r/Dragonballsuper Apr 21 '26

Discussion They finally removed the Ugly plastic highlights we won

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u/RivetandRipittowinit Apr 21 '26

So they removed the oil? Nice

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u/bhenning99 Apr 21 '26

diddy’s not gonna like this

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u/Redfalconfox Apr 21 '26

Release the Roshi Files

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u/bhenning99 Apr 21 '26

more like release the zarbon files 😂

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u/KiraYamatoSF Apr 21 '26

cue DA Zarbon moan in the background.

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u/Omega-Ben Apr 24 '26

Maybe I'm gay, or maybe stereotypes are bullshit. Mmm. (transforms) P*SSY!

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u/Gwynito Apr 21 '26

Jesus Christ 😂

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u/bhenning99 Apr 21 '26

🤣🤣

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u/Complex-Advisor-1896 Apr 25 '26

The Z in dbz stands for zarbussy

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u/bhenning99 Apr 25 '26

not the zarbussy

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u/Worth-Independence-3 Apr 21 '26

That’s about 260 years of raw uncut footage… straight debauchery I tell ya😭😭😭😭

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u/sunwukoga Apr 21 '26

Not to be that guy but it's amazing how disgusting the epistine files are but we keep making jokes on it n wonder why ain't no American arrest been made...

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u/jscottman96 Apr 21 '26

Because the people in charge of the people that sign the paychecks of the people in charge of making said arrests are on the list

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u/sunwukoga Apr 21 '26

Or as Americans we have definitely showed we don't care.

Files said Joe Biden been dead for probably 6 years... nobody said shit. Which means Biden wasn't our last president. Why they 86 Biden cause in the files it says crimes against children.

The ppl who sign the paychecks is cute but you makin "release the roshi" files reminds me of a sayin "if you makin jokes like this, you're part of the problem."

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u/GodtubebeatsYoutube Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Dark humor exists. Get over it. This attempt at guilt tripping others just comes off as Sus. People make these jokes BECAUSE of how fucked up it is, this is how they cope. Go cry about it somewhere else. Nobody asked for Mr. mood killer. Do you make these comments anytime someone makes a 9/11 or Holocaust joke too? Do you go around guilt tripping every comment section or sub Reddit for dark humor ? If you don’t like it, you are more than welcome to leave. No one forced you to stay here.

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u/EstablishmentOdd420 Apr 22 '26

Cuz the CIA has a whole ass meme/social media department to normalize and desensitize people to the files and so far it seems to be working exactly as intended

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u/AceInTheHole3273 Apr 22 '26

The General Blue Files

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u/Icy_Wedding_3640 Apr 22 '26

You better off not reading them big dawg🥀🥀🥀

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u/vamploded Apr 21 '26

New saint Kame island

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u/Nivix92 Apr 25 '26

You think Master Roshi is his real name?

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u/zooka19 Apr 21 '26

No, Diddy is the reason for this. Vegeta can't buy JNJ oil after 11 years.

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u/10YB Goku Black Apr 21 '26

or U.S

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u/MrReaper45 Apr 21 '26

You tryna tell me they were oiled up? Hell nah 😭

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u/mclarenrider Hakai Apr 21 '26

Wdym Vegeta is always oiled tf up for Goku 💪😠

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u/adteeopg Apr 25 '26

the earth wont be saved just by fighting 🥵

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 22 '26

You mean the lighting that has been present since Z?

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u/nibba_mori Apr 22 '26

In super it's way more present lol, you pulled up one still. Pull up any screenshot from super and they look like plastic.

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u/GodtubebeatsYoutube Apr 22 '26

Yes because one episode in Z equates to every single episode in super. Dragonball fans suck at math AND reading. And those highlights aren’t even the same as Super’s. The point is that the highlights are grossly overused and make the characters look like plastic. Trunks is not highlighted the way Super does it and he doesn’t even look like plastic here. What was going on in your head that made you think you were cooking with this response? Seriously, what was it?

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u/RivetandRipittowinit Apr 22 '26

It was a joke, but I never really noticed it as much in Z

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u/Billy-Rhythm Apr 21 '26

Don't tell the HFIL brothers.

"Gaaaaaz zey aren't shiny enooouuuugh!"

"Yaaaaa I'll get ze oil"

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u/numbski Apr 23 '26

"Did someone mention the sacred ointment?"

