"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

[Dbzfan94]

Sorry if this was already discussed, but what if the rumor of the 'white-haired villain' turns out to be Vados?

[Chuquita]

I partly wonder if they didn't mean Freeza. They said white, but not white-haired. If it was talking about why bluper is blue, wouldn't that have been the relevant arc? If not Freeza, then why would they need to change from white to blue there, design wise? I could be wrong.

[TheDevilsCorpse]

I partly wonder if they didn't mean Freeza. They said white, but not white-haired. If it was talking about why bluper is blue, wouldn't that have been the relevant arc? If not Freeza, then why would they need to change from white to blue there, design wise? I could be wrong.

I completely agree. But as others have noted before, including myself and Herms, Toriyama does phrase it weird. Resurrection F has already been released, the anime adaptation of the arc had probably started by the point the interview was conducted. So it begs the question that if he meant Freeza, why not just say Freeza?

Also, he didn't just do the designs for the film, he wrote the whole script. Surely he would know that there's not really a lot of overlap for clashing colors of a white-haired Super Saiyan when Freeza's going gold... (Though the irony of the color swap for Saiyans becoming white and Freeza going gold would have been hilarious.)

[Dbzfan94]

I partly wonder if they didn't mean Freeza. They said white, but not white-haired. If it was talking about why bluper is blue, wouldn't that have been the relevant arc? If not Freeza, then why would they need to change from white to blue there, design wise? I could be wrong.

I completely agree. But as others have noted before, including myself and Herms, Toriyama does phrase it weird. Resurrection F has already been released, the anime adaptation of the arc had probably started by the point the interview was conducted. So it begs the question that if he meant Freeza, why not just say Freeza?

Also, he didn't just do the designs for the film, he wrote the whole script. Surely he would know that there's not really a lot of overlap for clashing colors of a white-haired Super Saiyan when Freeza's going gold... (Though the irony of the color swap for Saiyans becoming white and Freeza going gold would have been hilarious.)

Yeah one of my first thoughts was that he meant Freeza as well. It's strange. I've just been suspicious of Vados since her introduction and this ambiguous quote just has me thinking it might be her, if anyone.

[DranzerX13]

Do think episode 39 will be delayed till next week? ANN has confirmed that Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Assassination Classroom S2, Sinbad animes ep for the week will be delayed to next week due to the news coverage of the Earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture.
All 3 of those anime air on Friday's... hopefully DB Super's 39 doesn't get delayed.

[Blade]

Do think episode 39 will be delayed till next week? ANN has confirmed that Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Assassination Classroom S2, Sinbad animes ep for the week will be delayed to next week due to the news coverage of the Earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture.
All 3 of those anime air on Friday's... hopefully DB Super's 39 doesn't get delayed.

It's possible and we should be prepared for it. It would be a delay for a justified reason - people have died.

It's also worth pointing out that the Kumamoto quake is been the strongest since the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, so there's more of a heightened sensitivity around it than usual in Japan.

The Japanese pride themselves on their resilience and their ability to function as close to normal as possible following setbacks - but with something so horrible still so recent in the memory, it's a whole different story.

[Godgoku95]

i would end super due to earthquake

[Chuquita]

Maybe it's just the violent shows that are getting put on hold? ANN said Haven't you Heard, I'm Sakamoto and Shounen Maid are still airing despite the earthquake.

[Sodhi]

I doubt kids slot(Dragon ball super) will show news coverage of earthquake.

[Godgoku95]

dragon ball super could be cancelled and be kAi all over again

[Gyt Kaliba]

I doubt kids slot(Dragon ball super) will show news coverage of earthquake.

You'd be surprised. There were plenty of times back in my own childhood when Saturday morning cartoons would get co-opted in favor of some striking news that needed to be reported on. I vividly remember one time Looney Tunes got interrupted for a report from Clinton about one of our planes going over someone else's air space, or vice versa.

Regardless, while I do hope we still get an episode this weekend, I hope even more so that the injury and death toll from the recent earthquake isn't too high, and that everyone affected by it is able to recover swiftly.

dragon ball super could be cancelled and be kAi all over again

How one feels about Super should be irrelevant in the light of the damages in Japan right now. Way not the time for that.

[kinisking]

Is there an actual possibility of super being cancelled because of the earthquake?

[sintzu]

Is there an actual possibility of super being cancelled because of the earthquake?

Of course not, Kai was already scheduled to be cancelled after ep98 but due to the earthquake it didn't air the next week cause a new show was already scheduled for that week.

[Sodhi]

Is there an actual possibility of super being cancelled because of the earthquake?

I dont think so, unless it happened right at the moment while super was airing.

[sintzu]

I doubt kids slot(Dragon ball super) will show news coverage of earthquake.

It might if they get another big one like they did in 2011 which hopefully won't happen.

[LuckyCat]

Fuji TV is currently airing its scheduled programming, so I wouldn't expect a delay.

[Araki]

I doubt kids slot(Dragon ball super) will show news coverage of earthquake.

It just happened to One Piece a few weeks ago, an episode was interrupted and delayed thanks to an earthquake that had just happened.

There's more than 24 hours until DBS, so it probably won't be delayed, though, unless something else newsworthy happens till there.

Maybe it's just the violent shows that are getting put on hold? ANN said Haven't you Heard, I'm Sakamoto and Shounen Maid are still airing despite the earthquake.

That has nothing to do with it. Those shows aired/will air because they have multiple stations airing them at different timeslots, so missing a couple didn't affect them. Which is not the case of Kabaneri, AssClass and DBS, all big Fuji tv shows.

[Sodhi]

From what i can remember, one piece episode was interrupted a few weeks ago because of missile launch by north korea, and it was happening right at that moment.I dont remember it being anything to do with an earthquake. Yea but if it happened right at the moment as i have said above then they will switch to news broadcast.

[Godgoku95]

I wasn't aware about the missile

[DainIronfoot]

I partly wonder if they didn't mean Freeza. They said white, but not white-haired. If it was talking about why bluper is blue, wouldn't that have been the relevant arc? If not Freeza, then why would they need to change from white to blue there, design wise? I could be wrong.

I completely agree. But as others have noted before, including myself and Herms, Toriyama does phrase it weird. Resurrection F has already been released, the anime adaptation of the arc had probably started by the point the interview was conducted. So it begs the question that if he meant Freeza, why not just say Freeza?

Also, he didn't just do the designs for the film, he wrote the whole script. Surely he would know that there's not really a lot of overlap for clashing colors of a white-haired Super Saiyan when Freeza's going gold... (Though the irony of the color swap for Saiyans becoming white and Freeza going gold would have been hilarious.)

Yeah one of my first thoughts was that he meant Freeza as well. It's strange. I've just been suspicious of Vados since her introduction and this ambiguous quote just has me thinking it might be her, if anyone.

I've been stating the same thing in the Champa arc villain thread for the longest time. It's possible, lets wait and see