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

[JulieYBM]

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.

No shit, I didn't say otherwise.

[Grimlock]

This is a remaster, but after everything is done, watch them remake Dragon Ball Super. All in an effort to avoid making new stories set after AGE 784 and to continue using Toriyama's name.

[GTx10]

I keep seeing the phrase "to remind audiences of what DBS is..." Who doesn't know what Dragon Ball Super is? Let alone what DB is. Is this refresher course really needed?

Wouldn't airing the movies on TV serve the same purpose and cut costs?

[Dragon Ball Ireland]

This is a remaster, but after everything is done, watch them remake Dragon Ball Super. All in an effort to avoid making new stories set after AGE 784 and to continue using Toriyama's name.

I could see, maybe a manga accurate remake of Super happening in 10-20 years, but hopefully not any time soon because Dragon Ball Super Beerus has just been announced. If Super gets a full on reboot though I really hope we'll see the original 42 volumes of the manga remade first though.

[JulieYBM]

I keep seeing the phrase "to remind audiences of what DBS is..." Who doesn't know what Dragon Ball Super is? Let alone what DB is. Is this refresher course really needed?

Wouldn't airing the movies on TV serve the same purpose and cut costs?

All the ten year old kids who didn't watch Dragon Ball Super in 2025 because they weren't alive.

[PhantomSaiyan]

I keep seeing the phrase "to remind audiences of what DBS is..." Who doesn't know what Dragon Ball Super is? Let alone what DB is. Is this refresher course really needed?

Wouldn't airing the movies on TV serve the same purpose and cut costs?

All the ten year old kids who didn't watch Dragon Ball Super in 2025 because they weren't alive.

Exactly, it's crazy that this question keeps getting asked lol there's always potential for new audience, always.

[super michael]

I keep seeing the phrase "to remind audiences of what DBS is..." Who doesn't know what Dragon Ball Super is? Let alone what DB is. Is this refresher course really needed?

Wouldn't airing the movies on TV serve the same purpose and cut costs?

All the ten year old kids who didn't watch Dragon Ball Super in 2025 because they weren't alive.

Dragon Ball anime never got a remake, surely less kid watched Dragon Ball compared to Dragon Ball Super.

Crunchyroll has these:

Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball Z Kai
Dragon Ball GT
Dragon Ball Super
Dragon Ball Daima

So 10 year old kids has access to it. It isn't like in the 90s when they could only rely on the TV network.


As for the manga there is Viz to read all the manga of Dragon Ball.

[MasenkoHA]

I keep seeing the phrase "to remind audiences of what DBS is..." Who doesn't know what Dragon Ball Super is? Let alone what DB is. Is this refresher course really needed?

Wouldn't airing the movies on TV serve the same purpose and cut costs?

They want to kill time until Galactic Patrol is ready to go. You can only air those 4 movies to many times especially since nobody watches tv anymore.


They also probably wanted to run SOMETHING during Dragon Ball the animation’s 40th anniversary year.


It’s Dragon Ball Kai all over again

[PhantomSaiyan]

Dragon Ball anime never got a remake, surely less kid watched Dragon Ball compared to Dragon Ball Super.

Crunchyroll has these:

Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball GT
Dragon Ball Super
Dragon Ball Daima

So 10 year old kids has access to it. It isn't like in the 90s when they could only rely on the TV network.


As for the manga there is Viz to read all the manga of Dragon Ball.

Are you not familiar with how kids watch things? They don't watch old stuff ,they watch the new current trending things so they can talk about it with the other kids. The ones that go back and watch 40 year old shows are RARE, even a 10 year old show is old for them

Besides, Japan is very much still tied to tv networks, that's how they air all of their anime and how the majority of them watches it, so yes, it is an important factor when it comes to driving new audiences in for them.

[Luso Saiyan]

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.

I agree, except I think that's a good thing. I'd rather they keep revisiting what he actually created and worked on than to venture into fan fiction territory.

[The Dark Knight]

I keep seeing the phrase "to remind audiences of what DBS is..." Who doesn't know what Dragon Ball Super is? Let alone what DB is. Is this refresher course really needed?

This also has to do with Toei wanting to set a solid foundation to build future stories on, as Super 1.0 was a complete mess.

[JulieYBM]

I keep seeing the phrase "to remind audiences of what DBS is..." Who doesn't know what Dragon Ball Super is? Let alone what DB is. Is this refresher course really needed?

This also has to do with Toei wanting to set a solid foundation to build future stories on, as Super 1.0 was a complete mess.

What does this even mean? The animation being terrible aside, future anime production teams have never needed to do re-edited versions of a show to "build future stories on because the first version was a complete mess."

If anything, they're just doing this to have an excuse to be able to slap Toriyama's name on the project for false legitimacy.

