It's not cynical, it's just business.Locust wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 9:36 amThis seems like an impossible thing to judge - no one knows what the future will bring, what will be created
Regardless, Dragon Ball simply makes too much money for companies to just drop the IP. That's a cold, hard, cynical fact.
Companies will keep using it to make various media based off it, and if that's the case, I would rather there was an attempt to make future creations the best they possibly can be
I get that but holding out hope that the story has some unrealized potential well after the original conclusion is silly. New DB is about as good as it possibly can be. There's nowhere new for the story to go that isn't same song, different verse.
An adaptation of a work is different than an outright continuation at least in this context given how close the anime adhered to the manga. Super is a sequel created by different authors so yes, my point applies here. It's quasi-DB. The DB I'm referring to is the original run. Super is close but no cigar. Even if Toriyama were still writing, it might have the same voice, but there's no more lightning in a bottle. Also, how many revivals can you think of that are as good as when they left off?Assuming you're referring to a theoretical reboot in this sense, then does this also reflect your view on the original anime, and the Super anime?
Yes, it's based on Toriyama's writings, but he's far from a singular auteur with one vision driving every aspect of it, the various directors, writers, etc. did their own thing with a lot of it, particularly Super, for which Toriyama only contributes rough outlines, similar to several filler storylines in the original run.