"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

Discussion specifically regarding the "Dragon Ball Super" TV series premiering July 2015 in Japan, including individual threads for each episode.
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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by Chuquita » Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:50 am

I really think it's possible it could be today for summaries. Articles for other series in NewType just started showing up.
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Post by ArchedThunder » Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:06 am

Chuquita wrote:I really think it's possible it could be today for summaries. Articles for other series in NewType just started showing up.
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Post by namekiansaiyan » Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:12 am

ArchedThunder wrote:
Chuquita wrote:I really think it's possible it could be today for summaries. Articles for other series in NewType just started showing up.
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Prepare for extreme moaning and joy at the same time.

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Post by WhisPL » Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:21 am

It would appear now new titles ...

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Post by Lujin_16 » Tue Jun 07, 2016 11:28 am

namekiansaiyan wrote:
ArchedThunder wrote:
Chuquita wrote:I really think it's possible it could be today for summaries. Articles for other series in NewType just started showing up.
Everybody, hold on to your butts!
Prepare for extreme moaning and joy at the same time.

Gojiitaaf said later today...

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by shinmaru » Tue Jun 07, 2016 12:22 pm

Protege wrote:I was really hoping that evil black Goku would look something more like this on a cosmic spectre level!
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That's more something you see in Marvel characters.

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by Grimlock » Tue Jun 07, 2016 12:39 pm

shinmaru wrote:That's more something you see in Marvel characters.
Indeed, it looks like Goku is Eternity. Well, maybe the embodiment/appearance Universe 7 is Goku. :roll:

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by Kuririn Fan » Tue Jun 07, 2016 3:48 pm

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See, the thing is, the Brief's family hair color is inconsistent throughout the entire anime adaptation. Bulma's hair has gone from green, to a green-blue combo and now pure blue. If we're REALLY gonna be picky bastards over this, then Path to Power is the only one that gets it right. Hell, even Toriyama flip flopped on her hair color for the manga version.

Of all the things, more worthwhile things, to complain about with Super, I really don't think hair color for an already inconsistent family when it comes to that stuff is worth such heated debate over :P
Bulma's family doesn't have last name.

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by Hellspawn28 » Tue Jun 07, 2016 4:26 pm

If Black is from Future Trunks timeline deep into the future, so does that mean does Black also exist in Goku's and Cell's timeline also? In Cell's timeline, everyone is dead. So I guess Black ends up blowing up the Planet in Cell's timeline. I remember Future Trunk killed Cell, #17 and #18 in Age 788 in his timeline. So that would mean Black shows up probably in Age 789 in Trunks timeline.
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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by Alruneia » Tue Jun 07, 2016 4:27 pm

ekrolo2 wrote:Of all the things, more worthwhile things, to complain about with Super, I really don't think hair color for an already inconsistent family when it comes to that stuff is worth such heated debate over :P
I kinda agree, but kinda disagree with your point. Trunks and Future Trunks are supposed to be the same person from different timelines, though, and we'll see them at the same time now. Inconsistency between media (like Bulma's manga hair colour vs anime hair colour), or even between sagas (Bulma's BoG hair colour vs RoF hair colour), can be accepted, but this is a live inconsistency, and that's why it bothers me.
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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by ekrolo2 » Tue Jun 07, 2016 4:34 pm

Alruneia wrote:
ekrolo2 wrote:Of all the things, more worthwhile things, to complain about with Super, I really don't think hair color for an already inconsistent family when it comes to that stuff is worth such heated debate over :P
I kinda agree, but kinda disagree with your point. Trunks and Future Trunks are supposed to be the same person from different timelines, though, and we'll see them at the same time now. Inconsistency between media (like Bulma's manga hair colour vs anime hair colour), or even between sagas (Bulma's BoG hair colour vs RoF hair colour), can be accepted, but this is a live inconsistency, and that's why it bothers me.
I can see your point but it's not like its the first oddity between the Trunks'. For example, Kid Trunks in the Boo Saga doesn't really train and just play fights with Goten and he's implied to be close to Gohan, Goku and Vegeta in power. Future Trunks grew up with a master in a future where he actively fights on a daily basis and he's vastly inferior for.... no reason. Plus, Super and by extension the films are continuations of Z, where Bulma's hair is distinctively different from her present day one.
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See, the thing is, the Brief's family hair color is inconsistent throughout the entire anime adaptation. Bulma's hair has gone from green, to a green-blue combo and now pure blue. If we're REALLY gonna be picky bastards over this, then Path to Power is the only one that gets it right. Hell, even Toriyama flip flopped on her hair color for the manga version.

Of all the things, more worthwhile things, to complain about with Super, I really don't think hair color for an already inconsistent family when it comes to that stuff is worth such heated debate over :P
Bulma's family doesn't have last name.
I just assume it was Brief because that's what her dad is called. Usually when you call someone Doctor or Mister, you call them by their last name, not their first.
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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by Kuririn Fan » Tue Jun 07, 2016 4:35 pm

He's called Dr. Briefs and Bulma is just Bulma.
Bulma Briefs is dubism.

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by Cipher » Tue Jun 07, 2016 4:44 pm

Kuririn Fan wrote:He's called Dr. Briefs and Bulma is just Bulma.
Bulma Briefs is dubism.
To add to this, something -- I forget if it's a comment in the series or a guidebook tidbit -- doubles down on this by claiming that proper last names like Goku possesses are a bit of an anachronism/oddity in Dragon World.

In either case, it really does seem to be how their world operates, since Toriyama is way less shy about using last names in Dr. Slump. Or he just got tired of inventing them.

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by Herms » Tue Jun 07, 2016 4:54 pm

It's Videl in the Boo arc who tells Gohan that "these days" having a surname is pretty rare, hence her ability to deduce that Gohan must be related to that "Son Goku" fellow who won the tournament.

Toriyama backs this up in the SEG, explaining that Videl and Mr. Satan have no surname (it not being the custom "where they live"), and that therefore Mr. Satan's real name is simply "Mark" and nothing else.
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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by HybridSaiyan » Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:02 pm

I know it'll probably never happen but I'd love to see Vegeta in his Buu saga attire for this new arc. The saiyan battle armor is outdated in my opinion.

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by SaiyaSith » Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:17 pm

HybridSaiyan wrote:I know it'll probably never happen but I'd love to see Vegeta in his Buu saga attire for this new arc. The saiyan battle armor is outdated in my opinion.
He wore that because armor wasn't allowed in the tournament.

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by LightBing » Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:38 pm

I hope Goku and Vegeta return to their RoF clothes, they're pretty nice. As for the rest of the cast, changes all around please. Specially Piccolo! New haircut for Bulma, Yamcha and Gohan, this is Dragon Ball after all.

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by Sodhi » Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:40 pm

I really hope the ROF GI's are not dropped. In the preview we see goku in his regular gi.

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Post by Lord Beerus » Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:43 pm

Sodhi wrote:I really hope the ROF GI's are not dropped. In the preview we see goku in his regular gi.
I was thinking that the ROF gi would only be worn when Goku and Vegeta go SSJB and/or if they were going to be a serious fight, but with Goku going SSJB in his normal fighting gi and defeating a villain in the latest episode of Super, it seem as those the outfit were just a gimmick for a brief period of time.

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Re: Official Announcement Thread & Discussion

Post by SansrivaaL » Tue Jun 07, 2016 5:45 pm

At least Goku gets a change in gear, tho its Black Goku, but still Goku. Hopefully our Goku changes his getup to something new or at least to his RoF gi.

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