Prove it. To say he did it to "enrage his fanbase" is, IMO, ridiculous and sounds like some silly internet rumor.
I believe it was stated in one of the Daizenshuu volumes which routinely had interviews with Toriyama. Which one, I haven't the foggiest anymore; I don't even know how many there are currently. The days when I was so engrossed in Dragonball that I read all sorts of stuff like this and could link them on a dime are long behind me.
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The way I see it, that pairing was done to bring Trunks into the story and begin Vegeta's change into a good guy.
Toriyama didn't even
like Vegeta. Stated Vegeta was actually one of his least favorite characters. I'm relatively sure that he stated he brought back Vegeta after the first time he died more or less because of his surprising popularity with fans. If you want me to "prove it", see Daizenshuu; I think most of this on Vegeta, if not all, comes from the second one. But again, my memory of sources are somewhat spotty, so it might be another volume.
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Putting together a crack pairing would never anger enough people to cancel the series, anyway.
I never said it was entirely logical. To be honest, you never really know how fandom are going to react anyways. All too often they latch on to deplorable characters and try to excuse everything they do to the point of dismissing what the creator even says. DBZ fandom actually does this a lot. I've heard from a couple Harry Potter fans that J.K. Rowling even expressed a raised eyebrow or two towards how many people latched on to certain characters in her books.
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People loved Dragon Ball for all sorts of different reasons, and I doubt Toriyama didn't know that.
I never said he didn't. But it's no secret that he wanted to end it at the Frieza saga and was forced to keep it going. Actually, he was forced to do quite a few things he didn't want to the more popular it got.
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Why are we suddenly going back towards the DB/Naruto comparison...
Because the two series tend to have things in common. Just like DBZ had a lot of similarity to the Superman mythos as it went on. It is what it is. It's nothing to get irritable over, whether you disagree or not.
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I'm thinking I'm getting sick of the fandom...
I hope you don't think other fandoms are any better. This one's pretty tame compared to several I've seen.
Edited by dl316bh, 29 June 2009 - 03:25 AM.