glad TS didn't spoil anything cause i've yet to watch the latest episode.

This series was blamed for graphic quality (animation, artwork etc.) in the beginning yes for especially one episode in particular, though they corrected that when the blurays were released of those episodes.

In dragon ball super the anime is ahead of the manga, plus the manga tells a different story, things happen different there. though they both follow some rough guidelines as to where it needs to go pointed out by Toriyama, they have a lot of freedom to do whatever.