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

[super michael]

Dragon Ball Super BoG enhanced movie

It's not a movie, it's a revision of the first arc of Super, like Dragon Ball Kai. They'll probably continue with the following arcs.

So the first arc of Dragon Ball Super anime is getting a remake like how Dragon Ball Z got a remake from Dragon Ball Kai. I am curious to see how that will turn out.

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

You know one thing I'm REALLY not looking forward to as an American fan? Crunchyroll's SLOW home releases for the eventual Dragon Ball Super remaster and Dragon Ball Super: Galactic Patrol (and beyond) anime. And that's not even mentioning how the dub will probably be handled if Daima is any indication. Hopefully they've changed, but I doubt it (especially when Toei's involved). With Super: Beerus releasing fall this year, if Japan does a home release in say early 2027, don't expect Crunchyroll's release until a year later in 2028. I could be wrong, but at this point, I recognize Crunchyroll's patterns.

As for Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol's eventual home release (if physical media is still a thing outside Japan), don't expect Crunchyroll's release until 2029 if the anime releases fall next year. Ugh. Oh well, gives me time to collect other DB media like the Dragon Boxes and other anime/movies/media.

Yeah, I'm really not looking forward to that either. I guess at least it will give me more time to save some money for these releases.

Is it just me that is disappointed no new movie was announced?

I'm disappointed too as I really thought since it will be 4 years since Super Hero we'd be getting a new movie. I'm still open minded though, even though I didn't want another Battle of Gods remake.

[Yuji]

The cynic in me believes they're stretching out whatever last few projects Toriyama was working on. So if a new story was already pitched, they wanna save it for once they get these projects out of the way first.

[Grimlock]

Is it just me that is disappointed no new movie was announced?

The only thing entirely new they announced was a game, although they barely revealed anything. I don't know why they like to keep announcements so close to the chest like that, it's annoyingly infuriating. A new movie announcement would've been welcomed too (although something tells me the antagonist would be someone from the past... ).

[Vhanos]

The fact that we're at least getting Moro down the line softens the blow of the Super remake/remaster announcement. Good strategy on their part to lead with the more exciting announcement first. I can live with Super being remade to lead up to the new content, but I still ideally wish they would not have gone this route.

Specifically regarding just the first "Beerus" arc, my biggest problem with BoG getting remade AGAIN is that this just isn't a story that is worth 4 retellings. It's not some complicated or particularly well written classic tale that warrants this much attention and re-examination. It's a nice little story that should have stayed as a 2013 anime film that came out to kickstart the new age of Dragon Ball and set up the new framework of the world going forward, but for some reason I'm now going to be watching Goku fight the purple talking cat on King Kai's planet yet again more than a decade later. There's just absolutely no reason we should still be dwelling on this story 13 years later after it's original release. And the same can be said for most of Super. I find it to be such a waste fundamentally to be dumping a bunch of time and resources into "enhancing" a story this worthless and mostly forgettable. It frankly just doesn't deserve it in my opinion. A polished turd is still a turd at the end of the day. Super at this point should've been what GT became in most people's minds: a poorly executed TV show from decades past that came and went and never lived up to expectations that we all collectively then moved on from. I'm sick of thinking about this empty mishap of a show 11 years later and counting.

You say you can live with Super being remade. But you wish it didn't go this route. That's contradictory. You think it's worthless and mostly forgettable. Well that's your opinion. I don't share your take.

In case you didn't know. There were a lot of complaints about the animation back then when Super came out. The remaster is doing what people didn't think they would be getting.

A polished turd is still a turd at the end of the day you say. That's a turd take. If you're sick of this series then maybe it just isn't for you.

I get it, and the fact that it's not a full blown remake but instead seems to just be closer to a "remaster" definitely helps. I'm not mad at this announcement, like I said I can certainly live with it. I just find it to be wasteful and pointless. And it seems they are doing some full blown new animation cuts, it's not all just touch ups of old footage. Several talented animators are on this apparently as well, so I don't know. Having someone as talented as Takahashi spending his time re-animating Dragon Ball Super of all things seems like such a waste to me.

It might seem wasteful and pointless to you. But to others it isn't. You might think it's a waste. But to them it's not.

I agree with pretty much everything you're saying in an objective sense. I was just mostly coming at it from my own personal reaction of being in the fandom for years and wanting desperately to move on from what I see as a borderline disaster of a show. Call me dramatic, but instead of dwelling on the Super era and bending over backwards to pull new fans into the Super storyline, I would rather them do the opposite, which is ignore Super and pretend it basically doesn't exist, and start fresh from ground zero moving forward. Kinda like what they did with Daima (even though I didn't end up liking that show either). I know this is unrealistic, but a man can dream.

