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Should DBS Season 2 be called "Dragon Ball Super Z"?
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Yeah but there is absolutely no pressure since DB makes so much money each year from merchandise. If Goku gets a new form then they will want to sell figures based off of it though lol
There is still one more movie planned, since that was announced in 2018/2019 iirc. I think it'll be back afterwards.
The timeslot is still controlled by Toei. They have Digimon airing there right now.
Is it absolutely necessary they follow the manga Moro arc? I would rather see more stuff involving cabba, kale, caulifa, and hit.
The current arc is based on a Toriyama outline according to its announcement and it starts right after Moro, using one of the characters introduced there as a plot device for the start of the arc. There's also Goku already being able to use UI at will.
Keep the name.
Current manga arc is from a Toriyama outline, no way that goes unanimated.
Your point?
Broly didn't connect directly to the following arc and it was skipped because the movie was literally just going into theaters. They wanted people to go see the movie, not read it. The manga also already had skipped a story in the past (F) but the anime has no history of skipping.
It's a joke at this point. I really can't get over Toei's incompetence, Dragon Ball was as big as its ever been again and they just dropped it cause some other anime was having a anniversary and couldn't have any other time slot than Super's.
There's definitely good stuff in the manga post-ToP, not everyone's cup of tea of course but it's decent and an anime adaptation can iron out its rough edges. I don't think there's a chance the anime doesn't continue, a matter of when not if.
I expect it to just continue as Dragon Ball Super, no 2 or additional/new subtitle
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Right but they have a group that works on and plans the future of DB. Ultimately everything has to be ready or Toei has to fill it with somethingn else.
I would say it is, as I am sure they want to make use of all the material they have to keep the return of the anime going. Plus they want to sell merchandise like a figure of Moro to fans as the episodes run
Arguably more importantly is that Moro provides more characters and variations of existing characters that they can make cards/units of for Dokkan, Legends and Heroes, which bring in tons of money. Also more content for console games as well.
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True, the material serves a lot of purposes and if they spent so much to make a full arc then it would make no sense to just abandon it in their plans
Dragon Ball Super Duper or riot.
Look into your heart, you know it's literally the most appropriate name to describe the logic behind the creation of this thing.
Look into your heart, you know it's literally the most appropriate name to describe the logic behind the creation of this thing.
With the absolute greatest of respect, you were absolutely convinced that the series was imminently returning three years ago. I'll be taking your predictions with a few grains of salt, no offence.
Because animators said it was...
Anyways, I have no idea what that has to do with anything, it's common sense they probably won't want to leave Toriyama DB content untouched.
And yet, here we are. As I say, I'll believe it when I see it.
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The series continued with the Broly movie and the story is on the 2nd arc following that film with the manga.
You bringing this up in completely irrelevant and serves no purpose other than to insult me. It had nothing to do with prediction, some animators said it was coming back that year, that's why I was convinced. For one reason or another it didn't come back that year. What does that have to do with anything?
Toriyama is their golden goose so it's only logical to assume they'll animate his next arc eventually.
I mean, the Cell Saga was the perfect place to end the series, but I guess the Tournament of Power is a good enough point to admit that the escalation treadmill is going nowhere fast and stop.
IIRC the artist behind AF and that picture you posted actually helped with DB Super
Toyotarou is the name
Toyotaro didn't draw that. He did do his own AF fan manga that used that design and other fan designs though.
Well idk who did but all I can remember is someone from AF hit it big around super
Google says this :
Toyotarou was likely the dōjinshi
artist
working under the name Toyble, and notable for creating a
Dragon Ball AF
manga in the year 2000. He was
hired
by Shueisha in 2012 when he requested being the one to draw
Dragon Ball Super
and debuted his career as an official manga
artist
under the name Toyotarou.
So yeah not the drawing but was something atleast
Toyotaro did his own AF fan manga and he used that design and other fan designs. Toyo does the DBS manga and has designed multiple characters that were in the anime.
Sorry, it legitimately wasn't intended as an insult- it was intended as a demonstration that you have given good reasons in the past to expect the show to come back soon, and yet here we are, years later, with no show. If anything, Toriyama contributing to the manga is less of a smoking gun than what the animators were saying back then.
It has been over three years since we've seen any ongoing Super anime content. There's no sign that that's going to change any time soon. Previous hints to the contrary have been and gone without anything coming out of them. The only sensible thing now, for my money, is to carry on under the apprehension that there's nothing on the horizon, and to be pleasantly surprised if and when that's proven wrong. That's all.
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The ToP only showed that the DB universe has barely opened up and there are a lot more creative avenues left like having arcs that take place mainly in Universes 6 and 11.
That would be great, but that's not really how storytelling in Dragonball from Z onward works. If it was we would've still been getting a show about the adventures of Bulma even after saiyans were introduced, or an arc about rebuilding Namekian society, or anything not 100% focused on the new toughest dude for Goku to fight.
Goku's already beaten a guy who's stronger than anyone in Universe 6, so Universe 6 is now essentially trash because it can't be part of the continued escalation. There has to be a Bigger, Badder Dude, or the formula just doesn't really work. That's why the other poster said this is a natural endpoint: the only place to really go after "baddest dude in the multiverse" is "baddest dude in the entire history of the multiverse" and surely they can't be that goofy.
(They'll be that goofy. That's why it should be called Dragonball Super Duper. It's playground escalation.)
This is the same series that gave humans some relevance again. Characters can get stronger and Caulifla and Kale from U6 have shown massive potential. Nevermind that we are now on our third post ToP story with the threat being from U7 despite everyone constantly assuming there are no strong characters left there outside of the main cast and Freeza (though now we have people also assuming the series will never leave U7 again because we're on our 3rd U7 story in a row, lol). Nothing is stopping them from doing more with U6. Will they do more with it? Who knows, but it has a handful of very popular characters so the chances are certainly higher than 0. As for it being a natural end point there are still multiple established characters stronger than Goku when the ToP ends. The angels, Zeno, maybe Beerus, but that's unclear currently.
Also alongside humans being given some relevance again we have stuff like Namek being a major part of the Moro arc and now Namekians being relevant to the current arc again.
Basically Super can do and does whatever it wants plot wise, be it something totally new or pulling from existing places and characters.
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