His heads in the right place...
Girls are nice...
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.He's thinking with the wrong head is the problem.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!I swear, the Dragon Ball fandom at large acts like a bunch of closeted jocks in the 90s sometimes. Like, do you even lift bro? How much can you bench? Why are you wasting your time with nerd stuff or girls when you could be getting swole? You don't work out enough, wimp, get out of my sight.
Forgive us for wanting the characters in our fighting shounen series to care about fighting.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!also I don't know why Goten gets so much hate. I think he just has the misfortune of being introduced in the last arc, so he didn't get much development. His GT characterization wasn't bad, and he had some good character moments and cool scenes, but GT just suffered as a whole from poor writing and really terrible use of their characters.
And being a newcomer in the last arc means that nostalgia and fanservice driven sequels don't have much interest in doing anything new with him, which he desperately needs.
Well his canon characterization has literally gone nowhere, he has always been the bratty sidekick of Trunks and no more than that. His only other thing now is Chi Chi pulling the same terrible shit on him as she did on Gohan.
They have straight up written both of them out of this next arc but at least Trunks got some scenes with his older self.
GT just underused him as a Cast Herd character.
edited 3rd May '17 2:18:16 AM by Memers
That's neat and all.
But when is his next "real" contribution?
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Goten doesn't really have a purpose aside from being a Generation Xerox of Goku, and his relationship with Trunks to be a friendly mirror to their fathers. Hell, I'd argue he was introduced just to introduce the concept of fusion with characters who are essentially Goku and Vegeta lite.
There's nothing objectionably bad about him, but I can't say that I particularly care about him either. Super makes this even more disappointing by completely sidelining him whenever possible. At least Trunks had Shu, Pilaf, Mai and his Future Self to bounce off of.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.The character isn't used enough...?
The problem's out in the open, mates.
Gotendo just does not get a chance to shine.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Especially considering the way Toriyama writes; it's unlikely that he would have thought that far in advance.
No beer?! But if there's no beer, then there's no beef or beans!I thought bein' a playah was Yamucha's thing....
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.No, Trunks is the bratty one who leads him around. Goten's thing is being the good-natured one who is up for whatever so long as it's fun. Perhaps not much more substantive, but what do you do.
But, yeah, I honestly don't get what's supposed to be so terrible about Goten. And I have to agree with Pushover's and Saiga's general point about the Dragon Ball fandom. You have people screaming that Gohan not wanting to fight all the time is a sign that he's a better person than his father and Vegeta and should never been questioned, and then others going on about how him actually doing what he wants to do (be a scholar, still vague, but whatever) is ruining his character.
And, yes, these are all generalizations, but probably generalizations we've all encountered at least once.
edited 3rd May '17 7:08:42 AM by LSBK
I also agree that people are being too hard on Goten.
And I don't think I've ever seen them agree on anything either. Funny thing that. I could be wrong though.
I suppose there's only one thing to say about DB fandom.
Except for that Handsome Rob fella. He's pretty cool.
One of the more underrated parts of Super I feel is Goten growing up and no longer thinking the Saiyaman costume is cool.
This song needs more love.

What I find even more disappointing about him is that he gave up martial arts to chase after woman. What a fucking waste cause at least Gohan went after the right woman while his brother is just wasting his time as a player.
I mean that was in GT but still very disgraceful.
Wasting all that talent just to pick up girls, mmmmm, mmmm, mmmm (while shaking my head), that boy ain't right.
edited 2nd May '17 11:03:00 PM by slimcoder
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