Respectfully, I think you're off the mark on the top points. I'd argue the majority of Dragon Ball Super's TV viewership have either A) barely engaged with the manga, B) don't even know it exists, or C) have either read or been made aware of the Moro and Granolah arcs and want a full anime adaptation of them. The number of people like yourself who actively don't want the anime to adapt them is probably very low... and chances are high that their complaints would pipe down once the anime gets going (ASOIAF fans moaned about HBO's House of the Dragon, but since it came out, the show is all they've been talking about). In particular, there are plenty of fan animated mockups of scenes from the Moro arc which, despite some backlash from some areas of the fandom (namely here, let's be honest), was actually widely beloved by most fans, as proven by many polls and reviews.BagetaSama wrote: Sun Nov 20, 2022 2:48 pm The idea that they would want more manga content to adapt and they're waiting for that reason, is very odd because DBS has never been a manga adaptation. That's why the two continuities are so different and the anime was able to complete major story arcs before the manga could. So making it into a strict manga adaptation would be a very major change from the first iteration/season of DBS, and one that I think a lot of people wouldn't really welcome.
I mean if they change things around as they did before, then it wouldn't really be a manga adaptation like every other anime is. At least, they might use it as some sort of another reference, like they did before at some point, then that's entirely different, than relying on the manga being ahead so that they can adapt it. I don't know, I don't know if I buy that rumor just because it feels like such a big change, But I'm also just heavily biased towards the anime version of the events.
For the record, I do agree that doing a straight manga adaptation now would be a bit weird and probably wouldn't mesh well with the direction of the original anime arcs. Then again, Toyotaro seemed to be consciously emulating aspects of the anime in his own arcs as if he was trying to streamline things, e.g. he started drawing Goku's Ultra Instinct forms much more muscularly than he did previously, bringing them in line with the anime. While it wouldn't be very sensible considering that there's perfectly good manga source material sitting on the shelf waiting to be used, there is a possibility that the animated version could do something totally different and ignore Toyotaro's arcs.
