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Re: Dragon Ball Genkida Matsuri 2026 on january 25th will have Dragon Ball announcements

Post by JulieYBM » Sat Jan 10, 2026 12:51 pm

Dragon Ball Ireland wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 12:47 pm
Vegard Aune wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 11:26 am
Xeogran wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 10:05 am

12 Universes and straight up cameos of Super characters make it feel like it kind of was taking it into acount though. Unless Toei added that and these scenes weren't in the original outline.
The gods from Super were purely a visual cameo, so I absolutely believe that was not from Toriyama. He may have written the lore dump, but I doubt he had a hand in the visuals accompanying it. The mention of multiple universes... well that technically predates Super, though it also was a major enough factor in enough stories that even Toriyama the Ever-Forgetful probably did remember that there were multiple universes and that Goku & Co. were from Universe 7.
Toriyama designed half of them, Toyotaro designed the other half.

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Vegard Aune's talking about the decision to include them in Daima, not the general creation of them.

Which, I imagine was just Yashima or someone else thinking to include the Destruction Gods in the storyboard and it was approved.
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Re: Dragon Ball Genkida Matsuri 2026 on january 25th will have Dragon Ball announcements

Post by Dragon Ball Ireland » Sat Jan 10, 2026 2:22 pm

JulieYBM wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 12:51 pm
Dragon Ball Ireland wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 12:47 pm
Vegard Aune wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 11:26 am

The gods from Super were purely a visual cameo, so I absolutely believe that was not from Toriyama. He may have written the lore dump, but I doubt he had a hand in the visuals accompanying it. The mention of multiple universes... well that technically predates Super, though it also was a major enough factor in enough stories that even Toriyama the Ever-Forgetful probably did remember that there were multiple universes and that Goku & Co. were from Universe 7.
Toriyama designed half of them, Toyotaro designed the other half.

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Vegard Aune's talking about the design to include them in Daima, not the general creation of them.

Which, I imagine was just Yashima or someone else thinking to include the Destruction Gods in the storyboard and it was approved.
Fair enough.
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Re: Dragon Ball Genkida Matsuri 2026 on january 25th will have Dragon Ball announcements

Post by funrush » Sat Jan 10, 2026 4:50 pm

Dragon Ball Ireland wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 12:47 pm
Vegard Aune wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 11:26 am
Xeogran wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 10:05 am

12 Universes and straight up cameos of Super characters make it feel like it kind of was taking it into acount though. Unless Toei added that and these scenes weren't in the original outline.
The gods from Super were purely a visual cameo, so I absolutely believe that was not from Toriyama. He may have written the lore dump, but I doubt he had a hand in the visuals accompanying it. The mention of multiple universes... well that technically predates Super, though it also was a major enough factor in enough stories that even Toriyama the Ever-Forgetful probably did remember that there were multiple universes and that Goku & Co. were from Universe 7.
Toriyama designed half of them, Toyotaro designed the other half.

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I've never seen this before. Real interesting. It makes sense cause some of these ones that say Toyotaro like Gin or Arak seem aesthetically consistent with like Moro or Granolah arc characters.

Sidra is very Toriyama and I never realized it till now. He looks like he could be a Dragon Quest NPC.

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Re: Dragon Ball Genkida Matsuri 2026 on january 25th will have Dragon Ball announcements

Post by Von » Sat Jan 10, 2026 8:23 pm

Nanatsu88 wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 5:03 am
Von wrote: Mon Jan 05, 2026 4:26 pm Sofian is mostly followed by a certain type of people and he's the one who asked Nakatsuru about KidBuu v BuuHan ("because that's what the community wanted"). He's a nice guy and I'm pals with him, but sometimes I want to shake him lol

As for the leaks, there's a big "repeated, amplified, deformed" telephone game that has happened. Sofian's source seems to be once removed from my own, so I see some distortions (let alone distortions about non french speakers who seem to forget conditional tense is a tense that exists).

3 weeks to wait :)
Based on your information, do you think there will be two announcements or just one, as Sofian and Geekdom recently said?

