

Pan is three years old during the events of Super Hero, meaning the movie takes one to two years before the 28th World Martial Arts Tournament which concluded Toriyama’s original story. What Dragon Ball Z’s epilogue means for Super Hero With Pan, Goten, and Trunks all relatively closer in age to the Dragon Ball Z epilogue, as seen in promotional material for Super Hero, the new movie presumably takes place after these two manga stories in a relatively uncharted period for the timeline. During these stories, Goku masters his Ultra Instinct combat transformation while Vegeta develops the Ultra Ego combat transformation after gaining the divine energy of a God of Destruction.

There are currently two manga storylines set in an indeterminate amount of time after the events of Broly.

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As with the Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z before it, there are major differences between the manga and anime series though the overarching story remains largely intact. The Dragon Ball Super manga is written and illustrated by Toyotaro, with Toriyama overseeing the creative process and contributing plot outlines. One of the bigger continuity questions is how exactly the manga series fits into the canon of the anime and its subsequent continuation films.

How Dragon Ball Super continued its story with its manga roots Super Hero takes place some time after the events of Broly, with Broly resurfacing in the film and Goku’s granddaughter Pan visibly older than she appeared in the Dragon Ball Super anime series as are Goku and Vegeta’s Super Saiyan sons Trunks and Goten who will both be portrayed as teenagers. By the end, Broly was defeated and befriended Goku, who volunteered to train with him, while Frieza retreated back to his empire in deep space. Shortly after the Tournament of Power, the 2018 anime film Dragon Ball Super: Broly saw Goku and Vegeta battle the long-lost Legendary Super Saiyan Broly, who had since been recruited as a lackey for a resurrected Frieza. The Dragon Ball Super anime series ended six years after Buu’s defeat, with Goku and his friends successfully representing their universe in the high stakes Tournament of Power against rival realities in the Dragon Ball Multiverse. How Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero follows the animeĭragon Ball Super is set within the ten-year period towards the end of Dragon Ball Z, between Goku’s defeat of Majin Buu and an epilogue set during the 28th World Martial Arts Tournament. This is a welcome change-up from much of the Dragon Ball Super era being primarily fixated on Goku and his longtime frenemy Vegeta, often at the cost of other characters being relegated to the sidelines. Gohan’s daughter Pan is similarly slated to appear prominently in the movie after being absent from the previous film, Dragon Ball Super: Broly. In contrast to the last several anime films, Gohan and Piccolo are expected to play a more central role in Super Hero’s story, with Piccolo unveiling a new combat transformation. Among the resurgent Red Ribbon’s revenge tactics this time is kidnapping someone close to the Z Fighters while unveiling two new, powerful androids to challenge the heroes directly. After a failed attempt at revenge in Dragon Ball Z, the syndicate is back in Super Hero with a mysterious new benefactor. What Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero is aboutĭragon Ball Super: Super Hero features the return of the Red Ribbon Army, the paramilitary organization that franchise protagonist Goku single-handedly disma in the original Dragon Ball series. Here’s everything you need to know how the movie fits in the grander (And occasionally convoluted) Dragon Ball continuity. Though the anime series concluded in 2018, the manga has continued beyond the events of the television show, with the anime feature film Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero serving as a canonical follow-up. The latest iteration of the franchise is the continuation series Dragon Ball Super, which saw a concurrent manga and anime launch in 2015. In addition to its best-selling manga series, Dragon Ball has spawned numerous anime adaptations, a line of video games, and a whole bevy of merchandising. 38 years since Akira Toriyama first created the iconic Dragon Ball franchise and the multimedia empire remains as perennially popular as ever.
