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Toriyama's first designs were based heavily on the Chinese
legend "Journey to the West." The monkey-like
character heavily resembles his Chinese counterpart, as does
Oolong's early incarnation.
As Toriyama mentions on one of his comics, he nearly gave
Goku a sailor boy look as pictured here. I can only imagine
the Sailor Moon jokes Dragonball fans would be hearing today
if Toriyama hadn't found the design uninteresting.
It's Neanderthal Goku?!?! Quite an imposing figure indeed. I
am glad that Akira lengthened the SSj3 hair in its final
incarnation, which makes for a more dramatic transformation.
Held in the hearts of some of Dragonball's female fans as
the sexiest character, Teenage Gohan could have become the
ultimate chick repellent! Just one look at Boy Scout Gohan
would send most girls running to the loving embrace of
Trunks.
From the looks of these concept sketches, the infamous Cell
could have ended up with a very human appearance on one
extreme or a very demon-like appearance on the other. Some
sketches even resemble characters such as Guldo, Kooler,
Frieza, and even Namek look-alikes.
Not much of a difference from the actual one but if you look
at the bottom right you'll notice it. We could have ended up
with a bald Mr.Satan.
There isn't too much variation here either. As you can see,
Kaio-sama could have ended up looking like a Japanese sumo
wrestler or in a more American
"Chinese-stereotype" form.
Mr. Popo could have come out looking world's different than
he did. For instance, we could be watching a fish-like
creature running through the bowels of heaven with Kami, or
we could have seen a weathered old man chasing Goten and
Trunks around heaven. |
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