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The Dragon World Timeline is the chronology of fictional events in the Dragon Ball franchise.

Overview

Below is a table of major fictional dates and events in the Dragon Ball franchise. For a wider and more comprehensive array of dates, please reference the table at the bottom of this page.

Date Event
"Before Age"
Ages 1 - 700
Ages 701 - 748		 All events prior to the first chapter of Dragon Ball.
Age 749[1] Dragon Ball begins. Bulma and Goku meet and begin a journey to track down seven Dragon Balls.
Age 750[2] The 21st Tenka'ichi Budōkai is held. Goku and friends battle against the Red Ribbon Army.
Age 753[3] The 22nd Tenka'ichi Budōkai is held. Goku and friends battle against Demon King Piccolo.
Age 756[3] The 23rd Tenka'ichi Budōkai is held.
Age 761[4] Raditz arrives on Earth.
Age 762[5] Vegeta and Nappa arrive on Earth. Goku and friends struggle against Freeza and his men on Planet Namek.
Age 764[6] Future Trunks travels back from the future to warn everyone against the Artificial Humans.
Age 767[7] Goku and friends battle against the Artificial Humans and Cell.
Age 774[8] The 25th Tenka'ichi Budōkai is held. Goku and friends battle a revived Majin Boo.
Age 775[note 1] The events of Dragon Ball Daima occur.
Ages
778,[9] 779, 780,
and possibly 781[10]		 The events of Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Super: Broly occur.
Age 784[9] The 28th Tenka'ichi Budōkai is held. Goku leaves to train Oob.
Ages 789[11] 790[note 2] The events of Dragon Ball GT occur.

History

The timeline from the pamphlet accompanying Dragon Ball Z Movie 7.

Dragon Ball's timeline was constructed by Caramel Mama for the purpose of sorting out various clues sprinkled throughout the series to present a chronological table of events in Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia. Prior to the Daizenshū series of guidebooks, the pamphlet for Dragon Ball Z's seventh movie included a diagram of the split timelines incurred by Future Trunks's time travel which would later be expanded upon in Daizenshū 7, revised for Dragon Ball Forever, and then ported over to Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia. Though this pamphlet's timeline predates the seventh Daizenshū, the guidebook's series of events is the first official attempt to assign dates to events with as much specificity as possible. In certain instances where the anime adds details which contradict the manga, the timeline allows information from the manga to take precedence. Non-contradictory anime details, however, were taken into consideration for the timeline's construction.

Daizenshū 7's Chronological Table of DB World

Age 788, the only "Age" specifically cited in Dragon Ball.

The entirety of this timeline assembles backwards from the only stated year in the entire franchise, Age 788, the year in which Cell left his future.[12] Future Trunks states that Age 788 is three years after he left his own future,[12] placing his second departure from the future in Age 785. In "Trunks the Story", Future Bulma establishes an eight month recharge period for the time machine,[13] which Caramel Mama interprets to place his first departure from the future in Age 784.

With Age 784 established as the year Trunks first travels back from, the timeline works backwards from dialogue between Trunks and Son Goku. Trunks states that he arrived from 20 years in the future,[14] placing Goku's return from Planet Yardrat in Age 764, and that the Artificial Humans will appear three years from then[15] in Age 767.

After hearing that Goku will return to the living world for one day, Chi-Chi states that seven years have passed since Goku's sacrifice,[16] placing Majin Boo's resurrection in Age 774. Following Boo's defeat, narration establishes that ten years pass between that and the 28th Tenka'ichi Budōkai,[17] ending the series in Age 784.

Demon King Piccolo establishes 09 May as "Piccolo Day".