If you think Super should be ignored and pretend it doesn't exist, I cannot agree with you. If it were such a disaster it wouldn't be having people watching it. Super had interesting things about it despite what the naysayers say. As for Daima. That turned out to be pretty good.

[Vhanos]

Despite my shit talking of Super, which I will gleefully do whenever I get the chance, I am sorta interested in the Moro arc. If only because it’s never been animated before, and they could, in theory, do some cool shit.

The problem with the Super remaster is that they’re limited to what’s already there. So yeah someone said it: a shinier turd is still a turd

The turd is coming from those want to come and poo poo on it.

Like I said. There were complaints about the animation back then. People wished those early episodes were better animated. Those people are getting their wish. It might not matter to some people though. There are people who will shit on this franchise no matter what it does.

[TheSaiyanGod]

I'm not expecting any major story changes to the recut arcs. I don't see how they could do much more than pare down on the 2015 anime content. Following the manga or unused Toriyama notes would require far wider-reaching deviations.

It'll be interesting to see if they bother worrying about alignment with the Moro arc at all, though I doubt they will. I'm expecting they'll just adapt the manga as is for Moro and not worry about getting into any nitpicky deviations like the different visual portrayals for SSBE, the absence of SSB Kaioken, or the different emotional triggers for UI. Broly and Super Hero already set enough of a precedent for playing things fast and loose between animated projects, to say nothing of Daima. It'll fit together well enough if you squint.

Doing a refresher on prior Super arcs makes sense. While I would have preferred a manga adaptation, at least this has a chance of offering something more watchable for Super in an animated format.

I'm very curious to see how they'll try to tighten up the structural mess that is the 2015 anime's ToP.

According to Ajay (basically, unconfirmed information), we'll see Goku's image training from the first chapter of the DBS manga in this new "remaster" (and light manga elements). If they can add a scene like that, I would be cautiously optimistic to see other manga-only stuff as well (especially the ones they could fit without giving up the main animation cuts from the original anime, since that's still the baseline).

Although, I'm not sure if they ever officially said they would use content from the manga in this new project (couldn't see the livestream) or if they just meant "original work" as in Toriyama's original draft of these stories.
https://dragonball-super.com/index.html - > some people are translating "original work" as "original manga", not sure what is the right one.

So if we ever get remasters of later arcs, stuff like Super Saiyan God being used during the U6 Tournament or Black's Golden Super Saiyan in the Future Trunks arc seems possible to me. It would be better than nothing at least

[super michael]

I am happy with the news that we got. We are getting a new Dragon Ball game, can't wait to see Dragon Ball Age 1000 will turn out. Dragon Ball Sparking Zero DLC sounds good.

The Moro chapter is finally getting animated and DBS anime looks like it is getting a remake. So far everything looks like good news.

[JulieYBM]

The whole, "We're going to make it closer to Toriyama's draft" is just such bullshit. Girl, you're just trying to sell new merchandise as cheaply as possible, at least be honest about it lol

I mean, that helps, but they're trying to get the hype train going again for new Dragon Ball & they wanna give people something to sink their teeth into beforehand.

I also just love that they're giving Super the remaster treatment for its animation. It looks closer to Daima's artstyle, which would make sense if they put the same people who animated Daima on this, which it looks like they did.

Also, with the person who said that they apparently rerecorded some of the lines, I imagine they would just have them redub the scenes altogether rather than reuse the original takes. Same with the international dubs. Yeah, it'd probably be quicker & cheaper to just reuse the older audio, but it'd make more sense for consistency, at least to me.

I also wonder where these will air? Maybe another deal with Netflix like Daima? Hopefully if they do, they'll have the English dub available day & day with the Japanese audio to fix that weird mistake Daima made. That's still really weird that they had a good portion of the dub audio ready to go, but the release was delayed for no reason.

This looks nothing like Daima, though? The post-processing is muc heavier and the animation itself is largely just reused from 2015. Any new shots are still animated based on Yamamuro's animation character designs, too.

Like, yeah, this project is overall a glorifed tool to remind audiences of what Super is, but also the changes made to be 'closer to Toriyama's draft' are fake as shit excuses to maybe sell a new figure lol

[Lance Freeman]

You know, I should just be happy with the fact we're getting Moro too, but did we REALLY need Super Kai when the original shows are currently rotting away in Toei's storage facilities and the best available version is STILL a DVD from 2004?

[JulieYBM]

You know, I should just be happy with the fact we're getting Moro too, but did we REALLY need Super Kai when the original shows are currently rotting away in Toei's storage facilities and the best available version is STILL a DVD from 2004?

Those first three shows aren't going to get them a cheap buck as quickly as Super Kai right now.

