"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

[Lord Beerus]

Battle Angel Alita, Bastard!!, Berserk, Bio Booster Armor Guyver and JoJo has been around the 1980's and still running today with new manga chapters. While not as well known as DBZ, but they are still on going. Both Detective Conan and Shin Chan are over 20 years old and still on going today.

Of course they still going on, the manga series hasn't ended yet. What sintzu was asking was how many series had remained extremely relevant, as Dragon Ball has, even 20 years after the original manga story ended.

[Kamiccolo9]

Battle Angel Alita, Bastard!!, Berserk, Bio Booster Armor Guyver and JoJo has been around the 1980's and still running today with new manga chapters. While not as well known as DBZ, but they are still on going. Both Detective Conan and Shin Chan are over 20 years old and still on going today.

Of course they still going on, the manga series hasn't ended yet. What sintzu was asking was how many series had remained extremely relevant, as Dragon Ball has, even 20 years after the original manga story ended.

That's not at all what he asked.

[Doctor.]

Battle Angel Alita, Bastard!!, Berserk, Bio Booster Armor Guyver and JoJo has been around the 1980's and still running today with new manga chapters. While not as well known as DBZ, but they are still on going. Both Detective Conan and Shin Chan are over 20 years old and still on going today.

Of course they still going on, the manga series hasn't ended yet. What sintzu was asking was how many series had remained extremely relevant, as Dragon Ball has, even 20 years after the original manga story ended.

Astro Boy.

[Lord Beerus]

Battle Angel Alita, Bastard!!, Berserk, Bio Booster Armor Guyver and JoJo has been around the 1980's and still running today with new manga chapters. While not as well known as DBZ, but they are still on going. Both Detective Conan and Shin Chan are over 20 years old and still on going today.

Of course they still going on, the manga series hasn't ended yet. What sintzu was asking was how many series had remained extremely relevant, as Dragon Ball has, even 20 years after the original manga story ended.

That's not at all what he asked.

How many franchises can you list that have lasted 20+ years after their manga's original run ?

A fanchise cannot last for 20+ years after the original story ended, if it's not at the very least extremely relevant or well know with the mass public.

Astro Boy.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Astroy Boy. Too bad the 2003 anime and 2009 CGI movie bombed.

[voltlunok]

Battle Angel Alita, Bastard!!, Berserk, Bio Booster Armor Guyver and JoJo has been around the 1980's and still running today with new manga chapters. While not as well known as DBZ, but they are still on going. Both Detective Conan and Shin Chan are over 20 years old and still on going today.

Of course they still going on, the manga series hasn't ended yet. What sintzu was asking was how many series had remained extremely relevant, as Dragon Ball has, even 20 years after the original manga story ended.

And that's what we answered. We just also added other stuff to hammer home the point that Dragon Ball's age isn't unique only to it. Like I said before, Gundam started in 79. It is still one of the largest franchises Bandai has under it's belt and that's saying a lot when you consider all the franchises Bandai has under it's belt.

[VegettoEX]

This conversation is veering way off-topic, and too many of the replies are borderline sarcastic/dismissive. Let's pull it back, please.

[Doctor.]

Anyone remember those little side-story "novels" the anime staff wrote for Piccolo, Vegeta and Trunks? Wouldn't mind seeing that return for some characters in Super, always thought it gave a lot more depth to the characters we knew (especially the Trunks one).

[FortuneSSJ]

It'll definitely be more than 26 episodes. There is still a crap load of lore to be explored in Dragon Ball and 26 episodes is way too short to explore all of it.

Yeah, anime industry doesn't work like that and Dragon Ball is not special.

You don't seem to know much about the industry. Super will air for one year, at least. So definitely, it will have more than 26 episodes.
And if Dragon Ball wasn't special, it would be already buried long ago. Living in denial is not good.

