"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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Post by sintzu » Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:12 pm

DBS916 wrote:I dread that happening but hope the next episode gives us something special for waiting so long. And yes a week is too long of a break.
It's funny how fans complain about Super yet we're the 1st ones to miss it when it's gone for just a week. :lol:
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Post by FortuneSSJ » Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:30 pm

Just took a look to Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2017

Dragon Ball keeps outselling One Piece and the gap got bigger. Gundam keeps being the top dog but the gap got shorter.
Dragon Ball franchise is doing fantastic lately and with Super officially taking over the world, it will just get better.
A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.

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Post by Lord Frieza » Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:38 pm

Hmmmmmm a giant wolf man......Toriyama is this inspired by what I think it is?

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Why do I keep having epiphanies right before the episode comes out?

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Post by ArchedThunder » Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:46 pm

FortuneSSJ wrote:Just took a look to Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2017

Dragon Ball keeps outselling One Piece and the gap got bigger. Gundam keeps being the top dog but the gap got shorter.
Dragon Ball franchise is doing fantastic lately and with Super officially taking over the world, it will just get better.
This franchise's continued growth is crazy.

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Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:53 pm

FortuneSSJ wrote:Just took a look to Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2017

Dragon Ball keeps outselling One Piece and the gap got bigger. Gundam keeps being the top dog but the gap got shorter.
Dragon Ball franchise is doing fantastic lately and with Super officially taking over the world, it will just get better.
After two failed attempts at a new brand (in GT and Kai) they finally got one to work! Guess third time was the charm. And yup Super's international roll out has just started so hopefully things can only get better for DB. I am kind of surprised by it's success in a way, it a series that hasn't started the strongest start, had a very slow international roll out, a majority of fans had to resort to piracy for the first year or so.

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Post by kinisking » Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:04 pm

Baggie_Saiyan wrote:
FortuneSSJ wrote:Just took a look to Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2017

Dragon Ball keeps outselling One Piece and the gap got bigger. Gundam keeps being the top dog but the gap got shorter.
Dragon Ball franchise is doing fantastic lately and with Super officially taking over the world, it will just get better.
After two failed attempts at a new brand (in GT and Kai) they finally got one to work! Guess third time was the charm. And yup Super's international roll out has just started so hopefully things can only get better for DB. I am kind of surprised by it's success in a way, it a series that hasn't started the strongest start, had a very slow international roll out, a majority of fans had to resort to piracy for the first year or so.
Well to be fair, kai was just Z so they had trouble selling more merchandise. The ratings were great though. It surpassed one piece a few times I think, not even Super has done that.
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Post by Jinzoningen MULE » Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:11 pm

kinisking wrote:Well to be fair, kai was just Z so they had trouble selling more merchandise. The ratings were great though. It surpassed one piece a few times I think, not even Super has done that.
They also made a similar mistake that Funimation did with their Dragon Box and Level releases of Z; they started releasing Kai immediately after Japan's standard home release finished. It only figures that people were burnt out on spending money on the Dragon Ball. I suspect that Kai would have been vastly more successful financially if they had waited until around 2012-2013. Of course, that may have offset Battle of Gods, and the entirety of modern Dragon Ball for that matter, so I guess it probably all worked out for the best that things happened the way they did.
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Post by ArchedThunder » Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:48 pm

April 19th? That's not the start of the cour, weird.

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Post by Shounen » Sat Mar 04, 2017 8:52 pm

ArchedThunder wrote:
April 19th? That's not the start of the cour, weird.
April 2nd.

Single will be released on April 19th.

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Post by Lord Beerus » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:02 pm

Damn. And I was really like the current ending. :(
FortuneSSJ wrote:Just took a look to Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2017

Dragon Ball keeps outselling One Piece and the gap got bigger. Gundam keeps being the top dog but the gap got shorter.
Dragon Ball franchise is doing fantastic lately and with Super officially taking over the world, it will just get better.
Holy shit. Dragon Ball Super is exactly what Toei and Bandai were hoping for: a money machine.

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Post by MagmonKai » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:51 pm

Lord Beerus wrote:
Damn. And I was really like the current ending. :(
FortuneSSJ wrote:Just took a look to Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2017

Dragon Ball keeps outselling One Piece and the gap got bigger. Gundam keeps being the top dog but the gap got shorter.
Dragon Ball franchise is doing fantastic lately and with Super officially taking over the world, it will just get better.
Holy shit. Dragon Ball Super is exactly what Toei and Bandai were hoping for: a money machine.

Are you surprised? They advertise the shit out of DBS though. They have Whis and Beerus doing a lot of commercials lol.

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Post by precita » Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:02 pm

One Piece has been airing forever. Dragonball Super is technically a new show even if its based on a franchise that's been going for 30 years.

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Post by Jinzoningen MULE » Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:13 pm

precita wrote:One Piece has been airing forever. Dragonball Super is technically a new show even if its based on a franchise that's been going for 30 years.
There's no point to judging it as a new show when it comes to popularity, though. It's a franchise with an ingrained fanbase, popularity, etc. The "technical" standpoint isn't all that useful here.
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Post by kinisking » Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:16 pm

MagmonKai wrote:
Lord Beerus wrote:
Damn. And I was really like the current ending. :(
FortuneSSJ wrote:Just took a look to Financial Highlights for the Third Quarter of the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2017

Dragon Ball keeps outselling One Piece and the gap got bigger. Gundam keeps being the top dog but the gap got shorter.
Dragon Ball franchise is doing fantastic lately and with Super officially taking over the world, it will just get better.
Holy shit. Dragon Ball Super is exactly what Toei and Bandai were hoping for: a money machine.

Are you surprised? They advertise the shit out of DBS though. They have Whis and Beerus doing a lot of commercials lol.
Well, that's during Dragonball Supers time slot. Has anyone live streamed one piece to know if they advertise it a lot during that time slot ?
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Post by lord godly da don » Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:17 pm

lord godly da don wrote:I see a lot of people saying it is going to be a 3v3 format in the main tournament but that sounds crazy when you think about it why would the Gods put the hopes of their universes on the shoulders of 30% of their team. I think it's going to be a battle royal were all 10 members fight at the same time and killing will be allowed so even if your team wins you're likely to lose some team mates so teaming up will be a focal point so you don't go into the next round short handed
Wow I was kinda right about the format of the tournament being a battle royal

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Post by Lord Frieza » Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:20 pm

This tournament is going to be absolute, bloody chaos when it starts.

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Post by lord godly da don » Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:26 pm

Lord Frieza wrote:This tournament is going to be absolute, bloody chaos when it starts.
Isn't it wonderful :clap:
Can't wait! I hope my heart doesn't explode from hype overload

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Post by MagmonKai » Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:29 pm

kinisking wrote:
MagmonKai wrote:
Lord Beerus wrote: Damn. And I was really like the current ending. :(


Holy shit. Dragon Ball Super is exactly what Toei and Bandai were hoping for: a money machine.

Are you surprised? They advertise the shit out of DBS though. They have Whis and Beerus doing a lot of commercials lol.
Well, that's during Dragonball Supers time slot. Has anyone live streamed one piece to know if they advertise it a lot during that time slot ?

Just re-watched One Piece. Not my show, but they did advertised Dragonball Heroes...but that's part of the Dragonball Franchise no? They played some the same commercials as they did during Super's broadcast, just not as many.

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Post by DBSQA » Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:38 pm

So, why did the guy say eight warriors from eight universes? I thought there were 10 warriors for each universe?

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