Even Akira Toriyama felt the mishandling of Gohan’s character. In the Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero pamphlet (translated by @Herms98), Akira Toriyama candidly addressed Gohan’s diminishing role in ...
The shonen world wouldn’t be nearly as iconic without Akira Toriyama. With Dragon Ball, the mangaka not only created many shonen tropes and trends but also popularized them among international ...
Let’s not forget that Toriyama, being a big fan of scale models and all kinds of vehicles, worked in his studio surrounded by scale models and even several real motorcycles.
Considering the amount of influence Toriyama had on Dragon Ball Daima before he passed , it would make sense that Akira would be looking to inject some past references into the new anime.