What is the primary continuity of Super?

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Re: What is the primary continuity of Super?

Post by Jackalope89 » Fri Aug 31, 2018 5:57 pm

Minus, Jaco, Dragon Ball, DBZ Kai/Manga, Super Anime.

Super Manga never actually did the Resurrection of F. So, that's a glaring hole in that continuity.

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Re: What is the primary continuity of Super?

Post by Rakurai » Sun Sep 02, 2018 4:44 pm

Jackalope89 wrote:Minus, Jaco, Dragon Ball, DBZ Kai/Manga, Super Anime.

Super Manga never actually did the Resurrection of F. So, that's a glaring hole in that continuity.
No it isn't. In case you've forgotten, RoF film exists and Toyo did a promotional manga that was directly tied to it.

Dragon Ball Super manga by Toyotaro & Toriyama is the canonical sequel to the original Dragon Ball manga by Toriyama. I hate the use of the word canonical but it was used in one of the official DB NA Tour displays, which was translated over from a Japanese reference.

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The DBS anime is most consistent with the DBZ anime and Kai. So that's what is usually established to be derived from.
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Re: What is the primary continuity of Super?

Post by Miracles » Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:27 pm

Depends on what Toriyama and Shueisha labeled main continuity. Which was officially the Super manga not the anime.

However, I personally only take Toriyama's outline as main canon...Until he comes out and says otherwise, the manga is officially it.

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Re: What is the primary continuity of Super?

Post by RandomGuy96 » Mon Sep 03, 2018 7:19 pm

So here's a point I haven't seen brought up. We see in a flashback in the anime version of Super that Trunks went Super Saiyan over Future Gohan's body. This was explicitly not the case in the manga version of that event. But it was in the anime version.

That would more credence to the idea that the Super anime follows from Kai while the Super manga follows from the Dragon Ball manga.
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Re: What is the primary continuity of Super?

Post by Ssjcell » Mon Sep 03, 2018 9:39 pm

The anime without a doubt :think:

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