The man just died, and your initial reaction is "but his work was male centric". Find a better time.
Appealing to men is okay. Also, there are lots of women that also love and were inspired by Dragon Ball.
Only if you're interpreting my comment to be a criticism . I never used the word "but" nor intended to detract from the significance of his work; it was not suggestion that Toriyama Akira's work could be improved (i.e. by being less male centric).
And no, that was not my initial reaction. If it was, I would have left a top level comment to this end. I did leave a top level comment, recognizing his other work Dragon Quest (since Dragon Ball is already recognized by this HN audience). My comment, again, is a specific nitpicking of OP's claim.
> Appealing to men is okay.
I never said it was not okay.
Why is it bad to have a male centric story? Diversity means that we have some male centric stories, some female centric stories, and some stories with both. You don't "improve" things by making everything more similar, you just remove diversity.
You misread and understand the sentence you quoted.
I am not suggesting being less male centric is an improvement.