Discussion specifically regarding the "Dragon Ball Super" TV series premiering July 2015 in Japan, including individual threads for each episode.
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Nafno
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by Nafno » Mon Aug 31, 2026 3:29 pm
angeldreamZ004 wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2026 2:42 pm
Nafno wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2026 2:06 pm
My japanese is far from perfect, but the THIS TIME you are higlighting is
konkai, which can mean
this time, but not necessarily in a temporal sense, but also in the sense of difference or simply putting emphasis. For example, if I say "
Konkai, the band will use an electric guitar for the album". It means that, unlike other times, they use two electric guitar. The album might have 50 years old, and
konkai still applies. They might have used two electric guitars before, or afterwards, and
konkai still applies.Then he says
scenario ga aru, which means
there's a script, nothing indicating a new script or recent creation. What Iyoku is saying is that, unlike other Super arcs, for this one there's an actual script written by Toriyama.
Then there's great confusion of which terms should've been used, because the translation says "draft". For the other arcs, it's also said that Toriyama worked on drafts that either Toyotaro or Toei decided to expand on. When it comes to a full script, there's also Fukkatsu no 'F'. Problem being, what exactly is the script and what exactly is the original draft? It's also weird how there's nothing in this saying that Toriyama was involved other than the traditional "Original Work, Story and Character Design" which is just the generic credits to his work in the original manga. The translation interprets what he said as "script" and "original draft" being two separate content, something we may not know in detail.
We may never know what exactly Iyoku meant then, thank you for the clarification anyway, was planning to do a thread about this detail but it won't be needed anymore.
A pleasure.
Tomorrow is the beginning of september, and we have no official release date yet, so let's keep waiting.
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by angeldreamZ004 » Mon Aug 31, 2026 3:42 pm
Nafno wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2026 3:29 pm
Tomorrow is the beginning of september, and we have no official release date yet, so let's keep waiting.
I believe there will be nothing in September and we'll have to wait til October, it was already confirmed for that month the Comic Con panel where they'll talk more about the show, probably where they'll be showing the next and final trailer.
✪ Good Afterlife to Toriyama, the Ultimate Consciousness of the Dragon Ball World. Good Mortal Life to Toyotaro, the Successor. ✪
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by Mister_Popo » Tue Sep 01, 2026 6:07 pm
angeldreamZ004 wrote: Sun Aug 30, 2026 6:33 pm
I know where you getting this from though. In the original anime, Champa and Vados debut in the beginning of the Freeza arc. In the Manga it's even earlier with them showing up in the Beerus arc already.
It’s not based on a fact, an assumption, or wishful thinking. It’s an opinion. If they rebrand the first three arcs together as a seperate storyline 'Dragon Ball Super: Beerus', I’d consider it a missed opportunity to not build in some extra connective tissue. Aside from the training on Whis’s planet to master God Ki, I’ve always found the Golden Frieza arc to be terribly disjointed. It would have felt more natural if the U6 arc had followed directly after BoG, with only the training on Whis’s planet in between.
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by JulieYBM » Tue Sep 01, 2026 6:59 pm
While not surprising, I still hoped for someone news. Oh, well. Hopefully there's no tracks composed that are better than the old ones.
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by FortuneSSJ » Tue Sep 01, 2026 10:01 pm
Considering how lackluster Daima soundtrack was, I'm glad he's back.
A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.
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by JulieYBM » Tue Sep 01, 2026 11:43 pm
I'm curious if they'll avoid using any of the Dragon Ball Kai background music now that they have more Dragon Ball Super background music to draw from? Sumitomo's tracks for Dragon Ball Kai were especially bad lol
JulieYBM wrote: Tue Sep 01, 2026 6:59 pm
While not surprising, I still hoped for someone news. Oh, well. Hopefully there's no tracks composed that are better than the old ones.
This typo haunts me.
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by Vegard Aune » Wed Sep 02, 2026 4:26 am
FortuneSSJ wrote: Tue Sep 01, 2026 10:01 pm
Considering how lackluster Daima soundtrack was, I'm glad he's back.
The actual compositions in Daima were fine. It's just we barely ever got to hear them, between how quiet the music mix was and how many scenes just
didn't have music at all.
