Super Dragon Ball Heroes (anime)
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| Super Dragon Ball Heroes | |||
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 "Prison Planet Arc" Key Visual | |||
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| Original Run | 01 July 2018 – 08 August 2024 | ||
| Animation | Toei Animation | ||
| Production |
Bandai Namco Toei Animation | ||
| Episodes |
1-56 List of Episodes | ||
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| Planning | Bandai | ||
| Character Design |
Tadayoshi Yamamuro (Chief Animator) | ||
| Art Design | Ken Tokushige | ||
| Music | Yūya Mori | ||
The "Super Dragon Ball Heroes Promotional Anime" was a Japanese animated series produced by Toei Animation in support of the card-based Super Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game which was primarily posted online to YouTube, with occasional individual episode debuts as a part of larger game-related events. The animated series adapted content from the Prison Planet Arc of arcade game up through its final missions and culmination with a battle against Ozotto. The animated series was also accompanied by a manga series written and drawn by Yoshitaka Nagayama in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump.
The Super Dragon Ball Heroes promotional anime is comprised of 56 episodes spanning five story arcs (themselves taken from four Super Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game overall update series). Episodes were shared from 01 July 2018 to 08 August 2024 on YouTube, primarily on a monthly schedule (albeit with regular deviations and delays). While the first four story arcs were produced with traditional 2D animation, the final story arc with Ozotto shifted to a fully 3D-rendered animation style.
Throughout its entire run, YouTube postings for each episode were region-locked to Japan. No official home video version exists.
Plot
Prison Planet Arc (Episodes 1-6)
Trunks returns from the future to train with Goku and Vegeta. However, he abruptly vanishes. The mystery man "Fu" suddenly appears, telling them that Trunks has been locked up on the "Prison Planet," a mysterious facility in an unknown location between universes. The group searches for the Dragon Balls to free Trunks, but an unending super battle awaits them! Will Goku and the others manage to rescue Trunks and escape the Prison Planet...?
Universal Conflict arc (Episodes 7-20)
The multiverse has been devastated with the destruction of the Prison Planet, and a powerful new enemy has appeared — the "Core Area" warriors! Their goal: overthrow the universes' gods and destroy the Omni-King. As conflict spreads throughout the universes, countless unprecedented battles unfold. Will Goku make an appearance to help, or did our hero actually die with Fu in the Prison Planet’s explosion?!
Universe Creation arc (Episodes 21-32)
Members of the Time Patrol arrive on Earth in search of Tokitoki, a divine bird with the ability to create time who has gone missing. Foreseeing the appearance of such a bird in Universe 7 that will bring about the destruction of all 12 universes, Beerus and the other Gods of Destruction descend upon Earth. An all out battle with Earth's warriors breaks out, but who is truly pulling the strings behind this assault?!
New Spacetime War arc (Episodes 33-40)
Through the power of the Universe Tree, Fu has birthed a new spacetime copy of the current universe. Trapped inside this new spacetime, Goku once again finds himself up against some familiar foes in Freeza, Coola, and Broli, although this time with the assistance of Hearts! Just what will be the outcome of this ultimate knock-down, drag-out fight to escape?!
Kaiōshin of Time arc (Episodes 41-50)
A mysterious guide invites Goku to partake in a grand tournament, where the mightiest warriors From across spacetime have gathered. The ultimate survival battle that transcends time and space, the "Super Spacetime Tournament" has begun! But at the same time Aeos, the former Kaiōshin of Time, and her warriors set their disturbing plan into motion...
Demon Invader arc (Episodes 51-56)
Chronoa notices that the Earth is suddenly missing following a meteor collision, and the group heads to Kaiō's to see what is happening. However, they instead find Majin Ozotto, who has absorbed Kaiō and the entire Earth! With the fate of everything on the line, can our heroes stop Ozotto, whose power only grows as he absorbs Goku's allies?!
Episodes
History
Dragon Ball Heroes was a card-based Japanese arcade game originally launched in 2010,[1] taking over from Data Carddass Dragon Ball Kai Dragon Battlers before it. Opponents take turns placing physical cards on the game's platform to move characters around the play field to set up combo attacks and super moves while timing button presses on the machine itself. The games received regular updates within an overarching series (e.g., "Evil Dragon Mission" series, "God Mission" series, etc.) adding new cards, loose story/plot points, and animated introduction sequences. Dragon Ball Heroes received three Nintendo 3DS ports (Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X); like the arcade game, none of these were localized and released outside of their native Japan. Similar to card-based games before it like Data Carddass Dragon Ball Z Bakuretsu Impact (which was updated to "W Bakuretsu Impact"), Dragon Ball Heroes was upgraded to Super Dragon Ball Heroes in 2016, expanding the playable team to seven characters and adding a variety of other features.[2] One home port of the upgrade — Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission in 2019 — covered the base upgrade up through the second update in the "Universe Mission" update series.
Following the completion of the Dragon Ball Super television series in 2018 and during the lead-up to that year's theatrical film, Bandai Namco, Shueisha, and Toei Animation announced a joint "promotional anime" for the Super Dragon Ball Heroes game.[3] The series began with the Prison Planet arc from the arcade game's "Universe Mission" series of updates (not to be confused with the Dragon Ball Super series' "Universe Survival arc"). The series debuted 01 July 2018, including a preliminary screening that same day at Aeon LakeTown in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture.
Main Staff
TBD
Themes
TBD
Notes
References
- ↑ "“Data Carddass: Dragon Ball Heroes” Announced" (01 November 2010). Kanzenshuu. Retrieved: 07 May 2026.
- ↑ "Bandai Announces “Super Dragon Ball Heroes”" (09 June 2016). Kanzenshuu. Retrieved: 07 May 2026.
- ↑ "Bandai Namco Announces “Super Dragon Ball Heroes” Promotional Anime Centered on Universe Mission’s “Prison Planet” Storyline" (21 May 2018). Kanzenshuu. Retrieved: 07 May 2026.
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