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well later on it gets pretty by-the-numbers DBZ if that was more your thing. i enjoy the first season just because it was trying to harken back to the early days of Dragon Ball that was more about adventure and less about power level wanking.

i enjoy it more than Super overall because at least Goku has a personality in GT, you can actually see how he's grown since DBZ instead of him just being perpetually stuck as the same guy for his entire life. it's weird Vegeta showed more growth and character development than him.
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Moved 2y ago

I would never claim that early GT is good, but it sure is… well, something.

Ironically, GT Goku is characterized with much better continuity. When things are lighthearted, he’s got the old childlike joy, but when things start to get serious with Rild, he turns into the serious, competent Goku from the 23rd Budokai.

In Super, it depends entirely on the episode, but generally speaking, he just acts like kid Goku in an adult body, except it’s never funny, and Nozawa doesn’t sound charming when she’s playing a silly part anymore because she’s in her mid 80’s.

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143451a9... 2y ago

he's just utterly flanderized the same way characters like Mickey Mouse are because Goku has stopped being a character but has become the icon of a franchise, he's a tool to make money and he has to fit within very narrow marketable parameters which might be one reason why this other thing with (another) adult-kid Goku is coming out

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Moved 2y ago

I think making him a kid really is the right move. Adult Goku got boring after the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai, which is why Z started leaning on the other characters for drama and taking Goku out of the action until the very end.

If you want Goku as a character to carry a story, he needs to be the naive hick child from the mountains.

I just hope they do a good job at writing him.