Confusion over "New Series"

[broly legendary ssj]

Hi and good evening (to you), Dragonball forum. Yesterday I searched on Google and I found this post on another forum:
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Akira Toriyama is to be making a new Dragon Ball series alongside mangaka Naho Ooishi, The creator of the 2008 Dragon Ball Z special "Yo! son goku and friends return". Ooishi will be making a manga that continues the Z Manga past the Buu saga. It? will have a newly designed Super Saiyan 4, and even a Super Saiyan 5. Akira Toriyama will be assisting her and backing off. The events in japan (earthquake, tsunami) slowed this down now Toriyama is taking care of that. launch in 2012/2013 and he called the dragonball ssss project
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Are they really going to make new series?

[Dizrythmia]

Can I be the first to say no?? Please?????

[Saiga]

No, it's just another rumour like AF was and the more recent "Dragon Ball Hoshi". Don't trust rumours like that.

[kei17]

Now yet another Hoshi or whatever bullshit?

[VegettoEX]

You'll have to forgive folks 'round these parts for being so overwhelmed and tired of rumors like this. We do have a long-running website that this community is a part of, and we cover every single last tidbit of significant news for the franchise, especially when it relates to new products in Japan. In a nutshell, if you don't see it there, it doesn't exist.

What you've posted is an amalgamation of half-truths from other bits of news all combined into one, with some good old fashioned lies to butter it up even more.

Is Naho Ooishi working on something (new)?
Yes, but she has been for the last year, and nothing changes in that regard. DragonBall SD is a little spin-off manga that appeared in the quarterly magazine Saikyo Jump, a new anthology that Shueisha began last year that collects short side-stories from some of their most popular series (DB, One Piece, Naruto, etc.). The magazine is about to go monthly in 2012, and it was announced that DragonBall SD will continue to be a part of it on a monthly basis. The four chapters Ooishi did in 2011 covered Goku & Kuririn's training under Kame-Sen'nin, the Freeza fight, the Cell fight, and the Buu fight. The first monthly chapter seems to be going back to the original, first chapter of the story (Goku in the mountains). We have no idea where she's going to take the story from there. Nothing has ever been said about an anime adaptation of DragonBall SD.

Is Akira Toriyama involved with it?
Barely. He gets the obligatory "Supervisor" credit on each chapter, but that very likely means almost nothing. It's barely a step above just listing him as "Original Series Creator", since his involvement has been largely hands-off since the 1990s.

What is the "SSSS Project"?
Both the "SSSS (Saikyo Super Saiyan Secret) Project" and the "DragonBall Force Project" are code names that have been tossed around in conjunction with the upcoming anime adaptation of "Episode of Bardock", which does not have a definitive date set other than simply "2012" (though it is being previewed at Jump Festa in Japan this very upcoming weekend). Episode of Bardock was a three-chapter "sequel" to the character's TV special, again penned by Naho Ooishi. It ran for three months this year (August, September, October) in V-Jump, Shueisha's video game magazine in Japan. For more information, please read through our extensive review.

So is there a new series coming...?!
As just stated, Episode of Bardock is getting an anime adaptation, but we don't know if it's going to be a single special/movie, or a short series (perhaps 12 episodes, for example). There are only three chapters worth of material, and a standard TV episode of the series would cover roughly two chapters back in the day. Is it safe to call this a "new series"...? Not right now. It's just "new anime" and "it's coming next year". It's also an adaptation of something that already exists in manga form, so it's not entirely "new" in that regard, either.

So there you have it. Please do yourself and whatever other communities you visit a huge favor and check out all the recent news we've covered here on Daizenshuu EX, as well as our buddies over at Kanzentai. If you read it on either of those two sites, you can trust it. If you read it elsewhere, none of us can vouch for it.