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“Super Dragon Ball Heroes” Promotional Anime Eighteenth Episode Streaming December 2019
Published by 05 November 2019, 12:34 PM ESTComment

Following last week’s seventeenth episode premiere, the official Super Dragon Ball Heroes website announced a December 2019 streaming timeframe for the forthcoming eighteenth episode of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime, continuing further into the brand-new “Universal Conflict” arc. In the upcoming episode (“Super Decisive Battle! Gogeta vs. Hearts!”), the Earth trembles as the fate of the universe rests on the ultimate fused warrior in his battle against Hearts.

The self-described “promotional anime” began its free online streaming in July 2018, with the initial six episodes covering the “Prison Planet” arc, then moving on to the “Universal Conflict” arc. Though the series’ original trailer was available worldwide, the subsequent episode postings themselves have been region-locked to Japan. No home release of the promotional anime has been announced.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes is itself an update and hardware revision to the original Dragon Ball Heroes, a card-based arcade game in which players arrange teammates on a playing field for turn-based battles. Dragon Ball Heroes has seen a variety of multimedia spin-offs and support pieces. Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission series, which also recently re-started) currently runs in Shueisha’s bimonthly Saikyō Jump magazine, while Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission ran from 2012-2015 in Shueisha’s monthly V-Jump magazine. Three portable game adaptations — Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X — were released on the Nintendo 3DS. A fourth home version, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, launched on the Nintendo Switch and PC on 04 April 2019 and internationally 05 April 2019.

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Translation Update: “Special Project: Toyotarō Drew It!!” Image #23
Published by 23 October 2019, 8:33 AM EDTComment

Each month, Toyotarō provides a drawing — as well as a brief comment — on the official Japanese Dragon Ball website. Thus far, Toyotarō has provided drawings of #8, Lunch, Chapa with Oob, Tambourine, Man-Wolf, Tapion, Janenba, Broli, Ozotto, Ginyu, Bardock, Paragus, King Cold, Bardock’s original television special crew, Onio with his wife, Shiirasu, Great Saiyaman, Nail, Toninjinka, Zarbon, Pui-Pui, and Slug. For his October 2019 entry, Toyotarō has contributed a sketch of Vermoud:

Vermoud in his younger days.

He appears in Super too, but to make a bit broader an interpretation of this series’ concept, his past self didn’t show up, so I figured even this pattern of wild imaginings would be allowed. (laughs)

“I’m quitting.” It’s that sort of scene.

Just what was it that took place before he became a God of Destruction…?

Vermoud, a joint design between Akira Toriyama and Toyotarō, debuted in the Dragon Ball Super series’ “Universe Survival arc” as the God of Destruction from Universe 11.

This drawing and comment set has been added to the respective page in our “Translations” archive.

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“Dragon Ball Super” Manga Chapter 53 English Translation Available
Published by 21 October 2019, 9:18 AM EDTComment

Continuing onward from previous chapters, Shueisha and Viz have added the official English translation of the Dragon Ball Super manga’s fifty-third chapter to their respective Manga Plus and Shonen Jump services, moving further into the original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc”. Alongside other initiatives including free chapters and a larger archive for paid subscribers, this release continues the companies’ schedule of not simply simultaneously publishing the series’ chapter alongside its Japanese debut to the release date, but to its local time in Japan in today’s December 2019 issue of Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine in Japan.

The Dragon Ball Super “comicalization” began in June 2015, initially just ahead of the television series, and running both ahead and behind the series at various points. The manga runs monthly in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ fifty-third chapter coming next week in the magazine’s December 2019 issue. Illustrated by “Toyotarō” (in all likelihood, a second pen-name used by Dragon Ball AF fan manga author and illustrator “Toyble”), the Dragon Ball Super manga covered the Battle of Gods re-telling, skipped the Resurrection ‘F’ re-telling, and “charged ahead” to the Champa arc, “speeding up the excitement of the TV anime even more”. Though the television series has completed its run, the manga continues onward, entering its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner” arc. Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The seventh collected volume is due from Viz this December.

The Dragon Ball Super television series concluded in March 2018 with 131 total episodes. FUNimation owns the American distribution license for the series, with the English dub having just wrapped its broadcast on Cartoon Network, and the home video release reaching its tenth and final box set in January 2020.

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“Super Dragon Ball Heroes: 9th Anniversary Super Guide” Releasing November 2019
Published by 18 October 2019, 3:26 PM EDTComment

Shueisha and online retailers have listed an 07 November 2019 release date and ¥1,250 + tax price tag for a forthcoming Super Dragon Ball Heroes: 9th Anniversary Super Guide.

