Dragon Ball Super (Japanese: ???????
Dragon Ball Super follows the adventures of the protagonist Goku after defeating Majin Buu and bringing peace to Earth once again. Goku encounters beings far more powerful yet and attains the power of a god. He defends the Earth against the powerful destructive deities and travels to other universes to face more powerful opponents and nearly unstoppable foes while learning his new discovered powers under the gods of the universe.
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Plot
After the defeat of Majin Buu, peace has returned to Earth. Son Goku has settled down and works as a radish farmer to support his family. His family and friends live peaceful lives. However, a new threat appears in the form of Beerus, the God of Destruction, who is considered to be the most terrifying and the second most powerful being in Universe 7. After awakening from several years of slumber, Beerus tells Whis, the Angel, that he is eager to fight the legendary warrior whom he had seen in a prophecy known as the Super Saiyan God (
While Goku and Vegeta leave with Beerus and Whis to train for a year, the remaining remnants of Freeza's army arrive on Earth in search for the Dragon Balls to revive the long gone Ruler. A few months after coming back to life and training, Freeza gathers his forces and returns to enact his revenge on Goku. Goku and Vegeta arrives to face him while Krillin, Gohan, Piccolo, Master Roshi, and Tien faced the remnants. Despite achieving a new transformation, he is defeated by not allowing time for his body to get used to his new form, losing to Vegeta before destroying the Earth. With Whis' do over ability, Goku was able to destroy Freeza. This part of the series retells the events of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'.
After Freeza's revenge, Champa, Beerus' twin brother and the God of Destruction of Universe 6, convinces Beerus to hold a tournament between the best fighters from each god's universe for the possession of Earth. Goku and some of his friends join the tournament, with each match showing different surprises and abilities, the tournament reached it's climax with Goku vs Hit, who defeated Vegeta who had eliminated most of Universe six's warriors. After a failed attempt to lift the rules to face Hit in his full power, Goku forfeits the match. The tournament concludes with Universe seven as winners after Hit forfeited, inspired by Goku, to the last fighter in the team.
Goku later meets and befriends Zen?, the king of all universes who is respected and feared by all Gods of Destruction. He promises to bring him a friend to play with. The Grand Priest, the father of the Angels, also appears as Zeno's assistant.
After the tournament is completed, Future Trunks reappears and brings news of a new and powerful enemy resembling Goku that is known as Goku Black. Goku and the others eventually discover that Goku Black is actually a Kai?-shin from Universe 10 named Zamasu, who hijacked Goku's body from a different timeline as part of his plan to attain immortality and wipe out all mortals. In the end, Zamasu is erased along with the entire future timeline by Zen? from the future, who accompanies Goku back to his timeline. Goku fulfills his promise to Zen? by introducing him to his future self.
Some time after Future Trunks returns home, Zen? and Future Zen? hold a new tournament called the Tournament of Power (????, Chikara no Taikai). The multiverse tournament features teams of fighters from each universe by Goku's suggestion. However, it becomes a battle for survival when both kings declare that the universes defeated at the tournament will be erased. Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Krillin, Android 17, Android 18, Piccolo, Tien, Master Roshi, and a temporarily revived Frieza join the tournament as representatives for Universe 7 to protect it. Despite the fact that Zen? and Future Zen? already had the intention to destroy the weaker universes, most of the fighters from the other universes who are unaware of it view Goku as a villain for suggesting to hold the tournament in the first place. Goku, while fighting Jiren, a mortal stronger than gods, attains a new godly form, known as the Ultra Instinct. This form is extremely hard to attain and, as explained by Whis is mastery of self-movement. With this form Goku is able to dodge attacks automatically without his brain having to send signal to his body to dodge, saving him much time. However, he suddenly loses the form due to heavy drain of his stamina and loses to Jiren. The tournament then reaches its halfway point as more fighters are eliminated and the other universes start targeting Goku due to unlocking a form hard to obtain, even by the gods themselves.
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Production
In addition to his role as series creator, Akira Toriyama is also credited for the "original story and character design concepts" of the new anime originally directed by Kimitoshi Chioka. Toriyama elaborated on his involvement with the "Future Trunks arc" saying he created the story based on suggestions from the editorial department, "As with last time, I wrote the overall plot outline, and the scriptwriters have been compiling and expanded the story content into individual episodes, making various changes and additions, and generally doing their best to make the story more interesting." In addition to new characters designed by Toriyama, other characters for the "Universe Survival arc" were designed by Toyotarou, artist of the anime's manga adaptation, and a few by both.