[MCDaveG]

The cynic in me believes they're stretching out whatever last few projects Toriyama was working on. So if a new story was already pitched, they wanna save it for once they get these projects out of the way first.

Then make it both. That Akira Toriyama presents before the game preview really didn’t hit well with me. Maybe someone proves me wrong, but he usually just provided notes, general treatment and character designs…
It has all the signs of marketing ploy to support all the new stuff by attaching his name on everything as much as possible, even if it was just one character that he drew.

IMHO Dragon Ball died with the original creator and now there are remakes and scraping the barrel on whatever unfinished work (or finished but fucked up by rights holders) he had.

The whole event to me felt bit forced and weird in delivery.
Oh and by the chance, the music for this video was composed by Hans Zimmer, who included a generic message saying, I had no idea about Dragon Ball but you paid me and gave me some general info and that’s what inspired me when I composed it. To me personally, while the video itself with animated manga panels was brilliant, felt a bit flat. The music wasn’t that remarkable in any way.
And we are getting DLC that should’ve been part of the game in the first place, adapting the funky Super manga because that’s the only source material available left and fixing sins of the past, starting with 4th version of the story.

I am a bit sad as that is what we are left with. Wonder if Daima was just a simple one off or was maybe a start of more Toriyama lead sequel series. It’s all scrambled nonsensically.

[super michael]

It is too bad that we didn't get new Dragon Ball Daima, it would have been cool if we got a new season or if it connected with DBS remake.

We never got to see the fusion bugs in action.

[MasenkoHA]

Any news whether the remake is seasonal or it will air in one go? 6 Episodes and then 4 months break before RoF, then again 4 months break before U6 and so on?

And it seems that the new version of the Moro saga will include changes to better adapt with the anime and the story Toei wants to tell (which was always the logical thing to do), so they are treating the Moro saga like every other arc they have adapted: An adaptation of Toriyama's plotline.

I'm extremely glad about this, more new stuff to look forward to!

If they did that they wouldn’t even get to Galactic Patrol until like 2029…

If they’re trying to get to Galactic Patrol by fall 2027 I would assume they plan on running this remaster for around the 50 episode ish mark to kill about a year’s time


Super Beerus: 6 episodes

Super Golden Frieza: 6 episodes


Super Champa: 8-10 episodes


Super Goku Black: 12 to 14 episodes


Super Tournament of Power: 12-14 episodes

[WittyUsername]

All in all, I’d say the presentation was underwhelming. The Moro announcement was easily the biggest news, but that’s still ultimately just adapting a story that’s been around for years at this point and I could not care less about the idea of Super more or less getting the Kai treatment.

On the video game side of things, the new game they announced gives us almost nothing to go off of and the Sparking Zero DLC is basically them admitting how unfinished the game was at launch.

[The Dark Knight]

All in all, I’d say the presentation was underwhelming.

I guess it's true; some fans will be unhappy no matter what they get.

[WittyUsername]

All in all, I’d say the presentation was underwhelming.

I guess it's true; some fans will be unhappy no matter what they get.

I never cared for the idea of a Moro adaptation to begin with. I’m over DBS in general.

[Ducard]

If Super gets turned into a series of compilation movies, or paired down like Kai, I would be ok with that. I think most of these plots would be better off in shorter doses, anyway.

I would also be ok with changing the ending to the Trunks arc, even though that is probably unlikely. Reading this thread has been a nice walk down memory lane, though!

2015: I saw Resurrection F in theaters, it was one of the last things I did before I proposed to my girlfriend a day or two later. In my own nerdy way, I thought it was fun to see a villain from my childhood get defeated (once and for all ) before I took that next big step in life. It was a good week.

2016: By complete coincidence, the episode with Trunks defeating Zamasu was the episode that aired right before my wedding. And of course its 'next episode' preview preview implied a happy epilogue for all the characters. How perfectly timed, I thought. Wouldn't it be amazing if these big moments in Dragonball kept matching up with moments in my life? I was a happy man. During my honeymoon, I snuck away at some point to watch that next episode, all ready for a good time. And, well. It was such a downer ending I remembered thinking: Ummmm....... yeah, why don't I just pretend this episode never happened, then I went back to enjoying the honeymoon.

[JulieYBM]

All in all, I’d say the presentation was underwhelming.

I guess it's true; some fans will be unhappy no matter what they get.

This is such a weird thing to say. Nobody is obligated to like anything, let alone a commercial product clearly being produced first-and-foremost for commercial purposes.

[The Dark Knight]

Nobody is obligated to like anything, let alone a commercial product clearly being produced first-and-foremost for commercial purposes.

Everything that's ever been produced was done so for commercial purposes.