Dragon Ball Super: Super Start Guide

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Dragon Ball Super: Super Start Guide
ドラゴンボール超　スパースタートガイド Doragon Bōru Sūpā Sūpā Sutāto Gaido
Released	03 July 2015
Publisher	Shueisha
Catalog No.	B00ZV3JWBY
Retail	¥750
Book Data
Format	JIS A4 (21 × 29.7 cm)
Pages	80 pages

"Dragon Ball Super: Super Start Guide" is a databook published on 03 July 2015 to promote the upcoming Dragon Ball Super anime series set to debut with episode 1 on 05 July 2015. The first Dragon Ball Super manga chapter went on sale on 20 June 2015.

Contents

Prologue

The Super Start Guide opens with a height chart for all the series characters; a map of Universe 7 with a short explanation of the 12 universes; screenshots from the first two episodes of the Dragon Ball Super anime alongside cast, staff, and premiere info; and teasers for Super's first original arc, the God of Destruction Champa arc. This arc would not begin in the anime until episode 35 which aired on 20 March 2016. Toyotarō began setting up the arc in Dragon Ball Super Chapter 2, published 18 July 2015.

Akira Toriyama

The first page in this section is a message from Akira Toriyama about the new story he has written, among other things:

Dragon Ball Super is a complete continuation of the Majin Boo story arc. It's got a bit of post-battle aftermath, continues with the Battle of Gods arc where the God of Destruction Beerus appears and the Resurrection 'F' arc where Freeza comes back to life, and then, I've written a strange new story where they finally depart from this universe. They're fighting against their neighbors, Universe 6! They'll yell at me if I give away too many spoilers, so I'll keep the rest a secret, but they're chasing after giant Super Dragon Balls; I think things will unfold in a bright and simple way, that will be really fun and exciting.

Since it's another universe, loads of new characters will turn up. I'll do my best to draw the tons of character designs necessary, so I'm looking forward to this too.

You know, it suddenly occurs to me that somewhere along the line the Dragon Ball anime has become quite a huge story. Since I'm the guy who drew the thing, it's a bit weird for me to say this, but when I first started out I never dreamed it would have a universe as a setting (laughs). Don’t worry though, it's still going to be the same sort of easy-to-understand content as always. Please be sure to watch Dragon Ball Super on TV!
— Akira Toriyama

The next page, "Who Is Akira Toriyama?" introduces the author and artist to new fans who might not know who he is. It explains that Toriyama wrote the Dragon Ball manga and designed characters for Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger. He left the original Dragon Ball anime to the animators, but he became involved with the story for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F', and now he has designed characters and written the story for Dragon Ball Super.

Dragon Ball Super Review

This section presents a review of the major characters and events from Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z along with short descriptions of the various versions of the story including the manga, Dragon Ball Kai, and Dragon Ball GT.

Production Materials

This section presents production materials from the upcoming series, starting with Toriyama's designs for Champa and Vados along with their anime designs and expression sheets by Tadayoshi Yamamuro (with a few exceptions). Toei Animation's production process is explained, followed by several of Yamamuro's color and sketch designs and expression sheets for Goku (with an inset of Super Saiyan 3 designs by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru), Gohan, Ox Demon King, Chi-Chi, Goten, Vegeta, Trunks, Bulma, Piccolo, Kuririn, No. 18, Marron, Yamcha, Pu'er, Tenshinhan, Chiaotzu, Mr. Satan, Videl, Bee, Majin Boo (Nakatsuru), Mai, Pilaf, Shuu, the Turtle Hermit, Oolong, Umigame, Beerus, Whis, Oracle Fish, Dende, North Kaiō (Minoru Maeda), Bubbles (Maeda), Gregory (Maeda), Shenlong, Elder Kaiōshin (Nakatsuru), and Kibito-Kaiōshin (Nakatsuru). The older designs by Nakatsuru and Maeda are colored using the Battle of Gods color design.

Background Design Collection

Background designs are presented for Beerus' Planet, Beerus' palace, North Kaiō's planet, Capsule Corporation along with interior designs and the Capsule Corp. 576 airplane, Gohan's house, Satan's mansion, the Princess Bulma cruise ship, Goku's house at Mount Paozu. Each background design is accompanied by item designs, such as Goku's tractor.

Continuity Gallery

This section presents excerpts from Kōji Ogawa's storyboard for episode 1 and Naotoshi Shida's storyboard for episode 2.

Question and Answer

This section presents a short Q&A with producer Atsushi Kido, who stayed with the series through Dragon Ball Super Episode 83.

Key Person Interviews

This section presents interviews with producers Atsushi Kido and Osamu Nozaki, followed by an interview with chief animation director and character designer Tadayoshi Yamamuro.

Toei Animation Studio

This section is a single-page look inside the Toei Animation work site with photographs from the production, computer graphics, and background design departments.

Artist Interviews

This section presents interview with Kazuya Yoshii, the vocalist for the first OP "Chōzetsu ☆ Dynamic!", and Good Morning America, the group who performed the first ED "Hello Hello Hello".

Cast Interview

This section presents an interview with Masako Nozawa.

Naho Ooishi

Dragon Ball SD artist and writer Naho Ooishi contributes a 4-page comic entitled "Infiltration! Toei Animation" starring herself and Victory Uchida. The comic is drawn in Ooishi's "super-deformed" style.

Toyotarō

Dragon Ball Super artist and writer Toyotarō contributes a one-page promotional comic entitled "Dragon Ball Super: Great Expectation?!" teasing the mysterious Champa.

Products

This section presents advertisements for Dragon Ball games, merchandise, manga, and home video.