{"id":94719,"date":"2025-10-24T04:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/94719\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:27:06","slug":"dragon-ball-is-officially-leaving-dragon-ball-super-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/94719\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Ball is Officially Leaving Dragon Ball Super Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time since the release of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods in 2013, Dragon Ball<\/a> is entering a new era. On October 15th, the official Dragon Ball X (Formerly Twitter) account changed its name from @DB_super2015 to @DB_anime_info. Combined with the Dragon Ball Super manga having been on hiatus for a year-and-a-half, and there being no sign of Dragon Ball Super Season 2 coming, there’s only one explanation for what’s going on.<\/p>\n

10 years after it premiered, Dragon Ball Super is officially over, which gives the legendary anime franchise the chance to return to its former glory. Toyotarou will most likely continue writing a Dragon Ball manga, Toei Animation will definitely continue to make Dragon Ball anime, and both may pick up ideas from Dragon Ball Super, but they’ll both still be completely different from everything to come before them. While it’s sad that Akira Toriyama isn’t present to usher in this new era of the series, Toyotarou and Toei still have the chance to learn from their past mistakes, and create Dragon Ball stories on par with those from DBZ.<\/p>\n

The Era of Dragon Ball Super is Officially Over<\/p>\n

Some fans, especially those who love Dragon Ball Super, may be disinclined to believe that a change in X handle means anything. However, it’s notable that this is the first time since 2015 that the official Dragon Ball account has changed its name<\/a>. Even during the airing of Dragon Ball DAIMA, when no new chapters of Dragon Ball Super were being released, its handle remained @DB_super2015.<\/p>\n

The most recent episode of the Dragon Ball Super anime aired in 2018 and, apart from a special one-off chapter, there have been no new installments of the manga since March 2024. For all the hopes fans have had that the Galactic Patrol Prisoner and Granolah the Survivor Sagas would eventually be animated, and that the Black Frieza Saga would be the next arc of the manga, there has been zero indication that either version of Dragon Ball Super will be continuing.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, it was announced that January 2026 would be huge for Dragon Ball fans. Not only will a new video game<\/a> be announced, but two unidentified major projects. If neither of these projects bears the Dragon Ball Super branding, it’ll be the final nail in the coffin for the 2013 – 2025 era of the franchise, and the final confirmation fans need that DBS is officially over.<\/p>\n

Dragon Ball Has the Chance to Return to Greatness Now That Dragon Ball Super is Over<\/p>\n

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\n Ultra Instinct Goku and Ultra Ego Vegeta on the cover of Dragon Ball Super Vol. 24.Image via Shueisha<\/p>\n

For as popular and iconic as it’s become, neither version of Dragon Ball Super has ever been as amazing as either Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga, or the two original Dragon Ball anime. While Akira Toriyama was present to offer a significant helping hand, the DBS manga and animation are largely the works of Toyotarou and Toei Animation, respectively. And, for all of both versions’ flashes of brilliance<\/a>, both are ultimately mediocre battle Shonen series with heaps of issues that rely too heavily on nostalgia, and which wouldn’t be popular at all if not for the “Dragon Ball” branding and, in the case of the anime, occasionally brilliant animation.<\/p>\n

One thing that Dragon Ball Super did right was set up its potential successor for greatness. While it took forever for it to do so, it did nearly cover the entirety of the timeskip between the final fight between Goku and Kid Buu in DBZ, and DBZ’s epilogue. This means, for the first time since Dragon Ball GT, the franchise has the chance to depict events set after the 28th World Martial Arts Tournament. The sequel to Dragon Ball Super will finally be able to explore Uub and Pan<\/a> as characters, to put Goku into the role of a mentor, to say goodbye to characters like Beerus and Whis who have long overstayed their welcome, and to tell bold new stories where anything can happen, and which aren’t limited in scope by the events of a manga that ended 30 years ago. The two new Dragon Ball projects, provided they learn from Dragon Ball Super’s mistakes, will easily be able to surpass not only it, but Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball DAIMA as well.<\/p>\n

Change has always been a part of Dragon Ball, and even fans who love Dragon Ball Super should be ready to embrace whatever comes next. Ideally, Toyotarou and Toei Animation will no longer feel the need to be so tethered to the past, and will be able to take the franchise in a bold, new direction. Only time will tell what they have in store, and hopefully January’s announcements will shed some light on what the future has in store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since the release of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods in 2013, Dragon Ball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-94719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}