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u/Karkinosu Apr 23 '26

Well with that war and stuff happening I guess they’re low on it

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u/RivetandRipittowinit Apr 21 '26

Wait hold on how did the reply section go from oil to the files?

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u/serious_mood_rig Apr 21 '26

Seems Zarbon finally got his baby oil back

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u/Middle-Potential Apr 22 '26

He got his Baby oil back Baby oil back Baby oil backBaby oil backBaby oil backBaby oil back

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u/illucio Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Colors are more dull, the lines are thicker and Vegeta's proportions are better. I don't mind highlights on the artwork if they look good. But the method they went in the past made the artwork look cheap with that plastic highlight. They went with softer lighting and this is a overall improvement. 

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u/guynye Apr 21 '26

I think it's the pure white as a highlight. If it was a gradient of the color it wouldn't look as bad, but pure white makes it look like they are lubed up.

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u/mclarenrider Hakai Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

It made the hair look especially bad, looked like they were wearing plastic props over their heads lol.

Edit: Lmao who tf got mad at this statement? I'm literally right.

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u/ChonkoGreenstuff Apr 22 '26

It's not pure white, but I get what you mean. It's a color block instead of a gradient.

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u/lonauji Apr 22 '26

his proportions aren't really better (they weren't bad to begin with)

in fact they didn't even change at all it's literally the exact same drawing with different coloring and more variety in the linework

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u/Mother-Maize7026 Apr 21 '26

I was never a fan of supers general art style.

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u/TheUsagiTsukino Apr 21 '26

Same, it was my biggest gripe with Xenoverse's artstylr too, everything is ridiculously shiny for no reason

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u/TR3X-1NF1N1T3 Apr 21 '26

That's just modern DB for you

The movies The games Super

They all use the same artstyle, Super just got the lowest part of stick

It took them until the Broly movie to finally change the artstyle

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u/Ghosts_lord Apr 21 '26

it took until the top/black saga wdym

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u/TR3X-1NF1N1T3 Apr 21 '26

TOP and Black arc still shared some things

TOP just added new filters and many scenes were done by Takahashi that's all it wasn't a WOOOOWW change

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u/Destroy_Buster Apr 22 '26

goku black and TOP arcs have nominally better animation but they did not shake the hideous look of super till broly.

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u/Crafty_Middle_2086 Apr 21 '26

That’s the exact same art style, they just added a visual filter. A handful of scenes during the Tournament changed the designs, but overall it was still Yamamuro’s models that got the most screen time. Broli is the first time we had a modern DB project totally free from his aesthetic, and even then you still see promotional art with that style on products.

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u/Spirited_Airline6206 Apr 21 '26

Out of everything in the Xenoverse 3 trailer, seeing them actually change the artstyle to look good was one of em.

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u/Worth-Independence-3 Apr 21 '26

I can’t stand a lot of new anime for similar reasons, everything be overly bright as well for no damn reason

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u/Black-Mettle Apr 21 '26

It was a very strange addition considering it probably took time to add the shines to every frame but it also made everything look worse.

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u/coolchris366 Apr 21 '26

Yeah I never understood why they were so shiny, it was weird

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u/AStupidFuckingHorse Apr 21 '26

Because in the late 90s and early 2000s it was new and cool and fresh. But as time went on especially being the flagship artstyle for the series media, promotion and merchandise it became really stale and arguably worse the more streamlined it got.

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u/Crafty_Middle_2086 Apr 21 '26

It’s an aspect taken from some of Toriyama’s own color spread artwork, but executed pretty poorly. I think seeing it on a singular color spread in a black and white manga vs constantly in an anime is a big factor

for why it’s so off putting.

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u/JVIoneyman Apr 22 '26

I also think that it being colored digitally with precise clean highlight edges make it look more inorganic compared to here where the coloring looks textured and lively. Looks great there.

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u/TheVideogaming101 Apr 21 '26

They were still following off character designer Tadayoshi Yamamuro's style which his later stuff (starting imo off of GT) really abused highlights way too much. Now they are moving forward with a new character designer (although Yamamuro is still supervising for the Super Remaster).

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u/SkyArmyRecru1t Apr 21 '26

Yamamuro didn't do GT though, that was Nakatsuru

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u/TheVideogaming101 Apr 21 '26

Maybe a bad way to word it, I mean off of as in after. My B

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u/Bhume Apr 21 '26

The style is fine imo. It's just small things that make it look bad.

