Not really; Japanese society has an entire system around not saying what you really mean while still getting the message across. Hamburger Time is right that even if he didn't want to do it, he'd most likely never just come out and say so.
Edit: That doesn't mean it wasn't his own decision but straightforwardness isn't exactly a virtue there.
edited 18th Jun '15 4:37:27 PM by LSBK
I mean, Dragonball Evolution was by Westerners.
And frankly, fuck foreigners, am I right? They talk and look and think differently, so it's not like they're people.
...There's a not insignificant amount of xenophobia in Japanese culture. Look at Mr. Popo and Semi-Perfect Cell.
Being rude to the foreign company that bastardized your own ideas isn't something Japanese politeness would frown upon.
edited 18th Jun '15 5:22:56 PM by unnoun
Really, even the Dragon Ball fans that have only seen Z have Evolution.
The fans that have seen the original Dragon Ball hate it even more.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!It's a movie that is not only bad as an adaptation, it's terribad as a movie in and of itself. It's cliché, tripe and overdone in every way.
Because it went out of its way to betray everything that could have connected it to Dragon Ball, it didn't have a shield from being called out on the Dragon Ball clichés.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariTo once again remind us that he'll just screw up again that he's his fathers son?
The problem is, I think we're at a point where 'getting stronger' itself is hard to articulate other than saying 'they're getting a new form'. And I DON'T want there to be an overdose on new forms.
Actually, that's another thing I want Super to do. Tone down the new forms. It was getting repetitive in Cell, and downright tiresome by Buu. The new movies aren't helping, either.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!I don't think it's fully reached AF levels - it's far too simple to be a fanfiction design, and its role in the movie is different to how usual powerups work. But it was still unnecessary.
I just want to know whose idea that was. Was it a corporate mandate? Because it feels like a corporate mandate. Like, they asked Toriyama to come up with a new form for Goku and Vegeta, so he did it in the most half-assed way possible.
The *Legendary* Super Saiyan is motivated by a crying infant! He is a literal giant f***ing baby!Nah, corporate mandate would've had them in different outfits to sell more toys, which is probably why the outfits are so different to norm.
Seriously, why are their outfits different? Their outfits were iconic of the characters, you can't change that shit.
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari

If you think like that then we can take none of his statements seriously. He made Goku the hero because he felt Goku was better-suited to be it than Gohan was.
"If you weren't so crazy I'd think you were insane."