For individual dates, the timeline derives its days from two primary sources, Piccolo Day and the day that the Artificial Humans appear, as well as a short gag manga. After taking over King Castle, Demon King Piccolo declares that day, 09 May, to be henceforth known as "Piccolo Day".[18] In the story, two nights pass between the 22nd Tenka'ichi Budōkai and this date,[19][20] establishing the tournament's date as 07 May. Though never explicitly stated in the story, Caramel Mama interprets 07 May as the date for every Tenka'ichi Budōkai, perhaps due to Goku knowing when to show up after his solo travels before the 22nd Tenka'ichi Budōkai. With many events in Dragon Ball tied to a Tenka'ichi Budōkai, for each year the tournament occurs, the timeline works forward from 07 May based on how many nights occur or how much time is stated to have passed.

Future Trunks informs Son Goku that the Artificial Humans will appear on 12 May.

When Trunks alerts Goku to the Artificial Humans' impending arrival in Age 767, he further specifies that they will appear on 12 May.[15] Narration marks Goku's recovery from his heart disease as three days later on 15 May,[21] as well as stating that about a day passes between that and right before Vegeta and Trunks confront Cell after leaving the Room of Spirit and Time on 16 May.[22] After learning that his opponents might be able to offer a real challenge if given time, Cell announces that he'll hold the Cell Games in ten days[23] on 26 May.[24]

In revised editions of Dragon Ball, Cell announces that the Cell Games shall be held on 26 May.

Originally, Cell's announcement of the Cell Games had them taking place on 17 M. This date persisted into the tankōbon despite other minor changes making their way into this edition. Daizenshū 7 was the first official source to change this date, and subsequent printings of Dragon Ball following the guidebook's release use 26 May.

Daizenshū 7 assigns August 764 as a vague date for Goku's return from Yardrat, which connects to a series of clues varying in specificity to create a timeline back to Raditz's arrival on Earth. However, the specific dates for these two arrivals are seemingly arbitrary in relation to the events outside of this sequence of events. Instead, it is possible that these events draw from a gag comic created by Akira Toriyama for Weekly Shōnen Jump's 1991 #3-4 double issue, which portrays characters in the days leading up to the fight with Freeza. This comic, published 19 December 1990, shows Turtle Hermit wearing in a Santa Claus outfit alongside various Christmas decorations, and was later reprinted in Daizenshū 7's "Rare Illustrations" section.

Christmas decorations are present in the days leading up to the battle with Freeza.

Still unclear is exactly which day in December this comic portrays, but Daizenshū 7 settles on 24 December as the date for the battles with Ginyu and Freeza. Working forward from Christmas Eve, narration provides a span of 130 days for the Namekian Dragon Balls to recharge for Kuririn and Yamcha's resurrections on 03 May the following year, and another 130 days for Tenshinhan and Chiaotzu's resurrections on 10 September.[25] In the same chapter, narration continues on to state that "about a year" passes from those wishes to the same day of Goku's return from Yardrat, which Daizenshū 7 interprets as 11 months later in August. With Goku's return taking place in Age 764, working backwards places the resurrections in Age 763 and Goku's fight against Freeza in Age 762.

Continuing in reverse from 24 December 762, Dragon Ball chapter 270 includes narration and dialogue confirming the window of time since Zarbon's defeat (four days prior on 20 December) and Goku's departure from Earth (six days prior on 18 December),[26] the latter of which was first laid out in chapter 250.[27] Within the narrative, Bulma and the others arrive on Namek right before Goku leaves Earth, and Daizenshū 7 treats these events as occurring on the same day. As they arrive on 18 December, narration explains that Bulma's trip to Namek took 34 days,[28] placing their date of departure on 14 November. Daizenshū 7 determines the date that Vegeta and Nappa touch down on Earth by working ten days back from 14 November to 04 November when Bulma tells everyone to meet at Kame House upon completion of remodeling God's spaceship.[29] This conversation occurs on the same day began in chapter 243, which narration establishes as happening the day after the battle with Vegeta, 03 November.[30]

Also unclear is how the staff at Caramel Mama arrived at the dates for a couple of events, as they seem to break formation from statements made in the series addressing various passages of time. Moments after arriving at Kaiō's planet, Kaiō evaluates that the Saiyans will arrive on Earth in 158 days[31] which, working back from 03 November, establishes that Goku meets Kaiō on 29 May. However, Daizenshū 7 places Goku's arrival at Kaiō's planet on 29 April, a full month earlier, which may have been an attempt to reconcile Kaio's prediction with Piccolo's assumption that the Saiyans will arrive in six months[32] from what appears to be this same day, or close to it.

