Koitsukai wrote: Wed Feb 11, 2026 9:04 am
The thing is there shouldn't be any more stories taking place in this 10 year period. They've been busier during the hiatus than in the actual story. The Granola arc was already one too many and then Super Hero happened.
Black Freeza and Freeza himself are being treated as non-emergency situations. He isn't going after them, they aren't either, it's procrastination at its finest, so that story could be told after the epilogue, be it a movie or an animated story, or even a manga arc that moves past the epilogue.
Cramming yet another arc (a new one, unrelated to Black Freeza) before the end is unnecessary, perhaps that's why the manga hasn't returned: there's only one more story to tell and they are saving it for last. Even if that story is being told after the ending, they could be waiting for... IDK, maybe the anime getting closer to it or something before dealing with Road to EoZ.
I can see it as a kind of epilogue to epilogue and basically, I agree with your whole post.
One of the ideas that came into my head was exactly this. Super Hero is so close to the EOZ, that what I meant by the Road to EOZ was basically just a slice of life bit, that just foreshadows and links the EOZ. Like Goku getting in his tortoise/blue gi and going: "I'm gonna train for the tournament." Nothing big...
The only thing that would interest me but is cliché at the same time at it's best, is basically going beyond.
Goku trains Uub, Gohan and Piccolo have their reserves unleashed, we are already hitting the all possible ceilings in terms of power, god pantheon... Freeza is super pumped, has the black form, but damn, something more powerful turns up, destroys Freeza. Bam, threat is here.
But that's boring as hell, that's why I don't care... We already had the fighters as kids.
Only thing that makes some sense to see more characters (while connecting to already established ones), new worlds etc. is to go and exlore the different universes from 7. They've already closed the current one with Kaioshin claiming how many sentient species are there. Not much.
Not much has happened tho in that 10 year gap, it's one friendly bout with God Of Destruction during Bulma's birthday and the two mains training, one real threat (EOZ says hello) with Freeza, tournament, one side-real threat for Trunks' timeline with Zamasu and tournament.
Manga raised the stakes and I thought that Moro was actually interesting at first. It wasn't by sheer power, but magic and some lore and history with Kaioshin and furthermore, the angels. That was great. His Cell form, both visualy and ability-wise, was the boring part. Other than the climax climax, I actually liked the Moro arc.
Granolah arc was really underwhelming tho... It promised on things and didn't deliver. While the gang was interesting at first because of their connection to Freeza, in the end, they were just there and except for Freeza (who can somehow grow limitlesly in the same way our main cast can), both Granolah and the enemy had to use the Dragon Balls to be of any threat. The plot with sacrificing his own brother was rather basic, Bardock's plot only added fuel to the fire for all the haters of DB Minus (I am also not a big fan of Goku basically being Superman and not a product of coincidence and sheer luck). It was messy, unbearably long, with plot twist being another recolored design being sold as more powerful out of the ass form Freeza, that one-shoted the main villain. If they drop this arc from their Super anime revival schedule, I won't mind at all.
Also, if we have grey haired Ultra Instinct Goku (and God and SSJ God), purple Ultra Ego Vegeta with God and SSJG (Toppo's destroyer form was way cooler concept), grey haired Beast Gohan, Orange Piccolo, Black Freeza (and Golden), let's add Beige Goten, Green Trunks, Pink Pan, Wolf Yamcha and Spider Tenshinhan. God bless Daima
At the same time, I really did enjoy Super Hero and Moro to extent. Let's see what happens, as after Genkidamatsuri, it can be anything.
