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In understand that Akira drew character designs for DBGT but did he ever state why he did it? Only characters who hair stood the same was Gohan's and Goku's. Did Toei tell him to do this? Can anyone make a educated guess? I can some-what understand Goten since they didn't want him to look like Goku. Specially with that skin tone. He would look more like Z Goku then GT goku did due to his tan. But why that hairstyle? Could't they kept the hair style from the end of DBz? Why did Vegeta get weird looking hair in the beginning of GT . IT wasn't even spiky at first. That lying site called Dbz wiki said it was because Trunks caught his hair with his sword -_-. But at times due to the hair he didn't even look like Vegeta. such as that. He looks more like Gohan.
I'm glad when they gave him the spikes again. He looked more badass in the human attire. I can understand why the hair was shorter because of the character design and clothing but his earlier design of hair was just bad. Look at this lol. Looks like a bad pillow if you ask me. Well I know Cell doesn't have hair but I'm just using his head instead.
I'm sorry not to sound like a DBGT hater but really? Just really? It seems so weird that I thought it was a failed clone at first lol. Seriously as a Kid I used to think that Dr.Gero tried to do to Cell/Seru then what Dr.Myuu did to ANdroid 17.
B wrote:it's the easiest way to tell people, "Hey, time passed."
Easier then saying "5 years has passed" lol. Hair doesn't change that much in 5 years unless you cut it like Vegeta apparently did. ...wait this is anime..I forgot lol.
Those Cell screen shots are from an episode supervised by Koizumi, who wasn't very good matching Nakatsuru's character models. It's less "Cell's look changed" and more "Nobody with the proper talent corrected the animation."
Makes no sense for Vegeta as Full Saiyans don't have their hair change styles ever.
Why Dragon Ball Consistency in something such as power levels matter!
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Doctor. wrote:I've explained before, I'll just paraphrase myself.
Power levels establish tension and drama. People who care about them (well, people who care about them in a narrative) don't care about the big numbers or the fancy explosions. If you have character A who's so much above character B, who's the main character, you're gonna be left wondering how in the hell character B, the character we're supposed to care and root for, is going to escape the situation or overcome the odds. It makes us emotionally invested.
If character B doesn't escape the situation in a believable way that's consistent with previous events, then that emotional investment is gone. It was pointless tension, pointless drama made just to suck in the viewer. It has no critical value whatsoever. The audience is left believing that the author can just create whatever scenarios he wants and what happens to the characters is decided by whatever the author wants to happen, regardless of the events that happened in the story. Which, in fairness, is what happens, but the audience wants to be fooled. The audience wants to know that the world they're following has rules. That the world they're invested in isn't going to bend to external factors that are irrelevant to them.
An author can do whatever he wants with the characters, that's not false. But the author should also have the responsibility to make sure it fits in cohesively with the other events in the narrative he has created.
Toriyama's discussed both changing hairstyles and Saiyan hair in particular before.
In various interviews with regards to Battle of Gods, he's said that he generally just doesn't remember what their hairstyles looked like before, so he'll change them however he sees fit. Same thing with hair colors for people whose hair is something other than black. He figures people (and women in particular) tend to change it as it suits them, so why not?
As for Saiyan hair, the only hard-and-fast rule is that it's always black for non-hybrids. (Vegeta with brown highlights is an anime invention). It also appears to grow to a set length and then stop (again, for non-hybrids only), but I don't think this was ever addressed in the series proper. Apart from that, Toriyama himself has stated that it works the same way as human hair: it can be cut or styled (albeit with an apparent tendency to revert to how it "wants" to be), facial hair can grow out if it's allowed to, and male pattern baldness exists (as with Nappa). Presumably, their hair also goes grey, but it's probably a delayed onset followed by rapid progression, similar to other aspects of Saiyan aging.
Co-translator, Man-in-Japan, and Julian #1 at Kanzenshuu
最近、あんまし投稿してないねんけど、見てんで。いっつも見てる。
SaiyaJedi wrote:
As for Saiyan hair, the only hard-and-fast rule is that it's always black for non-hybrids. (Vegeta with brown highlights is an anime invention). It also appears to grow to a set length and then stop (again, for non-hybrids only), but I don't think this was ever addressed in the series proper.
Isn't this said in the manga after they emerge from the ROSAT? Or is it anime only?
SaiyaJedi wrote:
As for Saiyan hair, the only hard-and-fast rule is that it's always black for non-hybrids. (Vegeta with brown highlights is an anime invention). It also appears to grow to a set length and then stop (again, for non-hybrids only), but I don't think this was ever addressed in the series proper.
Isn't this said in the manga after they emerge from the ROSAT? Or is it anime only?
SaiyaJedi wrote:
As for Saiyan hair, the only hard-and-fast rule is that it's always black for non-hybrids. (Vegeta with brown highlights is an anime invention). It also appears to grow to a set length and then stop (again, for non-hybrids only), but I don't think this was ever addressed in the series proper.
Isn't this said in the manga after they emerge from the ROSAT? Or is it anime only?
Manga had it as well
Ah, OK. Don't have the comics in front of me to check at the moment, and thought it wasn't actually written in there.
Co-translator, Man-in-Japan, and Julian #1 at Kanzenshuu
最近、あんまし投稿してないねんけど、見てんで。いっつも見てる。
SaiyaJedi wrote:
As for Saiyan hair, the only hard-and-fast rule is that it's always black for non-hybrids. (Vegeta with brown highlights is an anime invention). It also appears to grow to a set length and then stop (again, for non-hybrids only), but I don't think this was ever addressed in the series proper.
Isn't this said in the manga after they emerge from the ROSAT? Or is it anime only?
Manga had it as well
But didn't Vegeta say that Saiyan hair doesn't grow at all? He said something about humans' hair-growth being disgusting.
Fizzer wrote:
But didn't Vegeta say that Saiyan hair doesn't grow at all? He said something about humans' hair-growth being disgusting.
Yeah, in the viz manga Vegeta says "Pure Saiyans have been spared the grotesquery of hair growth", I'm not sure if that's the exact line, but I'm pretty sure it's close.
such as that. He looks more like Gohan.
Look at this lol. Looks like a bad pillow if you ask me. Well I know Cell doesn't have hair but I'm just using his head instead. 