With a date of 29 April as Daizenshū 7's marker for Goku and Kaiō's first encounter, Shueisha's official timeline determines the date of Raditz's arrival by working a little over six and a half months backwards to 12 October 761, which draws from three instances of a six month time passage mentioned in narration.[33][32] Perhaps because this passage of time is stated multiple times, and across two chapters, that Caramel Mama decided to treat "six months" as a slightly vague estimate and allow room for a couple of weeks in between mentions.

The date of the 23rd Tenka'ichi Budōkai takes place on 07 May 756 by way of narration accompanying Raditz's arrival,[34] which states that it has been five years since Goku squared off against Piccolo. The 21st, 22nd, and 23rd Tenka'ichi Budōkai occur on a triennial basis,[35] placing the 21st and 22nd on 07 May 750 and 07 May 753, respectively.

Dragon Ball's story begins in Age 749, working backwards from the 21st Tenka'ichi Budōkai by at least the eight months Goku and Kuririn spend training with Turtle Hermit.[36] For events taking place prior to the moment Goku and Bulma first meet, Daizenshū 7 draws from numerous statements made throughout the entire series to flesh out various events.

Post-Daizenshū

(this section incomplete)

Daizenshū 7's "Chronological Table of DB World" covers up through the very end of Dragon Ball in Age 784, but Dragon Ball GT pushed the timeline further beyond that date. On 24 May 1997, Shueisha released Dragon Ball GT: Perfect File Vol. 1, a guidebook which covers the first half of Dragon Ball GT. In a section titled "The Combined Cosmic History of Saiyans and Tsufruians", this timeline includes retroactive continuity mixed into the Daizenshū's established timeline to contextualize the events of GT which involve Baby.[37] After the series concluded, Shueisha released Dragon Ball GT: Perfect File Vol. 2, although it did not include a timeline to cover the remaining episodes of the series.

On 30 March 2013, the movie Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods released, which tells a story planted in the ten-year time gap between Boo's defeat and the end of Dragon Ball. Marketing materials for the movie place it in Age 778, though the film's narration only claims that a vague window of "some time" has passed since Shenlong erased everyone's memories of Boo. Videl's pregnancy with Pan plays a pivotal role in the film, bolstering the claim that this movie occurs in the year before Pan's guidebook-established birth year of Age 779. To coincide with the release of Battle of Gods, Shueisha released a new series of Chōzenshū guidebooks which reprinted material from the Daizenshū updated to reflect information from additional entries in the franchise. On 09 May 2013, the fourth and final Chōzenshū volume released, containing within an updated "Chronological Table of DB World". This remixed timeline cements events from Dragon Ball Z OVA, Episode of Bardock, and Battle of Gods. Additionally, it includes and expands on the timeline present in Dragon Ball GT: Perfect File Vol. 1 to reflect events beyond the struggle against Baby.

For moviegoers in Japan, screenings of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', which released on 18 April 2015, included a small guidebook titled Dragon Ball Volume “F”. In addition to the movie's script, character designs, and comments from Akira Toriyama, it includes

Dragon Ball Super, which retells the events of the aforementioned movies and continues past them, also takes place in the gap of time between Boo and the end of Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball Super: Broly presents multiple timeline framing elements in its narrative as it tells a story spanning decades. Beyond Ages assigned in Dragon Ball XENOVERSE 2, there currently exists no official documentation on a definitive timeline placement for any events exclusive to Dragon Ball Super.

