Dragon Ball Genkida Matsuri 2026 DBS remaster, DBS galactic patrol arc, Age 1000 announced.

[JulieYBM]

To be honest, I could've forget about the abysmal writing in Super, if at least the visual part of the production was watchable. That is something I came to realize quite recently, when rewatching Daima in binge.

I totally agree with you. Although Daima had its issues, especially towards the end, the visuals went a long way to minimizing the negative impact they had on my overall experience. The thing is, I don't know how realistic it is for us to expect this hypothetical Super remake to look like Daima, as it took the staff over 3 years to make it look as good as it did.

Dragon Ball Daima had less staff and was also more focused on remaining as close to Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi's character models as possible. Give them more staff and give them more leeway to do as they please and the production would be easier.

[Koitsukai]

I'm warming up to the idea of remaking DBS if it's to set the stage for the manga-exclusive arcs or even if it's to give it the quality of Daima. But only if the idea is to blend manga and anime into one story, and movies too, I guess. If it's the same show, I don't think I'll be watching the Barry Kahn two-parter or Roshi trying to grope that ninja girl just because it looks beautiful.

However, I'm not sure how that could be done, or what medium would have more weight than the other when it comes to storylines that won't be referenced in the exclusive-manga arcs.
Like, is Black having SS this time or goes straight to Rose?
Vegito will stomp Zamasu or will that fight be actually entertaining?
Is the God-Switch a thing since the start or we'll be seeing Blue Kaioken more than just once?

And, assuming they'll try to bring the number of episodes down, then the filler/slice of life episodes probably would be trimmed down, like the Potafu arc (which threw a wrench into the powerscale). The baseball episode, Arale's and the Amusement Park episode were very good, I'd keep them.
I would destroy that Goten-Trunks episode with the giant snake, though.

[JulieYBM]

They wouldn't remake all 131 episodes as-is. At most, they'll just time the outlines they're given and build up new scripts from there, only they don't have as many episodes to fill. The length of the series is typically determined ahead of time, with extensions buiilt in. A lot of Toei series will run for two years, for example. When Pierrot's NARUTO was running, they would renew the series in batches of six months. If they decide to make a new Dragon Ball series run weekly on television, they'll probably run through all of the arcs pretty quickly, based on how many cours they want to fill.

Alternatively, they could just do them all as films. Universe Six, Future Trunks, Tournament of Power, Moro, and Granola don't exactly need more than 100 minutes if they just adapt the outlines of the arcs.

Of course, there's no reason to 'remake' Super. At most, they'll probably turn the Broly, Moro, Granola and Super Hero stories into a new TV series that could run for two years and then either include a Black Freeza arc at the end or as a film.

They can literally do whatever they want.

[The Dark Knight]

They wouldn't remake all 131 episodes as-is.

This seems to be a misconception going around the fan base at the moment; people complaining that they don't want to sit through another 130 episodes before getting to Moro and Granola. If I had to guess, Battle of Gods to the Tournament of Power will be adapted in between 52 and 65 episodes, as that's more than enough to cover the main beats of each story line.

[JulieYBM]

They wouldn't remake all 131 episodes as-is.

This seems to be a misconception going around the fan base at the moment; people complaining that they don't want to sit through another 130 episodes before getting to Moro and Granola. If I had to guess, Battle of Gods to the Tournament of Power will be adapted in between 52 and 65 episodes, as that's more than enough to cover the main beats of each story line.

There's no reason to do even that, though. They would just do compilation films or recap episodes for the Universe Six, Future Trunks and Tournament of Power. They have no reason to spend a whole year retelling those arcs in a serialized format like that.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

I would be up for compilation specials for the Super arcs we've seen since there will be new fans who are not caught up. I wouldn't want any more than a few episodes length per arc though as no one will want to go through 13-14 episode retellings or longer again, especially for the first two arcs of Super.

[Skar]

They wouldn't remake all 131 episodes as-is.

