Super Dragon Ball Heroes

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Japanese: スーパードラゴンボールヒーローズ

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Type: ONA

Episodes: Unknown

Status: Currently Airing

Aired: Jul 1, 2018 to ?

Producers: Bandai

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Toei Animation, Dimps

Source: Game

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Themes: Martial Arts, Super Power

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 8 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.33¹ (scored by 28,756 users)

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Ranked: #12076²

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Popularity: #2479

Members: 74,793

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Synopsis

In May 2018, V-Jump announced the promotional anime for Dragon Ball Heroes, a Japanese arcade and trading card game. The video game has been adapted to a Nintendo Switch port for western audiences, whilst the card game is released under the name "Dragon Ball Super TCG" and is combined with the other card game of the same name in japan. The anime is expected to be short and it is not expected to broadcast on TV. It has adapted the game's Prison Planet Arc, as long as the manga original arc "Big Bang Mission" and "Ultra God Misson", also fully detailed in the Heroes manga published in Saikyou Jump, although under 2 separate canons. They have never been published officially in English. The first episode debuted July 1, 2018 at Aeon Lake Town.

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Background

Episode 1-50 featured 2D animation made by Toei Animation. For Episode 51-onward, the 2D animation was replaced with full 3DCGI animation by Dimps, using in-game models and assets from Super Dragon Ball Heroes arcade game.

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Related Anime

Adaptation:	Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ankoku Makai Mission!, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission!!, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Big Bang Mission!!!, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultra God Mission!!!!, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Meteor Mission!
Other:	Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Z
Spin-off:	Dragon Ball Super

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Characters & Voice Actors

Son, Gokuu

Main

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Vegeta

Main

Horikawa, Ryo
Japanese

Son, Gohan

Supporting

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Piccolo

Supporting

Furukawa, Toshio
Japanese

Future Trunks

Supporting

Kusao, Takeshi
Japanese

Freeza

Supporting

Nakao, Ryusei
Japanese

Broly

Supporting

Shimada, Bin
Japanese

Gokuu Black

Supporting

Nozawa, Masako
Japanese

Trunks

Supporting

Kusao, Takeshi
Japanese

Bulma

Supporting

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Yamamuro, Tadayoshi

Episode Director, Storyboard, Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Character Design

Murayama, Kiyoshi

Episode Director

Karasawa, Kazuya

Episode Director, Storyboard

Iwai, Takao

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

	1: "Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Universe Mission Theme" by Takayoshi Tanimoto, Mayumi Gojo and YOFFY (eps 1-19)
	2: "Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Big Bang Mission Theme" by Takayoshi Tanimoto, Mayumi Gojo and YOFFY (eps 21-)

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Apr 30, 2022

JVskunkape

Recommended

Preliminary (41/? eps)

Right, looking at the previous reviews of this I decided someone needed to finally make this review. I hope I will be able to communicate why I believe this more positive review of this series needed to made.

Not only is every other review super preliminary (most having only seen the first handful of eps) after reading some it's quite clear many of these reviewers don't understand what this series is at all.

Dragon Ball Heroes is a long standing Japanese exclusive arcade game, and this series is essentially an animated PV series for that game. Not only do they mention this and show the arcade machines ... and cards before and after every episode, but every character and plot line we follow often matches up entirely with the games latest cards, updates and expansions.

I think some confusion around this series arose as it came off the back of the immensely popular (yet also divisive) revitalisation of DB; Dragon Ball Super. With Super also in the name of this series, I'm certain peoples views and experiences of DBS certainly shaped how a lot of people viewed this series. Super Dragon Ball Heroes and Dragon Ball Super are entirely different beasts, and cannot be judged to the same standard.

Dragon Ball Heroes is a great game for all hardcore DB fans, that's how it's lasted all these years, they know exactly what the fans want and consistently give them official works of long desired things. SSJ3 Trunks, SSJ4 Vegito, Great Ape Broly these are things we would NEVER see in a official capacity without Heroes. It is and always has been a fanservice heavy DB fanfictors wet dream. And this anime SDBH is just that too.

What you are watching is essentially an advert, SDBH is great for what it is, but ofc what it is, is nothing special. Promotional material for a game for the most hardcore of DB fans, if you have no interest in Dragon Ball Heroes (the game) or diving heavy into the DB fandom this is ofc not for you.

If you understand what you're getting into there's a lot to like here. The original VAs, getting excited for the games new content & seeing heroes specific content animated that has previously been only in trading cards and (sometimes region locked) video games.

The excitement of wondering what will they include/show next? This is Heroes, anything could happen. SSJ3 Veku? Janembuu? Ultra Ego Trunks? (none of these likely ofc, just spit-balling, the whole point you have no idea what's coming, but it's gonna be some cool DB shit that you likely wanna see!). If not then why are you watching? That's who this series is for, the people who this does excite and who wanna see this stuff. This is my entire point in this review.

I believe if there was a clearer understanding of what this series is and who it is for, there would be less of a negative reception. This does not and never will have the mass appeal of a show like Dragon Ball Super. But if you are bordering on DB superfan you will look forward to these episodes as and when they are available.

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Jan 5, 2019

Axeanz

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (6/? eps)

Just for everyone to know:
1. It's NON-CANON
2. It's a PROMOTIONAL anime for Dragon Ball Heroes, so don't expect every week 20 minute episodes that are perfect
3. Be happy that they will bring us thing Akira would probably never give us (such as ssj3 trunks and such)
4. Just look at it as if it's a fan-service-only anime... so don't expect perfect quality

It's not that I accept this all, of course I would want 20 minute episodes, but we can't change it from a promotional anime to a full-running anime like Dragon Ball used to be by writing hate reviews or being hateful to the makers ...

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Dec 30, 2018

TheMAM

Not Recommended

Preliminary (6/? eps)

You know, I gave this anime a chance at first, but after 6 episodes, I've come to realize something: this show is a complete waste of time.

Fan-service comes at light-speed and there's no focus on any of it. Characters and power forms fans have been asking for are thrown in for less than 8 minutes and thrown to the way-side the very next episode, and there's no effort put into how any of them would stand up to each other.

The baddie saiyan is Jiren all over again. If you've seen Super, you've seen this, only in Super they actually use the 22 minute run-time to ...

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