[Tennessaiyan]

I too hope that there are some little side-stories to Super. If we can get stuff like that in movie form (like in BoG) hopefully we'll see some fun stuff on the side in Super. My #1 for this new series is that it has plenty of heart.

[Marco Polo]

It has to be longer than GT in order to redeem the franchise or else it will all have been for nothing.

[Chuquita]

It'll have to last at least five cours to do that. If it's one year only, it'll still miss GT by 15 episodes or so.

[sintzu]

It has to be longer than GT in order to redeem the franchise or else it will all have been for nothing.

It has to be better as well.

[Captain Space]

It has to be longer than GT in order to redeem the franchise or else it will all have been for nothing.

It has to be better as well.

I'd take better even without longer. I'd count DB TV series' as "redeemed" if Super is just flat-out good whether it's an epic saga or short but sweet.

[fadeddreams5]

26 episodes is just fine for a test run. The point is to want people craving more. If the series is successful, then they can continue making episodes and increasing the quality of future seasons (assuming the first season will be subpar in that regard).

[JulieYBM]

Damn, yo, Koga Gou hasn't done anything since February. I hope he's a regular on Dragon Ball Super, especially if Tate Naoki can be his regular animation supervisor. Koga directed the Opening for Dragon Ball Z 2, so he has a history with the franchise.

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

Given that we have a very good director for Dragon Ball Super, it's almost certain that he will recruit some of the talented key animators and animation supervisors. Even if the talent pool is thinned out, I hope he will find a way to convince few of good sub-contracted animators. I wonder if he can get his hands on some of the great key animators from Naruto Shippuden, since the series is coming to an end. Hiroyuki Yamashita or Gorou Sessha, perhaps?

Right now I'm watching Naruto episode 63. That episode has a nice on-model. The previous episode where Naruto beat Neji Hyuga is one of the better looking episodes. The director could try to get some of the key animators from these episodes. Or perhaps someone from the episode where Uchiha Itachi first used his Mangekyou Sharingan to cast Tsukuyomi on Hatake Kakashi?

[TJVY]

Does anyone have a vague idea when we could have any new information regarding Super. Kanzenshuu visits are becoming tiresome when its the same speculation over and over again, we need some more tidbits to get our creative train of thought back on track again.

[Chuquita]

The week after next week's Jump? (Whose spoilers generally pop up the Tues/Wed/Thu before street date.)

OR, actually next month there is a Saikyou Jump issue, maybe that'll have something?

Definitely VJump, but I expect something before VJump. Maybe that dragonballsuper.com site will launch at the start of June?

[JulieYBM]

Given that we have a very good director for Dragon Ball Super, it's almost certain that he will recruit some of the talented key animators and animation supervisors. Even if the talent pool is thinned out, I hope he will find a way to convince few of good sub-contracted animators. I wonder if he can get his hands on some of the great key animators from Naruto Shippuden, since the series is coming to an end. Hiroyuki Yamashita or Gorou Sessha, perhaps?

Right now I'm watching Naruto episode 63. That episode has a nice on-model. The previous episode where Naruto beat Neji Hyuga is one of the better looking episodes. The director could try to get some of the key animators from these episodes. Or perhaps someone from the episode where Uchiha Itachi first used his Mangekyou Sharingan to cast Tsukuyomi on Hatake Kakashi?

Yamashita Hiroyuki is directing Boruto: Naruto The Movie. Sessha Gorou is the series director of an upcoming television series. Besides, we'll probably get spin-off series that focuses on Boruto and Sarada, so I don't see Yamashita and the others being available any time soon. Oonishi Ryou and Tate Naoki haven't been busy lately, so they might be regulars for Dragon Ball Super early on.

Did you watch Naruto Episode #62? The storyboard had a lot of really good framing from Episode Director Niidome Toshiya. Also, watch #64. Niidome did the storyboard for Episode Director Kujo Rion and it is even better! The same pair handled Episode #82, too.

[GeeRod]

No news yet? Geez...is almot June and we still don't have something. Come on Toei