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Idk, I would think fans were fanboying harder in the 90's when DB was all the shit and made for the poster boy for the Golden Age of JumpMaybe 20+ years later people fanboy hard over every aspect of old Z and use it religiously?
Gohan didn't have lightning in the manga and his aura matches that of a regular SSJ, which is further distinguished from that of grade 2, SSJ2 and SSJ3 through it being less rough. And AT was actually quite meticulous with not having consistent lightning sparks on SSJ1 characters or even the foes after SSJ2's introduction, I would say his disinterest in picking his own series back up throughout the decades since the OG manga's publication made him forget.
Even as late as the early 2000s he had #18's blonde/platinum blonde hair color down in his own Kanzenban covers, forgetting that when he's seen every episode of his own anime that's always in full color is a bit
even for SSJ2 is distinguishable through consistent use of sparks and most fights in the Boo arc where it wasn't necessary to jump to SSJ3 or fusion had the characters use SSJ2 instead. And the hair difference of Galu is still distinct in itself since the bangs are drawn to be sticking up in SSJ2 unlike the 3 grades of SSJ1 where it's basically the same hair with differences only in aura and muscle mass. And if Toei cared about the series as much as the fanboys do as you said they should've taken some level of effort to stay true to the SSJ2 form's use as the more powerful of the pre-SSJ3 forms in the manga, since Vegeta literally doesn't have a single serious fight in SSJ1 in the manga after Cell (him only using it to spar with Trunks and blow up part of the Budokai audience) and Galu only really used SSJ1 to feed Yakon energy and for his last push on the Genki Dama. In the Boo arc both Galu and Vegeta used SSJ2 as the preferred combat form over SSJ, except in situations where SSJ3 or fusion was needed. They could've made GT Vegeta's hair the same as his base form in SSJ and spikier in SSJ2, given Gohan's design extra bangs instead of all his hair being slicked upwards, made Trunks' two hair strands falling over his head in SSJ1 stand up straight in SSJ2 like in the DBS manga, etc. AT at least gave SSJ2 some level of shine with it being Vegeta's full power and it filling up half of Boo's meter with only Gohan's energy and so on, yet prior to DBS episode 48 the form was essentially treated as that thing that appears every 50 episodes except in situations where Galu is explaining how the first three forms work.
