If Battle of Gods is successful

[Hellspawn28]

If Battle of Gods is successful then what do you think will happen next? Do you think Toei will make new DBZ movies once every year or two? It seem like after the 2008 Jump Special, we got more animated Dragon Ball stuff like Kai, Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans remake and Episode of Bardock. I think a new series would be cool, but I doubt we will see another one anytime soon since Kai is getting the Buu saga.

[JulieYBM]

If the film does very well we could probably see a new film every other year. With the defeat of Kai still fresh in their minds and numerous animated series' already in production I don't think we'll see a new series for a while. The earliest I would expect a new series is 2014, when the Dragon Ball comic turns thirty.

[samuraix123]

I hope that this movie takes off and we get more new movies and little specials here and there. 2013 is going to be great as it is though
Battle of the Gods
Boo Saga for Kai
maybe Funimation will release The Movies or the original Dragonball Dragon-boxes? I'm sure there's more, I'm just not thinking about it. My only hope is that Funimation does end up dubbing ''Battle of the Gods''

[Hellspawn28]

I guess they could do a movie that also takes before #17 & #18 or after the Cell games. A movie that takes place after GT but before Heroes Legacy would be cool to see, but I doubt it will happen given how GT is unpopular in Japan.

[CaBrPi]

I want a movie taking place between the 23rd TB and Raditz's arrival... Preferably leaving Goku out of the picture.

[Hellspawn28]

I won't mind seeing that happening. They could try to do a movie based on what if events. It could be a Twilight Zone style movie where the movie has three parts that deals with different what if's.

[Titan]

A new series would be perfect, but, the approach would have to be different.

[Sin]

I can't see it happening but I would love to revisit the future timeline, maybe see Future Trunks taking on a time traveling enemy.

[Puto]

I'd like to see a special about Boo's backstory: his creation, the annihilation of the Kaiō-Shin, him getting sealed by Bibbidi in the ball, etc.

[Gyt Kaliba]

If it does well, I can sort of see us getting a new one or special every so many years. Like...we....kinda, technically, sorta, already have been. Huh. Maybe that wouldn't be that different. Well, hopefully if this does well, they'd realize it was because they did better work on it, and take more care with future installments, anyway.

I don't really see us getting a new series out of it though. What I'd want best in one, or for this to happen in the new specials, is to get one every so often that details the backstory of a character that never got one really, like a special on Yamucha's past, one on Kuririn's, and so on.

[AgitoZ]

Honestly, I'd rather have the franchise take a break for a while. With the voice actors getting older and junk I kinda want this movie, or another soon to follow, to be a last hurrah. Take a break, reintroduce the franchise to everyone with a new work starring the replacements.

The only problem with that is if the movie is successful then there's no chance of that happening. With that in mind, a bit more realistic thought would be for the franchise to go the Lupin III route, have a new special here or there. Maybe a new series afterwards.

But this is all related to the animation side. If this somehow sparks an interest in Toriyama to do more DB related comics I would love for him to do that. No full blown series, but a special here or there. I also hope that these specials and the animated ones will not follow the tired movie formula. Let's hang out with Boo and Satan, spend a day on God's tower, see what Upa is up to, or anything else.

[Hellspawn28]

Honestly, I'd rather have the franchise take a break for a while.

Don't you think that the DB franchise had a break already before 2008? Before the 2008 Jump Special, we never got much DB related stuff other then video games, new DVD's and toy merchandise. Those are cool and all, but they can't hold off everyone forever since most fans are not into collecting.

[linkdude20002001]

I would love new movies, or something like Dragon Ball: Brotherhood. :3
I mean, if they went back and re-did the show without filler, and with a good, accurate art style, I'd be so happy. ^.^
And maybe a re-orchestrated Kikuchi score.

[AgitoZ]

Don't you think that the DB franchise had a break already before 2008? Before the 2008 Jump Special, we never got much DB related stuff other then video games, new DVD's and toy merchandise. Those are cool and all, but they can't hold off everyone forever since most fans are not into collecting.

