Koitsukai wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:06 pm
Yuji wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:53 am
Assuming they intend on adapting the movies and the manga arcs, it would be a lot of episodes before any new content.
8-12 for Broly
12 for Moro
8-12 for Granolah
8-12 for Superhero
The movie retellings, if they actually happen, could be done in less episodes. I mean, Broly is basically just one big fight, and some Freeza, Bardock and Paragus, 10 episodes sounds like too much. They have enough material to buy as much time as they like with whatever arc they choose to focus on.
Moro seems to need more episodes than 12, though. As long as they don't trim down anything.
The Granny arc probably 10 episodes, it's pretty straightforward and several chapters seem to have tons of filler just to get to the cliffhanger in time.
In 40 episodes they probably can cover movies and manga arcs.
Yeah, there's no way the Moro arc will only get a
quarter of the amount of episodes that the ToP arc got. (The ToP arc was covered in episodes 77-131. 55 episodes total. Casual reminder that Vegito vs Zamasu is the halfway point of the anime.) I can't see the retelling phase taking less than a year, personally.
I agree that a retelling of DBS Broly would be short, absolutely. Roughly 8 episodes should be enough to cover everything in pretty high detail.
Moving on, though, you could probably give the Moro arc 26 episodes without it feeling too stretched out. 2 episodes would probably already have passed by the time we'd get to that cliffhanger where Goku sensed out Moro's energy and Moro noticed it, and by the time "Grand Supreme Kai Buu" would be done fighting Moro, we'd probably be on episode 6 or 7. Then there's all the training stuff, and then all the Earth stuff with the Z Fighter segments and the bandits, and then Moro, Moro + 7-3, Moro + Merus, Moro + Earth, the ending... It's easily 20+ episodes' worth of content all in all in my opinion. If Broly got 8, then maybe Moro can get 22, for a total of 30 episodes between them.
For the Granolah arc, I think it'd be shorter than the Moro arc, since so many chapters have been spent on a pretty small number of fights, which is content Toei would probably burn through really quickly. We'll have to see how it ends, obviously, but up to where we are now with Goku vs Gas, I think roughly 12 episodes should be enough, and the full arc might be something like 15 episodes, depending on the ending.
I'm honestly not even gonna try to tackle DBSSH at this point, even hypothetically. We just don't know anywhere near enough about the movie and its plot. We don't even know if Toyotaro's next arc will be before or after the movie yet. Without any info, I guess we can just say 10 episodes as an incredibly rough estimate?
So from all that we'd get 8+22+15+10 = 55 episodes, not counting any slice-of-life content between the arcs which could totally be made. And that still leaves out that next manga arc that we don't know about yet. However, the majority of it would be content that's never been animated before, so I think it'd be more or less fine to let the anime spend 1-1.5 years on retellings before going into "new territory".