Shonen Jump (the original publishers) made me continue the series. But I'm glad the they pushed me to continue it, because I would not have appreciated it as much as I do now. But 10 years is really where my limit is (and he does not want to do it anymore)!

So what's year 3? I believe that's when Z started. He's said in other interviews that originally it was supposed to end after Dragonball too. He also wanted it to end quickly, which is of course after the Namek saga. But we have no idea at what point he decided not to. And I'm not too sure about this but I thought sometime he also said he tried to make Gohan the hero of the show which indicates that he wanted to end it after the Cell Saga.

In other words, pretty much every saga after the 22nd tenkaichi was at some point supposed to be the last and if I'm not mistaken his original intention when starting Dragon Ball was that it was supposed to be a short martial arts promotion.

Guessing what his original ending was is pretty much impossible, because first you'd have to wonder which part of the series you are talking about, and then we don't even know if he had thought up an ending yet or saved it for later as he often does.
In what comic (or Daizenshuu) was this interview in?

Do you mind posting the entire interview?
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