"Dragon Ball Super: The Galactic Patrol" (20??) Discussion Thread

[Scsigs]

I’ve got this gut feeling that Dragon Ball will never go past its original manga ending out of respect for Akira Toriyama. He was never interested in creating stories set after that point, and he made that pretty clear more than once.

The problem is that Superhero was set roughly a year or even less before the end of Z, so how many more stories can you fit within a few months' time frame ? Black Freeza will either be the final story in this modern era, or things will move past the end of Z. I guess another possibility is that Black Freeza wraps up the Super story line, then Dragon Ball shift focus to the Daima continuity and continue on from there, but that seems even less likely due to how heavily involved Toriyama was with that project.

I also highly doubt they're gonna switch to Daima's continuity because Daima didn't make as many waves as they probably wanted. Unlike Super.

[Nickolaidas]

What I hate about modern Dragon Ball - or rather, the latest Dragon Ball pieces of media - is this oversimplification of the artstyle. In Daima, almost every main character - kid or adult - looks like a vegan. I loved the era of 90s DBZ where the characters looked like they came out of a Masters of the Universe episode, and it is really off-putting for an old guy like me to see this anorexic art direction. I suspect it's done for time, since simpler drawings are also faster to make, but ... if Daima was the first piece of Dragon Ball media I got exposed to today, I wouldn't give the franchise a single glance. And I see this art design slowly infecting video games as well. The newest Dragon Ball video game project seems to be going this route, and it sucks for me.

I really hope those new pieces of media - the continuation of Super and the remasters - will bring back the character designs I prefer.

[JulieYBM]

Toriyama's style changed with time for whatever reason, but the character designs for the animated projects will in all likelihood remain simpler because it is easier to animate them. To make the animation more expressive while also dealing with an industry with more projects than available skilled animators, simple designs remain the best choice.

That being said, it isn't like these characters are without muscles at all. Gokuu and friends are ripped as hell in Daima's final handful of episodes. Dragon Ball Super: Broly has the characters also muscular. The Galactic Patrol seems to be in line with those projects, too.

[PhantomSaiyan]

In Daima, almost every main character - kid or adult - looks like a vegan.

"looks like a vegan" is hilarious lol
I can see how the new characters can fit that description, like Glorio for example, but I think the main cast as adults are properly sized, sure not to the levels of the good old Z days, but let's at least be grateful they didn't use Toriyama's actual modern character designs for Goku Vegeta Piccolo etc

And like Julie said, in the recent movies the characters have also been properly sized and don't look "vegan" lol especially in Broly

[The Dark Knight]

Ajay just confirmed that Shintani is indeed the artist behind the arc's main visual, so hopefully that means he's the character designer as well.

[super michael]

Lets hope the anime version is as good or better than the manga version of Galactic Patrol. Seeing that Toei has a lot of time to prepare, there is a good chance it will turn out good.

[Vegard Aune]

Daima to me was like... The adult character designs looked good, if perhaps a bit more detailed than I would have liked. But I did not care for the child designs. The heads were too big, too round, and all their limbs looked like noodles. Which, yeah, is in line with the art style Toriyama wound up at in his later years but... I was never really a fan of that style, either.

Shintani's designs for Broly were probably my favorite look for modern DB, so I'm really happy to have at least a solid indication that he's probably coming back for The Galactic Patrol and hopefully also Granolah after it.

[JulieYBM]

I'm glad to see that Shintani is coming back. I hope the character designs aren't as detailed as the key visual art, though, because I really am not a fan of how restrained the animation was for Daima. That being said, it's going to be interesting to learn who else is working on this project. I doubt that Nakatsuru will be involved like he was for Daima, but if he's on the project for some key animation, that would be cool. I'm curious if the Komaki will be the series director or if Karasawa and anyone else who directed for Daima will be involved. One of my favorite parts of Daima was how the series was able to get repeat directors who were able to work on the series pretty consistently. We'll probably never get something like "Gosso storyboarding 10 episodes of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3," but I would be very happy to see a production strong enough for the staff to really maintain a consistently high-level.

If we can get sequences as dense and long as Oonishi Ryou's work on Daima, I would be very happy lol

[Chuquita]

The Daima child designs looked too SD and not enough like how I would expect the characters to look like as children since we have pre-existing designs for them as children. I can see why they did it that way since their inspiration is GT and when Goku is wished young there he also doesn't look like he did as an actual child, but I still didn't like it.

I'm glad Shintani's back. I liked his work on the Broly movie. My wish is for them to adapt the material in an entertaining way. I miss having new Dragon Ball material that I also enjoy watching even though I can't guess at what's going to happen next this time since the manga already exists and I've already read it.

[sonrazor]

My dreams are answered that Shintani is confirmed to be back. I cannot wait for the first teaser!

[DBFanGuy]

How do you guys orange piccolo and gohan beast will be handlers in the remaster? Will they retcon their first appearance since it’s different from the manga?