Toei Animation producer Atsushi Kido previously worked on Dragon Ball Z for a brief time during the Freeza arc, while Fuji TV producer Osamu Nozaki said he has been a fan of the series since childhood. Morio Hatano, series director of Saint Seiya Omega (episodes #1-51), began sharing the series director credit with Chioka beginning with episode #33, before taking it over completely with #47. From episode #68 to #76, Morio Hatano shared the role of series director with K?hei Hatano (no relation), another storyboard artist and episode director for the series.
Masako Nozawa reprises her roles as Son Goku, Son Gohan, and Son Goten. Most of the original cast reprise their roles as well. However, J?ji Yanami's roles as Kai?-sama and the narrator were indefinitely taken over by Naoki Tatsuta as of episode 12, so that Yanami could take medical leave. K?ichi Yamadera and Masakazu Morita also return as Beerus and Whis, respectively.
The first preview of the series aired on June 14, 2015, following episode 157 of Dragon Ball Kai. The next day, the main promotional image for Dragon Ball Super was added to its official website and unveiled two new characters, who were later revealed to be named Champa and Vados, respectively. A thirty-second trailer including the new characters was uploaded to the series' official website on June 26, 2015.
International production and broadcasting
Dragon Ball Super received an English-language dub that premiered on the Toonami channel in Southeast Asia and India on January 21, 2017. This dub is produced by Los Angeles based Bang Zoom! Entertainment for the Asian market. A sneak preview of the English dub aired on December 17, 2016, and featured the first episode.
Starting in 2016, the series has been airing in Israel on Nickelodeon and in Portugal on SIC.
On October 10, 2016, Toei Animation Europe announced that Dragon Ball Super would be broadcast in France, Italy, Spain, and English-speaking Africa in Fall 2016. Later that same month, Toei Animation announced an official English sub of the series would be simulcasted legally on Crunchyroll, Daisuki.net, and AnimeLab beginning October 22, 2016.
On November 4, 2016, Funimation announced the company acquired the rights to Dragon Ball Super and would be producing an English dub, with many cast members of their previous English-language releases of Dragon Ball media reprising their respective roles. As well as officially announcing the dub, it was also announced they would be simulcasting the series on their streaming platform, FunimationNow. On December 7, 2016, IGN reported that the Funimation English dub of Dragon Ball Super would air on Adult Swim Saturdays at 8 p.m. with an encore showing in their Toonami block later that night at 11:30 p.m. beginning January 7, 2017. This was later confirmed on Toonami's official Facebook page. The United States premiere of Dragon Ball Super was watched by 1,063,000 viewers for its 8 p.m. showing on Adult Swim.
The Latin-American-Spanish Dub began airing on August 5, 2017 on Cartoon Network with most of the cast from the original Dragon Ball Z Dub reprising their roles, including Mario Castañeda as Son Goku who was absent from Dragon Ball Z Kai.
Music
Norihito Sumitomo, the composer for Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F', is scoring Dragon Ball Super. An original soundtrack for the anime was released on CD by Nippon Columbia on February 24, 2016.
The first opening theme song for episodes 1 to 76 is "Ch?zetsu?Dynamic!" (?????????!, Ch?zetsu Dainamikku, "Excellent Dynamic!") by Kazuya Yoshii of The Yellow Monkey. The lyrics were penned by Yukinojo Mori who has written numerous songs for the Dragon Ball series. The second opening theme song from episode 77 onwards is "Genkai Toppa × Survivor" (????×?????, "Limit Breakthrough × Survivor") by enka singer Kiyoshi Hikawa. Yukinojo Mori wrote the lyrics for the rock song and Takafumi Iwasaki composed the music.
The first ending theme song for episodes 1 to 12 is "Hello Hello Hello" (?????????, Har? Har? Har?) by Japanese rock band Good Morning America. The second ending theme song for episodes 13 to 25 is "Starring Star" (?????????, Sut?ringu Sut?) by the group Key Talk. The singer for Funimation's English dub is Professor Shyguy. The third ending song for episodes 26 to 36 is "Usubeni" (??, "Light Pink") by the band Lacco Tower. The fourth ending theme song for episodes 37 to 49 is "Forever Dreaming" by Czecho No Republic. The fifth ending theme song for episodes 50 to 59 is "Yokayoka Dance" (???????, Yokayoka Dansu, "It's Fine Dance") by idol group Batten Showjo Tai. The sixth ending theme for episodes 60 to 72 is "Chao Han Music" (??MUSIC, Ch?han My?jikku) by Arukara. The seventh ending theme from episodes 73 to 83 is "Aku no Tenshi to Seigi no Akuma" (??????????, "Evil Angel and Righteous Devil") by The Collectors. The eighth ending theme from episodes 84 to 96 is "Boogie Back" by Miyu Inoue. The ninth ending theme from episodes 97 to 108 is "Haruka" (?) by Lacco Tower. The tenth ending theme from episode 109 onwards is "70cm Shiho no Madobe" (70cm?????, "By a 70cm Square Window") by RottenGraffty.
