It’s the pure fantasy that makes people so interested in the show. This was the event that drew many to the series, seeing the two powerful forms from the two different sequels to Z fighting one another.
Then the “Xeno” version of Goku shows up, who proceeds to turn Super Saiyan 4 and fight regular Goku in his Blue form.
In order for them to escape, they need to collect seven special Dragon Balls, each held by a powerful enemy. The series villain”Fu” shows up, claiming to be Trunks’s friend and lures the trio to the Prison Planet too, where they find themselves trapped. The first episode starts with Goku and Vegeta training on Beerus’s planet before being informed by Mai that the Future Trunks has been taken and held captive on the “Prison Planet”, a collection of planets held together by giant chains. I might already be tipping my had a little, but I’ll give a brief overview of the events of the first two episodes before I get into my feelings on them. Instead, it’s the mash-up of timelines, realities and fantasies from the franchise turned from brief, contextless clips into a series of eight minutes episodes that fill this action out with some “plot”. This new series, called Super Dragon Ball Heroes, just to be clear, was never intending to be a full length series. So, when the announcement that Dragon Ball Heroes was getting an actual promotional anime, everyone’s interest was piqued, mine included.
It was like looking at a young fan’s toybox being turned into well animated snippets. The card based video game had these little trailers associated with them, ones that seemed to become more and more outlandish and fantastical from a fan’s point of view. Eventually, down the line I realised they were trailers for a Japanese arcade game that was skyrocketing in popularity: Dragon Ball Heroes. They seemed like these wondrous pieces of fan fiction turned into real art and animation for Dragon Ball. There was often little to no context to them. For a long time, as a western Dragon Ball fan, I’d see these videos pop on on Youtube.
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