"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

[DoomieDoomie911]

Speaking of the opening theme, is there a full version of it out.

I don't think so.

[Hellspawn28]

Does anything that a new android/cyborg will appear in Super? I don't want it to happen, but with the whole going to other worlds then I could see it happening.

Seems unlikely, given the recent more fantasy-ish push, gods and all that, but not impossible I suppose. (I mean, yeah, RF had plenty of sci-fi, but Freeza's main thing in that was a nigh-magical transformation.)

Well DB had #8, DBZ had #16-Dr. Gero and Cell, GT had Super 17. The idea of Super giving us another cyborg is not too far off. I won't want a new cyborg in Super because I feel like the idea is overdone.

[Captain Space]

Does anything that a new android/cyborg will appear in Super? I don't want it to happen, but with the whole going to other worlds then I could see it happening.

Seems unlikely, given the recent more fantasy-ish push, gods and all that, but not impossible I suppose. (I mean, yeah, RF had plenty of sci-fi, but Freeza's main thing in that was a nigh-magical transformation.)

Well DB had #8, DBZ had #16-Dr. Gero and Cell, GT had Super 17. The idea of Super giving us another cyborg is not too far off. I won't want a new cyborg in Super because I feel like the idea is overdone.

I was more talking about the idea of bringing in this super-hyped God of Destruction thing into the new series, and the general tone of that making it unlikely that there could really be a machine on that level of power.

[MaGyunia]

Does anything that a new android/cyborg will appear in Super? I don't want it to happen, but with the whole going to other worlds then I could see it happening.

Seems unlikely, given the recent more fantasy-ish push, gods and all that, but not impossible I suppose. (I mean, yeah, RF had plenty of sci-fi, but Freeza's main thing in that was a nigh-magical transformation.)

Well DB had #8, DBZ had #16-Dr. Gero and Cell, GT had Super 17. The idea of Super giving us another cyborg is not too far off. I won't want a new cyborg in Super because I feel like the idea is overdone.

If I had to guess, taking into account we'll be dealing with the concept of another Universe and the fact that the most recent antagonists (Majin Buu and Beerus) are of that sort, I would go with either deities, demons or aliens for the new villain(s). The possibility I view as the least likely is actually cyborgs. Once again leaving out the movies, DB had Piccolo Daimao and Piccolo, who were demons/aliens, the Saiya-jin arc and the Freeza arc had aliens, the Jinzouningen and Cell arcs had cyborgs and the Majin Buu arc had demons or magical creatures (on the evil side) and deities (on the good side). All the concepts based on movies (the Jinzouningen, especially #16, are clearly influenced by the Terminator - Terminator 2 had come out 2 years earlier -, while Freeza in his third form is based on the xenomorph from the Alien franchise, for example) or other sci-fi fictional stories have been explored throughout Dragonball. They're most likely going to keep with the trend of gods/deities, but we can only speculate until we get info on the 6th Universe arc. They did a fantastic job with the concept of Beerus and its particular character (a deity who doesn't take sides and can't really be deemed neither "evil" nor "good"), although, despite the fact he is an antagonist, he can't really be called an "enemy", much less a "villain". After all the creative process they went throughout DB and DBZ, pretty much almost all ideas have been explored, so it's virtually impossible to see something entirely new, totally and absolutely unlike anything we've been before.

[MajinMan]

20 minutes to go guys. The first episode had much more tension, but the second episode made me realize that this is going to happen almost every week for who knows how long. I still can't believe something like this is actually happening. It's unreal.

[Chuquita]

I'm more excited for this week because "Vegeta in awkward and ridiculous situations" is more rare a treat than "Gokû does something adorable."
Both I enjoy however.

[MaGyunia]

20 minutes to go guys. The first episode had much more tension, but the second episode made me realize that this is going to happen almost every week for who knows how long. I still can't believe something like this is actually happening. It's unreal.

Don't know if you read the last page, but you basically just said what I did about 2 hours ago:

"Goddamn it, I can't believe we'll be watching another episode one week after that insane experience we went through exactly one week ago. Can't believe we're getting one new episode a week and we'll all be watching it at the same time again. This will become routine, but a wonderful one. I'm super-hyped. Goddamn it, I love this.

Honestly, tears came into my eyes last week when the first visuals from DBSuper showed up shortly after the clock reached 9h00. And right at the second episode we're getting Vegeta's version of a family-trip, the reappearance of Kaiou-sama, some more of Beerus' awesome character, Vegeta going insane in the middle of a human crowd and who-knows what else.