The 2019 book follows two previous anniversary guide books: the 8th Anniversary Super Guide book in November 2018 and the 5th Anniversary Mission book in November 2015. Each book covers card additions, ongoing storylines, interviews with production staff, and more. The 5th anniversary book in particular contained the 29th (and thus fast last) chapter of Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission manga series.

Information and interviews from the 8th anniversary book were covered on Episode #0462 of our podcast.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes is an update and hardware revision to the original Dragon Ball Heroes, a card-based arcade game in which players arrange teammates on a playing field for turn-based battles. Dragon Ball Heroes has seen a variety of multimedia spin-offs and support pieces. Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission series, which also recently re-started) currently runs in Shueisha’s bimonthly Saikyō Jump magazine, while Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission ran from 2012-2015 in Shueisha’s monthly V-Jump magazine. Three portable game adaptations — Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X — were released on the Nintendo 3DS. A fourth home version, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, launched on the Nintendo Switch and PC on 04 April 2019 and internationally 05 April 2019.

This November marks the Dragon Ball Heroes series’ overall ninth anniversary, with a special live event set to be held 27 October 2019 with (Son Goku, et al.) and Takeshi Kusao (Trunks), along with the premiere of the promotional anime’s seventeenth episode. The “Universe Mission 11” update for the arcade game is scheduled to launch 07 November 2019 in Japan.

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Japanese “Dragon Ball Super” Manga Collected Edition Vol. 11 Releasing in December 2019
Published by 18 October 2019, 9:49 AM EDTComment

Shueisha and online retailers have listed an 04 December 2019 release date for the eleventh collected volume of Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Super manga series, which will retail for ¥440 (+ tax) in print. The volume will pick up with the forty-ninth chapter of the series; the tenth collected volume saw its release in Japan back in August spanning chapters 45-48.

The volume will release the same day alongside the collected volume release of the Dragon Ball GT anime comic.

The Dragon Ball Super “comicalization” began in June 2015, initially just ahead of the television series, and running both ahead and behind the series at various points. The manga runs monthly in Shueisha’s V-Jump magazine, with the series’ fifty-third chapter coming next week in the magazine’s December 2019 issue. Illustrated by “Toyotarō” (in all likelihood, a second pen-name used by Dragon Ball AF fan manga author and illustrator “Toyble”), the Dragon Ball Super manga covered the Battle of Gods re-telling, skipped the Resurrection ‘F’ re-telling, and “charged ahead” to the Champa arc, “speeding up the excitement of the TV anime even more”. Though the television series has completed its run, the manga continues onward, entering its own original “Galactic Patrol Prisoner” arc. Viz is currently releasing free digital chapters of the series, and began their own collected print edition back in 2017. The seventh collected volume is due from Viz this December.

The Dragon Ball Super television series concluded in March 2018 with 131 total episodes. FUNimation owns the American distribution license for the series, with the English dub having just wrapped its broadcast on Cartoon Network, and the home video release reaching its tenth and final box set in January 2020.

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FUNimation “Dragon Ball Super: Part Ten” Home Video (DVD/Blu-ray) Releasing January 2020
Published by 16 October 2019, 7:21 PM EDTComment

FUNimation’s online store reveals a 14 January 2020 release date for the company’s tenth and final part of the Dragon Ball Super television series on DVD and Blu-ray.

Universes bid their sad farewells as one by one they’re wiped from existence. With only the strongest warriors left in the ring, time is running out, and so is everyone’s energy. It’s down to the wire in the epic conclusion of Dragon Ball Super!

The bilingual (English/Japanese) two-disc set will span episodes 118-131 and is slated to contain 24 minutes of bonus material. The set will retail for $39.98 MSRP on DVD and $44.98 MSRP on Blu-ray.

The Dragon Ball Super television series concluded in March 2018 with 131 total episodes. FUNimation owns the American distribution license for the series, with the English dub airing on Cartoon Network, and the home video release reaching its ninth box set this month.

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Dragon Ball GT Anime Comic Receiving Collected Edition Release in December 2019
Published by 16 October 2019, 9:35 AM EDTComment

The long-running and oft-forgotten Dragon Ball GT anime comic — comprised of limited-color screen shots from the 1996-1997 television series displayed in manga format with dialog and narration bubbles — began back in the January 2014 issue of Shueisha’s Saikyō Jump magazine. Running as a tie-in with the Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game’s then-current “Evil Dragon Mission” updates, the anime comic skipped all the way to and began with the series’ own “Evil Dragon” arc. Throughout all of the Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game’s continuing updates and even through the magazine’s transition from a monthly to bimonthly publication, the Dragon Ball GT anime comic has steadily run each issue, albeit plopped in different locations each time.

