Approach to Dragon Ball was awesome and legendary: The author, inventor and draftsman of the manga was surprised every week what happens next. He is known for not making extensive plans, but improvising the story. If he didn't feel like a character or a story anymore, he abruptly did something new. Which has led to sometimes very curious developments, as three employees now report in an interview.
Dragon Ball creator Toriyama is said to have spontaneously considered that Trunks is the son of Vegeta and Bulma
That's what it's about:Among other things, Dragon Ball enjoys such a great cult status because the history of the mangas and anime was actually completely unpredictable. A Battle-Manga developed from the Shonen-Manga and some things remained the same, but there were always curious capers and highly surprising turns.
The draftsman and Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, with his kind to work, partially brought his three lecturers and editors to the brink of despair. Often they were caught cold from suddenly dropped action lines or surprising twists.If they wanted to know how things will go next week, they did not get an answer- because the author often did not know her himself.
With Trunks it was probably particularly blatant:Trunks makes one of the most impressive appearances in Dragon Ball history. After Freezer made short processes with Son Goku and his friends, a fighter suddenly appears who turns directly into a Super Saiyajin and dismantled the Ober-Fiesling into its individual parts in a very short time. He also has a cool sword!
At this point, not even Akira Toriyama was said to have known who is actually trunksAnd what it is all about. The decision should then have been made more or less spontaneously to introduce him as a future child of Bulma and Vegeta - which at that time did not even state mutual interest.
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Not only the fans were surprised, but also the editors, and not too scarce. They wanted to know from Akira Toriyama how he wants to explain it. But the Dragon Ball inventor could not be disturbed and simply thought about everything when the time was ripe.
But can that really be?
It doesn't sound quite realistic.Sure, Akira Toriyama was known for his improvisation and, for example, Son Gohan's Saiyaman adventure in the high school simply dropped because he no longer wanted it to it.
But trunks already have the same hair as Bulma and also capsule corp clothes when it appears.Akira Toriyama must have already planned that there is a relationship between Bulma and Trunks.
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