I think they said this to “damage control” in case they don't end up making the announcements, because if their source is an animator, they have no way of knowing when things will be announced.

My wet finger, educated GUESS was that it would be more logical if it's just going to be one announcement, like how games can be "cinematic trailer" and "gameplay trailer", since the Part 2 panel has extra people on stage (like it could be, idk, a script writer or something like that for part 2).

That being said, there's the issue that genkidamatsuri attendees may have entrance only at 13:00, which means they'd miss the first announcement. Which is why I believed they were two different projects altogether initially (aka you don't get "half the announcement", but "you get to see the announcement for the CGI + Live Action in full if you could only attend in the afternoon, and the TV project in full if you came also in the morning" (<- I'm making this shit up as an example)

That being said, things may have indeed changed due to leaks or due to production / agreements / contractual issues. I fully believe this is what happening, hence the wtf going on (that and a fair amount of disinformation, either to drown the fish or to confuse fandom about what's the real leaks and what's just chaos... Or a combination of all of it)

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Post by Xeogran » Sun Jan 11, 2026 8:18 am

JulieYBM wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 12:51 pm Which, I imagine was just Yashima or someone else thinking to include the Destruction Gods in the storyboard and it was approved.
IIRC it was the Kaioshin who appeared and not the GoDs.

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Post by JulieYBM » Sun Jan 11, 2026 9:18 am

Xeogran wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 8:18 am
JulieYBM wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 12:51 pm Which, I imagine was just Yashima or someone else thinking to include the Destruction Gods in the storyboard and it was approved.
IIRC it was the Kaioshin who appeared and not the GoDs.
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Post by MCDaveG » Sun Jan 11, 2026 1:41 pm

Toriyama has evolved/devolved in point of view back into sketch, comedy, simple designs and Toyotaro keeps that late 90s/GT aesthetic.
It's a simple key and it's striking. It was one of my criticisms during the Super run (mainly the anime, the manga handled it better), as it is kinda painful for a designer to see inconsistent designs and the Super staff fell into the same trap, continuing with Yamamuro's designs, also based on the late 90s aesthetic and trying to force in Toriyama's simple designs as they were and it didn't mash-up that well.

I could even go as far to the point, that Toyotaro's approach is rather outdated, as the designs are overcomplicated in themselves... see Granolah, Moro or those folks with dreadlocks (sorry, didn't google and writing fast on the go).
The trend is rather to go simple, like in modern anime... One Piece, Naruto, One Punch Man, etc. The design in itself should be functional rather than for effect (90s, pouches, Knightfall nonsense, lot of details and overcomplicated).

If I have to pick an example, beside mecha anime, where designs are more complicated, definitely for effect/visuals and done really well, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is the place to go.
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Post by IntangibleFancy » Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:30 pm

I was wondering, would a remake actually be profitable for the franchise over a new movie or something related to Daima?

Unless the plan is to make a version of DBS that follows the manga (but the genga isn’t even manga accurate so that can’t be right), I can’t imagine a remake doing anything besides keeping the franchise in a new-content drought.
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Post by JulieYBM » Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:47 pm

IntangibleFancy wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:30 pm I was wondering, would a remake actually be profitable for the franchise over a new movie or something related to Daima?

Unless the plan is to make a version of DBS that follows the manga (but the genga isn’t even manga accurate so that can’t be right), I can’t imagine a remake doing anything besides keeping the franchise in a new-content drought.
If it looks cool and the story hits hard, yeah.
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Post by Xeogran » Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:47 pm

IntangibleFancy wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:30 pm I was wondering, would a remake actually be profitable for the franchise over a new movie or something related to Daima?
There is manga exclusive content that can be sold and I'd expect it would do fairly well, for example SSG Goku in his RoF getup, SSJ Goku Black and Z-Sword Trunks. Ironically ToP would be harder to market because they don't have much new here. I guess competent base Kale would be a fresh change, and also Hit with without his cloak.

