re: Dragon Ball Z

The reason is the creator had always wanted to push for Gohan being the main character after a certain point. Goku was supposed to be permanently dead after the second time, but readers weren't having any of that shite.. That's why Goku was brought back from the dead once again. After that he just said frick it with Gohan and made him irrelevant.


ETA: I google fu'd the story because it has been a while since I have even thought about this. It seems that the creator Akira Toriyama, changed his mind himself after evaluating Gohan and deciding that he couldn't carry the main role. I'm sure fan backlash played a little role, because there was quite a bit of resentment over Goku's second death.