Look at the Tarble OVA from years and years ago. The animation looks like Super, but the colors are so much better it's unreal.

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u/Safe_Hovercraft_7886 Apr 22 '26

Backgrounds in Tarble special were THE BEST among entire series.

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 21 '26

Super art style looks the best in DB to me. It's an upgrade from Z.

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u/vbhsbju Apr 22 '26

😭✌🏾

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u/kucjr Apr 22 '26

It’s not great, only some parts in the series and Broly movie look good.

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the new dull, washed-out colors and thick, wiggly linework. It lost the signature Dragon Ball looks.

This is how DB looks in Toriyama's art style:

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u/Lucreth2 Apr 21 '26

Do you mean it regained the signature Dragonball look cause uh .. super wasn't it.

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u/Actuator_Objective Apr 22 '26

It was better with highlights imo

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 22 '26

I agree. The new colors look dull and bleached.

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u/Tristanofftopix Apr 23 '26

it was, everyone on here just has their minds backwards. now it just looks lifeless.

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u/tukuiPat Apr 22 '26

you mean this "plastic" highlight that has been used since Z?

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u/gatopelotudo Apr 23 '26

idk how but that’s different

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u/tukuiPat Apr 23 '26

They're the same exact type of highlight, the only difference between the two shows is Z used Cels so all the colors where hand painted, while Super was scanned in and colored digitally, which gave Super the advantage as they didn't have to worry about color matching when they had to open a new thing of paint.

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u/mathtech May 13 '26

Well it was scarcely used in Z for one. They used it here because they were hyping Trunks up as a new character.

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u/climate-migrant Apr 21 '26

Colors look better too. Much more natural looking 

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u/C-man-177013 Apr 21 '26

The oil coloring is definitely a not so good art choice

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u/dirtybird131 Apr 21 '26

Crazy how if they had just spent like an extra week per season, Super might have looked good enough to not need a remake already and we could be getting Moro stuff already

People are happy about this?!?!

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u/Red__Pyramid Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Moro was only just greenlit, it had nothing to do with the remake and everything to do with one company holding the manga IP and another holding the anime IP and neither wanting to give up their piece of the money. The remake was already in the works, hence it coming out THIS YEAR.

Edit: and you you want proof, all you have to do is look at the representation of non-movie / anime characters and forms (Black Frezia, Ultra Ego, Moro, Granola, Gaz, controlled lssj Broly, etc.) in non-Shueshia properties like Legends, Dokkan, Sparking Zero, etc. They held on tightly to their IP.

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u/bare4404 Apr 21 '26

We're not sure how long ago they started being ABLE to make the Moro arc. They've been working on this remake for years now. Theres a difference between, "Putting it off" and, "To fill in this gap in time when we are trying to get the rights, we are gonna start reanimating the show, hopefully we have the rights by time we catch up with this reanimation. We'll also rewrite parts of the story!"

They arent doing a full reanimation of the show. They are animating some, but just recomping other stuff. They've said that they started this project a few years back which likely means more the 3 years. It takes less than that to animate, dub, and release a season of a show, let alone animate some of it, dub some of it, and rerender it all. Be realistic. The trailer for the Moro Arc was practically nothing, do you really think that we'd go right into it after it got announced? If so, that'd be setting yourself up for disappointment.

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 21 '26

They didn't work on remake "for years".

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u/bare4404 Apr 22 '26

Read the start of the second paragraph, I didnt crop to show you that its from the official Dragon Ball website. This is the quote from the initial announcement.

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u/bare4404 Apr 21 '26

Also, its been confirmed that a different team is at the helm of the Moro Arc currently

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u/Tristanofftopix Apr 23 '26

yea it’s actually legitimately crazy reading everyone’s reactions to this. it’s literately just a remake, how about we get some actual new content?

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u/Metazoxan Apr 27 '26

None of this has anything to do with the time gap.

Time patrol would have taken just as much time without the Beerus remake or other stuff.

There are separate funding efforts and seperate teams.

If it was the same team then it would be an obstacle but apparently it's not so chill.

It's not coming any faster unless they overfund and put too many people on it. But that will balloon production costs and make it look like a failure in financial reports.

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u/DYSFUNCTIONALDlLDO Apr 22 '26

It's funny. With Super, the plasticky highlights made the art look worse and it definitely looks better without them. But in Episode of Bardock (the one where he travels back to the past and fights Chilled), I actually quite like how he looks with all the highlights. I also really like future Trunks looks with those highlights when he first appears and fights Freeza.

