TheMikado wrote:Xeztin wrote:Actually the Yu-Gi-Oh GX, 5D's, Zexal, Arc V all have manga completely different than the anime. Some of them are still going even to this day even though their anime counterpart ended years ago. That's probably the direction the Super manga is headed to keep people interested, because unless your a hardcore DB or manga fan, you probably don't want to read something that you already watched that's exactly the same. There's also other series that does this like Pokemon.
This actually makes sense and something I'd be happy with. So to answer other posters the manga and anime could likely split into different storylines and be two seperate products entirely which I would be more than fine with.
The Dragon Ball Super manga is most likely selling well, so I don't see it ending anytime soon. Toriyama isn't a full-fledged manga artist anymore and probably doesn't care about "No, this is how it really happened, this is canon" It's very possible for him to say stuff in interviews, and contradict himself months or years after. He probably forget's what he says the day after he does an interview. Not only that but you have editor's from Toei editing his script that might change something completely contradictory to what he said in the past and he's obviously okay with it.
He, Toei, or even Toyotaro could potentially have Goten go SSJ4 without any explanation what-so-ever and we'd just have to deal with it. I think people really need to stop trying to make a canon or make sense of everything, Dragon Ball is slowly becoming like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon, I've preached it since Super's announcement that there will be plenty of spin-offs, retellings, games, figures that didn't appear in any material, anything that will sell. Examples: DB Heroes, DB Fusions, three different retellings of the same source material etc. Whatever sells it's going to be milked to hell and back.
Toriyama's getting older, he isn't like Oda or Kishimoto anymore to where there are boundary's that the author simply won't allow. It's not that he doesn't respect his creation, but he has a different view of it in his older age, something us fan's basically worship, he's forgotten about like his characters. He's had plenty of time to separate himself from something he probably wouldn't let anyone tinker with during it's serial. The money he makes certainly isn't going to make him look any different at it; if it's making money, why change it?
I think we simply need to accept what fan-bases like Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Pokemon have, and accept it's not the original serial 20 years ago that's a labor of love more than it's for the money. Dragon Ball Super's entire purpose is to make money and sell merchandise to children, not tell masterpieces of a story like it used to be. If a person can't accept that, he or she can always look back at the original material that made them like it in the first place and ignore the new.