No, I don't. A ton of merchandise, i.e. the thing that keeps the franchise alive, was still being released. They apparently held off a lot people since IIRC the best sales from the franchise were in 2007.

Now, let's say I did agree with you. What does that matter? It's been six years, the franchise can have another.

[SRB2Unleashed]

I still want either a new OVA or TV series that focuses on different stories of Dragon Ball outside of the main story.

DB Chronicles man

I mean focuses small story arcs on new characters or old characters (ex. story arc Ginyu Force uniting, story arc on a new Saiyan struggling with his/her life as a soldier for Freeza leading up the Saiyan genocide)

Focus on the other aspects on DB life. Life on New or Old Namek.

So many possibilities with those routes.

[InfernalVegito]

I finally want an animation where either Gogeta or Vegetto go all out for once and fight as if there were no tomorrow.

[BlazingFiddlesticks]

Honestly, I'd rather have the franchise take a break for a while.

Don't you think that the DB franchise had a break already before 2008? Before the 2008 Jump Special, we never got much DB related stuff other then video games, new DVD's and toy merchandise.

That's not dead, though, that's evergreen. That's basically doing what Star Wars has been doing for fifty years now (Granted, Star Wars has gotten major new content, but it also has a greater capacity for major new content). I would think, to insert my thoughts, that Agito thinks the series needs something closer to a hiatus; the same way it did in Japan when GT ended and Dragon Ball had finally burnt itself out after going ten years straight. At this point I think the Western fandom, least as far as I've seen in the States, is feeling a similar sense of drag, even with all the new material. Amazing as Dragon Ball's continue relevance is, if the series is ultimately and irrevocably finished, barring Shusehia ordering a continuation not by Toriyama, that puts a very fundamental cap on what more can be done with it. It always has.

That said, I'm not opposed to getting new stuff like Battle of Gods, not at all, I'm excited for this, but only if it's paced in such a way that Dragon Ball doesn't pretend it's new again. As much good as Kai did, we know how those efforts turn out.

[Cipher]

Amazing as Dragon Ball's continue relevance is, if the series is ultimately and irrevocably finished, barring Shusehia ordering a continuation not by Toriyama, that puts a very fundamental cap on what more can be done with it. It always has.

That is, assuming it remains the singular, author-driven story it has for the past twenty-some years.

Personally, I wouldn't mind it taking on the looser approach of a large fiction-based franchise. And to that effect, I'd welcome an anime or manga remake or reinterpretation.

[JulieYBM]

Honestly, I'd rather have the franchise take a break for a while.

Don't you think that the DB franchise had a break already before 2008? Before the 2008 Jump Special, we never got much DB related stuff other then video games, new DVD's and toy merchandise.

That's not dead, though, that's evergreen. That's basically doing what Star Wars has been doing for fifty years now (Granted, Star Wars has gotten major new content, but it also has a greater capacity for major new content).

Fifty years? I think you mean Star Trek, which turns fifty in 2016. Star Wars just turned thirty-five this year.

[gohan2k]

Honestly, I'd rather have the franchise take a break for a while. With the voice actors getting older and junk I kinda want this movie, or another soon to follow, to be a last hurrah. Take a break, reintroduce the franchise to everyone with a new work starring the replacements.

Yeah I agree with the point of the voice actors are getting quite old now (naturally this isn't a problem as much for the American version but is definitely a major one for the Japanese).

For now I'd like to see a couple more movies but if they want to keep the series going long-term they're going to have to expand the universe a lot more. With the way the Dragonball story is structured (in a linear time line) there's only a finite amount of stories you could tell with the current cast.

Star Wars, for example, expanded to move beyond the core characters of the original trilogy, admittedly with mixed results, but as a result the franchises life has been extended indefinitely.

Dragonball on the other hand is very tied to Goku and co which does severely limit its potential lifespan. Now most of the world has seen the original story it will just eventually die off unless we start seeing a wider variety of characters.

Episode of Bardock is probably the first example of the universe expanding but we'd need to see a new TV series, or series of movies based on a different set of characters for the lifespan of the series to continue on.