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Dragon Ball Super: Beerus Fans Argue Over Toyotarou's Anime Credit
超ビルスの原作クレジット論争、日本のファンも「めんどくさい」と賛否
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A reaction-channel clip about the new Dragon Ball Super: Beerus anime turned a single line of on-screen credit text into a full-blown argument among Japanese fans. Across its 188 comments, the single most-liked reply (601 likes) wasn't actually about mangaka Toyotarou -- it was pure exhaustion with the discourse itself, and plenty of others piled on with the same complaint.
A smaller group pushed back, arguing that getting the Dragon Ball Super franchise's credits right across manga and anime is a real issue worth raising. The debate even dragged in Toyotarou's silence about his own Ginga Patrol anime announcement and the long-running joke that he quietly got stuck with blame for the Goku Black arc.
A few replies down, though, one commenter pointed out that the whole premise everyone was arguing about might not even be true.
A new reaction-channel clip about the Dragon Ball Super: Beerus anime picked at something small: who actually gets original-creator credit on screen. The video's whole premise was that mangaka Toyotarou's name shows up somewhere it technically shouldn't -- though by the end of the comments, even the people arguing about it couldn't agree on that. The clip pulled over 220,000 views, and its 188-comment section turned into Japanese Dragon Ball fans arguing less about Toyotarou himself and more about whether this was ever worth arguing about.
People are just exhausting.
人間ってめんどくさいな
That's the most-liked comment on the entire video, by a wide margin, and it's not even about Toyotarou. It's pure exhaustion with the discourse itself, and a good chunk of the thread took the exact same shape: fans picking apart the reaction channel for turning a single line of credit text into a fight.
The remake finally came out and people are still digging around for anything sloppy -- now they're making noise over credit wording. What do they even want at this point?
リメイクしたアニメが出たのにまだ雑なとこがないか 粗探ししてクレジットの名前表記でも騒いでもう何がしたいんだよ
Starting a whole argument over one line of credit text? That's unhinged.
クレジット一つにケチつけて議論起こるとか頭おかしいんじゃねぇの?
Don't make a fuss over something that small... Seriously, nobody out here has any patience left. You can't enjoy Dragon Ball like that.
それぐらいで騒ぐなよ… ほんと心に余裕がない奴ばっかだな そんなんでDB楽しめる訳ないだろ
Not everyone was ready to wave it off, though. A smaller camp pushed back, arguing that getting credit right across a franchise that spans both manga and anime actually matters -- it's not just noise for its own sake.
It's a whole multimedia franchise across manga and anime, so I'd be happy if it's properly reflected.
漫画とかアニメとか総合作品なんだからちゃんと反映されたら嬉しい
People keep calling it exhausting, but this is actually a fairly important issue.
めんどくさいっていうやついるけど結構大事な問題やろ。
From there, the thread drifted into Toyotarou's track record outside this one credit line. Commenters brought up his silence about his own manga, Ginga Patrol, getting an anime, and one dug up the old joke that the credits have quietly let him take the blame for the divisive Goku Black arc, too.
They greenlit the Ginga Patrol anime and Toyotarou still hasn't said a word about it on social media. He's probably just going to stay quiet on this too.
銀パトのアニメ化決定したのにとよたろうは未だにSNSで一切その件に反応してないし多分このままなんじゃないか
Lol, they're quietly pinning the Goku Black arc on him too.
さりげなくゴクウブラック編の責任擦り付けられてて笑う
A few people tried to actually work out the timeline. The current Beerus anime only covers material up through the Universe 6 arc, which predates Toyotarou's manga run entirely -- so some figured the credit might just sort itself out once the story catches up to material he actually wrote.
Dragon Ball Super: Beerus only covers up through the Universe 6 arc -- maybe they're planning to cut it off there and start listing Toyotarou's name once they get to the Future arc instead?
ドラゴンボール超ビルスが第六宇宙編までなの、一旦そこで区切って未来編からはとよたろう先生の名義も載せるとかなのかな
Then, a few replies down, someone pulled the rug out from under the entire argument.
Don't get this twisted, everyone. The original credit doesn't actually have Toyotarou's name on it at all. The video just never explained that part, so a ton of people ended up reading it backwards. At the end of the day, everyone loves Toyotarou anyway.
みんな勘違いするなよ 元のクレジットにはとよたろうの表記がない 動画投稿主がそこまで言及しなかったから全く逆の意味合いで解釈してる人が大勢いる なんだかんだみんなとよたろうも大好きやんけ
In other words: a good chunk of the thread had been arguing about something that might not have even been true, because the clip itself never bothered to clear it up.
Watching how Dragon Ball stuff gets talked about on social media these days, I just keep finding more reasons to feel exhausted by it.
ドラゴンボール周りのSNS発信見てると めんどくさいなぁって思うこと増えたな
188 comments in, the one thing the thread could actually agree on had nothing to do with Toyotarou at all -- it was that nobody in the Dragon Ball fandom is having a quiet week.
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- What's the actual Dragon Ball Super: Beerus credit controversy about?
- A reaction clip claimed something was off about how original-creator credit is listed on the new anime, and viewers split over whether current manga artist Toyotarou's name belongs there at all, since the storyline being adapted predates his run on the series.
- Did commenters agree on whether Toyotarou is actually credited or not?
- No -- one commenter said the original credit doesn't list Toyotarou's name at all and argued the video never explained that clearly, meaning part of the argument may have been based on a misunderstanding from the start.
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