Following up on last month’s announcement of S.H.Figuarts entries coming for Shallot and Giblet — both characters designed by Akira Toriyama for the mobile game Dragon Ball Legends — Bandai Namco has announced that Shallot will also be coming as a downloadable character for the video game Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO:
Shallot will be available next week starting 26 June 2025, with “early access” available to “Season Pass” owners three days prior.
The standalone release of Shallot marks a brief reprieve from the ongoing Dragon Ball Daima downloadable content packs, with the first Daima pack hitting back in April, and the second still yet to be formally scheduled. The game’s $34.99 “Season Pass” originally kicked off with Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero content back in January. No individual price or availability for Shallot was mentioned in the original announcement outside of the “early access” period for “Season Pass” owners.
Dragon Ball Legends, originally launched in 2018 and available on mobile phone platforms, is a “one finger card action battle” game developed in conjunction with Dimps (previously of the Budokai and XENOVERSE game series). The game’s title should not be confused with that of the 1996 PlayStation and Saturn game Idainaru Doragon Bōru Densetsu (“The Great Dragon Ball Legend”), often and colloquially referred to in English fandom over the years as simply “Legends”.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO released on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally. As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.