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Xeogran wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:47 pm
IntangibleFancy wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 2:30 pm I was wondering, would a remake actually be profitable for the franchise over a new movie or something related to Daima?
There is manga exclusive content that can be sold and I'd expect it would do fairly well, for example SSG Goku in his RoF getup, SSJ Goku Black and Z-Sword Trunks. Ironically ToP would be harder to market because they don't have much new here. I guess competent base Kale would be a fresh change, and also Hit with without his cloak.
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Post by Xeogran » Sun Jan 18, 2026 8:09 am

ONE WEEK LEFT!
In a week from now, we'll know everything... unless something got delayed. And then we wait again for Battle Hour in April :lol:

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Post by Bardock God of Time » Sun Jan 18, 2026 9:28 pm

I do kinda like the idea of a Super Kai if they add some extra content also.

If they want to make Daima "canon", I'd add a mention of Goku's SSJ4 on King Kai and how he hasn't been able to use it since the Demon Realm. A big change I guess could be Vegeta going SSJ3 against Beerus when Bulma gets slapped.

Resurrection F, let's get rid of Ginyu. It was cool but I don't think we need it, if they still wanted to do something with Ginyu, I'd have a gag moment where when he's trying to get the attention of anyone he gets blasted away by a stray ki blast as a frog.

SSJ Goku Black is something I'd love to see animated and Goku's Hakai from the manga.

Goten & Trunks meeting the Cell Jr's getting animated would be neat.

Now after the Tournament of Power, my hope is they expand on the Broly movie. Wasn't there tons of cut content from the movie? I'd like to see Toriyama's original vision of the Broly movie.

Last thing is if they are planning to adapt the manga eventually, will they change Vegeta's Blue Evolution form to be more like the Perfected Super Saiyan Blue state from the manga?

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Post by MisteryOne » Sun Jan 18, 2026 10:54 pm

Bardock God of Time wrote: Sun Jan 18, 2026 9:28 pm Now after the Tournament of Power, my hope is they expand on the Broly movie. Wasn't there tons of cut content from the movie? I'd like to see Toriyama's original vision of the Broly movie.

Last thing is if they are planning to adapt the manga eventually, will they change Vegeta's Blue Evolution form to be more like the Perfected Super Saiyan Blue state from the manga?
Blue Evolution is not similar to Mastered Blue at all, mainly because it also exists in the manga (and Toyotaro adding it because of anime viewers muts be one of the dumbest decisions he has made if you ask me) trough evem if it didn't there is nothing similar between the two forms beyond...you know, being blue.

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Post by jjgp1112 » Sun Jan 18, 2026 11:05 pm

All I'd ask of a Super remake is please revise that Godforsaken Black arc ending. Granted with the way Daima has shifted things I can gleefully disregard that whole thing but still.
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Post by JulieYBM » Mon Jan 19, 2026 1:46 am

The Genki-dama sword is such a better ending for the arc. Somebody needed to tell Toriyama that you need to be a good writer to do edgelord shit like what he wrote in his outline.
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Post by taikufuru » Mon Jan 19, 2026 12:09 pm

At that stage the future was in, I don't think it would be possible for a society to rebuild itself. However, this could be fixed by Goku taking the Dragon Balls from the present to the future and repairing Earth, as well as resurrecting the dead. It would be a closing of the loop for Trunks' story. He helped Goku in the past. And now Goku helps Trunks in the future.

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Post by Hellspawn28 » Mon Jan 19, 2026 12:45 pm

The Genki Dama Sword felt like something rip out of the old DBZ movies. I kinda like it for how crazy and random it was, but totally get why people don't like it. I think if they explain that Trunks met North Kaio after he died from Cell, or had Shin and Kibito let Future Trunks visit him during their training, things would have been better.
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Post by JulieYBM » Mon Jan 19, 2026 1:07 pm

The Genki-dama sword makes perfect sense. Ki is spiritual energy, it responds to the spirit. If Trunks' emotions have peaked after all of the shit that he's gone through, of course they're going to respond to the similarly peaking emotions of the rest of the Earth. Ki isn't a math equation, it's about vibes.
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Post by YamiGoku » Mon Jan 19, 2026 2:33 pm

If they fix the Future saga ending I would be 100% on board for the ramake, that alone would make it worth it, but I really dont see them change something Toriyama wrote. :(

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