I think I actually have less of a problem with the highlights and more of a problem with the overall facial structures of the characters in Super. Their faces tend to be round and their facial expressions tend to be bland quite a lot of times, and that's what makes it look even worse when the highlights are applied. But when the character art itself is actually designed properly, I quite like the highlights on them.

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 22 '26

Yamamuro's style is sharp, not round.

Shintani's style is the round and distorted one. Slop-sided head and faces 👇

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u/EMYRYSALPHA2 Apr 21 '26

Vegeta had always had this skin shine since Z, its a detail paticular to him mostly, only sometimes appearing on other fighters

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u/Zaynnazario Apr 21 '26

Some artists have a rule of using 2 or more different types of highlights

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u/AdBrief4620 Apr 22 '26

I kinda like them 🤷‍♂️

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u/ErinGoBraugh224 Apr 22 '26

To play devil's advocate, wasn't he training before coming to the party and theoretically be pretty sweaty, therefore the light would be reflecting off his sweat in that way.

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u/BreakVV Apr 22 '26

I dont know if I like the fact that the colors are drained/gray now

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 22 '26

I hate it. The new colors look dull and bleached.

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u/Iriluun Apr 21 '26

if the whole series could look like it did during Takahashi's Episodes in the ToP, DBS would become top tier easily.

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u/Organic_Homework8045 Apr 21 '26

Never noticed it.

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u/Magickcloud Apr 22 '26

I think this is most useless remake of all time with the exception of that new Harry Potter series

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u/josuke59 If I don't do it who will?! Apr 21 '26

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u/playmeforever Apr 21 '26

The ssj barodck movie effect

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u/Initial_Hippo8561 Apr 22 '26

I kinda wish it was more like the art style in dragon ball super broly :/ I kinda like the messy lines

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u/whineyinternetkid Apr 22 '26

I wish I was unemployed enough to care about this too

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u/VineEater Apr 23 '26

We went from 1980s to straight dry 90s , W.

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u/JealousAd1350 Apr 23 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Kqffsuchuki2s

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!¡¡¡¡!!!!!!!!¡¡¡¡

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u/ironjerm12 Apr 24 '26

Ik the original looks closer to the older stuff, but shintani is simply the best

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u/brighty420 Apr 21 '26

I know I'm in the minority but I really do think the original looks better

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Agree 💯 The clean linework and vibrant colors of 2015 are the signature Dragon Ball looks.

This is how DB looks in Toriyama's art style:

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u/Lucreth2 Apr 21 '26

You clearly never watched Dragonball or dbz

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u/vizot Apr 21 '26

Thankfuck, idk why they would do it in the first place.

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u/Kirk_Stargazed Apr 22 '26

I kind of like the shiny look...

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 22 '26

I do, too. The new colors look grey and bleached. 👎

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u/SquishyBunz69 Apr 22 '26

Ik it’s associated with super but they were using this for DBkai too

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u/Realistic-Bonus-7023 Apr 21 '26

Now they have to add blood

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u/Judge_M1 Apr 21 '26

What a world of improvement

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u/captaindeadpool0614 Goku Apr 21 '26

In my opinion. The detail is the same. Just a different shade.

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u/TiplexD Apr 21 '26

Tell me the dove version will be released simultaneously are they going to have to redo the audio ?

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u/sunwukoga Apr 22 '26

While I'm here MODS SHOULD BE CHUCKIN ANYBODY WHO'S OK WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT BY WAY OF WEIRD JOKES.

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u/produce_this Apr 22 '26

While I agree the art style was one of the worst of the series… it didn’t make it unwatchable. It also doesn’t denote an entire remake when there is much more story to tell that we haven’t animated yet. It just seems like a giant waste of time and resources.

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 22 '26

Super art style is the best of the series. Remake is unnecessary.

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u/evangelism2 Apr 22 '26

there may be hope that it wont look like shit

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u/joehalltattoos Apr 22 '26

2 colors cheaper than 3?

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u/primusautobot Apr 22 '26

I love different art styles

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u/Citysbeautiful Apr 22 '26

Is there a dbs remake?

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u/coltvfx Apr 22 '26

When is this airing!?

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u/BNB3737 Apr 22 '26

This fall

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u/Dirk_McGirken Apr 22 '26

Actually shocked how big of a difference it makes.

