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Dragon Ballfans have been waiting for new animated content sinceDragon Ball Super‘s finale in 2018. Sure, two movies had come after that, but there weren’t weekly episodes that fans would rather watch. As the release forDragon Ball Daimacomes closer, fans continue to pump out more fan animation videos than ever before.
Love or hate them,Dragon Ballfans are extremely talented when it comes to making fan animations or fan manga. In fact, Toyotaro, the current author of theDragon Ball Supermanga, initially began as a fan manga artist who wrote a version of Tablos’Dragon Ball AF. Recently, one fan animation has been making its way over the internet, and fans are begging Toei to hire this person.
Gogeta vs Janemba fan animation better than the original?!
On August 21, 2025, an animator by the namekazumax76over at X, uploaded a short fan animation clip where Super Saiyan Gogeta battles against what seems to be Janemba.
キャラの線画と塗りで集中力尽きて背景とエフェクト適当になるのどうにかしたいpic.twitter.com/OgLOv5Jfes
In the video, Gogeta moves around and dodges Janemba’s attacks with a stoic expression on his face. It seems to be referencing the original battle between the two inDragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, where the fight takes place in Hell. The spikes and ice patterns in the clips tell fans that it is indeed taking inspiration from that movie.
However, the animation is quite different. The style is very similar to that of Shintani inDragon Ball Super: Broly. The different colors added into each frame, the smoothness and fluidity in each movement and the fact that Gogeta steps on some ice indicate that it’s a clear inspiration from Toei’s 2018 hit. The OST used in the background is “You Say Run” fromMy Hero Academia.
Both Japanese and English fans in the comments praise the animator for his stellar work, with one of them saying that Toei Animation should hire the guy.
Apply to Toei Animation
IT’S CRIMINAL THAT THIS ONLY HAS 2K LIKES
Modern day sakuga on dragon ball. Wowzers…
COOK!!!!pic.twitter.com/k4WHg6Ptg8
However, there are fans who will always take shots at the official studios while commenting on fan animations. For instance, one French fan remembered that atrociously lookingDragon Ball Superepisode 4 where Super Saiyan Goku fought Beerus on King Kai’s planet. Though it wasn’t the animators’ fault, the scheduling for the series was so bad that the animator had less time to work with their full potential.
Rappelez-vous que, un jour, un studio d’animation réputé avec + de budget, de temps, de moyen effectif tt ce que tu veux……nous a pondu l’épisode 4 de DBS+ je vois de fan animation et + je constate que les studios ont de – en – droit à l’erreur mdrrhttps://t.co/nyu8CuSrSzpic.twitter.com/eoN5VaE1lQ
The translation of the above post goes as follows:
Remember that, one day, a reputable animation studio with more budget, more time, more manpower, you name it…
…came up with episode 4 of DBS
The more fan animation I see, the more I realize that studios are more and more entitled to make mistakes.
By having these episodes in mind, some fans conclude that fan animation is better than official material. Little do they know that fan animators have no scheduling problems, have years to work on their stuff and they do this for fun.
OH MY GOD THIS LOOKS BETTER THAN 90% OF SUPERhttps://t.co/UwqMK4dz2x
However, this wasn’t the first time fans feel this way. In 2022, THE NEW CHALLENGER PRODUCTIONS made a 12-minute fan animation of Goku vs. Broly that changed the landscape of fan animation forever!
This fan-madeDragon Ballshort film broke the internet!
“LEGEND – A DRAGON BALL TALE” begins with King Vegeta passing on some instructions to his son Vegeta IV and the scene switches to Goku facing Chichi in the World Martials Arts Tournament arena, referencing their actual fight inDragon Ball‘s Piccolo Jr. arc. While this is going on, Vegeta lands on Earth out of nowhere and analyses Goku’s power level. At the same time, Broly lands on Earth in a Saiyan spacepod out of nowhere and challenges Vegeta to a fight.
Vegeta quickly loses and Goku steps in after seeing Chichi getting her arm broken by Broly. The animators takes a cut out of Goku’s Super Saiyan transformation against Frieza and created a new Sun Wukong-like form for the Saiyan. That entire fight was nothing short of spectacular. Both the artstyle and animation quality was out of this world.
The director, Naseer Pasha, revealed that it took him and his team 4 years to make this. And this is something fans forget to notice. While they quickly jump to criticizing official material by Toei Animation, they forget that the animators at Toei have only months to come up with episodes that are twice as long as the aforementioned fan animation.
At the end of the day, both the sides deserve respect for what they do and fans need to encourage both of them to pump out better material asDragon Ballenters a new era.
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Anand Bhaskaran
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A Dragon Ball fanatic who also loves to read and talk about Indian spirituality. An MBA finance graduate with a passion for doing everything that is unrelated to it. Anand has over 4 years of experience under his belt, having worked with leading content heads in the anime community. Currently, he’s more into Slice of Life and Romcom shows than actual Battle Shonen. But unfortunately, he’s stuck with a job writing ONLY about Battle Shonen (smh).
