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

[The Dark Knight]

Somebody please tell me this is FAKE:

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New content only in 2028? What the actual F*CK!

Yes, it's fake. Now that Dragon Ball is back, fans need to remember that there are (and will be) lots of fake "leaks" out there, such as this one and the Moro character sheets going around. You're also going to see a lot of clickbait videos from people trying to take advantage of the hype, such as "Cooler returns confirmed!!!!!!" and so on.

There was a 2nd genga leak with SSB Goku so definitely more is coming.

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and that Goku was not dressed up in his RoF clothes, so that could even be from the U6 arc.

This such good news; thanks for sharing.

[demonontheleft]

A day after I posted in here they announced the Beerus TV reanimation, and honestly it did look really good!! I said before I didn't think it would be necessary for them to do it but I think I'm wrong! Especially since the Moro Movie(?) is going to follow so close behind it lol. It's two cakes!!

I saw one line from Vegeta and as someone who hasn't seen the beginning of Super in a very long time, is the "strongest saiyan I've avowed." line exist in the original scenes in either the anime or the manga? If this is new, I really enjoy how this follows his character arc from the end of Boo.

[The Dark Knight]

I posted this elsewhere, but I think it's worth repeating here:

There has been a lot of negativity surrounding Dragon Ball over the past half decade, specifically with how it's being handled by the various parties involved with it. Since 2018, we got a CGI movie that was basically a side story, then two years later we got a standalone story in Daima. That's such a far cry from the hype generating stories we got in 2018 with the conclusion of the Tournament of Power and Broly movie. On the surface, it may have looked like they just announced the Moro arc, but in reality, what they really announced was a long term plan and commitment to the franchise. Starting this year and going into 2030, we're going to have high quality main content Dragon Ball material every year. At first glance, the Super remake may just look like a way to buy time for the main team working on Moro behind the scenes, but in reality, it's them understanding how bad they messed up the first time, and how important it is to have a solid foundation to build the future on. What we got a couple days ago weren't just simple announcements, they were an acknowledgement that the people in power have learned from their mistakes and are correcting each and every one of them.

Fans have incorrectly assumed that this is being done in order to milk Toriyama's name as a result of his death, but what's not being talked about is that they actually said these projects were being worked on with Toriyama while he was still alive. This shows that the people in charge finally understand that a rushed job like GT and Super 1.0 just won't cut it in this day and age, and that long-term planning is what a franchise as big and beloved as Dragon Ball deserves. By the time the Beerus arc starts airing, this new era of Super will have been planned out for 3-4 years. Fans are also incorrectly assuming the the manga won't be coming back, but based on what's going on with the anime, I can confidently say that the reason its return hasn't been announced is because the people behind the scenes are simply not ready yet. The days of rushed announcements to meet a quota are long behind us, so the manga will be announced when the next 5 or so years are properly planned out and everyone is confident in its ability to succeed.

I saw one line from Vegeta and as someone who hasn't seen the beginning of Super in a very long time, is the "strongest saiyan I've avowed." line exist in the original scenes in either the anime or the manga? If this is new, I really enjoy how this follows his character arc from the end of Boo.

This is indeed a new line, as they did say they re-recorded dialogue where need be.

[DanielSSJ]

Somebody please tell me this is FAKE:



New content only in 2028? What the actual F*CK!

100% fake, but 2028 seems like a pretty realistic timetable, depending on how far along the production is. And if Super's original run is any indication, the more time they have to prep, the better.

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

They don't need two years to produce a good show. 6-8 months of production time is pretty healthy. Any more time than that is just a bonus.

[JulieYBM]

With the amount of time spent on getting their ducks in a row that is needed in the industry now to produce a high-quality series, the more time they have to work with, the better. Still, Ajay says that the production is hoping for beginning to release The Galactic Patrol at the end of 2027, which I imagine means October. If we're lucky, the series will just be twelve episodes long, adapting two chapters an episode. If we're less lucky, the series will be 24 episodes and be split-cour.