Time Travel

Time travel is the means by which one travels through time in the Dragon World, a feat first accomplished long ago by the mortals of Universe 12.[38] The gods[39] and Galactic Patrol consider time travel to be a major offense.

Dr. Slump

Time Slipper

Turbo Norimaki's Time Machine

Time Machines

A Time Machine is a method of time travel which requires Blue No. 15 Electro-Fluid[40][41] as a fuel source. In Universe 7, Future Bulma is the only person known to have successfully developed this specific method of travel, though Tokunoshin Omori attempted to build his own. Dragon Ball Z Movie 13 implies that the present timeline's Bulma is also capable of developing her own Time Machines.

Time Rings

Time Rings are kept by Gowasu of Universe 10 and allow safe travel between the future and present for those who wear the Potara of a Kaiōshin . A new Time Ring is created every time a mortal travels to the past and creates a new parallel universe.[42][38] In the anime version of Dragon Ball Super, Goku Black uses a Time Ring to travel into the past,[39] but it pulls him back into the future after a short period of time.[43]

Alternate Timelines

Future Trunks's Timeline

Further information: Future Trunks's Timeline

Cell's Timeline

Further information: Cell's Timeline

Goku Black's Timeline

Further information: Goku Black

Movies

Daizenshū 6 covers information regarding the first three Dragon Ball and first thirteen Dragon Ball Z movies. The beginning of each movie's coverage includes a "Movie Time Chart" section, wherein the books assigns a potential timeline placement for the covered film. This information was later reprinted in Chōzenshū 3.

Dragon Ball Z Movie 6's "Time Chart".

Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball Z

Whereas the time chart descriptions of the first three Dragon Ball movies reason them as alternate stories of the original series, the sections detailing the Dragon Ball Z movies take effort to assume timeline placements as they could possibly fit within the story.

