"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

[HeroR]

A bunch of reasons, but an especially possible one is that in order for everything to fit with how things played out in the last chapter of DB, a five year period of inaction needs to happen. The TOP takes place pretty much right before that period would start. Things fitting with the last chapter of DB was always Toriyama's intention.

We past the five year mark.

By much? I know Pan was 4 in EOZ, but I'd assume it didn't have to be 5 years exactly.

There is at least a year between Champs Saga and the TOP anf Battle of Gods is four years after Buu. So it would be five years just by Resurrection ‘F’.

[emperior]

Toriyama would be so happy to read these last few pages of this thread. So much overreacting, for such a typical Toriyama move.
I must say I was shocked of reading that Goku will lose yet again, but it didn't came as a super surprise because I've grown to expect the unexpected with Super, and Dragon Ball in particular. Toriyama is a master at trolling his own fanbase, he probably trolled Toei and Toyotaro too, I wonder how they felt when they read his completed outline. Everyone including me expected Goku to win this time, and at first I even thought that Goku winning the ToP would have been the unpredictable event this time, but episode after episode I started to become quite sure of Goku's possibility to win the tournament because of him achieving UI and all the hype he got. Once again, you played me Toriyama. Bravo.

[jeffbr92]

Man, I didn't like it knowing these spoilers, I thought Japan would save us for the final episode... But yeah, they just don't give a fuck!

Goku has been treated like a punching for all Super and yet he can still get a win in the final arc of the series? Just a terrible conclusion.

The only thing could save that to me if Super ends in a cliffhanger, but probably something stupid will prevent Freeza's evil wish and everything will be fine.

I can say I would be pretty pissed if after all that build the final match ends in draw or worse... Goku losing.

I hate that attitude, the fans who complain about how Goku always gets the win. A) He really doesn't outside of spin-offs and filler, he hasn't had a clear win over the main threat since Buu, or Freeza if you count the Spirit Bomb as a team thing and B) every arc in Super so far has tried to go for the "twist" ending where the good guys fail and have to be bailed out by the gods, and they've nearly all been worse off for it. I argue now more than ever, it would be appropriate to give us that oh-so conventional ending where Goku beats Jiren, wishes everything back and they all go home for tea. It's not like the other characters didn't get plenty of shine in the Tournament, most got more than they've had in the last two decades.

Yes! I mean, why not? What's the problem in having a conventional ending? But okay, I guess I'll wait before I criticize

[HeroR]

A bunch of reasons, but an especially possible one is that in order for everything to fit with how things played out in the last chapter of DB, a five year period of inaction needs to happen. The TOP takes place pretty much right before that period would start. Things fitting with the last chapter of DB was always Toriyama's intention.

We past the five year mark.

You people with the NFL of UI. Jiren is simply too strong. He has been established as superior to a god of destruction since 93. Is totally fine with UI goku not beating jiren

We don’t even know how Jiren won to say ‘he because he was superior’. In fact, the summery more or less implied Goku had the advantage.

The summary was pretty clear on that. Goku FIRST has the upper hand, THEN jiren concentrates and gets serious, which cause that UI looking aura.

Order of events in the spoilers say as follows

And it had the ‘but’ after Roshi and Krillin looked worried.

[OverHeaven]

l or maybe he gets called for One Punch Man Season 2.

Now I need that Takahashi Garou so badly [spoiler]And Metal Bat[/spoiler]

[Birusu16]

Here’s the thing, Herms is s better translator than GogetaXV.

Obviously, but I'm pretty sure that's what they mean in the summary. Herms just worded it in a weird way or the spoiler itself is just worded in a weird way.

Why would Herms word it weirdly?

Maybe he made a mistake. It wouldn't be the first time. Either way, the point is that Goku is clearly out of the arena.

Oh my god, I love this ending. It does make sense though from an out-of-universe perspective. If Freeza wasn't going to play a *massive* part in this, he wouldn't have been brought back.

I hope he's brought back to life as Goku promised, since the story is much richer when open-ended.

Jiren also is preserved as a threat here. I like that - it didn't make sense for him to be surpassed given where the U7 cast started, and it sets up a rematch between he and Goku if we continue the story post-EOZ.