[The Dark Knight]

With the amount of time spent on getting their ducks in a row that is needed in the industry now to produce a high-quality series, the more time they have to work with, the better. Still, Ajay says that the production is hoping for beginning to release The Galactic Patrol at the end of 2027, which I imagine means October. If we're lucky, the series will just be twelve episodes long, adapting two chapters an episode. If we're less lucky, the series will be 24 episodes and be split-cour.

The chapters are 45 pages each, which is basically three times the length of the weekly 15 page chapters. Two chapters an episodes would essentially be the equivalent of six weekly chapters, something that I can't see happening at all, as the pacing would be way too fast. 24-26 episodes for a 25 chapter arc such as this is more than reasonable, as that would be 45 pages an episode.

They don't need two years to produce a good show. 6-8 months of production time is pretty healthy. Any more time than that is just a bonus.

This arc (or arcs if they're working on Granola as well) has actually been in some form of development before Toriyama passed away, so it'll actually be 3-4 years of work by the time it airs its first episode.

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

With the amount of time spent on getting their ducks in a row that is needed in the industry now to produce a high-quality series, the more time they have to work with, the better. Still, Ajay says that the production is hoping for beginning to release The Galactic Patrol at the end of 2027, which I imagine means October. If we're lucky, the series will just be twelve episodes long, adapting two chapters an episode. If we're less lucky, the series will be 24 episodes and be split-cour.

Why do you want everything to be short? Having a short arc takes away the fun and thrill of wanting more. 26-40 episodes would be more ideal going forward.

[L3anD3RStar]

Yeah, it really wouldn't be that hard. A lot of the key scenes of the two Zamasu's development work as-is, they just need to create new scenes to carefully bridge them together.

I think that would be harder than we are making it sound. You’d have to either make Zamasu a POV character or beef up the role of anyone he might realistically share this information with. If your mission was to reveal the mystery more gradually, you know the audience already knows the answer, so it’s all going to be about how interesting that search for the truth ends up being and what the characters do in order to follow one clue to the other.

[Vegard Aune]

Why do you want everything to be short? Having a short arc takes away the fun and thrill of wanting more. 26-40 episodes would be more ideal going forward.

Considering what goes down in the Moro arc, twelve episodes seems very much fair. Sure, some of the early chapters could probably support 24 minutes on their own, but as is typical with most DB arcs, it's mostly fighting which does not lend itself very well to extended animated sequences without adding a bunch of extra stuff. Like, Goku finally mastering Ultra Instinct takes up five pages on its own. His final attack on Moro is also several pages, culminating in a two-page spread for his attack actually connecting, and even applying dramatic slowdown for that scene, I can't picture it lasting more than twenty to thirty seconds.

[SupremeKai25]

With the amount of time spent on getting their ducks in a row that is needed in the industry now to produce a high-quality series, the more time they have to work with, the better. Still, Ajay says that the production is hoping for beginning to release The Galactic Patrol at the end of 2027, which I imagine means October. If we're lucky, the series will just be twelve episodes long, adapting two chapters an episode. If we're less lucky, the series will be 24 episodes and be split-cour.

Why do you want everything to be short? Having a short arc takes away the fun and thrill of wanting more. 26-40 episodes would be more ideal going forward.

Because quality is more important than quantity.

The Moro saga is not a complex story, it doesn't warrant 40 episodes. 20 at most. And that's if they will make boring filler scenes that just cause bloating (like those obnoxious Pilaf scenes or the filler Gohan episode in the Future Trunks saga).

You don't realize how BORING it is to sit through an episode where nothing happens. That's the main thing that hurts the Tournament of Power, all those boring episodes about boring fodders that nobody cares about.

I'm not saying that Kefla or Anilaza should be off-screened like in the manga, goodness no, but surely there's a middle ground between the manga speedrunning things and the anime making a whole episode about Ribrianne transforming or that boar guy with glasses or that sniper guy with ugly and forgettable design.

And that's the main reason I'm not rewatching DBZ outside of Kai. I ain't sitting through whole episodes of people just yelling and staring at each other menacingly (and no, it's not a meme, those episodes are real).

[super michael]

That "roadmap" is fake AF.

The Tournament of Power most certainly DOESN'T need 40 episodes and it would be insane for Toei to make so many in the Remaster.