Can't believe that at 31 years of age in 2015 I would be watching a new series from DBZ in real-time in Japanese. I honestly thought it would never happen. It's an entirely different experience from Kai and the 2008, 2013 and 2015 movies, as in, it's not something that happens one time, you get to absorb it fully and add it to the rest, and it's done; you get to see new canon stuff with the entire environment of Dragonball in original Japanese exactly at the time it's happening in Japan and all around the world, and the experience gets to be repeated every single week."

"I mean, it's been 18 years. Some of my friends weren't even BORN when Dragonball had ended. It's really hard to grasp the enormity and significance of this event. I'm sure most of you share the exact same sensation. I'd be glad to have survived this long even if it was just to be alive and kicking and present while this is taking place and I get to follow it as it happens."

[MajinMan]

20 minutes to go guys. The first episode had much more tension, but the second episode made me realize that this is going to happen almost every week for who knows how long. I still can't believe something like this is actually happening. It's unreal.

Don't know if you read the last page, but you basically just said what I did about 2 hours ago:

"Goddamn it, I can't believe we'll be watching another episode one week after that insane experience we went through exactly one week ago. Can't believe we're getting one new episode a week and we'll all be watching it at the same time again. This will become routine, but a wonderful one. I'm super-hyped. Goddamn it, I love this.

Honestly, tears came into my eyes last week when the first visuals from DBSuper showed up shortly after the clock reached 9h00. And right at the second episode we're getting Vegeta's version of a family-trip, the reappearance of Kaiou-sama, some more of Beerus' awesome character, Vegeta going insane in the middle of a human crowd and who-knows what else.

Can't believe that at 31 years of age in 2015 I would be watching a new series from DBZ in real-time in Japanese. I honestly thought it would never happen. It's an entirely different experience from Kai and the 2008, 2013 and 2015 movies, as in, it's not something that happens one time, you get to absorb it fully and add it to the rest, and it's done; you get to see new canon stuff with the entire environment of Dragonball in original Japanese exactly at the time it's happening in Japan and all around the world, and the experience gets to be repeated every single week."

"I mean, it's been 18 years. Some of my friends weren't even BORN when Dragonball had ended. It's really hard to grasp the enormity and significance of this event. I'm sure most of you share the exact same sensation. I'd be glad to have survived this long even if it was just to be alive and kicking and present while this is taking place and I get to follow it as it happens."

Haha I didn't notice because I was so excited. We can look at mine as the TL;DR version.

We're all Dragon Ball fans here, it's not strange that a lot of us think in similiar ways about this.

[UpFromTheSkies]

Episode 2 has begun! I'll post screen shots when it's done.

Gregory is in it

[DoomieDoomie911]

Episode 2 has begun! I'll post screen shots when it's done.

Gregory is in it

It's good to see Gregory back. He was a really good filler character, and a perfect addition to Kaio-sama's planet!

[MajinMan]

Nice episode, though I wish they did more with the resort. The still images were kinda lazy in my opinion. Beerus throwin out feats for all the hardcore "vs" fans haha. 7.5/10

[dougo13]

I guess Vegita out of his element is a very bad idea. At least we are moving along the plot a little bit at a time. Going to wait a bit get a full version to figure out more of what was going on, but I got a lot of it already...

[Lord Beerus]

Quite a fun episode. It was funny to see Vegeta try to be social, only to rage quite in the end.

And Beerus, well, what more can be said? Total boss.

I'd give the episode an 8/10

[dbgtFO]

Huh, so the circumstances of Beerus remembering Super Saiyan God does differ between the manga and anime.
I'm quite surprised by that.

[Marco Polo]

Gregory is in DB Super. Called it

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Nice episode, though I wish they did more with the resort. The still images were kinda lazy in my opinion. Beerus throwin out feats for all the hardcore "vs" fans haha. 7.5/10

Yeah that felt like a cop out at the time but the Beerus/Whis scenes made up for it, in particular that one Whis scene Also I liked the way Beerus remembered SSG.

[jcogginsa]

so what all happened?

[dougo13]

That's one thing I've been wondering, if Beerus has a counter? Or is Champe just a rival? Guess we'll have to wait and find out. It would be sorta lame if there really isn't a "boss of bosses". Just having various stronger guys all the time wears thin after awhile. Like the old Superman comics from the late 50s/early 60s. Who can you keep dreaming up to fight people who can move planets out of orbit and travel in time? Made the stories lame. Probably why I switched to Marvel comics back in the 1960s. They were more interesting characters...

[TheDevilsCorpse]

Gregory is in DB Super. Called it

We knew this from the Super Start Guide including his designs.

[Chuquita]

If I heard correctly; that's some fun foreshadowing; them trying to get Vegeta to come up on stage.