Dragon Ball Super
 

Even though we already have a Dragon Ball discussion thread in this section, I figured I'd go ahead and make this thread since the other one deals with the first series and DBZ.

Anyway, here's the first Japanese teaser for the new series:



Translation:

Goku: Hey, I'm Goku.
Goku: Crossing 18 years of time, it's time to enter a new series!!
Goku: Dragon Ball Super premieres in July!
Text: Every Sunday at 9:00 a.m.
Text: Original Creator, Original Story & Character Concepts: Akira Toriyama
Goku: Everyone, please be sure to catch our new battles.
Text: Sponsored by Bandai Namco Entertainment

I can't help but wonder what the story will be.

I can't wait for this. When will the first episode air? Besides July, of course.

Goten and Trunks are still kids? Whaaaa? The last movie already took place like 3 years after the end of the Buu saga.

Trunks and Goten should look much older. I can already see the continuity problems. Its like they forgotten the characters aged.

^ Maybe the animators wanted to forget the DragonBall GT timeline.

The only way its a continuity screw up is if you put History of Trunks in account because Trunks at that age in that series looked older but I'm unsure how in continuity that is and being anther timeline things change. Also its inline with how aging works in Dragonball you either go from being a toddler to full adult in a span of a year. Hell Goku and Krillin pretty much skipped puberty and there preteens throughout Dragonball. I think Gohan was really the only exception to that.

I am glad there ignoring GT all together with this one.

Wake me up when Funimation dubs it pls

I was about to say that. Goku is a great example of a "late growth spurt". Even before he trained with Kami and Popo before returning to participate in the tourney, he ran into Chichi and the Ox King and he noticed that Chichi had grown slightly taller, yet he was still short. That next year, a tall Goku appears. lol

Your probably not going to have to wait long with the way Funi has handled Space Dandy, Assassination Classroom, and Highschool DxD Born and many others Funi is really kicking it out getting rights and dubbs out as fast as possible.

That would be a good idea. SSJ4 was the only thing I liked from GT.

We knew from the start GT would be ignored. Just think of GT in the same timeline as the movies, as most of those were not canon either.

Can't wait!! :)

It airs July 5, 2015 in Japan, and you can watch the simulcast on Funimation.com.

Also, I'm pretty sure the dub is coming sooner than usual.

Can't wait for this.

It's pretty obvious that they're ignoring GT.

Ironically, this was one of the things I disliked about GT. I like how it started because it felt like Dragon Ball...but then it went into Z territory...

Watch this new show be worse than GT and "canon".

It's a little early to be saying that claim, isn't it?

It can't be any worse than GT. GT had terrible plotlines, flanderized main characters, plotholes, an idiotic conclusions. Not to mention some terrible character designs like short haired Vegeta with a mustache.

Not sure if i will watch this. I wonder what plots they would come up with. Besides it bugs me that Trunks and goten are still children in this. Probably to push Gohan again :/

I have the funimation app on my ps4. Wonder if it'll be on there

Plot synopsis for the first episode:

http://comicbook.com/2015/06/17/drag...ails-revealed/

The fat Beerus and female Whiz picture has been angering the internet. Guess they'll have some stuff on alternate dimensions in the show.

Sounds cool to me

I wonder what the pacing will be like. Hopefully better than Z, but I really don't care.

With what they said about there being 200 episodes at least, I'm not sure if this is going to be true.

Who knows, though.

That's not true, they never said how many episodes the series would be. That was just a fansite speculating.

The Dragonball Super Website was just updated and it has been said it will be 100 episodes. The fat Beerus is also named Champa the female Whis hasn't been named yet. I'm betting it will be Wine or maybe Vodka to match the name pun from the other three.

An alternate dimension where Buu actually let him have some pudding and he overindulged, for example? :P

Angering the Internet... why? (Stupid question, I know. :P)

But hey, wouldn't be the first time we saw an alternate timeline... Dare I hope they take a minute to establish GT as an parallel reality, casting it aside officially once and for all!?

Well, Akira Toriyama promised a new character who is stronger than both Beerus and Whiz, and people feel a little bit cheated as they would have liked an original character. That's what I'm getting from what I see.

That doesn't really make sense considering this is a new character. Beerus said in Battle of Gods that he was the 7th of 12 Gods, who each rule over their own universe, and from what I've read online this Champa character is the 9th God of Destruction from the 9th universe .

Now that would be awesome. :lol:

I'm wary of this series. I don't think they're capable of crafting a good Dragonball series 18 years later. They probably should have just stuck with yearly movies.

Toriyama is salty his pal Oda has surpassed him. Time to resurrect that corpse!

The revival of F came out yesterday in theaters here so I'm going to be watching it, I'll let you guys know how it goes since it's basically sort of a pilot (as was the other movie) to this new series. I also can't see this new series being anything ground breaking, it won't be terrible but it'll leave us a "why did they revive it" feeling since it won't be doing anything new or special, again let's see how much of the fandom is divided and how much prefer GT after it airs. And no matter what the purists think, Toriyama doesn't care about GT one way or another and TOEI likes the GT characters since they continue to sell them as figures/video game characters so I doubt you'll get a hard contradiction to GT outside smaller stuff that can be explained that's already been done in the previous movies.

In Japan, Dragon Ball/Z/GT never went away. The anime has been airing constantly for years in constant reruns. There have been games not released outside of Japan for years, like those video card games in the arcades where you must collect actual Dragon Ball cards to play and they have had commercials for them. It's still popular and well-known. So yeah, there's still a lot of Dragon Ball exposure, bringing in newer generations.

Merch continued but there was no TV show from GT in 1997 to Kai (if you count that), and now till Super. TOEI doesn't seem to count Kai because they call DB Super "the first new Dragonball series in 18 years."

Gus's I'm in the minority liking GT :lol:

I don't hate it. I honestly don't know what to think of it. It's just weeeeeeeird.