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Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Fans Reject a Viral Fan-Animation Comparison
ドラゴンボール超ビルス、ファンメイドアニメとの比較動画に日本のファンから異論続出
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A Japanese reaction channel built a video around a side-by-side: the new Dragon Ball Super: Beerus remake's Super Saiyan transformation fight against a fan-made redrawing of the same scene, framed as a question of which one actually looks better.
The channel's own comment section ran to 178 posts, and its single most-liked reply -- 547 likes, more than three times the next-highest -- didn't pick a side at all. It called the entire comparison absurd given how differently the two pieces were made, and dozens of replies piled on to make the same point: the fan animator had no broadcast deadline and no season to finish, while Toei's team had to deliver an entire cour on schedule.
A few commenters broke from the pile-on to admit the fan version's camerawork was genuinely sharp -- but the thread's last word wasn't really about the animation at all.
A Japanese reaction channel put together a side-by-side video this week: the Super Saiyan transformation fight from the new Dragon Ball Super: Beerus remake, cut against a fan-made redrawing of the exact same scene, framed as a simple question -- which one actually looks better? It's the kind of clip format that circulates constantly around any high-profile remake, pairing official footage with a solo animator's unofficial take and inviting viewers to pick a winner. The channel's own comment section, 178 posts deep, spent most of its energy arguing the question itself was broken.
Honestly, just getting compared to the official anime in the first place is already impressive.
比べられてる時点で凄いことだと思うんだが
That's the generous read. The far more popular one, by a wide margin, was blunter.
The fan-made one really is incredible, no argument there. It's just that the two of you spent completely different amounts of time on this, so watching you go "which one's better?" and talk down about it -- that's the actual joke here.
ファンメイドもめっちゃすごいんよね ただかけている時間がそれぞれ全然違うのに、「どっちが上手い？」などと下げるような発言をしているお前の姿はお笑いだったぜってだけ
That comment pulled in over three times the likes of anything else in the thread, and it set the terms for almost everything that followed: this isn't a fair fight, so don't treat it like one.
Fan-made work doesn't have a deadline, after all.
ファンメイドには納期とかないからね
It's kind of unfair to compare an official production, which has a fixed deadline and budget, with fan-made work that can spend as much money and time as it wants. On top of that, the official side has to release what it's got no matter what, while the fan can just wait until they're personally satisfied before posting.
納期も予算も限定される公式と、好きなだけ金と時間をかけられるファンメイドを比較するのは可哀想やろ まして、公式は完成したのを絶対出さんといかんけど、ファンメイドは満足の行く出来になった所で出せるんやから
A separate thread of replies dug into one specific detail from the clip: how differently the two versions staged Goku's transformation itself. Where the official remake lets him power up almost instantly, the fan redraw stretches it out with a visible windup.
In the fan-made version, he's putting in a ton of visible effort just to go Super Saiyan, so it kind of reads like it's still the early Cell Saga, back when he wasn't fully used to the transformation yet.
ファンメイドだと、超サイヤ人になるのにも思いっきり気合入れてるから、超サイヤ人に不慣れなセル編初期くらいの感覚っぽい
Honestly, that kind of thing just changes depending on the vibe of the scene -- like how Vegeta took his time transforming for a cool moment in Dragon Ball Super: Broly, or how long it took Goku to power up into Blue in other scenes.
正直その辺はノリで変わるじゃん 超ブロリーでベジータが時間かけてかっこよく変身してたり、悟空がブルーになるのにめっちゃ時間かけてたり
A more technical camp agreed the comparison was lopsided, but for a different reason: a single hand-picked frame doesn't tell you much about whether an animation actually works as storytelling.
Not just this video -- fan-made animation in general tends to drag out the "charging up" beats way too long, with these awkward pauses that feel unnatural. The single-frame art quality is often way better than the fan version, sure, but it doesn't convey "what's happening in this scene" or "what does this character want right now," so you end up with animation that's like, technically edible but somehow you're still hungry afterward.