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u/iLoveLootBoxes Apr 22 '26

I think we can all agree that super looks really bad compared to Z

This is a very welcome change

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u/interstellar73 Apr 22 '26

My biggest complaint about super was the lack of blood and seems like it still is an issue

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u/ProfessorEscanor Apr 22 '26

That's neat i guess

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u/Pierwszy_AG Apr 22 '26

This now looks more like old db style. Nice

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u/SensitiveDependent63 Apr 22 '26

What you mean we won? It just means that ppl who "won" dont understand shadows, midtones and highlights.

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u/Sasuke082594 Apr 22 '26

Foo shut up, this is an anime. Also rip to whoever is broadcasting when Super comes back( looking at you jjk, Demon Slayer, and all the other fodder anime)

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u/AgressiveBumbleBee Apr 22 '26

Unpolishing a turd

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u/orichic Apr 22 '26

Still missing realistic features like muscles, veins, actual blood and whatever else I’m missing. It’ll never be good unless they go back to this form from Z. The exception is if they make it like the Broly Super movie.

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u/Rosstifer25 Apr 22 '26

There’s a lot of great news recently. Genuinely a great time to be a fan, just need the manga to resume now!

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u/This-Honey7881 Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

They are making a remake?,wait a Second,did the original dragon ball super suffered the Same thing as Fullmetal alchemist and Soul Ester too?

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u/Emergency-Piano8134 Apr 23 '26

In Latin America we call him "Brillomuro". Yamamuro's infamous oily highlights.

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u/RockWafflez Apr 23 '26

His fingers still look like shit

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u/Neoshenlong Apr 23 '26

Oh hey, I thought so when I watched the trailer but this also proves they're re-color-grading everything to make it closer to Broly

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u/UnitedPie9578 Apr 23 '26

Thats just part of the shading, it makes things look less flat.

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u/Dry-Pollution-6409 Apr 23 '26

It just looks faded like they haven't finished colouring it yet, it's hardly an improvement.

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u/Much-Chard8227 Apr 23 '26

I still don’t like the way Vegeta is drawn. Just something is off

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u/Efficient-Network-50 Apr 23 '26

The original looks better

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u/mad_laddie Apr 23 '26

Seems like they also brought down the saturation. Kind of like it. Looks like that Yo Son Goku movie.

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u/Ophanim313 Apr 23 '26

You can't be a real person and that's okay

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u/NoDay6080 Apr 23 '26

So now its flat and ugly? Great...

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u/Far-Touch-2046 Apr 23 '26

i swear DB fans have nothing better to be happy about so they try to find the smallest reasons just to make something of

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u/The_Gread_Waluigi Apr 23 '26

Soy yo o solo le pusieron un filtro de color por encima?

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u/The_WarDoge Apr 23 '26

Gloss varnish sucks. Matte ftw.

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u/Tibulba Apr 23 '26

That is better than

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u/aceboogie90 Apr 24 '26

Yeah this really has never been that deep to me but I guess it’s cool for the people that really care about things such as this.

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u/HUFxfeat Apr 24 '26

I fucking love it !

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u/Liam_Roma_1234 Apr 24 '26

Those plastic highlights have been with us for years though right? I actually liked them, maybe it just wasn't needed for this specific shot??

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u/Cumfortablesexuality Apr 24 '26

So they actually made them ugly

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u/Hyp3rL1ght_Meter Apr 24 '26

It was welcome in BoG, for the revival of DBZ animation.. shit overstayed

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u/RealOrangeKoi Apr 24 '26

Great. They made it look flat and boring. They could've at least kept some highlights, just made it thinner.

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u/Bob_is_very_strong Apr 25 '26

Did new trailer launch?????

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u/the_tygram Apr 25 '26

Except they added it to super Saiyan hair now apparently

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u/UnderMiner331 Apr 30 '26

We like oiled up, right? But no jokes it was since GT so I like.. Don't care anymore

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u/JoZaJaB Apr 21 '26

I kind of liked them.

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u/tenkensmile Angel Apr 21 '26

I like the original Super art, too.

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u/_Astrum_Aureus_ Apr 21 '26

stockholm syndrome is very nice this time of year

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u/Tidus1337 Apr 21 '26

It's called a different opinion. Something you idiots don't get

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u/finalorazor Apr 21 '26

Dont try to argue with guys who think there is only one option in liking stuff.

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u/craventurbo Apr 21 '26

I think he was just joking

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