"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

[Kuririn Fan]

Manga is still useless imo, since it's not by Toriyama and it's a monthly promotion for the anime.

In the beginning it was only that. But the manga version grew up and become much more.

It started to have a monthly size (which is something that should have since the beginning) and it's own fanbase. Even thought it skipped ROF arc, people reading only the manga will still understand what's going on.

No, it didn't, it's still that.

[jplaya2023]

i don't understand, why in these "interviews" readers continually ask AT these softball questions.

We need to ask him the following:

1. Was gohan a ssj2 vs dabura or ssj(like you drew in the story)
2. How much was 18 holding back against trunks and goten.
3. Are base saiyans stronger than frieza, if not how could vegeta possibly think he's beating 18 and or piccolo in base
4. Why didn't vegeta obtain SSJ3. (probably has to be dead or be in a fusion body to do so)
5 etc.. etc...

[Kuririn Fan]

My "imo" still stands.

Fair enough. The manga is held back as a promotion and really I think should have been the main and only product. In small quantity it's already more entertaining than the anime, and if it was given the full go ahead to tell the full story, it'd be much greater.

Only product? No.
It should be weekly with Toyotaro drawing and Toriyama giving scripts and approving.
Then, after a year or so, anime starts, with normal non-rushed production with a little filler here and there, so it won't catch up to the manga.
But, no, this is just anime promo.

[dbzfan7]

My "imo" still stands.

Fair enough. The manga is held back as a promotion and really I think should have been the main and only product. In small quantity it's already more entertaining than the anime, and if it was given the full go ahead to tell the full story, it'd be much greater.

Only product? No.
It should be weekly with Toyotaro drawing and Toriyama giving scripts and approving.
Then, after a year or so, anime starts, with normal non-rushed production with a little filler here and there, so it won't catch up to the manga.
But, no, this is just anime promo.

Yes that would be the best way to do it. But I'd wait longer than a year or so. I'd wait til there is a big sizable chunk of the series, that the anime can't catch up to too easily. I don't think a year or two is enough time.

[Lord Beerus]

i don't understand, why in these "interviews" readers continually ask AT these softball questions.

We need to ask him the following:

1. Was gohan a ssj2 vs dabura or ssj(like you drew in the story)
2. How much was 18 holding back against trunks and goten.
3. Are base saiyans stronger than frieza, if not how could vegeta possibly think he's beating 18 and or piccolo in base
4. Why didn't vegeta obtain SSJ3. (probably has to be dead or be in a fusion body to do so)
5 etc.. etc...

And the first response Toriyama will give when asked the first question is: "Who's Dabura?"

[Kuririn Fan]

The original Dragon Ball started year and 3 months after the manga. I don't know, maybe they could wait a little longer. But that would all happen in a perfect world.

[Kuririn Fan]

i don't understand, why in these "interviews" readers continually ask AT these softball questions.

We need to ask him the following:

1. Was gohan a ssj2 vs dabura or ssj(like you drew in the story)
2. How much was 18 holding back against trunks and goten.
3. Are base saiyans stronger than frieza, if not how could vegeta possibly think he's beating 18 and or piccolo in base
4. Why didn't vegeta obtain SSJ3. (probably has to be dead or be in a fusion body to do so)
5 etc.. etc...

And the first response Toriyama will give when asked the first question is: "Who's Dabura?"

And second response: "Fuck power levels! I only introduced them to show how unreliable and meaningless they were. That much i remember!"

[dbzfan7]

i don't understand, why in these "interviews" readers continually ask AT these softball questions.

We need to ask him the following:

1. Was gohan a ssj2 vs dabura or ssj(like you drew in the story)
2. How much was 18 holding back against trunks and goten.
3. Are base saiyans stronger than frieza, if not how could vegeta possibly think he's beating 18 and or piccolo in base
4. Why didn't vegeta obtain SSJ3. (probably has to be dead or be in a fusion body to do so)
5 etc.. etc...

And the first response Toriyama will give when asked the first question is: "Who's Dabura?"

The second would be...I dunno. He doesn't really give a shit about power levels . I think maybe the closest we've had is the God scale he made up, and him saying Goku and Vegeta wouldn't surpass Beerus any time soon. All that past stuff though, he couldn't care less about.

[VegettoEX]

These are not "readers" asking these questions, and these interviews are not done by press doing investigative journalism. They are very carefully crafted, selected, and edited before they are ever presented to you. They are an extension of the marketing for the product.

Contrary to what strength debate folks like to think, they are a small minority and there is next to no interest from both the general readership and the people actually producing the franchise in having anyone bother to clarify these questions. Furthermore, it's widely accepted that any answers to those questions will just be disregarded ANYWAY due to self-imposed rules and theories in these communities, so why bother pandering to an audience that's inherently not going to listen to what you have to say, anyway? They'll toss something out like the 6/10/15 every once in a while, and that's more than enough.

