"Dragon Ball Super" Series Official Announcement & Discussion Thread

[JulieYBM]

I wonder when Tate's next episode is. I hope he does get to make at least some corrections to episode 5's home release; no way could he have not felt somewhat embarrassed to have his name attached to that episode the way it ended up looking on-air.

Probably either Episode #10, Episode #11 or Episode #12. If it's Episode #11 he should have some more time. It's hard to say without know if Toma Seizou is going to return, either. I would hope so, though.

[Doctor.]

Jacob, you don't think Toei's planning is so poor that they wouldn't give Super some good animators for the following 2-3 episodes, do you?

[JulieYBM]

Jacob, you don't think Toei's planning is so poor that they wouldn't give Super some good animators for the following 2-3 episodes, do you?

World Trigger Episode #44 just had an episode with five really good freelance action animators, none of which did work on their usual level. There is certainly good staff circulating through Toei Animation right now but the lack of drawings and time to produce strong timing seems to be affecting even the best of staff.

I'm not entirely sure what Shida Naotoshi is up to right now. We know from his Twitter account that he has recently been providing key animation for Go! Princess PreCure. Outside of storyboarding for Episode Director Mikami Masato's Dragon Ball Super Episodes #2 and #7 Shida hasn't contributed anything to Dragon Ball Super. Shida contributed the sole animation highlight of Dragon Ball Z: Kami to Kami, so I don't think he would necessarily come back for this retelling, it would simply be redundant. Hayashi Yuuki and Tate Naoki, both of whom who worked on the Dragon Ball Super Opening and Episode #2, have not been up to anything in the past few weeks, so I'm inclined to think they might be involved with one of these three upcoming episodes. If Hayashi has been working on one of these past three episodes since his quick contribution to Go! Princess PreCure Episode #23 then we could be in for something great. The problem with that is it's hard to say whether or not he would have had the time to put something together.

The staff for World Trigger is out, by the way. Ogawa Kouji is the director and storyboard artist for Episode #49, which would explain why he only did the storyboard for Dragon Ball Super Episode #8. I can't read any of the other kanji, so I'm not sure who else is working on those episodes (Episode #46 has a mistake, by the way). Hopefully the staff list for Dragon Ball Super will be out soon.

[sailorspazz]

Re: Super's opening song's music video

I am so used to hearing that song in conjunction with martial arts battles that it feels weird to have it placed over the interior of a casino. o_O

Well, he did a Kamehameha, so...no, it was still super weird

Maybe they just wanted to something totally unexpected, since everyone would assume the video would be closer in spirit to Dragon Ball. But it makes for a very strange juxtaposition.

[Captain Space]

I laughed for about thirty seconds straight at that face.

[FortuneSSJ]

Seeing everyone together like that just shows how lame things have been, character design wise. They could at least bother to give another color to Champa skin. Purple everywhere!
Golden Freeza is no better either.

Goku and Vegeta blue forms are okay, since i assume Toriyama is following the fire pattern and blue flames are hotter.

[Beerus-sama]

Beerus sash thingy doesn't has its diamonds
The art also looks repetitive since its the same at the front and back...
I like the colors :3

... Atleast that kind of confirm both Shampa and Beerus' presence during the F arc. (not that I was questioning it, but since Beerus didn't do more than eating there... hope Shampa changes that )

[Araki]

The art also looks repetitive since its the same at the front and back...

It's not front and back, those are two versions of the cover, one of them is a special edition.

[Chuquita]

At the very least, I really like Gokû and Vegeta's outfits in F; I hope they keep those F outfits into the Uni 6 arc. They really are refreshing. I've always liked Vegeta in black (reminds me of his Freeza arc outfit) and I enjoy how fluttery Gokû's F arc dougi is. :3

[Beerus-sama]

The art also looks repetitive since its the same at the front and back...

It's not front and back, those are two versions of the cover, one of them is a special edition.

That explain the use of the same art... I guess...

Thanks for the information.