  • Dragon Ball Z: Due to the appearance of young Gohan, this movie unmistakably occurs after Goku and Chi-Chi wed. But due to the fact that Goku, who dies in the battle with Raditz, is alive, this must be an event before Raditz attacked.[47] However, Kuririn, Bulma, and the Turtle Hermit become aware of Gohan, though none of them should know about him by the time Raditz arrives. Dragon Ball Z's first movie is one of only two included in Daizenshū 7's "Chronological Table of DB World",[48] alongside Dragon Ball Z Movie 5. Despite its discrepancies, perhaps this movie is acknowledged in the timeline due to its follow-up story arc in the episodes of Dragon Ball Z.
  • The World’s Strongest Guy: From Goku’s dōgi having a 亀 (kame) mark on the breast and a 界王 (kaiō) mark on the back, it seems as though this movie occurs between the battle with Vegeta and Goku’s arrival on Planet Namek. However, it contains inconsistencies such as Gohan's presence on Earth when he should be fighting on Planet Namek.[49]
  • A Super Decisive Battle for Earth: From the 悟 (go) mark on the breast and back of Goku’s dōgi, it seems that this movie takes place after Goku arrived on Planet Namek. However, there are inconsistencies, like the stage being set on Earth, that make it fair to say that this is a movie-only story.[50]
  • Super Saiyan Son Goku: From the fact that Goku has not yet become a Super Saiyan, this story takes place before the final showdown with Freeza. However, at this time Goku should be in the midst of his battle on Planet Namek... This must also be a movie inconsistency.[51]
  • The Incredible Strongest vs Strongest: In the movie the Turtle Hermit says, “Ever since Goku returned from Planet Namek...” From this we can be sure that this is an event during the three years from when Trunks appeared to the arrival of the Artificial Humans.[52] This movie is singled out alongside only Dragon Ball Z Movie 1 to be included in Daizenshū 7's "Chronological Table of DB World".[53]
  • Clash!! 10,000,000,000 Powerful Warriors: From Goku’s mark-less dōgi, to Dende having taken up the mantle of God, and Vegeta transforming into a Super Saiyan, it can be inferred that this is an event from between when the Cell Games were announced and their opening.[54] However, Gohan was in the Room of Spirit and Time when the Cell Games were announced, and emerged from the chamber as a Super Saiyan, which clashes against his appearance and capabilities in the movie. This movie released on 07 March 1992, just ahead of Dragon Ball chapter 364, making this movie the first appearance of Dende as God. Dende assumes the role of God in the main series seven months later in chapter 393. Aside from Dende, much of the movie lends itself to taking place earlier in the timeline than Daizenshū 6 assumes.
  • Extreme Battle!! The Three Great Super Saiyans: This movie's timeframe can be inferred by Dr. Gero's obliteration and the fact that Gohan has not yet become a Super Saiyan. However, around this time Goku would have been either suffering from a disease or training in the Room of Spirit and Time. It can be said that this movie takes place in a parallel world.[55]
  • Burn Up!! A Red-Hot, Raging, Super-Fierce Fight: Judging by Gohan's ability to transform into a Super Saiyan, this movie seems to take place around the time of the final battle with Cell, specifically after he attains his complete form and before the Cell Games. However, the movie features Goku and the others acting oddly relaxed during a Hanami festival, in contrast to the the tension expected to surround the battle with Cell.[56]
  • The Galaxy at the Brink!! The Super Incredible Guy: In the movie, Bulma states that Future Trunks has already destroyed the Artificial Humans No. 17 and 18 from his time. It can be inferred that the fight against Bojack takes place several months after the end of the Cell Games.[57]
  • The Dangerous Duo! Super-Warriors Can’t Rest: From Videl's hairstyle and the fact that Goku is still dead, this movie can be inferred to take place just before the 25th Tenka'ichi Budokai.[58]
  • Super-Warrior Defeat!! I’m the One Who’ll Win: This movie takes places after the 25th Tenka'ichi Budokai as No. 18 approaches Mister Satan about the championship prize money he promised her in the original story. At this point in the series, the super warriors would have been busy battling Majin Boo, making this a story unique to the movie.[59]
  • The Rebirth of Fusion!! Goku and Vegeta: In the movie, Super Saiyan 3 Goku refers to Majin Boo by name, Gotenks appears, and Vegeta is dead. From these elements, it can be inferred that this movie takes place in the middle of the battle with Majin Boo.[60] However, like the previous movie, because of Boo there is no window of time for this movie's events to occur within the main story.
  • Dragon Fist Explosion!! If Goku Won’t Do it, Who Will?: In the story, Goku and Vegeta both have bodies, and peace has returned to Earth. From this, it is almost certain that this movie takes place after the battle with Boo had ended.[61]

Chōzenshū 4 includes Battle of Gods in its timeline,[9] placed squarely in the ten years between Majin Boo's resurrection and the end of the series, bringing the total number of Dragon Ball Z movies acknowledged in the official timeline to three.

Video Games

Dragon Ball Online

Further information: Dragon Ball Online's Timeline

Dragon Ball XENOVERSE

Further information: Dragon Ball XENOVERSE's Timeline

Contradictions and Revisions

Dr. Slump

Further information: Ages 701 - 748
Dr. Slump uses the Gregorian Calendar.

Though shown to exist in the Dragon World during the conflict with General Blue, the world of Dr. Slump uses the Gregorian Calendar as opposed to the Age system. Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia and Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia account for this, stating that although "Age" is the uniform calendar system used on Earth, some regions still use the Gregorian calendar.[62] Because these same books establish Arale's creation as Age 745,[63] and the early chapters of Dr. Slump occur in 1980 AD,[64] the two calendars can be reconciled by adding 1,235 years onto an Age date to determine its year using Penguin Village's system. Perhaps by design of Caramel Mama, this math establishes the first year of Dragon Ball's narrative in Age 749 as 1984 AD, the same year that the manga first premiered in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Coincidentally, this equation also nets out the events of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods in Age 778 as 2013 AD, the same year that the movie premiered in Japan.