I'm guessing:

Universe 6 = 5 episodes

Future Trunks = 10 episodes

Tournament of Power = 20 (the original ToP lasts 35 episodes but it is INSANELY bloated with fodder fighters that nobody cares about and Krillin and the other losers in the stands constantly hogging the spotlight with their boring explanations... there is soooo much fat to trim)

Making it less bloated by cutting out useless episode and useless scene is possible, they did that with other anime remakes. Cutting out useless filler will reduce the episode needed to make.

Only time will tell if DBS remastered/remake will turn out good or bad. We should watch it with an open mind, forget how DBS original anime turned out.

I agree quality is better than quantity.

[IntangibleFancy]

Do you guys think they'll show off some of Moro during Jump Festa? Obviously not a trailer or anything, but like a genga or character sheets?

[JulieYBM]

With the amount of time spent on getting their ducks in a row that is needed in the industry now to produce a high-quality series, the more time they have to work with, the better. Still, Ajay says that the production is hoping for beginning to release The Galactic Patrol at the end of 2027, which I imagine means October. If we're lucky, the series will just be twelve episodes long, adapting two chapters an episode. If we're less lucky, the series will be 24 episodes and be split-cour.

The chapters are 45 pages each, which is basically three times the length of the weekly 15 page chapters. Two chapters an episodes would essentially be the equivalent of six weekly chapters, something that I can't see happening at all, as the pacing would be way too fast. 24-26 episodes for a 25 chapter arc such as this is more than reasonable, as that would be 45 pages an episode.

A lot of those 45 pages are action panels, which play far more quickly in animation than they do as a comic. Furthermore, it's not like the dialogue in these chapters needs to be read slowly or even needs to be written verbatim. Using half an episode to tell one chapter is fairly good pacing, especially if you look at the general framework of the chapter and build an anime script around it, rather than just trying to cram in every single last line.

Why do you want everything to be short? Having a short arc takes away the fun and thrill of wanting more. 26-40 episodes would be more ideal going forward.

Twelve standard-length episodes—thirteen if they want to go nuts with extra action cuts for the climax of the arc and fulfill a full three months without a break week—is a lot of time! That's over four hours to tell a story while keeping up the pacing, energy and tension and still have cool down moments. Good directors know how to make excellent use of a single cour, it's why there are so many good one cour anime out there.

40 episodes would be insane, especially for the Moro arc. Unless they're willing to do actual, genuine changes to the plot to give the characters arcs that change them and stick with them, there really isn't a reason to do fourteen hours of episodes.

I think that would be harder than we are making it sound. You’d have to either make Zamasu a POV character or beef up the role of anyone he might realistically share this information with. If your mission was to reveal the mystery more gradually, you know the audience already knows the answer, so it’s all going to be about how interesting that search for the truth ends up being and what the characters do in order to follow one clue to the other.

First, decide what kind of story the arc is going to be. Is it going to try to be a mystery from the point-of-view of Gokuu and friends, like the 2015 series? Or are we going to start from Zamasu's POV and watch his downfall through his eyes? You could do either. Once you decide what you want, you just build each scene from there. Six episodes provides a lot of structure to easily work with.

I haven't watched the Future Trunks arc since it originally aired, so I don't remember what scenes exist to already work with, but if they're being allowed to do dramatic changes anyway, it wouldn't be hard to just change the plot to better fit any number of episodes they want it to be. Events are just events, after all, you can tell those events in any way you like, as any kind of genre you like.

[Artorias]

Regarding cutting content, something I've been thinking about is how it's going to be interesting how they handle this when they get the ToP, because the instinct would be to just completely get rid of some of the useless episodes that don't add anything where we just eliminate fodder. But the thing is, a large chunk of the ToP is frankly that, filler where we slowly get rid of the background characters no one cares about. Cutting a lot of that content would feel weird, because you would have one week where there 70 fighters left on stage, and then all of the sudden it would flash forward to next week and there's now only like 50 left. It's going to be a real challenge in my opinion to edit that arc in a way that streamlines the pacing in a coherent way so that it doesn't feel like a bad fan edit. I could image this will be where a large portion of the new animation for this arc goes. Perhaps if the production schedule and scope allows it, they'll find creative ways to re-write and re-animate certain scenes to just quickly eliminate much of the fodder in bulk, similar to how the manga did it, where if I recall correctly, there's a sequence where Kale just instantly knocks out like 20 characters in one chapter.

