>Question 8: Mr. Toyotaro, with Dragon Ball Super, how do you view Dragon Ball GT? Are there any elements from DBGT that inspire you or that you’d want to officially integrate?

>Torishima: I didn’t participate in Dragon Ball GT, so I can’t really give my opinion. DBGT happened right after Dragon Ball ended. But there were a lot of stakeholders involved: TV networks, Bandai Namco, various other partner companies and we had reached a point where, if Dragon Ball didn’t continue just a bit longer, we’d have had economic problems.
>The simplest thing would have been to ask Akira Toriyama to continue the manga, but he had just finished it. There was no chance he would agree to keep going. The only thing we could ask of him was to create the characters and give us a basic plot. After that, DBGT happened because a team was basically told: “Here, deal with this yourselves.”

>Toyotaro: Story-wise, DBGT takes place beyond what’s happening in Dragon Ball Super. I think there aren’t many GT elements that made it into Super, but you do see some in Dragon Ball DAIMA. I don’t think any of my ideas for Dragon Ball Super were really influenced by GT.
>That said, some visual elements from GT did get reused in DBS. Visually speaking, DBGT was also the work of Nakatsuru and his team, and it really had that strong fidelity to Toriyama’s graphic style, which inspired me.
Japan's economy would LITERALLY be in shambles if Dragon Ball ever ended so they birthed GT to keep it alive. Dragon Ball is too strong to die. It outlived Toriyama and it will outlive everyone I this thread.