In the end, Super Saiyan 3 Goku or Ultimate Gohan is stronger Dragon Ball Z has been a debate within the fandom for years. The anime says one thing, the manga suggests another, but when it comes down to it, only Akira Toriyama's original manga is true canon. Toei's Dragon Ball Z the adaptation is mostly faithful, but the anime had its fair share of filler to keep it from catching up with the manga.
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worse is Dragon Ball Z the anime started making weird changes to the story in the Majin Buu Saga. Goku's final fight with Kid Buu Dragon Ball Z trying to act like SSJ3 Goku is stronger than Ultimate Gohan but this is a lot No case according to Akira Toriyama Dragon Ball manga.
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Toei wanted Goku to be the strongest no matter what
One of Dragon Ball ZThe biggest problem with the adaptation is how much Toei doesn't understand Goku as a character while at the same time idolizing him to a degree, even Akira Toriyama never did. To Toriyama, Goku was a flawed hero – he would never put anyone's life in active danger, but he is selfish and prone to making bad decisions if it gives him a good fight, as seen when he saves Vegeta in the Saiyan Saga. To Toei, Goku was a tried and true superhero who always did the right thing no matter what. More importantly, Toei saw Goku as the strongest man in the universe, no matter what.
One of the main topics in Dragon Ball is that there will always be someone better, an idea that Akira Toriyama embodies throughout the manga. Besides Piccolo Jr. and Frieza Sagas, Goku is never strongest character in Dragon Ball. There's always someone stronger than Goku, and that's okay. This is what drives Goku as a character. However, Toei was not happy with this, which made Goku appear stronger than he actually is. This was usually relegated to the non-canon movies, but Toei got out of hand in the Majin Buu arc once Dragon Ball the manga made it clear that Goku was outclassed by the likes of Super Buu and Gohan.
Power-Scaling the Dragon Ball Z anime in the Majin Buu Saga makes zero sense
IN Dragon Ball manga, part of the tension in the Majin Buu Saga comes from how much stronger Buu is than the Z-Fighters. It takes Fusions like Gotenks & Vegito and Gohan unlocking their full potential just for the main cast to level the playing field. In the manga, Goku outright refuses to fight Super Buu—even in his base form—because he knows Buu would kill him. quick. The Dragon Ball Z anime changes it completely.
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Not only is Super Saiyan 3 Goku somehow strong enough to take a few hits from Buutenks while Gohan searches for Potara's earring (despite the fact that SSJ3 Goku has the same strength as Fat Buu and had zero training since this fight), the anime directly states that Goku is the strongest character in the universe during his fight with Kid Buu. not only that DBZ tries to imply that Kid Buu is the strongest version of Majin Buu, even though the manga makes it very clear that Kid Buu is actually the weakest. What makes Kid Buu dangerous is not his power level, but the fact that he has no self-control.
The Dragon Ball Manga makes it clear that Gohan is stronger than Goku
The Dragon Ball Z the anime wants you to believe that Super Saiyan 3 Goku and Kid Buu are stronger than Ultimate Gohan, Gotenks and every form of Super Buu even though all the evidence in the manga suggests otherwise. First, Goku chooses not to fight Super Buu in the manga at all because he knows he will lose. Goku and Vegeta are also convinced that having read Kid Buu's Power Level, they can defeat him without using Fusion.
Most importantly, Gohan being stronger than Goku represents two main themes Dragon Ball: that the next generation will always be stronger than the previous one and that there will always be someone stronger. Gohan doesn't need to kill Super Buu himself for these themes to be true. It's not for nothing that Goku also comments on Gohan's contribution to the Spirit Bomb against Kid Buu individually, strongly implying that Gohan's Ki far surpasses everyone else's.
Goku even believes that Vegeta's plan to defeat Kid Buu is to bring Gohan to Planet Kais to finish the fight for them, before Vegeta suggests Goku use a Spirit Bomb with all of Earth's energy. Goku wouldn't have thought that if Gohan's power level wasn't higher than his own. Unfortunately, as a series Dragon Ball DAIMA and Dragon Ball Super tend to run with the idea that Goku actually is stronger than Gohan after the end of the Majin Buu saga, but Akira Toriyama's intention with the manga was always for Gohan to surpass his father.
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1989 – 1996
- Network
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Fuji TV
- directors
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Daisuke Nishio, Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Osamu Kasai
- Writers
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Akira Toriyama, Neil Bligh, Hiroshi Toda, Katsuyuki Sumisawa, Aya Matsui, Keiji Terui, Reiko Yoshida, Toshiki Inoue
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Masako Nozawa
Son Goku / Son Gohan / Son Goten (voice)
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Ryo Horikawa
Vegeta (voice)
