Does anyone else wish that it was an OG Dragon Ball remake?

[The Accountant]

Look, I get the Galactic Patrol announcement, and am totally okay with that. This is just referring to the Super remake/remaster.

I'm not opposed to remaking/remastering Super, and I am very much looking forward to experiencing it again, I just feel as though an OG Dragon Ball remake should have taken priority over such a thing, and I thought such a project would have made for a better tribute to Toriyama.

Does anyone else feel the same way?

[JulieYBM]

A new animated telling of Dragon Ball (1984-1995) with a nee voice cast is going to happen eventually, so I'm just shrugging my shoulders. We'll probably get one in 2034-2036, so I can wait.

[The Dark Knight]

A remake of the original DB & Z would have to be done from the ground up, while the "remake" Super is getting is more of a glorified remaster, as they're going back to what they already produced years ago and touching it up. Not only would a remake of the two classic series take longer to produce, they would cost a truck load more of $$$ to finance. With that said, I do agree with Julie that it will happen eventually, likely for the series' 50th anniversary a decade from now. Personally, I think the classic series just need a proper HD remaster and color correct (like Seed of Might's), as unlike Super which was a dumpster fire, DB & Z were well produced shows that still hold up to this day.

[SSGpotota]

It'll definitely happen sooner or later, probably they are waiting to run out of things Toriyama wrote, it could be a killer project for a 50th anniversary

[L3anD3RStar]

It’s inevitable that an OG Dragon Ball remake will happen eventually. This is one of those stories that’s just going to keep being told and retold. Goku is going to outlive every actor who will ever portray him, just like Wukong did before him.

But I don’t think it’ll be happening anytime soon, just from a legal perspective, with the rights to the anime adaption as tied up as they are.

I also don’t think it’ll be happening while Nozawa is still with us. She’s a legend in her own time and will portray Goku until there’s no more strength in her. All respect to a living legend, but a production like this one would need an all-new cast that could be with the characters for potentially decades. And that’s how it should be. It’ll be a chance for a new generation to shine.

[BootyCheeksJohnson]

A remake of the original DB & Z would have to be done from the ground up, while the "remake" Super is getting is more of a glorified remaster, as they're going back to what they already produced years ago and touching it up. Not only would a remake of the two classic series take longer to produce, they would cost a truck load more of $$$ to finance. With that said, I do agree with Julie that it will happen eventually, likely for the series' 50th anniversary a decade from now. Personally, I think the classic series just need a proper HD remaster and color correct (like Seed of Might's), as unlike Super which was a dumpster fire, DB & Z were well produced shows that still hold up to this day.

I feel like we should an asterisk here. Yes DB, Z were better produced shows than Super, but there's a lot of moments (especially in Z) where the episode was handed off to a "lesser" studio that put out sub par work. I love the Goku vs Cell fight, but that's a great example of a fight where people only remember the iconic moments, and not the numerous poorly drawn frames that were given the greenlight to hit a deadline.

[90sDBZ]

It would definitely be more exciting, although the BoG remake has me curious.

If DB/DBZ eventually gets remade, I have to wonder if they'd alter the story at all like they're doing with BoG. With all this emphasis they're putting on this being "Toriyama's cut" of BoG, perhaps a remake of the original run would incorporate some of his scrapped ideas, i.e his original plans for the Android arc before his editor made him change course.

[Vegard Aune]

I was saying that a remake of OG Dragon Ball made infinitely more sense, and that a Super remake was weird and silly and I didn't think it would happen...

Admittedly, when I said that I was thinking of a complete, from the ground up remake with no reused assets at all, which this is not. While it looks like they're extensively reworking the animation, (even looking past the new post-processing effects, the drawings are similar but not quite the same) they are still working off of the same basis and chances are there's going to be a lot of shots that are just "the old drawings but with new effects slapped on top of them". Given that that's the route they're going, the Super "remake" makes a lot more sense... Because what they're doing for Super, they literally couldn't do for original Dragon Ball. Super was a fully digital production. Presumably they still have the source files. So they can basically skip straight to the correcting and compositing stages, which would not be possible with the entirely analog 80s DB, even assuming that they somehow still have the original drawings stored somewhere... Which they don't. We know they don't because a lot of them have ended up in the hands of incredibly devoted fans.

