"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

[nekobi]

Just saw the first episode live on our Japanese TV box and I have to say it completely exceeded my expectations! The opening and ending themes are amazing, the animation was actually pretty good and better than I expected, and the whole episode was just plain fun!! I can't wait for the second episode! The scenes in the next ep preview looked AMAZING! <3

This is sooo surreal! I never thought I'd see a sequel to my all time favorite series! ^_______^

Here's what the title screen looked like during the opening:

[shinmaru]

DragonBall Super is so full of life I really enjoyed this episode.

[Cursemark505]

-OP & ED were great
-Animation was nice
-Nice character interactions

I thoroughly enjoyed the episode.

[Ushabtis]

--screens from OP
-Jaco
-Mystic Gohan
-the Red Super Saiyan God
-Goten gets a different gi (same orange no long sleeves)

Spoiler:

Very excited to see Jaco in the OP. hope he has good amount of screen time. Also Mystic Gohan. Was surprised to see that, nice!

Because they're in "non battle mode" / "funny scene mode". Same reason Vegeta is skinny and small as fuck at one point in the JSAT special.

-Mr.Satan can transform like Roshi
that'd be really cool

[Marco Polo]

By the way why did it take 6 months for Mr. Satan to reward Goku?

[Lord Beerus]

Awesome first episode. Good animation, good comedy, good score and the OP and ED were brilliant.

Dragon Ball Super is off to a great start.

[DBZimran]

Managed to find the opening for those who missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Mm01UrXFg

[Piririn]

I feel like a kid again, like I did back when I first started watching the series and everything was new and fun.

I'm partyin' like it's 1999.

Did you also have to go through annoying Commercial breaks then

You kids today are so spoiled. To watch the series in Japanese back then, I had to watch mud-quality (often so bad it was hard to tell what was going on) videos with subtitles that were either poor translations, illegible, or missing. It took an hour, if lucky, to get each episode. And I loved every minute of it.

Whippersnappers. ^_^

[Makai]

Really enjoyed the first episode, felt like it was over before I knew it.

I noticed in the opening Goten seems to have a new outfit, looks similar to Goku's. Looks much better.

[SSJ God Gogeta]

Of course a huge thunderstorm had to come by and take away my power so I couldn't watch Super.... Mother Nature's a bitch...
Guess I'll have to wait until it's uploaded somewhere like YouTube or something, shouldn't take too long.

[Captain Space]

Ah man, even after just seeing the opening...

The Dragon Ball universe feels open again.

I got a hint of this feeling at the end of BoG, but now, it's full-force.

[Big Momma]

The shot in the OP of Goku and Vegeta walking towards that vortex made me so excited.

[Neo-Makaiōshin]

This probably is a dead horse at this point but, TAKE THAT GT !!!

[Super Saiyan Swagger]

The opening and ending are just... Wow. Fucking beautiful. Especially that ending, man. It reminded me a lot of the ending for the 2008 special (which is a really good thing since I love that ending). I can't wait to watch the episode though.

[sintzu]

This probably is a dead horse at this point but, TAKE THAT GT !!!

The OP alone puts Gt in the ground.

[Marco Polo]

They're fighting Frieza's army in their old gis!

[GeeRod]

I watched only the opening. I can't wait to see the actual episode! Seems that everyone liked so far

[sintzu]

They're fighting Freeza's army in their old gis!

It's either for the op only or his men show up before they go to train.

[fadeddreams5]

Judging by the opening, stuff from F may be completely retconned/changed, and I am crossing my fingers that I'm right about that.

[MaGyunia]

Don't know if anyone else in Portugal watched the episode as it aired, maybe I was the only one.

I'm at a loss for words. After the whole process of revitalization of Dragonball we've been going through in the last years, with the 2008 special, Kai, Battle of Gods and Fukkatsu no F they went and decided to blow things up with an entirely new series.

This is my first post here ever, I finally decided to officially join the forum last May, but I've been following all of your discussions on a daily basis and I recognize in almost all of you both the level of fandom, the intellectual ability and the degree of knowledge of Dragonball's immense history and its most recent developments, and I'm sure I can gain a lot from starting to post here on a regular basis from now on.

There are many DBZ contents of my own creation on my YouTube page and on a Dragonball-dedicate blog I've created that I want you all to look at and share with you.

Thank you all for being "present" here at this point. Whether you're a long-time hardcore fan in your 30s like me or a younger individual, I feel as if we're all part of the same world and that our love for Dragonball connects us. It's actually hard to explain.

I'm not going to go in-depth in my analysis of any particular aspect of either the first episode we've just watched from DBSuper, or of BoG, FnF or any other DBZ-related subject matter.

I'd just like to share with you all my degree of emotion when the opening started and I felt that I was part of a small chunk of the world that was watching what we've been waiting for and discussing for so long.

I'll leave any deeper comments, shares and analysis for later. Now I have to take this in, absorb it and deal with the degree of deep emotion this caused me.

I doubt most of us even need subtitles anymore to understand 90% of the Japanese script, after years and years, decades even, of watching and rewatching hundreds if not thousands of times episodes of DB and DBZ to the point where most of us know each and every line uttered by every single character. At least this is my case. I literally learned spoken Japanese from watching and rewatching Dragonball Z on a daily basis for basically every week in the last 20 years of my life, especially after it became quite easy to have access to the original Japanese version, which was quite hard to get to up until a certain point in the mid-2000s.

Goddamn it, Dragonball is an entire separate universe on its own and it's in that universe that we all live in and that I want to discuss with you in each and every single little detail from now on.

Thank you all, thanks Akira Toriyama, thanks Japan.

Arigato gozaimasu.

MaGyunia