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In every anime characters either own multiple copies of the same suit, or they wear the same damn thing forever.

Gohan though? Starting when he was a kid, he had his traditional attire that he wore when he slammed into Raditz, he had the training gear, he had the frieza armor set, he had Namekian clothes, and he had whatever new training outfit he got when he fought Cell.

As an adult/teen, he has a proper suit, he has university attire, he has his saiyaman outfit, he has his adult sized training gear, he has his kai mystic Gohan suit and I've seen him wearing a tracksuit (in resurrection F).

In every other anime it's like the characters either have like a month's worth of the same attire, or they're wearing the same clothes everywhere they go for the rest of their lives! Gohan is practically a fashion model!

The DBZ verse in general has always been great for outfits, but Gohan's probably the character that has the highest number of outfits even in DBZ itself!

Yamcha had his bandit outfit in DB, and then a training outfit in DBZ and several changes of clothes as well for that matter; as did Tienshinhan and Krillin; Bulma also has a ton of clothing changes as well. DBZ has been fantastic in general for clothes!

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[โ€“] Kefla@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

This is something I've always liked about Dragon Ball tbh. Toriyama clearly likes playing dress up with his characters, and because of that he doesn't have the same mental block about designing new outfits that most artists have. When people blast each other with bombs or pure energy, their clothes get destroyed. So now they need new clothes. So they go get new clothes. When they aren't planning to fight, they don't need to be in their fighting clothes, so they go get new clothes. And so on.

I actually think Bulma probably has the most outfits because she's been wearing a new outfit at every possible opportunity for decades before Gohan existed.

[โ€“] Carl@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Something that gets missed a lot with Gohan is Chi-Chi's influence on his style. Her colors were blue and red, two colors that Gohan rocked at all ages in various forms.