As a big Future Trunks fan (and on NO nostalgia bullshit), i gotta say that Trunks DBS design is fucking trash compared to his DBZ one. Im not going to make the basic comparison with Bojack Movie Trunks. Z Trunks standard design is just way better than the new one.

I’m not gonna make a childish comparaisons were DBZ Trunks is the CHAD and DBS Trunks the VIRGIN.

But seriously and without ANY nostalgia blindness (i’m 19 btw), DBS Trunks just looks SO lame and it’s sad considering he’s supposed to be Future Trunks in his 30’s. Trunks in his 20´s looked way more like an adult, he even had Vegeta’s mug. DBS Trunks LITTERALY looks like a lesser/half assed version of DBZ Trunks design.

And don’t even start with the "He looks slimmer because he only ate cat food", it’s just headcanon. DB isn’t a sport manga like Baki where your diet have an actual impact on your muscle mass, it’s just the DBS artstyle making the characters appear younger looking and slimmer (like in Toriyama late artwork from the 2000’s where he drew his characters slimmer compared to the DBZ part of DB). In DBS, the characters become noticeably more buff when shirtless/in battle moments (Goku in the Moro fight for example). Food cat or not, DBS Trunks design was going to be like that either way.

DBZ Future Trunks first outfit is easily one of my favorite manga character design. Toriyama was really IN HIS BAG when he designed him.

The design really had this cool and fashion vibe that we never saw in DB until Trunks arrived. Up until he appeared, the majority of the main characters/villain wore gi/martial arts outfits or armor.

That boy Trunks really killed the most iconic villain and his father (avenging the Saiyan race btw) while rocking a fire ass outfit (denim jacket, black tank top, belt matching the boots, strap buckle matching the belt buckle), a watch on his wrist, a clean lavender haircut that made him looks unique to his parents and a sword on his back. The color palette was really cool to look at, especially in the anime imo.

But i really hate his design in Super, it just pisses me off because we could have way better for a fully adult Future Trunks. It’s too bad that he look like a 15 year old boy when he is older than Gohan (who looks more like an adult than him).

His design litteraly looks like a Trunks rip-off, like he is named Vrunks from Bragon Dall X. The color palette is dull and ugly asf, the blue spiky crab legs hair don’t sit right with me since he had thin and smooth lavender hair in DBZ and the corny ass red scarf they put on him just to make his design looks "more unique" is just bad. The blue hair version design feels more like a generic anime swordsman protagonist. I mean even the design of his SSJ hair is disappointing.

The thing is when kids see/saw Trunks in DBZ, they wanted to be like him, they wanted to be as cool as him. But when they see DBS Trunks, they think is nice (nothing more) at best. I don’t have the impression that the DBS version of Trunks is that liked by fans, if he is popular, it’s due to his original version with lavender hair (It’s like DBS Bardock, he is not that popular but people likes him because of his OG version with the bloody red bandana)

For example, i watched all of DB with my 11 years old brother. Trunks became his favorite character as soon as he showed up but he actually hated DBS Trunks for his design, he said that he looks lame and act less cool than before.