Why not longer Furries in Dragonball?

[SweetShark]

A strange question really and I obviously stopped watching DB/DBZ long time ago, but I need to ask anyway for curiosity...

So I remember in the very early years of DB there where normal to be Furries among the citizens:

But at some point there were gone!!! Like *poof*, now only normal humans with the exceptions of some major characters....I think?

Why this really big change suddendly?

 

[Scarim Coral]

Honestly, I always find their world to be weird.

It's super tech in that you can have anything in a capsule and yet they have roaming dinosaurs. They they genetically brought them back and release them into the wild?

 

[Diablo2000]

Knowing a bit about Dragon Ball's history, I think is entirely possible that Akira Toryama and the rest of the studio simply forgot that they exist. That and the shift in tone of Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Z\Dragon Ball Super made so that they would look even sillier.

 

[Fox12]

I'm pretty sure the general of the military is an animal throughout the entire series. Even in the Cell and Boo sagas. And it's not like Oolong ever goes away. You just don't see them in the crowd as often.

Edit: Yeah, apparently this dude rules the planet. According to the wiki his name is literally King Furry.

 

[Outcast107]

Most likely what Diablo said, or they are just too damn lazy to draw anything else but human.

 

[circularlogic88]

Yeah, Akira Toriyama is notorious for not remembering his own story plots. When asked why Launch wasn't in Z he said, "I forgot she existed." So he most likely forgot about the other stuff too. I'm amazed how successful he is given that his writing style is seemingly by the seat of his pants and making everything up as he goes along.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Knowing a bit about Dragon Ball's history, I think is entirely possible that Akira Toryama and the rest of the studio simply forgot that they exist. That and the shift in tone of Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Z\Dragon Ball Super made so that they would look even sillier.

I was just going to bring this point up! Apparently Toriyama is really good at forgetting details of the Dragon Ball universe but the thing is, the biggest example of this that I can think off of the top of my head is the character Launch from Dragon Ball. She wasn't as big as Bulma in terms of plot importance (that I remember) but she seemed to be as about as important as Yamcha or Puar. Between the production of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z though, Toriyama just kinda...forgot she existed. The same could have happened with the animal people.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

From what I heard, Toriyama either forgot about them or was too lazy to draw them, I don't remember. Shame though, it was kind of a neat touch. But then Dragonball went from a fantasy action story to an action-fighting series that drew out it's battles way too long...

No, I'm not bitter. What makes you think that?

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Edit: Yeah, apparently this dude rules the planet. According to the wiki his name is literally King Furry.

I think they are still there but the focus of the narrative has really moved away from Earth(?) unless its needing to be wished back into existence. Again.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Genocide. It was terrible.

That guy?

You thought "Oh, how nice for diversity, the animal people even have political power, just like the real people."
But in actuality, he was Hitler all along!

Filled with self loathing and mad with power, he used his position as supreme king of the world to exterminate 95% of the furry population. The remaining few are in hiding. That's why Oolong never does anything or goes anywhere, he can't show his face in public or he'll face execution.

Those were dark, dark times. Luckily, the people of the world have extremely short memories[footnote]Nobody remembers King Piccolo or the Sayain attacks.[/footnote], which is why it isn't actually brought up in the story.

 

[Erttheking]

As some people point out, they still pop up, just not as often. Probably because the series got less comedic and more dark as time went on. Plus more things kept popping up that left less room for them on the stage.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Yeah, Akira Toriyama is notorious for not remembering his own story plots. When asked why Launch wasn't in Z he said, "I forgot she existed." So he most likely forgot about the other stuff too. I'm amazed how successful he is given that his writing style is seemingly by the seat of his pants and making everything up as he goes along.

Most likely this. I've done a lot of reflecting on Dragon Ball in the last several years esp. since the new stuff has come out and I've come to the realization that while Toriyama is a great artist, he's a terrible writer.

 

[Saelune]

Simple, Dragonball was good, Dragonball Z wasnt. Sure, DGZ helped get me into anime, but then I also liked Smash Mouth's music at the same age.

 

[PapaGreg096]

Simple, Dragonball was good, Dragonball Z wasnt. Sure, DGZ helped get me into anime, but then I also liked Smash Mouth's music at the same age.

I don't know DBZ had some great pieces here and there hell the Android Saga is one of my favorite Shonen arcs

 

[Saelune]

Simple, Dragonball was good, Dragonball Z wasnt. Sure, DGZ helped get me into anime, but then I also liked Smash Mouth's music at the same age.

I don't know DBZ had some great pieces here and there hell the Android Saga is one of my favorite Shonen arcs

Its not like every single moment of DBZ is bad, but overall Ive come to realize its really not that good, especially compared to Dragonball, which when I first saw it, thought it was a prequel, but stuff actually happens in it, and its a far more interesting world.

 

[PapaGreg096]

Simple, Dragonball was good, Dragonball Z wasnt. Sure, DGZ helped get me into anime, but then I also liked Smash Mouth's music at the same age.

I don't know DBZ had some great pieces here and there hell the Android Saga is one of my favorite Shonen arcs

Its not like every single moment of DBZ is bad, but overall Ive come to realize its really not that good, especially compared to Dragonball, which when I first saw it, thought it was a prequel, but stuff actually happens in it, and its a far more interesting world.

Yeah its basically baby's first anime

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Change in tone and some overbearing editorial decisions most likely.

EDIT: To elaborate an example, you know Androids 19 and 20?

They were supposed to be the bad guys for the android arc. You can kinda tell Andriod 20 didn't start out as being Dr. Gero if you listen to his early dialogue.

Editorial didn't like that, so Toriyama had to have 16, 17, and 18 replace them. Which I'm glad he did, because they were awesome. But they weren't bad guy enough for the editors. So we get time-traveling, power absorbing Cell...but he's to bug like, so Toriyama had to have him evolve. Then Semi-perfect Cell was too British, and etc. Makes me wonder how many new bad guys and forms they made Toriyama come up with in the Buu saga. Which bad guys were his original idea and which did he make because Editorial wanted something cooler.

 

[SweetShark]

Change in tone and some overbearing editorial decisions most likely.

EDIT: To elaborate an example, you know Androids 19 and 20?

They were supposed to be the bad guys for the android arc. You can kinda tell Andriod 20 didn't start out as being Dr. Gero if you listen to his early dialogue.

Editorial didn't like that, so Toriyama had to have 16, 17, and 18 replace them. Which I'm glad he did, because they were awesome. But they weren't bad guy enough for the editors. So we get time-traveling, power absorbing Cell...but he's to bug like, so Toriyama had to have him evolve. Then Semi-perfect Cell was too British, and etc. Makes me wonder how many new bad guys and forms they made Toriyama come up with in the Buu saga. Which bad guys were his original idea and which did he make because Editorial wanted something cooler.

Very interesting I must admit. Thank you for telling me.
So in Buu Saga the original Villain was the Red Devil with the blue suit?

 

[CaitSeith]

Who knows? A change in direction when Dragon Ball became Dragon Ball Z? DB had lots of fantasy and mythological concepts. I remember the first World Martial Arts Tournament in the anime even had a winged dinosaur (Giran) as an opponent against Goku, and no one (in the torunament) saw it as a big deal. The big deal happened in the 3rd tournament when Piccolo's disguise was destroyed; but not because he was a green alien (even disguised it was obvious he was green). It was because his previous incarnation destroyed a big part of a city with a single blow when trying to conquer the world a few years before, and people recognized him.

DBZ replaced lots of those concepts with sci-fi, and made monsters and anthropomorphic people a rare thing in Earth.