From the summery, Jiren was surpassed. Goku just didn’t win, kind of like Tien.

The summary doesn't point to Jiren being surpassed at all. In fact, it says that Jiren finally decides to get serious and fires a huge ki blast at Goku, which completely blows him away.

[Kenneth La Torre]

We past the five year mark.




We don’t even know how Jiren won to say ‘he because he was superior’. In fact, the summery more or less implied Goku had the advantage.

The summary was pretty clear on that. Goku FIRST has the upper hand, THEN jiren concentrates and gets serious, which cause that UI looking aura.

Order of events in the spoilers say as follows

And it had the ‘but’ after Roshi and Krillin looked worried.

And then we got the spoilers for 131. Soooooo.....

[HeroR]

Obviously, but I'm pretty sure that's what they mean in the summary. Herms just worded it in a weird way or the spoiler itself is just worded in a weird way.

Why would Herms word it weirdly?

Maybe he made a mistake. It wouldn't be the first time. Either way, the point is that Goku is clearly out of the arena.

Oh my god, I love this ending. It does make sense though from an out-of-universe perspective. If Freeza wasn't going to play a *massive* part in this, he wouldn't have been brought back.

I hope he's brought back to life as Goku promised, since the story is much richer when open-ended.

Jiren also is preserved as a threat here. I like that - it didn't make sense for him to be surpassed given where the U7 cast started, and it sets up a rematch between he and Goku if we continue the story post-EOZ.

From the summery, Jiren was surpassed. Goku just didn’t win, kind of like Tien.

The summary doesn't point to Jiren being surpassed at all. In fact, it says that Jiren finally decides to get serious and fires a huge ki blast at Goku, which completely blows him away.

And there’s a but after that. And knowing these spoilers, that probably isn’t what took Goku out of the ring.

[HeroR]

The summary was pretty clear on that. Goku FIRST has the upper hand, THEN jiren concentrates and gets serious, which cause that UI looking aura.

Order of events in the spoilers say as follows

And it had the ‘but’ after Roshi and Krillin looked worried.

And then we got the spoilers for 131. Soooooo.....

The spoiler rarely relates in that way.

[Kenneth La Torre]

Why would Herms word it weirdly?

Maybe he made a mistake. It wouldn't be the first time. Either way, the point is that Goku is clearly out of the arena.

From the summery, Jiren was surpassed. Goku just didn’t win, kind of like Tien.

The summary doesn't point to Jiren being surpassed at all. In fact, it says that Jiren finally decides to get serious and fires a huge ki blast at Goku, which completely blows him away.

And there’s a but after that. And knowing these spoilers, that probably isn’t what took Goku out of the ring.

Knowing te spoilers, it is what took goku out te field.

Regardless. Goku only had the upper hand before jire decides to go all sun like on goku

[Birusu16]

Why would Herms word it weirdly?

Maybe he made a mistake. It wouldn't be the first time. Either way, the point is that Goku is clearly out of the arena.

From the summery, Jiren was surpassed. Goku just didn’t win, kind of like Tien.

The summary doesn't point to Jiren being surpassed at all. In fact, it says that Jiren finally decides to get serious and fires a huge ki blast at Goku, which completely blows him away.

And there’s a but after that. And knowing these spoilers, that probably isn’t what took Goku out of the ring.

And a "but" could mean anything. Absolutely nothing there suggests it refers to Goku surpassing Jiren. In fact, the next episode preview would suggest the exact opposite with Goku losing.

[HeroR]

Maybe he made a mistake. It wouldn't be the first time. Either way, the point is that Goku is clearly out of the arena.



The summary doesn't point to Jiren being surpassed at all. In fact, it says that Jiren finally decides to get serious and fires a huge ki blast at Goku, which completely blows him away.

And there’s a but after that. And knowing these spoilers, that probably isn’t what took Goku out of the ring.

Knowing te spoilers, it is what took goku out te field.

Regardless. Goku only had the upper hand before jire decides to go all sun like on goku

Based on one attack that ‘blows Goku away’ that we have no context on. Especially since we see Jiren fight with his aura and the preview.