Related media
The Dragon Ball Super anime is being adapted into a companion manga illustrated by artist Toyotarou, who was previously responsible for the official Resurrection 'F' manga adaptation. Toyotarou explained that he receives the major plot points from Toriyama, before drawing the storyboard and filling in the details in between himself. He sends the storyboard to Toriyama for review. It began serialization in the August 2015 issue of V Jump, which was released on June 20, 2015. Shueisha began collecting the chapters into tank?bon volumes with the first published on April 4, 2016. Viz Media began posting free English translations of the manga chapters to their website on June 24, 2016. A print release of the first volume followed in spring 2017.
The anime episodes are being released on Japanese Blu-ray and DVD sets that contain twelve episodes each. The first set was released on December 2, 2015. The second set was released on March 2, 2016. The third set was released on July 2, 2016. The fourth set was released on October 4, 2016.
Bandai announced that a line of Dragon Ball Super toys would be available in the United States in summer 2017. Bandai has also announced the updated Dragon Ball Super Card Game that starts with one starter deck, one special pack containing 4 booster packs and a promotional Vegeta card and a booster box with 24 packs. It will be released on July 28, 2017. A line of six Dragon Ball Super Happy Meal toys were made available at Japanese McDonald's restaurants in May 2017.
Reception
Dragon Ball Super received positive reviews from fans and critics alike. First impressions of the series' debut episode were mostly positive with the quality of animation being praised the most. Richard Eisenbeis of Kotaku praised the series' title sequence and said "My middle-school self is so happy right now, you guys." Jamieson Cox of The Verge also praised the title sequence and said that "Dragon Ball Super's intro will have you begging for its North American release". Cox was also surprised that, considering how popular the franchise is, the series did not launch internationally at the same time. He called it "a move that wouldn't be unprecedented" giving Sailor Moon Crystal as an example. Lucas Siegel of Comicbook.com praised the debut episode for its "laid back plotline" and animation style and said that the debut was "very much put out as a "slice of life" episode". Siegel also noted that the premiere episode was more of a "where are they now" introduction to the series that will eventually help build anticipation for "where will they be."
However, the fifth episode received harsh criticism from Japanese and Western audiences due to its poor animation style compared to the previous four episodes. Dragon Ball Kai and Resurrection 'F' producer Norihiro Hayashida felt that the criticism was overblown. He said that people were criticizing the entire series based on a few bad sequences that were done by new animators. He went on to explain a quality decline in the anime industry that he believes is the result of studios cutting time given for post-production and not allowing for reviews of the final product. Toei Animation improved the animation for episode five's Blu-ray and DVD release.
The twenty-fourth episode of the series also received harsh criticism from both Japanese and western audiences due to its poor animation style, which continued throughout several episodes compared to its previous episodes. However, the Champa Arc was praised for improving its animation. Episode 39 of the series was critically acclaimed for its improved animation and praised fighting sequences. Attack of the Fanboy reported that "Dragon Ball Super" episode 39 may be the best installment of the series to date. Goku and Hit's fight "starts off explosively from the get-go." The Future Trunks Arc also received generally positive reviews from fans and critics alike, with IGN's Shawn Saris acclaiming Episode 66, stating that, "Episode 66 of Dragon Ball Super has a few missteps but ultimately leads to a great final battle with Zamasu."
All four volumes of Dragon Ball Super's manga adaptation have charted on Oricon's weekly list of the best-selling manga; volumes one and two sold 29,995 and 56,947 copies in their debut weeks respectively. Volume three was the fourth best-selling for its week with 92,114 copies sold, and volume four was fourth its week with 150,889. According to Nielsen BookScan, the English version of volume one was the second best-selling graphic novel of May 2017, the ninth of June, the fourteenth of July, and the eighteenth of August.
References
External links
- Official website (in English)
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Viz Media page
- Official Adult Swim website
- Dragon Ball Super (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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