Dragon Ball Super Surpassed Z With 1 Specific Scene, And You Will Lose Your Mind Once It's Finally Animated

Despite a decade of success and pleas from its ever-growing fan base, there’s no telling when or if Dragon Ball Super will return to screens. Following the TV anime’s finale in 2018, two full-length films donning the brand, Dragon Ball Super: Broly and Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, were released in theaters and performed well despite limited showings. Still, no official word of a TV sequel has come to light, and fans are left wondering whether the series is truly over for good.

However, during that long period of relative silence from the anime, the Dragon Ball Super manga series continued far beyond the climactic Tournament of Power. Entire arcs introduced new villains into the series, while its Saiyans enjoyed some flashy new power-ups that sent their levels of strength skyrocketing. Some of Dragon Ball Super‘s greatest moments have yet to be brought to screens, but whenever they are, one of its most recent showdowns featuring Earth’s main Saiyans will prove the series does one thing better than its predecessors.

Dragon Ball Super Has Formed a Dream Team of Heroes

Earth’s Saviors Are at Their Best in Dragon Ball Super’s Most Recent Chapters

Despite the popular belief that Dragon Ball is just the Goku show, the Dragon Ball Z portion of the series features quite a bit of teamwork in its biggest battles. The Saiyan Saga came to its end with Krillin ready to deliver the final blow to Vegeta, before Goku pleaded with him to spare the Saiyan. Goku took the definitive victory against Frieza on Namek, before Gohan stole the show in the fight against Cell. Though he landed the final blow against Kid Buu, Goku couldn’t have delivered the Spirit Bomb without help from Vegeta and Mr. Satan.

While he was more often than not the focus of a fight, most of Dragon Ball Z‘s major confrontations took more than just Goku’s efforts to see to their conclusions. However, Dragon Ball Super has formed a sort of dream team of fighters the series has never seen before in any of its canon entries. For the first time, Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, and even the newly recruited Broly are all at a relatively even level of strength.

Though its cast of fighters all had moments to shine and were kept relevant throughout Dragon Ball Z, Goku was typically far stronger than his companions. Throughout much of the Saiyan and Namek Sagas, most of the others’ time in battle was spent waiting for Goku to arrive and save the day, with no one able to deal any meaningful damage to the enemy. Now, Dragon Ball Super is offering a main cast of warriors who are all capable of taking down incredibly strong foes.

The manga’s most recent chapters brought Gohan, Goten, and Trunks to Beerus’ Planet, where Goku, Vegeta, and Broly were training during the events of 2022’s Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. Sensing that Gohan was hiding a terrific new power, Goku asked to spar with him, and the series treated fans to an even showdown between father and son in their strongest forms. After some time, Gohan began sparring with Broly, before Vegeta became antsy and jumped into the fight too. This caused all the fighters in the vicinity to join, and an all-out brawl ensued.

Dragon Ball Has the Opportunity to Do Something It’s Never Done Before

It’s Time For a Full Team of Fighters to Become the Series’ Main Focus

Vegeta in his Ultra Ego form and Gohan in Beast Form

Dragon Ball has always followed a relatively simple structure, especially during Dragon Ball Z. A strong foe appears, and one character, usually Goku, breaks his limits and overpowers the villain. In the aftermath, the rest of the cast is left to scramble in an attempt to reach the new level of strength unlocked by the previous battle’s victor. In the meantime, another new foe would appear, and another fighter would once again take a step forward, leaving others behind.

For what is likely the first time since before Goku learned how to fire a Kamehameha, Dragon Ball has a roster of fighters standing beside one another on an even field, and the scene of all the Saiyans duking it out on Beerus’ planet is something the series has never featured before. Now, it’s time Dragon Ball gives the entire team, and not just one fighter, the spotlight. By re-entering the cycle of one character taking a leap forward, and the rest playing catch-up, characters like Gohan and Piccolo would become fated to once again fade into obscurity.

Black Frieza standing with his arms open. Behind him, Goku and Gohan can be seen.

When Dragon Ball Super Finally Returns, the Black Frieza Arc Is Going to Hit Differently: Here’s Why

The Dragon Ball Super manga is still on hiatus, but when it finally returns, its Black Frieza arc will be a sight to behold after so many years.

If Dragon Ball Super is truly entering its final stretch whenever the manga returns, the best path forward would be to focus on a confrontation in which the newly formed dream team is needed to get the job done. Not only would a climactic battle of teamwork bring the series to a fitting conclusion, it would be a dream come true for countless fans of the franchise to watch Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Piccolo, and Broly work together to bring a battle to its close.

Dragon Ball Super Has Countless Great Scenes to Come, But the Anime Needs to Return

Dragon Ball’s Success Hasn’t Slowed, and It’s Time the Anime Returned

Ultra Instinct Goku and Ultra Ego Vegeta powering up

Despite its lengthy absence from the screen, Dragon Ball Super has remained incredibly popular, even breaking its own personal revenue record in merchandise and gaming for Bandai Namco in 2024. It’s past time for the series to return, and when it does, fans will be treated to villains like Moro and Gas, power-ups like the all-new Ultra Ego Vegeta, and the recent fantastic scene of all the main Saiyans brawling on Beerus’ planet, something the iconic Dragon Ball Z was never able to deliver.

Unfortunately, rights disputes have held Dragon Ball Super in a sort of purgatory, with no real direction forward. Nevertheless, series producer Akio Iyoku has promised that fans haven’t seen the last of Goku and company, and as long as the anime remains as popular as it has, there will always be a chance it will return. When it does, fans will want to strap in for some epic moments.

Dragon Ball Super

7/10

Release Date: 2015 – 2018
Network: Fuji TV
Directors: Ryota Nakamura, Masanori Sato, Kenichi Takeshita, Takao Iwai, Hideki Hiroshima, Masato Mitsuka, Kazuya Karasawa, Ayumu Ono, Takahiro Imamura, Tatsuya Nagamine, Kôjiro Kawasaki, Kouji Ogawa