Broly Should Be the Central Character of a New Dragon Ball Super Anime

[JulieYBM]

If Dragon Ball Super comes back, I think the production staff should begin a new animated series with a remake of the Broly arc, with an emphasis on Broly's POV. Peel back the layers of what he was going through in that story more! Give him a subplot of hunting down Bah during the Moro and Granola arcs that lead to him being the first person defeated by Black Freeza. It's an organic continuation of the threads established in Movies #20 and #21, anyway.

In the Super Hero film, Broli is training with Gokuu and Vegeta and we eventually see him spar with Gohan's Beast form. Additional scenes to bridge all four stories together could actually make this battle and this arc for Broli feel fuller and complete. In addition to just being a popular character in general, he's easily set up in Dragon Ball Super: Broly to be a third Saiyan pillar of sorts to Gokuu and Vegeta, so why not build on that?

Anyone else feel similarly?

[Peach]

Do you have any ideas for Broly's character trajectory or plots involving him? I'm struggling to see what they could do with him. He was on a planet all those years and that limits his story potential.

[super michael]

Seeing what Broly was doing while he was with Paragus and then later on with Cheelai would be good. I wouldn't mind a movie that focus on Broly POV.

I believe first they should animate the Moro, Granolah and DBS Super Hero chapter in anime episode. Turning those chapters into movies wouldn't work, since each of those are too long to turn into a movie, so I can imagine many things in the chapter would need to get cut.

[PhantomSaiyan]

As much as I would like his POV, I definitely do not want another Bog and RoF situation, I have ptsd from that.

I know that in Super those arcs looked like shit because of the schedule, and if they were to re adapt Broly in the future they would learn from their mistakes, but even then, I doubt the quality would be as high as the movie.

Not to mention how there's a chance they might hire another character designer that isn't Shintani, and that would be a tragedy imo. It might be silly of me, but I'd rather that version of Broly to say as the definitive version of that story, it's one of my favorite DB Movies ever, and I just think it nailed everything.

And overall I'm just tired of having multiple versions of the same arcs

[BernardoCairo]

I think he could very well be a major character like Beerus or Whis, but I'm not sure he'd be a main character alongside Goku and Vegeta. I think they'd probably want to invest more time in Gohan or even Piccolo, but who knows?

[Jord]

We already got a Broly in Super. Her name is Kale.

[PhantomSaiyan]

We already got a Broly in Super. Her name is Kale.

You'll never guess what Dragon Ball Movie came out in 2018

[JulieYBM]

Broli is a character with little in the way of his own agency, so charting his growth by having him set out on his own adventure with Cheelai and Lemo makes sense. An adventure for Broli to make his own decisions and to find Bah and gain control over his own Super Saiyan forms seems like an arc that writes itself.

[Jord]

We already got a Broly in Super. Her name is Kale.

You'll never guess what Dragon Ball Movie came out in 2018

I meant the anime, not the movie, since that was what the topic title was about.

[PhantomSaiyan]

I meant the anime, not the movie, since that was what the topic title was about.

The movie which continues the story of the anime and is canon, yes. Does it not count?

[Jord]

I meant the anime, not the movie, since that was what the topic title was about.

The movie which continues the story of the anime and is canon, yes. Does it not count?

The movies do have other continuities from the anime. Just look at how the show and the movie versions of Battle of Gods and I believe Reurrection F had events fold out in a different manner.

[PhantomSaiyan]

The movies do have other continuities from the anime. Just look at how the show and the movie versions of Battle of Gods and I believe Reurrection F had events fold out in a different manner.

Still part of the same narrative. Still Dragon Ball Super products.
Broly officially exists now, and Kale existing has no bearing on that fact. She's also from another universe so there's no issues either

If Super ever comes back, Broly 1000% makes it in it, along with everything that happened in his movie and Super Hero.

So again, the point that we have Kale therefore we don't need Broly is pretty much useless

[JulieYBM]

It doesn't really matter how many types of Broly there are so long as they're involved in really good stories. That being said, I was never proposing anything more than simply fleshing out the Dragon Ball Super version of Broly by reframing the film and following arcs from his POV because you can more easily tell the story of his development as the central character than you can Gokuu's development.

[Mister_Popo]

Personally, I never had an issue with the retellings in the Super anime, aside from the animation. There were several episodes that actually added some fun extras to the film stories. And there is even more reason to start Super 2.0 with a retelling. Toriyama had written a more extensive script for Broly, of which only a limited portion was ultimately used due to the film’s time constraints. That version would have explored Saiyan lore in much greater depth. I think that could serve as a strong foundation for the story if Super returns, especially if they plan to make Broly an important character again after the Super Hero arc — and it certainly seems that way, given that he’s now fully involved in the training on Whis’ planet.

[BernardoCairo]

The BoG retelling wasn't that bad (although the movie was much better paced). But Fukkatsu no F, which already wasn't good to begin with, is complete trash in the anime. The only good parts are the new Goku and Vegeta training scenes.

[JulieYBM]

I think those arcs really could have been improved if they had been given proper room to be both written and directed and animated with care. Hosoda and Yamamuro were both very weak directors, so a second shot by even just the staff who worked on the series having more time for production would have really made the entire process a lot more fun to watch.