Firstly we’ll address a couple basic things to simplify this point.
Lolicon is essentially pedophilia for anime nerds, even when searching the definition of it, it makes it clear of the fact that it specifically sexualizes the features of that of young girls (not women)
Secondly Toriyama never wrote GT or had any involvement whatsoever so including GT in this debate really doesn’t work well as an argument as this is about Toriyama specifically not being into children
So don’t try to argue using GT as “Evidence” it’s fucking stupid.
Or DBS, like I had said his humor wasn’t the greatest back then but it wasn’t meant to say he’s into that shit, if that’s the argument then it could also be mentioned that he actively made fun of pedophiles using chi-chi. -
During the time period Dragon Ball was created humor was incredibly different, it’s not just humor either it’s pretty much everything.
Anime back then was practically at its peak when it came to the disgusting/horrible things they were allowed to put on TV -
Bulma within the first few episodes wasn’t supposed to set some brain rotting tumor in people’s heads that wanted to make you dive into pedophilia, her scenes were meant to be humorous, the target demographic of Dragon ball after all was for children who would have -
Toriyama was no different in humor when it came to writing his material.
Bulma was one of these characters that had been used inappropriately to tell jokes Toriyama had found funny or what he thought would be humorous for his audience back then -
Probably found stupid stuff like that funny, we were kids so we didn’t care about anything and we weren’t smart enough to understand anything either.
But it’s just that, those scenes with Bulma were never meant to be played as proof that Toriyama was secretly into -
Young girls, Master Roshi should have been evident on that when you consider how people would react to a character like him, “Good old Master Roshi, he never changes” “That’s Roshi for you” it’s his gimmick and it’s not supposed to extend any further than that -
Then we have Chi-Chi, Toriyama never was attracted to Chi-Chi, it’s obvious he wanted to give Goku a love interest and that should have been clear when she came back years later to marry Goku.
His design for her wasn’t the best (she’s a child after all) -
But not once did Toriyama ever state he wanted to do anything weird with chichi, I’m not condoning his actions because it’s still weird but even he would have recognized this, there’s a reason most of these jokes he wrote involving the girls were kept in DB and not moved to DBZ -
(Almost as if he realized what he was doing) Lastly he doesn’t romanticize those scenes, Toriyama grew old with his wife and had children, if he had an attraction towards young women then it wouldn’t make sense for him to be in a family that he’s most likely happy and proud of.
Most of the times Bulma had also showed or revealed her self it was always meant to be in a humorous display (like I’ve been saying)
Bulma showing off her panties to Goku then Goku not caring while Bulma overreacts is supposed to be funny -
Krillin sneaking behind her and revealing Bulmas Boobs in front of people is supposed to be a funny and a surprising thing, you’d react with basically “NO WAY LMAO”
Most of the scenes people try to argue that Toriyama was heavily into that are literal jokes -
I say this because at the end of the day Dragon Ball is a shonen (target audience is and always will be for teenagers) Toriyama never excessively makes these jokes anymore as he matured enough to realize it wasn’t as funny as he thought. -
Toriyama slew down with that humor when he made Dragon ball Z, I’m not making factual statements but during the time Z had dropped Toriyama had a child, I’m not saying anything but what if he stopped or slowed with those jokes knowing his kid would probably watch his work? -
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Exactly why I’m not overly upset at Toriyama, he just tried to fit in with the majority, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t weird but it’s literally what most authors do.
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