Why did Toriyama decide to not only continue after the great Frieza Arc with the stupid Cell Arc, but then finish the whole series with this even stupider villain?
Fat Buu was the only thing about that saga though.
>>160680612
Only good thing, I mean.
>>160680241
Shonen Jump and Toei held his wife and children hostages so he would continue making them money
>>160680241
Popularity and success. He wasn't allowed to stop making more.
>>160680241
because he didn't
he even admits he just shit out content
>>160680655
You're wrong, super buu and kid buu were fantastic as well.
>>160680241
he had no say in the matter because of popularity and originally wanted to end with the frieza arc but couldn't because of popular demand. he then tried to end it with the cell games by passing the mantle off to gohan but because that didn't work either and people wanted more of goku he intentionally made the buu arc as stupid as possible (fusion dance, ss3, fat buu, etc. ) hoping that would shut them up but people ate that up too
>>160685849
at least Vegeta's character development was interesting in the Buu arc
>>160680241
Stopping at Namek/Freeza was never in the cards. In fact, Freeza himself was created in order to take Vegeta's main villain position, allowing him to survive as a main cast member. If Toriyama had intended to end on Namek, Freeza himself likely wouldn't exist at all.
>>160680241
Buu was easily, by far, the best villian in DBZ though. And the Buu Saga was the best saga as well, in DBZ at least.
>>160680241
>stupid Cell Arc
Cell was great you faggot. It tied DBZ back to its roots in the original DB.
I agree Buu was unnecessary though.
>>160680241
Fat and kid Buu are cute as fuck.
>>160683223
This.
>>160688953
>it's good because it very vaguely referenced the red ribbon army with a guy who never existed before the saga started
Never mind the saga was as far away from Dragonball as possible
>>160689167
>implying we saw the entire Red Ribbon Army in DB
>Never mind the saga was as far away from Dragonball as possible
At least it wasn't on a different planet and featured android villains instead of aliens. A bit fucking closer to DB than the Namek saga was.plus that filler arc of Goku and Gohan just chilling for a week as SSJ before the Cell games