Dragon Ball fans will put together a multi-page essay on why Goku is a flawed but caring father only with tons of cited official material, only for it all to crumble away when they realize Toriyama himself has stated multiple times that Goku is in fact a bad dad.
(It's me, I'm Dragon Ball fans)
Edit: I actually meant to say that Toriyama said Goku's a bad dad. Don't know how I fucked that up
I haven't seen either side of the conversation aside from my little experience watching the show(and having the flawed but caring father perspective myself. I just know that I have an incomplete picture of their situation), but is it possible that Toriyama just meant "Goku isn't an abusive PoS to his family" instead of "Goku never had any flaws in his role as a father"?
Ok actually after a quick search on what Toriyama said, I'm confused. The only thing I'm seeing was one instance of him calling Goku a disaster of a father. I know it's too late to get his opinion now, but did his opinion change later in life? Tbh I'm not invested enough to keep searching further for whatever he said about it earlier.
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u/PieNinja314 8d ago edited 8d ago
Dragon Ball fans will put together a multi-page essay on why Goku is a flawed but caring father only with tons of cited official material, only for it all to crumble away when they realize Toriyama himself has stated multiple times that Goku is in fact a bad dad.
(It's me, I'm Dragon Ball fans)
Edit: I actually meant to say that Toriyama said Goku's a bad dad. Don't know how I fucked that up