Dragon Ball Recharge Period

Further information: Age 749 and Age 750

In chapter 20 of Dragon Ball, Bulma establishes that, after a wish is made, the Dragon Balls require one year to recharge before they can be tracked again using a Dragon Radar. Bulma and Son Goku's quest to find the Dragon Balls unfolds in September 749, and the morning after Pilaf summons Shenlong, Goku takes off for Kame House to train under Turtle Hermit in chapter 23. Goku then arrives on his island in chapter 24.

Goku meets Kuririn and Lunch on this same day, and the sun does not set until chapter 29. After everyone on the island but Goku contracts food poisoning, his training begins in earnest three days later in chapter 30, at which point Turtle Hermit reveals that the 21st Tenka'ichi Budōkai will occur in eight months.

Later chapters of Dragon Ball establish via Demon King Piccolo's "Piccolo Day"[18] the quinquennial-turned-triennial[35] date of the Tenka'ichi Budōkai as 07 May. The date of September 749 derives from working backwards those eight months from 07 May 750 to a compact window of time for Goku's earliest adventures, and more generally from Bulma's statement in the second chapter that she is on summer vacation from school, which in Japan could fall around September.

The night of the 21st Tenka'ichi Budōkai, Goku sets off to find the Four-Star Dragon Ball. The following morning in chapter 55, only eight months after Shenlong was last summoned, Goku comes across a reactivated Six-Star Dragon Ball, despite the established rule that the Dragon Balls should still have an inert, stone-like appearance.

22nd Tenka'ichi Budōkai

Further information: Age 753

In the Dragon Ball manga, the 22nd Tenka'ichi Budōkai takes place over the course of a single day, and night does not fall until after Son Goku encounters Tambourine after the tournament. In the anime adaptation of this tournament, registration and the tournament itself occur over the course of five days.

The timelines constructed in Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia and Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia acknowledge how these events unfold in the manga only. Despite this, the guidebooks do set a date of 05 May 753[3] for Goku's encounter with Konkichi,[65] which occurs only in the anime shortly before the 22nd Tenka'ichi Budōkai.

23rd Tenka'ichi Budōkai

Further information: Age 756

In the Dragon Ball manga, everyone gathering on Papaya Island and the events of the 23rd Tenka'ichi Budōkai take place over the course of a single day. In the anime adaptation of this tournament, night falls after everyone gathers on Papaya Island in episode 133, and normal tournament activities take place during the following day.

Arrival of the Saiyans

Further information: Age 761 and Age 762

In chapter 204 of Dragon Ball, as he lay dying, Raditz informs Piccolo that Vegeta and Nappa will arrive in one year. Narration within chapters 209 and 210 reveals that Goku reaches Kaiō's Planet six months after his death. Piccolo remarks that the Saiyans will arrive six months from this time, though in chapter 211 Kaiō can see for himself that the Saiyans will reach Earth in exactly 158 days. A day before the Saiyans arrive, Turtle Hermit remarks in chapter 212 that their arrival is over a month sooner than they had anticipated. Between Turtle Hermit, Kaiō, and the narration itself, a span of approximately 11 months pass between Raditz's death and Vegeta's arrival.

Contrary to statements made in the series, Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia and Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia insist that the encounter with Raditz takes place on 12 October 761 and that Vegeta and Nappa arrive on 03 November 762,[4] creating a span of nearly 13 months between these two events.

Between Namek's Explosion and Future Trunks's Arrival

FIXME: Anime adds an extra year before Trunks arrives (or subtracts a year?)

Cell's Development

Further information: Age 762

FIXME: Dragon Ball Chapter 363, Conversation held in 767, Cell implies another 24 years to complete his development, 791, Dragon Ball Chapter 358 establishes that Cell traveled from 788, Daizenshū 7 emergence in 786, 24 years back from that is 762 when the Saiyans arrive. Caramel Mama interpretation of dialogue to fix impossible date.