I saw one line from Vegeta and as someone who hasn't seen the beginning of Super in a very long time, is the "strongest saiyan I've avowed." line exist in the original scenes in either the anime or the manga? If this is new, I really enjoy how this follows his character arc from the end of Boo.

That one line has me more excited than any of the new visuals. It indicates that they might actually be going back and trying to undo some of the mistakes they made with some of the characterization in the original run.

[JulieYBM]

My only real fear for the Tournament of Power arc is that they'll discard the best material that is original to the 2015 series in favor of trying to be like the comic, which I think would be a big disservice. With luck, they'll just add scenes that build up the anime-original stuff even better, like the Caulifla and Kale stuff.

[Zephyr]

The event was kind of a mixed bag for me.

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Moro remains my least favorite arc of the Super manga, so I'm not all that hyped to see it adapted. Will be cool to get more video game characters and costumes, at least. I do think this means we'll probably get a Granola adaptation after, which I'd be more hyped for. Will it continue through Super Hero and into a "Black Freeza arc"? That seems the least risk-averse thing they could do, which seems to align with the other major announcements, so I wouldn't be surprised. I have low interest in and expectations for that premise, but I'd probably still watch it.

Very happy to see Tao Pai Pai, Grandpa Gohan, Paikuhan, and more returning from Meteor. Hopefully this is adding everyone back. The other stuff is cool too, but I didn't see any mention of improving the custom battle mode, in particular its dialog/narration search function, which is a bummer. It's my biggest gripe with the entire game, and kinda ruins the main part that would have kept me coming back more consistently. Oh well; ever-bigger roster can only eventually overcome that hurdle.

Super: Beerus is kinda funny. Everyone jokes and dogs on Super for having too many conflicting versions. I literally made a chart the other day to show Kid Buu the various options for going through the story. Now they add another lmao. I can't say the trailer didn't get me pumped to watch another version of Battle of Gods, though, something I never would have expected to be typing right now. Fun movie, never gets me pumped though. It sounds like they're using the anime as the base, and sprinkling in manga elements? That's the approach I've wanted for a hypothetical fusion of the two, so I am cautiously interested in this for that reason. But I expect they'll cut some of the better "filler" stuff, like Vegeta getting Whis to train him. I think it would be pretty cool if they put in some Daima stuff (ie: SS3 Vegeta, SS4 Goku)...but it might be funnier if they just don't bother to.

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That said, the event on the whole felt slimy, which is to be expected I guess. Like, putting "Akira Toriyama Presents" before something that he is not alive to be presenting. Come on. Or crediting him for the Galactic Patrol arc, the Super arc he was least involved with iirc, but not Toyotaro, who had the bigger hand in deciding how it would play out. I may not have a lot of love for that arc or Toyotaro's craft on the whole, but he still deserves to be credited for what he did. Or maybe we'll find out that this has been in the works for a while, with Toriyama giving another pass at the story before handing it to the anime staff, and so we're getting "Toriyama's canon version of the Moro arc".

[WittyUsername]

I genuinely don’t think the Moro arc warrants anything longer than the 12-13 episodes that appear to be standard for seasonal anime. It’s not exactly a complex story.

On another note, it is kinda fascinating that Super seems to have defaulted back to being the face of the Dragon Ball brand. I guess Daima really was a one-time experiment.

[Kid Buu]

I literally made a chart the other day to show Kid Buu the various options for going through the story. Now they add another lmao.

It's kind of funny the instant I start watching Super, they announce a remake.

[JulieYBM]

Call me a cynic, but I can't say that I understand the logic in thinking that Daima was a replacement for Super when Daima was just a project that Toriyama took over working on while still working on Super. There was no way that Super wasn't going to continue to be the primary face of the franchise after how huge it was for both the Tournament of Power and the Broly film.