Dragon Ball has had many collection and movie additions to the franchise over time, most lately with Dragon Ball Tremendous and the newest movie on this universe, Dragon Ball Tremendous: Tremendous Hero.
For long-time followers, films have at all times been generally known as tales informed exterior the manga’s canon, however with the 2019 launch of Dragon Ball Tremendous: Broly, this all modified. Having carried out one movie set within the canon, you could be questioning concerning the newest Dragon Ball Tremendous movie.
So, right here’s all the pieces you’ll want to know concerning the canonical standing of Dragon Ball Tremendous: Tremendous Hero.
Is Dragon Ball Tremendous: Tremendous Hero canon?
Whereas it will appear that sure, Dragon Ball Tremendous: Tremendous Hero is canon to the anime, issues aren’t so easy.
Dragon Ball Tremendous: Tremendous Hero is a direct follow-up to the occasions of Dragon Ball Tremendous: Broly, which grew to become the primary canonical movie within the Dragon Ball franchise. This being the case, it will solely make sense that Tremendous Hero can also be thought of canon.
Nonetheless, issues get complicated — throughout a latest interview with Shueisha’s V-Leap journal, Dragon Ball Tremendous: Tremendous Hero producer Akio Iyoku detailed precisely the place the film suits alongside the manga canon.
On this interview, he defined that the movie exhibits a parallel storyline going down concurrently Toyotaro’s manga collection. The interview was translated and shared on Twitter.
Between this movie and Toyotarou-sensei’s manga, we presently have two strains of Dragon Ball Tremendous working. To start with, the movie is written purely as a sequel to Dragon Ball Tremendous: Broly. We needed to choose up on and meet the expectations of everybody who’s caught with Dragon Ball up to now, alongside the strains of, “It’d be neat this occurred,” or “I hope this sort of character exhibits up.”
And in [V-Jump‘s] pages, we now have the persevering with story of Goku and Vegeta. We’ll see new robust enemies present up, and new tales, and occasions will proceed to progress. After all Toriyama diligently oversees the storylines for the manga too, so it’s like we now have occasions working in parallel. When it comes to timeline placement, we attempt to not construct issues in too strictly — we’d like to go away margins within the story, to permit for a larger diploma of freedom.
This would appear to point a departure from the manga canon, however proper now it isn’t completely clear.
If that is so, it stays to be seen how the manga and a possible second season of the anime will deal with the character development that has taken place throughout the movie. As soon as that is addressed, we must always have a clearer image of how the 2 are linked.
Within the meantime, the subsequent Dragon Ball film is seemingly within the developmental phases, with the undertaking doubtlessly set to launch someday in 2024 or 2025.
