@Monkey:
Right now I'm rereading the whole series, and I've been keeping a keen eye out for that. There were lots of animal people at the 23rd Budokai, that's the last time I've seen them, but there haven't been barely any urban scenes since (Nappa blowing up East City, and a shot or two at the hospital after the battle), I'm going to pay close attention during the Cell and Boo arcs to see if it really is true that Toriyama just up and stopped having casual anthropomorphic people in his world lol.
On that subject, was there any reason why it seemed like people forgot about the types of tournaments Goku, Roshi, and the others seemed to have? My memory's probably just messing with me, but I'm pretty sure I don't remember Hercule ever using any type of energy attack, so it seems weird how people mistake him as the strongest in the world.