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Toei Announces New Dragon Ball Super Anime Film for 2022

I expect nothing in terms of interesting about this movie. The first canon movie in the series, Kami to Kami, actually had something new and the possibilities after that could have been amazing. What was the sequel to that? Fukkatsu no F, with the revival of Freeza. Rehashing old villains instead of making a new one is the reason why the movie was so disappointing. The outcome was obvious. I'm not going to bring up the Super anime.

Skip to the 1st Super movie. What do they do? Rehash old content by making Broly canon. Oh, and bring back Freeza making him do what he does best even after the events of CnT. With these movies, its either they bring back a old villain or they're fighting a Saiyan. That's the cycle and they refuse to do something new.

The fights may have been awesome, but in terms of advancing the story, they do a poor job of it.

If only they could stop to bring back old characters. I mean, Freeza in Resurection of F, Future Trunks in the Zamasu one, C17 in tounament, Broly in the last movie. It's time to move on. That's why I liked the Moro arc that much. They didn't feel the need to base their story on a old character, neither did they put one there just for nostalgia.

Black Turtle wrote:

If only they could stop to bring back old characters. I mean, Freeza in Resurection of F, Future Trunks in the Zamasu one, C17 in tounament, Broly in the last movie. It's time to move on. That's why I liked the Moro arc that much. They didn't feel the need to base their story on a old character, neither did they put one there just for nostalgia.

Yet they couldn't stop with the DBZ nostalgia because it had a moment in that arc which reminded people of Cell.

And they can't even do the nostalgia right. They completely botched the classic sound effects and overall design of Dragon Ball, and the violence has been heavily toned down too, not even allowed to show blood anymore, can't even do Roshi's perverted antics at all either.

Instead you get Vegeta as a comedy character stuck in some slice of life.

Vegeta acting overly goofy made since within the context of BOG, but that shouldn't be his default characterization.

If only they could stop to bring back old characters. I mean, Freeza in Resurection of F, Future Trunks in the Zamasu one, C17 in tounament, Broly in the last movie. It's time to move on. That's why I liked the Moro arc that much. They didn't feel the need to base their story on a old character, neither did they put one there just for nostalgia.

Skip to the 1st Super movie. What do they do? Rehash old content by making Broly canon.

Matches Malone wrote:

Vegeta acting overly goofy made since within the context of BOG, but that shouldn't be his default characterization.

Neither should his default characterization continue to be pompous, selfish, asshole/dumbass who only wants to defeat Goku.

Even Piccolo largely moved on from his original character quirks.

Chris Handsome wrote:

Matches Malone wrote: The powers at be seem too afraid to truly try something new with the franchise, and instead play things safe and rely on nostalgia And they can't even do the nostalgia right. They completely botched the classic sound effects and overall design of Dragon Ball, and the violence has been heavily toned down too, not even allowed to show blood anymore, can't even do Roshi's perverted antics at all either. Instead you get Vegeta as a comedy character stuck in some slice of life.

>They completely botched the classic sound effects
Well excuse Araki for being busy working on another show and not dedicating his whole life to one franchise.

>overall design of Dragon Ball
Broly in terms of aesthetic and visuals was the best DB has ever looked. When creating the designs Shintani paid tribute to Maeda's early DBZ era designs while also putting his own spin on them. The results spoke for themselves and it made many animators happy.

>the violence has been heavily toned down
Thank the international market for that.

And the last thing... why in the world would you even want that? Says more about you than anything.

Except Vegeta’s default personality is NOT selfish, pompous, asshole/dumbass. He actually cares for and fights for others and shows guilt about his past.

And yes Vegeta will always be a bit of a Tsundere but that is just the humor of his character. It is not meant to be taken so seriously.

And the last thing... why in the world would you even want that? Says more about you than anything.

I believe the lack of violence has more to do with the fact that Super airs on Sunday mornings whereas the older series (the original, Z and GT) had an early evening slot whichI I believe was 7:30 PM on Wednesday. Obviously you can get away with more in the early evenings. Also, Roshi’s perverted antics were likely cut due to a complaint by a Japanese watchdog group in 2017 animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-06-12/lascivious-master-roshi-suspected-target-in-latest-bpo-published-complaint/.117351.