This seems to be a misconception going around the fan base at the moment; people complaining that they don't want to sit through another 130 episodes before getting to Moro and Granola. If I had to guess, Battle of Gods to the Tournament of Power will be adapted in between 52 and 65 episodes, as that's more than enough to cover the main beats of each story line.

The fanmade Ultra Instinct Cut brought it down to around 60 episodes. They mostly removed filler that didn't really move the story forward. I liked some of the slice of life episodes but a lot of the filler in the middle of the arcs felt like they were just there to extend the runtime like character "redevelopment", plot threads that didn't go anywhere or ignored later, and in the ToP a lot of reaction scenes and random fights that didn't lead to an elimination so they just spared for a few minutes then went to fight someone else.

I think a remake could make Super closer to what Toriyama had in mind in his outlines. I know they weren't complete storylines but only enough story there to have a movie or mini-arc rather than a team of writers stretching them to a length of an arc that was adapting hundreds of manga chapters.

[sangofe]

Just give me new stories with orginal, interesting ideas...

[miguelnuva1]

I had a dream that other night that we got two anime series announced and a film.

It was a remake of the original 42 vols and a remake Super but the big announcement was the Super remake and the film had he original voice cast but the Dragonball remake was recasting an entirely new cast and the Funimation cast was getting a new cast for the remake as well.

[JulieYBM]

This will never happen, but I love how the PLUTO animated series adapted all eight volumes as eight hour-long episodes. It's a different format to toy with, but I really doubt that the production committee members would ever do a 42 episode adaption of Dragon Ball like that.

[Yellow Flower King]

This will never happen, but I love how the PLUTO animated series adapted all eight volumes as eight hour-long episodes. It's a different format to toy with, but I really doubt that the production committee members would ever do a 42 episode adaption of Dragon Ball like that.

I know its an unpopular opinion, but I think Dragon Ball does best when it has like at least 65 episodes a series. Daima lasted too little and I think audiences would love a show that they can watch in bulk like the old days. I think an adaptation like MHA is a happy medium between letting the animators cook and having a lot of episodes to watch in bulk.

[miguelnuva1]

This will never happen, but I love how the PLUTO animated series adapted all eight volumes as eight hour-long episodes. It's a different format to toy with, but I really doubt that the production committee members would ever do a 42 episode adaption of Dragon Ball like that.

Looking at Volume 1 it is chapter 1-11 starting with Goku meeting Bulma and ending with the arrival at Frypan Mountain. I think a good story with no filler could be told in 1 hour that covers those 11 chapters. Saying that to see if they did like 42 hour long episodes would be 126 normal episodes give or take.

Even if they went with 50 hour long episodes it would still get Dragonabll and Z down to 150 episodes and could be a quicker way for new fans to view the entire series.

I like the way you think.

They could also break it down 10-12 episode seasons if they wanted.

that would be 48 episodes total and allow their new breaks.

[taikufuru]

Right now, I just hope it's nothing like that. I don't know what happened to the audience and the industry, but this habit of remaking works in such a short time, whether because they weren't good enough or because they could be better, doesn't seem healthy to me. I prefer they move on. I want new content.

Let them leave the Granola and Moro arcs in the manga. They work well there and, in a way, seem to be what still gives legitimacy to this material. I have the impression that people yearn for an animated adaptation because they don't really like manga and only see it as a storyboard for animation, as if the story on the pages is incomplete, just a sketch.

It doesn't matter how much this supposed Dragon Ball Super remake might be better than the 2015 TV series. I've already watched three different versions of Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F' over the last decade, and I don't want to see a fourth. I lament how messy and unfocused the Dragon Ball franchise has become in recent years. Before, everything was simpler. You had the original manga. You had Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT adapting the original work into animation, even with its flaws. The spin-off films were linked to the TV series brand, and even if they weren't integrated into the main story, there was a reverence for the TV series.

Today we are faced with a story that actually began as two Dragon Ball Z films, without direct association with the 1989 TV series, and which later transformed into a new series called Dragon Ball Super, retelling the story of those films. In parallel, a monthly manga adaptation emerged, followed by two movies under the same brand that contradict the TV series.