The Cell Games

Further information: Age 767

In the original Weekly Shōnen Jump serialization[66] and initial tankōbon[67] printings of Dragon Ball chapter 389, Cell announces that the Cell Games will occur "nine days from today, 17 M [sic]". However, Future Trunks establishes in chapter 335 that the Artificial Humans arrive on 12 May[68], making Cell's announcement irreconcilable with the previously established date. In contrast, Dragon Ball Z episode 168's recap of episode 167 gives a date of 21 May with an upcoming gap of nine days for the Cell Games[69] (despite this line of dialogue never actually occurring in episode 167), which also contradicts the flow of time set by the Artificial Humans' appearance on 12 May. Episode 174's narration reverts back to the date of the Cell Games from the manga, 17 M.[70] Years later, when piecing together their timeline for Daizenshū 7, Caramel Mama revised the date of the Cell Games to 26 May,[71] correcting it to fit a more accurate passage of time from 12 May. Starting with the kanzenban releases[72], all subsequent Japanese printings of Dragon Ball use this revised date, including the Sōshūhen[73], which were advertised as emulating Dragon Ball as it originally ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Viz's English translation of Cell's dialogue refers to "the 17th", as it is based off of translations prior to this alteration. Dragon Ball Kai episode 86 forgoes this issue entirely, and never mentions a specific date.[74]

Trunks's Age

At the 25th Tenka'ichi Budōkai, which takes place on 07 May 774, the tournament announcer introduces Trunks as eight years old.[75] As such, Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia and Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia list Trunks's birth year as Age 766.[76] In August 764,[6] Future Trunks indicates to Son Goku that his present-timeline self will be born in "about two and a half years from now,"[15] which equates to some time around February 767. It is possible that Future Trunks's estimate rounds up, allowing room for Trunks to be born in late 766. However, that timing means that Trunks would actually be seven years old on 07 May 774, not eight.

Jaco the Galactic Patrolman and Dragon Ball Minus

Further information: Ages 701 - 748

Tokunoshin Omori's opening narration in Jaco the Galactic Patrolman frames the story as occurring "ten years ago." At the end of the story, Omori reveals that, in the present, Bulma has begun her quest for the Dragon Balls. Bulma's journey in the first chapter of Dragon Ball takes place in Age 749, setting the bulk of Jaco's story circa Age 739. To support this, in chapter 11 of Jaco, Tights presents Bulma as five years old, and in chapter two of Dragon Ball, Bulma gives her age as 16 years old. Issue #37 of 1986's Weekly Shōnen Jump dates Bulma's birthday as 18 August,[77] meaning that she spends most of Age 739 as five (going on six) years old.

In the same chapter of Jaco where Bulma's age is given, Son Goku is shown having recently landed on Earth from Planet Vegeta. Following this chapter is a bonus titled "Dragon Ball Minus", which takes place just prior to the events of the previous chapters of Jaco, wherein Goku's mother, Gine, informs Bardock that Goku has been in an incubator for the past three years, setting his birth year as far back as Age 736.

The events of Jaco occurring in Age 739 comes in direct contrast to long-established dates for both Goku's birth year and the destruction of Planet Vegeta, which Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia, Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia, and various other official sources over the years have cited as Age 737 based on working backwards from Goku's given age during the 21st Tenka'ichi Budōkai. Though the timeline presented in Jaco clashes with supplemental guidebook information and the first TV special of Dragon Ball Z, it does not necessarily contradict any information from the manga.

