Discussion, generally of an in-universe nature, regarding any aspect of the franchise (including movies, spin-offs, etc.) such as: techniques, character relationships, internal back-history, its universe, and more.
For the purposes of this topic I'll be referring to Gohan's depiction as a SSJ in BoG before they changed it into his Ultimate form. Is there any reason why I seemed like he was taking longer than usual to power up into a SSJ? Every other Saiyan did it in a snap, but with Gohan there was this prolonged build up of ki before the transformation, like it was for first timers.
Probably rusty from not training much. From the end of the Cell arc to Battle Of Gods, which is a 12 year gap, he trains a few day tops during that time. Which was coincidentally the sparring he did with Goten in the lead up to the World Martial Arts Tournament with Goku returning from the dead on that day in the Majin Boo arc. There's no other indication he does training or sparring of any kind apart from that. Ironically, in the manga he transforms into a Super Saiyan 2 with practicallyzeroeffort, but in the case of Battle Of Gods, it may have just been that Gohan no longer training finally caught up with to some degree.
Spoiler:
Akira Toriyama wrote:My policy is to try and forget things once they’re over. Since if I don’t discard the old and focus on what’s new, I’ll overload my brain capacity. I still haven’t lived down going, “Who the heck is Tao Pai-pai?” that one time I was talking with Ei’ichiro Oda-kun. But the fact that there are still people reading the series after all this time… All I can say is; “thank you.” Really, that’s all.
Akira Toriyama wrote:Drawing Dragon Ball again reminded me of two things--how much I love it, and how much I never want to do it again.
Kunzait_83 wrote:And if you're upset because all this new material completely invalidates the tabletop RPG rulebook-sized statistical system and flowchart for the characters' "canonical Power Levels" that you'd been working on painstakingly for the last bunch of years now... well I don't think there's a kind, non-blunt way of saying this, but that's 100% entirely your own misguided fault for buying so deeply into all this nonsensical garbage in the first place. And that you also have IMMENSELY skewed and comically backwards priorities in what you think is most important and needed to make a good Dragon Ball story.
Zephyr wrote:Goodness, they wrote idiotic drivel in a children's cartoon meant to advertise toys!? Again!? For the ninetieth episode in a row!? Somebody stop the presses! We have to voice our concern over these Super important issues!
Kamiccolo9 wrote:Fair enough, I concede. Sean Schemmel probably has some kind of hidden talent. Maybe he is an expert at Minesweeper. You're right; calling him "talentless" wasn't fair.
Michsi wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:29 amIn Super Piccolo got yelled off the stage by Vegeta in the U6 Tournament arc and lost to Jiminy Cricket in the ToP , he deserved 15 new transformations with his theme song played by Metallica in the background.