It also bears mention that while they're clearly putting a not-insignificant amount of effort into this remakemastercut, it's still far less than making a brand new show would have been. DBS Beerus strikes me as like a comparatively cheap and easy way to breathe some life back into the Super brand before Galactic Patrol, which is by all accounts the main event they're building up to.

[MasenkoHA]

Yes, I feel like that would have made an infinite amount more sense for the original anime’s 40th anniversary, not a Super remaster but it is what is. Prettying up Super is easier and segues into the Galactic Partrom.

Still, I feel like they could have easily done in it like four 90 minute to two hour films. Something like

Dragon Ball: Boyhood- Cover the Shen Long and Tenkaichi Budokai arc

Dragon Ball: Red Ribbon- Cover Red Ribbon and Baba

Dragon Ball: Great Demon King- Tenshinhan and Piccolo Daimao


Dragon Ball: Tenkaichi- 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai arc and maybe a flash forward at the end showing various scenes from the Z portion

[JulieYBM]

Yes, I feel like that would have made an infinite amount more sense for the original anime’s 40th anniversary, not a Super remaster but it is what is. Prettying up Super is easier and segues into the Galactic Partrom.

Still, I feel like they could have easily done in it like four 90 minute to two hour films. Something like

Dragon Ball: Boyhood- Cover the Shen Long and Tenkaichi Budokai arc

Dragon Ball: Red Ribbon- Cover Red Ribbon and Baba

Dragon Ball: Great Demon King- Tenshinhan and Piccolo Daimao


Dragon Ball: Tenkaichi- 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai arc and maybe a flash forward at the end showing various scenes from the Z portion

I would not be surprised if they did films like this for the series and then split them up for rebroadcast later, like Demon Slayer or their own Digimon Adventure tri. It's an easy way to make more money while also doing the series in a 'prestige' format.

[PowerPhantom245]

Remake of Super is questionable as it is (it's barely decade old), but remake of original?
No. Just no.
I don't want remake of classic and remake rarely works.
If Toriyama was still alive, I don't think he would approve it either.

[PhantomSaiyan]

If Toriyama was still alive, I don't think he would approve it either.

He wouldn't give a shit about it, all it means is more money for him and his family, there's hardly any reason for him to disapprove

He didn't even care enough for the original anime to watch it all beginning to end in the first place. He always said he's not an anime guy.

[Cipher]

I feel like that's looking at it the wrong way.

I don't think the logic was "We need to remake part of DB." I think it was, "We need to adapt the remaining Super arcs, and it's a hard sell to trot out Season 6 of a series that ended nearly a decade ago without bringing people back on board. We have more than a year's worth of time before the new content will be ready anyway, an easy way to repackage this content in the gap, and enough people who would watch it."

The original Super is 150 rather uninviting episodes in terms of both pacing and visuals, if one takes the initiative to voluntarily search it out.

Revisiting Super:

• Uses digitally animated footage they can more easily adjust and recut, so it's content that allows for something new without full commitment of resources
• Leads directly into what they actually want to push
• Increases visibility of earlier Super for curious audiences before diving right into later arcs
• Fixes off-putting problems with earlier Super at the same time
• Perfectly fills exactly that year-gap in terms of length

I don't think this took the place of any other potential remake or recut project, and I don't think they'll be looking at that until they're through with the Super manga adaptations (that's unadapted Toriyama-supervised content just sitting around). Rather, it just happened to make perfect sense production, purpose, and time-wise leading into said new adaptations.

[Skar]

Yes, I feel like that would have made an infinite amount more sense for the original anime’s 40th anniversary, not a Super remaster but it is what is. Prettying up Super is easier and segues into the Galactic Partrom.

Still, I feel like they could have easily done in it like four 90 minute to two hour films. Something like

Dragon Ball: Boyhood- Cover the Shen Long and Tenkaichi Budokai arc

Dragon Ball: Red Ribbon- Cover Red Ribbon and Baba

Dragon Ball: Great Demon King- Tenshinhan and Piccolo Daimao


Dragon Ball: Tenkaichi- 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai arc and maybe a flash forward at the end showing various scenes from the Z portion

I feel something like this would be most likely because it would be like Path to Power but covering the whole series. I don't see them reanimating everything since it fully adapted the manga and more consistent animation compared to later sagas of DBZ with less filler to remove. DBZ was more popular and would've benefited from it more but they only gave us Kai.