Despite my complaints from episode 12 onwards, I'm glad that Dragon Ball DAIMA was something unique and autonomous. I only ask that they finish this Dragon Ball Super story soon and take some time to clear the slate and think about what's next. A film would be the ideal way to end this cycle.

[JulieYBM]

Any new Dragon Ball material is a 'remake', though. To do something new would mean to make something that isn't Dragon Ball, which I do suggest studios do.

That being said, there's still next to no chance of a Dragon Ball Super 'remake' happening. If anything, I think that we'll just get a new original story ala Daima.

[taikufuru]

I don't want this to be a semantic discussion. When I refer to a remake, I'm referring to remaking a Dragon Ball series/film. Remaking Dragon Ball Super from the Battle of Gods arc. Creating a new work like Dragon Ball DAIMA doesn't fit the definition of a "remake," it fits the definition of a new story "based on Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama."

[DBZ Macky]

Remaking a show that is technically just on hiatus and still has more stories to adapt/tell is such an absurd idea but I guess that's just what happened with Hunter x Hunter so it's not like there's no precedent for this kind of thing.

While I don't prefer a remake as the best case scenario, I'd still prefer it over Daima that only ran for 20 episodes and didn't have much of a plot. I'm guessing they're going to have a new voice cast too, since they already tried that with the Mini characters Daima, and maybe they're doing this as kind of a test-run (where they only have to worry about the animation/voice work and not the story) before moving on to new content where things would be much more difficult.

Also, I wonder if the reasoning behind making a remake is just another rights issue where continuing Toei's Dragon Ball Super is a big no-no but making something technically new is fine?

[JulieYBM]

Remaking a show that is technically just on hiatus and still has more stories to adapt/tell is such an absurd idea but I guess that's just what happened with Hunter x Hunter so it's not like there's no precedent for this kind of thing.

While I don't prefer a remake as the best case scenario, I'd still prefer it over Daima that only ran for 20 episodes and didn't have much of a plot. I'm guessing they're going to have a new voice cast too, since they already tried that with the Mini characters Daima, and maybe they're doing this as kind of a test-run (where they only have to worry about the animation/voice work and not the story) before moving on to new content where things would be much more difficult.

Also, I wonder if the reasoning behind making a remake is just another rights issue where continuing Toei's Dragon Ball Super is a big no-no but making something technically new is fine?

Toei Animation just announced that they're doing a remake of World Trigger—which hasn't finished—starting with the events of Season 1. It's wild, but these things do happen!

Given how old the cast is, I really don't see a point in doing a second adaption of the Super arcs with them, though.

[sangofe]

Remaking a show that is technically just on hiatus and still has more stories to adapt/tell is such an absurd idea but I guess that's just what happened with Hunter x Hunter so it's not like there's no precedent for this kind of thing.

While I don't prefer a remake as the best case scenario, I'd still prefer it over Daima that only ran for 20 episodes and didn't have much of a plot. I'm guessing they're going to have a new voice cast too, since they already tried that with the Mini characters Daima, and maybe they're doing this as kind of a test-run (where they only have to worry about the animation/voice work and not the story) before moving on to new content where things would be much more difficult.

Also, I wonder if the reasoning behind making a remake is just another rights issue where continuing Toei's Dragon Ball Super is a big no-no but making something technically new is fine?

Toei Animation just announced that they're doing a remake of World Trigger—which hasn't finished—starting with the events of Season 1. It's wild, but these things do happen!

Given how old the cast is, I really don't see a point in doing a second adaption of the Super arcs with them, though.

And One Piece from Netflix is under way ..

[The Dark Knight]

Given how old the cast is, I really don't see a point in doing a second adaption of the Super arcs with them, though.

I think the reason Masako Nozawa is attending this even is to not only promote whatever's coming next, but to also announce her retirement and replacement. The rest of the cast will likely be voiced by the cast who voiced the mini versions in Daima.

[Xeogran]

Soo... In a surprising turn of events, Dokkan just referenced Forced Spirit Fission, in a what-if story where Ginyu tries to reclaim his original body.

Spoiler:

Think this means anything?