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by M16U3L2015 » Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:11 pm
The release date has been confirmed: October 11
A new trailer has also been released, which features the opening and closing themes
https://youtu.be/CFgEL7ei8VE?si=4ePdz_vpf-a5QMvO
It also features footage from the Frieza and Champa arcs, so as far as we know, that's as far as it will go.
(Unfortunately, in my opinion this enhanced version won't save the Frieza arc from its flaws.)
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by super michael » Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:15 pm
I just saw the video on YouTube, it does look really good the quality of the anime.
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by Chuquita » Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:28 pm
Haha! Of course it's October 11th. The one Sunday I won't be around all afternoon.
I'm unlucky that way.
New OP and ED sound fine. The art doesn't look like they redrew that much of it. Lots more filter though.
As long as my favorite parts are still there.
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by M16U3L2015 » Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:35 pm
I like the new opening, but in my opinion, the ending theme sounds meh to me, the first endings from "Super" were better than this one.
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by Grimlock » Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:55 pm
Black-haired Super Saiyan 2 was not something I was expecting to see in this life (and with the good outfit!).
I'll be sure to just check whenever Super Saiyan 2 appears, along with whatever else is new. Which I don't think there will be tons of new content, unfortunately.
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by The Accountant » Wed Sep 02, 2026 7:12 pm
The realization that this comes out in a month finally hit. Overall, I think it looks good.
In terms of art, it seems to me like there actually were a ton of redraws. It's crazy how every character looks really on model. In the case of early super that's probably better, even if it is Yamamu-rified. Hopefully, we'll still be able to identify unique artist traits.
I like how to new OP sounds. It sounds distinct from other OPs we've had, and I think it will slot nicely into the DB catalog. Will have to hear how it sounds after 12 EPs before I can say for sure.
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by kemuri07 » Wed Sep 02, 2026 7:26 pm
A nifty trailer for certain. And yes, it clearly does look like work has been done on it, but not really enough that it feels like double-dipping into Super will be worth it.
But 20 min out of my life is not the worse thing, so I’ll check it out.
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by YamiGoku » Wed Sep 02, 2026 8:19 pm
I like that at least they are doing some fun stuff like Super Saiyan God in Res F
The OP/END are ok i guess I'm going to need to hear them at their fullest to deside if I like them.
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by JulieYBM » Wed Sep 02, 2026 8:23 pm
I can't find anything on Matsuto Seya, who is in charge of the scripts and series direction, so it's probably a pseudonym for either one or more people.
The rotation cut of Goku and Freeza fighting is probably for the Opening? It's kind of hard to tell. Either way, the trailer...does not look good lol
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by Scsigs » Wed Sep 02, 2026 8:59 pm
M16U3L2015 wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:11 pm
The release date has been confirmed: October 11
A new trailer has also been released, which features the opening and closing themes
https://youtu.be/CFgEL7ei8VE?si=4ePdz_vpf-a5QMvO
It also features footage from the Frieza and Champa arcs, so as far as we know, that's as far as it will go.
(Unfortunately, in my opinion this enhanced version won't save the Frieza arc from its flaws.)
You'd have to completely restructure & rewrite Res F from the ground up to make that story good. The lack of any real tension is what hurts it the most, tbh.
Grimlock wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:55 pm
Black-haired Super Saiyan 2 was not something I was expecting to see in this life (and with the good outfit!).
I'll be sure to just check whenever Super Saiyan 2 appears, along with whatever else is new. Which I don't think there will be tons of new content, unfortunately.
There's some shots that are definitely new stuff. I think there'll be more than people think.
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by FortuneSSJ » Wed Sep 02, 2026 9:28 pm
I like it.
Looks like ROF will have SSG Goku and Gohan not looking like a stick.
Opening seems great but the ending not really.
I was expecting Beerus to be just the name of the first arc, but it will encompass all three. Well it does revolve around his character.
It's a mistake if they don't remaster Goku Black arc before Moro.
A world without Dragon Ball is just boring.
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by JulieYBM » Wed Sep 02, 2026 9:51 pm
Interesting to note: there's a shot of Son Goku using the Kaiou-ken Blue in the trailer, which means that they won't be removing it to better match Toyotarou's comic. I'm curious how many more instances of Kaiou-ken Blue we'll see, then.
There's a lot of really bad shots left over from the 2015 series, but I'm hoping that that new shot of Gohan from the Golden Freeza arc means that he'll get a cool battle scene against Freeza. Let me see Takahashi or Shida animating Gohan getting his ass beat!!