Dragon Ball Super

Further information: Age 779, Age 780, and Age 781

The end of Dragon Ball takes place on 07 May 784[9] as Son Goku and friends enter the 28th Tenka'ichi Budōkai, during which the tournament announcer introduces Pan as four years old.[78] Dragon Ball Daizenshuu 7: Dragon Ball Large Encyclopedia and Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia interpret this moment to solidify Pan's birth year as Age 779,[9] specifically on or before 07 May 779. The promotional book offered to those who attended the Japanese premiere of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', Dragon Ball: Volume F, indicates that the events of the film also take place in Age 779, some time after Pan's birth. In the movie, two wishes are made to Shenlong, but in the anime retelling of the same events, three wishes are made, indicating that one year must pass for the Dragon Balls to reactivate.

In episode 29 of Dragon Ball Super, Bulma summons Shenlong to seek assistance in finding the Super Dragon Balls. Since the Dragon Balls were active at the time, Bulma's wish must occur some time beyond a year after the wish made to revive Freeza occurred. The earliest this latest wish, and the days-later tournament with Universe 6, could occur is in mid-to-late 780. Shenlong retreats without granting his remaining two wishes, setting a time span of six months before he can be summoned again, which next happens in episode 68 of Dragon Ball Super to cure Pan's illness. As of this wish, Dragon Ball Super's narrative sits, at the earliest, in late 780.

For the tournament between Universe 7 and Universe 6, Champa prepares the Super Dragon Balls as a prize for the winning team. After the tournament, Universe 6's Earth is resurrected, and the Super Dragon Balls, like Earth's Dragon Balls, enter into an inert state for a year before they will regain their light.[79] The Super Dragon Balls resurface as a prize for the Tournament of Power's winning universe, indicating that the wish made with them must occur at least a year after the prior tournament, at the earliest in mid-to-late 781.

Contrary to the timeline of events put forth by the TV version of Dragon Ball Super, Daizenshuu 7 and Chōzenshū 4 both assign a birth year of Age 780 to Bra, whose magically-induced birth is performed in both episode 83 and chapter 30 of Dragon Ball Super shortly before the start of the Tournament of Power.

In Toyotarō's Dragon Ball Super manga, neither the wish to find the Super Dragon Balls nor the wish to cure Pan are made, allowing the tournament with Universe 6 to take place an unspecified amount of time after Resurrection 'F', and the Tournament of Power some time over a year later in Age 780.

The events of the film Dragon Ball Super: Broly and the subsequent battle against Moro take place an unspecified amount of time after the Tournament of Power, though Broly must occur at least six months after the wish to cure Pan's illness is made in the TV anime, as Shenlong is once again summoned in the movie.

Dragon Ball Super: Broly

Further information: Ages 701 - 748

Dragon Ball Super: Broly is set an unspecified amount of time after the Tournament of Power. Depending on whether the movie follows the sequence events from the manga or anime, the earliest the battle against Broli on Earth can take place is Age 780 or 781, respectively. The movie opens with a sequence of events detailed as taking place "41 Years Ago" (in this case, either Age 739 or 740), followed by Planet Vegeta's destruction "Five Years Later" from that (Age 744 or 745). This understanding of the Dragon World Timeline places Planet Vegeta's destruction long after either the guidebook-established date of Age 737 or the date of Age 739 as understood by the events of Jaco the Galactic Patrolman.

Notes

  1. ↑ In episode one of Dragon Ball Daima, everyone celebrates Trunks' ninth birthday. Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia list Trunks's birth year as Age 766.
  2. ↑ Dragon Ball GT: Perfect File Volume 1 contains a timeline that explicitly places everything through Pilaf's wish and Son Goku's transformation into a Super Saiyan 4 in Age 789. Later depictions of the timeline (such as that in Dragon Ball Chōzenshū 4: Dragon Ball Super Encyclopedia), present the events of Dragon Ball GT as taking place circa Age 789 (エイジ789頃; eiji 789 goro). Due to the one-year time constraint aspect of the Ultimate Dragon Balls and Earth's destruction, the events following Goku's initial Super Saiyan 4 transformation can safely be placed in Age 790.

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