Please share thoughts and opinions in the comments. Is Toriyama’s lack of female characters just him trying to appease his target audience (boys)? And is it fair to call him out when there are other Shounen comics and Managaka who are just as guilty? So while writing I will admit there are somethings that will need a closer look. Toriyama himself strictly writes Shounen / Comedy. Shounen ( 少年) means young boy or youth and typical Shounen manga is aimed at Teen / Tween boys.
In Dragonball we only got three main female characters, and two out of those three went on to continue their story in Z.īefore starting I would like to note that Dragonball was created by Toriyama in 1984 and was first published in Weekly Shounen Jump where it ran for nearly ten years. But with a show riddled with badasses, where were the women? I loved Piccolo’s story arch as he developed, Gohan was the sweetest character in the world, and Trunks was the biggest badass anyone had ever seen in the 90’s. Where Sailor Moon has an abundance of female figures I looked up to and could relate to I think Dragonall z developed what I looked for in story and male characters. But it isn’t until now that I’m an adult, one who is rewatching these classics, that I realize how robbed dragonallz is of female characters. I had all the action figures, all the videos, and even spent hundreds of dollars worth of ink printing out pictures on the interweb.Īt this same time I also watched Sailor Moon and loved both of the shows equally. I’ll start out by saying I love Dragonball Z, it was one of the first anime’s I watched as a child and was a great blend of science fiction and action that any little girl would want. This article will look at these women and observe the ways Toriyama has wronged them. Akira Toriyama may be a master of Shounen, but in his most popular series he struggles to write female characters.įor some reason, over the course of nearly 500 manga chapters and 300 anime episodes DBZ female characters are barely developed, disappear with no real explanation, or all into the background. DragonballZ has some of the most popular, well known character’s in the world this does not include its female characters.
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