We don't really know where a lot of techniqued come from, especially ones from a character's backstory.
Apparently the Masenko was taught to Gohan by Piccolo, which makes sense.
I don't think Toriyama's a big fan of esoteric techniques. When asked what kind of new technique he'd give to Goku if he could, be said if he had wanted to give him another technique he would have done it writing the manga.
And the techniques debuted by side characters tend to be one-offs that don't recur, despite them gaining a reputation as being their signature moves. The Kienzan is one of the only exceptions to this.
Edit: and if you count originally unnamed, one off moves like video game dubbed "Burning Attack" then you may as well count any non-Kamehameha blast Goku uses as a distinct attack he invented.
edited 13th May '17 7:22:06 PM by Saiga
I mean, Trunks actually did have a lot of original moves in the original series, it's just that he's the only character who never really bothered to name anything he did. Then Super comes along, and he pretty much defaults to his father's Galick Gun and Final Flash.
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I can buy that, considering how often super fancy techniques turn out to be utterly useless or one offs. Goku's best techniques seems to be the simplest ones like the Kamehameha and the like.
Other stuff tend to have very huge drawbacks (like the Kaioken).
edited 13th May '17 7:51:28 PM by HandsomeRob
One Strip! One Strip!Nothing wrong with that. There's been dubs people like better because of that kind of thing, and it's not like DBZA replaces the funimation dub or anything. It still exists if you like accuracy to the source material better.
Usually when people like things like that though it's either because of nostalgia or the So Bad, It's Good factor. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's not usually the context in which I see DBZA being praised.
edited 13th May '17 8:02:06 PM by LSBK
All Ki Blast used by Karrot in the games are just variations of the Kamehameha....
And the Spirit Bomb.
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Also, I did a quick wiki walk on the wiki for the canon Dragon Ball series. So apparently Ultimate Gohan's back and both he and Piccolo are not in Can't Catch Up territory? And there's a tournament with 10 fighters from each universe in the multiverse, and they brought Roshi and Frieza but not Yamcha or even Cell? Japan's gonna Japan, I guess.
I think it's not actually uncommon for the main character of a shonen to be a move thief. Because he's the main character and we follow his journey, we get introduced to moves in one of two ways: either he's learning a new move, or someone shows up and is like, "Check out this cool move I have."
And if he's learning a move, he's usually learning it from someone or somewhere so that learning how it works can be part of the hero's journey.
Other characters benefit from the fact that they spend a lot of time offscreen, so they can just show up and be like, "Check this shit out, I just invented a killer new attack!" without us having to sit there and watch them spend several weeks puzzling out the metaphysics of how to make it function.
The hero needs to grow both quickly and interestingly, so that means he often just learns shit that's already developed and adds it to his repertoire. His thing is usually being some kind of general purpose combat master who excels at versatility, knows all the things, can read other people's styles easily, understands how moves work after seeing them in action a couple times and can then devise counters on the fly, etc. etc.
edited 13th May '17 10:33:09 PM by TobiasDrake
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Didn't Gohan learn the Masenko from Piccolo?