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Dragon Ball — How Japanese Fans React

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What Japanese fans actually said about Dragon Ball — new PVs, the latest episodes, and iconic scenes, pulled from Japanese YouTube comment sections and translated into English. Every quote is a real comment with its original like count, linked back to the source video.

2 reaction roundups · Updated Oct 15, 2026

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This week's most relatable comment from Japan on Dragon Ball

“Besides, Super's early episodes had the lowest animation quality of basically any era in the whole franchise.”

何より超序盤が一番クオリティ低いからな

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“Forget Z — I actually think a GT remake could be really good. Fix the animation and give Vegeta and Uub a little more to do, and the whole reputation flips.”

ZはともかくGTはリメイクかなりいいと思うけどな 作画と少しだけベジータやウーブの活躍増やせば評価ガラッと変わると思う

— @ルミィ-x8z · 13 likesDragon Ball Super: Beerus Premiere Leaves Japan Debating Which Era Is Safe to Remake

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  • @女々し The original actor passed away, so yes. Bulma's dad and the Babidi-era cast got recast around the same time too.

    ​​@女々し声優さんお亡くなりになられたからね。 つまり、ブルマの父親も、バビディ辺りも替わってる。

  • I just love Dragon Ball, you know? Not complicated foreshadowing or dense character drama — just guys screaming their lungs out, powering up all the way, and throwing down.

    俺はやっぱドラゴンボールが好きなんだ。複雑な伏線とか、濃密なキャラストーリーとかじゃなくて、ただ雄叫び上げて気を全開にして熱く殴り合ってるドラゴンボールがよ。

  • Episode 1 of DAIMA got me hyped too, if I remember right. I'm guessing the quality drops starting episode 2 — they probably just want to nail the hook. But the sound effects are back to the old ones, so I want to watch all of it anyway.

    ダイマの時も1話はワクワクしたもんなー 多分2話からはもっとクオリティ落とすと思う。掴みだけしっかりやっとくかてきな でもSEが昔に戻ったので全部みたい

  • Maybe we'll finally get to see stuff that wasn't in the original movie at all — like an actual, full God of Destruction fight.

    前では無かった、破壊神バトルとかも見れんかな

  • Yamadera: "Huff... huff... I can't... anymore." Nozawa: "Yamadera! That's not enough power!"

    山寺「ハァハァ…もう…ダメです」 野沢雅子「山寺!パワーが足んねぇぞ!」

  • That flashback scene was seriously insane.

    回想シーンマジエグがった

  • Honestly, Super is probably the one era of Dragon Ball you can remake without getting torn apart for it. Remake Z or GT and no matter how high the quality turns out, some segment of fans is going to trash it regardless.

    でも多分ドラゴンボールでリメイクして一番叩かれないのは超だよ ZとかGTリメイクするとどんだけクオリティ高くても絶対一定層叩くヤツが出てくる

  • Honestly, we'll know the real value of this next week. I'm looking forward to it~

    正直来週で真価がわかる 期待してるぞ〜

  • There are plenty of people genuinely looking forward to this. Don't go raining on the parade right before it airs.

    素直に楽しみにしてる人が大勢いるんだから。このタイミングで水を差すような事はするなよ

  • Personally, one of the best things about Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is that the sound effects — the punch impacts, the Super Saiyan transformation sound — are back to the old Dragon Ball Z ones! Honestly, those sound effects are recognized worldwide as "the sound of Dragon Ball Z," so I bet there are a ton of overseas fans happy about this too!

    個人的にドラゴンボール超ビルスで トップクラスに嬉しいことは SE(殴った時の音やスーパーサイヤ人になる時の音)がドラゴンボールZに戻ったことが、めっちゃ嬉しいわッ!!! 正直、このSEは世界的にも 『ドラゴンボールZの音』として認識されているので このことに喜んでいる外国人も沢山いてはったねッ!!!

    — @大阪都は実現します2020年の · 91 likesDragon Ball Super: Beerus Episode 1: Fans Debate How Far the Remake Goes
  • I heard they're making the Galactic Patrol arc too, so I'm just assuming they're redoing all of Super to line up perfectly with Galactic Patrol airing right after.

    銀河パトロール編制作するらしいし、超を全部リメイクしてちょうど銀河パトロール編アニメやるんやろって勝手に思ってる

  • Wait, did King Kai's voice actor change at some point? I was impressed there was barely any difference in how he sounded.

    界王様の声優って変わったんだっけ? 声の違和感少なくてすごいなぁって思ったんだけど

  • But you guys would absolutely complain the sound effects don't have enough weight if they remade Z, lol

    でもお前らZリメイクしたら効果音に重みがないーとかいちゃもんつけるやん絶対笑

  • I nearly teared up the moment I heard Ishizuka-san and Yanami-san's voices again ( ノД`)シクシク…

    石塚さん八奈見さんの声が聞こえてきた時は泣きそうになった( ノД`)シクシク…

  • Yeah, fair. Personally I'm fine with the animation getting better, but I want the story itself fixed too — the character derailment, Goku getting written dumber, and actual tension back in the Future Trunks arc's ending and fights. And we don't need Zeno.

    いやそれはそう 個人的には作画が良くなるのはいいがストーリーを直して欲しいかな あとキャラ崩壊と悟空の知能低下、未来編のラストと戦いに緊張感が欲しいし、全王はいらない

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Where do the Japanese reactions to Dragon Ball come from?
From the comment sections of official Japanese YouTube channels. We pull top comments, quote real posts only, and show the actual like counts at the time of collection.
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Each article keeps the original Japanese alongside the English translation. We adapt slang so it reads naturally, but we never change the meaning or invent quotes.
How often are new Dragon Ball reactions added?
The site updates daily. Whenever Dragon Ball has a new trailer, episode, or piece of news, a fresh roundup lands on this page — 2 so far.