[kiarasuraru]

I'm more curious about what they will do after they go and remake the OG manga in 2030 or whenever it comes sometime next decade. Not like they can go and remake Super but for realsies this time... right?
And something I hadn't thought of until now is what will happen when Iyoku is not there anymore. Went to check and dude's about to hit 70.

[kemuri07]

Yes, I feel like that would have made an infinite amount more sense for the original anime’s 40th anniversary, not a Super remaster but it is what is. Prettying up Super is easier and segues into the Galactic Partrom.

Still, I feel like they could have easily done in it like four 90 minute to two hour films. Something like

Dragon Ball: Boyhood- Cover the Shen Long and Tenkaichi Budokai arc

Dragon Ball: Red Ribbon- Cover Red Ribbon and Baba

Dragon Ball: Great Demon King- Tenshinhan and Piccolo Daimao


Dragon Ball: Tenkaichi- 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai arc and maybe a flash forward at the end showing various scenes from the Z portion

I would not be surprised if they did films like this for the series and then split them up for rebroadcast later, like Demon Slayer or their own Digimon Adventure tri. It's an easy way to make more money while also doing the series in a 'prestige' format.

I would actually argue that a remake of Z would be a better place for this.

[kemuri07]

I'm more curious about what they will do after they go and remake the OG manga in 2030 or whenever it comes sometime next decade. Not like they can go and remake Super but for realsies this time... right?
And something I hadn't thought of until now is what will happen when Iyoku is not there anymore. Went to check and dude's about to hit 70.

Honestly, I think a lot of similar franchises are in the same boat. There’s an evil, evil part of me that wants to see Disney try to push a Star Wars remake. And I’m sure some coked-up exec has brought it up already. Only a matter of time until enough of the old guard dies out that they could get away with it.

[JulieYBM]

Yes, I feel like that would have made an infinite amount more sense for the original anime’s 40th anniversary, not a Super remaster but it is what is. Prettying up Super is easier and segues into the Galactic Partrom.

Still, I feel like they could have easily done in it like four 90 minute to two hour films. Something like

Dragon Ball: Boyhood- Cover the Shen Long and Tenkaichi Budokai arc

Dragon Ball: Red Ribbon- Cover Red Ribbon and Baba

Dragon Ball: Great Demon King- Tenshinhan and Piccolo Daimao


Dragon Ball: Tenkaichi- 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai arc and maybe a flash forward at the end showing various scenes from the Z portion

I would not be surprised if they did films like this for the series and then split them up for rebroadcast later, like Demon Slayer or their own Digimon Adventure tri. It's an easy way to make more money while also doing the series in a 'prestige' format.

I would actually argue that a remake of Z would be a better place for this.

I wouldn't be surprised if the format was adapted for those arcs, yeah!

I'm more curious about what they will do after they go and remake the OG manga in 2030 or whenever it comes sometime next decade. Not like they can go and remake Super but for realsies this time... right?
And something I hadn't thought of until now is what will happen when Iyoku is not there anymore. Went to check and dude's about to hit 70.

Honestly, I think a lot of similar franchises are in the same boat. There’s an evil, evil part of me that wants to see Disney try to push a Star Wars remake. And I’m sure some coked-up exec has brought it up already. Only a matter of time until enough of the old guard dies out that they could get away with it.

I kind of think Star Wars outside of Andor sucks but also my inner pervert wants to bring back the Prequel trilogy cast and do an alternate universe take on the original trilogy where Anakin had turned back to the Light side of the force during the Mustafar battle and joined Obi-Wan and Padme in leading the Rebellion, just for funsies.

[Kulilin]

Yes and no. I don’t want a half-arsed “remake” of OG Dragonball like Kai. I’d welcome a full fledged seasonal remake of Dragonball with high quality animation like Ufotable, Studio Witt, Studio Mappa. Even then, a remake wouldn’t have the charm of the original 1980s/1990s anime, but an extremely high quality modern version would still be worthwhile in its own right. Otherwise, I’d just prefer a proper HD remaster of the OG show like what AB Group was doing before their release got shitcanned. The fan edit Dragonball Recut did a masterful job of doing a Kai-version of the OG show.

[Yellow Flower King]

Me: YES! ABSOLUTELY! The first half of the manga needs it.