[Faustus]

Just hafta pop in and mention "Golden" Freeza's gotta be one of my absolute favorite jokes of the franchise so far, after "Satan is our savior!". Maybe I'm just really easily amused, but it cracks me up every time.

[NinjaGoku]

Is this cover confirmation that Super will be re-telling the 'F' movie? The preview of the full version sounds promising, too bad the show itself just isn't.

[Captain Space]

Is this cover confirmation that Super will be re-telling the 'F' movie?

That was sort of already confirmed from the start (when Toriyama said they'd be doing BoG, then RF, then universe 6). But I believe this might be the first time Super has produced RF-related stuff (outside of the soldiers in the intro sequence), yes.

[SSJGBGoku]

So when the full version is coming out ?

[JulieYBM]

Staff and titles for Episodes #10-13:

第10話　見せろ悟空！超サイヤ人ゴッドの力！！（9/13）
脚本：小山真　演出：宍戸敦　絵コンテ：八島善孝　作画監督：石川修　美術：佐藤美幸

第11話　続けようぜビルス様！　神と神の戦いを（9/20）
脚本：キング・リュウ　演出：岩井隆央　絵コンテ：志田直俊　作画監督：舘直樹　美術：杦浦正一郎

第12話　宇宙が砕ける！？　激突！破壊神VS超サイヤ人ゴッド！（9/27）
脚本：キング・リュウ　演出：三上雅人　絵コンテ：小村敏明　作画監督：島貫正弘　美術：鹿野良行

第13話　悟空よ、超サイヤ人ゴッドを越えて行け！（10/4）
脚本：キング・リュウ　演出：佐藤雅教　絵コンテ：山室直儀　作画監督：北野幸広　美術：李凡善

上酷すぎるでしょｗ、何話使うんだよ。
もうクソな作画の戦闘が決定してしまった。

Episode #10:
Script: Koyama Makoto; Episode Director: Shishido Jun (might be misreading?); Storyboard: Yashima Yoshitaka; Animation Supervisor: Ishikawa Osamu

Episode #11:
Script: King Ryuu; Episode Director: Iwai Takao; Storyboard: Shida Naotoshi; Animation Supervisor: Tate Naoki

Episode #12:
Script: King Ryuu; Episode Director: Mikami Masato; Storyboard: Komura Toshi'aki; Animation Supervisor: Shimanuki Masahiro

Episode #13:
Script: King Ryuu; Episode Director: Satou Masanori; Storyboard: Yamamuro Tadayoshi; Animation Supervisor: Kitano Yukihiro

Well, Episode #11 should be the one good episode to look forward to. It looks like Yamamuro will storyboard the first episode of the Golden Freeza arc, too. That'll probably look painful.

[Araki]

The title from episode 13 (Goku aiming to go beyond SSG) implies they're indeed covering the ground between the movies, instead of bringing in Freeza right off the bat.
I wonder if that means he's going after Whis right away (after a timeskip?), trying something by himself, or if just part of the episode would be about him establishing a goal.

[Chuquita]

If they actually do go and bridge the gap between the reBOG and reF arcs, that'd be nice.

[sintzu]

If they actually do go and bridge the gap between the reBOG and reF arcs, that'd be nice.

I don't expect them to show us everything that happened between the 2 arcs but I definitely want to see Vegeta go Ssjg and have a little sparring match with Goku.

[Captain Space]

The title from episode 13 (Goku aiming to go beyond SSG) implies they're indeed covering the ground between the movies, instead of bringing in Freeza right off the bat.
I wonder if that means he's going after Whis right away (after a timeskip?), trying something by himself, or if just part of the episode would be about him establishing a goal.

Indeed, that is promising. Probably something like, "Even as a Super Saiyan God, I couldn't beat Beerus...I'm gonna have to get even stronger than--" (Vegeta: "Hold on a damn minute, first thing's first!")

[VejituhTheWarriorGuy]

Could someone please post the translated episode titles?