Re: Nuclear Bombs - Don't Underestimate the Damage
Regardless, there are elements in filler that openly contradict what he writes in the manga, and he let Toei take liberties with how they approach filler scenes to the point that when he is asked about some of them in interviews, he admits he has no idea what they are talking about. For example, one of the interviews he did for Shonen Jump, he was asked who he thought was stronger between Paikuhan and Pikkoro. His response was that he had no idea who Paikuhan was, and when shown a character sketch he had made of the character for Toei, he said that he recognized the drawing, but he had done nothing else with the character than just that.
Besides, that interview has been proven to be a fake. It was Toei that implimented the Z as a way of distinguishing the Dragonball anime from the Z anime (because they are oriented differently, with DB aimed more towards comedy and Z aimed more towards action) because Toriyama-sensei didn't separate them, as he considered them to be a single continual story, not separate pieces.
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