[Grimlock]

I could see, maybe a manga accurate remake of Super happening in 10-20 years, but hopefully not any time soon because Dragon Ball Super Beerus has just been announced. If Super gets a full on reboot though I really hope we'll see the original 42 volumes of the manga remade first though.

I could totally see it too, of course. Why would they come up with new content when they can just keep redoing the same thing and still profit off of it? It's easier to take the easy way.


Anyway, I don't think these images are getting their due attention. I believe it's the first time we see certain characters in Toriyama artstyle. One highlight is Kafla. I thought she and Kale were Toei's characters? Maybe the idea to fuse them was by Toriyama? Who knows.

[The Dark Knight]

What does this even mean? The animation being terrible aside, future anime production teams have never needed to do re-edited versions of a show to "build future stories on because the first version was a complete mess."

It's not just the animation, it was the art, the writing, and the pacing. Nearly everything that could've gone wrong with Super, went horribly wrong. If I'm put in-charge of Dragon Ball, why would I want that to be the show I build the next decade off of ?

If anything, they're just doing this to have an excuse to be able to slap Toriyama's name on the project for false legitimacy.

This was being developed while Toriyama was still alive, so it has nothing to do with his death.

[Luso Saiyan]

Toriyama designed Caulifla as a companion to Toei's Kale. Toriyama designing Kefla means their fusion was part of the story development.

[jjgp1112]

I could see, maybe a manga accurate remake of Super happening in 10-20 years, but hopefully not any time soon because Dragon Ball Super Beerus has just been announced. If Super gets a full on reboot though I really hope we'll see the original 42 volumes of the manga remade first though.

I could totally see it too, of course. Why would they come up with new content when they can just keep redoing the same thing and still profit off of it? It's easier to take the easy way.


Anyway, I don't think these images are getting their due attention. I believe it's the first time we see certain characters in Toriyama artstyle. One highlight is Kafla. I thought she and Kale were Toei's characters? Maybe the idea to fuse them was by Toriyama? Who knows.

All that means is they came up with a fusion and asked Toriyama to design one.

[MasenkoHA]

I keep seeing the phrase "to remind audiences of what DBS is..." Who doesn't know what Dragon Ball Super is? Let alone what DB is. Is this refresher course really needed?

This also has to do with Toei wanting to set a solid foundation to build future stories on, as Super 1.0 was a complete mess.

What does this even mean? The animation being terrible aside, future anime production teams have never needed to do re-edited versions of a show to "build future stories on because the first version was a complete mess."

If anything, they're just doing this to have an excuse to be able to slap Toriyama's name on the project for false legitimacy.

As I understand it Toriyama was almost entirely hands off with the Galactic Patrol arc, it was Toyotaro’s baby and Toriyama just supervised which probably amounted to Toriyama looking at it and giving Toyo the thumbs up.


GT had more involvement from Toriyama.


It just seems weird for Toei to even pass this off as Toriyama’s thing. It’s like Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas because that sells better than Henry Selick’s Nightmare Before Christmas

[JulieYBM]

What does this even mean? The animation being terrible aside, future anime production teams have never needed to do re-edited versions of a show to "build future stories on because the first version was a complete mess."

It's not just the animation, it was the art, the writing, and the pacing. Nearly everything that could've gone wrong with Super, went horribly wrong. If I'm put in-charge of Dragon Ball, why would I want that to be the show I build the next decade off of ?

Even when Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were still airing the staff ignored shit from previous episodes to just do whatever the comic was doing next. These shows are all cheap, disposable commercials meant to be seen once and never again. They aren't produced to be rewatched over and over, they're too long for shit like that.

The fact that this enhanced version is yet another half-measure is further proof that these are not meant to be more than a cheap commercial aired and forgotten about relatively soon after.

If anything, they're just doing this to have an excuse to be able to slap Toriyama's name on the project for false legitimacy.

This was being developed while Toriyama was still alive, so it has nothing to do with his death.

Toriyama being alive does not make any project legitimate.

[The Dark Knight]

Even when Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were still airing the staff ignored shit from previous episodes to just do whatever the comic was doing next.

Both shows had inconsistencies, I won't deny that, but they weren't outright broken like Super 1.0 is. If I'm putting in a lot of time, effort, and resources into something, I don't know if I'd want my target audience's first impression of it to be the mess that was Super 1.0. This remaster allows them to wipe the slate clean and start fresh.

[Mr Baggins]

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.

Agreed. I am thoroughly retired from new Dragon Ball content and will never watch or care about non-Toriyama slop, but I'm also apathetic towards this... what, fifth edition of Battle of Gods? The best version of it was always the first one! Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen!

The most cynical part of all though is the Moro adaptation having "Akira Toriyama" plastered over the key visual when people know good and damn well that was Toyotaro's baby. And it's not even coming until like 2027 or some shit.

Somebody in another thread said something to the effect of "move over Daima, here's the real hype" and I'm still lol'ing