Maybe he made a mistake. It wouldn't be the first time. Either way, the point is that Goku is clearly out of the arena.



The summary doesn't point to Jiren being surpassed at all. In fact, it says that Jiren finally decides to get serious and fires a huge ki blast at Goku, which completely blows him away.

And there’s a but after that. And knowing these spoilers, that probably isn’t what took Goku out of the ring.

And a "but" could mean anything. Absolutely nothing there suggests it refers to Goku surpassing Jiren. In fact, the next episode preview would suggest the exact opposite with Goku losing.

That is my point. We don’t know how Goku lose. And the preview only said Goku is out, not that Jiren overpowered him and the same preview said Goku had the advantage until Jiren gets serious. Which we actually see in the NEP and Jiren there wasn’t exactly shining brightly.

[Mercenary]

Even Whis said in the manga to Vegeta; if you have MUI you will be able to take on any enemy. Guess the manga is also wrong or Goku loses his MUI ability?

Btw it was also shown in the episode preview of 128 that Goku got hit by Jiren's beam but in the real episode Goku blocked that shit. Sooooo....

Vegeta. But not Jobku

[Kenneth La Torre]

And there’s a but after that. And knowing these spoilers, that probably isn’t what took Goku out of the ring.

Knowing te spoilers, it is what took goku out te field.

Regardless. Goku only had the upper hand before jire decides to go all sun like on goku

Based on one attack that ‘blows Goku away’ that we have no context on. Especially since we see Jiren fight with his aura and the preview.

Well, yeah. Who else will goku be fighting. I know you don’t want to accept that MUI won’t be enought, jiren is just too strong.

[Michsi]

We past the five year mark.

By much? I know Pan was 4 in EOZ, but I'd assume it didn't have to be 5 years exactly.

There is at least a year between Champs Saga and the TOP anf Battle of Gods is four years after Buu. So it would be five years just by Resurrection ‘F’.

So it's a year, give or take. Still doable.

[Sani007]

Super isn’t cancelled. It’s ending.

Of course it is, and why is it ending? I still haven't found any reason for it.

It’s end because it is. Not because it was ‘canceled’. The show replacing Super is an anniversary show that almost always get Super’s timeslot. So this would have been planned for awhile.

Ok, it's not cancel. Just they stop the series because they want to replace it for another franchise's series and have no plans for another DB series.

[HeroR]

Knowing te spoilers, it is what took goku out te field.

Regardless. Goku only had the upper hand before jire decides to go all sun like on goku

Based on one attack that ‘blows Goku away’ that we have no context on. Especially since we see Jiren fight with his aura and the preview.

Well, yeah. Who else will goku be fighting. I know you don’t want to accept that MUI won’t be enought, jiren is just too strong.

This isn’t about me not accepting something since I hardly one who thought UI was unbeatable. I am just pointed out that nothing said Goku lost because Jiren was better or stronger.

[HeroR]

Of course it is, and why is it ending? I still haven't found any reason for it.

It’s end because it is. Not because it was ‘canceled’. The show replacing Super is an anniversary show that almost always get Super’s timeslot. So this would have been planned for awhile.

Ok, it's not cancel. Just they stop the series because they want to replace it for another franchise's series and have no plans for another DB series.

More if you count at least eight months past between Resurrection ‘F’ and the Champa Saga.

[Kenneth La Torre]

Based on one attack that ‘blows Goku away’ that we have no context on. Especially since we see Jiren fight with his aura and the preview.

Well, yeah. Who else will goku be fighting. I know you don’t want to accept that MUI won’t be enought, jiren is just too strong.

This isn’t about me not accepting something. I am just pointed out that nothing said Goku lost because Jiren was better or stronger.

Yep, goku lost because he tripped on a rock... how else will goku lose

[HeroR]

Well, yeah. Who else will goku be fighting. I know you don’t want to accept that MUI won’t be enought, jiren is just too strong.

This isn’t about me not accepting something. I am just pointed out that nothing said Goku lost because Jiren was better or stronger.

Yep, goku lost because he tripped on a rock... how else will goku lose

Well, Goku is the same person who lost to an unconscious Tien because a trunk hit him.