Where will the franchise go after Super?

[Skar]

No one thought Ash would beat the Pokémon Leagues and no one thought Ash would get replaced as the main character, yet those things has recently happened.
The main character is Liko.

That's true but Pokémon is a different kind of franchise than DB. It started out as a video game that explores a new region every generation with different looking protagonists. The anime had one protagonist who doesn't age and it might've been getting overdone that he keeps resetting every new region. It's still about the world of Pokémon like the games while DB was always Goku's story and everything else in the franchise has focused on him.

There's a reason why having a new GeGeGe no Kitarou animated adaption every decade worked lol.

Kitaro is one example but I think that had an anniversary reboot anime every decade. The vast majority of shonen franchises haven't really done that. Since the original run in the 90s, DB had a recut closer to the manga only covering Z and two midquels or three if you include Heroes since it seems like it also took place in the same time period. The original DB ended almost 30 years but still widely available to read or watch and they never thought they needed to remake it to appeal to newer audience. The closest we had was Path to Power and GT/Daima with Goku being turned back into a kid.

[JulieYBM]

No one thought Ash would beat the Pokémon Leagues and no one thought Ash would get replaced as the main character, yet those things has recently happened.
The main character is Liko.

That's true but Pokémon is a different kind of franchise than DB. It started out as a video game that explores a new region every generation with different looking protagonists. The anime had one protagonist who doesn't age and it might've been getting overdone that he keeps resetting every new region. It's still about the world of Pokémon like the games while DB was always Goku's story and everything else in the franchise has focused on him.

Changing the protagonist for AniPoke was due to a combination of factors, if memory serves: they were concerned about the aging staff and cast and wanted to defer to Chief Director Yuyama.

Kitaro is one example but I think that had an anniversary reboot anime every decade. The vast majority of shonen franchises haven't really done that. Since the original run in the 90s, DB had a recut closer to the manga only covering Z and two midquels or three if you include Heroes since it seems like it also took place in the same time period. The original DB ended almost 30 years but still widely available to read or watch and they never thought they needed to remake it to appeal to newer audience. The closest we had was Path to Power and GT/Daima with Goku being turned back into a kid.

Numerous older series do complete or even just partial recasts when new adaptions are produced. While Dragon Ball has nominally been free from that, it's still a series that can and will inevitably be updated with a new adaption.

[Skar]

Numerous older series do complete or even just partial recasts when new adaptions are produced. While Dragon Ball has nominally been free from that, it's still a series that can and will inevitably be updated with a new adaption.

I was talking about similar genre or type of shonen that are more martial arts/action oriented. If DB doesn't get a remake then I think it's just following the same trend as all those series that never had one. HxH, Dragon Quest, Black Cover, and now OP have remakes to adapt the manga more faithfully. I'm not sure how many of those kinds had a remake for the sake of redoing the same story in a different artstyle. Something like Path to Power or the intro of Super Hero seems like they were done in place of a complete remake.