"Dragon Ball Super" Animation Staff Discussion

[ArchedThunder]

I really want these to be right, Shimanuki and Ishikawa doing the first Goku VS Hit episode followed by Karasawa and Tate doing the second? YES PLEASE!
Tate coming in when he is generally given more than the 8 weeks here makes me think that we are absolutely in a full length filler arc before the next Toriyama arc.
Hiroyuki being the solo supervisor for 73 makes me think it's not action and it should finally be the episode where we figure out his style with him being the sole supervisor and having 7 weeks.
I'm not even going to bother thinking much about the other staff since last month got them so spectacularly wrong.

[Sodhi]

Staff for #74-77 is as follows
#74
Script: King Ryu
Episode Director/Storyborder: Sato Masanori
Animation supervisors: Tsutomo Ono & Yukihiro Kitano
#75
Script: Tomioka Atsuhiro
Episode Director/Storyborder: Ryota Nakamura
Animation supervisors: Shuiichiro Manabe & Koji Nashizawa
#76
Script: Tomioka Atsuhiro
Storyboard: Hatano Kohei
Episode Director: Hiroshima Hideki
Animation supervisor: Masahiro Shimanuki
#77
Script: Tomioka Atsuhiro
Episode Director/Storyboarder: Kazuya Karasawa
Animation supervisor: Yoshitaka Yashima

[Lord Beerus]

This abundance of Tomioka Atsuhiro is so wonderful. He was responsible for scripting some of the best episodes in the Future Trunks arc and in all of Super and I'm really glad he's going to involved so much in the upcoming episodes.

I can't wait to see how he handles Bulma being pregnant with Bulla and Vegeta dealing with it. It almost sounds too good to be true.

[JulieYBM]

Hatano Kouhei storyboarding Episode #76 makes me wonder if that will be the last episode that he is credited as series director. That tends to happen, at least.

[Sodhi]

I would not be surprised if that happens. That would line up perfectly as the episode would be the end of in-between stuff before the next major arc.

[ArchedThunder]

So you guys are thinking now that Hatano Kouhei's promotion was temporary so Hatano Morio could focus on the next arc?
I've been hoping this whole time that that was the case, but we'll see!

[DragonBalllKaiHD]

It's not unheard of that two series directors share their role in a major arc. Kohei might share that role for a while.

[Saikyo no Senshi]

I'm looking forward to seeing the credits of #77. Chioka left as the Trunks arc started, whether Hatano leaves or not maybe we'll know at the start. Maybe. Tomioka writing scripts is nice. Hopefully, he will continue writing for Super.

[ArchedThunder]

I'm looking forward to seeing the credits of #77. Chioka left as the Trunks arc started, whether Hatano leaves or not maybe we'll know at the start. Maybe. Tomioka writing scripts is nice. Hopefully, he will continue writing for Super.

I think Hatano Morio will be the only credited Series Director come episode 77, with Hatano Kohei's "promotion" just being temporary for the elongated filler between arcs.

[Psykomatik]

So you guys are thinking now that Hatano Kouhei's promotion was temporary so Hatano Morio could focus on the next arc?
I've been hoping this whole time that that was the case, but we'll see!

Ha! That's what i'm saiying since the beginning!
Hope it's true tho...

[ArchedThunder]

If Hatano Morio is the only credited Series Director on episode 77 I'm going to be very happy, that will all but confirm the point of the 10 weeks between arcs being to improve the show's production. It's gonna be a hard wait!

[Chuquita]

I just read there won't be any hand-to-hand combat in this year's Toei's Precure; does that mean Super's universal tournament arc will have more resources to turn to?

[FortuneSSJ]

I just read there won't be any hand-to-hand combat in this year's Toei's Precure; does that mean Super's universal tournament arc will have more resources to turn to?

What a lucky "coincidence". If Toei planned that far, it would be great.

[Chuquita]

I just read there won't be any hand-to-hand combat in this year's Toei's Precure; does that mean Super's universal tournament arc will have more resources to turn to?

What a lucky "coincidence". If Toei planned that far, it would be great.

I hope so! Precure (outside of last year's MahoPre) is notorious for getting all of Toei's best battle animators. Potentially so freeing them up could be a help if some get called over to Super's tournament arc.

[Lord Beerus]

I just read there won't be any hand-to-hand combat in this year's Toei's Precure; does that mean Super's universal tournament arc will have more resources to turn to?

What a lucky "coincidence". If Toei planned that far, it would be great.

I hope so! Precure (outside of last year's MahoPre) is notorious for getting all of Toei's best battle animators. Potentially so freeing them up could be a help if some get called over to Super's tournament arc.

The reason the PreCure franchise has had great animation for a large majority of the shows and movies, especially when it come to battles,is because many of the talented animators who work on the show, such as Itaoka Nishiki, Tanaka Hironori and Ota Kazuhiro are all big fans of the PreCure franchise. So naturally when they get put in position were they can express their passion and love for a particular medium, the product itself gets the best quality possibly.

[emperior]

Does somebody know who decides the amount of blood? Because this filler arc has made me hopeful we will finally have more blood seeing the Yamcha episode and also it looks like last episode had blood in the remade Great Saiyaman and Videl flashback from DBZ (though that could have been made to be faithful to the original scene)

[Chuquita]

What a lucky "coincidence". If Toei planned that far, it would be great.

I hope so! Precure (outside of last year's MahoPre) is notorious for getting all of Toei's best battle animators. Potentially so freeing them up could be a help if some get called over to Super's tournament arc.

The reason the PreCure franchise has had great animation for a large majority of the shows and movies, especially when it come to battles,is because many of the talented animators who work on the show, such as Itaoka Nishiki, Tanaka Hironori and Ota Kazuhiro are all big fans of the PreCure franchise. So naturally when they get put in position were they can express their passion and love for a particular medium, the product itself gets the best quality possibly.

That being the case, why create a Precure series without hand to hand combat then? Especially when there's people out there who Precure combat is their passion animation wise? Would these animators be just as happy to animate cooking? (KiraPre is partly about cooking I hear.)

[kinisking]

Does somebody know who decides the amount of blood? Because this filler arc has made me hopeful we will finally have more blood seeing the Yamcha episode and also it looks like last episode had blood in the remade Great Saiyaman and Videl flashback from DBZ (though that could have been made to be faithful to the original scene)

The original scene wasn't in the Z anime

[emperior]

Does somebody know who decides the amount of blood? Because this filler arc has made me hopeful we will finally have more blood seeing the Yamcha episode and also it looks like last episode had blood in the remade Great Saiyaman and Videl flashback from DBZ (though that could have been made to be faithful to the original scene)

The original scene wasn't in the Z anime

Good to hear, I thought it was so I didn't check it.
Really hopeful this is a sign there will be Z-level blood in the next arc (or at least more blood than we got so far)

[Khin]

Does somebody know who decides the amount of blood? Because this filler arc has made me hopeful we will finally have more blood seeing the Yamcha episode and also it looks like last episode had blood in the remade Great Saiyaman and Videl flashback from DBZ (though that could have been made to be faithful to the original scene)

It's probably a decision by the current series director, Kōhei Hatano. He serves as the series director in these filler episodes, and we got to see considerable amount of blood, particularly in episode #70. Not to mention except for episode #54, Kōhei served as the episode director in the previous episodes where blood was present (#38 and #56).