As much as Dragon Ball Z's Gohan may mean to the kids who grew up watching him, this version of the character was not true to Akira Toriyama's vision.

Shimizu stated that the Dragon Ball creator informed the producers that Gohan wasn’t the star of “Z” but Goku would once again take the lead as he did in the original series. “Toriyama-sen ...

Sidelining Gohan was Toriyama’s way of abandoning the tediousness of drawing crowded scenes with too many background characters in favor of a more dynamic narrative. Toriyama has always been ...