[Sonicjamareiz]

Meh I never really liked reading the Super manga it gets boring and it lacks emotion it kind of reminds me of that DBAF fan manga

[FortuneSSJ]

Meh I never really liked reading the Super manga it gets boring and it lacks emotion it kind of reminds me of that DBAF fan manga

How ironic is that?!

[Hellspawn28]

Would've loved if one of the interviewers asked Toriyama about how many episodes Dragonball Super will roughly be.

They will keep on making episodes as long if the show sells well. So no one knows how many episodes are plan.

Didn't the Dragon Ball Super: Start Guide hint that villains other than Freeza may return, using Ginyu & Cell as examples? Eventually, Ginyu really did return in Super.

Cell is likely not going to return going by this interview.

Can we expect a Dragon Ball Resurrection ‘C’ movie, since Cell is the next Dragon Ball villain?

Yamamuro: (laughs) As an animator, I would not like that, since Cell's complicated design is really hard to draw. When he is standing still, it doesn't matter, but when he is moving, because of all the spots on his body, it takes so long to draw him every time. You have to calculate how he's going to move perfectly, and then you have to check and recheck the result every time. That's so much work!

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature ... all/.99269

[JulieYBM]

Yamamuro said he doesn't want to have Cell return, not that Cell won't return. Heck, it's not like Yamamuro need to be involved anyway, either.

[KidGoku>3]

Can't believe people are still getting hung up on who did what or won which matches when things are really getting bizarre and interesting and feeling perfectly Dragon Ball at this stage.

Tell me about it.

I think I've had enough of it and thankfully there is an ignore function which I'm going to use from now on by adding each member who is more obsessed with who wins/loses gets enough screentime all the while hating on others because of instead of enjoying that we are actually getting new DB content. Because it's the same every week, it's rinse and repeat. I mean I want Gohan to get more time too, I want to see him fight, maybe not main character material but 2nd 3rd or 4th type of character. But that doesn't mean I'm going to hate on Vegeta or Goku or any other character.

[KidGoku>3]

I'm willing to bet that Goku using the Kaio-ken at such a level will be a very mild increase compared to the ten-fold or even three-fold increases of the past, and will leave him utterly exhausted afterward.

This means that goku could have used ssj with kk.

Ehmm not really. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Kaoiken a god technique ? SSJ he wouldn't be able to sustain/contain it.
Well it would make sense that Goku would only be able to sustain that move now that he has access to God ki. It wouldn't make much sense if this leaves him exhausted afterwards.

Which is why it would make perfect sense for him to use Kaoiken now that he has god ki so he should be able to control it without getting exhausted like when he used it before.

[namekiansaiyan]

Can't believe people are still getting hung up on who did what or won which matches when things are really getting bizarre and interesting and feeling perfectly Dragon Ball at this stage.

Tell me about it.

I think I've had enough of it and thankfully there is an ignore function which I'm going to use from now on by adding each member who is more obsessed with who wins/loses gets enough screentime all the while hating on others because of instead of enjoying that we are actually getting new DB content. Because it's the same every week, it's rinse and repeat. I mean I want Gohan to get more time too, I want to see him fight, maybe not main character material but 2nd 3rd or 4th type of character. But that doesn't mean I'm going to hate on Vegeta or Goku or any other character.

Because it is new Dragonball content is the worst reason to defend and ignore all of Dragonaball super's problems.The criticism after each episode is valid as the same problems keep happening in this show and some are getting worse.

[skaw17]

This title is fake? or not?


第041話「出でよ神の龍　そして願いを叶えてちょんまげ！」 - can somebody translate?

[Ajay]

This title is fake? or not?
第041話「出でよ神の龍　そして願いを叶えてちょんまげ！」 - can somebody translate?

If you pulled it from GojiitaAF's page, then it's very likely fake. There's absolutely zero physical evidence yet (magazine scans, for example) that indicates any Episode 41 title being available.

[Sodhi]

This title is fake? or not?
第041話「出でよ神の龍　そして願いを叶えてちょんまげ！」 - can somebody translate?

If you pulled it from GojiitaAF's page, then it's very likely fake. There's absolutely zero physical evidence yet (magazine scans, for example) that indicates any Episode 41 title being available.

Its actually confirmed fake, nemurenatta in twitter said The episode 40 title on the post does not match what is on the scan(same goes for #41). Alakhazm has the right translation.It is likely taken from people talking in 2chan.

According to herms the title translates to "Come forth, dragon of the gods, and grant my wish pretty peas", the phrase Zuno said to use for the Super DBs

[Sandubadear]

Though if you look at the scan, it really looks like there's Episode 41 there, but it was cut from the photo.


Here, see? It has even a 5.1, which is the day Episode 41 will fall.