meanwhile all it took was 1 movie and a bs transformation for gohan to reach the status of ui goku... It's ok to point out bad writing bro, there isn't great continuity in the series which is what she's pointing out.

It actually makes sense from a story perspective that Freeza would only use his first and final forms. Those forms really just suppress his power, so using the one that controls it the most and then jumping to the one that allows him to access his full power would be the logical thing to do. It also makes sense that the use of certain transformations would be minimized by the characters. Super Saiyan still has utility, but there’s no reason that Goku and Vegeta would bother with Super Saiyan 2 or 3 when they can go to Blue. Those transformations are just obsolete, as is Super Saiyan 2 for Gohan once he remasters Ultimate.

He was meant to grow up. The end goal was for Gohan to grow up like Goku, becoming a strong fighter, who was also extremely intelligent. It isn’t really like “Pokemon” for example, when substantial time does pass but nobody is there for the plot or logic, they’re just there purely for entertainment.

@@kujoova (No offense) He wasn't meant to grow up because the Cell Saga completed his character arc, after that AT struggled to make him the main character.

During that arc, Gohan had trouble going SSJ2 and using his full power. He lacked the anger and motivation to do it consistently. Remember back against cell he needed so much motivation to finally stop holding back. When he tried to fight buu, he found himself unable to get angry enough to use his full power, at least in the anime he says this clearly as he failed to destroy the cocoon then got almost killed by buu. So what the ancient kaioshin ritual did is remove gohan's anger requirement so he can then use all his power without needing to be super motivated and angry. When Gohan asked him how to powerup without going SSJ, the answer was "just do the same thing you did for ssj" and the result is different : he can now power up without transforming. It doesn't make it impossible for him to go SSJ, but ssj is now pointless for him. And his power can be reduced by lack of training, which is normal, but he should never need ssj again. Without training, the old 50% becomes the new 100%, and he should be able to access all the new 100% without transforming. That's basically gohan's character from the very beginning : a pacifist with huge hidden power that he can't use at will. This hurdle was finally resolved at the end. In addition to becoming physically weaker without training, Gohan has the added flaw of becoming even weaker when he forgets how to be angry . Other characters don't suffer from this flaw because they don't have hidden power to access.

This isn't even the first time he got a vaguely explained power up that he never earned

It wasn't an unearned powerup, this is entirely Gohan's own hidden power that he had all the time but couldn't use because he's a soft pacifist. All the ritual did was enable him to use his power at will without extreme anger. We can't rule out a small bonus boost and it even seems like Gohan was getting stronger just from handling the heavy zed sword, but that's not to say it was entirely a powerup.

@@1wayroad935 There's alot of problems with gohans power ups but I don't think any of them weren't earned. A majority of them seemed to cause more problems than they solved though.

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J'espère que vous avez raison car ça a l'air d'être une très bonne édition !

@@charo1020 Nul besoin de vous inquieter. Ils ont TOUT traduit ce qui est Dragon Ball. Même l'édition Full Color. Cette edition "digest" va suivre, j'en suis certain.

Planeta Cómic (of Spain) will release it! I'm so excited!