Having just wrapped back around again to the beginning of the series, the anime comic is now also set to finally see a collected print edition starting this December (source: original V-Jump website / archive.org version).

Presented in full color (as opposed to the limited-color version from serialization), three volumes will be released 04 December 2019, with pricing and other details yet to be revealed.

Until now, the Dragon Ball GT anime comic has thus far been exclusive to its Saikyō Jump serialization; the series hit its 40th chapter (second in its beginning-loop-back) with the November 2019 issue released earlier this month.

(With chapters running roughly 16 pages each, the 38 chapters covering the “Evil Dragons” arc could indeed theoretically fit in their entirety in snug 208-page-ish volumes with just enough room for title pages and the like.)

An anime comic of the Dragon Ball GT television special was released in July 1997.

UPDATE: Shueisha is listing all three volumes of the Dragon Ball GT anime comic’s “Evil Dragons” arc at ¥1,000 each.

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“Super Dragon Ball Heroes” Promotional Anime Seventeenth Episode Streaming October 27
Published by 10 October 2019, 4:00 PM EDTComment

Following today’s sixteenth episode premiere, the official Super Dragon Ball Heroes website announced a 27 October 2019 streaming date for the forthcoming seventeenth episode of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime, continuing further into the brand-new “Universal Conflict” arc, and coinciding with a special ninth-anniversary live event set to be streamed the same day. In the upcoming episode (“The Ultimate Godslayer! Hearts is Born!”), with Hearts having completed his evolution into his ultimate form, Jiren and Hit arrive to aid Goku and launch an all-out attack.

The self-described “promotional anime” began its free online streaming in July 2018, with the initial six episodes covering the “Prison Planet” arc, then moving on to the “Universal Conflict” arc. Though the series’ original trailer was available worldwide, the subsequent episode postings themselves have been region-locked to Japan. No home release of the promotional anime has been announced.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes is itself an update and hardware revision to the original Dragon Ball Heroes, a card-based arcade game in which players arrange teammates on a playing field for turn-based battles. Dragon Ball Heroes has seen a variety of multimedia spin-offs and support pieces. Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission series, which also recently re-started) currently runs in Shueisha’s bimonthly Saikyō Jump magazine, while Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission ran from 2012-2015 in Shueisha’s monthly V-Jump magazine. Three portable game adaptations — Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X — were released on the Nintendo 3DS. A fourth home version, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, launched on the Nintendo Switch and PC on 04 April 2019 and internationally 05 April 2019.

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“Super Dragon Ball Heroes” Promotional Anime Sixteenth Episode Streaming October 10
Published by 02 October 2019, 10:45 AM EDTComment

The official Super Dragon Ball Heroes website has announced a 10 October 2019 streaming date for the forthcoming sixteenth episode of the Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime, continuing further into the brand-new “Universal Conflict” arc. In the upcoming episode (“Zamasu vs Universe 7! Ambition’s End!”), the universe seed has finally filled with energy, and having taken in the completed seed, Hearts plots further evolution inside a “cocoon”.

The self-described “promotional anime” began its free online streaming in July 2018, with the initial six episodes covering the “Prison Planet” arc, then moving on to the “Universal Conflict” arc. Though the series’ original trailer was available worldwide, the subsequent episode postings themselves have been region-locked to Japan. No home release of the promotional anime has been announced.

Super Dragon Ball Heroes is itself an update and hardware revision to the original Dragon Ball Heroes, a card-based arcade game in which players arrange teammates on a playing field for turn-based battles. Dragon Ball Heroes has seen a variety of multimedia spin-offs and support pieces. Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission series, which also recently re-started) currently runs in Shueisha’s bimonthly Saikyō Jump magazine, while Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission ran from 2012-2015 in Shueisha’s monthly V-Jump magazine. Three portable game adaptations — Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X — were released on the Nintendo 3DS. A fourth home version, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, launched on the Nintendo Switch and PC on 04 April 2019 and internationally 05 April 2019.

This November marks the Dragon Ball Heroes series’ overall ninth anniversary, with a special live event set to be held 27 October 2019.

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Podcast Episode #0478
Published by 01 October 2019, 2:23 PM EDTComment

SHOW DESCRIPTION:

Episode #0478! Mike and Ian review the five bonus manga chapters in the Jump Victory Carnival 2019 Official Guide Book. This year, Toyotaro undercuts the 2018 theatrical film, Yoshitaka Nakagama provides some background on the Super Dragon Ball Heroes villains, Naho Ooishi tells a fantastical fever dream, and Hiroshi Otogi sure does draw two pages.

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  • 00:13 – Introduction
  • 01:50 – Topic
  • 55:35 – Wrap-up

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