この動画じゃ無くても、ファンメイドは気をためてる時間とかやたら長かったり 変な間があったりして不自然な物が多い。 1枚絵の作画クオリティはファンメイドの方が断然良かったりはするけど “何をしてるシーンなのか” “このキャラはどういう奴で何をしたいのか”が伝わって来ないから “食えるけどずっと腹減る”みたいなアニメーションばっかり。
Not everyone was dismissive, though. A few replies broke off to praise specific choices in the fan version's direction rather than its raw drawing quality.
I actually really like the fan animation -- it's got that Shintani-style feel from Dragon Ball Super: Broly. The storyboarding is good too: shots looking straight down at the clash, wide shots with the ground darkened while the two trade blows in the distance -- a lot of choices that feel like something the real Dragon Ball anime would actually use. Kind of has that kung-fu movie camera language going on.
ファンメイドのアニメーション、超ブロリーの新谷作画感あって好きよ 絵コンテが良い。真上から攻防を撮るカット、地面を暗くして遠景で2人が殴り合うカットなど、実際にドラゴンボールアニメで採用されてそうなものが多い！ なんかカンフー映画っぽいカット！
But a running undercurrent in the thread was frustration that this exact argument keeps resurfacing under every fan-animation clip, not just this one.
And there it is again. I said this on a different video too, but it's always the same people pulling out comparisons like this -- pitting a no-deadline, year-long fan project against the official show. It's honestly because of people like that I've gone off fan animation, and personally I kind of wish they'd stop making it. The fan animators themselves are clearly talented and the footage looks great, I'm not denying that part.
ほら出た 別動画でもコメントしたけど結局こういう比較してくるやつ出てくるよな 無期限・制作期間1年使ったファンアニメと比べるやつ こういうやつがいるからファンアニメは好まないし、個人的には作らないで欲しい。 ファンアニメ作った人は凄いのはそうだし、映像はかっこいいのはそうなんやけど
And a handful of commenters pointed out there's a real person on the other end of these clips -- the fan artist -- who never asked to be dragged into a popularity contest.
I genuinely feel bad for the fan artist, having their work dragged into a comparison they never signed up for. Someone who loves Dragon Ball enough to make something this high-level definitely never wanted it used this way.
勝手にファンメイドを比較された絵師さんが気の毒すぎるわ。こんだけレベルの高いものを作るほどドラゴンボールが好きなファンがこういうのに使われるの絶対望んでないだろ。
By the end, the thread never really settles whether the official remake or the fan redraw looks better frame-for-frame. What it does settle is who the comments think the comparison is actually unfair to.
Both are well made, and everyone's free to have their own preference -- that part's fine. The actual problem is when people, despite the completely different conditions each side worked under, start using it as an excuse to mock the official creators.
どっちもうまいし個人で好き嫌いあるからそれはいい 問題は条件も違うのに公式のクリエイターをバカにする発言が出てくること
Eleven days after the Beerus remake premiered, that's where the thread lands -- not on a verdict about whose Super Saiyan looks better, but on a shared irritation at the comparison video format itself for turning two different crafts, made under two completely different sets of constraints, into a false contest in the first place.
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- What's the fan-animation comparison controversy around Dragon Ball Super: Beerus?
- A Japanese reaction channel posted a side-by-side of the Beerus remake's Super Saiyan transformation fight against a fan-made redrawing of the same scene, framed as "which one is better?" Japanese commenters largely rejected the premise, arguing a fan animator working with no deadline and a studio finishing a full broadcast season on schedule aren't comparable in the first place.
- Did any Japanese commenters think the fan-made version was actually better?
- A few did -- one praised its storyboarding and camera angles as feeling close to how the real anime stages fights, and another admitted the fan version's single-frame art quality often surpasses the official show's. But even those commenters stopped short of calling it a straight win, since most agreed an isolated, no-deadline scene can't be judged the same way as footage from a full, on-schedule season.
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