With two of the guests in Iyoku and Hayashida dressed as Goku and on a digital stage backdrop showing the Kame House islands, the group jumped straight into talking about Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, and its planned release date of 2022. The title and animation preview weren’t the only reveals to be found on the panel. While the clip isn’t from the film itself, it does showcase the art and animation direction that the team is going for in the upcoming release. The short animation featured series star Goku warming up on a three-dimensional franchise logo, before the new film title zoomed into view. Toriyama is really focusing on the aspects of the superhero this time.” The new title reveal came with a new, never-before-seen teaser of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. “We really wanted to emphasize that this movie is all about the superhero vibes. “There’s two ‘supers’ in there, which is great!” Iyoku remarked upon the reveal of the new film title. Hosted by panel MC Sascha, the panel introduced Japanese voice actress and voice of Goku Masako Nozawa, Shueisha and Dragon Ball Super (manga) executive editor Akio Iyoku, and Toei Animation producer Norihiro Hayashida, whose work includes Dragon Ball Super: Broly and the now Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. Queue all the nostalgia tingling of waiting for a new episode of Dragon Ball Z to begin. The horizon is nothing but blue skies and magic balls if Friday’s 2021 Comic-Con Home Dragon Ball Special panel is any indication, which revealed new artwork and character designs for the upcoming and newly named movie Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.īefore any news or tidbits were revealed, the panel kicked off with those all too familiar guitar chords and the voice of legendary musician Hironobu Kageyama belting out a rendition of Cha-La Head-Cha-La in all its glory. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the reimagining of once series punchline Broly into an empathetic hero with the smash success of 2019’s feature film Dragon Ball Super: Broly. There’s the best-selling fighting game in Dragon Ball FighterZ to a satisfying-yet-nostalgic return to anime and manga with Dragon Ball Super. Dragon Ball’s persistence is largely due to creator Akira Toriyama’s steady hand, which has expanded tales of Goku and his friends into the epic scope of the recent revival.

Anime, a medium once difficult and expensive to breach, now dominates everything from trends to the American box office. The resurgence of beloved Shonen franchise Dragon Ball is nothing short of a miracle, one worthy of a wish made on the series’ eponymous, glowing spheres.

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