User blog comment:DuttPanda/GODDAMN IT SUPER/@comment-26814804-20170124033403/@comment-26814804-20170124223354

Shit, I forgot about her. Was she canon?

Also, of course, he has the right to put as many dudes in his anime as he wants, I'm sure as hell not claiming he doesn't. Only reason I changed my character was because, simply, why not? She didn't have anything in her story the way I've thought it out that insists she needs to be male, so I changed things up, given that I was making her page literally as I had this conversation.

So yeah,  Toriyama absolutely has the right to write the story however he sees fit. Doesn't make it any less male-centric, and doesn't make spawning female characters virtually entirely for the purpose of being wives and baby-makers and less sexist.

But given we have at least four legitimately powerful female characters, at least two of which are still relevant, there's not TOO much to complain about.